Saturday, March 28, 2009

World Depression: Regional Wars and the Decline of the US Empire

Police identify 200 children as potential terrorists

Two hundred schoolchildren in Britain, some as young as 13, have been identified as potential terrorists by a police scheme that aims to spot youngsters who are "vulnerable" to Islamic radicalisation.

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Meanwhile the robbers, muggers, and rapists are running wild because the cops are too busy playing guessing games with the kiddies.

Obama passing new law to allow searching of PC's, Laptops, and media devices: Video

Barack Obama offers new strategy to tame Pakistan

More than seven years after America declared war on the Taleban, Afghanistan still stands on the brink of disaster, President Obama declared yesterday as he unveiled a new regional strategy to win the war in South Asia. An additional 21,000 US troops will be sent to Afghanistan and civilian aid to neighbouring Pakistan will be trebled, Mr Obama said in a speech that showed his desire to take full US ownership of the deepening conflict.
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"Taking Ownership" is how we got into this mess, and it is NOT what Obama promised while campaigning!

Japan prepares to blast North Korean missile out of the sky

"North Korea earlier this week reiterated its claim that the missile was for a peaceful satellite launch, and warned that any attempt to shoot down would be considered an act of war, reports The Korea Times.

"We will retaliate any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counter strikes by the most powerful military means," a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People's Army was quoted as saying, specifically naming South Korea, the US, and Japan.

"Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war," the spokesman said in a statement carried in English by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA)."

Obama promised an end to these wars started with lies. Clearly, Obama himself was lying.

Iran says West must respect will of Afghan people: "After seven years the international community - especially the West - has understood that the military option has brought about no result" in Afghanistan, Mottaki said.

'Iranian missile threat exaggerated': A candidate for a top nonproliferation post in the Obama administration played down on Monday the threat from Iran's long-range missile program as a reason to build a European missile defense system.

Slim majority of US Jews want war on Iran: Poll: A poll shows that Jewish Americans who favor a military strike on Iran over its nuclear program barely outnumber those against such an attack.

UN: Israel broke six-month truce in Gaza: A new UN report exposes a bit of misinformation peddled by the US and Israel and shatters the Zionist illusion that the Gaza war was legal.

Gazan family cut to pieces: Report: A new report details the gory killing of a family by Israeli unmanned drones, which can allegedly differentiate civilians from combatants.

Schwarzenegger To Provide Government Camps For Homeless
Shut down and takeover of "tent cities" stokes fears of internment pretext
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Plans to shut down tent cities in California and relocate homeless people to government-run facilities have stoked fears that the move could be a pretext for a wider internment of Americans in the event of a total economic collapse.

Wall Street Changes its Rules at Will - Goldman Bailed Out 2 Executives - Buying Hedge Fund Shares Out of Public View

The New York Times - Louise Story The financial giant Goldman Sachs spent tens of millions of dollars [...] In an unusual move [...] bought back stakes in some internal investment funds from Jon Winkelried, the bank’s co-chief operating officer, and Gregory K. Palm, its general counsel.

World Depression: Regional Wars and the Decline of the US Empire

All the idols of capitalism over the past three decades crashed. The assumptions and presumptions, paradigm and prognosis of indefinite progress under liberal free market capitalism have been tested and have failed. We are living the end of an entire epoch: Experts everywhere witness the collapse of the US and world financial system, the absence of credit for trade and the lack of financing for investment. A world depression, in which upward of a quarter of the world’s labor force will be unemployed, is looming. The biggest decline in trade in recent world history – down 40% year to year – defines the future.

Nader: Seven Steps the Obama Admin is NOT Taking to Fix the Banking Crash, Why Not?

Where are the resources for comprehensive law enforcement against the Wall Street crooks, swindlers and purveyors of costly deceptive practices? Isn't there a need to add two to three hundred million dollars for more FBI agents, prosecutors and corporate crime attorneys under the Justice Department to obtain the fines and disgorgements which will far exceed in dollars what is spent by the forces of law and order?

Mounties accused of 'cooking up' story

Four Mounties "collaborated to fabricate" their story to justify their conduct when Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski died while in their custody, a lawyer told a public inquiry yesterday.

US general: American forces may not leave key Iraqi cities: The top US ground commander in Iraq says that while Iraqi forces have made huge strides, Iraqi officials are likely to ask for US help in the key cities of Baquba and Mosul, meaning that American troops may stay there after the deadline for redeployment to major bases. Senior military commanders say US troops will also likely stay on in the southern city of Basra.

Iraq: Poor sell kidneys just to survive: Despite Iraq’s massive wealth – it has among the largest oil reserves in the world – poverty is rife. A 2007 study by the United Nations found one-third of Iraqis lived in poverty, with five per cent of the population in extreme poverty.

States Rebellion Pending

By Walter E. Williams

Our constitutional ignorance—perhaps contempt, coupled with the fact that we’ve become a nation of wimps, sissies and supplicants—has made us easy prey for Washington’s tyrannical forces. But that might be changing a bit. There are rumblings of a long overdue re-emergence of Americans’ characteristic spirit of rebellion. Continue

Suspected US Drone attack kills five in Pakistan: In a second attack in less than 24 hours, a US drone carried out a missile strike against a suspected Taliban hideout in North Waziristan in NWFP on Thursday killing five militants and injuring four others.

From his office in clouded cuckoo land : Obama aims to shut down al-Qaeda in Pakistan, Afghanistan : 'We have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future,' Obama said.

Change.... What change? Obama Unveils Afghan Plan to Add Troops and Set Goals: In strikingly ominous tones, Mr. Obama warned — just as President George W. Bush did repeatedly over the years — of intelligence estimates that al Qaeda “is actively planning attacks on the U.S. homeland from its safe haven in Pakistan.”

U.S. strikes in Pakistan "justify jihad": cleric: An expansion of America's secret war in Pakistan to Baluchistan province would justify jihad and see many more young men rally to fight foreign forces in Afghanistan, a radical cleric said.

Zardari calls for change in US anti-terror policy: - Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari called for a US change of policy and voiced opposition to missile strikes, as President Barack Obama was to unveil Friday a new strategy against Al-Qaeda .

Pakistan and Afghan Taliban Close Ranks: After agreeing to bury their differences and unite forces, Taliban leaders based in Pakistan have closed ranks with their Afghan comrades to ready a new offensive in Afghanistan as the United States prepares to send 17,000 more troops there this year.

Report: Afghanistan aid program flawed: The multibillion-dollar U.S. aid program in Afghanistan is disjointed, bureaucratic and overly dependent on private Western contractors, according to a report to be released today with implications for President Obama's Central Asia strategy.

US lawmakers tell Obama Iran engagement 'cannot be open-ended': The lawmakers said the central goal of any talks must be to get Iran to verifiably suspend uranium enrichment -- a possible prelude to a nuclear weapon -- "within at most a few months of the initiation of discussions."

Iran Clarifies Its Response to Obama : The key section of Khamenei's response, skipped over by the New York Times: - Have you changed anything but your words? If your enmity against the Iranian nation has truly ended, have you released Iranian assets? Have you removed sanctions? Have you ended your propaganda warfare? Have you ended your unconditional support for the Zionist regime…? Changing rhetoric must not be followed by unchanged intentions.

Russian, U.S. leaders to address Iranian nuclear issue in London: Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama will meet at the G20 summit due in London next week.

Harper reaffirms Tory support for state of Israel: Harper passionately reaffirmed his government's support for the state of Israel in a speech to hundreds of members of the Jewish community in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill.

Canadian Jews seek ban for Palestinian clerics: The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal says “these Jerusalem-based clerics will likely offer a divisive message of hate, racism and radicalization to Canadian audiences; one that incites violence over dialogue."

British MP's lawyers challenge entry ban: A court hearing on Sunday could determine whether controversial British MP George Galloway will be allowed into Canada to speak. That's when lawyers for Galloway go before a Federal Court judge seeking to set aside the immigration department's decision to bar him from the country.

FBI and American Muslims at Odds:

By Alexandra Marks

The situation worsened in February, when it became public that the FBI had planted an informant at a California mosque who, a coalition of more than a dozen Muslim American groups charges, actively tried to recruit terrorists. Continue

Is the Bailout Plan Breeding a Greater Crisis?

By Paul Craig Roberts

The US finances its trade deficit by turning over to foreigners ownership of existing US assets and their future income streams, which, of course, increases the flow of income away from Americans. Continue


"We're All In This Together"

No we are not, that's the point.

By Cindy Sheehan

President Obama basically said that we can't demonize every investor who earns a profit, because "we are all in this together." Sorry, but I am going to have to call a big fat "bull-shit" on this one. Continue

'Billions wasted' in Iraq: BETWEEN $US3 billion and $US5 billion have been wasted in the US-effort to rebuild Iraq since 2003, the US official assigned to oversee reconstruction efforts in that country said today. Stuart Bowen, the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, warned politicians on Capitol Hill that mistakes made in trying to rebuild Iraq were being repeated in Afghanistan.

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran? Military Intelligence chief : Iran has crossed nuclear bomb threshold: He told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the Islamic Republic has developed surface-to-surface missiles that can carry nuclear warheads.

Israel ups anti-Iran rants as Bibi era nears: Israel claims Iran can build a nuclear weapon within a year as the hawkish Likud leader moves closer to assembling his government.

Israel accused of indiscriminate phosphorus use in Gaza: Human Rights Watch report claims Israel committed war crimes in its use of air-burst white phosphorus artillery shells

Israel’s world standing falls: Israeli newspapers published soldiers’ testimonies, including evidence that troops shot at unarmed civilians and vandalised homes. Some said they were issued with lax rules of engagement that placed little value on the safety of Gazan civilians.

More extra-judicial killings - Khartoum: US attack killed 39 people in Sudan: The report also noted that the convoy, consisting of 17 trucks, carried 39 passengers -- none of which survived the attack.

U.S. stages deadly air strike against arms smugglers inside Sudan: He said that the air strike caused an "embarrassment" to Khartoum which viewed it as a "violation to its sovereignty" and discussed the matter with Cairo in an effort to gather more information to formulate a response.

Sudanese president returns home from second visit abroad: This was the second visit abroad for the Sudanese president since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against him earlier this month on charges of so-called war crimes and crimes of anti-humanity.

Al Qaeda issues warning to Sudanese president: Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri Tuesday demanded Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir 'repent' for kicking the terrorist group's leaders out of Sudan and called on the Sudanese people to 'prepare for a guerrilla war against the West'.

South Sudan clashes leave 750 dead: - Fighting in south Sudan's Jonglei state has left some 750 people dead, with growing insecurity in the wider region hampering aid efforts, United Nations officials said on Wednesday.

North Korea positions missile on launch pad: report: North Korea has said it would launch a satellite between April 4 and April 8. Regional powers see the launch as a disguised test of its longest-range missile and a violation of U.N. sanctions forbidding the reclusive state from firing ballistic missiles.

Russia seeks to weaken US, West: NATO general: - Russia seems intent on weakening Western institutions and its relations with NATO will likely be more strained in the coming years than at any time since the Cold War ended, NATO's top commander said on Tuesday.

UN & IMF Back Agenda For Global Financial Dictatorship
Frog march to new world reserve currency system continues apace
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, March 27, 2009
Both the IMF and the United Nations have thrown their weight behind proposals to implement a new world reserve currency system to replace the dollar as part of the acceleration towards a global financial dictatorship, in the same week that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told CFR globalists that he was “open” to the idea.

Top Constitutional Scholar: Secret Bush Memos Reveal Plan For "Massive Military Takeover Of US"
Expert says Yoo memos instigate "Law by fiat", "Fuhrer's law", "constitutes treason"

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, March 26, 2009

A top constitutional scholar has said that recently released Justice Department memos prove that nefarious elements within the Bush Administration were planning a massive military takeover of the country and that the documents should be used to bring charges of treason.
http://www.infowars.net/articles/march2009/250309Ratner.htm

Two-Faced Geithner Assures CFR Puppet Masters He's "Open" To Global Currency
Treasury Secretary a traitor, tells American people one thing, CFR elitists another, as move towards global monetary union accelerates
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 26, 2009
In a near complete reversal of his comments on Tuesday, when he told a Congressional hearing that there were no plans to move towards a global currency to supplant the dollar, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sought to please the elitist CFR by assuring them that he was “open” to the notion of a new global currency system.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/two-faced-geithner-assures-cfr-puppet-masters-hes-open-to-global-currency.html

Obama to Bring More Mercenaries to Afghanistan -- Sound Familiar?
- by Jim Hightower - 2009-03-28
The Worsening U.S. Failure
- by Emily Spence - 2009-03-28
Obama Voices Support for NATO Expansion Despite Russian Qualms
- 2009-03-28

How the Scam Works: The "Free Market" at Work, Financial Style
- by Prof. Michael Hudson - 2009-03-28


Canada: Reverse the ban on Galloway
- by Lawyers Against the War - 2009-03-28


Financial Crime in America
Why Hasn’t Obama Targeted The Ongoing White Collar Crime Wave?
- by Danny Schechter - 2009-03-28

VIDEO: US-NATO War Crimes: "Humanitarian Intervention" Challenged
10 year commemoration of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
- by Michel Chossudovsky - 2009-03-28


Obama's Latest No Banker Left Behind Scheme
- by Stephen Lendman - 2009-03-27

Is There Any Gold Left in Fort Knox?

'It is said to be the most impregnable vault on Earth: built out of granite, sealed behind a 22-tonne door, located on a US military base and watched over day and night by army units with tanks, heavy artillery and Apache helicopter gunships at their disposal.

Since its construction in 1937 the treasures locked inside Fort Knox have included the US Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, three volumes of the Gutenberg Bible and Magna Carta.

For several prominent investors and at least one senior US congressman it is not the security of the facility in Kentucky that is a cause of concern: it is the matter of how much gold remains stored there - and who owns it.'

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Saturday, 28 March 2009

DNA Scan Could Cut Your Insurance Premiums

'Taking genetic tests to assess potential health risks could mean cheaper medical insurance even if the results are not disclosed, a senior industry executive has told The Times. Customers who take personal DNA scans will pay lower premiums because insurers believe that they encourage a healthier lifestyle, according to Gil Baldwin, the managing director of Norwich Union Healthcare.

The advent of tests for DNA variants that affect common disorders such as diabetes and heart disease has prompted fears of discrimination and the creation of a "genetic underclass" who cannot buy cover.

Mr Baldwin insisted that his company did not see genetics as a tool for cherry picking low-risk customers but as a way of helping them to manage and reduce their risk of disease with the aim of lowering costs for both parties.'

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