Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Legalizing Marijuana One Joint At A Time

Shipwrecked

I sincerely believe that more than 7% will forward this.



A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agree that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.



The first thing the first man prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the land, and he was able to eat its fruit. The other man's parcel of land remained barren.
After a week, the first man was lonely and he decided to pray for a wife... The next day, another ship was wrecked, and the only survivor was a woman who swam to his side of the land. On the other side of the island, there was nothing.



Soon the first man prayed for a house, clothes, more food. The next day, like magic, all of these were given to him. However, the second man still had nothing.


Finally, the first man prayed for a ship, so that his wife and he could leave the island. In the morning, he found a ship docked at his side of the island. The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island. He considered the other man unworthy to receive God's blessings, since none of his prayers had been answered.



As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from Heaven booming,
'Why are you leaving your companion on the island?'

'My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one who prayed for them,' the first man answered.
'His prayers were all unanswered, and so he does not deserve anything'



'You are mistaken!' the voice rebuked him. 'He had only one prayer, which I answered. If not for that, you would not have received any of my blessings..'

'Tell me,' the first man asked the voice, 'what did he pray for that I should owe him anything?'

'He prayed that all your prayers be answered..'

For all we know, our blessings are not the fruits of our prayers alone, but those of another praying for us.



When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you!

If you are one of the 7% who will stand up for him forward this with the title 'I am one of the 7%'.

93% of people won't forward this.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Ongoing News Updates

"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press" --Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.

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"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions." --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804.

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"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette

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"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.

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"Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light." --Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart. 1799.

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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,320,110"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,296
icasualties.org/oif/

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The War in Iraq Costs
$669,806,153,553
See the cost in your community
nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

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Condemning Torture, Condoning Mass Murder

By Charles Davis

The idea that war crimes and civil liberties violations are strictly conservative affairs is particularly comforting to wide-eyed Democrats in awe of America's First Black President ™, and it affords the heirs to the same liberal establishment which brought us Vietnam and Hiroshima another opportunity to grandstand about their commitment to human rights even as the noble humanitarian Barack Obama continues to extra-judicially murder foreigners with unmanned drones.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22644.htm

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The Disease of Permanent War

By Chris Hedges

The hollowness of our liberal classes, such as the Democrats, empowers the moral nihilists. A state of permanent war means the inevitable death of liberalism. Dick Cheney may be palpably evil while Obama is merely weak, but to those who seek to keep us in a state of permanent war it does not matter. They get what they want.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22646.htm

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Obama's Animal Farm

By James Petras

The Democratic Pigs are now pursuing the same brutal, military policies of their predecessors, the Republican Porkers, only now it is in the name of the people and peace. Orwell might paraphrase the policy of President Barack Obama, as 'Bigger and bloodier wars equal peace and justice'.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22642.htm

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Buyers Remorse

Is It Too Late To Swap Obama For McCain?

By Mike Whitney

I don't know about you, but I believe that America is based on the idea that every man has certain basic rights, and the most fundamental of all those rights is the right to know why the state has thrown your ass in jail. That's numero uno! It's called habeas corpus and the whole judicial system rests on that one foundation stone. People like Obama, who don't believe in habeas, shouldn't even call themselves "American" in my book because they don't believe in the underlying principles.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22640.htm

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Obama Must Cow Netanyahu

Obama-Netanyahu must not be Kennedy-Khrushchev

By Juan Cole

If Netanyahu comes away thinking he can thumb his nose at Washington, the whole Middle East could be in flames by the end of Obama's first term.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22647.htm

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One State the Alternative to Two-State Solution

By Hani Hazaimeh with agency dispatches

"If Israel continues not to accept solving the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution, then the other option before us is one democratic state in which Muslims, Christians and Jews live side by side enjoying the same rights," Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa said on Sunday.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22648.htm

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The Almighty Renminbi?

By Nouriel Roubini

Traditionally, empires that hold the global reserve currency are also net foreign creditors and net lenders. The British Empire declined - and the pound lost its status as the main global reserve currency - when Britain became a net debtor and a net borrower in World War II. Today, the United States is in a similar position.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22643.htm

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US Chiefs Can't be Sued for 'Terror Torture'

By Robert Barnes

The court ruled 5 to 4 that the top officials are not liable for the actions of their subordinates absent evidence that they ordered the allegedly discriminatory activity. The decision followed the court's ideological split between conservatives and liberals, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy siding with the conservatives and writing the opinion.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22645.htm

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Health Care's Enigma in Chief

By David Sirota

The most stunning and least reported news about President Obama's press conference with health industry executives this week wasn't those executives' willingness to negotiate with a Democrat. It was that Democrat's eagerness to involve those executives in a discussion about health care reform even as they revealed their previous plans to pilfer $2 trillion from Americans.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22641.htm

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U.S. Health Care Lies About Canada

Greed, U.S. Politics, Dysfunction

By Diane Francis

I am an American who has lived in Canada for more than 35 years. I can vouch that the system is more than adequate and is not run by civil servants but by doctors who are able to treat everyone, rich or poor.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22649.htm

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27 militants killed in NW Pakistan operation:

Twenty-seven militants were killed during the last 24 hours in various areas in northwestern Pakistan, said the Pakistani military Monday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/18/content_11397538.htm

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Pakistan fighting displaces 1.45 million civilians: UN:

UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond says that is in addition to the more than 550,000 people who were displaced earlier by the military offensive in northwest Pakistan, meaning the total is now more than 2 million.
http://snipurl.com/iacec

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Demonizing Pakistan? Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says:

Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan's nuclear program.
http://snipurl.com/iackx

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Manufacturing Consent For Attacks On Pakistan?

All options open on securing Pak nukes: Obama:

US President Barack Obama has voiced confidence in the safety of Pakistan's nuclear assets. But at the same time, he made it clear that he could consider all options to secure the nuclear weapons, if the country got less stable.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=22184

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Insurgents kill 7 in Afghan forces:

Fighting in southern Afghanistan killed six Afghan police yesterday, and a roadside bomb killed an Afghan soldier in the same region, the government said.
http://snipurl.com/iaco6

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Afghan soldiers kill 3 civilians:

"Three soldiers of ANA opened fire at two shopkeepers in Jalalabad this morning as a result three persons were killed and another got wounded," the press release added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/18/content_11396385.htm

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Afghan president's brother survives attack:

A younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he survived an assassination attempt Monday when gunmen sprayed his convoy with rocket and machine-gun fire, killing one of his bodyguards.
http://snipurl.com/iacqm

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Netanyahu to tell Obama: Time 'running out' on Iran:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will use his meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to stress that "time is running out" for stopping Iran's nuclear program, so Obama must not spend more than a few months on his planned dialogue with Tehran unless real progress is achieved.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086235.html

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Obama: Iran existential threat to Israel:

With respect to concerns Israel might carry out an air strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, the US president said that since Israel is "right there in the range" of Iranian missiles, "their calculation of costs and benefits are going to be more acute."
http://snipurl.com/iacsr

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Israel begins new illegal settlement, despite U.S. opposition:

Israel has moved ahead with a plan to build a new illegal settlement in the northern West Bank for the first time in 26 years, pursuing a project the United States has already condemned as an obstacle to peace efforts.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086339.html

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ICC to hear Israeli war crime case:

A Human Rights group has filed a lawsuit against Israeli leaders at the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the war crimes they have committed in the Gaza Strip
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=95173&sectionid=351020202

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Hamas rejects Gaza-only joint security force:

Hamas movement on Monday rejected the idea of forming a joint Palestinian security force in the Gaza Strip that would not also operate in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
http://snipurl.com/iaczv

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Iraq: Two killed, three wounded in attacks in Mosul and Basra:

Two policemen were killed on Monday in separate bombings in the northern province Mosul and Basra in the south of Iraq, security sources said.
http://snipurl.com/iad0v

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Fact or fiction?

Iraq: Detained Al-Qaeda leader 'funded by Arab states':

Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq relies on funding from Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, according to confessions allegedly made by its reputed leader, Omar al-Baghdadi following his arrest last month, the Iraqi military said on Monday.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3327987471

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Sri Lanka rebel chief 'killed':

Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been killed, Sri Lankan officials and state-run media have said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/2009518133426750384.html

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Somalia: Seven killed in renewed fighting:

Islamist militants have captured a strategic town north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, early Sunday morning, eyewitnesses have confirmed. Members of the al-Shabab, the group fighting government forces in Somalia, seized the town of Jowhar resulting in the death of at least seven people.
http://www.africanews.com/site/Somalia_Seven_killed_in_renewed_fighting/list_messages/24873

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Somali fighters seize another town:

Hizb ul-Islam, a coalition of groups fighting Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers, have closed in on Somalia's capital, after seizing a strategically important town north of Mogadishu.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/05/200951812027981975.html

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U.S.: Lawyers, Rights Groups Outraged by Gitmo Decision:

Human rights advocates are furious at President Barack Obama's decision to prosecute some Guantanamo detainees through the same military commissions he criticised during his campaign as a "flawed" system that "has failed to convict anyone of a terrorist act since the 9/11 attacks".
http://ipsnews.net/text/news.asp?idnews=46881

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Republicans salute Obama's military tack

: Moves anger liberal Democrats
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/17/republicans-salute-obama-military-tack/

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Brazil president arrives in Beijing:

Brazil's president has arrived in China for three days of talks expected to focus on broadening ties between two of the world's largest developing economies and moves to decrease their dependency on the US dollar.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200951841033800562.html

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China's yuan 'set to usurp US dollar' as world's reserve currency:

The Chinese yuan is preparing to overtake the US dollar as the world's reserve currency, economist Nouriel Roubini has warned.
http://snipurl.com/iad6q

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In case you missed it:

US Backing for World Currency Stuns Markets:

US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shocked global markets by revealing that Washington is "quite open" to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22300.htm

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Asia will author its own destruction if it triggers a crisis over US bonds:

Japan beware, crashes have a habit of bringing regime change
http://snipurl.com/iad7v

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US prices fall most since 1955:

Prices in the US fell in the year to April at the fastest annual rate since 1955, labour department figures showed on Friday, as declining energy prices pulled back the cost of living.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/854d81ce-40c1-11de-8f18-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1

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General Motors follows Chrysler's route and shuts dealerships:

GM is to close about 2,300 dealerships from its 6,000-strong US network as part of last-ditch plans to avoid bankruptcy.
http://snipurl.com/iada4

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100,000 Jobs At Risk: Industry crisis sees US car dealerships cut loose and left with nothing to sell:

The shrinkage of General Motors and Chrysler's dealer networks is putting more than 100,000 jobs in doubt at car yards in towns and cities across America
http://snipurl.com/iadbb

Secret Societies, Freemasonry, Cronyism and Conspiracy: Answers
Theirs and mine… Many so called secret societies figure in conspiracy theories as bodies, secretly ruling the world. But do you think some of these societies accomplished something really significant in reality? Or are they only ordinary groups of people with common interests who maybe sometimes delight in being seen in mysterious way? The heyday of secret [...]
NT Exclusive: Dr. Rand Paul; Senate Run, Big Government, Fed & Globalization
Jay Dyer - May 18, 2009 Dr. Rand Paul 2010 Dr. Rand Paul, son of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, has announced his run for Kentucky Senate as a Republican. I listened to him speak him last week in Paducah, Ky, on a host of key issues regarding his platform, as well as being able to ask [...]
Echoes Of Germany
by Mrs Jane Birkby I see echoes of Germany in the 1920/30s in our country today. The powerful multi-national corporations and banks hold sway, the public are dissatisfied with their Parliament, which has been run badly by the ineffective three in one main parties, who handed over most of it’s legislative power to the EU. The situation [...]
Secret meeting of world’s richest people held in New York
Buffett, Gates, Rockefeller, Turner, Winfrey, Bloomberg, Soros in media-blackout conference NIALL O’DOWD IrishCentral.com May 18, 2009 A top-secret meeting of the world’s richest people to discuss the global financial crisis was held in New York on May 5, IrishCentral.com has learned exclusively. The mysterious, media-blackout meeting was called by Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire-Hathaway; Bill Gates, co founder of Microsoft; [...]
The New American Century
While Massimo Mazzucco’s first political documentary, GLOBAL DECEIT (2006), focused on the long list of inconsistencies in the official version of the 9/11 attacks, THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY explores the historical, philosophical and economic background that suggests a matrix for such events that is much closer to home than the so-called “Islamic terrorism”. The film provides [...]
Eugenics in Israel: Did Jews try to improve the human race too?
Yotam Feldman - 15/05/2009 In 1944, psychiatrist Kurt Levinstein gave a lecture at a Tel Aviv conference, where he advocated preventing people with various mental and neurological disorders - such as alcoholism, manic depression and epilepsy - from bringing children into the world. The means he proposed - prohibition of marriage, contraception, abortion and sterilization - were [...]
Maurice Strong Interview (BBC, 1972)
Today, Maurice Strong sits atop the global environmental movement headed by the United Nations and its interlocking NGO’s and tax-exempt foundations. Strong is considered to be the person behind the globalization of the foundation-funded environmental movement, and was the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972, in Stockholm, Sweden. He co-authored [...]
PART FIVE—Read It Before It Is Banned By The US Government
Tom Horn on the Masonic scheme to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
Our man at Bilderberg: I’m ready to lose control, but they’re not
Funnyman gets it: I am so unbelievably backteeth sick of power being flexed by the few. I’ve had it flexed in my face for three days, and it’s up my nose like a wasp. I don’t care whether the Bilderberg Group is planning to save the world or shove it in a blender and drink the [...]
Minor League NGO Calls for Globalist Imposed “Democracy”
Kurt Nimmo Infowars May 14, 2009 Call it mass mental illness or maybe self-delusion on steroids: 45 authors are calling for “democratic” world government and have “agreed to set aside their philosophical differences in order to encourage the holding of a global referendum on the general goal of democratic world government,” according to a WebWire press release. “If [...]
Rudolf Steiner and the Golden Dawn
Gyllene Gryningen - May 14, 2009 This essay was inspired by a some words coming from Samuel Robinson regarding the Stella Matutina teachings of implement handling, which he claims didn’t at all originate in the Golden Dawn but came directly from Rudolf Steiner. This intriguing comment made me want to look into this subject as most [...]
Acolytes of neo-Malthusian Apocalypticism
Foresight Institute - May 8th, 2009 When I was in college 35 years ago, there was a major fad of neo-Malthusian doom-mongering, led by the “Limits to Growth” book and movement. A retreat was organized from the college, and some concerned, environmentally conscious professors and students, myself included, went off for a concentrated seminar in [...]
CGU History Prof. Lori Anne Ferrell on Angels and Demons

Silver and Gold, ‘Star Trek,’ and the Truth About E.T.
John Bowman - May 12, 2009 Several years ago, I remember reading an historical analysis of alien movies and other popular media, with an interesting conclusion that went something like this: With a few notable exceptions, during times of war, widespread geopolitical strife or general oppression or misery, E.T. is generally depicted in popular media as [...]
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The Philanthropic Roots Of Corporate Environmentalism
http://www.swans.com/library/art14/barker07.html

The Initiated Eye: Secrets, Symbols, Freemasonry and the Architecture of Washington, DC
http://www.archfoundation.org/octagon/exhibitions/initiatedeye/index.htm

Friday, May 15, 2009

A Speech Before the Citizens Against Legal Loopholes RallyA Speech Before the Citizens Against Legal Loopholes Rally

In fact,
today's live viral vaccines, including the oral polio vaccine required by law be given to
our children, are still litered with simian (monkey) virus contaminants since they are
developed in monkey kidney cells, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration turns a
blind eye to as many as 100 live monkey virus contaminants per vaccine dose, and is
barred from telling health professionals and even health scientists this truth because of
pharmaceutical industry dictated proprietary laws and nondisclosure
agreements. In the
end, the research question I asked, "Did these viruses, AIDS and Ebola, evolve naturally,
were they accidentally produced, or were they intentionally created and deployed?" I
conclude, unquestionably, they are not natural. I leave you the reader, and concerned
citizens of America and the world, to decide whether it was a horrible accident or
treacherous covert population control experiment.
I ask all of you to consider the pain
and cost of the current and coming plagues,including the escalating rates of viruslinked
cancers like prostate and breast cancer, certain leukemia’s and lymphomas and other
vaccine contaminant related illnesses including hyperactivity disorders in children and
escalating sudden infant death rates. I believe you will realize that the pain and cost of
denial and indifference to this horrible reality is far greater than the toll your political
action might cost.

[Kissinger and Rockefeller Connections to American
Central Intelligence and the Origins of AIDS and Ebola]

ABOUT 30 mg per liter of fluoride was accidentally added to Brisbane, Australia drinking water

ABOUT 30 mg per liter of fluoride was accidentally added to Brisbane, Australia drinking water suppl

Dear P4SDW

Test results released this week showed that between 30 and 31 milligrams per litre of the unapproved, unregulated chemical called "fluoride" was released into Brisbane, Australia drinking water on May 1, 2009. The public was told May 14, 2009.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian-news/5568254
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,25480817-5003402,00.html?from=public_rss

Current recommended fluoride concentrations in drinking water are 0.7ppm in Canada. The fluoride concentrations released into Brisbane, Australia drinking water was more than 40 times this "recommended" fluoride concentration.

The National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities (www.napra.org) states that “fluoride and its salts” are considered a drug:

Schedule I drug at doses greater than 1 mg requires a prescription.

Schedule III drug at doses at or less than 1 mg per dose can only be bought at pharmacies.

“The Food and Drug Administration Office of Prescription Drug Compliance has confirmed, to my surprise, that there are no studies to demonstrate either the safety or effectiveness of these drugs which FDA classifies as unapproved new drugs.” SOURCE: Letter from Dr. David Kessler, M.D., Commissioner, United States Food and Drug Administration, June 3, 1993 to Congressman Kenneth Calvert, Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Committee on Science, Washington, D.C.

“Fluoride, when used in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animal, is a drug that is subject to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation.” SOURCE: United States Food and Drug Administration letter Dec, 2000, to Congressman Kenneth Calvert, Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Committee on Science, Washington, D.C.

Imposing unregulated chemicals used as a medication to entire populations, without a prescription, and without "informed consent" is simply unacceptable. In other words, municipalities are acting administering these unregulated drugs, without informing the citizens regarding risks and benefits, and without obtaining the consent of the citizens who must ingest these unregulated drugs.

Carole Clinch
Research Coordinator - People for Safe Drinking Water

Thursday, May 14, 2009

paranoid elites gathering


Writer Detained For Taking Photo Of Sea View Near Bilderberg Hotel
Comedian writing for London Guardian contacts Infowars

Steve Watson Infowars.net Thursday, May 14, 2009

The comedian covering the Bilderberg meeting for the London Guardian has been detained by authorities in Athens, Greece after taking a photograph close to the site of the annual elite gathering.
http://www.infowars.net/articles/may2009/140509Detained.htm

Geithner To Take Orders From Global Elite At Bilderberg
World Bank President Robert Zoellick, who recently called for global government, will also take his place at elitist confab
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Thursday, May 14, 2009
According to a London Times report, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will probably be in attendance at this week’s Bilderberg Group meeting, as top globalists meet to plot the financial future of the planet behind closed doors.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/geithner-to-take-orders-from-global-elite-at-bilderberg.html

Winnipeg's fortress of deadly disease

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 | 4:13 PM ET Comments8Recommend18

From the outside, the Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health on Arlington Street in Winnipeg's north end looks like any other fairly new government building. Big with lots of glass and concrete.

This 2006 photo released by the Public Health Agency of Canada shows a scientist, Dr. Adrienne Meyers, putting waste into a double-door autoclave to sterilize it with heat and pressure before the material leaves the Containment Level 4 laboratory of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. This 2006 photo released by the Public Health Agency of Canada shows a scientist, Dr. Adrienne Meyers, putting waste into a double-door autoclave to sterilize it with heat and pressure before the material leaves the Containment Level 4 laboratory of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. (Public Health Agency of Canada)But there's something special inside. The building houses the National Microbiology Laboratory — one of only 15 Level 4 facilities in the world. The lab was built to accommodate the most basic to the most deadly infectious organisms — from run-of-the-mill flu viruses to killers like Ebola and Marburg.

The lab - administered by Health Canada — cost $172 million and took 10 years to design and build. It took two years alone to build the concrete box that encloses the Level-4 lab, which occupies a small part of the entire centre.

They waited a year for the massive, monolithic concrete to dry, then covered it with 30 coats of special paint, and then covered the walls and floor with a layer of epoxy 7.5 centimetres thick.

Inside, people work in those space-age suits that protect them from the viruses they're handling.

The facility is pretty secure.


http://www.css.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/crti/invest/rd-drt/0091rd_7-eng.asp

The primary objective of this project is to develop both diagnostic and protective recombinant monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) with specificity against target molecules from numerous microbial bioterrorism (BT) agents. The mAbs will comprise a set of tools to address three critical aspects of BT threats: rapid detection of specific microbial agents, prophylaxis, and post-exposure treatment of infected individuals. A further objective of the project is to generate information that will aid in the rational design of vaccine candidates for numerous microbial pathogens. A summary of studies conducted on one bacterial BT agent, Bacillus anthracis , is presented here.

Much of the impetus for the Winnipeg lab — known locally as "the virology lab" — comes from a surge of new diseases in the 1980s, when two new strains of Ebola were discovered, and when the medical community took serious notice of HIV-AIDS.

Shortly after clusters of people starting coming down with flu symptoms in Mexico in March 2009, health officials sent samples to the Winnipeg lab. On April 24, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq told reporters that the lab confirmed that a never-before-seen swine flu virus was responsible for the outbreak in Mexico.

The first strains of lethal diseases arrived at the Winnipeg lab in the summer of 2000, a cargo of six of the most deadly viruses in the world. Small vials contained samples of Lassa fever, Marburg and Junin virus, with three strains of the Ebola virus, all flown in from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Security concerns

But, if security requirements are so stringent, and the stuff so deadly, how is it so easily transported over great distances to the lab in Winnipeg? Dr. Ron St. John, the former executive director of Health Canada's Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, says the vials are transported in safety packs, then secured in a triple-container and sealed.

"I would stress that these packages are designed to withstand tremendous impact," Dr. St. John explained. "In the famous Lockerbie crash the only package — the only thing to survive intact in that terrible airplane tragedy — was a safety pack that had an organism in it."

On May 5, 2009, a former researcher at the lab was arrested at a border crossing in North Dakota. He was on his way to his new job at a research lab in Bethesda, Md. Border guards found 22 vials of biological material that he said he had taken from the Winnipeg lab.

The 42-year-old researcher — Konan Michel Yao — said he had been hired by the Public Health Agency of Canada to work as a PhD fellow at the Winnipeg facility. He told officers he was working on a vaccine for the Ebola virus and HIV. The vials didn't contain virus samples, but did contain material he was using in his research into Ebola and HIV.

Yao said he was taking the vials to his new job because he didn't want to start his research from scratch. The Public Health Agency of Canada said there was never a risk to the public. Yao didn't have access to the highest-level pathogens and only worked with non-infectious material.

Not in my backyard

It is no cinch to build a Level-4 lab, and not just for design and construction challenges. A major problem is to get someone finally to sign off on the labs, which means to authorize them and guarantee that they are safe enough for the deadliest diseases in the world.

In 1976, a woman became ill at Pearson International Airport in Toronto and was taken to nearby Etobicoke General Hospital where it was determined that she had contracted Lassa fever. This was enough of a scare to have the hospital shut down for a week.

The Ontario government responded by spending $5.8 million to build a Level-4 lab in Etobicoke. But neighbours complained, the new facility was never opened, and the Ontario government decided these types of facilities are a federal responsibility.

Another high-security lab was built at Toronto General Hospital, on the 11th floor of the Norman Urquhart Wing. It was sealed off from the rest of the hospital, with its own air supply and electrical system, with a special state-of-the-art particulate filtering system. A special team was trained to work in the isolation unit, intended to handle viruses as lethal as Lassa and Ebola. It was completed in 1984, at a cost of $2 million.

But it never opened.

Vickery Stoughton, then president of Toronto General Hospital, blamed that on what he called "bureaucratic ass-covering." Stoughton said government inspectors made frequent checks of the new facility, but not one was willing to sign off on the guaranteed safety of a lab dealing with the deadliest diseases in the world.

"Instead, they'd recommend that another $100,000 or $200,000 be spent to make absolutely sure it's safe," Stoughton said.



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EXCLUSIVE
List of 140 Afghan Killed In US Attack Includes 93 Children
By Reuters
The list, obtained by Reuters, bears the endorsement of seven senior provincial and central government officials, including an Afghan two-star general who headed a task force dispatched by the government to investigate the incident.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22603.htm
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Barack Obama - Mass Murderer
By Dan Spielberg
If you are a poor, hapless Afghan civilian whose family's bodies were ripped apart by U.S. bombs, does it really make a difference to you if the air "strikes" were ordered by the Moron from Texas, George W Bush, or the Agent of Change, Barack Obama? I would think not.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22607.htm
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"We Are Helping The Taliban"
By Ron Paul
We are inciting the very terrorism and extremism we are trying to stop.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22600.htm
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McChrystal Choice Suggests Special Ops Strikes Will Continue
By Gareth Porter
McChrystal's background sends a very different message from the one claimed by Gates and the news media. His long specialisation in counter-terrorism operations suggests an officer who is likely to have more interest in targeted killings than in the kind of politically sensitive counterinsurgency programmes that the Obama administration has said it intends to carry out.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22601.htm
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Did Newly Announced Top Afghan General Run Cheney's Assassination Wing?
By Muriel Kane
Speaking to a University of Minnesota audience in March, Hersh called JSOC "a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. ... They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. ... Congress has no oversight of it. ... It's an executive assassination ring essentially, and it's been going on and on and on."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22606.htm
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The Hidden Hand of Dick Cheney
By Juan Cole
Out of office, he continues to push his tortured version of reality -- and his vision of an imperial presidency -- and there are signs he is succeeding.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22609.htm
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Pelosi The Enabler
By Robert Scheer
Should the members of the 9/11 Presidential Commission not have been informed that two of the "key witnesses" upon whom their report was based had provided the information critical to the report's conclusions only after being waterboarded a total of 266 times?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22608.htm
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Palestinians and Israeli Jews to Reach Equal Number by 2016, Data Shows
By Haaretz Service
According to the Bureau, 5.1 million of those who call themselves Palestinians reside in Israel or the Palestinian territories. Currently, there are 5.6 million Jews living in Israel.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22602.htm
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The Tamils of Sri Lanka
Distant Voices, Desperate Lives
By John Pilger
The great moral citadels in London and Washington offer merely silent approval of the violence and tragedy. No appeals are heard in the United Nations from them.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22610.htm

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Obama Death Count Newsletter

This newsletter is later than usual; administrators have been / are traveling and apologies are thus extended.

In this newsletter:

Gates urges approval of US war funds, Pakistan aid
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jqW1xav8CbXA3QlPvKI75tR0N--A

Sign of the Times: Afghanistan War Costs Higher Than Iraq
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/05/sign-of-the-times-afghanistan-war-costs-higher-than-iraq/

11 arrested near Fort Lewis trying to block Strykers headed for Afghanistan
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009168374_protest04m.html

The Writing on the Wall for Obama’s ‘Af-Pak’ Vietnam
http://pulsemedia.org/2009/05/13/the-writing-on-the-wall-for-obamas-af-pak-vietnam/

Obama: Pakistan threat 'internal'
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/04/20094304394947958.html

Stop The Silence

9/11, Liberal apathy and the Shock Jock Doctrine

Recently I have been encountering problems with the group, in terms of my access being limited for reasons facebook refuses to disclose. Luckily it is now working again after raising some hoopla about it!

Circulate this one to all the pretend liberals who are still to stubborn to acknowledge the facts. If this doesn't raise an eyebrow, its likely nothing will.

Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, John Stewart, Keith Olberman, and numerous other liberal talking heads, have all remained silent about an issue central to the web of lies, aside from inconsequential concessions that it "is suspicious"...

http://www.fadsmashers.com/7/post/2009/05/911-and-progressive-apathy.html

Major Actions Are Needed

Today at 10:25am
12/5/09 Opinion

It will take far more money than Stephen Harper is providing to get the hundreds of thousands who have lost their jobs back to work. Money is needed for more nurses, teachers, doctors, engineers, construction workers, business managers, researchers, office personnel, factory workers and others. Hiring these people, or providing a stipend so that they can take the training they need, immediately puts the money they receive in circulation in the community. Businesses will sell their services or products and hire others.

In addition to hiring personnel, money is needed for affordable housing, schools, colleges, infrastructure, roads, bridges, equipment and support to help new businesses get started to replace those which have closed down.
Where is all this money to come from? The government is already forecasting a deficit of $63-B to be added to the existing debt of about $500-B. Many are concerned about the huge debt being passed on to future generations, and the government has used the debt and interest as an excuse for not doing more. Interest on public debt in Canada already amounts to $2000 for every man, woman and child, or $10,000 a year for a family of five.

As things stand, the money will be borrowed from the private sector. If that is not changed we won’t have enough money to do what needs to be done and we will spend more of our income on public debt interest. More importantly, it adds to the control that lenders have over government decisions. As we all know, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
The government has its own bank, the Bank of Canada where it can borrow effectively interest free. Not only would this lower taxes for Canadians and Canadian business, it would also reduce the control of lenders and make it possible to do what needs to be done to get people back to work.

Only with massive investment will the goals outlined by Ken Georgetti and the CLC be achieved, but this won't happen if the government does not borrow from its own Bank to finance this investment. This means significantly increasing the share of government debt held by the Bank of Canada and reducing the share held by the private sector. No government is going to go down this road without a very angry and well informed electorate pushing them to do it – whether it be Conservative, Liberal or NDP. That is why the CLC initiative to hold meetings all across the country is so important.
The message is very simple. Borrow from our own bank, not the commercial banks.

See the video on "How to fix the economy" by Michael Hudson - renegade economist! Some of you may have seen it already. If not, it is a must see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pwAFohWBL4

Richard Priestman
Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform, Kingston Chapter

Conspiracy Archive Updates

Conspiracy of big wigs ruling world
Kevin Brooker - May 11, 2009 Congratulations, it’s your lucky day. Merely plow on-ward for a few paragraphs and you will have the rare privilege of saying you once read about the Bilderberg Group in a daily news article. Oh, sure, there are over a million feverish Internet pages on the phenomenon, and you can buy plenty [...]
Sustainable Population: Australia and the Population-National Security Complex
by Michael Barker (Swans - May 4, 2009) In March 2008, Sustainable Population Australia celebrated their 20th anniversary by organizing a two-day conference titled “Population, Peak Oil, Climate Change: their impact on the Millennium Development Goals.” For most concerned citizens it is commonsensical that all three of the issues examined at this conference — [...]
Global warming: been there, done that
Australian geologist Ian Plimer says that the planet has warmed and cooled many times before. And humans aren’t to blame. Michael Cook | Friday, 8 May 2009 The group which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, the International Panel on Climate Change, says that it is “very likely”, ie, 90 percent sure, that [...]
The Rule of the ‘Experts’
by Justin Raimondo, May 11, 2009 The idea that we should be governed by “experts” goes back a long way, all the way to Plato, advocate of rule by philosopher-kings, who, in their wisdom, would reign over the common herd of humanity – for our own good, of course. More recently, the idea was picked [...]
The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It became one of the most significant novels of the 20th century. Here, Robert McCrum tells the compelling story of Orwell’s torturous stay on the island where the author, close to death and [...]
Hard Times Give New Life to Prague’s Golem
DAN BILEFSKY - May 10, 2009 PRAGUE — They say the Golem, a Jewish giant with glowing eyes and supernatural powers, is lurking once again in the attic of the Old-New Synagogue here. The Golem, according to Czech legend, was fashioned from clay and brought to life by a rabbi to protect Prague’s 16th-century ghetto from [...]
Speaker explains Nazi euthanasia, beginnings of eugenics
Caleb Williams - April 30, 2009 The Nazi euthanasia programs, which used starvation, gas chambers and Phenobarbital overdoses to kill its victims, grew out of the pseudoscience of eugenics that did not come from Germany, but largely the United States. Dr. Susan Benedict, from the University of Botswana, spoke Tuesday about the “steps to the final solution” [...]
The secret report that shows how the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich …in the EU
Adam Lebor - 09th May 2009 The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944. The document, also known as the Red House Report, is a detailed account of a secret meeting at the Maison [...]
People & Power - Rigged Markets
via Cannonfire Part 1 Part 2
Ted Turner: China a Good Example of Population Control, Despite Forced Abortions
Steven Ertelt - May 8, 2009 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Billionaire broadcast magnate Ted Turner is causing guffaws from observers with his latest comment on family planning in China. He lauded the Asian nation for its population control program and said it was a good example even though it is rife with forced abortions and sterilizations. During [...]
Specter’s JFK Specter
By Lisa Pease April 29, 2009 Given that Arlen Specter has decided to leave the Republican Party, I think it’s worth examining Specter’s history to see if he will be an asset or a burden for the Democratic Party. While Specter is perhaps most famous for coming up with the “single bullet theory” which purports that one [...]
Alum says Yale should speak out about Geronimo
May 7, 2009 by Carole Bass Yale seems reluctant to dig into the controversy over whether Skull and Bones has Geronimo’s skull and bones. But the university’s most prominent Native American alumnus wants his alma mater to take a stand. A federal lawsuit by Geronimo’s great-grandson is on hold for now against the university and the secret society. [...]
Angel or Demon? In the Vatican, Obama Is Both
“L’Osservatore Romano” praises him. Two prominent scholars of the pontifical academy of social sciences rail against him. The complete text of the accusation, signed by Michel Schooyans in conjunction with the archbishop of Dijon, Roland Minnerath by Sandro Magister ROME, May 8, 2009 – At the end of April, “L’Osservatore Romano” surprised everyone a little [...]
Jewish History / Waiting for the Messiah
by Dan Yardeni Three and a half centuries ago, a young, charismatic rabbi, Shabbetai Zvi, declared himself to be the Messiah and promised that the Jewish people would soon be redeemed and would return to Palestine, the ancestral Jewish homeland. Masses of Jews believed in him, and the events of that epoch, which are among the [...]
The George Washington Masonic National Memorial
Stephen Dafoe - May 6th, 2009 In the 30 years between the start of the 20th Century and the commencement of the Great Depression, American Freemasons spared no expense in turning their dreams and goals into tangible edifices that survive to this day, testament to the high regard with which Freemasons of that era held the [...]
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MEMENTO MORI - THE SYMBOL OF THE SKULL WITH CROSSED BONES
A Perspective on Death and Dying in the Chivalric Orders of the York Rite of Freemasonry
http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/skull-bones.html

Liberal Philanthropy and the "Birth" of Population Control Environmentalism
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/barker230708.html