If your son is a soldier, then you have no son. If your daughter is a soldier, then you have no daughter. If your father is a soldier, then you have no father. If your mother is a soldier, then you are a motherless child. Solders are not human. Humans have millions of choices, but soldiers have only two: to kill or to die. A living soldier is a killing one. Even if he doesn’t realize it, he’s always ready to kill. It’s his raison d’être. Sometimes they kill other solders, who, like themselves, have only two choices. But most often they kill humans — people with millions of choices.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph yesterday, Jeff Randall states:
If anyone can find George Osborne, tell him his country needs him.
The point Randall is making is that the British economy has been in such dire straights of late that you would expect a Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer to let the public know how and why Labour has got us all into this mess. The goal is wide open, says Randall, and all Osborne need do is tap the ball into the net.
If anyone can find George Osborne, tell him his country needs him.
George Osborne is a man his country could actually well do without - as I shall explain - but as Randall notes, it would be interesting to know why the man has been conspicuous by his absence.
The main stream media is reporting on what the world will be like in 22 years based on a fictitious account, made up by a non-governmental organization know as, Forum For the Future. A self proclaimed, "charity committed to sustainable development" working on behalf of big business. The 76 page report titled Climate Futures A Response To Climate Change in 2030, was created in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Labs.
They outline five possible scenarios of what type of brave new world hell we could be living in by the year 2030; efficiency first, service transformation, redefining progress, environmental war economy and protectionist world. Each one has its own timeline, a make believe "history" with wide array of things that may occur between 2009 and 2030 if we don't start making globalwarming our number one priority, they include:
Artificially-grown flesh, to feed hundreds of millions, cars run on batteries, microwave weapons deterring hurricanes, a supercomputer named ALF-8; making predictions, a global recession and global taxes, and "bionic games" in California. The middle class is destroyed all over the world, water shortages, food shortages, starvation, the rise of India and China, the fall of America, Russia freezing out Europe, and virtual Olympics. A suicide epidemic in the US because of an economic depression, 2020- the first year of no winter in the northern hemisphere, famine in south east Asia, 400 dollar a barrel oil, heat wave in Europe kills 200 000 and denying climate change is a thought crime and conviction gets you deported to an international convict settlement.
After the coming economic financial collapse, a state of world-wide martial law will be declared. Considering the current events which are in direct alignment with documented plans for totalitarian one-world government, (white paper plans published by the Tri-Lateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, and Club of Rome), martial law will be imposed without official dissent upon the various countries of the world.
A lot of what I read written by Etzioni's ghostwriters never made sense to me, not until I finally digested Hegel's dialectical definition of freedom. ACL research is filled with hundreds of sickening revelations. For a thinking, feeling person, many of the facts about globalism take a bit of time to digest. I don't know that we ever fully recover from learning how elite globalists plan to eliminate individual liberty from the entire human experience. Their advanced global government (global citizen) plans make Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and Bush look like novice opening acts. Totalitarian Communitarianism is the grand finale before the curtain falls. Once communitarians have the enforcement power to require our complete national subordination (called supra-national integration) and individual submission (called global human rights) to ALL their laws, humanity will cease to exist as we know it.
'But for the collapse of the financial markets, last week's devastating revelation that Tony Blair lied to Parliament at the height of the Ecclestone affair would have had a far more deadly impact. While prime minister, Mr Blair shamefully misled MPs by claiming the decision to exempt Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One motor sport from the Government ban on tobacco advertising was made through normal Whitehall processes - when the truth was that the decision was made by Blair personally within hours of a meeting with the millionaire tycoon in Downing Street. Now I can provide compelling evidence that the former prime minister lied to Parliament over an infinitely more serious matter - the extent of British government knowledge of what was happening in the Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib.
After eight years, shopkeepers across Britain are to be allowed to sell fruit and vegetables in pounds and ounces free from fear of prosecution. In a victory for the Daily Mail, council busybodies will be ordered to use 'common sense' when dealing with traders who sell produce using only imperial measures. The move will bring to an end the hounding of small businesses which refuse to bow to EU laws and switch to metric grams and kilos that many of their customers find hard to understand
Hundreds of concerned parents participated in demonstrations outside the New Jersey Statehouse yesterday in protest of the State’s decision to mandate flu vaccinations for young children.
Protesters also turned out to support a bill that would allow for conscientious objections to forced vaccinations, arguing that medication should be the choice of the parent not the government.
New Jersey’s health department has indicated that it is strongly opposed to such legislation, stating “Broad exemptions to mandatory vaccination weaken the entire compliance and enforcement structure”.
In 2006 the Check Point Software Technologies company, which specializes in protecting computer systems from hackers and data theft, wanted to acquire an American company called Sourcefire, which works in the same field. The great advantage of Sourcefire was that its clients include the American Defense Department and the National Security Agency. The U.S. administration, however, by means of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, did not approve the acquisition.
The committee made its decision based on an opinion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and NSA security officers. The two organizations were afraid that Check Point, which was founded by Gil Shwed and fellow graduates of Unit 8200, the Israel Defense Forces' high-tech intelligence unit, would have access to top-secret information, which it could pass on to Israel's intelligence community.
The fear and suspicion currently is directed not only toward Check Point, but also other Israeli high-tech companies like Verint, Comverse, NICE Systems and PerSay Voice Biometrics, some of which work in data mining and engage in software development for tapping telephones, fax machines, e-mail and computer communications.
The above accusations come from journalist and writer James Bamford, whose new book, "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America" (Doubleday), came out this week in the United States.
'The terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001, played an important part in bringing about peace in Northern Ireland, a leading negotiator in the peace process said. Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair’s chief of staff, said yesterday that he believed the extent of the damage and carnage caused by the attacks deterred the IRA from further bombings. Speaking at The Times Cheltenham Literary Festival, Mr Powell said: “It’s true, 9/11 was important. Terror is competitive, or relative. If there’s someone else who is prepared to blow up themselves and an unlimited number of people, you can’t compete if you’re only prepared to blow up 20 people in the pub.” He said the peace deal was “an agreement to disagree”. “Unionists still want a United Kingdom, the Republicans and Social Democrats a united Ireland. What they agreed is not to pursue those ends by violence.”
Comment By Liam Of Dublin The IRA had stopped bombing a long time before 11-9. Also, before the ceasefire, their typical target was 20% of the square mile not 20 people in a pub. Bomb the people - you annoy the people. Bomb the politicians - you annoy the people. Bomb the banks - you get a peace conference.
The Department of Defense is negotiating with Raytheon to purchase a more portable version of the contractor’s non-lethal “pain ray” weapons. The devices, which are part of Raytheon’s Active Denial System, use high-frequency radio beams that make human targets feel like they are catching on fire.
In addition to the DOD, the Department of Homeland Security, various police agencies and unnamed “international customers” have displayed interest in acquiring the system, Miller says.
One in five councils is switching off street lights at night, leaving hundreds of thousands of residents with blacked-out roads. Nine out of 49 county councils in England and Wales have made the move, a Daily Mail investigation has found. Dozens more are expected to follow to save money. But residents in areas affected by the Government-backed initiative say they have been left at risk from serious road accidents, crime and vandalism.
THE EVIDENCE IS HERE: This document contains over 60 pages of evidence and analysis proving Barack Obama’s use of a little-known and highly deceptive and manipulative form of “hack” hypnosis on millions of unaware Americans, and reveals what only a few psychologists and hypnosis/NLP experts know.
A debt charity today urged the Treasury to put pressure on Northern Rock to change its approach to property repossessions. Credit Action has criticised the nationalised bank saying it is twice as likely as other lenders to repossess a home if borrowers fall behind with their mortgage repayments. Credit Action said that of the 19,000 homes repossessed this year, Northern Rock represented more than a fifth of them.
Fruits and veggies grown organically show significantly higher levels of cancer-fighting antioxidants than conventionally grown foods, according to a new study of corn, strawberries and marionberries. The research suggests that pesticides and herbicides actually thwart the production of phenolics — chemicals that act as a plant's natural defense and also happen to be good for our health. Fertilizers, however, seem to boost the levels of anti-cancer compounds.
From those same lovable folks who brought you the crimes and abuses of COINTELPRO comes the following brochure, printed at taxpayer expense by the FBI and intended to be issued to law enforcement, requesting that the Joint Terrorism Task Force be called in the event suspicious behavior is witnessed. And what is "suspicious behavior"? Defending the Constitution! Read it yourself on the inside page of the brochure. Defending the Constitution is cause to label you a terrorist suspect. Even referring to it is grounds for suspicion that you are a terrorist, with all the harassment that this suspicion implies!
The news comes after a chief constable warned that the policeman on the beat could disappear within a decade and be replaced by PCSOs. The Home Secretary wants to look at expanding their powers to include others such as detaining a suspect until a police constable arrives, imposing a fine for daubing graffiti and being allowed to disperse troublemakers. Miss Smith said powers to detain, but not to make arrests, would be extended to all forces. Currently only 23 out of 44 police forces in England and Wales allow PCSOs to detain suspects. The Government also wants to give the public more clarity on the role of PCSOs - which have been dubbed "plastic bobbies" - and plans to standardise uniforms to make them easier to recognise.
A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain. Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists.
Dramatic new suggestions have emerged that powerful radio signals from a naval communications base caused a Qantas jet to plunge 650ft in seconds last week. Investigators have already established that a computer on the Airbus A330-300 sent wrong information to the autopilot, resulting in the pilots losing control, but just what caused that glitch has remained a mystery. Checks have been made on the type of laptop computers passengers were using - and even electronic games have come under survey - but the basic cause of the problem that sent the plane rising and then falling has not been found
A council chief executive is to retain his £116,000 salary despite cutting down from a five to a four-day week so he can improve his 'work-life balance'. Dr Steven Halls is being granted a reduced working week in order to 'indulge in his love of music' and other outside interests. Three Rivers District Council says the deal will cost less than hiring a replacement and even claims he is underpaid. Ann Shaw, leader of the Liberal Democrat-run council based in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, said: 'It's about work-life balance. 'He has other outside interests that he wants to indulge in, such as music and his work as a magistrate.
Families face a £1,000-a-year bill after the Government committed Britain to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent before 2050. The decision gives the UK the toughest climate change targets in the world and could usher in an era of green taxes and carbon rationing. Government advisers admit that the shift to a 'low carbon' economy will cost around £24billion a year at today's prices. Divided among the nation's households, this works out at just under £1,000 extra per family.
But it is at odds with ministers' support for the expansion of Stansted and Heathrow airports and recent pledges to construct coal-fired power stations.
Lloyds TSB is hammering families with higher mortgage costs only days after securing a £5.5billion taxpayer lifeline. It not only refused to pass on last week's Bank of England rate cut for its new tracker mortgages, but from today it will increase rates on its trackers by between 0.3 and 0.5 per cent. The bank is being quasi-nationalised under the Government's rescue scheme. It also stands to gain control of the country's largest mortgage book after Gordon Brown eased its takeover of ailing Halifax Bank of Scotland.
The Government had said Lloyds and other banks receiving taxpayer money would offer 'competitively priced lending' at 2007 levels.
But Lloyds's refusal to ease the cost of borrowing will pile the pressure on families already struggling with mortgage payments and rising utility bills. The Bank of England last week slashed its base rate by a half-point to 4.5 per cent, but many financial giants are refusing to pass on the benefits to customers
There's an old saying that circulates in more politically radical circles: "Protest is patriotism." In this post-September 11 world of paranoia and political expediency, however, protest, an essence of democracy, has morphed into something perfectly Orwellian: terrorism. Two recent events demonstrate how easy it is for the government to dilute words and their meanings to close off opposition and dissent. Last week, the Maryland state police disclosed that 53 nonviolent anti-war and anti-death penalty activists were tracked for 14 months in 2005 and 2006 under the state's terrorism surveillance programme, and that their names had been added to the state's and the National Security Agency's database. Who are these sinister terrorists? Two of the activists caught in the Maryland dragnet are Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte, Dominican nuns in the Roman Catholic Church who did indeed break the law in acts of civil disobedience. On October 2, 2002, in response to the first anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, they broke into a missile silo in northeastern Colorado and painted bloody crosses on it.
Horst Mahler, the former lawyer of the neo-Nazi party NPD and a figure of the extreme-right in Germany, went on trial in the city of Potsdam, southwest of Berlin, on charges of Holocaust denial. The 72-year-old Mahler, is prosecuted for “incitement to racial hatred ", the magistrates' court said, adding that he is accused of having published on the Internet several texts denying the Holocaust.
A founding member of the Red Army Faction terrorist group in 1970 before turning neo-Nazi, Mahler is accused of regularly posting documents online between 2001 and 2004.
Denial of the Holocaust is a crime in Germany and Mahler faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
Outlaw is defined as: a person, group, or thing excluded from the benefits and protection of the law. Americans who care about freedom and liberty have known for a long time that Congress has simply become a lawless group of political animals who care nothing for the supreme law of the land. For decades they have turned a blind eye to other outlaws operating on their behalf: non elected officials in the various cabinets and agencies who have been destroying a free market system and the Bill of Rights. The list is so long, it would fill ten columns.
Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say. Under the government's $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material. Pundits say consumers have been lulled into believing the opt-out proviso would remove content filtering altogether.
While the Paris metro and rail networks already operate around 9,500 CCTV devices, police have only 330 at their disposal to survey outside public areas. The new plan, dubbed "A Thousand Cameras for Paris", will raise that number to more than 1,200 – with most installed in high-risk areas and outside railway and underground stations. The figure is still small compared with London, where each citizen is caught on average several hundred times a day. Britain has about four million closed-circuit security cameras compared with France's 340,000. The CCTV drive follows Mr Sarkozy's pledge last autumn to follow London's surveillance lead. "I am very impressed by the efficiency of the British police thanks to this network of cameras," the French president said. "In my mind, there is no contradiction between respecting individual freedoms and the installation of cameras to protect everyone's security."
It may seem hard to imagine a place where people incarcerated by the US military have fewer rights than they do in Guantánamo Bay.Welcome to Iraq.It is just after 4 am, and hundreds of Iraqis are lining up to visit their relatives outside Camp Bucca, which in August held about 18,000 detainees. Near the Kuwaiti border, Bucca shimmers in the predawn of the southern Iraqi desert, a beacon of light in a country where electricity is on for no more than twelve hours a day. It is the US military's largest detention center in Iraq. The total number of those officially in US custody in Iraq has fluctuated between a low of 7,200 and more than 26,000 since 2005.
Thousands of bargain hunters desperate to beat the credit crunch sparked chaos this morning at the opening of a Currys Megastore. Police were called after reports of fights in the queue - and a motorway junction had to be closed as a wave of shoppers converged on the outlet. More than 3,000 customers were after sat navs on sale for £19.99, half-price 40-inch LCD flat-screen TVs and PlayStation 3 consoles for less than £200.
The environmental situation on the planet isn’t really very good. We have the cutting down of much of the Amazon rainforest, the trees of which produce 20% of the world’s oxygen, the rampant use of depleted uranium, which is anything but depleted and is leaving Iraq filled with trillions of microparticles of carcinogenic death sweeping over Iraq, and the Eastern Garbage patch, a mass of plastic in the Pacific covering an area twice the size of Texas. Fish have routinely been found dead with bottle caps and all sorts of other crap in their stomachs. Do we get the mainstream media and the big environmental groups holding their big rallies and beating down the mainstream media and the politicians’ doors about that? Instead, we get another load of trash — that the source of global warming is human-caused carbon emissions and that the world scientific community is in unanimous agreement about the “fact”.
We live at a time when many of the certainties taken for granted by our parents and grandparents are being destroyed under our very eyes. Even in the socialist Seventies, no one imagined the Government could control not one, not two, but three High Street banks. Our forefathers also believed, with some justification, that Britain was the freest country in the world.
Gordon Brown's lauded banking bail-out risked unravelling last night as Lloyds TSB lobbied the government to ease the repayment conditions attached to an emergency injection of taxpayers' money. The urgent attempt to renegotiate parts of the bail-out terms - and allow rescued banks to pay a dividend to their shareholders - came as the stock market wiped out all of the gains made in the euphoria following the bank rescue package, amid anxiety that the global economy was plunging into recession.
Use tax payers money to not only bail out the banks but pay dividends to shareholders?? You gotta be kidding me!! And who will benefit the most? Yes your right the fat cat bankers who have the most shares!
The government is drawing up plans to give the police and security and intelligence agencies new powers to access personal data held by internet services, including social network sites such as Facebook and Bebo and gaming networks.
The move, heralded in this morning's speech on international terrorism by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, is prompted by concern that criminals and terrorists are using websites as a way of concealing their communications, according to Whitehall security sources. At present, security and intelligence agencies can demand to see telephone and email traffic from traditional communications services providers (CSPs), which store the personal data for business purposes such as billing.
The rapid expansion of new CSPs - such as gaming, social networking, auction and video sites - and technologies such as wireless internet and broadband present a serious problem for the police, MI5, customs and other government agencies, the security sources say.
Somehow I missed this news item, and maybe you did, too. Then again, perhaps the mainstream media took pains to keep this one quiet, hoping the fire wouldn’t hit the fan. It seems that in 2003 an honor student in Arizona at Safford Middle School named Savana Redding, an eighth-grader with no disciplinary record, was strip-searched — and I mean really strip-searched, down to the crotch of her panties — in pursuit of nonprescription ibuprofen tablets.
At a gas station on the outskirts of Kabul, lounging in the shade of a transport truck, Mohammed Raza describes how he escaped death.Last month, a U.S. contractor promised him $10,000 if he'd drive a truck full of diesel from Kabul to Kandahar, offering seven times more than he could earn by transporting his usual shipments of sugar. But the Taliban forbid drivers from carrying fuel to the foreign troops, he said, and the insurgents run checkpoints on the road between Afghanistan's two largest cities. He rejected the offer. One of his friends took the assignment, he said, and the Taliban cut off his head.
Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008. Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August. "In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound," said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August.
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari has been widely hailed in the West, where there has been an outpouring of praise for the man and his efforts. Generally seen as a tireless promoter of peace and reconciliation, Ahtisaari has another side that has not received sufficient attention. Although his record is long, Ahtisaari’s role in the diplomatic end to NATO’s 1999 war against Yugoslavia is regarded as the key to his selection. In praising the man, Nobel committee secretary Geir Lundestad noted, “There is no alternative to an independent Kosovo.” This baldly political statement indicates why Ahtisaari’s selection is proving so popular among Western leaders, and it is Kosovo that shows just whose interests Ahtisaari has served.
The Devil does indeed 'lie in the details' of this finalizing moment of the federal government's insertion of itself, into the previously most-private interests of the major banks and US financial institutions. As early as today it is becoming clear that these banks and institutions are not yet "interested" in loaning out the $250 Billion that they got in exchange for letting the government into their private dens-of-monetary-iniquity: "NOT interested".
So, the owners are going to keep the money to "earn" more illicit interest, at the expense of those in crying need for what that investment of capital was supposed to solve? That's what we get for not making the loaning of that money immediately mandatory! Analysis's say that the money just inserted will not be available for several months: which translates to "AFTER the Elections."
Iran's president has hinted that the White House is to blame for the billions of dollars that have gone missing in Iraqi oil revenues. "Several months ago, we heard that an enormous amount of over 100-million barrels of Iraqi crude have gone unaccounted for since the US-led invasion of the country," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday. The New York Times quoted a draft government report as saying in 2007 that "between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq's declared oil production over the past four years is unaccounted for and could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling."
On Saturday 11th October 2008 in Liverpool City Centre, Merseyside Police Officers broke up a peaceful protest and leaflet distribution, seized leaflets and arrested a number of protesters who were later initially charged with 'criminal damage ' later changed to 'Causing alarm and distress'
The main instigating officer involved was P.C Wilson.
Here is a witness statemnt to the event
'Last Saturday (11th) Merseyside Police broke up a legal political mass stall by various organisations on Church Street in Liverpool city centre that had been planned for some time, arresting two political activists in the process. The mass stall was arranged by various groups after the wrongful arrest of a Liverpool political activist in August for distributing leaflets and selling political newspapers on Church Street, allowed under Government legislation and Section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998.
Last Saturday, various groups arranged to meet on Bold Street before heading to Church Street to set up stalls at one o’clock in the afternoon. Upon our arrival a police officer was already present harassing the Cuba Solidarity group. After seeing the various groups arrive the officer then called for backup and within fifteen minutes there were several officers on the scene removing stalls and literature from all groups present without any warning. This caused a major protest in the street and led to the heavy handed arrests of an Anarchist Federation member and an animal rights activist. The AF activist was arrested for simply refusing to stop handing out leaflets before refusing to give his details to the police. As well as this, the police were also heavy handed towards other activists and forcefully attempted to arrest two female activists later on.
The police action led to members of the public joining activists in successfully blocking the police car with the activists inside for nearly an hour, preventing the officers from leaving Church Street and heading to the police station. The police officers then called for even more re-enforcements who arrived and forcefully moved the protesters back, resulting in the police cars finally leaving Church Street with the two activists inside.
The disgraceful behaviour of the police managed to attract the attention of a good amount of passers by who joined in the protest and the police were completely humiliated and outnumbered.
The only obstruction in Church Street, Liverpool was Merseyside police vehicles and the crowd who gathered to see what was going on and stayed to support the protest. Activists and the public surrounded and blocked the exit of the police van, but the police were being hardline and couldn’t see that they caused the biggest obstruction in Liverpool for many years. The public were on the side of the political activists and chanted with us at various times “Let Them Go! - Let Them Go!” The police were offered the chance a number of times to unarrest the activists (as they could have done at any time) and we would disperse.
Merseyside police went in heavy handed and nobody could reason with them, the two arrested are due to be summonsed along with another 8 to 12 people despite doing nothing illegal.
For years political organisations have gathered on a weekend in various parts of the city centre and have been tolerated during that time. However, recently we have seen the harassment of activists on a weekly basis from the police during the Capital of Culture year in an attempt to “clean up the streets”. The actions of several police officers on the 11th October were yet another attempt to break up a legal gathering of activists.
This saturday various groups will gather again as usual in the city centre to demand the basic right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly and support from members of the public is needed on this day. I ask all of you reding this to attend and pass the details of this event on to other people in order to obtain a good presence on the day.’
Former vice president and environmental campaigner Al Gore has urged young people to protest against new coal-fired power plants that don’t use carbon capture and storage technology. Speaking at the opening plenary session of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, Gore said: “If you’re a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.”
Zhou Tianyong, an adviser to the Communist Party's Central Committee and one of its most liberal voices, told the Daily Telegraph that "by 2020, China will basically finish its political and institutional reforms". He added: "We have a 12-year plan to establish a democratic platform. There will be public democratic involvement at all government levels."
Like him or loathe him, last night CNN’s Glenn Beck became the only mainstream media source thus far to address on national TV the reality of the situation Americans are facing with the manufactured financial implosion - the direct threat of domestic martial law and a global financial dictatorship. Beck’s guest, Peter Schiff, respected author of “Crash Proof” and president of the brokerage firm Euro Pacific Capital, joined him in outlining that martial law, the use of armed troops on the streets to quell dissent, is a real possibility should the economic crisis not improve or worsen to the point where civil unrest is formented.
Norman Berry, 64, was without his pension credit and disability benefit for five weeks after losing his Post Office card on holiday. Repeated attempts were made by family members to obtain a replacement, who were told that a new card could not be issued without officials talking to Mr Berry, from Stechford, Birmingham, to authorise it. Mr Berry's sister, Jean Spencer, said she explained to customer services that her brother could not speak or hear, but said they would not accept it.
What U.S. law requires Americans to pay income taxes? Watch IRS Commissioner Everson evade a direct question from the New York Times tax reporter. Why won't he answer ???
Government mail carriers would deliver emergency supplies of antibiotics to people in U.S. cities in the case of an anthrax attack, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials said on Wednesday. The system has been tested in three large cities -- Seattle, Philadelphia and Boston -- and a pilot program is set to begin soon in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said there was no evidence any attack was imminent but that it was important for authorities to have a quick distribution system ready.
Police forces have been ordered to ask convicts to give them advice on fighting crime. Criminals can join new groups which may be involved in the planning of major police investigations - including operations to tackle terrorism, people-smuggling and Class A drug dealing. They will have their expenses paid if they join the Independent Advisory Groups which are being set up to address 'diversity issues'.
The idea is that the panels act as 'critical friends', offering guidance on how local police are seen by the people they serve. It is also claimed that by consulting over future operations - such as raids - the groups can tackle the 'distrust of the police service endemic in certain minority communities'. The Association of Chief Police Officers has told forces to advertise for volunteers - and added that criminals are welcome to apply. The guidance states that there should be a 'presumption in favour of appointing the applicant'. They can even continue as advisers if they are caught committing a crime while serving on one of the panels, the document adds. Some members are allowed access to confidential police intelligence, and will have to sign the Official Secrets Act.
Sources have just confirmed that mortgage loan companies are contracting with Blackwater Worldwide to assist in the eviction of people still living in foreclosed homes. Though Blackwater Worldwide has not yet confirmed this, we have several reports of Blackwater contractors stealthily lurking through Chicago in full military fatigues with camouflaged furniture dollies and armored moving vans.
Security minister Lord West last night claimed that 'another great plot' is being investigated by the police and security services. The warning of a potential new terrorist attack came as a dramatic intervention in a House of Lords debate over new terrorism powers. Lord West, the Home Office's counter-terrorism minister, declared: 'There is another great (terrorist) plot building up again and we are monitoring this.' The threat is 'huge', he added. The former head of the Royal Navy, and part of Gordon Brown's so-called 'Government of all the talents', gave no further details.
A NEW MILITARISM is now emerging in America and Barack Obama is about to become the figurehead for a militarized US nation. Why do I say this? I say this because the new ruling elite in America, as outlined by Webster Tarpley of Rense.com, is a “Trilateral” hawkish group made up of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, David Rockefeller, and his 79 year old protege, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Add Henry Paulson into this “Principals Committee” and you have along with Rockefeller, the international Zionist bankers in the “Trilateral” mix. Obama appears in every photo-op as if he’s the cat that swallowed the presidential mouse. I think Obama knows something that only his enablers, Gates & Brzezinski, know for sure. And this should not surprise anyone in our day of “electronic votes” which can easily be manipulated by powerful figures who not only control the US military but electronic voting machines as well.
Hull Teaching Primary Care Trust is behind the scheme designed to help improve the long-term health prospects of teenagers. It aims to remove 150 jobless people, initially those aged 17 to 19, from the unemployment register each year and engage them in training. Ten week programmes would include two weeks at sea on the yacht, like those used in the round-the-world Clipper race, operated by a new organisation called the Wilberforce Sailing Academy. The £400,000-a-year running costs would also be met from public funds. One Hull, a body involving public, private and voluntary bodies, has already earmarked 1.345 million pounds to cover running the yacht until March 2011. Steve Brady, leader of Hull city council's Labour group, said: "What I am absolutely concerned about is the misuse of public money.
Gordon Brown’s decision to nationalise some of Britain’s biggest high street banks will push the number of public sector employees to more than six million for the first time. In some parts of the country almost one in three workers will be employed by the State, as bankers and financiers join nurses, doctors and council workers on the government payroll. Overnight 233,000 staff from the Royal Bank of Scotland, 70,000 from Lloyds TSB, 65,000 from HBOS and 3,035 from Bradford & Bingley will effectively have a new boss. They will join the 6,500 who have already come over from Northern Rock and push total numbers of public sector staff to 6.12 million. The widening public sector is now sprouting tentacles in a number of new areas, as construction companies, advertising agencies and management consultants turn to the State for gainful employment.
More than one million homeowners have resorted to taking out cash on their credit cards to pay their mortgage and essential bills, research suggests today. A report accuses the banks of 'cashing in' on their customers who are 'desperate to get their hands on cash whatever the price'. Withdrawing cash on a credit card is incredibly expensive, and involves a much higher interest rate than using a credit card to go shopping. Typically, you are charged two per cent of the cash amount taken out, or a minimum of £5, and interest starts clocking up immediately. On average, the APR (annual percentage rate) is a crippling 30 per cent. It has shot up in recent years from just 21.2 per cent in 2005. The report, from the price comparison website Uswitch.com, found soaring numbers of borrowers are relying on getting out cash in this 'emergency' method.
Banks turned the screw on the property market as the number of mortgages available became more expensive and increasingly harder to get hold of. The moves make a mockery of the Government's master plan to unfreeze the mortgage market. Northern Rock, the first bank to be nationalised earlier this year, pointedly ignored last week's emergency interest rate cut by the Bank of England.
A Special Branch officer is at the centre of a cover-up row after he admitted changing evidence during the Stockwell inquest. The policeman, named only as Owen, deleted a line in his computer notes last week, which claimed his boss Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick initially said Jean Charles de Menezes could 'run on to Tube as not carrying anything'. But today he said: 'On reflection, I looked at that and thought I cannot actually say that.'
No one on America's political stage today has more motivation to oppose eugenics than Sarah Palin. The Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential running mate has learned experientially about the sanctity of life. In April, she gave birth to a baby boy with Down syndrome. When she first learned that the child would be born with the birth defect, Palin chose life in a situation where 90 percent of women have an abortion. Lisa Demer has correctly described Palin "as anti-abortion as a politician can be".
It was, therefore, disturbing to learn that Palin had been vetted by a secretive group with connections to the eugenics movement. In a September 1, 2008 article for The Nation, Max Blumenthal reported that the "members of the Council for National Policy are the hidden hand behind McCain's Palin pick". According to Blumenthal, the Council for National Policy (CNP) met at a hotel in downtown Minneapolis the week of the Democratic National Convention to acquaint themselves with Palin. The article also stated that the Palin selection secured McCain the support of the conservative movement and that CNP participant James Dobson "may soon emerge from his bunker in Colorado Springs to endorse McCain, providing the Republican nominee with the backing of the Christian right's single most influential figure" '
Democratic candidate Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party during the 1990s, according to new evidence unearthed by we bloggers, receiving the party’s endorsement for his state Senate run in 1996. Reports earlier this summer that Obama was associated with the New Party were vigorously denied by the Obama campaign and the New Party, but researchers examining Internet archives have found New Party documents clearly indicating Obama was a member of the party, received its endorsement, encouraged Party members to work wih him in the Illinois statehouse, and signed a contract agreeing to maintain a relationship with the Marxist-led party during his senate term.
The Illuminati bankers had us where they wanted Friday. Everyone was in a panic, dumping anything of real value -- gold, real estate, oil -- and rushing into US dollars, a medium of exchange created by the Illuminati bankers out of nothing with the help of their government lackeys.Why the sudden appeal of US dollars? There is a huge shortage of them because the bankers put our money into mortgages and then they crashed the housing market. Trillions disappeared. Now their lackeys in government have to "borrow" trillions to make up the deficit. The result: the bankers are trillions richer.Did they do this deliberately? Do you think Rich Fuld, the CEO of Lehman Brothers, got a $250 million sendoff for driving his company into bankruptcy? No, that's likely his payoff for selling out his employees and his country. Multiply that throughout the financial industry.
"Shocking excerpts of confidential recordings recently released under the Freedom of Information Act feature former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talking with top military analysts about how a flagging Neo-Con political agenda could be successfully restored with the aid of another terrorist attack on America. The tape also includes a conversation where Rumsfeld and the military analysts agree on the possible necessity of installing a brutal dictator in Iraq to oversee U.S. interests.
The government's plans to extend terror detention limits to 42 days have been heavily defeated in the House of Lords. Peers voted to keep the current 28-day limit on pre-charge detentions by 309 votes to 118 - a majority of 191. Later the home secretary said it would be dropped from the counter-terrorism bill but would be in a new bill to be made law "should the worst happen''
The ruling PPP says Pakistani lawmakers may summon ex-Gen. Pervez Musharraf for pursuing the US-led war on terror in the country. In an interview with a private television channel on Monday, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Spokesman Farhatullah Babar said, PPP supports the statement of Muslim League-N Chief, Nawaz Sharif, to summon Pervez Musharraf to the Pakistani parliament. "Musharraf should tell the parliament how many citizens were arrested and sent to foreign countries during his tenure," Babar said. Babar's comments come in response to former premier Nawaz Sharif as he renewed his demand for bringing ex-president Musharraf to trial for his actions during his nine-year rule. Sharif says Musharraf should be summoned to the parliament to reveal agreements forged with the US in the war on terror.
The very day the US securities and exchange commission, fearing catastrophic collapse of the US stock market, banned short selling, the Large Hadron Collider in Europe allegedly suffered a catastrophic failure…
On September 19, 2008, Professor Stephen Hawking and John C. Taylor unveiled to the world the “Corpus Clock”, a mysterious clock now on display outside of the Taylor Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK. Stephen Hawking returned from the launch of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to unveil the clock.
John C. Taylor said that the clock “is terrifying. It is meant to be… I view time as not on your side. He’ll eat up every minute of your life…” He refers to the “Chronophage,” the locust at the top of the clock as “demonic”, and states “Time is gone. He’s eaten it.” The inscription at the base of this mysterious clock, which incorporates six undisclosed patented inventions, and which had components constructed at a secret military research facility in Holland, is from the Vulgate translation of John 2:17: “Mundus transit et concupiscentia eius” … “The world passeth away, and the lust thereof.” This passage is in reference to John 2:13 to John 2:16, in which Jesus throws the moneychangers out of the Temple. On September 19, 2008, the US securities and exchange commission, fearing total collapse of the US stock market, banned short selling, and the Large Hadron Collider allegedly suffered a catastrophic failure. Stephen Hawking had a $100 bet that the collider would fail to find the Higgs-Boson particle, otherwise known as “The God Particle.” On September 20, 2008, Treasury secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress they must back a government buy up of $700bn dollars of bad mortgages. We, a group of concerned individuals, have since the unveiling of the Corpus Clock been conducting heavy research concerning the creators of this clock, and the strange occult symbolism embedded within it’s design.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, is leading efforts to devise a new $150 billion (£88 billion) lifeline for low income Americans. Ms Pelosi wants to galvanise backing for a new financial stimulus package to increase the US food-stamp programme and extend unemployment benefits. It is understood that she is also proposing that federal funds be used for new public infrastructure projects to create jobs. Food stamps date back to 1943, and are part of a federal programme that gives very low-income families an allowance to spend on groceries. The allowance is distributed on to debit cards which can be used in supermarkets across the country, and recipients are also eligible to claim free school meals for their children.A record 28 million Americans now receive food stamps at a cost to the Government of almost $30 billion a year.
Don't make me laugh ! Nancy Pelosi and her criminal buddies in Congress have two aims with this proposal 1. Cover their asses so the American public will think twice about booting them out of office come the elections. 2. Make the American public more and more dependant upon the state for it existance. Note they say it will be supported to be implemented AFTER the elections All part of the plan so don't fall for it !
Hundreds of county council staff are to be taught how to think positively using controversial psychological training techniques endorsed by TV hypnotist Paul McKenna. A town hall is spending £1,000 a head to send 400 staff on a 'leadership improvement programme' in which workers will be taught to 'adopt a successful mindset'. The courses, for all grades of staff from manual workers to managers, include techniques used by celebrity hypnotist Paul McKenna.
The course involves a technique called 'neuro-linguistic programming', which was developed in the 1970s and which is supposed to bring psychological strength to those who receive it. Critics call the technique a fake and say its claims are dressed up to appear scientifically respectable. Suffolk's spending priorities have attracted increasing local attention over the past few days.
Council chiefs spent more than £5,000 on Braille signs to advise squash players which sports shoes were acceptable and about safety on court. One player at Halesowen Leisure Centre in the West Midlands said: 'While blind people participate in all kinds of sport, including football, they don't play squash. 'So I can't understand why the signs in the squash court area are in Braille.' The Royal National Institute of Blind People said: 'Blind and visually-impaired people are able to play many sports but not squash.'
Tony Blair could face a humiliating recall to Parliament to explain devastating secret documents suggesting he did not tell the truth over New Labour's first sleaze scandal.Tory MPs want the former Prime Minister to face a grilling over evidence showing he personally ordered Formula 1 be exempted from a tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting the motorsport's billionaire boss.The Government has always maintained that the meeting with Bernie Ecclestone - who had donated £1 million to Labour - had nothing do to with the decision.
Ooooohhhhh a humiliating grilling, I bet he's quaking in his jackboots, but i bet he is heartened by the massive amount of money that Bernie Ecclestone syphoned into one of his private accounts ( Alledgedly)
Around 100,000 Polish workers have quit Britain over the past year, ministers said yesterday. The retreat has come as jobs become harder to find and the pound has weakened against European currencies. Officials now believe that as many as half of those who flooded in from Eastern Europe after the EU relaxed its rules in 2004 may now have gone home. That would mean as many as 350,000 have returned over the past two years. Any exodus has yet to show up in surveys published by the Government's Office for National Statistics, which has been stepping up efforts to record accurate levels of immigration. ONS estimates have continued to show the population is increasing because of immigration
Plans to build support for identity cards by introducing them among 'guinea pig' groups, such as airport staff and students, are in crisis after 10,000 airline pilots vowed to take legal action to block them and opposition swept through Britain's universities and councils. In a move that could wreck the government's strategy for a phased introduction beginning next year, the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) said it would seek a judicial review rather than see its members forced to adopt ID cards at a time when pilots are already exhaustively vetted. Balpa's vehement opposition is a hammer blow for the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, who had hoped to win the wider public over to ID cards by demonstrating that they were crucial to anti-terrorism policies. She intends to introduce them among groups 'who operate in positions of trust in our society'.
The spectre of the Winter of Discontent threatened to return to haunt Labour last night after funeral directors revealed that the burial of 'hundreds' of bodies is being delayed for financial reasons. Undertakers hit by the credit crunch are refusing to carry out funerals until the Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed it will foot the bill. In a bleak new sign of the growing economic crisis, hard-up families are having to wait more than two months before receiving Government money for funerals.
Pentagon officials have prepared a new estimate for defense spending that is $450 billion more over the next five years than previously announced figures. The new estimate, which the Pentagon plans to release shortly before President Bush leaves office, would serve as a marker for the new president and is meant to place pressure on him to either drastically increase the size of the defense budget or defend any reluctance to do so, according to several former senior budget officials who are close to the discussions.
A new anti-Semitic conspiracy theory has been spreading online over the last few days, claiming that on the eve of Lehman Brothers' collapse last month, the firm transferred $400 billion to Israel. The theory, which comes in the form of a news report, has already been distributed on dozens of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli sites. It alleges that senior Jewish officials at the Lehman Brothers investment bank passed their clients' money on to three Israeli banks, with the intention of then escaping to Israel to enjoy the take without fear of extradition.
Societe Generale, the French unit of Barclays and two other banks are to face trial in Paris on charges that they abetted a money laundering operation between France and Israel, judicial officials said yesterday. About 100 individuals, including the chief executive of Societe Generale, Daniel Bouton, and other senior bank executives have been charged in the case. No date for the trial was announced. French financial police have been probing the alleged scheme - known as the Sentier II case for the garment district in Paris where many of the transactions originated - since 1997. The case is being watched as a test of banks' accountability for money-laundering offences committed by employees. Societe Generale is accused of having laundered some 32 million euros, Barclays France close to 24 million euros, National Bank of Pakistan 2.5 million euros and Societe Marseillaise de Credit about 2.7 million euros, the court officials said.
Hamas lawmaker MP Mushir Al-Masri said on Saturday that the entire Palestinian people were sympathizing with their brethren in Akka city against the extremist Israeli groups, stressing that the "hour of victory was looming"."The moment of triumph was looming, and the day when Hamas's soldiers and the Qassam Brigades liberate Akka was getting closer", said Masri as he addressed thousands of Palestinian citizens participating in a pro-Akka rally organized by Hamas in Jabalya city, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Move over Al Gore. Swankier carbon charlatanism has come to town in the form of the World Wildlife Fund’s luxury getaway called "Around the World: A Private Jet Expedition." "Join us on a remarkable 25-day journey by luxury private jet," invites the WWF in a brochure for its voyage to "some of the most astonishing places on the planet to see top wildlife, including gorillas, orangutans, rhinos, lemurs and toucans." For a price tag that starts at $64,950 per person, travelers will meet at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, Fla. on April 6, 2009 and then fly to “remote corners” of the world on a “specially outfitted jet that carries just 88 passengers in business-class comfort.” “World class experts — including WWF’s director of species conservation — will provide lectures en route, and a professional staff will be devoted to making your global adventure seamless and memorable.” Travelers will visit the Amazon Rain Forest in Brazil, Easter Island, Samoa, Borneo, Laos, Nepal, Madagascar, Namibia, Uganda or Rwanda, and finish up at the luxury Dorchester Hotel in London. This is the very same WWF that says “the current growth in [carbon dioxide] emissions must be stopped as soon as possible” and that blames Americans for emitting 21 percent of global CO2 emissions even though the U.S. accounts for only 5 percent of the global population. In December 2007, the WWF launched its “Earth Hour” campaign, a global initiative in which cities and communities simultaneously turn out their lights for one hour “to symbolize their leadership and commitment to finding solutions for climate change.” So how does this fantasy trip square with the WWF’s alarmist rhetoric?
So what is the deal with this war on Terrorism? It just doesn't make sense does it? There is something-dodgy going on in the world of politics, if you ask me. I mean one look at the American President George W Bush is enough to tell anybody that.It should be a lot harder to slag off the American President, he's supposed to be one of the brightest men in the world, never mind America, but it's lights on nobody home with that guy, isn't it. He makes Ronald Reagan look like fucking Einstein. And that's Ronald Reagan in his current condition I'm talking about.
It's G.W Bush's secretary I feel sorry for. Everyday she has to go through the same ritual. He turns up at the White House Office and starts pulling his office door."No George, it's push to open your office door""I am pushing""No George, you're pulling. That's 3 years you've been in office now George, I thought you'd have got the hang of it by now""Look, shut your face.....or I'll bomb you"Personally, I think he needs to go back to primary school to learn how to read his scripts properly. "Hello, my fellow Americans, you are the people greatest on the Earth of the Face"
The couple managed to cut their cost of their wedding by more than £9,000 after they decided to barter for the church, the reception, the cars and the photographs. Dan, 31, a plumber and part-time firefighter and his fiancee Gemma, also 31, a part time catering assistant, worked free of charge for local businesses in exchange for free or discounted use of their facilities on their big day.
This is going to happen more and more in coming months and is probably one of the best ways of trading! Think about what you have to offer and what you want in return and you will be surprised how many people will be willing to barter with you
Elected members of at least two local authorities have introduced payments from the public purse for travelling on foot, as an alternative to the milage allowances they can claim for driving their own cars, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
Councillors at Braintree district council, in Essex, are entitled to claim £1 every time they travel on foot to official meetings or functions.
Their counterparts at Weymouth and Portland borough council, Dorset, can claim travel expenses at a uniform rate of 40p-a-mile regardless of whether they walk, cycle or drive their car.
The policy is designed to encourage councillors to set an example to the community by leaving their cars at home.
But it has not proved immediately popular with those entitled to recieve the money. In 2006/07, the first year the new system was operating in Braintree, councillors claimed a total of only £3 for walking, while the car mileage bill was £13,840.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "It is absurd to pay travel expenses for walking. The whole point of expenses is that they cover any bills incurred, not to pay rewards for doing something the council think is nice. What next, a kindness-to-animals bonus?"
David Cameron faces a revolt over secret plans to force Tory MPs to have psychometric testing to prove they are fit to be Ministers if he wins the next General Election. Party chiefs have had talks with TV psychologist Kris Murrin on how to weed out those with psychological or other flaws. Under a separate proposal, MPs’ secretaries – and even former secretaries – would be asked about their bosses’ private conduct, such as how they react under pressure
Peter Mandelson is to receive up to £78,000 of taxpayers' money each year on top of his new Cabinet Minister’s salary. The new Business Secretary is entitled to receive ‘parachute payments’ from the European Commission after giving up his Trade Commissioner post – and Mr Mandelson has confirmed he intends to take up the option. He stands to collect up to £234,000 of taxpayers’ EU funding over the next three years, prompting accusations he is cashing in on the Brussels gravy train.
In January 2008, five former NATO generals presented a preparatory document for the NATO summit meeting at Bucharest. Their proposals reflect a terrifying tendency. And what gives weight to their document is that, up until recently, all of them held very high positions. General John Shalikashvili was US Chief of Staff and Commander in Chief of NATO in Europe, General Klaus Naumann ran the German army and was president of the military committe of NATO in Europe, General Henk van den Breemen was chief of the Dutch Chief of Staff and Admiral Jacques Lanxade held the same post in France, while Lord Inge ran the General Staff and was also Chief of the Defence Staff of Great Britain. This is just the big shots - and very aggressive they are too, as we shall see.
In this dramatic footage, Israelis shoot a Palestinian cameraman in the legs while filming a battle. He later was rushed to the hospital and had both legs amputated.
As Statewatch pointed out in its analysis of the proposal, the wording of this definition is clearly likely to result in the criminalisation of the expression of political views (for example on the situation in Middle East or on certain conflicts within Member States), even if that expression does not in any way include the advocacy of terrorism to support those opinions.2 It will be enough that the authorities deem that there is a “danger” that this will happen, an actual terrorist offence as a consequence is expressly not necessary for the Framework Decision to apply.
Brian Cowen, Ireland's Prime Minister, must explain to a summit of Europe's leaders next Wednesday how he is planning to resuscitate the EU Treaty, which was rejected by Irish voters in June. While the final decision will be taken in December, Mr Cowen will hear demands from France and Germany that a second referendum take place as early as March 2009, before European elections. Brussels diplomats have warned Ireland that it is isolated after angering other EU countries, such as Britain, by taking controversial financial crisis measures that benefited Irish banks while "dumping on others". "The economy might be going into freefall and the Irish really did not help things. Sympathy for their difficulties is running out," said a diplomat.
It is even more crucial this time round to get this treaty scuppered once and for all. People out there have got to support the Irish NO Vote as much as possible
Why does the U.S. ruling elite en masse accept passively the Rothschild kleptastrophe? The answer is simple. Our ruling elite are no longer domestic factory owners, they no longer control productive capactiy in the US. There are no domestic capitalists left in the USA. They have exchanged ownership in real wealth for speculative international portfolios at the mercy of the Money Power. They sold out to the Rothshild-Rockefeller-Zhou credit monopoly and are fully invested in China ventures. They have tied their fortunes to the destruction of the United States economy and people. They go along because they have nowhere else to go, they have no feet of their own to stand on.
There has been a remarkable expansion, in the last 20 years, of private military and security companies providing services in zones of low-intensity armed conflict and post-conflict situations such as Afghanistan, the Balkans, Colombia, the Congo, Iraq, Somalia or Sudan. These transnational private companies can provide logistics, combat or combat related security training and intelligence as well as tactically military capability in the middle of a war zone. Three groups of countries may be involved in the activities carried out by transnational PMSC: exporting countries supplying private military and security services; importing countries demanding such services, and states of PMSC staff nationality, often from developing countries furnishing cheap labor to the transnational private military and security companies.
Canada and the European Union (EU) are set to begin preliminary discussions on deeper economic integration a mere three days after the election. It has been reported that the proposed trade deal will far exceed NAFTA. Some see this as an opportunity to possibly update the 15 year-old accord. Stephen Harper is busy telling Canadians that only a Conservative majority government will be able to bring confidence back and stabilize the economy. That is why I find it a little strange that this has not become a pillar of the Conservatives economic platform. Harper has decided not to release the full text of the draft proposal until after the election on October 14. The reality is that such an agreement with the EU will be no different than NAFTA in the sense that it will be used to further advance corporate interests.
We have four weeks until the U.S. elections. Four weeks to spread the viral word through emails, fliers, any tools we’ve got, that now is the time for Americans to take back their Congress, to elect representatives who represent the will and best interest of the people. Why don’t I say “time to take back the presidency”? Because that’s harder, with so many people believing still in Obama, and with the independent vote split between people planning to write in Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, Marcy Kaptur, Cynthia McKinnon and others. The presidency will be harder to return to the people in this next election, but Congress is a piece of cake if we do our cooking right. Think about it. Americans are outraged that Congress betrayed the massively expressed will of the people. They bury their rage under the flimsy hope that maybe Congress knew better than they did the way out of the mess, that maybe we the people just don’t understand high finance well enough. But as the market continues to tumble and fear continues to rise, Americans are trusting less and less that Congress knows what it’s doing. This is the time to send out the idea into the American consciousness that we must kick out every Senator and House Representative who voted for the bailout bill. If we can convince our fellows of that, and if we elect a new Congress that represents the people, we have real hope of turning around our situation.
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