Saturday, March 06, 2010
Call For ' No Confidence' Vote in Scottish Parliament
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European Prosecutor Could Prosecute Britons Without Government's Permission
The move is regarded as "extremely worrying" and is seen as a further attempt to transfer powers from London to Brussels.
It would mean that British people could face prosecution through a justice system the UK Government has made no contribution to setting up.
The British Government has consistently opposed the plans but is powerless to stop them going through as they can be passed as long as they have the backing of nine member states under so-called “enhanced co-operation”.'
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Dutch Prince Bernhard 'Was Member of Nazi Party'
Annejet van der Zijl, a Dutch historian, has found membership documents in Berlin's Humboldt University that prove Prince Bernhard, who studied there, had joined Deutsche Studentenschaft, a National Socialist student fraternity, as well as the Nazi NSDAP and its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung.'
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Psychological Rape as 'Sex Education'
The school in the county between south Houston and Galveston, mostly white blue collar.
A middle aged black female school board trustee was scheduled to give a 'motivational talk' to 6th-8th grade girls, ages 11-14, who were excused from classes to go to the assembly hall. The speaker, Shirley Price, told the school principal to leave the hall, which he did.
Then the woman proceeded with a graphic speech about how to avoid pregnancy by having oral sex. Two girls presented a 'sketch' (skit) with an undisclosed demonstration, at the end of which Price kissed one of the girls on the cheek before the whole assembly.
Before dismissing the students Price told them not to tell their parents about the speech.'
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Canadian Troops Told to Ignore Child Rape by Afghan Allies.
As reported last fall in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, Canadian military chaplins and some soldiers have been complaining as far back as 2006 that Afghan security forces have been sodomizing young boys on their base. These military whistle-blowers charge that the military brass has been ignoring or burying their complaints, fearing the bad publicity they could generate.
The paper reports that Canadian military police have also complained, as reported by Brig.-Gen. J.C. Collin, commander of Land Force Central Area, that they were being told "not to interfere in incidents in which Afghan forces were having sex with children".'
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The paper reports that Canadian military police have also complained, as reported by Brig.-Gen. J.C. Collin, commander of Land Force Central Area, that they were being told "not to interfere in incidents in which Afghan forces were having sex with children".'
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Microchips in Our Bins Herald Pay as You Throw Tax, Say Tories
The number of households that have microchips in their bins has jumped to 2.6m in the past 12 months, according to a new report.
The study shows that 68 councils across the UK now put the new technology in their bins – a two-thirds increase in the past year.
Councils say the microchips identify which houses the bins belong to and deny accusations that they allow local authorities to analyse the amount of rubbish being thrown away. But opposition politicians claim the microchips can be used to weigh waste and fear the rise in the use of the technology will lead to "pay as you throw" schemes.
Caroline Spelman, shadow communities secretary, said: "Labour ministers are secretly planning to roll out bin taxes across the country after the election if Gordon Brown can cling to power.'
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The study shows that 68 councils across the UK now put the new technology in their bins – a two-thirds increase in the past year.
Councils say the microchips identify which houses the bins belong to and deny accusations that they allow local authorities to analyse the amount of rubbish being thrown away. But opposition politicians claim the microchips can be used to weigh waste and fear the rise in the use of the technology will lead to "pay as you throw" schemes.
Caroline Spelman, shadow communities secretary, said: "Labour ministers are secretly planning to roll out bin taxes across the country after the election if Gordon Brown can cling to power.'
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Lord Of The Lies
Look at this what this enormous lying cock has to say about the book he was paid, incredibly, as much as £5 million to write:
"I have tried to write a book which describes the human as much as the political dimensions of life as prime minister.
"Though necessarily retrospective, it is an attempt to inform and shape current and future thinking as much as an historical account of the past. Most of all I want readers to have as much pleasure reading it as I had writing it."
Unlikely. He was paid to write it, while readers will pay to read it.
When you see it on your local bookshop shelf, don't forget to take out a fat black pen and write "Fucking Liar Scum!" and "Lord Of The Lies!" on as many pages as you can before you are ejected, or arrested.
Somebody has to do it.
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Largest Private Refinery Discovers Gold-Plated Tungsten Bar
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EU Chief Vows to Run British Economy From Brussels
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso claimed that financial stability was so critical that sweeping new powers were needed for Eurocrats in Brussels to meddle in the economies of all EU members.
But his threat sparked an angry backlash from critics of an ever- growing Brussels bureaucracy.
It raised fears that the EU – under unelected new President Herman van Rompuy – is planning a power grab.'
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Human Remains Found at Da Vinci Code Chapel
STV News can reveal the bones were discovered at the chapel in Midlothian by workers carrying out conservation work at the world-famous heritage centre.
A spokesperson for Lothian and Borders Police confirmed the discovery, but said it was not being treated as a crime.
The famous building, built in 1446, has long been linked with a role in the history of the Freemasons and the Knights Templar. Most notably, it has also suggested as the burial place of the Holy Grail – the cup used by Christ at The Last Supper – or even the resting place of the mummified head of Jesus Christ.'
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Europe's New Debt Solution: Create Their Own Ratings Agency That Only Gives Friendly Ratings
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As Predicted, Pentagon Shooting Blamed On 9/11 Truth
On Wednesday we explained how a Southern Poverty Law Center report which demonized We Are Change 9/11 truth organizations in the same breath as violent racist skinhead groups was part of a preparatory set-up for violent domestic acts that would be blamed on anti-government extremists.
We pointed out that since examples of Americans committing violence in pursuit of their political beliefs, FBI patsy Timothy McVeigh aside, were thin on the ground, organizations like the SPLC were begging for such incidents to occur in order to provide the federal government with the pretext to crack down on dissent and silence free speech on the Internet.'
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Iceland's Voters About to Tell Global Banksters to Shove It
A vote is set for Saturday in Iceland on a referendum that would require Iceland to pay funds to the U.K. and the Netherlands based on U.K. and Netherlands investors who lost money because of the collapse of an Icelandic bank.
A Capacent Gallup survey conducted over the last weeks of February showed 74% of those who had decided to vote planned to vote "no", reports WSJ.'
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A Capacent Gallup survey conducted over the last weeks of February showed 74% of those who had decided to vote planned to vote "no", reports WSJ.'
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Mysterious Snake Appears in Painting of Queen Elizabeth I
Deterioration over time has meant the snake has revealed itself once more, with its outline now visible on the surface.'
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Ionia Kindergartner Suspended for Making Gun With Hand
To the little boy's mother, it was just a 6-year-old boy playing around.
But when Mason Jammer, a kindergarten student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, curled his fist into the shape of a gun Wednesday and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was no laughing matter.
They suspended Mason until Friday, saying the behavior made other students uncomfortable, said Erin Jammer, Mason's mother.
School officials allege Mason had displayed this kind of behavior for several months, despite numerous warnings.
"I do think it's too harsh for a six-year-old," said Jammer, who was previously warned that if Mason continued the practice he would be suspended. "He's six and he just likes to play."
Jammer says her son isn't violent, and there are other, more effective ways of teaching him not to make a gun with his hand.
"Maybe what you could do is take his recess away," suggested Jammer, adding her son doesn't have toy guns at home.
"He's only six and he doesn't understand any of this".'
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But when Mason Jammer, a kindergarten student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, curled his fist into the shape of a gun Wednesday and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was no laughing matter.
They suspended Mason until Friday, saying the behavior made other students uncomfortable, said Erin Jammer, Mason's mother.
School officials allege Mason had displayed this kind of behavior for several months, despite numerous warnings.
"I do think it's too harsh for a six-year-old," said Jammer, who was previously warned that if Mason continued the practice he would be suspended. "He's six and he just likes to play."
Jammer says her son isn't violent, and there are other, more effective ways of teaching him not to make a gun with his hand.
"Maybe what you could do is take his recess away," suggested Jammer, adding her son doesn't have toy guns at home.
"He's only six and he doesn't understand any of this".'
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UK Petrol Tax Rises Are SIX TIMES Higher Than the Rest of Europe
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The Moral Dimension of Things: Why are Political Leaders Lying Most of the Time?
Indeed, when the stench of moral decay becomes overwhelming, bad things inevitably follow. Historically, it can be shown that when the moral environment in a society is deteriorating, problems tend to pile up.
We are presently living in one of those times, characterized by deep and entrenched political corruption, by routine abuse of power and disregard for the rule of law in high places, and by unchecked greed, fraud and deception in the economic sphere. The results are all there to see: Severe and prolonged economic and financial crises, rising social inequalities and social injustice, increasing intolerance toward individual choices, the disregard for environmental decay, the rise of religious absolutism, a return to whimsical wars of aggression (or of pre-emptive wars), to blind terrorism and to the repugnant use of torture, and even to genocide and to blatant war crimes. These are all indicators that our civilization has lost its moral compass.
With all these throwbacks to an unpalatable past, it is not surprising there is a resurgence of interest nowadays for questions of morality and of ethics.'
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We are presently living in one of those times, characterized by deep and entrenched political corruption, by routine abuse of power and disregard for the rule of law in high places, and by unchecked greed, fraud and deception in the economic sphere. The results are all there to see: Severe and prolonged economic and financial crises, rising social inequalities and social injustice, increasing intolerance toward individual choices, the disregard for environmental decay, the rise of religious absolutism, a return to whimsical wars of aggression (or of pre-emptive wars), to blind terrorism and to the repugnant use of torture, and even to genocide and to blatant war crimes. These are all indicators that our civilization has lost its moral compass.
With all these throwbacks to an unpalatable past, it is not surprising there is a resurgence of interest nowadays for questions of morality and of ethics.'
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Reserves the Right to Nuclear First Strike
The draft makes it clear that the emphasis is on non-nuclear weapons, including missile defense in the Persian Gulf in direct proximity to Iran. The Quadrennial Defense Review, unveiled last month, provides for the development of a new class of non-nuclear missiles capable of reaching a target anywhere in the world in less than an hour.'
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Ireland Says Israeli Siege on Gaza 'Medieval'
"I genuinely believe that the medieval siege conditions being imposed on the people of Gaza are unacceptable," wrote Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, in an opinion piece published in the International Herald Tribune.
The already-impoverished coastal sliver has endured almost three years of an Israeli-imposed blockade which has deprived it of its most direly-needed requirements.'
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Israeli Forces Raid Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound
Israeli forces have stormed the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem Al-Quds and cordoned off its premises where dozens of Palestinian protesters had gathered.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli policemen had encircled the Al-Aqsa Mosque since the early morning hours and clashes erupted in the holy complex after the Israeli forces raided the area to push out the Palestinians.'
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Eyewitnesses said that Israeli policemen had encircled the Al-Aqsa Mosque since the early morning hours and clashes erupted in the holy complex after the Israeli forces raided the area to push out the Palestinians.'
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Brown Defends Basis for Iraq War
Opening his evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry, Gordon Brown expressed his sadness for the loss of life in the conflict.
But he insisted that it had been necessary for the international community to confront Saddam Hussein.
"I think this is the gravest decision to go to war," he said. "It was the right decision and it was for the right reasons."
Mr Brown paid tribute to the "sacrifice" of the British troops who had lost their lives in the conflict while acknowledging the scale of the civilian losses.
"Any loss of life is something that makes us very sad indeed," he said.
Unlike Tony Blair when he appeared in January, Mr Brown entered the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, where the inquiry is being held, by the front entrance.
Only a small knot of protesters had gathered to mark his arrival.
Mr Brown said there were three areas he particularly wanted to raise with the inquiry panel.
He said it was vital to have "proper structures of decision-making" in Government for fighting wars, to manage conflicts better and to improve how states work together in conflicts.
Mr Brown said: "There will be interventions in the future, and international co-operation has got to be far greater than it was.
"Global problems require global solutions, and I would particularly draw attention to the importance in all this of the strongest possible relationship between Europe and America, something that I am determined to build up and continue to make stronger in the future."
Mr Brown told the inquiry that terrorists and "rogue states" were the "two risks to the post-Cold War world" and had to be tackled.
He said he was involved in Cabinet discussions before the invasion and was convinced that Iraq posed a threat.
"I met the intelligence services on a number of occasions during the course of 2002 and early 2003," he said.
"I was given information by the intelligence services which led me to believe that Iraq was a threat and had to be dealt with by the actions of the international community."
But he told the panel that he had wanted to secure international agreement to avoid war.
"What we wanted was a diplomatic route to succeed," he said. "Right up to the last minute, right up to the last weekend, I think many of us were hopeful that the diplomatic route would succeed."
Mr Brown said he told Mr Blair in mid-2002 that money would be no object if Britain launched military action against Saddam Hussein.
The former chancellor said he understood that some options for a war were more expensive than others, but pledged to fund whichever option was "right for our country".
Mr Brown said he was involved in discussions with then-defence secretary Geoff Hoon about a possible conflict with Iraq from June 2002.
He told the inquiry: "I said immediately to the prime minister that the military options that were under discussion, there should be no sense that there was a financial restraint that prevented us doing what was best for the military."
He added: "I told him that I would not - and this was right at the beginning - I would not try to rule out any military option on the grounds of cost, quite the opposite."
Mr Brown insisted that throughout the build-up to war, the Cabinet had been kept fully informed of developments.
"I cannot see the argument that says the Cabinet were not informed. We were informed fully about the process of the negotiations," he said.
He said that throughout the discussions, he had been adamant that military action should only be a last resort.
"I was very clear that we had to exhaust all the diplomatic avenues before we could conclude that it was inevitable or impossible to avoid a decision about war," he said.
However, he said that he did not see private correspondence between Mr Blair and US President George Bush.
"I would not expect to see private letters between Mr Blair and the president," he said.
Mr Brown conceded that he had "regrets" over not being "more successful" in convincing America of the need for better post-conflict planning.
"It was one of my regrets that I wasn't able to be more successful in pushing the Americans on this issue - that the planning for reconstruction was essential, just the same as planning for the war," he said.
He said there had been a Cabinet meeting in March 2003 that discussed "reconstruction issues".
Mr Brown told the inquiry that he had offered to "prepare a paper" to send to the United States on the issues that would have to be faced in post-war Iraq.
But he spoke of his frustration that dealing with the problems of the war-torn country were not dealt with "more quickly" after the initial invasion.
"I wish it had been possible to follow it through much more quickly in the aftermath," he said.
Mr Brown admitted that one lesson of the war was that spy chiefs had to be "more sure" about the nature of the intelligence they receive.
Claims that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that he could deploy within 45 minutes were discredited when thorough searches after the invasion failed to discover any such devices.
Mr Brown said he received five "very full" intelligence briefings about Iraq's alleged WMD in the lead-up to war, on March 4 2002, December 9, December 13, February 6 2003 and February 24.
He said: "The information I was given was that there was evidence that was known to many countries, not just our country, about the weaponry that the Iraqi government held.
"And, of course, at that time there was a greater certainty amongst the intelligence community that this weaponry was there.
"I think we have learned that intelligence can give us insights into what is happening, but we have got to be more sure, as people have recognised, about the nature of the intelligence we were receiving from certain people."
The inquiry heard that Mr Brown was not shown an "options paper" drawn up by the Cabinet Office in March 2002 to outline various choices for dealing with Iraq, from continuing sanctions to launching regime change.
The Prime Minister said: "I don't recall seeing that paper. My main involvement in looking at the options started from June."
He added: "I don't think I needed to see every paper."
Previously, the inquiry heard evidence from former No 10 communications director Alastair Campbell that Mr Blair had pledged to America that Britain would "be there" in the event of an invasion - several months before the decision was made to go to war.
Panel member Sir Roderic Lyne asked a "yes or no" question about whether Mr Brown was aware of letters Mr Blair had sent to US president George Bush indicating Britain's support.
Mr Brown responded: "I had regular conversations with Tony Blair and we talked about those issues but I do not have copies of those letters and I don't know the exact conversation - and he wouldn't expect me to."
Mr Brown acknowledged that he had not been present at a number of key meetings held by Mr Blair in the build-up to the invasion, but insisted that he was kept fully informed.
"I didn't at any point (feel) that I lacked the information that was necessary," he said.
"My role in this was to second guess military decisions or options. My role in this was not to interfere in what were very important diplomatic negotiations.
"My role in this was, first of all as chancellor of the exchequer, was to make sure that the funding was there for what we had to do."
Mr Brown insisted he and other senior Cabinet members were kept fully informed about developments in the months before the invasion.
He said: "There is no sense in which I felt that I had inadequate information.
"Obviously, the intelligence information has had to be re-assessed as a result of what we have now learned.
"But there was no sense in which we were denied information that was necessary for us making a decision."
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Police forces to Be Equipped With Mobile Fingerprint Scanners
Up to 3,000 devices will be distributed to each of the 43 forces across England and Wales after senior officers claimed they will save hours of police time and speed up inquiries.
The National Policing Improvement Agency has signed a three-year contract worth £9million with U.S. firm Cogent System to provide the devices. Deputy Chief Constable Peter Goodman, of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said: 'This new technology will allow police to more easily confirm the identity of suspects on the street without having to arrest them and return to the police station to confirm who they are - as we currently have to do.'
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EU Draws up Plans For First Direct Tax With Fuel Levy
Algirdas Semeta, the new European commissioner for taxation, is planning a "minimum rate of tax on carbon" across the whole EU as a "priority".
"In my estimation it is possible to start discussions," he told European Voice, a weekly Brussels newspaper. "There is currently the right momentum."
A similar proposal was considered so controversial that it was shelved without discussion five years ago.
The plan to push for more financial independence from national governments comes as the EU attempts to build a more powerful position in the world.
Following the new Lisbon Treaty, the EU now has an expensive array of new institutions including a new President of Europe and a foreign minister with her own diplomatic service.
Hervé Jouanjean, Director General of the European Commission's Budget department, recently told a Brussels audience that the EU was "very close to paralysis" because of the reluctance of stretched national treasuries to give it funding.
"We should have a mechanism which would serve to exploit the possibility, in a progressive way, to lead to direct funding of the EU," he said.
Herman Van Rompuy, the new EU president, has already thrown his weight behind the idea of new taxes.
The new tax would lead to direct rises in petrol and energy bills and additional price increases due to higher costs for industry.
Open Europe, the think-tank, has calculated, on the basis of the shelved 2005 proposal that set a £9 levy on a tonne of CO2, that the cost of the new tax to British businesses and consumers would be £3.2 billion. The final cost could be even greater if electricity, generated from natural gas, was included in the levy.
Mats Persson, director of Open Europe, warned that "a single EU levy is an unnecessarily inflexible tool" that takes no account of existing national taxes or measures to cut climate change.
"A single flat rate will disproportionately hit poorer consumers who spend a larger share of their income on energy and fuel bills," he said. "It will also impose a disproportionate burden on small businesses, which are vital for economic recovery and growth. The EU needs a more flexible and proportionate approach to cutting carbon emissions."
France and Sweden are enthusiastic supporters of an EU carbon tax as a part of Europe's fight against climate change. While many countries have yet to take a position Britain has been a lone voice in opposition to the new Brussels tax.
"We do not support the idea of a mandatory pan-European carbon tax," said a British spokesman. "We believe that member states are best placed to choose the policy tools for achieving their climate-change objectives."
Under current European energy taxation law, the EU sets minimum tax rates for energy sources such as petrol, coal, and natural gas when they are used as motor and heating fuel or to produce electricity.
Under the current law, the tax to be paid is calculated according to the quantity of fuel that is consumed but the Commission wants this changed so that it is calculated according to CO2 emissions.
The idea of using fuel duties and eco-taxes to give the EU a direct and independent source of income has long been demanded by the Commission. Proposals currently circulating in Brussels could mean that all airline tickets, shopping and petrol station receipts in Britain list the amount of aviation tax, VAT or fuel duty that goes directly to Brussels as an "EU tax".
Details of the plan came as research by the AA has showed British drivers have been already been hit with higher tax rises on fuel, up to five times bigger than their counterparts in the rest of Western Europe since the end of the credit crunch.
Fuel duty and VAT on petrol has increased by 11.46 per cent since the end of November last year, compared with only 2.23 per cent in Austria. The UK rise is more than double the 5.07 per cent average for Western Europe as a whole.
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Fury as EU Approves GM Potato
German chemical giant BASF this week won approval from the European Commission for commercial growing of a starchy potato with a gene that could resist antibiotics – useful in the fight against illnesses such as tuberculosis.
Farms in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic may plant the potato for industrial use, with part of the tuber fed to cattle, according to BASF, which fought a 13-year battle to win approval for Amflora. But other EU member states, including Italy and Austria and anti-GM campaigners angrily attacked the move, claiming it could result in a health disaster.'
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Utah Law Would Shield Paedophiles
In a classic "misdirect" that claims to benefit victims, the State of Utah is considering a law that would make interviews with victims of abuse off limits to the media, including this site. With a legal system that continues to protect the perpetrators at the expense of the victims, Utah is seeking to take away the only tool left for dealing with these Satanic and Psychopathic Deviants, public exposure and humiliation of the perpetrators.
Lets face it folks, freedom of speech and of the Press no longer exists in the traditional, Illuminati owned media. It does. however, exist on the internet on sites like this one. As I have stated in the past, the only ones that seek to protect perpetrators are other perpetrators.
Utah's history in dealing with Satanic Ritual and Sex Abuse is as jaded as its history of political corruption. Anne's story is a classic case of not prosecuting Satanists in politically corrupt Utah.'
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Lets face it folks, freedom of speech and of the Press no longer exists in the traditional, Illuminati owned media. It does. however, exist on the internet on sites like this one. As I have stated in the past, the only ones that seek to protect perpetrators are other perpetrators.
Utah's history in dealing with Satanic Ritual and Sex Abuse is as jaded as its history of political corruption. Anne's story is a classic case of not prosecuting Satanists in politically corrupt Utah.'
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Gordon Brown Seeks To Change Law In Order To Further Support Israeli War Crimes
The government’s decision to change the law was made following an arrest warrant issued against Israeli Opposition Chairwoman Tzipi Livni, who was scheduled to visit London last year.
The former Israeli foreign minister reportedly cancelled a trip to Britain in December for fear of being arrested after a court issued the warrant following an application by Palestinian activists.
The affair acutely embarrassed the British government and Brown pledged to change the law that allows judges to consider a case for an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes suspects brought by any individual.
According to a Daily Telegraph report on Thursday, the British government is to announce plans to stop politically-motivated campaign groups using British courts to secure arrest warrants for visiting foreign officials.'
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Britain Grapples With Debt of Greek Proportions
As Greece’s debt troubles batter the euro, Britain has done its utmost to stay above the fray.
Until now, that is. Suddenly, investors are asking if Britain may soon face its own sovereign debt crisis if the government fails to slash its growing budget deficits quickly enough to escape the contagious fears of financial markets.'
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Until now, that is. Suddenly, investors are asking if Britain may soon face its own sovereign debt crisis if the government fails to slash its growing budget deficits quickly enough to escape the contagious fears of financial markets.'
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Megatons of Aluminium to Rain Down From Global Experiment
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When is it OK to Call People Nazis? When They're Euro-sceptics
According to Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian Prime Minister who now leads the Liberals in the European Parliament, “The ultimate consequences of identity thinking are the gas chambers of Auschwitz“.
Politicians should be careful about dragging Holocaust references into everyday arguments. Even Churchill – who arguably had more right to make such references than the rest of us – suffered when he tried to draw a parallel between socialism and the Gestapo during the 1945 election campaign. Yet Euro-integrationists make the link so habitually and so matter-of-factly that they no longer realise what they’re doing.'
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Politicians should be careful about dragging Holocaust references into everyday arguments. Even Churchill – who arguably had more right to make such references than the rest of us – suffered when he tried to draw a parallel between socialism and the Gestapo during the 1945 election campaign. Yet Euro-integrationists make the link so habitually and so matter-of-factly that they no longer realise what they’re doing.'
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One in Three Killed by U.S. Drone Attacks In Pakistan Are Civilians
The report by Washington think tank The New America Foundation has found that 32% of the more than 1,200 people killed since 2004 were innocent bystanders rather than dangerous terrorists.'
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Taiwan in Chaos After Strong Quake
Taiwan's National Fire Agency says at least 12 people have been injured after a strong earthquake jolted the southern part of the country.
The 6.4-magnitude quake shook Kaohsiung County early Thursday, but no tsunami alert was issued.
The incident disrupted transport and also caused at least one large fire.'
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The 6.4-magnitude quake shook Kaohsiung County early Thursday, but no tsunami alert was issued.
The incident disrupted transport and also caused at least one large fire.'
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Ship Passengers Trapped in Baltic Sea Ice
Swedish maritime authorities say the vessels are not likely to be freed for some time.
However, both countries have sent icebreakers to rescue the ships in what is being called the worst Baltic freeze in 15 years.'
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That's global warming for you!!
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Pupils Aged Five on Hate Register: Teachers Must Log Playground Taunts For Government Database
Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school.
Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic or racist words without knowing their meaning, simply teaching them such words are hurtful and inappropriate is not enough.
Instead the incident has to be recorded and his or her behaviour monitored for future signs of 'hate' bullying.
The accusations will also be recorded in databases held by councils and made available to Whitehall and ministers to help them devise future anti-bullying campaigns.
The scale of the effort to stop children using homophobic or racist language was revealed after the parents of a ten-year-old primary school pupil in Somerset, Peter Drury, were told that his name would be put on a register and his behaviour monitored while he remained at school.'
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Hillary Clinton Slaps Britain in the Face Over the Falklands
The transcript of Hillary Clinton’s press conference in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Kristina Kirchner last night, has just been released by the State Department, and it is a real eye-opener. Her remarks represent an astonishing propaganda coup for the Peronist regime in its dispute with Britain over the Falklands, with Washington brazenly backing its position.'
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Metropolitan Police Outline Law On Photography In Public Places
'Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel.'
Worth keeping a copy on you when you go out with a camera.
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Coffee Party Parasites
“We’re not the opposite of the Tea Party,” Ms. Park, 41, said. “We’re a different model of civic participation, but in the end we may want some of the same things.” ....
Ms. Park and chapter organizers said they would invite Tea Party members to join their Coffee counterparts in discussions. “We need to roll up our sleeves, put our heads together and work it out,” she said. “That’s, to me, an American way of doing this.”
In fact, a simple internet search (which the NY Times apparently is not capable of doing) reveals that Park organized the Coffee Party for the specific purpose of undermining the Tea Party movement.'
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In 'Eisenhower’s Death Camps': A U.S. Prison Guard Remembers
By the time I left the hospital, the outfit I had trained with in Spartanburg, South Carolina, was deep inside Germany, so, despite my protests, I was placed in a “repo depot” (replacement depot). I lost interest in the units to which I was assigned, and don't recall all of them: non-combat units were ridiculed at that time. My separation qualification record states I was mostly with Company C, 14th Infantry Regiment, during my seventeen-month stay in Germany, but I remember being transferred to other outfits also.
In late March or early April 1945, I was sent to guard a POW camp near Andernach along the Rhine. I had four years of high school German, so I was able to talk to the prisoners, although this was forbidden. Gradually, however, I was used as an interpreter and asked to ferret out members of the S.S. (I found none.)
In Andernach about 50,000 prisoners of all ages were held in an open field surrounded by barbed wire. The women were kept in a separate enclosure that I did not see until later. The men I guarded had no shelter and no blankets. Many had no coats. They slept in the mud, wet and cold, with inadequate slit trenches for excrement. It was a cold, wet spring, and their misery from exposure alone was evident.
Even more shocking was to see the prisoners throwing grass and weeds into a tin can containing a thin soup. They told me they did this to help ease their hunger pains. Quickly they grew emaciated. Dysentery raged, and soon they were sleeping in their own excrement, too weak and crowded to reach the slit trenches. Many were begging for food, sickening and dying before our eyes. We had ample food and supplies, but did nothing to help them, including no medical assistance.
Outraged, I protested to my officers and was met with hostility or bland indifference. When pressed, they explained they were under strict orders from “higher up.” No officer would dare do this to 50,000 men if he felt that it was “out of line,” leaving him open to charges. Realizing my protests were useless, I asked a friend working in the kitchen if he could slip me some extra food for the prisoners. He too said they were under strict orders to severely ration the prisoners’ food, and that these orders came from “higher up.” But he said they had more food than they knew what to do with, and would sneak me some.
When I threw this food over the barbed wire to the prisoners, I was caught and threatened with imprisonment. I repeated the “offense,” and one officer angrily threatened to shoot me. I assumed this was a bluff until I encountered a captain on a hill above the Rhine shooting down at a group of German civilian women with his .45 caliber pistol. When I asked, “Why?,” he mumbled, “Target practice," and fired until his pistol was empty. I saw the women running for cover, but, at that distance, couldn't tell if any had been hit.
This is when I realized I was dealing with cold-blooded killers filled with moralistic hatred. They considered the Germans subhuman and worthy of extermination; another expression of the downward spiral of racism. Articles in the G.I. newspaper, Stars and Stripes, played up the German concentration camps, complete with photos of emaciated bodies. This amplified our self-righteous cruelty, and made it easier to imitate behavior we were supposed to oppose. Also, I think, soldiers not exposed to combat were trying to prove how tough they were by taking it out on the prisoners and civilians.
These prisoners, I found out, were mostly farmers and workingmen, as simple and ignorant as many of our own troops. As time went on, more of them lapsed into a zombie-like state of listlessness, while others tried to escape in a demented or suicidal fashion, running through open fields in broad daylight towards the Rhine to quench their thirst. They were mowed down.
Some prisoners were as eager for cigarettes as for food, saying they took the edge off their hunger. Accordingly, enterprising G.I. “Yankee traders” were acquiring hordes of watches and rings in exchange for handfuls of cigarettes or less. When I began throwing cartons of cigarettes to the prisoners to ruin this trade, I was threatened by rank-and-file G.I.s too.
The only bright spot in this gloomy picture came one night when. I was put on the “graveyard shift,” from two to four a.m. Actually, there was a graveyard on the uphill side of this enclosure, not many yards away. My superiors had forgotten to give me a flashlight and I hadn't bothered to ask for one, disgusted as I was with the whole situation by that time. It was a fairly bright night and I soon became aware of a prisoner crawling under the wires towards the graveyard. We were supposed to shoot escapees on sight, so I started to get up from the ground to warn him to get back. Suddenly I noticed another prisoner crawling from the graveyard back to the enclosure. They were risking their lives to get to the graveyard for something. I had to investigate.
When I entered the gloom of this shrubby, tree-shaded cemetery, I felt completely vulnerable, but somehow curiosity kept me moving. Despite my caution, I tripped over the legs of someone in a prone position. Whipping my rifle around while stumbling and trying to regain composure of mind and body, I soon was relieved I hadn't reflexively fired. The figure sat up. Gradually, I could see the beautiful but terror-stricken face of a woman with a picnic basket nearby. German civilians were not allowed to feed, nor even come near the prisoners, so I quickly assured her I approved of what she was doing, not to be afraid, and that I would leave the graveyard to get out of the way.
I did so immediately and sat down, leaning against a tree at the edge of the cemetery to be inconspicuous and not frighten the prisoners. I imagined then, and still do now, what it would be like to meet a beautiful woman with a picnic basket under those conditions as a prisoner. I have never forgotten her face.
Eventually, more prisoners crawled back to the enclosure. I saw they were dragging food to their comrades, and could only admire their courage and devotion.
On May 8, V.E. Day [1945], I decided to celebrate with some prisoners I was guarding who were baking bread the other prisoners occasionally received. This group had all the bread they could eat, and shared the jovial mood generated by the end of the war. We all thought we were going home soon, a pathetic hope on their part. We were in what was to become the French zone [of occupation], where I soon would witness the brutality of the French soldiers when we transferred our prisoners to them for their slave labor camps.
On this day, however, we were happy.
As a gesture of friendliness, I emptied my rifle and stood it in the corner, even allowing them to play with it at their request. This thoroughly “broke the ice,” and soon we were singing songs we taught each other, or that I had learned in high school German class (“Du, du, liegst mir im Herzen”). Out of gratitude, they baked me a special small loaf of sweet bread, the only possible present they had left to offer. I stuffed it in my “Eisenhower jacket,” and snuck it back to my barracks, eating it when I had privacy. I have never tasted more delicious bread, nor felt a deeper sense of communion while eating it. I believe a cosmic sense of Christ (the Oneness of all Being) revealed its normally hidden presence to me on that occasion, influencing my later decision to major in philosophy and religion.
Shortly afterwards, some of our weak and sickly prisoners were marched off by French soldiers to their camp. We were riding on a truck behind this column. Temporarily, it slowed down and dropped back, perhaps because the driver was as shocked as I was. Whenever a German prisoner staggered or dropped back, he was hit on the head with a club and killed. The bodies were rolled to the side of the road to be picked up by another truck. For many, this quick death might have been preferable to slow starvation in our “killing fields.”
When I finally saw the German women held in a separate enclosure, I asked why we were holding them prisoner. I was told they were “camp followers,” selected as breeding stock for the S.S. to create a super-race. I spoke to some, and must say I never met a more spirited or attractive group of women. I certainly didn't think they deserved imprisonment.
More and more I was used as an interpreter, and was able to prevent some particularly unfortunate arrests. One somewhat amusing incident involved an old farmer who was being dragged away by several M.P.s. I was told he had a “fancy Nazi medal,” which they showed me. Fortunately, I had a chart identifying such medals. He'd been awarded it for having five children! Perhaps his wife was somewhat relieved to get him “off her back, ”but I didn't think one of our death camps was a fair punishment for his contribution to Germany. The M.P.s agreed and released him to continue his “dirty work.”
Famine began to spread among the German civilians also. It was a common sight to see German women up to their elbows in our garbage cans looking for something edible -- that is, if they weren't chased away.
When I interviewed mayors of small towns and villages, I was told that their supply of food had been taken away by “displaced persons” (foreigners who had worked in Germany), who packed the food on trucks and drove away. When I reported this, the response was a shrug. I never saw any Red Cross at the camp or helping civilians, although their coffee and doughnut stands were available everywhere else for us. In the meantime, the Germans had to rely on the sharing of hidden stores until the next harvest.
Hunger made German women more “available," but despite this, rape was prevalent and often accompanied by additional violence. In particular I remember an eighteen-year old woman who had the side of her faced smashed with a rifle butt, and was then raped by two G.I.s. Even the French complained that the rapes, looting and drunken destructiveness on the part of our troops was excessive. In Le Havre, we’d been given booklets warning us that the German soldiers had maintained a high standard of behavior with French civilians who were peaceful, and that we should do the same. In this we failed miserably.
“So what?” some would say. “The enemy's atrocities were worse than ours.” It is true that I experienced only the end of the war, when we were already the victors. The German opportunity for atrocities had faded, while ours was at hand. But two wrongs don't make a right. Rather than copying our enemy's crimes, we should aim once and for all to break the cycle of hatred and vengeance that has plagued and distorted human history. This is why I am speaking out now, 45 years after the crime. We can never prevent individual war crimes, but we can, if enough of us speak out, influence government policy. We can reject government propaganda that depicts our enemies as subhuman and encourages the kind of outrages I witnessed. We can protest the bombing of civilian targets, which still goes on today. And we can refuse ever to condone our government’s murder of unarmed and defeated prisoners of war.
I realize it’s difficult for the average citizen to admit witnessing a crime of this magnitude, especially if implicated himself. Even G.I.s sympathetic to the victims were afraid to complain and get into trouble, they told me. And the danger has not ceased. Since I spoke out a few weeks ago, I have received threatening calls and had my mailbox smashed. But its been worth it. Writing about these atrocities has been a catharsis of feelings suppressed too long, a liberation, that perhaps will remind other witnesses that “the truth will make us free, have no fear.” We may even learn a supreme lesson from all this: only love can conquer all.
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