Will Donald Trump Trump the New World Order?

If you're gonna be an imperialist, says Donald Trump, then make it pay. Which means collecting $1.4 trillion plus of Iraq's oil (that's 15 years of current production at current prices) to "reimburse ourselves" for the Iraq war.

On Libya, says Trump, if they're so keen for us to intervene, let the Arab League pay for it.

But remember, those rebels are inspired by Iran and by Al Qaeda. If we make way for them, things in Libya could be a lot worse for us and the Libyan people than they are now.

On Obama? A weak ass-kissing wimp "who's in more wars than I've ever seen."

On China? "They're taking our jobs."

Solution? "Listen you motherfuckers, we're gonna tax you 25%." And more if necessary.

And on off-shoring our jobs? "If you want to sell to us, build your plant in Alabama."

Make sense?

This is red-blooded American nationalism in the style of Teddy Roosevelt, not in the polite, patrician style of Ron Paul.

But either way, its an assault on the New World Order, which requires the destruction of every nation -- America, Britain, Canada, and Australia, as well as Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

It was in keeping with the ideal of a New World Order, "A World where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations" that the victorious allies did not steal Iraq's oil. It is a World where investments are safe, money is secure and gentlemen of the nobility of high net worth do not steal one another's assets.

It is in accordance with the plan for the imposition of the New World Order that the nations of Europe as ethnic, cultural and religious entities are under genocidal attack by their own governments.

It is the reason that Bill Clinton exulted over the impending minority status of Europeans in America.

Trump poses a threat to the grandest conception of the Western ruling elite.

Unfortunately for the elite, with the exception of the brainwashed and brain dead, few of the West's own "huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of [our own] teeming shore" support the notion of their own extinction.

Moreover, the Western powers seem on the verge of collapse through imperial overstretch, to be replaced as the dominating force in world affairs by China and other more coherent and much more nationalistic countries.

JFK Moments before death

Perhaps Trump will compel a change of America's course. Jack Kennedy seems to have been the last to attempt that.

Related: 

Neocons Panic That Trump Presidency Would Mark End to Their New World Order

The Deaths of Diana and Sir James: A Sad Coincidence

Aangirfan has an interesting post about those not invited to the Royal wedding, including Tony Blair (Wow, that must have hurt), and about the striking resemblance in facial features between certain members of the Royal family and descendants of Sir James Goldsmith.

The possibility that Prince William is the grandson of Sir James (aka Golden Balls to Private Eye) is interesting. And if true, it would seem to augur well for the future of the Royal family, since Jimmy Goldsmith was a man of both intelligence and idealism, and a little of both would surely be of benefit to a future king.

In this context, it is of interest, perhaps, that Sir James was a staunch opponent of the NWO, launching his own anti-EU party and speaking widely against global free trade (e.g., this interview). Specifically he warned of the massive unemployment and working class impoverishment that would result in the west from unrestricted trade with Asian nations with wages only 3% of those prevailing in the West.

The validity of his warnings have been amply verified by experience in both Britain and America.

What Diana thought of the NWO is not clear, but she was clearly as much of a thorn in the side of the establishment as Sir James.

On July 18, 1977 Goldsmith died in his prime of pancreatic cancer, which kills with great rapidity. Diana died just six weeks later on August 31, 1997.

A sad coincidence.

Syria: Inevitable Intervention And the Greater World War

By Tony Cartalucci

We are presented with what we are told are isolated crises. In reality, from Desert Storm to the Eastern European color revolutions, to the "War on Terror" to the current "Arab Spring," we are witnessing one linear campaign for world domination -
the creation of what George Bush Sr. called "the New World Order." ...

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Hate Speech Makes a Comeback

By Patrick Buchanan

Well, it sure didn’t take long for the Tucson Truce to collapse.

After Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot on Jan. 8 by a berserker who killed six others, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and wounded 13, the media were aflame with charges the right had created the climate of hate in which such an atrocity was inevitable.

The Washington Post story on the massacre began, “The mass shooting … raised serious concerns that the nation’s political discourse had taken a dangerous turn.”

Following Barack Obama’s eloquent eulogy and call for all of us to lower our voices, it was agreed across the ideological divide that it was time to cool the rhetoric.

This week, however, hate speech was back in style.

After Donald Trump called on Obama to release his original birth certificate and produce the academic records and test scores that put him on a bullet train from being a “terrible student” at Occidental College to Columbia, Harvard Law and Harvard Law Review editor, charges of “racism” have saturated the airwaves.
To Tavis Smiley of PBS, this was a sure sign the most “racist” campaign in history is upon us. To Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg of “The View,” this was pure racism. To Bob Schieffer, CBS anchor, an “ugly strain of racism” is behind the effort to get Obama’s records.

Again and again on cable TV, the question is raised, “What, other than racism, can explain Trump’s call for these records?”

Well, how about a skeptical attitude toward political myths? How about a legitimate Republican opposition research effort to see just how much substance there is behind the story of the young African-American genius who awed with his brilliance everyone who came into contact with him? ...

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Who stands for Canadian Sovereignty? Not the Conservative Party of Canada

By CanSpeccy

Austria & Germany before the Anschluss

Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss.

Adolf Hitler, 21st May 1935

Who stands for Canadian sovereignty?

Not the Conservative Party of Canada.

On February 4, 2011, Stephen Harper and Barack Obama signed a joint statement Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness (SPP) effectively declaring their intent to end Canadian independence.

Among the objectives of this treasonous "shared vision" is: the intention to

How Western Governments Destroy Jobs and Create Unemployment

What Is Outsourcing?

From the Economic Collapse Blog

Once upon a time in America, virtually anyone with a high school education and the willingness to work hard could get a good job.  Fifty years ago a "good job" would enable someone to own a home, buy a car, take a couple of vacations a year and retire with a decent pension.  Unfortunately, those days are long gone.  Every single year the number of "good jobs" in the United States actually shrinks even as our population continues to grow.  Where in the world did all of those good jobs go?

Economists toss around terms such as "outsourcing" and "offshoring" to describe what is happening, but most ordinary Americans don't really grasp what those terms mean.  So what is outsourcing?  Well, it essentially means sending work somewhere else.  In the context of this article I will be using those terms to describe the thousands of manufacturing facilities and the millions of jobs that have been sent overseas.  Over the past several decades, the U.S. economy has become increasingly merged into the emerging "one world economy".  Thanks to the WTO, NAFTA and a whole host of other "free trade" agreements, the internationalist dream of a truly "global marketplace" is closer than ever before.

But for American workers, a "global marketplace" is really bad news.  In the United States, businesses are subject to a vast array of very complex laws, rules and regulations that make it very difficult to operate in this country.  That makes it very tempting for corporations to simply move out of the U.S. in order to avoid all of the hassle.

In addition, the United States now has the highest corporate tax rate in the entire world.  This also provides great motivation for corporations to move operations outside of the country.

The biggest thing affecting American workers, however, is the fact that labor has now become a global commodity.  U.S. workers have now been merged into a global labor pool.  Americans must now directly compete for jobs with hundreds of millions of desperate people willing to work for slave labor wages on the other side of the globe.

So exactly how is an American worker supposed to compete with a highly motivated person on the other side of the planet that makes $1.50 an hour with essentially no benefits? ...

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American Tyranny: Sexual Humiliation From Abu Ghraib to an Airport Near You

by Michael Maharrey

An invasive TSA pat-down at the Dallas airport  left former Miss U.S.A  Susie Castillo in tears. She said the search left her feeling violated, and she likened it to molestation.

Castillo made an emotional video shortly after the incident on April 21.

“I’m sure this woman was just doing her job. But she…I mean she actually…felt…touched my vagina,” she said. “And so I think that’s why I’m crying; that’s what I’m so emotional, because I’m already so upset that they’re making me go – making me do this. Making me choose to either get molested, because that’s what I feel like and, or, or, go through this machine that’s completely unhealthy and dangerous. I don’t want to go through it, and here I am crying.”

Ironically, a TSA nullification bill was filed in the Texas legislature last month, a bill that would ban the full body scanners and make it a crime to preform invasive searches. The legislation would make it a criminal offense to:

 as part of a search performed to grant access to a publicly accessible building or form of transportation, intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly: (A) searches another person without probable cause to believe the person committed an offense; and (B) touches the anus, sexual organ, or breasts of the other person, including touching through clothing, or touches the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person.

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How American Families Are Learning to Make Ends Meet

The Zionist War on Freedom of Speech

Paul Craig Roberts: When They Got Away With 9/11, That Sealed Our Fate

The Fake Birth Certificate: Or Where Would a Wise Man Hide a Pebble?

"Kenya (listed as Obama's father's nation of birth) wasn't called Kenya in 1961. It was the British East Africa Protectorate. It was not known as "Kenya" until 1963.

"In 1961, the hospital [where] Obama was born in was NOT named the Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital , as shown on the above certificate. In 1961, the hospital Obama was born in was named the Kauaikeolani Children's Hospital. It did not change its name to the Kapiolani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until it merged with the Kapiolani hospital system in 1978."

The above from Aangirfan, with thanks

But... The fake certificate explained?

Our analysis of the latest controversy: The original birth certificate was probably in a ‘negative’ form, and someone at the White House took it upon themselves to doctor it up so the form can be readable.

Which doesn't explain why, in 1961, the British East Africa Protectorate is referred to as Kenya, which did not exist as an independent nation until 1964.

Except that:

According to The Statesmans Year Book 1950
http://www.archive.org/details/statesmansyearbo030477mbp

KENYA COLONY AND PROTECTORATE.

Government. The Kenya Colony and Protectorate extend, on the Indian Ocean, from the Umba River to Dick's Head, and inland as far as Lake Victoria and Uganda. The protectorate consists of the mainland dominions of the Sultan of Zanzibar, viz., a coastal strip of territory 10 miles wide, to the northern branch of the Tana River; also Kau, Kipini and the Island of Lamu, and all adjacent islands between rivers Umba and Tana, these territories having been leased to Great Britain in 1895 for an annual rent of 10,000, since raised to 16,000. The colony and protectorate, known as the East Africa Protectorate, were, on 1 April, 1905, transferred from the authority of the Foreign Office to that of the Colonial Office, and in November, 1906, the protectorate was placed under the control of a Governor and Commander-in-Chief and (except the Sultan of Zanzibar's dominions) was annexed to the Crown as from 23 July, 1920, under the name of * The Colony of Kenya,' thus becoming a Crown Colony. The territories on the coast rented from the Sultan of Zanzibar became the Kenya Protectorate. In 1908 foreign consular jurisdiction in the Zanzibar strip of coast was transferred to the British Crown.

So the East African Protectorate, excluding Zanzibar, was presumably referred to as Kenya before independence.

So here's another explanation: it was due to optimising the layers in a PDF file, an operation which at the same time "optimized" the name of the British East Africa Protectorate and the name of the hospital where the birth occurred?

And a highly technical analysis here.

And that is just scratching the surface!

Where Would a Wise Man Hide a Pebble?

On the beach!

Likewise, may not the certificate, that is to say the hard copy if it exists, though a first rate fake, the kind of thing the experts at the CIA can produce, have been put out in an electronic form designed to show many signs of gross fakery -- all of which can eventually be explained away, thus creating a complex story that the public will never be able to follow.

But the man of "change Americans could believe in," the Nobel Peace Prize winner, is unquestionably a fraud from snout to tail. This is surely the best evidence we have: It would be entirely out of character, were his birth certificate to be genuine.

When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?

By Patrick Buchanan

One month before the invasion of Iraq, Riah Abu el-Assal, a Palestinian and the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem at the time, warned Tony Blair, “You will be responsible for emptying Iraq, the homeland of Abraham, of Christians.”

The bishop proved a prophet. “After almost 2,000 years,” writes the Financial Times, “Iraqi Christians now openly contemplate extinction. Some of their prelates even counsel flight.”

The secular despot Saddam Hussein protected the Christians. But the U.S. liberation brought on their greatest calamity since the time of Christ. Scores of thousands of those Iraqi Christians fleeing terrorism and persecution after 2003 made their way to Syria, where they received sanctuary from President Bashar Assad.

Now, as the FT and Washington Post report, the Christians of Syria, whose forebears have lived there since the time of Christ, are facing a pogrom should the Damascus regime fall. ...

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Briefly: Paul Craig Roberts on Risk of US/Russia-China War, Peter Duesberg - Rethinking AIDS, UK a Fiscal Mess, Bogus Threats to US$ Reserve Status, Architecture of US Global Power Exposed, Diet and Violence

Paul Craig Roberts: US risks war with China and Russia

Dr Peter Duesberg, A Cautionary Tale - ReThinking AIDS




Mish: UK is Bigger Fiscal Mess than Spain or Portugal; Fiat Currencies Don't Float

Mish Bogus Threats to US Reserve Currency Status: No Country Really Wants It!

Alfred W. McCoy and Brett Reilly: Washington on the Rocks

In one of history’s lucky accidents, the juxtaposition of two extraordinary events has stripped the architecture of American global power bare for all to see. Last November, WikiLeaks splashed snippets from U.S. embassy cables, loaded with scurrilous comments about national leaders from Argentina to Zimbabwe, on the front pages of newspapers worldwide. Then just a few weeks later, the Middle East erupted in pro-democracy protests against the region’s autocratic leaders, many of whom were close U.S. allies whose foibles had been so conveniently detailed in those same diplomatic cables.

Suddenly, it was possible to see the foundations of a U.S. world order that rested significantly on national leaders who serve Washington as loyal “subordinate elites” and who are, in reality, a motley collection of autocrats, aristocrats, and uniformed thugs. Visible as well was the larger logic of otherwise inexplicable U.S. foreign policy choices over the past half-century.

Why would the CIA risk controversy in 1965, at the height of the Cold War, by overthrowing an accepted leader like Sukarno in Indonesia or encouraging the assassination of the Catholic autocrat Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon in 1963? The answer — and thanks to WikiLeaks and the “Arab spring,” this is now so much clearer — is that both were Washington’s chosen subordinates until each became insubordinate and expendable. ...

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Emily Deans: Diet and Violence 

Paul Whiteley*, I believe, originally posted to the comments concerning some very interesting studies on diets and violence.  Over the past 10 years, several groups of researchers have done some decent work in this area, and (for once in the nutritional-type literature) I can actually look at a randomized controlled trial of good size and design that was actually replicated.

The modern era of good studies begins with Oxford nutrition and criminology researcher, Bernard Gesch (1).  Back in 2002, he published a (full free text) study entitled "Influence of supplementary vitamins, minerals, and essential fatty acids on the antisocial behavior of young adult prisoners."  ....

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Briefly: War, Real Estate Collapse and Fukushima

Independent Investigators Report "No sign Gaddafi bombed Tripoli - NATO wages war on false claims" (RT Video Interview)

Putin: Is NATO to bomb everyone?

In a tirade against the West, Putin said the coalition had gone beyond the bounds of U.N. Security Council resolution and taken sides against Gaddafi, whose actions he suggested did not justify foreign interference.

"They said they didn't want to kill Gaddafi. Now some officials say, yes, we are trying to kill Gaddafi," Putin said during a visit to Denmark. "Who permitted this, was there any trial? Who took on the right to execute this man?"

He called Gaddafi a monarch but said that kind of rule "overall answers to the mentality of the population" in the region.

"Is there a lack of such crooked regimes in the world? What, are we going to intervene in all these conflicts? Look at Africa, look at Somalia. ... Are we going to bomb everywhere and conduct missile strikes?" ...


Median US Real SFH Prices Retreat To 1970′s Levels


[from chartoftheday.com]


Prof. Chris Busby: Fukushima Cannot Be Sealed Like Chernobyl - Massive Amounts of Radioactive Material Will  Goes Into the Sea (RT Video Interview)

Next Week: When Socialism Comes to Canada

"There’s a point where politics intersects with your money. We crossed it last night. In case you missed it, the latest polling shows that seven days from now Jack Layton will be prime minister.

Well, almost. ..."

So says Garth Turner in a plausible prediction of an NDP triumph in the upcoming Canadian election. The economic consequences, as Turner outlines them, could be stunning. What's depressing is how dumb the NDP economic proposals are.

Gordon Duff: WikiWeasel: Wikileaks Goes Whacky

April 25, 2011 posted by Gordon Duff · 4 Comments

INTELLIGENCE AGENDA SHINES THROUGH LATEST WIKI-DUMP

…disinformation campaign against the US, Pakistan and Libyan rebels

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Wikileaks is like the Hydra of Greek mythology.  You cut off one head, another springs out, even more vicious than the one lying at your feet.  After having waited until the scandal died down, discrediting Wikileaks for its ties to Israeli intelligence and its pattern of using censorship and ‘seeded’ information to serve a pro-war agenda, 700 new documents are released today on “Gitmo.”
At first glance, this is the usual Wikileaks “chickenfeed.”  Yes, everyone knows America tortured prisoners, held innocent men for years and was utterly inept in handling intelligence.  Though tales of sexual humiliation and torture sell newspapers, the information itself was old news years ago.  However, as is usually the case, every Wikileak has a “Wiki-agenda” behind it and this one, as usual, is no exception. ...

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Tony Cartalucci: Tyrants Beware, What Goes Around Might Come Around

Bangkok, Thailand, April 25, 2011 - Peddling a policy that includes assassinating the leader of a sovereign nation, besieged under blatantly false pretenses, sets a dangerous precedent that may backfire in the faces of the arrogant men calling for it. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, both of the meddling International Republican Institute implicated in funding and fueling the "Arab Spring" to begin with, have called for the assassination of Libya's Qaddafi and members of his inner circle. The London Telegraph also reported that Foreign Secretary William Hague refused to rule out using US drones to assassinate Qaddafi.

No one will miss these people: The elite should think carefully
before raising the stakes. Nation-states may retaliate in kind
to threats of assassination and growing, naked aggression.

With the US now openly admitting to recruiting, training, funding, and equipping armies of "activists" to go back and subvert their nations' governments, and with China and a growing list of other nations pointing the finger for fueling subversion directly at Washington, the global scope of this operation and the meddling hands behind are exposed for the whole world to see. What comes next will be a series of proxy conflicts of increasing violence. It is quite clear that humanitarian concerns are entirely contrived excuses propelling this global campaign along. As this facade of legitimacy crumbles, the imperialist nature of the aggression becomes more overt and we now see what looks more like the opening salvos of World War III than a "wave of democracy" sweeping the world.

Should Syria fall to Western-funded and fueled subversion, Iran will undoubtedly be next. The stakes for Russia and China will be raised still higher, and Iran itself will be backed into a corner it hasn't been in since the brutal and protracted Iran-Iraq War of the 80s. Should the West succeed in assassinating Qaddafi after this regional campaign of naked aggression, they will open the door for similar calls to be made against them by a world awake to their reckless, gluttonous tyranny.

Nation-states could repay the threat in kind

When the violence escalates, do these leaders in America feel confident enough that the people they supposedly lead will come to their aid when calls are made in turn for their heads? Do they really believe the people of America will be galvanized by foreign nations surgically retaliating against these increasingly unpopular figures? Would the world miss or mourn the loss of the bankers, industrialists, geopolitical power brokers or the myriad of other jackals, rats, and cockroaches that hide in the dark of elitist power? Would the average American, many of whom have never heard their names, even make a whimper in protest? ...

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Amazing But True

(Boycott Israel Campaign)

Subaru Runs Ad in Israel Featuring Run-over Kids

A new advertisement in Israel, meant to show the “power and durability” of the Japanese Subaru car, caused outrage after showing a Subaru driven by a Jewish settler striking two Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem.

"'We Will See Who Can Stand Against You,' was written in the right corner of the horrific picture of a Palestinian child flying into the air after being rammed by the settlers’ Subaru."

Cool, hey? Attempt murder and get royalties from a Jap car company for the photo rights.

Anyone have  a "Boycott Suburu" image?"

New York to Require Licensing of Geiger Counters, Chemical Detectors?

It would be OK for citizens to check their shoes for dog shit, or sniff to detect smoke when their house is on fire, but checking for W.M.D. without a license would become a misdemeanor, under the proposed legislation.

Reports from Rome

Obama Caesar (Image source)

Patrick J. Buchanan, on Barack Hussein Hoover: Is the world headed for a debt crisis to dwarf the one that befell us in 2008, when Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson stood aside and let Lehman Brothers crash?

No one knows for certain. As Yogi Berra said, “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

But the probability of a financial crisis increased this week after President Obama’s trashing of Rep. Paul Ryan’s deficit reduction plan as dragging us all back to the Dickensian days of “Oliver Twist.”

For the savagery of Obama’s attack persuaded Standard & Poor’s to begin to move to downgrade U.S. sovereign debt from the triple-A rating it has held since Pearl Harbor. ...

Paul Craig Roberts Talks With James Corbett about recent military intervention in Libya, possible military intervention in Syria, and the long-term Western goal of encirclement of China in a future engagement that will lead to a (nuclear) third world war.

Paul Craig Roberts Talks with Press TV about why US President Barack Obama needs to overthrow Qaddafi.


Paul Craig Roberts in Foreign Policy Journal writes on Libya: The DC/NATO Agenda and the Next Great War.


Brian Stewart: Is NATO prepared for a Gadhafi win in Libya? ... no one seems to have a clue how to answer the most crucial question of the moment: just how do we account for the fact Moammar Gadhafi's regime remains intact after a month of NATO bombings and pin-point attacks by cruise missiles?

Weeks ago, it was supposed to have been collapsing at any moment, right? Just a few more air raids, and it would crumble like a house of cards, opening up Gadhafi's capital, Tripoli, to the advancing rebel movement.

So, how does NATO explain that Gadhafi's military and security forces — dismissed as poorly trained and largely mercenary — have recently captured the key oil towns of Ras Lanuf and Brega while conducting a ferocious siege of Misrata? And all the while, facing the day and night aerial attacks with precision weapons that would rattle any army.

This is a bad development for Canada. This is certainly not what Prime Minister Stephen Harper had in mind when he became the first NATO leader to openly embrace "regime change" in Libya back in March as he dispatched a pocket-sized air contingent to help spearhead the first bombings of the North African country.

Harper foresaw Canada going in fast and briefly with its allies to protect Libyan demonstrators from massacre, with enough show of force to also shatter Gadhdafi's shaky regime. Neither his Conservative government nor the leaders of our other parties, it must be said, imagined we'd end up stuck on one side of what increasingly looks like a long civil war that will be hard to get free of.

There are potentially dangerous consequences for Canada at every turn here — not that you'd suspect this given the remarkable absence of this war as an issue in the current election campaign. ...

Bilderberg Insider: Kissinger Calls for US Ground Invasion of Libya: Despite the fact that the United States is embroiled in three major conflicts and can barely service its own gigantic debt, with Standard and Poor this week indicating the US will soon lose its triple-A credit rating, top globalist and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently told fellow elitists at three different globalist confabs that the US needs to launch a ground invasion of Libya and keep the war running for at least another year. ...

Obama OK's drones for attacks in Libya: U.S. President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drones in Libya, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

Gates told CNN the unmanned Predators would allow for "some precision capability" against the forces of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi ...

And this via Aangirfan:Who Did 911? - PhD Kevin Barrett Speaks Out (Russia Today RT Interview)







 

Peter Hitchin on Britain's new boneless wonder

Ramsay MacDonald

In 1931, speaking in the House of Commons of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, Winston Churchill recounted how, as a child, he had been:

taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder." My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

Today, Peter Hitchin describes the new boneless wonder on the Treasury Bench:

The Prime Minister is an opportunist who doesn’t believe in anything. Don’t take my word for it.

This is what Robin Harris, David Cameron’s first boss in the Tory Research Department, said of him back in 2007.

It’s easily proved, by tracking his changing views on any subject you care to name since he first sought office. Zig, zag, and zig again where necessary.

But don’t delude yourself that a man with no principles won’t do any damage. Because his only concern is to gain and hold office, he will do all he can for that end.

And to win and keep office these days, you need to be either politically correct or courageous. Mr Cameron is not courageous. That is why one of his two big outbursts this week means something, and the other means nothing. ...

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News from our far-flung imperial battle line

Tony Cartalucci: Libyan War Gets Weird

Even those who have studied for years the criminal consolidation of this planet under the global corporate-financier oligarchy may be noticing that the war in Libya is turning into something new and unprecedented. The lies and propaganda have hit an all time high and no article encapsulates this better than the bizarre, grotesque piece out of the New York Times titled, "Inferior Arms Hobble Rebels in Libya War." ...

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Webster Tarpley: Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia Gets Pakistani Military Support vs CIA Color Revolution

Listen to Alex Jones interview

Patrick Buchanan: Are We Allied to a Corpse?

Of our Libyan intervention, one thing may be safely said, and another safely predicted.

When he launched his strikes on the Libyan army and regime, Barack Obama did not think it through. And this nation is now likely to be drawn even deeper into that war.

For Moammar Gadhafi’s forces not only survived the U.S. air and missile strikes, after which we turned the air war over to NATO, his forces have since shown themselves superior to the rebels. Without NATO, the rebels would have been routed a month ago.

And, today, NATO itself stands a chance of being humiliated. ...

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Tom Engelhardt: Sleepwalking Into the Imperial Dark

This can’t end well.

But then, how often do empires end well, really? They live vampirically by feeding off others until, sooner or later, they begin to feed on themselves, to suck their own blood, to hollow themselves out. Sooner or later, they find themselves, as in our case, economically stressed and militarily extended in wars they can’t afford to win or lose. ...

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BAAAAA...D DOGGIES: How responsibility for despoiling the planet is transferred from rich complicit corporations to dumb citizens

Image source

By CanSpeccy

"The authors of a provocative new book have bad news for animal-lovers" reports the Guardian: "pets are bad for the planet. They consume vast amounts of precious resources, produce mountains of noxious waste – and they can be a disaster for wildlife."

O.K., so you've cooked and eaten your pet. Then what? You going to ask the boss to lower your salary so you don't spend the money you just saved on your pet in ways that may be even more destructive to the environment?

No?

Thought not. But then if you do spend the money you saved on your pet, how do you know that you've lowered your environmental impact?

Obviously, you don't. So the whole idea of getting rid of your pet is just meaningless rubbish, right?

Michael Ignatieff, having precipitated an election he is bound to lose, resorts to absurd attack ads

(Image source)

It takes exceptional incompetence for an incumbent party to lose an election when the economy is strong. Stephen Harper is not incompetent, and the Canadian economy is not weak. The housing bubble is still gently inflating, the construction industry remains busy, exports are rebounding from the 2009 slump, and the Loonie's at a three cent premium over the Greenback.

So what do the Liberals do? Wait for real estate to crash? Wait for the stock market to crumble? Wait for exports to crater as the US goes into the second dip of the recession? No. They force an election on the issue of the Conservative Government's contempt of Parliament. LOL. Everyone has a contempt of Parliament.

So what could Ignatieff have been expecting?

John Buchan, Canadian Governor General (1935 - 1940) On Conspiracies Driving World Events

By Aangirfan
Updated April 18, 2011

John Buchan (Image source).

John Buchan was briefly the head of the UK intelligence service. (Grumpy Old Bookman: John Buchan: The Three Hostages)

He helped invent the spy novel.

In his adventure story The Three Hostages (1924), John Buchan described rather accurately the way in which the world works, and the way in which a big modern conspiracy is carried out....

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John Buchan was associated with the central figures in what was perhaps the largest world-shaping conspiracy of his time: Cecil Rhodes' Secret Society, of which the Round Table groups, including Chatham House in London, the Institutes for International Affairs in seven British Commonwealth countries (in Canada, renamed the Canadian International Council in 2007)  and the independent but closely related Council on Foreign Relations in America, are the public faces and propaganda arms.

A fine example of the work of these entities is provided in this rebuttal of a Globe and Mail article in which Margaret Wente had the temerity to condemn US/UK/French imperialist intervention in Libya. A well polished piece of globalist propaganda.

Naturally, neither Margaret Wente nor the CIC tell you anything of the role of the Western powers in instigating the rebellion in Libya, arming the rebels and providing the rebels with an American-backed leader. So whichever side of the argument you read, you'll be left with the idea that the war is about NATO saving brown people from their own savagery, not about imperialists exploiting violence of their own creation, to justify self-serving violence on a greater scale.

I discussed Rhodes Secret Society, which aimed to spread the benefits of British civilization to the entire globe, here:

The Beautiful People Who Run the World

Aangirfan has drawn attention to the points about John Buchan that we added here, and added much more in another piece about Buchan and the Secret Rulers of the World.

The new piece includes several useful links including:

Deconstructing the US Military: America's Global War against Planet Earth.

In another post Aangirfan draws attention to the article Through the Looking Glass: The World's Mastermind: The Hidden Face of Globalization by Adrian Salbuchi, a pithy analysis of the genocidal war of the globalist elite on your nation state:

As we now have it, globalization can be defined as an ideology that identifies the Sovereign Nation-State as its key enemy, basically because the State's main function is (or should be) to prioritize the interests of the Many - i.e., "the People" - over the interests of the Few.  Accordingly, the forces of globalization seek to weaken, dissolve and eventually destroy the very foundations of the Nation-State as a basic social institution, in order to replace it with new supra-national worldwide social, political, economic, financial and military management structures.  Such structures tie in with the political objectives and economic interests of a small number of highly concentrated and very powerful groups and organizations which today drive and steer the globalization process in a very specific direction. ...

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Do American Jews really demand release of Jewish Traitor, Pollard?

By Haaretz
Latest update 09:22 17.04.11

The Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, told congregants in a Sabbath sermon that if U.S. President Barack Obama seeks reelection, he must release Jonathan Pollard, Israel Radio reported on Sunday.  ...


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Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: When war games go live

Military operations of this size and magnitude (the attack on Libya) are never improvised. The war on Libya as well as the armed insurrection were planned months prior to the Arab protest movement ...

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WSWS: The Libyan war and the deepening inter-imperialist conflict

The joint statement issued Thursday by US President Barack Obama, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Libya not only escalates the war. It also intensifies the political divisions within Europe that are in the background of the neo-colonial operation in North Africa. While the war is marketed as a “humanitarian” enterprise, little if any attention is being paid—at least in public—to the increasingly bitter dispute between France, Britain and the United States on one side and Germany on the other.

The most remarkable feature of the joint statement was that it was not issued by the European Union (EU) or even the NATO military alliance. Rather, it appeared in French and English, under the byline of President Sarkozy of France, Prime Minister Cameron of Great Britain, and President Obama of the United States. The statement did not include the byline of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose government had earlier abstained on the United Nations resolution authorizing the initial assault on Libya. And yet, this statement vastly expands the war aims of the participating powers—from the defense of civilians to a policy of regime change in Libya. Headlined “The bombing continues until Gaddafi goes,” and published in the Washington Post, theTimes of London, Le Figaro, the International Herald Tribune and al-Hayat, the statement proclaims that “it is impossible to imagine a future for Libya with [Colonel Muammar] Gaddafi in power.” It dismisses any other outcome of the conflict as a “betrayal.”

The split between Germany and France is of great significance ...

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Eric Margolis: Murbarakism still rules in Egypt

The arrest and interrogation last week of deposed president Husni Mubarak and his two sons has left Egyptians jubilant.


The armed forces threw the Mubaraks to the wolves to placate mounting public demands for retribution against former leaders of the hated old regime.

But the fact remains, in spite of Mubarak’s fall, not much has changed in Egypt. The Old Guard of generals and bureaucrats still rule Egypt. An intensifying struggle goes on behind the scenes between the military and the fragmented democratic opposition. So far, the military retains an iron grip on Egypt in spite of noisy street demonstrations.

Muabarak is gone but Mubarakism still lives.

No one yet knows what September’s planned parliamentary elections will bring, or if they will be fair and open. One uneasily recalls Algeria’s first free vote in 1991. Islamists won a landslide. Algeria’s reactionary military annulled the vote and arrested democratic leaders. Egypt’s generals may do the same. ...

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The West Versus China: The Reason for Regime Change in Libya

By Patrick Henningsen

The question as to why US-led NATO forces are determined to engineer a regime change in Libya is now becoming clear. While media pundits and political experts still argue over whether the Libyan rebel gangs are actually being backed and directed by US, UK and Israel intelligence agencies, broader long-range Western policy objectives for Libya are being completely ignored.

One only has to read the strategic briefings in U.S. AFRICOM documents to realise the true endgame in Libya: the control of valuable resources and the eviction of China from North Africa.

When the US formed AFRICOM in 2007, some 49 countries signed on to the US military charter for Africa but one country refused: Libya. ...

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This article includes a link to an RT interview with Regan Administration Official, Paul Craig Roberts, who provides a pithy assessment of the war in Libya.

Future Shock: China's Remarkable $3 Trillion in Reserves; What Will China Do With Them?

By Mish

... China right now has its US reserves parked in US treasuries. The logical spot for some of those reserves is US corporations and US assets, returning the dollars where they mathematically must return.

Now imagine the shock in Congress were China to make an offer to buy Exxon-Mobile, Boeing, Apple and a basket of technology companies, and every toll-road and bridge in the country. ..

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The US Senate: Israel' Bitch?

U.S. Senate unanimously calls on U.N. to rescind Goldstone

The resolution passed by unanimous vote! Let me never hear one more God damn person even suggest that Washington is not owned lock, stock and barrel by the Israeli Lobby. Each of these Senators are now complicit in the cover-up of Israel’s war crimes during Operation Cast Lead, a massacre that murdered 1400 Palestinians, including 300 children. ...

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Canadian Election: Clark and Dawe on Winning the Government You Deserve

True its not the Canadian election, but it applies with complete accuracy to the local situation.

The Beautiful People Who Run the World

Angelina Jolie, CFR: Image source

By CanSpeccy

The Council on Foreign Relations is almost certainly the World's most influential agency for the promotion of global governance, so this self-promotional video is worth a view.

The Council on Foreign Relations is an outgrowth of Cecil Rhodes' Secret Society, which aimed to extend the British Empire to the entire globe. Carroll Quigley, Bill Clinton's admired history tutor at Georgetown University and the official historian of the the Secret Society (or the Rhodes-Milner Group as it came to be known), explained the origins of the CFR in his sweeping history of the modern era, Tragedy and Hope:

At the end of the war of 1914, it became clear that the organization of this system had to be greatly extended. . . . Lionel Curtis . . . established, in England and each dominion, a front organization to the existing local Round Table Group…This front organization, called the Royal Institute of International Affairs, had as its nucleus in each area the existing submerged Round Table Group…in New York it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J. P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group. The American organizers were dominated by the large number of Morgan 'experts'… The Round Table for years (until 1961) was edited from the back door of Chatham House grounds in Ormond Yard, and its telephone came through the Chatham House switchboard (Tragedy and Hope: 951-952).

One in four British born children, born to foreign-born mothers

The Telegraph

Almost one in eight people living in the UK are now foreign born after hitting record levels in the wake of the largest wave of immigration in history. ...

Britain now had a higher proportion of foreign-born residents than European neighbours such as France and Italy.

One in four babies was now born to a foreign mother, another record. In 1998, less than 14 per cent of babies were to a mother who had been born overseas....

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Is NOAA Head, Jane Lubchenco, Providing Cover for BP Over the Gulf Spill?

By CanSpeccy

In a Guardian article entitled Has BP really cleaned up the Gulf oil spill?, Suzanne Goldenberg, reports on the claim by University of Georgia marine scientist Samantha Joye that 50% of the oil spilled by BP in the Gulf of Mexico "is still floating around out there."

However, the head of NOAA, Jane Lubchenco, a highly published former academic ocean scientist, and former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science says that it is't at all clear there is any oil in the depths and that "we need to make sure that we are not jumping to conclusions."

Lubchenco's warning against jumping to conclusions seems fully justified, since, according to the Guardian piece, Joye observed nothing "floating around out there," only some stuff on the sea floor. Moreover, what she observed was not, according the the Guardian account, identified as oil nor was its extent determined. So the suggestion that 50% of the spilled oil is still "floating around out there" seems entirely unjustified. The claim that the 4-cm-deep deposit of stuff over an unspecified area of the sea floor made the crabs dopey rather suggests that it was not oil, since bathing in oil would surely be lethal.

In view of her track record as an expert in the field and an ardent advocate for the environment, I am very much more inclined to accept Lubchenco's doubts over Joye's unsubstantiated assertions.

July 7 Bombings: Our Quest

By Howard Beale

The Inquests into the July 7th 2005 London bombings are drawing to a close, with a verdict due in several weeks, on May 6th. As expected and predicted, very few of the abundant questions about 7/7 have been answered, and plenty of new questions have emerged. It is now clear that an already patchy official narrative has worn away so that there are only a few strands left, and most of them are incidental. The July 7th Truth Campaign, Bridget in particular, have done absolutely sterling work covering the Inquests. Sadly, very few of the most popular independent news outlets have followed suit. The Corbett Report is an exception, and praise must go to it for this. The recent podcast 7/7 Is Still the Issue is a great listen, though I would say that because I'm featured in it.

More analysis and commentary will follow, but for now we should look at the ways in which the evidence presented at the 7/7 Inquests contradicts rather than supports the Home Office narrative. ...

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The Confusion European Liberals Make Between Liberalism and Democracy

A difficult local election campaign is underway. Oh look! Cameron is making an anti-immigrant speech. What a coincidence! And is it not heartening to see this robustly liberal response from the Lib Dems:

We use different language. But we all work in government to strike a balance to ensure Britain has a system people have confidence in.

Cringe. Actually I do not disagree that those seeking standard immigration routes to this country should speak the language, but why English? Why not Welsh or Gaelic?

So says Craig Murray in a blog post that nicely illustrates how muddled and self-destructive Liberal thinking on immigration to Europe can be.

How can Britain have "a system [of mass immigration] that people have confidence in" when it is an established fact (see also here, here and here) that two thirds of the population are opposed to mass immigration?

Whether immigrants speak English, or some useless Celtic fringe language, is beside the point.

The issue that the pathetic lib-lefties cannot grasp or will not admit is that (a) Britain is supposedly a democracy, and (b) most people in Britain think that Britain should be run in the interest of the British people, which means keeping out a mass of immigrants to what is a very crowded country with a severe unemployment and underemployment problem.

So the only policy that the British public will have confidence in is one that ends mass immigration, period.

That the Lib-left howl "racist" when anyone points this out, does not alter the fact that they, the Liberals and leftists, are (a) anti-democratic in their basic ideology, and (b) in bed with the globalists and Anglo-American imperialists intent on creating a universal system in which the British people have no privileged place in their own country.

At present, my comment to this effect on Murray's blog is "in moderation." Best it stay there, probably, since I will likely otherwise be subject to the venomous abuse of which only very self-satisfied liberals seem capable.

Actually, my comment did pass the censor at CraigMurray.org.uk, leading, so far, to an amiable, if misspelled (by me), discussion about beer.

Canadian Election: Leadership debate in English

For those fortunate enough to miss the leaders debate in English, but who fail to realize their good fortune, here it is in full.

Harper was consistently on message, consistently uncharismatic, and consistently unable to conceal his disdain for the other candidates.

Ignatieff was consistently suave, consistently insincere, consistently lacking in real impact.

Layton was consistently sharp, consistently pleasant mannered, consistently light weight.

Duceppe was consistently logical, consistently gloomy, consistent in defense of Quebec sovereignty.

Combine Harper's control with Leyton's charm, Ignatieff's punch and Duceppe's sincerity, you'd have a convincing leader.

Harper is correct about the corporation tax. The lower the tax the more investment there will be, the more investment there is the more jobs there will be, the more jobs there are the more income there will be for ordinary Canadians. If the Libs and New Dems want to tax the owners of corporations they should demand increases in the upper rates of income tax. But of course that is out of the question since it would be highly unpopular with the high-earning Liberal-voting  lawyers and top bureaucrats, as with the better paid, lib-left voting public servants: professors, school teachers, police officers, etc.

The principles of British foreign policy and the corruption of democratic government

Based on the study of classified government documents released to the public under the 30-year rule, British historian Mark Curtis has shown that the formulation and presentation of British foreign policy is based on a total contempt for the intelligence of the public. Such contempt is evident in the glaring gap between state realpolitik, as manifest in the open and frank discussion of real goals in secret government documents, and the government's claim to benevolence in foreign policy objectives, e.g., to prevent, Saddam Hussein, Col. Quadhafi, whoever, from killing their own people, infecting everyone in the Christian West with anthrax and the plague bacillus, or simply being the new Hitler.

Through the general application of this principle of government, democracy has become a soft dictatorship. Coercion is rarely necessary because the entire public political discourse is a fantasy in which sound bites and video clips are woven into a public relations story that leaves no room to doubt that our leaders offer the nearest that can be attained to the practical application of those principles of our Saviour, Jesus Christ the Lord, as enunciated in the Sermon on the Mount.

But if a serious threat arises to the management of public perception, the Government PR machine and its collaborators in the corporate-controlled media readily put a gloss on the necessity of an occasional assassination, rendition and torture or denial of habeus corpus.

Making democracy work

This post at Old Holborn's blog provides a case study of competent individuals, working hard, focusing on specific issues and using the Internet to reach an audience with shared interests to make a difference in politics.

Which makes one realize that dull though their image may be, accountants could contribute more to public welfare than all the more glamorous professions combined, were they to devote even a small part of their bean-counting energies to the oversight of public expenditures.

Who will launch Accountants Without Borders?

Bush cousin judges Gallop v. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Myers

Confounding lawyers and legal scholars all over the world, Judge John Walker, first cousin of former President George W. Bush, was one of three judges of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals to hear argument Tuesday in Gallop v. Cheney, Rumsfeld and Myers, the lawsuit brought by a soldier injured during the attack on the Pentagon that accuses former Vice President Dick Cheney, former secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers of conspiring to facilitate the terrorist attacks of 9/11 that killed 3000 Americans and has resulted in the deaths of many more, due to the toxicity of the clean-up conditions at Ground Zero. ...

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Funny, I didn't see this reported anywhere in the MSM.

But while doing a Google search for it in the MSM, I came up with this.

Obama promotes Guantanamo torture psychologist LOL (sick)

The Real Crime of M. Khodorkovsky

By F. William Engdahl

The final decision in the Russian trial against former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has drawn dramatic statements of protest from the US Obama Administration and governments around the world labeling Russian justice as tyrannical and worse. What is carefully omitted from the Khodovkorsky story however is the true reason Putin arrested and imprisoned the former head of Russia’s largest private oil giant, Yukos.

The Obama administration, in an unusual public rebuke, condemned a Moscow court for finding oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former partner guilty of embezzling, saying it appears to be “an abusive use of the legal system for improper ends.”

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s real crime was not stealing Russia’s assets for a pittance in the bandit era of Yeltsin. His real crime is that he was a key part of a Western intelligence operation to dismantle and destroy what remains of Russia as a functioning state. When the facts are known the justice served on him is mild by comparison to US or UK standard treatment of those convicted of treason against the state. Obama’s torture prison at Guantánamo is merely one example of Washington’s double standard. ...

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J7 Inquest Blog: You couldn't make it up

By David Minahan

Twenty five of the passengers who survived the explosion in the first carriage of the Piccadilly line train have given evidence, either in person or writing, to the 7/7 Inquest. This reveals that 12 of them actually entered the train at King's Cross, five of whom, Tracey Brade, Gillian Hicks, Garri Hollness, Paul Mitchell and Philip Patsalos recall getting on through double door 5 i.e. near where the explosion subsequently took place. Paul Glennerster was uncertain if in his case it was door 3 or door 5.

None of these witnesses had any recollection of seeing Germaine Lindsay! ...

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Libya: when is regime change not regime change? When it is a necessary change of the regime

By Keep Tony Blair for PM

At the last post I used a 5 minute video clip of Blair at his majestic best on 18th March 2003 during the Parliamentary debate on Iraq.

Blair fights for his political survival in the parliamentary debate on the Iraq Invasion, 18th March 2003. He said he had never called for regime change. He won the vote, due to Conservative party support.

The video deserves a post to itself. Watch it here at BBC Democracy Live.

For comparison, read David Cameron’s remarks yesterday in response to a question in the House on regime change:

Mr James Arbuthnot (North East Hampshire) (Con): Yet again, my right hon. Friend has shown a breathtaking degree of courage and leadership. I support what he has said and what he has done. Does he agree that, while regime change is not the aim of these resolutions, in practice there is little realistic chance of achieving their aims without regime change?

18th March, 2011. Cameron tells parliament HE has done everything legally and through the proper UN channels. When asked, he does not deny that regime change in Libya is on the agenda. Which of these premiers is the more principled? The one who risked all, and despite winning the vote lost credibility in some quarters, though NOT calling for regime change - or the one who used the no-fly zone shield to achieve regime change?

The Prime Minister: My right hon. Friend puts it extremely well. The aim is clear: to put in place what has been required by the UN Security Council, which is a cessation of hostilities. It is the protection of lives and the protection of people. It is the prevention of a bloodbath in Benghazi. It is to make sure that arms do not get to Libya, that assets are frozen and that travel bans are imposed. It is all those things. Those are the aims, and they are what we must now pursue.

Of course, like many other leaders the world over, we have all said that Gaddafi needs to go in order for Libya to have a peaceful, successful and democratic future, and that remains the case. ...

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Meantime

The EU prepares a ground invasion of Libya

While China:

Blasts US Human Rights "Double Standard" In Pursuing "World Hegemony"

NATO Rejects African Union proposal for Libyan ceasefire

Members of an African Union delegation are offering a peace proposal to rebel leaders in the city of Benghazi to end Libya's eight-week conflict.

The AU says the government has already accepted the plan. The delegation met leader Col Muammar Gaddafi on Sunday.

Rebels promised to study the plan, but ruled out a truce unless Col Gaddafi stepped down and his forces withdrew. ...

The British-based representative of the Libyan opposition leadership, Guma al-Gamaty, has told the BBC that any deal designed to keep Col Gaddafi or his sons in place would not be acceptable.

An unnamed Nato official said that military operations would continue.

"Our aircraft are still flying and when we see a threat to civilians, we will engage," the official said. ...

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Also, see:

Damn the civilians, NATO now says, nothing's gonna stop us bombing Libya back to the stone age

Canadian Election: Mulroney offers no praise for Harper

It was an illuminating moment in a remarkably candid conversation.

Brian Mulroney, the most successful Conservative prime minister since Sir John A. Macdonald, was sitting down for a rare television interview the other day in Montreal.

TVOntario’s Steve Paikin, always adroit at coaxing politicians to dish, broached the subject of the May 2 election and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.

“You’re voting for Mr. Harper, I take it,” said Paikin, coincidentally the moderator of Tuesday’s English-language leaders’ debate.

“At this point,” replied Mulroney with a pause that seemed to hang in the air longer than its mere second, “I’ll vote for the Conservative candidate in my constituency.” ...

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The Tea Party Ron Paul Revolution

By Tony Cartalucci

While no personality should be followed, rather the ideals they represent, the necessity to reclaim the Tea Party is apparent. By naming it the "Ron Paul Revolution" it will become virtually impossible to commandeer without conceding to the ideals of Constitutionalism, minimal government, non-interventionism, and ending the Federal Reserve. Impossible indeed would it be to slip in the disingenuous continuation of the doomed ever-convergent left/right agenda.

By battling for the leadership of the Tea Party, now thoroughly infested by Neo-Conservatives and feckless career Republicans, we are needlessly expending our energy. The very name "Tea Party" invites ambiguity amongst which vile infiltrators can peddle agendas nothing at all related to restoring and upholding the US Constitution. In fact, it has allowed the Ron Paul Revolution, from which the Tea Party was spawned, to be pushed back toward the controlled left/right paradigm. ...

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China launches thorium reactor development program

Source: Wired Science

China has officially announced it will launch a program to develop a thorium-fueled molten-salt nuclear reactor, taking a crucial step towards shifting to nuclear power as a primary energy source.

The project was unveiled at the annual Chinese Academy of Sciences conference in Shanghai last week, and reported in the Wen Hui Bao newspaper (Google English translation here).

If the reactor works as planned, China may fulfill a long-delayed dream of clean nuclear energy. The United States could conceivably become dependent on China for next-generation nuclear technology. At the least, the United States could fall dramatically behind in developing green energy.

“President Obama talked about a Sputnik-type call to action in his SOTU address,” wrote Charles Hart, a a retired semiconductor researcher and frequent commenter on the Energy From Thorium discussion forum. “I think this qualifies.” ...

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Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk

By Jeff McMahon
Forbes, Apr. 9 2011

Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday.

Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted by EPA, the data shows. The Phoenix sample contained 3.2 picoCuries per liter of iodine-131. The Los Angeles sample contained 2.9. The EPA maximum contaminant level is 3.0, but this is a conservative standard designed to minimize exposure over a lifetime, so EPA does not consider these levels to pose a health threat.

The cesium-137 found in milk in Vermont is the first cesium detected in milk since the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear accident occurred last month. The sample contained 1.9 picoCuries per liter of cesium-137, which falls under the same 3.0 standard.

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See also this vid:

Radiation In Hawaii Milk 2033% Above Federal Drinking Water Limits

Obama executes final leg of Neo-Conservative imperialism

By Tony Cartalucci

Long before the verified lies of Qaddafi's "door-to-door" genocide and even before the media cleverly tagged the engineered destabilization of the Middle East the "Arab Spring," Libya was already marked for destabilization and regime change. For nearly thirty years the US and UK have funded groups both inside Libya and beyond its borders in various attempts to remove Qaddafi from power. The current administration's feigned ignorance over the nature of the rebels in Libya is nothing short of absolute deception. The CIA and MI6 are on record for decades following, and in many cases supporting, these very groups.

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Marc Faber explains America's financial class war

Faber says that with the US Fed it's inflation all the way, to the great benefit of the monied class.

See video interview here

From behind bars, Madoff spins his story

By David Gelles and Gillian Tett
Financial Times: April 8 2011

We are cruising through North Carolina on a foggy morning in late March, heading up to its rural north. Our route takes us through swampland shrouded in a thick mist; spruce trees and an occasional pink dogwood line the interstate. Butner, population 6,391, is our destination.

The town is home to a vast federal prison complex that includes a hospital, a minimum security unit and two medium security facilities. Since July 14 2009, arguably the most notorious inmate at FCI Butner Medium I has been Bernard Lawrence Madoff, the disgraced New York financier who orchestrated a $65bn Ponzi scheme, among the biggest financial frauds of all time. He is prisoner 61727-054.

When the Madoff scandal broke in 2008, a Financial Times reporter learnt that two acquaintances of his were close to the Madoffs and passed along an invitation for any member of the family to speak with the paper. For more than a year, there was silence. Then, early last December, the reporter received an e-mail from Madoff himself. Following sporadic correspondence, and at very short notice, a message came from the prison: Madoff would meet with the FT.

It is only the second time he has agreed to meet a reporter in prison. But as we drive north, we wonder if this man who built his career on lies will tell us the truth. Or when we get to the prison, will he simply vanish – like all those billions in his Ponzi scheme? Crossing rusted train tracks, we drive a couple of miles and arrive at the main intersection of this one-traffic-light town.

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The Bizarro World of Tokyo Electric Power Corp

Washington Post: Wednesday, April 6, 12:45 AM

FUKUSHIMA, JAPAN — Even as it struggled to contain the world’s worst nuclear disaster in a quarter-century, Tokyo Electric Power Co. late last month quietly set out big plans for the future: It proposed building two new nuclear reactors at its radiation-spewing Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Tokyo Electric, known as Tepco, informed Fukushima prefecture on March 26 of its desire to start building the reactors as early as next spring, local officials said. That was just two weeks after an explosion at the utility’s tsunami-crippled complex set off a cascade of catastrophes.

The proposal was then included in a formal report submitted to authorities in Tokyo on March 31 as part of an annual process designed to assess Japan’s future electricity supply. ...

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Tribalism in Britain, Updated

Updated April 9, 2011

These images were emailed from an unknown "Kiwi Joe," who might be anyone. The message indicated that they were taken at the March 26, 2011 "anti-cuts" demo in London, but suppressed by the media.

However, according to this report from August 2006, which includes the same photographs:

Almost all of the photographs (that we saw) are copyright to the Associated Press. They were taken in February [2006], in London, during a demonstration against the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad. They were taken near several different European embassies in London -- not yesterday [i.e., not on August 26, 2006] -- and not at a "Religion of Peace Demonstration" [April, 2006].

Moreover, the claim that these pictures were not published by the media is false. The San Francisco Chronicle, for example, used three of the pictures in an item on the February 3, 2006 protest march to the Danish embassy in London. There it is reported that:

As the result of separate trials, Mizanur Rahman, Umran Javed and Abdul Muhid were each sentenced to serve six years in jail "for soliciting murder and three years concurrently for stirring up race hatred." A fourth man, Abdul Saleem, "was cleared of soliciting murder...but convicted of inciting race hatred" and was given a four-year jail sentence.

The San Francisco Chronicle item references this illustrated article in the UK's Daily Telegraph, and this illustrated report by the BBC.

Evidently these photos have been circulated with a false attribution on more than one occasion. By whom and why, whether by individuals acting independently or as part of an organized campaign would be interesting to know.