By Alex Newman
The New American, May 6, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far more cautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and much more important questions are beginning to emerge. In terms of coverage, it turns out that the skeptical approach proved far superior in terms of getting it right. Countless mainstream sources were so confident in Obama’s word that they reported many of the claims as fact without even attributing them to the President.
But the official White House narrative has been changed so many times in recent days that now it’s almost unrecognizable. There wasn‘t even a fire fight; yet this was one of the crucial elements of the original story that justified the assassination of a person the government painted as the most valuable source of information on the planet — the leader of al-Qaeda. And in reporting the statements as fact, the establishment press has officially been left with egg all over its face again.
"[Bin Laden] was engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in," said terror czar John Brennan. Similarly, Obama said that “after a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.” The next day, however, the White House spokesman admitted bin Laden “was not armed." Trying to save face and justify the killing of an unarmed man, the spokesman added, without elaborating, that “resistance does not require a firearm."
More than a few other important parts of the storyline have been altered, contradicted, or simply exposed as false, too. Everything from which of bin Laden’s sons was supposedly killed to the claim that his wife was killed after being used as a “human shield” — all of it has changed for some reason or another. The transcript after Brennan’s speech was altered to change the name of the dead son. The new and improved narrative now says that not only was bin Laden’s wife not killed, but that she was not used as a human shield.
Originally the White House also suggested top officials watched the raid live through a video feed. Terror czar Brennan, for example, claimed that they “had real-time visibility into the progress of the operation.” CIA boss Leon Panetta later exposed that claim as false ...
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Global Integrity Report lowers Canadian federal government's score from 80 to 75
OTTAWA - Today, Global Integrity released its 2010 Global Integrity
Report which dropped Canada from 11th to 19th out of the almost 100
countries evaluated since 2007. The Report is the world's most
comprehensive, detailed assessment (using more than 300 indicators)
of national government accountability, integrity and democratic
process, and measures the strength of key laws and enforcement
records up to the end of 2010.
"As the Global Integrity Report makes clear, Canada's federal
government has significant loopholes in its democratic process and
government accountability systems when compared to other countries,
and weak enforcement in many areas, and so has a lot of work to do
to become the world's leading democracy," said Duff Conacher, Lead
Researcher for the Canada report, and Coordinator of Democracy Watch
and Assistant Coordinator of the Democracy Education Network.
"Government integrity continues to be undermined by loopholes that
allow for dishonesty, secret donations to some candidates and to
political party trust funds, conflicts of interest by policy-makers,
excessive government secrecy, secret, unethical lobbying, and is
also undermined by Cabinet patronage appointments, arbitrary
election calls and a flawed voting system, and lack of Prime
Minister, judicial and Senate accountability and weak whistleblower
protection and government accountability lapdog agencies."
Report which dropped Canada from 11th to 19th out of the almost 100
countries evaluated since 2007. The Report is the world's most
comprehensive, detailed assessment (using more than 300 indicators)
of national government accountability, integrity and democratic
process, and measures the strength of key laws and enforcement
records up to the end of 2010.
"As the Global Integrity Report makes clear, Canada's federal
government has significant loopholes in its democratic process and
government accountability systems when compared to other countries,
and weak enforcement in many areas, and so has a lot of work to do
to become the world's leading democracy," said Duff Conacher, Lead
Researcher for the Canada report, and Coordinator of Democracy Watch
and Assistant Coordinator of the Democracy Education Network.
"Government integrity continues to be undermined by loopholes that
allow for dishonesty, secret donations to some candidates and to
political party trust funds, conflicts of interest by policy-makers,
excessive government secrecy, secret, unethical lobbying, and is
also undermined by Cabinet patronage appointments, arbitrary
election calls and a flawed voting system, and lack of Prime
Minister, judicial and Senate accountability and weak whistleblower
protection and government accountability lapdog agencies."
Saturday, May 7, 2011
How stupid people win debates
By CanSpeccy
If you are a total ignoramus, but wish to win a debate, here's how:
Notice, first, that Jim Corrs and Lord Christopher Monckton, however deluded they may be, offer arguments in support of the positions they take: Jim Corrs' that 9/11 could not have happened the way the US Government said it happened; Lord Monckton's that the UN International Panel on Climate Change has exaggerated the immediate threat of global warming due to anthropogenic carbon emissions. Then notice how taking this facts-plus-logic approach proved to be a disastrous blunder, as the subsequent total repudiation of their views demonstrates.
In response to Lord Monckton, an Irish Green Party representative first:
irrelevantly talks about Lord Monckton's association with Margaret Thatcher, whose visceral hatred of IRA terrorists no doubts earned her few admirers in the Republic of Ireland;
If you are a total ignoramus, but wish to win a debate, here's how:
Notice, first, that Jim Corrs and Lord Christopher Monckton, however deluded they may be, offer arguments in support of the positions they take: Jim Corrs' that 9/11 could not have happened the way the US Government said it happened; Lord Monckton's that the UN International Panel on Climate Change has exaggerated the immediate threat of global warming due to anthropogenic carbon emissions. Then notice how taking this facts-plus-logic approach proved to be a disastrous blunder, as the subsequent total repudiation of their views demonstrates.
In response to Lord Monckton, an Irish Green Party representative first:
irrelevantly talks about Lord Monckton's association with Margaret Thatcher, whose visceral hatred of IRA terrorists no doubts earned her few admirers in the Republic of Ireland;
Kidnapping, Torture, and Reflections on Alleged "American Values"
Source: Mish's Global Economic Trends Analysis, Friday, May 06, 2011
I do not agree with using torture, nor do I believe the end justifies the means. The problem with both is that others can act the same way.
If the US can torture to extract vital information, then why can't Iran and every other country on the planet?
It is pure hypocrisy to think that the US has a monopoly on "justified torture". Indeed, there is no such thing as "justified torture".
This has been my position forever. I bring it up because of a post Barry Ritholtz made yesterday stipulating “Torture didn’t provide useful, meaningful, trustworthy information”
I sure wish Barry was correct. Sadly he is not, at least right now. Both president Bush and president Obama have condoned torture....
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I do not agree with using torture, nor do I believe the end justifies the means. The problem with both is that others can act the same way.
If the US can torture to extract vital information, then why can't Iran and every other country on the planet?
It is pure hypocrisy to think that the US has a monopoly on "justified torture". Indeed, there is no such thing as "justified torture".
This has been my position forever. I bring it up because of a post Barry Ritholtz made yesterday stipulating “Torture didn’t provide useful, meaningful, trustworthy information”
“Torture [at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp] didn’t provide useful, meaningful, trustworthy information. Everyone [at the CIA] was deeply concerned and most felt it was un-American and did not work.” - Glenn L. Carle, a retired C.I.A. officer who oversaw the interrogation of a high-level detainee in 2002Barry Ritholtz went on to say "Thinking that torture is wrong is not a liberal or conservative value — it is an American value."
“The bottom line is this: If we had some kind of smoking-gun intelligence from waterboarding in 2003, we would have taken out Osama bin Laden in 2003. It took years of collection and analysis from many different sources to develop the case that enabled us to identify this compound, and reach a judgment that Bin Laden was likely to be living there.” - Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times — repeatedly misled interrogators about the courier’s identity. ...
I sure wish Barry was correct. Sadly he is not, at least right now. Both president Bush and president Obama have condoned torture....
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Pakistan Warns US Over Airspace
US then promptly murders 8 Pakistanis in drone attack
by Tony Cartalucci
Source: The Land Destroyer Blog, Friday May 6, 2011
Bangkok, Thailand May 6, 2011 - Much to Wired writer Spencer Ackerman's credit, amidst the first several paragraphs of his article, "First Drone Strikes Since Bin Laden Raid Hit Pakistan, Yemen," it is noted that after Pakistan's warnings and demands that the US cease and desist from violating its airspace, the US's subsequent drone attacks made the Pakistanis "look either complicit — and, hence, hypocritical — or incompetent." While the article continues by covering the official narrative citing the Soros-funded New American Foundation and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' propagandist mouthpiece "Long War Journal," this initial moment of clarity strikes at the very center of America's use of drone attacks in Pakistan.
The global corporate-financiers that fund organizations like the New American Foundation and the FDD are quite clear in regards to their designs regarding Pakistan, and indeed all sovereign nations on earth outside their sphere of military and economic hegemony. Selig Harrison of the Soros funded Center for International Policy has published two pieces specifically calling for carving off Pakistan's Baluchistan province, not as part of a strategy to win the "War on Terror," but as a means to thwart growing relations between Islamabad and Beijing. ...
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by Tony Cartalucci
Source: The Land Destroyer Blog, Friday May 6, 2011
Bangkok, Thailand May 6, 2011 - Much to Wired writer Spencer Ackerman's credit, amidst the first several paragraphs of his article, "First Drone Strikes Since Bin Laden Raid Hit Pakistan, Yemen," it is noted that after Pakistan's warnings and demands that the US cease and desist from violating its airspace, the US's subsequent drone attacks made the Pakistanis "look either complicit — and, hence, hypocritical — or incompetent." While the article continues by covering the official narrative citing the Soros-funded New American Foundation and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' propagandist mouthpiece "Long War Journal," this initial moment of clarity strikes at the very center of America's use of drone attacks in Pakistan.
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Real Future of the Electric Car
Three stories from Autoblog Green:
First:
Chevrolet VoltAge has revealed that participating dealerships in Canada are now officially taking orders for the 2012 Chevrolet Volt. The MSRP for Chevy's plug-in up north? It starts at C$41,545 ($43,610 U.S. at the current exchange rate).
Second:
Wireless charging of plug-in vehicles is to become standard, says Laura Marlino, deputy director at the power electronics and electrical power systems research center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Marlino told Automotive Power Electronics conference-goers that, "We believe it's not a matter of if, but when wireless charging will be in all [plug-in] vehicles."
Which of these approaches do you think will conquer world markets when there are billions of vehicles on the road? The 43-thousand-dollar, two-ton Volt, of the little Korean buggy (price est: less than $5000), weighing under half a ton and having no need of a battery?
And Third:
That lightweight buggy can look cute -- almost:
Even though highway-capable electric vehicles are here, there is still a place for NEVs. That place is, apparently, Nebraska.
First:
2012 Chevy Volt priced at C$41,545 in Canada; dealers taking orders now
2011 Chevrolet Volt – Click above for high-res image gallery
Chevrolet VoltAge has revealed that participating dealerships in Canada are now officially taking orders for the 2012 Chevrolet Volt. The MSRP for Chevy's plug-in up north? It starts at C$41,545 ($43,610 U.S. at the current exchange rate).
Second:
Analyst: Wireless charging of plug-in vehicles to become standard
Wireless charging of plug-in vehicles is to become standard, says Laura Marlino, deputy director at the power electronics and electrical power systems research center at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Marlino told Automotive Power Electronics conference-goers that, "We believe it's not a matter of if, but when wireless charging will be in all [plug-in] vehicles."
Which of these approaches do you think will conquer world markets when there are billions of vehicles on the road? The 43-thousand-dollar, two-ton Volt, of the little Korean buggy (price est: less than $5000), weighing under half a ton and having no need of a battery?
And Third:
That lightweight buggy can look cute -- almost:
Nebraska still working on low-speed NEV bill
GEM Peapod (RIP) - Click above for high-res image gallery
Even though highway-capable electric vehicles are here, there is still a place for NEVs. That place is, apparently, Nebraska.
Is Osama bin Laden Still Alive
By David Ray Griffin
Source: Global Research, October 9, 2009
Source: Global Research, October 9, 2009
Is Osama bin Laden still alive? I have dealt with this question in a recent little book entitled Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? The present essay summarizes the main points of this book. |
The Agendas Behind the bin Laden News Event
By Paul Craig Roberts
Source: LewRockwell.com
The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by White House press secretary Jay Carney bears little resemblance to the original Sunday evening story. The fierce firefight did not occur. Osama bin Laden did not hide behind a woman. Indeed, bin Laden, Carney said, "was not armed."
Source: LewRockwell.com
The US government’s bin Laden story was so poorly crafted that it did not last 48 hours before being fundamentally altered. Indeed, the new story put out on Tuesday by White House press secretary Jay Carney bears little resemblance to the original Sunday evening story. The fierce firefight did not occur. Osama bin Laden did not hide behind a woman. Indeed, bin Laden, Carney said, "was not armed."
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Unites States of Assassination: Can't Get bin Laden Kill Story Straight
Bin Laden was captured alive and then executed, 'claims daughter, 12'
Osama Bin Laden's daughter has claimed he was captured alive in his Pakistani hideout and then shot by U.S. special forces, it was reported today.
Arabic news network Al-Arabiya quoted 'senior Pakistani security officials' who said the 12-year-old saw her father executed and his body dragged to a helicopter.
A Pakistani official rejected U.S. accounts of a bloody firefight, saying: 'Not a single bullet was fired from the compound at the U.S. forces and their choppers. Their chopper developed some technical fault and crashed and the wreckage was left on the spot.' ...
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FBI says, it has “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”
By
The Atlantic May 3 201
The White House Tuesday blamed "the fog of war" for conflicting statements in its recounting of the events surrounding the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden, but the history of misstatements from U.S. government officials about various combat operations raises questions about whether briefers also were subjecting us to a counterterrorism strategy and not just completely confused in their initial statements.
Consider the narrative put forward by John Brennan ...
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Plus:
The White House Can't Get Its Bin Laden Story Straight
Plus:
Bin Laden killed by masked men speaking fluent Pashtu
By Peter Osborne
The Telegraph 03 May, 2011
...Many I spoke to believed that the feared ISI – the intelligence arm of the Pakistan state – must have known that the Khans’ safe house, scarcely a kilometre from the Pakistan military academy, harboured the world’s most wanted man. In the end bin Laden may have been turned in by his captors in a grand bargain between America and Pakistan.
Mohammed Qasim, the farmer’s boy, was caught up in the momentous events that led to bin Laden’s death in the early hours of Sunday. He said that one of the US special forces helicopters landed in the field just behind his house. Masked men emerged — Qasim said they spoke fluent Pashtu.
He heard them smash their way into the Khans’ fortress, followed by the cries of alarm from women and children. Twenty minutes later, he heard the helicopters depart, bearing with them all of the reclusive Khan family, and the body of bin Laden. ...
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See review of this and much related information by Aangirfan:
It was Pak forces who attacked compound at Abbotabad
And:
How the US Blew An Earlier Chance to Get Their Hands on OBL, America's Most Wanted
Osama Bin Laden's daughter has claimed he was captured alive in his Pakistani hideout and then shot by U.S. special forces, it was reported today.
Arabic news network Al-Arabiya quoted 'senior Pakistani security officials' who said the 12-year-old saw her father executed and his body dragged to a helicopter.
A Pakistani official rejected U.S. accounts of a bloody firefight, saying: 'Not a single bullet was fired from the compound at the U.S. forces and their choppers. Their chopper developed some technical fault and crashed and the wreckage was left on the spot.' ...
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FBI says, it has “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”
By
The Atlantic May 3 201
The White House Tuesday blamed "the fog of war" for conflicting statements in its recounting of the events surrounding the Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden, but the history of misstatements from U.S. government officials about various combat operations raises questions about whether briefers also were subjecting us to a counterterrorism strategy and not just completely confused in their initial statements.
Consider the narrative put forward by John Brennan ...
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Plus:
The White House Can't Get Its Bin Laden Story Straight
Plus:
Bin Laden killed by masked men speaking fluent Pashtu
By Peter Osborne
The Telegraph 03 May, 2011
...Many I spoke to believed that the feared ISI – the intelligence arm of the Pakistan state – must have known that the Khans’ safe house, scarcely a kilometre from the Pakistan military academy, harboured the world’s most wanted man. In the end bin Laden may have been turned in by his captors in a grand bargain between America and Pakistan.
Mohammed Qasim, the farmer’s boy, was caught up in the momentous events that led to bin Laden’s death in the early hours of Sunday. He said that one of the US special forces helicopters landed in the field just behind his house. Masked men emerged — Qasim said they spoke fluent Pashtu.
He heard them smash their way into the Khans’ fortress, followed by the cries of alarm from women and children. Twenty minutes later, he heard the helicopters depart, bearing with them all of the reclusive Khan family, and the body of bin Laden. ...
Read full story
See review of this and much related information by Aangirfan:
It was Pak forces who attacked compound at Abbotabad
And:
How the US Blew An Earlier Chance to Get Their Hands on OBL, America's Most Wanted
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Canada Divides on Question of Sovereignty
Yesterday, Quebecers abandoned the Bloc. The Bloc was the sovereigntist successor to the Quebec wing of the Tory party. But the commitment of the Tories to North American Union offered no comfort to Quebec nationalists and thus undermined the credibility of the Bloc with its informal alignment with the national Conservative Party.
The Liberal Party of Pierre Trudeau, which offered Quebecers a national home within a sovereign Canada, no longer exists, the Paul Martin - Michael Ignatieff Liberals having joined the globalists. A Liberal, today, is as ready to send Canadian forces to fight for the New World Order or invite US law enforcement agencies to operate on Canadian soil as any Tory. Thus the Liberal Party, no less than the Tory Party, represents eventual death to the Quebec nation and Canadian sovereignty.
With no alternative, Quebecers voted en masse for the NDP, thereby making that Province the power base for the official opposition. For the first time, the Harper Tories face an opposition that must, if it is to succeed, speak for the Quebec nation within a sovereign Canada.
It will be interesting to see whether the rump of the Liberal Party will join the NDP. Former Liberal cabinet minister and Ontario NDP Premier, Bob Ray will surely consider the option, as may Justin Trudeau, whose father convinced so many Quebecers that their nation had a secure home within Canada.
It will be interesting to see how Harper responds to the new alignment of forces. To cleave to the globalist line will cause increasing polarization in Canada. However, now that he has a safe majority in Parliament, we may find that his agenda is not quite what we thought.
The 2011 Canadian election results
Harper acceptance speech
"God keep our land, glorious and free."
The Liberal Party of Pierre Trudeau, which offered Quebecers a national home within a sovereign Canada, no longer exists, the Paul Martin - Michael Ignatieff Liberals having joined the globalists. A Liberal, today, is as ready to send Canadian forces to fight for the New World Order or invite US law enforcement agencies to operate on Canadian soil as any Tory. Thus the Liberal Party, no less than the Tory Party, represents eventual death to the Quebec nation and Canadian sovereignty.
With no alternative, Quebecers voted en masse for the NDP, thereby making that Province the power base for the official opposition. For the first time, the Harper Tories face an opposition that must, if it is to succeed, speak for the Quebec nation within a sovereign Canada.
It will be interesting to see whether the rump of the Liberal Party will join the NDP. Former Liberal cabinet minister and Ontario NDP Premier, Bob Ray will surely consider the option, as may Justin Trudeau, whose father convinced so many Quebecers that their nation had a secure home within Canada.
It will be interesting to see how Harper responds to the new alignment of forces. To cleave to the globalist line will cause increasing polarization in Canada. However, now that he has a safe majority in Parliament, we may find that his agenda is not quite what we thought.
The 2011 Canadian election results
Harper acceptance speech
"God keep our land, glorious and free."
Obama watched Bin Laden Die, and Related Propaganda, Misdirection and Lies
President Obama was watching on a TV screen as a commando gunned down Osama bin Laden. Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a U.S. Navy Seal, the leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in the left eye.
The Seal then carried out what is known in the military as a ‘double tap’ – shooting him again, probably in the chest, to make certain he was dead.
The footage of the battle in Bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout – which played out like an episode of 24 – is said to show one of his wives acting as a human shield to protect him as he blasted away with an AK47 assault rifle.
She died, along with three other men, including one of Bin Laden’s sons. Within hours, the Al Qaeda leader’s body was buried at sea.
Intense: President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, alongside other Security staff, watch the mission unfold at the White House
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Wow. Being Pres. must be so fun.
Or was it just theatre?
See Aangirfan on the Osama Death Fake
Oops! Original Whitehouse Report on Death of OBL was just lies.
The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces.
Officials also retreated from claims that one of bin Laden’s wives was killed in the raid and that bin Laden was using her as a human shield before she was shot by U.S. forces ...
Actually, OBL was unarmed but we shot him, anyhow. Wife shot in leg, only
...White House press secretary Jay Carney acknowledged that bin Laden did not have a weapon even though administration officials have said that bin Laden resisted during the 40-minute raid. Bin Laden was shot in the head and in the chest during the encounter.
Carney said bin Laden's wife "rushed the U.S. assaulter" and was shot in the leg but not killed, contrary to what a White House official said on Monday. ...
Can US Offer Final Proof Of Osama's Death?
... The fact his body was buried at sea has so far only added to the speculation ...
Under Islamic law, people can only be buried at sea if they died there, or if there is a risk their body will be exhumed or dug up if buried in the ground.
The release of a photograph purporting to show bin Laden's corpse - which was later confirmed to be a fake - added to the confusion. ...
Paul Craig Roberts: Osama Bin Laden's Useful Death
... How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the "terror mastermind" – who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day, who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail, and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did not know how to fly – has not pulled off any other attack in almost ten years? Do Americans really believe that a government’s security system that can so totally fail when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew itself to perfection overnight?...
Leftie Blogger, Craig Murray, Turned Imperialist Hack
Very odd development. And even the groupies seem to have deserted him.
Guy Somerset: Bin Laden’s Body Politic
Osama bin Laden is dead (supposedly).
And what has it cost us? ...
The Seal then carried out what is known in the military as a ‘double tap’ – shooting him again, probably in the chest, to make certain he was dead.
The footage of the battle in Bin Laden’s Pakistani hideout – which played out like an episode of 24 – is said to show one of his wives acting as a human shield to protect him as he blasted away with an AK47 assault rifle.
She died, along with three other men, including one of Bin Laden’s sons. Within hours, the Al Qaeda leader’s body was buried at sea.
Intense: President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, alongside other Security staff, watch the mission unfold at the White House
Read more
Wow. Being Pres. must be so fun.
Or was it just theatre?
See Aangirfan on the Osama Death Fake
Oops! Original Whitehouse Report on Death of OBL was just lies.
The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces.
Officials also retreated from claims that one of bin Laden’s wives was killed in the raid and that bin Laden was using her as a human shield before she was shot by U.S. forces ...
Actually, OBL was unarmed but we shot him, anyhow. Wife shot in leg, only
...White House press secretary Jay Carney acknowledged that bin Laden did not have a weapon even though administration officials have said that bin Laden resisted during the 40-minute raid. Bin Laden was shot in the head and in the chest during the encounter.
Carney said bin Laden's wife "rushed the U.S. assaulter" and was shot in the leg but not killed, contrary to what a White House official said on Monday. ...
Can US Offer Final Proof Of Osama's Death?
... The fact his body was buried at sea has so far only added to the speculation ...
Under Islamic law, people can only be buried at sea if they died there, or if there is a risk their body will be exhumed or dug up if buried in the ground.
The release of a photograph purporting to show bin Laden's corpse - which was later confirmed to be a fake - added to the confusion. ...
Paul Craig Roberts: Osama Bin Laden's Useful Death
... How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the "terror mastermind" – who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day, who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail, and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did not know how to fly – has not pulled off any other attack in almost ten years? Do Americans really believe that a government’s security system that can so totally fail when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew itself to perfection overnight?...
Leftie Blogger, Craig Murray, Turned Imperialist Hack
Very odd development. And even the groupies seem to have deserted him.
Guy Somerset: Bin Laden’s Body Politic
Osama bin Laden is dead (supposedly).
And what has it cost us? ...
Monday, May 2, 2011
Chinese Workers at iPad Factories Must Sign Pledge
You are NOT allowed to commit suicide
Factories making sought-after Apple iPads and iPhones in China are forcing staff to sign pledges not to commit suicide, an investigation has revealed.At least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China have killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions.
Many more are believed to have either survived attempts or been stopped before trying at the Apple supplier's plants in Chengdu or Shenzen.
After a spate of suicides last year, managers at the factories ordered new staff to sign pledges that they would not attempt to kill themselves, according to researchers.
And they were made to promise that if they did, their families would only seek the legal minimum in damages.
An investigation of the 500,000 workers by the Centre for Research on Multinational Companies and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom) found appalling conditions in the factories.
They claimed that ...
Osama bin Laden Dead -- Again
US Forces Shoot OBL in Pakistan, Body Dumped in Ocean
The helicopter carrying Navy SEALs malfunctioned as it approached Osama bin Laden’s compound at about 3:30 p.m. ET Sunday, stalling as it hovered. The pilot set it down gently inside the walls, then couldn’t get it going again.
It was a heart-stopping moment for President Barack Obama, who had been monitoring the raid in the White House Situation Room since 1 p.m., surrounded by members of his war cabinet.
“Obviously, everyone was thinking about Black Hawk Down and Desert One,” a senior administration official recalled.
The SEALs disembarked.
“The assault team went ahead and raided the compound, even though they didn’t know if they would have a ride home,” an official said.
The special forces put bombs on the crippled chopper and blew it up, then lifted off in a reinforcement craft just before 4:15 p.m., capping an astounding 40 minutes that gave the United States a tectonic victory in the 10-year war on terror touched off by 9/11.
“The world is safer. It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden,” Obama said at the White House Monday.
The sick chopper turned out to be a tiny wrinkle in an astounding military and intelligence triumph. Bin Laden was shot in the face by the SEALs during a firefight after resisting capture.
Bin Laden’s body was taken to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, and he was buried at sea overnight — less than 12 hours after the raid, officials said. DNA from the remains provided certain confirmation that bin Laden was dead. He was 54. ...
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Disposing of the body fast, that was smart. No further questions possible about the identity of the corpse. And quite frankly, after kicking around for ten years, it was not in good shape.
Now the repercussions. More antagonism to the US in the Islamic world. More buggering you about at the airport, obviously. And some huge new atrocity?
Right on time, fake British terrorist Anjem Choudary is promising another Islamic terror bombing in Britain. Lucky for Britain, these Islamic terrorists are too dumb to think of blowing up the Prime Minister and Cabinet or the City of London, as the IRA did. No, they only think of blowing up some common folks on the tube. Funny thing, that just reinforces public support for the war on terror.
Paul Craig Roberts: Osama Bin Laden's Second Death
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans.
Think about it. What are the chances that a person allegedly suffering from kidney disease and requiring dialysis and, in addition, afflicted with diabetes and low blood pressure, survived in mountain hideaways for a decade? If bin Laden was able to acquire dialysis equipment and medical care that his condition required, would not the shipment of dialysis equipment point to his location? Why did it take ten years to find him?
Consider also the claims, repeated by a triumphalist US media celebrating bin Laden’s death, that "bin Laden used his millions to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines, and Afghanistan, sending ‘holy warriors’ to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia." That’s a lot of activity for mere millions to bankroll (perhaps the US should have put him in charge of the Pentagon), but the main question is: how was bin Laden able to move his money about? What banking system was helping him? The US government succeeds in seizing the assets of people and of entire countries, Libya being the most recent. Why not bin Laden’s? Was he carrying around with him $100 million dollars in gold coins and sending emissaries to distribute payments to his far-flung operations?
This morning’s headline has the odor of a staged event. ...
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Beyond the Bin Laden Stunt
By Tony Cartalucci
The dire implications of this latest surreal ploy
Bangkok, Thailand May 2, 2011 - It has already been illustrated that the corporate-financier oligarchs have committed themselves to an irreversible global confrontation by planning and executing the "Arab Spring" which is now quickly escalating into a regional military campaign. Concurrently, the West is stabbing at both Russia's peripheries in Eastern Europe as well as China's "String of Pearls" resting along Southeast Asia, Central Asia and into the Middle East.
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In 1931, Osama bin Laden's father, Mohammed, set up the the BinLaden Group. The group deals in publishing, banking, construction, property and transport and is worth several billions.
The bin Ladens have connections to top people, including several US presidents. ( Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter )
According to French intelligence, during the 1980's, Salem bin Laden helped the Reagan Administration when it secretly arranged for an estimated thirty-four million dollars to be funnelled through Saudi Arabia to the Contras, in Nicaragua. ( Meet The Bin Ladens: Osama's Road to Riches and Terror ... )
Reportedly, in 1979, Osama bin Laden's tutor, Prince Turki al Fayçal al Saud (director of Saudi Arabia secret services from 1977 to August 2001), asked Osama to direct and financially manage the CIA secret operations in Afghanistan. (The Hidden Financial Ties between the Bush and the Bin Laden ...) ...
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Osama Bin Laden Bio
By Aangirfan
The helicopter carrying Navy SEALs malfunctioned as it approached Osama bin Laden’s compound at about 3:30 p.m. ET Sunday, stalling as it hovered. The pilot set it down gently inside the walls, then couldn’t get it going again.
It was a heart-stopping moment for President Barack Obama, who had been monitoring the raid in the White House Situation Room since 1 p.m., surrounded by members of his war cabinet.
“Obviously, everyone was thinking about Black Hawk Down and Desert One,” a senior administration official recalled.
The SEALs disembarked.
“The assault team went ahead and raided the compound, even though they didn’t know if they would have a ride home,” an official said.
The special forces put bombs on the crippled chopper and blew it up, then lifted off in a reinforcement craft just before 4:15 p.m., capping an astounding 40 minutes that gave the United States a tectonic victory in the 10-year war on terror touched off by 9/11.
“The world is safer. It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden,” Obama said at the White House Monday.
The sick chopper turned out to be a tiny wrinkle in an astounding military and intelligence triumph. Bin Laden was shot in the face by the SEALs during a firefight after resisting capture.
Bin Laden’s body was taken to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, and he was buried at sea overnight — less than 12 hours after the raid, officials said. DNA from the remains provided certain confirmation that bin Laden was dead. He was 54. ...
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Disposing of the body fast, that was smart. No further questions possible about the identity of the corpse. And quite frankly, after kicking around for ten years, it was not in good shape.
Now the repercussions. More antagonism to the US in the Islamic world. More buggering you about at the airport, obviously. And some huge new atrocity?
Right on time, fake British terrorist Anjem Choudary is promising another Islamic terror bombing in Britain. Lucky for Britain, these Islamic terrorists are too dumb to think of blowing up the Prime Minister and Cabinet or the City of London, as the IRA did. No, they only think of blowing up some common folks on the tube. Funny thing, that just reinforces public support for the war on terror.
Paul Craig Roberts: Osama Bin Laden's Second Death
If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool’s joke this morning’s headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans.
Think about it. What are the chances that a person allegedly suffering from kidney disease and requiring dialysis and, in addition, afflicted with diabetes and low blood pressure, survived in mountain hideaways for a decade? If bin Laden was able to acquire dialysis equipment and medical care that his condition required, would not the shipment of dialysis equipment point to his location? Why did it take ten years to find him?
Consider also the claims, repeated by a triumphalist US media celebrating bin Laden’s death, that "bin Laden used his millions to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines, and Afghanistan, sending ‘holy warriors’ to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia." That’s a lot of activity for mere millions to bankroll (perhaps the US should have put him in charge of the Pentagon), but the main question is: how was bin Laden able to move his money about? What banking system was helping him? The US government succeeds in seizing the assets of people and of entire countries, Libya being the most recent. Why not bin Laden’s? Was he carrying around with him $100 million dollars in gold coins and sending emissaries to distribute payments to his far-flung operations?
This morning’s headline has the odor of a staged event. ...
Read more
Beyond the Bin Laden Stunt
By Tony Cartalucci
The dire implications of this latest surreal ploy
Bangkok, Thailand May 2, 2011 - It has already been illustrated that the corporate-financier oligarchs have committed themselves to an irreversible global confrontation by planning and executing the "Arab Spring" which is now quickly escalating into a regional military campaign. Concurrently, the West is stabbing at both Russia's peripheries in Eastern Europe as well as China's "String of Pearls" resting along Southeast Asia, Central Asia and into the Middle East.
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THE BIN LADEN FAMILY
By Aangirfan
In 1931, Osama bin Laden's father, Mohammed, set up the the BinLaden Group. The group deals in publishing, banking, construction, property and transport and is worth several billions.
The bin Ladens have connections to top people, including several US presidents. ( Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter )
According to French intelligence, during the 1980's, Salem bin Laden helped the Reagan Administration when it secretly arranged for an estimated thirty-four million dollars to be funnelled through Saudi Arabia to the Contras, in Nicaragua. ( Meet The Bin Ladens: Osama's Road to Riches and Terror ... )
Reportedly, in 1979, Osama bin Laden's tutor, Prince Turki al Fayçal al Saud (director of Saudi Arabia secret services from 1977 to August 2001), asked Osama to direct and financially manage the CIA secret operations in Afghanistan. (The Hidden Financial Ties between the Bush and the Bin Laden ...) ...
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Osama Bin Laden Bio
By Aangirfan
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1. Osama bin Laden and the Jewish Mafia
The newspaper Scotland on Sunday reported 16/9/ 2001 that Osama bin Laden made his fortune in part by working with Jewish-Russian mafia operations in Qatar and Cyprus.
2. Osama bin Laden and the Caymen Islands
Michael Rupert (Osama Bin Laden - A CIA Creation and It's Blowback) has reported on possible links between Caymen banks and Osama bin Laden.
Deutsche Bank (allegedly one of the banks used by bin Laden and inside traders at the CIA) reportedly has an interest in Safron Partners, which is part of a corporate network on the Cayman Islands that is allegedly run by Bin Laden's half brother, Hassan.
Osama Bin Laden and the CIA and a Mr Hekmatyar are reputed to have been involved in the Afghan heroin business.
Bin-Laden allegedly established branches of his business in the Cayman Islands; and he allegedly employed law firms and consultants connected to Langley, Virginia and the CIA.
3. Osama and British Intelligence
The French Internet publication, Indigo, reported that Osama bin-Laden was a guest of British Intelligence in London in 1996. ( Bin Laden - A CIA Creation and It's Blowback )
4. Bush and the bin Ladens
One of George W Bush early backers was James Bath, who was "the bin Laden family's representative in Texas" (Bush Money) ...
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Alex Jones and Webster Tarpley: Propagating Looney Lies About the British Monarch
If you thought Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley was a historian, think again.
In this video, Tarpley and Alex Jones compete to spout the most rubbish about the British Parliamentary system of government.
That was two years ago. Since then, they have learned nothing as this discussion arising out of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton demonstrates.
According to these geniuses, Britain and 15 other countries nominally headed by Britain's constitutional monarch are, in reality as well as in name, largely ruled by the octogenarian great grandmother, Elizabeth Windsor, who Tarpley decribes as a degenerate, psychopathic, genocidal Nazi maniac.
Astounding. They cannot really be that stupid can they? But if not, what propaganda interest do they serve?
For the record (from Wikipedia):
In this video, Tarpley and Alex Jones compete to spout the most rubbish about the British Parliamentary system of government.
That was two years ago. Since then, they have learned nothing as this discussion arising out of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton demonstrates.
According to these geniuses, Britain and 15 other countries nominally headed by Britain's constitutional monarch are, in reality as well as in name, largely ruled by the octogenarian great grandmother, Elizabeth Windsor, who Tarpley decribes as a degenerate, psychopathic, genocidal Nazi maniac.
Astounding. They cannot really be that stupid can they? But if not, what propaganda interest do they serve?
For the record (from Wikipedia):
Election Day: Don't Vote. It Only Encourages Them
A vote for the Tories is a vote for:
Our best hope is that the Liberals do so badly that they bring back Jean Chrétien, a man who had the balls to remind George W. Bush that Canada is a sovereign nation -- a man who was perhaps the best conservative Prime Minister Canada ever had.
The abolition of Canada;A vote for the NDP is a vote to rob Peter to buy Paul's vote. Here's what Jack promises "We'll do" in a flier delivered to my door today:
American law enforcement agents on Canadian soil;
A choice of X-irradiation or sexual assault at every Canadian airport;
A role for Canadian forces in every globalist war on the face of the Earth.
Hire more doctors and nurses. LOL. The Feds don't hire any doctors or nurses;A vote for the Liberals is a vote for a weather vane, an ethics professor with no moral courage:
Start training more doctors. LOL. The Feds don't train any doctors.
Work with the Provinces to "double you're public pension." LOL. Just one of the ways in which the NDiPs will impose crippling debt and taxes on your kids;
Kick-start job creation with a two percentage point tax cut for small business. Two percent? LOL;
Fix Ottawa for good. We'll stop the scandals. What close the bawdy houses? LOL.
A man who condemned the bombing of civilian targets in Lebanon as a war crime, only to reverse himself at a hint of Zionist retribution;As for the Greens, they're a bunch of economic illiterates and trouble makers. In fact, they're nothing more than a religious cult: crazed puritans in disguise.
A a man who supported the Iraq war while he lived amidst the Zionist warmongers and NeoCons at Harvard, and then changed his mind when the chance arose to lead the Liberal Party of Canada.
Our best hope is that the Liberals do so badly that they bring back Jean Chrétien, a man who had the balls to remind George W. Bush that Canada is a sovereign nation -- a man who was perhaps the best conservative Prime Minister Canada ever had.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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.
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
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.
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| 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.
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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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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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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Friday, April 29, 2011
Who stands for Canadian Sovereignty? Not the Conservative Party of Canada
By CanSpeccy
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
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| 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 1935Who 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
Thursday, April 28, 2011
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 MaharreyAn 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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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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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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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
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
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." ....
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." ....
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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?
"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)
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.
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.
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.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Gordon Duff: WikiWeasel: Wikileaks Goes Whacky
INTELLIGENCE AGENDA SHINES THROUGH LATEST WIKI-DUMP
…disinformation campaign against the US, Pakistan and Libyan rebels
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior EditorWikileaks 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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No one will miss these people: The elite should think carefullybefore 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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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Amazing But True
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| (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.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Reports from Rome
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| Obama Caesar (Image source) |
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.
And this via Aangirfan:Who Did 911? - PhD Kevin Barrett Speaks Out (Russia Today RT Interview)
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Peter Hitchin on Britain's new boneless wonder
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| 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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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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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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." ...
Read more
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. ...
Read more
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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