Desperate Mugabe refusing to give in
"ROBERT MUGABE was desperately clinging to power last night, despite his looming defeat in Zimbabwe's presidential election, by blocking the electoral commission from releasing results and threatening to treat an opposition claim of victory as a coup."
The rule: The good die young, but pricks live forever ...
US credit crunch hits education as banks abandon student loans
"One of America's leading banking associations has given warning that the United States faces a growing educational apartheid as some lenders withdraw from student loans amid new evidence that the credit crisis has spread across all types of borrowing. In the past fortnight, some banks, including
HSBC, have pulled out of the $85 billion (£42 billion) a year US student loans market, fuelling anxiety that the turmoil that hit debt markets on Wall Street last summer is spilling over into the wider economy and making credit more difficult to secure for ordinary American households."
Wyoming sheriffs put feds in their place
"The District Court ruled in favor of the sheriffs. In fact, they stated, Wyoming is a sovereign state and the duly elected sheriff of a county is the highest law enforcement official within a county and has law enforcement powers exceeding that of any other state or federal
official ...."
1000 activists close down NATO
"About 1,000 people from 17 European countries went to the NATO headquarters in Brussels on the 23rd of March to take part in the international non-violent action NATO GAME OVER. 5 years after the start of the Iraq war and 10 days before the Bucharest NATO summit, peace activists from all over Europe demonstrate that preventing war starts in
Europe ..."
Cereal
Grain Virus Attacking Food Supplies Worldwide "A deadly fungus, known as Ug99, which kills wheat, has likely spread to Pakistan from Africa according to reports. If true, that threatens the vital Asian Bread Basket including the Punjab region. The spread of the deadly virus, stem rust, against which an effective fungicide does not exist, comes as world grain stocks reach the lowest in four decades and government subsidized bio-ethanol production, especially in the USA, Brazil and EU are taking land out of food production at alarming rates. The deadly fungus is being used by Monsanto and the US Government to spread patented GMO seeds ... Stem rust is the worst of three rusts that afflict wheat plants. The fungus grows primarily in the stems, plugging the vascular system so carbohydrates can't get from the leaves to the grain, which shrivels. Ug99 is a race of stem rust that blocks the vascular tissues in cereal grains including wheat, oats and barley. Unlike other rusts that may reduce crop yields, Ug99-infected plants may suffer up to 100 percent loss ...
The first strains of Ug99 were detected in 1999 in Uganda. It spread to Kenya by 2001, to Ethiopia by 2003 and to Yemen when the cyclone Gonu spread its spores in 2007. Now the deadly fungus has been found in Iran and according to British scientists may already be as far as
Pakistan ..."
Air Traffic Controller: 911 An Inside Job
"Former Air Traffic Controller Robin Hordon speaks out on 9/11, NORAD and what should have happened on 9/11."
Katrina 'Victims' May Have To Repay $175 Million
"The contractor, ICF International of Fairfax, Va., revealed the extent of the overpayments when it issued a March 11 request for bids from companies willing to handle "approximately 1,000 to 5,000 cases that will necessitate collection effort ... The bid invitation said: "The average amount to be collected is estimated to be approximately $35,000, but in some cases may be as high as $100,000 to $150,000." The biggest grant amount allowed by the Road Home program is $150,000, so ICF believes it paid some recipients the maximum when they should not have received a penny. If ICF's highest estimate of 5,000 collection cases — overpaid by an average of $35,000 — proves to be true, that means applicants will have to pay back a total of $175
million ..."
America’s Next 9/11
"We know that the Bush regime wants to attack Iran. Despite the NIE report that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program several years ago and despite no signs of a weapons program having been uncovered by IAEA inspectors, Bush, Cheney, and the neocon nazis continue to agitate for striking Iran “before it is too late.” Their politicized military commander in Iraq, Gen.
Petraeus, keeps insisting that Iran is training Iraqi insurgents and supplying weapons that are killing US troops. Bush and Cheney themselves have made trips to Europe and the Middle East trying to marshall support for an attack on Iran. Anyone who is not deaf, blind and stupid knows that the Bush regime is doing everything it can to create circumstances that will permit a US attack on
Iran ..."
India Prepared To Invest Billions in Iran Oil and Gas Fields
"India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and the Hinduja Group are in discussions with Iran for the signing of a mid-April contract that would pump billions of dollars into Iran's South Pars gas field and the south Azadegan oil field, ONGC chairman and Managing Director RS Sharma told reporters Wednesday. Though there is no definitive agreement, the "participating agreement" would involve ONGC Videsh and Hinduja in the development of phase 12 of the South Pars, as well as field development of the Azadegan oil patch. "A lot of ground has to be covered before reaching a stage of signing a definitive agreement," Sharma told reporters. Azadegan is the largest oil field in Iran after its 1999 discovery. China and India have been on the hunt for opportunities to exploit the country with the world's second-largest oil and gas reserves. This week, China said it would be willing to step in and pick up any slack left by India in the $7.4 billion Iran-Pakistan pipeline deal if India backs out. In December 2007, Sinopec signed a deal with Iran to develop the Yadavaran oil field.
"
Why All the Foreign Bases?
Nice overview.
Air Force officer disciplined for saying Bush allowed September 11 attacks
"A US Air Force officer in California recently accused President Bush of deliberately allowing the September 11 terror attacks to take place. The officer has been relieved of his command and faces further discipline. The controversy surrounding Lt. Col. Steve Butler’s letter to the editor, in which he affirmed that Bush did nothing to warn the American people because he “needed this war on terrorism,” received scant coverage in the media ... Universally ignored by the press, however, was that the officer was not merely expressing a personal opinion. He was in a position to have direct knowledge of contacts between the US military and some of the hijackers in the period before the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon ..."
New Study Further Links Parkinson's Disease and Pesticides
"In another cautionary tale about the potential danger of toxic pesticides, scientists have published a new study on further evidence of a possible link between Parkinson's disease and long-term chemical exposure. As the UK's Guardian reports, a study of more than 300 people with the neurological disease found that sufferers were more than twice as likely to report heavy exposure to pesticides over their lifetime as family members without the disease."
Evidence That the CIA Murdered RFK
"A new BBC documentary supports the conclusion that the CIA planned and executed the assassination of Robert Kennedy. The new video and photographic evidence -- the result of a three year long investigation --"puts three senior CIA operatives" at the scene of the murder."
US
Moves To Financially Isolate Iran "March 20, 2008 is destined to be another day of infamy. On this date the US officially declared war on Iran. But it's not going to be the kind of war many have been expecting. The US, speaking through
FinCEN, is now telling all banks around the world "to take into account the risk arising from the deficiencies in Iran's
AML/CFT [anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism] regime, as well as all applicable U.S. and international sanctions programs, with regard to any possible transactions" with – and this is important – not just the above three banks but every remaining state-owned, private and special government bank in Iran. In other words, FinCEN charges, all of Iran's banks – including the central bank (also on FinCEN's list) – represent a risk to the international financial system, no exceptions. Confirmation is possible by comparing FinCEN's list of risky Iranian banks with the listing of Iranian banks provided by Iran's central bank."
Read also the result of the US financial isolation of North Korea in 2005.
Related: 5 ex-secretaries of state: Close
Guantanamo, open Iran dialogue
Satellite Surveillance Domestic Issues
PDF New report from the Congressional Research Service that has not been made readily available to the public.
Issued 21 March 2008.
Operation Permanent Presence: The Civil War "Surge" in Iraq
"Bush (and the ever-compliant press) portray the operation as an attempt to show that the Iraqis can handle their own security problems. A successful demonstration of this in Basra would then hasten the withdrawal of (some) U.S. troops -- so the story goes. But in fact, the operation seems expressly designed to prove the opposite point: that the Iraqi government can't possibly control its own country, and thus a major U.S. presence is still needed. This is why the White House has backed
al-Maliki's assault on the strongholds of Moqtada al-Sadr in Basra. But to say that Bush has "backed" or assisted this major escalation of the Iraqi civil war is probably putting it too mildly. As the operation unravels into the inevitable blood-drenched fiasco -- exposing the Iraqi "government" as the weak, corrupt, ineffectual, infiltrated puppet show that it has always been -- it becomes more and more likely that
al-Maliki was ordered to launch the attack by his masters in Washington -- or at the very least was
"marshalled in the way he was going" by the Americans, with Bush playing Lady Macbeth to the power-hungry but uncertain
al-Maliki."
Related: Americans in Green Zone under siege
| U.S.
Offensive Against Sadr Militia | Basra crisis leaves British withdrawal in ruins
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The Mahdi Army of 60,000
Exposing DHS's Border Fence Myth: How 302 Miles Is Actually Less Than 10
"Secretary Chertoff is riding into the sunset--dragging the fence behind him. As mentioned in yesterday's immigration blog by Steve Elliott the Sun Sets on the Border Fence On 12/31/08. This sunset provision of the Omnibus bill H.R. 2764 declares that the Secretary of Homeland Security loses all authority to build the fence--even if he wants to."
AIG Sues Greenberg Over $20 Billion in Company Stock
"American International Group Inc., the world's largest insurer by assets, sued the company's former chief executive officer, Maurice ``Hank'' Greenberg, claiming he ``misappropriated'' AIG shares worth $20 billion. AIG said Greenberg and six other former executives, including ex-Chief Financial Officer Howard Smith, took over company stock held by an AIG affiliate, Starr International Co., or
SICO, in 2005. The defendants seized control of the board of Starr, AIG's largest shareholder, and converted the firm into a private investment vehicle for their benefit, AIG alleged."
US gave $300m arms contract to
Israeli-connected 22-year-old with criminal record
"28 Mar 2008 The Pentagon entrusted a 22-year-old previously arrested for domestic violence and having a forged driving
license to be the main supplier of ammunition to Afghan forces at the height of the battle against the Taliban, it was reported yesterday.
AEY, essentially a one-man operation based in an unmarked office in Miami Beach, Florida, was awarded a contract worth $300m (£150m) to supply the Afghan army and police in January last year. The report on AEY was the latest instance of private firms securing lucrative
defense contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan under the Bush regime's policy of privatizing
growing aspects of the military. "Operations like this pop up like mushrooms after the rain," said Milton Bearden, a former CIA official who in the 1980s was in charge of arming Afghan rebel groups fighting the former Soviet Union.
Old stock was sent to Afghan forces battling Taliban. 40-year-old ammunition had to be destroyed.
Henry Waxman, the member of congress from California who heads the committee on government oversight, said yesterday he would conduct hearings into the contract next
month (April 2008)." Related:
Supplier Under Scrutiny on Arms for Afghans
The younger Diveroli's munitions experience appeared to be limited to a short-lived job in Los Angeles for Botach Tactical, a military and police supply company owned by his uncle,
Bar-Kochba Botach.
See the company
logo, which clearly has an Israeli star.
Model
Amici Curiae Brief to Eliminate Corporate Rights
"This Brief is intended to assist communities organizing to challenge the United States government's gift of constitutional powers to property organized as corporations. Accordingly, this Brief is NOT about corporate responsibility, corporate accountability, corporate ethics, corporate codes of conduct, good corporate "citizenship," corporate crime, corporate reform, consumer protection, fixing regulatory agencies, or stakeholders."
Interesting, how the definition of corps as 'entities' has changed over time.
Corporations were originally designed as figuring in public benefit in some
way.
Fiscal Year 2009 Pentagon Spending Request Briefing Book
PDF 18 pages. A very revealing look at the paradigm over
time, as well. Worth looking at to see the US vs. the rest of the planet.
World Military Spending
Updated 1 March 2008. Interesting planetary priorities ... sigh ...
World Food Programme Runs Out of Funding
"Faced with the dramatically spiraling costs of wheat, rice and corn, the World Food Programme has made an unprecedented appeal for at least $500m (£250m) to help it continue supplying food aid to 73 million needy people this year.”
If the planetary power structure cared at all, this would not occur. You know
why they don't care.
Spain's property market suffers meltdown
"Spain's once-booming property market is in freefall, official statistics have revealed for the first time…"
Outside View: The end of capitalism as we know it
"The Western world is in an economic crisis similar in scale to the oil shock of 1973. What we are seeing is nothing less than the
unraveling of neo-liberalism – the dominant economic and ideological model of the last 30 years ... The disintegration of Anglo-Saxon-inspired markets has come about largely because of the confluence of two tendencies of the "free market": speculation and monopoly capitalism. Contrary to received opinion, free markets – unless subject to civil regulation, asset distribution and persistent intervention – always tend to monopoly ... before 1973 the ratio of investment to speculative capital was 9:1; since 1973, these proportions have reversed. So huge have the numbers, leverage and derivative instruments become that their value now far exceeds the total economic value of the planet. For instance, in 2003 the value of all derivative trading was $85 trillion, while the size of the world economy was only $49 trillion ... These ratios have risen with the latest estimates that the value of all traded paper instruments exceeds the underlying value of the assets on which they are written by 3:1. The fact that these assets may themselves be devaluing by up to 50 per cent (US housing values have declined by 25 per cent in two years) means that the overall ratio of global paper value to its leveraged base may indeed double ... This average global figure itself masks even more extreme levels of leverage. The Carlyle Group de-faulted on $16.6bn (£8.4bn) of debt last week. The private equity firm had been speculating assiduously on its AAA-rated mortgage base – by some estimates, at the end of its life, Carlyle's loan-to-value ratio and hedge exposure was at 36:1. There are, of course, many other private equity firms in a similar position ... This incalculable level of speculation is abetted by the huge concentration of wealth that has occurred since 1973. Why? Because if markets tend to monopoly then smaller groups of people control larger amounts of assets. The latest figures demonstrate this admirably: the richest 10 per cent of the UK population increased their share of the nation's marketable wealth (excluding housing) from 57 per cent in 1976 to 71 per cent in 2003. Over the same period, the speculative capital that could be deployed or
invested by the bottom 50 per cent of the British population fell from 12 per cent to just 1 per cent. Indeed, the wealthiest 1 per cent of the population, on current government figures, now control more than a third of all the marketable wealth – and this ignores the vast sums held in offshore tax havens ... The trouble is that nobody in power
recognizes this crisis for what it is – an asset insolvency crisis brought about by massive debt leverage. Neo-liberals are still reacting as if the emergency was one of liquidity. They are wrong. Governments should bail out not banks and speculators but the customers who now have every reason to fear for the future."
Chronic Neglect Of Agriculture In Asia
"Chronic neglect of agriculture in Asia and the Pacific has left over 200 million people in extreme poverty amid rising prices for foodstuffs and despite robust growth in other sectors."
Not for much longer.
Russia to continue Arctic shelf research
"Russian scientists will continue to study the Arctic shelf in order to bolster the country's claim to a large swathe of seabed believed to be rich in oil and gas, a Russian lawmaker said on Thursday. President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia's Arctic research is aimed at establishing the country's right to a part of the Arctic
shelf ..." Related: Russian
Analysis of Bush and McCain - Equally Bad Options | Will Kosovo be turned over to the Pentagon?
- the territory seized from Serbia is turning into a big military base of the United States and NATO.
Cheney betting on Economic Collapse:
Dumped $10 to $25 million in a European bond fund in 2006
"Darth Cheney is counting on a steadily weakening dollar. So, while working class Americans are loosing ground to inflation and rising energy costs, Darth Cheney will be enhancing his wealth in "Old Europe". As Blackburn sagely notes, "Not all 'bad news' is bad for everybody."
The plan may be that the rich would move their wealth overseas, crash the US economy deliberately, then
bring their wealth back to the US where it would be worth ten times as much,
and the companies that profited from the wars would provide security,
confinement and operational services in the eventually devastated United
States, which would become a fascist confinement state terror society. Related:
War benefits only business
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel," said author Samuel Johnson. Bush's deceit leading to the invasion of Iraq
enabled the corrupt military-industrial complex to make outrageous profits for multinational corporations. Corporate greed and war profiteering have made endless war a corporate imperative."
The science of terror "
... Terror is a very tenuous and subjective term to define. The Penn State International Center for the Study of Terrorism
attempts to draw parameters around the word, parameters that do not identify the true perpetrators of any specific terror or terror in general: "a particular kind of political violence that is usually associated with the use, or threat of use of violent behavior to achieve political ends. Although terrorism can be, and often is, perpetrated by States, the term is most frequently associated with non-state entities seeking to overthrow or effectively destabilize a
regime..."
Boston and D.C. Gun Grabbing Schemes Fizzle "Bostonians are not buying it, though. It is not so much the flimsy rules about what is to be searched. It is rather the very idea of allowing police to enter without justification coupled with a search warrant issued by a judge ... Meanwhile, in the District of Criminals, the cops are having difficulty with an anti-Fourth Amendment scheme of their
own ..."
Tibet, the 'great game' and the CIA "There is reason to believe Beijing was caught on the hop with the recent demonstrations for the simple reason that their planning took place outside of Tibet..."
See more on this, below
Concept
of 'the Jewish people' a Complete Fabrication "In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period."
In other words, there is no real historical 'title' to the land which Israel
occupies.
Almost
50% of the US Population described as mentally ill "America has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens - 67.5 million - have taken antidepressants.
Social phobia, later dubbed "social anxiety disorder," was one of seven new anxiety disorders created in 1980. At first it struck me as a serious condition. By the 1990s experts were calling it "the disorder of the decade," insisting that as many as one in five Americans suffers from it. Yet the complete story turned out to be rather more complicated. For starters, the specialist who in the 1960s originally recognized social anxiety - London-based Isaac Marks, a renowned expert on fear and panic - strongly resisted its inclusion in DSM-III as a separate disease category. The list of common behaviors associated with the disorder gave him pause: fear of eating alone in restaurants, avoidance of public toilets, and concern about trembling hands. By the time a revised task force added dislike of public speaking in 1987, the disorder seemed sufficiently elastic to include virtually everyone on the planet."
This is what happens when you have a population that knows little and can do
nothing about the collapse of society around them.
U.S. public's feelings about economy are bleakest since '73 "A survey of about 2,500 households found that Americans feel worse about the economy's prospects than at any time since 1973, when Americans struggled with soaring oil prices and runaway inflation. With home prices falling at record rates, Americans are also finding it more difficult to draw on their home equity, further depressing their spending power. A separate report Tuesday said the value of single-family homes in major metropolitan areas plummeted 10.7 percent in January from a year earlier, the steepest annual decline since the height of the 1990s housing slump."
US fears over honey bee collapse "Colony collapse disorder
(CCD) emerged last year, and by spring 2007 bees were dying in huge numbers - over the year as a whole the total bee population fell by 30%. Some beekeepers lost closer to 90%, and the fear is it will get worse."
9/11 inquiry head 'tried to shield George
Bush "The head of the commission that investigated the Sept 11 terrorist attacks had closer ties to the White House than he admitted and tried to limit the Bush administration's responsibility for the incident, a book claims. Philip
Zelikow, the 9/11 Commission's executive director, allegedly attempted to intimidate staff to avoid findings that would be damaging to President George W Bush, who was running for re-election, and Condoleezza Rice, his then National Security Adviser."
Related: American Society of Civil Engineers accused of engaging in
9-11 cover-up
UN rejects water
availability, necessary to life, as basic right
Well. I guess they'll have to drink beer and eat dirt cookies.
'Israel sees dwindling chance of US strike on Iran, despite nuclear 'smoking
gun' "Cheney told ABC News's Martha Raddatz that Iran was "obviously ... heavily involved in trying to develop nuclear weapons enrichment." The Los Angeles Times notes that Iran has denied trying to develop a nuclear weapon and the uranium enrichment that has been demonstrated is in line with energy production, not weapons development."
Yes, they might have to do their own dirty work, up front.
Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why
Endgame continues ...
Fed May Buy Mortgages Next, Treasury Investors Bet "
... While purchasing some of the $6 trillion mortgage securities outstanding would take problem debt off the balance sheets of banks and alleviate the cause of the credit crunch, it would put taxpayers at
risk ..."
U.S. Outsourcing Passport Manufacturing "The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies — including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage — raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security, an investigation by The Washington Times has
found ..."
Spy In The Sky Drones In Miami "A small pilotless drone manufactured by Honeywell International
(HON.N), capable of hovering and "staring" using electro-optic or infrared sensors, is expected to make its debut soon in the skies over the Florida Everglades."
Related: Soviet Style Snitch Poster Being Used On Trains
10 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 10 Years: Collapsing the Economy in
Buildup to WW III "Since 1999, the following events have either caused or been the symptom of the present economic
crises..."
Scientists and economists offered bribes
by ExxonMobil to undermine the UN climate change report "Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute, an
ExxonMobil-funded think tank with close links to the Bush Administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of the report. Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered. The institute has received more than $1.6 million from ExxonMobil - which yesterday announced a $50 billion annual profit, the biggest ever by a US company - and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush Administration. A former head of
ExxonMobil, Lee Raymond, is the vice-chairman of the institute's board of
trustees ..."
Russia and Egypt sign nuclear deal "Russia and Egypt have signed an agreement opening the way for Russian firms to bid for contracts to build nuclear power plants in Egypt. The deal was signed on Tuesday after Vladimir
Putin, Russia's president, and Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's leader, met near Moscow for talks which also covered Russia's plan to host a Middle East peace conference. Egypt wants up to four nuclear power stations. An international tender to build the first of them may come as early as this
year ..."
American Society of Civil Engineers Accused of Cover-Ups "The professional organization for engineers who build the nation's roads, dams and bridges has been accused by fellow engineers of covering up catastrophic design flaws while investigating national
disasters ..."
U.S. mistakenly sent nuclear missile fuses to Taiwan "The U.S. military mistakenly shipped four fuses for nuclear missiles to Taiwan in 2006 and never caught the error, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, acknowledging an incident likely to rile China. The military was supposed to ship helicopter batteries to Taiwan, but instead sent fuses used as part of the trigger mechanism on Minuteman missiles. Taiwan returned the parts to U.S. custody last week."
Cheney discusses terrorism, Iran with Turkey's PM
"On the final leg of his Middle East tour, Cheney continues to talk about the threat posed by Tehran’s nuclear program. In effect he’s trying to drum up support for a U.S. led strike on Iran."
Columbine Massacre Unravels "Columbine has never made any sense. On a close examination of eyewitnesses, and events, one can easily see that there were at least seven people involved, and maybe a third shooter."
Related: Columbine's Third Shooter |
FBI's dirtiest secret: Dwayne Fuselier, the FBI agent in charge of the Columbine investigation, had at least one son in the Trench Coat Mafia When a Denver news reporter questioned him, he refused to even discuss it.
Big-Bang Bunk "If the quasars are really at the claimed Big-Bang distances, then they should have a random distribution in the sky relative to the distribution of Seyfert galaxies, but they do not: The actual distribution of quasars is not random relative to the distribution of
Seyferts. Instead, quasars tend to be clustered close around Seyferts--a situation that, according to
Arp, Big-Bang
Saudis Prepare for "Sudden Nuclear Hazards" After Cheney Visit "Dick Cheney was in Saudi Arabia for high-level meetings with the Saudi king and his ministers. On Saturday, it was revealed that the Saudi Shura Council -- the elite group that implements the decisions of the autocratic inner circle -- is preparing "national plans to deal with any sudden nuclear and radioactive hazards that may affect the kingdom following experts' warnings of possible attacks on Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactors," one of the kingdom's leading newspapers,
Okaz, reports. The German-based dpa news service relayed the paper's story."
Related: Probable Cause to Charge Dick Cheney With Mass Murder, Terrorism, and High Treason
There is probable cause to indict Dick Cheney for the crime of supervising the events of 911, a capital crime consisting of high treason and mass murder. Both Bush and Condoleeza Rice would state that they could not have foreseen the crashing of airliners into buildings. In fact, just such a 'scenario' was the basis for security when Bush attended the G8 Summit in Italy, July 23, 2001 [See: "Italy: Bush Targeted at G8." New York Newsday 19 Sept 2001, unsigned; "Extremists 'Planned Genoa Attack on Bush'", BBC News, 27 Sept 2001]. Secondly, Dick Cheney supervised precisely that scenario on the very day that it happened in fact --a highly improbable coincidence' that would repeat later in Britain on 7/7. Cheney supervised what are called 'exercises' within a bunker --the Presidential Emergency Operations Center --located under the White House. There is damning testimony against Cheney from former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta who contradicts 9/11 Commission Report's Account of Dick Cheney's timetable.
As economy slides, New Englanders hunker down "The consumer confidence index is at its lowest level in five years. A recent USA Today-Gallup poll found a heightened sense of vulnerability even among those not in financial crisis themselves, with 42 percent of respondents rating economic conditions as poor and 55 percent saying that "someone close to them" had lost a job, filed for bankruptcy, faced foreclosure, or been turned down for credit in the preceding three months. That widespread feeling of vulnerability emerged in more than a dozen interviews and responses to an online query."
The Suspect Society "The Surveillance Society. The New Authoritarianism. The Age of Paranoid Politics. These are just a few of the ways writers and thinkers describe the age we're now living in. The signs of anxiety and fear in this post 9-11 era are all around us. School lock-downs are called the new fire-drill. Recently, many schools boards in Canada made rehearsing the lock-down mandatory. The number of security staff in schools is increasing every year. By 2010 for example, there will be more security guards than teachers in American schools. But, the uniforms aren't just being worn by security staff. More and more American public schools have adopted uniforms for students. Meanwhile the U.S. army is embedding itself in schools - targeting younger and younger students for recruitment. In Canada recruitment comes through video games that inform, entertain and seduce "action-focused males starting at 17 years old"."
Israel Bank intervenes in foreign currency market, buys dollars "The Bank of Israel intervened in the foreign currency market on Thursday for the first time since 1997 and bought dollars."
Truckers 'going broke' and threatening to strike "Dan Little, the owner/operator of a livestock hauling company in Carrollton, Mo., estimated Tuesday that at least 1,000 other truckers from across the United States have committed so far to joining him in a strike on April 1."
US deploys nuclear sub to Persian Gulf "An American nuclear submarine has crossed the Suez Canal to join the US fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf, Egyptian sources say.
An American destroyer recently left the Persian Gulf, heading towards the Mediterranean Sea; earlier on Thursday, a US Navy rescue ship crossed the canal to enter the Red Sea."
Related:
'No option' ruled out over Iran nukes
Global
Food Costs Skyrocket as War Psychopaths Pursue Greed and Power Very
interesting to see what's happening.
Chinese
Government Caught Staging Riots to Force Tibetan Issue "A former Chinese Communist Party official has accused China of staging violent riots in Tibet in order to demonize Tibetans in the eyes of the international community, justify a brutal paramilitary police crackdown and force the Dalai Lama to resign. "The CCP carefully staged the unrest in Tibet to deceive the world. Before the incident, the authorities drove away all foreign reporters and even forbade them from going out," said Ming. "The demonstration on March 10 was meant to be peaceful. You can see from the pictures that the demonstration was all monks," he explained. By provoking the Tibetans into violence, China is orchestrating a "thorough plot with carefully designed propaganda," according to Ming, who says the ultimate goal is to force the Dalai Lama to resign and eventually categorize Tibetans as terrorists, leading to a brutal crackdown. Such a ploy is common in the west, where legitimate peaceful protesters are given a bad name by infiltrators posing as anarchists who are in reality working for the authorities.
The most recent example occurred in Quebec Canada during an August 2007 SPP summit, where authorities were forced to admit that three rock-wielding mask-wearing "anarchists" were in fact police infiltrators gathering information on protesters and seemingly intent on provoking violent clashes in order to justify a police crackdown."
Inside Story of CIA's Black Hands in Tibet
" ...By far the most important CIA asset was an agent named Gyalo
Thondup, elder brother to the Dalai Lama..."
Related: Tibet, China and Human Rights
| Links
Covering the Dalai Lama and CIA
EMD 'Safety Bracelet' -
ID-Shock Bracelet Eyed by DHS for Common Use to Control People
"A company called
Lamperd Firearm Training Systems wants to market this shock bracelet as a security product as a way for terrorists to be incapacitated on an airline. As always, this device is sold as something that will be used to keep everyone safe from terrorists. Of course, this company doesn’t want you to know that the vast majority of terrorism is funded by governments to begin
with ... Even worse is that there appears to be demand for this shock bracelet product outside of airport
security (PDF). If this technology is improved upon and enhanced, it is very possible that this technology could be used in a similar fashion to what is seen in The Running Man.
" Related: Terror Watch List Claims Innocent Victims
"We are living through another Hiroshima," Iraqi doctor says
"The U.S., Great Britain and Israel are turning portions of the Middle East into a slice of radioactive hell. They are achieving this by firing what they call "depleted uranium"
(DU) ammunition but which is, in fact, radioactive ammunition and it is perhaps the deadliest kind of tactical ammo ever devised in the warped mind of man."
Over 70,000 deaths,1 million disabilities among American soldiers attributed to Iraq Wars
"U.S. investigative researchers have discovered an official U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs official, but not well publicized count, of 73,846 U.S. soldiers who have perished as an apparent result of Depleted Uranium based bio-chemical warfare exposure. This exceeds an estimate of 58,000 U.S. soldiers who had been killed in relation to the Vietnam War ... Over One million U.S. soldiers have apparently been disabled from Depleted Uranium based biochemical exposure. Over one million Iraqis have also been documented to have been killed ... More than 1,820 tons (3-million, 640 thousand pounds) of radioactive nuclear waste uranium were exploded into Iraq alone in the form of armour piercing rounds and bunker busters, representing the worlds worst man made ecological disaster ever. 64 kg of uranium were used in the Hiroshima bomb. The very broad human and ecological disaster of the Iraq War has been drowned out by America's sound-bite driven media organizations, that are owned by the same fascist clique which presides over the Iraq War ... It is apparent that a Eugenics-inspired megalomaniacal fascist clique seeks to further make Iran a toxic nuclear wasteland ... "What the government is doing is only counting the soldiers that die in action on the ground before they can get them into a hummer, helicopter or ambulance. Any soldier who is shot but they get into a vehicle before 'the die' is not counted." "Uranium poisoning, which can take decades to kill not only the soldier but family members as well" are further cited documents in
Libertyforlife.com, who also adds that more than 1,820 tons of radio active nuclear waste uranium were exploded into Iraq alone in the form of
armor piercing rounds and bunker busters (also known as dirty bombs), representing the worlds worst man made ecological disaster, over the 64 kg of uranium that was used in the Hiroshima bomb ..."
Related: a new propaganda item, "Bush sympathetic as war toll hits 4,000"
Brave New World
for Hollywood as Aldous Huxley feud ends
"Leonardo DiCaprio
puts his Hollywood muscle behind the first big-screen production of Brave New
World, Huxley’s most enduring novel."
McCain Now A Campaign Finance Criminal
"According to the latest Federal Election Commission report, John McCain has now spent $58.4 million dollars. McCain applied for public financing, and according to FEC chairman David Mason (in a letter to McCain), he can't withdraw without permission of the
FEC. So he is now legally in violation of campaign finance law."
Death of massive star creates brightest burst ever seen
"
... The explosion happened at a distance of over twenty billion light years from Earth. To detect a naked eye object from such a distance really is extraordinary.”
Gamma Ray Burst (can kill all life if it is aimed in the right direction) See
the appendix in Matrix 6. See also the Real Time Gamma Ray Burst
Data item in the first blue-bar group below on the LE Online webpage,
third column on the bottom. These things are going off all the time. Check it
out.
Strange Silver Price Gyrations and Shortage
"
... So, nobody wants silver so badly that its price takes a $3 nosedive in the course of about 24 hours. On the other hand, just try to find some to buy. When you do, the dealer is jacking up the price. Nobody wants silver so badly, you can't buy any! Go figure. And go buy some, while you are at
it ..."
Major Flooding In U.S. A Sign Of Things To Come
" Major floods striking America’s heartland in March offer a preview of the spring seasonal outlook, according to NOAA’s National Weather Service."
Arkansas Meat Factory Explodes
"A meat packing plant exploded Sunday afternoon, forcing homes to be evacuated because ammonia gas leaked into the air, state officials said. It was not immediately known if there were any injuries, but a witness said she saw injured people."
The cows, already dead before the plant exploded, had no comment.
Mortgage crisis hits cultural institutions
"Some of Southern California's major cultural institutions are bleeding because of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, with combined losses of more than $3 million -- and mounting -- since February, when their seemingly safe and innocuous construction bonds turned into fiscal leeches."
Related: Struggling Economy Forces Adults to Move Back Home |
Exxon Skimps On Oil Production To Boost Profits |
Starbucks Ordered To Pay More Than $100M In Back Tips |
Corporate Media's Virtual Blackout on Iraq Atrocity Hearings
(See also article
below entitled "Winter Soldier Hearings) "Given the common media rhetoric of "supporting the troops" to ignore these same troops when they speak out about the horrors of the war is unconscionable. On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, it is particularly important that the media reverse this silence, and include the voices of the vets who are speaking out about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan in national news coverage."
Why Bush
'Watergated' Eliot Spitzer
A useful rule of thumb in evaluating spectacular scandals around prominent public figures is to ask what and who might want to eliminate that
person, and why.
Feds Launch Criminal Probe Into Aluminum Maker Alcoa Over Alleged Bribery in Bahrain
"The U.S. Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation into whether aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. participated in bribery in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain. In documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, federal prosecutors asked a judge to halt a federal civil lawsuit that accused Pittsburgh-based Alcoa of bribing officials through overseas shell companies to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in overpayments."
Rumsfeld's disease: A politically-induced biochemical disaster of global proportions
"Donald
Rumsfeld, as the CEO of G.D. Searle, Co., "called in his markers" to achieve U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the artificial sweetener aspartame, better known by its trade name "NutraSweet." Today, Donald Rumsfeld
is known throughout the world as the zealous U.S. Secretary of Defense who
began waging a global "war on terror" in search of "terrorists" and "weapons of mass destruction." Most people, however, are not aware that Rumsfeld himself unleashed a chemical weapon of mass destruction upon the world in 1981--and it's still out there destroying people all over the world. That
"WMD" is aspartame and it has been scientifically and anecdotally linked to millions of chronic illnesses and deaths."
Investment Firms Tap Fed for Billions
"Big Wall Street investment companies are taking advantage of the Federal Reserve's unprecedented offer to secure emergency loans, the central bank reported Thursday."
... which suggests that smaller investors are starting to pull out of the market and the investment houses need the cash to buy up stocks to keep prices from falling.
Russia's Severstal to buy U.S. steel mill for $810 million
"Severstal, Russia's largest steel producer, is to purchase a steel mill in the U.S. for $810 million, the company announced on Friday."
Russian FM warns military action on Iran 'disastrous'
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned that any military means to solve Iran's controversial nuclear programme would have a "disastrous" effect."
Related: Iran a Nuclear Threat, Bush Insists
"Bush said Thursday that Iran has declared that it wants to be a nuclear power with a weapon to "destroy people," including others in the Middle East, contradicting the judgments of a recent U.S. intelligence estimate."
Russia's NATO envoy: US military "arming ex-terrorists" in Kosovo
"Russia's firebrand envoy to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said Thursday that US military aid to Kosovo amounted to arming "former terrorists." Responding to news of US President George W Bush approval of military aid to Kosovo, Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin warned that such a move could lead to "new terrorist clashes in the Balkans.""
Hawaii volcano explodes for first time in 84 years
""It was the first explosion in Kilauea's main Halemaumau Crater since 1924, scattering debris over about 75 acres, said Jim
Kauahikaua, scientist-in-charge at Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on the Big Island."
7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes China
"A major earthquake struck western China early Friday, but there were no initial reports of casualties. The 7.2 magnitude quake hit at 6:33 a.m. (6:33 p.m. EDT Thursday), about 140 miles southeast of the city of Hotan in Xinjiang province, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Dale Grant, a USGS geophysicist, described the area as "very seismically active" but said Friday's temblor was the biggest there on record."
Foreign investors veto Fed rescue
"As feared, foreign bond holders have begun to exercise a collective vote of no confidence in the devaluation policies of the US government. The Federal Reserve faces a potential veto of its rescue measures.
Related: US, Abu Dhabi, Singapore agree sovereign wealth fund principles
US Treasury said Thursday it had struck a series of agreements with big sovereign wealth funds based in Abu Dhabi and Singapore on investments in US markets.
Demolition for NAFTA's I-69 Superhighway begins Video.
Related: Papers Expose Lies of Clinton, Emanuel, Gergen On NAFTA
Forbidden fields: Oil groups circle the prize of Iraq's vast reserves
"Royal Dutch Shell has been quietly working with Iraq's oil ministry over the past two years, advising it on how to increase the production of two oilfields. Under an agreement struck after the 2003 invasion, no one from the company, Europe's largest oil group, has set foot in the troubled country; instead, monthly face-to-face meetings with the oil ministry have been held in Amman, the Jordanian capital, and weekly contact has been maintained by video-link."
Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran
"The Bush administration is prolonging the hunting season against journalists. The latest victim is James Risen, The New York Times reporter for national security and intelligence affairs. About three months ago, a federal grand jury issued a subpoena against him, ordering Risen to give evidence in court. A heavy blackout has been imposed on the affair, with the only hint being that it has to do with sensitive matters of "national security." But conversations with several sources who are familiar with the affair indicate that Risen has been asked to testify as part of an investigation aimed at revealing who leaked apparently confidential information about the planning of secret Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad missions concerning Iran's nuclear program."
UN: Israel Guilty of War Crimes in Gaza
Israel's targeting of a Hamas government office which caused serious casualties at a nearby wedding party was a "war crime" and those responsible should be punished, a United Nations official said yesterday."
Related:
Psychopath McCain visits Israel for Jewish support for White House bid
| Latest on AIPAC Espionage Case
Ohio voting machines confiscated in criminal investigation
"Ohio investigators are treating a warehouse where 15 electronic voting machines have been quarantined as a crime scene following a report someone may have illegally tampered with them to remove a candidate's name from the ballot."
US rounding up journalists in Iraq in attempt to control information
"Associated Press president Tom Curley says his news organization does not buy the government's argument that one of its photographers arrested in Iraq was working on behalf of the enemy, and he alleged the US is rounding up journalists in an attempt to control information."
Era of cheap groceries and easily affordable food rapidly coming to a close
"New agricultural trends will soon seriously affect you. In fact, they already have. After years of relatively low inflation for basic agricultural commodities, prices for wheat, corn, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, beef and chicken are rising, and experts have said a new era of expensive food is here to stay—but that’s not the worst that could happen."
25 most-exposed (derivatives ) financial institutions
LEGAL INSIDER TRADING IN THREE EASY STEPS, BROUGHT TO YOU BY JP MORGAN AND THE SEC - Monday March 17, 2008
A confidential memo obtained by Wikileaks shows that not only has the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission created an insider trading loophole big enough to drive a truck through, but that Wall Street is taking full advantage of it, establishing 'how-to' programs and even client service divisions to help well-heeled clients circumvent insider trading regulations. Most of us think of insider trading as illegal. It allows those with inside knowledge to tilt the playing field, with the small investors invariably losing to the privileged few. Unfortunately for the small investor, the big boys get to play by different rules, and it has all been made legal, thanks to the SEC.
Related: Whistleblower exposes insider trading program at JP Morgan
A confidential memo shows that not only has the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission created an insider trading loophole big enough to drive a
truck through, but that Wall Street is taking full advantage of it,
establishing 'how-to' programs and even client service divisions to help
well-heeled clients circumvent insider trading regulations. Related: JP Morgan Private Bank insider trading
how-to | Investment banks are borrowing from Fed
25 Intolerable Contradictions: The Final Undoing of the Official 9/11 Story
"A review of "9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press," by Dr. David Ray Griffin. Interlink Publishing, March 2008."
Here comes the worldwide currency debasement
"As feared, foreign bond holders have begun to exercise a collective vote of no confidence in the devaluation policies of the US government. The Federal Reserve faces a potential veto of its rescue measures. Asian,
Mideast, and European investors stood aside at last week's auction of 10-year US Treasury notes. "It was a disaster," said Ray Attrill from 4castweb. "We may be close to the point where the uglier consequences of benign neglect towards the currency are revealed."
U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to strike down D.C. handgun ban
"The Supreme Court justices, hearing a historic argument on the meaning of the 2nd Amendment, signaled they are likely to strike down a handgun ban in the District of Columbia and rule that homeowners have a right to keep a gun for self-defense."
Related: PDF
Transcript of Supreme Court Deliberations
Winter Soldier Hearings
Get ready for the horrible, honest reality of the American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan like you haven't heard it before. For three days, March 14-16, hundreds of U.S. veterans of the two wars descended on Washington and
testified in the "Winter Soldier" hearings about what they really did while they were
' serving their country' in Iraq. And their experiences aren't pretty. Listen
to Archived Testimonial Audio from the Winter Soldier Event on Iraq as
Operation Mind Fuck.
Switzerland to sign huge Iran gas deal
"Swiss energy giant EGL is set to sign a 25-year deal in Teheran on Monday to buy 5.5 billion cubic meters of Iranian natural gas per year, starting in 2011."
Japanese emperor calls for stronger ties with Iran
"Akihito expressed hope that ties between Iran and Tokyo will be further enhanced during Araqchi's tenure, IRNA reported."
Another country abandons the US stance...
Leading Economic Writer: Financial Meltdown A "Gigantic Fraud"
"A leading economic journalist has described the current financial crisis as a "gigantic fraud", the fallout of a deliberate and preconceived profit agenda to enslave the middle classes in a debt bubble."
Banks face "new world order," consolidation
"Financial firms face a "new world order" after a weekend fire sale of Bear Stearns and the Federal Reserve's first emergency weekend meeting since 1979, research firm CreditSights said in a report on Monday."
NASA
2008 Mission to X-Ray the Moon to Reveal Subsurface Structures
This can reveal extraterrestrial bases. Japan, India and China
are launching lunar probe missions as well. Japan
is pursuing the same project. Related: NASA
Moon crisis: physiographic analysis | The
1979 International Agreement on the Moon PDF| Ingo Swann's tale of covert extraterrestrial activity on the moon
| Enigmas
On The Moon | Base
on the Dark Side of the Moon discovered in 1965
GAO Study: The Consequences of Bush Use of Signing-Statements
"One of the most under-explored aspects of Bush's unprecedented use of signing statements has been the practical consequences. A year ago, the Government Accountability Office found that, indeed, federal officials had not complied with at least some of the provisions that Bush objected to in signing statements. In testimony to a House committee yesterday, GAO general counsel Gary L. Kepplinger announced the results of another study, this one of provisions in the 2008 defense authorization, which found more of the same. The GAO examined how 21 agencies executed 29 different provisions of the law that Bush asserted his right not to follow -- and found that in nine cases "the agencies had not executed the provisions as written." As with the earlier study, the specific examples are less than compelling -- the investigation, for instance, avoided "a close examination of provisions involving national security, intelligence, or foreign relations matters, because of our limited access to such information and the time constraints on our
work ... "
Bill Clinton: 'Paranoid' hecklers 'come and scream at me everywhere' Well,
stay home, then, you stupid fool.
Ethiopia Found To Be Holding Fake Gold Bars
"Ethiopia's national bank has been told to inspect all the gold in its vaults to determine its authenticity. It follows the discovery that some of the "gold" it had bought for millions of dollars was gold-plated steel."
In a related story: Gold Futures Rise to Record $1,009 on Bear Stearns Bailout
Just where is all the real gold, anyway?
Leading Economist: Dollar Faces Outright Collapse
"Another prominent economist has warned that the bottom may soon drop out of the dollar completely as the currency hits fresh lows and continues to sink worldwide. Peter Schiff, a dollar-bear at Security Pacific Capital, told the London Telegraph that the greenback faced the danger of outright collapse as countries in Asia and the Middle East mull plans to break their dollar pegs, which are fueling inflation across the region."
$200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges intimately linked
"Spitzer not only took on Countrywide, he took on their predatory enablers in the investment banking community. Behind Countrywide was the Mother Shark, its funder and now owner, Bank of America. Others joined the
sharkfest: Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup’s Citibank made mortgage usury their major profit centers. They did this through a bit of financial legerdemain called “securitization ... It was the night of February 13 when Spitzer made the bone-headed choice to order take-out in his Washington Hotel room. He had just finished signing these words for the Washington Post about predatory loans: “Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.” Bush, Spitzer said right in the headline, was the “Predator Lenders’ Partner in Crime.” The President, said Spitzer, was a fugitive from justice. And Spitzer was in Washington to launch a campaign to take on the Bush regime and the biggest financial powers on the
planet ..."
37 Financial Services Firms Facing Lawsuit
"A group of state and municipal governments, including Mississippi, Chicago and Fairfax County, Va., said Friday they sued multiple financial-services firms, alleging price-fixing and bid-rigging in the municipal derivatives industry. The suits were filed against 37 financial-services firms, including Merrill Lynch & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan
Stanley ..." Related: Bear Stearns Bailed Out by Fed, JPMorgan
| Fed pledges to supply cash
|
Russian Mafia in bed with Wall Street, CEO says
"According to Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, a majority of those purchasers will be victims of Wall Street's criminal tactics and will help line the pockets of corrupt brokers and lawyers. Byrne, a Utahn who founded
Overstock.com, talked to a crowd in the Union on Monday about how New York financial media and law firms have teamed up with big-wig business elites to create massive amounts of profit at the cost of American consumers. Byrne said when someone purchases a stock, there is a three-day stock settlement period during which a broker or a trader must provide a purchaser with that stock. However, through loopholes in the system, brokers and traders can legally not provide you with that stock almost indefinitely, giving the purchaser an IOU instead, Byrne
said ... "It's my thesis that certain people have figured out how they can abuse that loophole, and flood the market...often in connivance with a broker dealer," he said. Through this "flooding," the brokers can essentially issue the same stock to hundreds of people at no penalty. By increasing the supply of stocks, these dealers can dramatically drop the price according to the laws of supply and demand. Byrne showed how the "cheating parties" make money off of a stock price dropping through a process called "naked short selling." In brief, Byrne showed that "naked short selling" occurs when certain hedge funds and broker-dealers flood the market for a particular firm's stock with IOU's for that stock, cracking the market in it. If they ever have to make good on their IOU's it is at fraction of the original price, and they get to pocket the difference. These methods are used to create huge profits, often killing the victimized corporation in the process, and leaving the purchaser high and dry, Byrne said. In his efforts to stop this charade, Byrne filed a $3.5 billion lawsuit against Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and nine other well-known brokers. Byrne said numerous publications, including the New York Post and Forbes magazine, have protested his "crusade," painting him as a crazed lunatic who is angry about Overstock.com's own stock price drop. Byrne said the Mafia has become a silent player in the Wall Street game. "You don't have to dig very far into this before you get to organized crime," he said."
Byrne posted the presentation to his website, www.deepcapture.com, along with a blog to document his "crusade" against Wall Street.
Wireless neckband allows first voiceless phone call
Video
Hedge funds on the brink as US Federal Reserve cash fails to ease crisis
"Several hedge funds with assets of more than $4 billion (£2 billion) were on the brink of collapse last night or had halted withdrawals, despite moves by the US Federal Reserve this week to ease America’s deteriorating credit crisis with a $200 billion collateral lending facility.
Related: More Americans borrowing from 401(k) to pay bills
| Meltdown Looms Larger as Credit Markets Freeze
| Carlyle Fund Expects Assets To Be Seized
National Dragnet Is a Click Away
"Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information
..." Related: FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics
U.S. Cocaine-Plane Invasion Spooking Latin America
"Trail of Evidence Points to Major Covert Operation Targeting Venezuela.
Two Florida-based companies that have exported a total of at least 11 aircraft to Venezuelan buyers since 2003 are linked to four cocaine planes and what appears to be an elaborate covert intelligence operation, an ongoing Narco News investigation shows. The covert program, law enforcement sources contend, likely involves the CIA and components of Defense Department intelligence agencies, and is focused, in part, on penetrating, or even propping up,
narco-trafficking groups in Venezuela. That country’s outspoken leader, Hugo
Chávez, is regularly demonized by U.S. policymakers for, among other things, supposedly allowing his country to become a haven for
narco-traffickers. The operation also appears to prioritize intelligence objectives over law enforcement goals, which means tons of cocaine might well be getting a free pass into the United States. Foreign law enforcement authorities confiscated two of these cocaine planes — one in the Dominican Republic and one in Nicaragua, (tail numbers N1100M and N391SA, respectively) — on suspicion of cocaine trafficking. A third plane (tail number N12DT) is cited along with N1100M in a pending FBI money laundering case involving a Venezuelan-based drug-trafficking organization
..."
New Lawsuit Filed Against Defense Secretary Over Fundamentalist Christianity in Military
"An Army specialist who served two tours of duty in Iraq sued Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his supervising officer Wednesday for allegedly trying to force him to embrace fundamentalist Christianity and then retaliating against him when he
refused ..."
Who Controls the American Media
"The control of the opinion-molding media is nearly monolithic. All of the controlled media – television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books, motion pictures -- speak with a single voice, each reinforcing the other. Despite the appearance of variety, there is no real dissent, no alternative source of facts or ideas accessible to the great mass of people that might allow them to form opinions at odds with those of the media masters. They are presented with a single view of the world -- a world in which every voice proclaims the equality of the races, the grave, and completely truthful, nature and history of the Jewish "Holocaust" theme. It is a view of the world designed by the media masters to suit their own ends -- and the pressure to conform to that view is overwhelming. People adapt their opinions to it, vote in accord with it, and shape their lives to fit it.
..."
UK top cop who led CIA probe found dead
"A city police chief who led an investigation into charges that Britain cooperated with secret CIA flights to transport terrorism suspects without formal proceedings has been found dead, his deputy said
Tuesday ..."
9/11 Questioned in European Parliament
Video Related: Greatest act of psychological warfare ever perpetrated
50 people looking for
'solar image of Mary' lose sight
Irony: the blind leading the blind become blind. Stupid is as stupid does.
Why don't they just piss on the wall of a tunnel and size that up for
religious images. It would have been safer, but still stupid.
Putin, the power struggle, and the $40bn fortune'
"An unprecedented battle is taking place inside the Kremlin in advance of Vladimir Putin's departure from office, with claims that the president presides over a secret multibillion-dollar fortune."
Wall St. in China’s Surveillance Boom
"The ties between China’s surveillance sector and American capital markets are starting to draw Washington’s attention."
Derivatives: The new 'ticking bomb'
"Warren Buffett wrote the
following back in 2002: We try to be alert to any sort of mega-catastrophe risk, and that posture may make us unduly appreciative about the burgeoning quantities of long-term derivatives contracts and the massive amount of uncollateralized receivables that are growing alongside. In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially
lethal." 'Wall Street didn't listen to Buffett. Derivatives grew into a massive bubble, from about $100 trillion to $516 trillion by 2007. The new derivatives bubble was fueled by five key economic and political
trends ..."
Oil spike to last through
2008
"Oil prices will stay at current high levels for the rest of this year due to speculation and geopolitical tensions, Algerian state media on Monday reported OPEC President Chakib Khelil as saying. Prices could retreat in 2009 with a recovery of the U.S. dollar in foreign exchange markets following the election of a new U.S. president, and as fundamentals reassert themselves as major market forces, he was reported as saying by government newspaper El Moudjahid and state news agency
APS."
Wireless Technologies which Target the Neuronal Functioning of the Brain
"Increasingly there are indications that the uses of wireless technologies have been developed to target an individual’s biological body, with specific focus upon the neuronal functioning of the
brain ..."
Lying Politicians, Gullible Voters and the Long Slide Ahead
"If you want to see what it’s going to look like if we continue down our present path, take a trip to Rome and walk through the ruins of the Forum. Those structures went from gleaming marble to piles of bricks in a matter of decades, during which Rome went from the capital of a pan-European empire to a fetid swamp (much like a post-collapse Washington would be). But a word of warning. If you go to Rome, bring a sleeping bag and a lunch pail. Your dollar will not get you a hotel room or pay for lunch at even a run-of-the-mill eatery these days, so plan on camping and eating from the grocery store while
there ..."
Australian students turn to sex work to help pay for university
"Hundreds of university students in Victoria have turned to prostitution to pay their way through higher education
..."
McCain Received Defense Firm Cash After Backing Its Contract
"Critics on Tuesday questioned whether Sen. John McCain catered to special interests when he aggressively threw his support behind a $35 billion Pentagon contract for a European plane maker. McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, played a crucial role in blocking the deal to build air tankers from going to U.S.-based Boeing, instead paving the path for EADS to score the loot. He framed his decision as an example of political integrity; Boeing has previously been exposed of contract abuse. But a review of campaign finance donations and lobbying records suggests that money and personal lobbying may have also been in play. On January 15, 2007, McCain appeared at Alabama Gov. Bob Riley's gubernatorial swearing in ceremony and formally called for multiple bidders in the tanker deal. The push for an open process had only one true beneficiary, however, and that was the Northrop Grumman/EADS consortium, which was poised to be Boeing's sole competitor. A day after McCain made his proclamation, the contributions began to flow. John Green, a lobbyist for EADS donated $2,100 to the senator's presidential campaign. Ten days after that, Michelle
Lammers, the "Chief of Staff" for EADS North America, gave $250 to the McCain campaign. It was her first political contribution ever. Less than a month later, the long-time head of EADS' government affairs program, Samuel Adcock, made a $2,100 donation to McCain. And eleven days later, Ralph Crosby, the head of EADS North America, donated $2,300 himself ..."
McCain Fortune Traced To Organized Crime
"John McCain's personal fortune traces back to organized crime in Arizona, through his father-in-law, according to a report published by a multi-news agency team called Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc."
Yes, McCain, the hot-shot Vietnam era pilot who did a 'wet start' on his jet
and started the Forrestal conflagration. McCain will make Bush look
like Ghandi. Related: John McCain Is No "Hero POW"
John McCain seriously violated the Military Code of Conduct by trading "military information" and making numerous public statements that appeared favorable to the communist war effort in exchange for "special treatment."
John McCain is psychopathic madman, just like the rest of them.
Israeli at center of Spitzer scandal
"The alleged procurer in the prostitution scandal surrounding New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has an Israeli passport. A federal magistrate in New York ordered Mark "Michael" Brener held without bail after his arrest last Thursday related to allegations that he headed the Emperors VIP Club, described by police as a high-priced prostitution ring. The Associated Press reported that $600,000 in cash and an Israeli passport were elements in the denial of bail to
Brener, 62. Brener's lawyer said he has been a U.S. citixen for 20 years. The New York Times has reported that Spitzer is the "Client 9" described in the search warrant that led to the arrests of Brener and four alleged colleagues. Spitzer, a Jewish lawyer whose office conducted serious investigations of at least two Jewish organizations when he was state attorney general, made a brief statement to the media Monday admitting he had let down his family and the public. He did not offer any details."
Merck Drug Company Admits Cancer Viruses In Vaccines
"This stunning censored interview conducted by medical historian Edward Shorter for WGBH public television (Boston) and Blackwell Science was cut from The Health Century due to its huge liability--the admission that Merck drug company vaccines have traditionally been injecting cancer viruses (SV40 and others) in people worldwide. This segment of In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood &
Bioterrorism, produced and freely contributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, features the world's leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice
Hilleman, who explains why Merck's vaccines have spread AIDS, leukemia, and other horrific plagues worldwide."
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