President Sarkozy of France travels to Camp David for a summit with George Bush today determined to take advantage of what he sees as Europe’s leadership over the financial crisis.
Mr Sarkozy has told close advisers and ministers that he is going to move fast, on behalf of Europe, to recast the rules of international finance.
“He is not going to let the Americans get in his way,” said one of his team.
At the same time he appears to be engaged in an unseemly scramble for the credit for co-ordinating Europe’s response, telling allies that the EU is “lucky” France currently holds the presidency
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And the CIA is very lucky to have him as one of their assets!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Settlers Burn 3,000 Olive Trees In Southern Neblus
Fires set by Israeli settlers in southern Nablus olive groves are up this year, reports journalist Ali Daraghmeh. "This year settlers south of the city of Nablus burned about 3,000 olive trees. The settlers are also burning cars and beating farmers. This week four people were hospitalized."
Ghassan, a local official in municipal affairs, described "masked gunmen attacking farmers in 33 basin areas in Salfit and 39 in Nablus."Israeli settlements in the West Bank are most often built on hills and then spread down. Palestinian agricultural lands are afflicted from the initial land confiscation to the eventual threat in the basin areas. Fields just beyond those overtaken are particularly dangerous.
And the Israeli government and army do nothing as it suits their purposes . Terror by proxy!
China To Help Pakistan Out Of Economic Crisis
China has assured Pakistan of help to get out of its economic crisis, the Pakistani ambassador to Beijing said on Friday, but he gave no details and did not say if China had agreed to urgently needed new loans.
Pakistan, a nuclear-armed U.S. ally, is struggling to come to grips with a financial crisis. Islamabad's rapidly dwindling foreign reserves are at their lowest level since 2002.
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The US won't like this but is in no position to do anything about it! All part of the Plan of creeping Chinese control and influence.
Pakistan, a nuclear-armed U.S. ally, is struggling to come to grips with a financial crisis. Islamabad's rapidly dwindling foreign reserves are at their lowest level since 2002.
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The US won't like this but is in no position to do anything about it! All part of the Plan of creeping Chinese control and influence.
America's National Strategy of Global Intervention
Last June the U.S. Department of Defense unexpectedly issued a new version of its National Defense Strategy. It was unexpected because there will be a new administration in Washington in January which might be expected to issue a statement of its own ideas about military strategy.
Some in Washington speculated that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, only recently named to that office, a man who gets along with Democrats as well as Republications, might be bidding to keep his job under a new administration.
The new statement lacks the Bush administration’s unilateralism and triumphalism (as if there were anything left to be triumphal about), but it foresees a “Long War” of “promoting freedom, justice and human dignity by working to end tyranny, promote effective democracies and extend prosperity; and confronting the challenges of our time by leading a growing community of democracies.”All that is straight Bush doctrine, drawn from his second inaugural address and Condoleezza Rice’s policy statement last summer predicting decades of a “new American realism” of “nation-building” to conquer “extremism.” By now the “Long War,” realistic or not, will have become orthodoxy for most of the Washington defense and strategic studies community.
The noteworthy thing about this National Defense Strategy statement is that it says nothing directly about American national defense. It is a strategy for intervening in other countries, and preventing others from blocking or resisting American interventions.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Soldiers and Humans
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.
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.
George Osborne and the Agenda
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.
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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.
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British NGO Forecasts Five Brave New World Scenarios Set In 2030
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.
A very Brave New World indeed.
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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.
A very Brave New World indeed.
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What To Expect When Martial Law Is Declared
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.
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Is The Anti-Communitarian League "Really Necessary"
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.
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Blair Lied Over His Knowledge of Abu Ghraib Atrocities
'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.
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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.
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Victory: Metric Martyrs Finally Win The Right To Sell Their Fruit And Veg In Pounds And Ounces
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
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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
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Huge Protests As New Jersey Declares Flu Vaccines Mandatory
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”.
Is Israel's Booming High-tech Industry A Branch Of Mossad?
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.
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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.
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9/11 Attacks ‘Helped To Secure Peace In Northern Ireland’
'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.”
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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.
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.”
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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.
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Pentagon Considering Portable ‘Pain Ray’ Guns
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.
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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.
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The Big Switch-off: A Fifth Of Councils Axe Road Lights To Cut Bills
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.
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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.
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An Examination of Obama’s Hidden Use Of Hypnotic Techniques In His Speeches
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.
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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.
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Northern Rock Criticised Over 'Aggressive Repossessions'
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.
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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.
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Organically Grown Foods Higher In Cancer-fighting Chemicals
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.
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Do You Support the Constitution? - Then You Are A Terrorist Suspect
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!
See The Document Here...
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!
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Community Officers To Detain Suspects
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.
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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.
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Link Between Child Porn And Muslim Terrorists Discovered In Police Raids
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.
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Very clever. Link Muslims with Terrorists and Paedophilia. This should be classed as incitement to create racial hatred. Criminal!
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.
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Very clever. Link Muslims with Terrorists and Paedophilia. This should be classed as incitement to create racial hatred. Criminal!
Signals From Naval Base 'Caused Qantas Passenger Jet To Plunge 650ft In Seconds'
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
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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
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£116,000-a-Year Council Boss Allowed To Work A Four-Day Week To Improve His 'Life Balance' ... And Avoid A 120-mile Commute
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.
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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.
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Families Face £1,000-A-Year Bill As Government Commits To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions 80% by 2050
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.
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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.
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New Blow For Homeowners As Lloyds INCREASES Cost Of Mortgages - Days After Getting £5.5bn Taxpayer Lifeline
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
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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
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Criminalising Dissent
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.
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.
Another Holocaust Denier On Trial
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.
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.
Denial of the Holocaust is a crime in Germany and Mahler faces up to five years in prison if convicted.
The Final Looting Of America - By Outlaws In D.C
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.
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Australia - No Opt Out Of The Filtered Internet
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.
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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.
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Paris To Quadruple Number Of CCTV Cameras
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."
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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."
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Yeah right ! Well an Illumiinati stooge and CIA asset would say those sort of things
Camp Bucca: Iraq's Guantánamo Bay
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.Read more...
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Thousands Of Bargain Hunters Bring Motorway To Standstill As They Rush To Grab Half-price Goods At New Superstore
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.
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.
Thousands of people buying things they don't need with money they don't have. Do you see why it is so urgent to wake them up?
They Blinded us with Pseudoscience - The Global Warming Con
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”.
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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”.
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God Help Us. This Will Soon Be A Country More Spied Upon Than Communist East Germany Under The Stasi
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.
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.
Brown Bail-out Under Threat As Bank Seeks Better Deal
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.
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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 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.
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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!
Security Services Want Personal Data From Sites Like Facebook
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.
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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.
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Schools Prepare Pupils To Accept A Police State
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.
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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.
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Kabul Is Now Surrounded By The Taliban
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.
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Alaska Glaciers Grew This Year, Thanks To Colder Weather
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.
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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.
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How the Nobel Peace Prize was Won
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.
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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.
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Money - The Ultimate Addiction
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."
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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."
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Ahmadinejad Slams US For Iraq 'Oil Theft'
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."
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Merseyside Police Arrest A Number Of Peaceful Activists In 11th October Protest
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.’
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The Thuggery of Al Gore
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.”
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.”
China Will Be A Democracy By 2020, Says Senior Party Figure
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."
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Scroll down and you will find an article on how China has just bought a 20% share in Rothschilds Bank.
Could it be that the Illuminati Rothschilds are setting things up to run the Chinese Economy in the New World Order Democracy?
He added: "We have a 12-year plan to establish a democratic platform. There will be public democratic involvement at all government levels."
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Scroll down and you will find an article on how China has just bought a 20% share in Rothschilds Bank.
Could it be that the Illuminati Rothschilds are setting things up to run the Chinese Economy in the New World Order Democracy?
Glenn Beck Highlights Threat Of Martial Law Following Economic Crisis
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.
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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.
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