I get that, my point is if everybody in the united states was to see what your seeing what would they be able to do about? Nothing, it would be the equivlent of people throwing rocks at a battleshbip. In other words were out gunned.
Thats true. There is only one way really, such pulling our own version of the August Putsch. Perhaps some day (little hope I have) some of our lesser (the very top is corrupt) Generals have interest in restoring the country and constitution.
Oil Prices Due to Rise With Iran Oil Embargo Looming
Source: Ben Gersten, Money Morning (6/11/12) Invalid Link Removed
"Three possible scenarios could escalate oil prices as high as $440/bbl."
After an abysmal May, oil prices might be at their low.
From May 1 to June 1 crude oil prices fell 21.8% from $106.50 to $83.23 a barrel, the steepest monthly drop since December 2008.
One week later oil is still hovering around the $83 mark. But why is oil still down?
Oil has also been hampered by weaker than expected economic reports in the United States, suggesting that the world's biggest economy is still struggling in its recovery.
Also the Eurozone debt crisis has had a strengthening effect on the U.S. dollar, which has helped push oil prices down as the dollar is the global currency for oil.
But many experts say the rise in oil prices is inevitable. From a projected 25% increase in global demand by 2015 to the possibility of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, there are many factors in play here.
As Money Morning's Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald stated, "demand isn't the only driving force in oil prices." Also contributing, he says, "are geopolitics, supply constrictions, wars and tyrants with their hand on crude spigots."
Iran Oil Embargo Effect
As summer approaches more motorists won't be the only factor affecting the supply and demand of oil.
On January 23, the European Union agreed to place an embargo on Iranian oil starting July 1 and will subsequently freeze the assets of Iran's central bank.
In response to those decisions Iran announced a month later that it would stop all sales of oil to Britain and France.
Then SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), instructed by the EU and pressured by the U.S., disconnected 25 Iranian banks including the Central Bank of Iran, from its services.
SWIFT is responsible for more than 80% of the world's financial transactions and electronic money transfers.
Iran's leaders remain steadfast in their decision to continue questionable nuclear activities and have stated that they can withstand the effects of the embargo and current economic sanctions.
So far Iranian oil exports are down more than 25% this year.
How High Can Oil Prices Go?
A special report by Money Morning's own energy expert indicated three reasons or possible scenarios that could contribute to the escalation in oil prices.
The increasing shortage of supply in Europe stemming from less Libyan oil, problems in the North Sea, and the Iran oil embargo which could result in a shortage of 600,000 barrels a day.
The ever present threat by Iran to respond to sanctions by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, through which 17 million barrels of Middle Eastern crude travel to Western refineries every day.
The possibility that Israel could stage a pre-emptive strike against Iran to stop its nuclear weapons program, plunging the Middle East into war and disrupting the global oil-supply chain.
Moors says any one of those events would push crude sharply higher. Estimates for the impact on oil prices if all three occur range from $200 a barrel to as high as $440. These numbers might seem high, but are a definite possibility.
Even if none of those events occur oil prices should still rise from the increased demand and supply constraints it faces.
The price of oil is mainly determined by the trading of oil contracts on the commodities market, as well as the trading of oil etf stocks. Investment banks, hedge funds, traders, have much more influence over the price of oil than middle east conflicts. The actual price of a barrel of oil should be about $40 if you took trading and speculation out of the game.
Israel Rounds Up Africans Who Threaten the “Character” of the Jewish State
By Invalid Link Removed
TEL AVIV | Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:31am EDT
(Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it had started rounding up African migrants in the first stage of a controversial "emergency plan" to intern and deport thousands deemed a threat to the Jewish character of the state.
Israel Radio reported that dozens of Africans, mainly from South Sudan, had already been detained in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, including mothers and children.
"This is only a small group of the infiltrators," Interior Minister Eli Yishai said. "I'm not acting out of hatred of strangers but love of my people and to rescue the homeland."
The goal is to repatriate all the estimated 60,000 African migrants, whose growing numbers are seen by many Israelis as a law and order issue and even a threat to the long-term viability of the Jewish state.
Illegal migration, and the pool of cheap labor it provides, is a common headache for developed economies. Israel is grappling with its own special ghosts as it tackles the problem.
For some in Israel, built by immigrants and refugees, internment and deportation are bad solutions that may damage the international image of the country needlessly.
They say rounding up members of a different racial group and holding them in camps for deportation may invite allusions to the Nazi Holocaust, however unfair such comparisons may be, and betrays Jewish values.
NOT CRIMINALS
About 500 Sudanese men held an orderly protest in Tel Aviv on Sunday against expulsion, the solution chosen by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after two months of heated debate over how to handle the flow of migrants.
"We are refugees, not criminals," the Sudanese chanted, in a retort to allegations that Africans prey on Israeli citizens, following high-profile rape allegations.
Many Sudanese, including hundreds who escaped from conflict and humanitarian disaster in Darfur, have been in Israel for several years, living in legal limbo without formal refugee status, but peaceably, they say.
Now they are caught up in a wave of hostility towards blacks in general, focused on a poor area of south Tel Aviv where they congregate.
"We're being called a cancer and an AIDs virus on the Israeli people, by politicians in the Knesset," said protest organizer Jacob Berri. He accused government right-wingers of racist incitement and inflammatory language.
The number of migrants crossing into Israel over the Sinai desert border has accelerated since 2006. It ballooned last year when revolution distracted Egypt's attention from policing Bedouin people-smugglers operating in the Sinai peninsula.
Israel has now built a high fence along the frontier.
"My policy with regard to the illegal infiltrators seeking work is clear," Netanyahu said in a May 29 speech. "First of all, to stop their entry with the fence and at the same time to deport the infiltrators who are in Israel."
He warns of Africans "flooding" and "swamping" Israel, threatening "the character of the country". Emergency measures to reverse the influx will include "detention facilities with thousands of units", Netanyahu said last week.
Berri said the South Sudanese number about 700. They know when they are not wanted and will leave, he said. But their refugee status must first be assured by the United Nations, and third-country resettlement programs established.
TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Israeli human rights and activist groups back the Africans. But rightwing and religious parties say that if they are not stopped today's 60,000 will become 600,000 in a few years, in a population of 7.8 million.
Poor south Tel Aviv residents say affluent north Tel Aviv Jews can afford to be liberal, because the Africans are not in their back yard. An opinion poll last week showed 52 percent of Israelis agree that the Africans are "a cancer".
"They've come here to rape and steal," one Israeli woman shouted at a small but ugly anti-migrant demonstration earlier this month in south Tel Aviv. "We should burn them out, put poison in their food," said an elderly man.
Netanyahu urges restraint. "We are a moral people and we will act accordingly. We denounce violence; we denounce invective. We respect human rights," he said, but added: "Israel cannot accept "infiltrators from an entire continent".
The term "infiltrators" is also used by authorities to describe armed Palestinian militants.
Voluntary deportees will get financial assistance.
"Whoever comes forward will get his grant ... from the moment you come to immigration authorities and say you will pack up, from that moment you will be given an opportunity to pack up, and the grant of 1,000 euros," Yishai said.
The first planeload is expected to leave Israel next week.
Israel Rounds Up Africans Who Threaten the “Character” of the Jewish State
By Invalid Link Removed
TEL AVIV | Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:31am EDT
(Reuters) - Israel said on Monday it had started rounding up African migrants in the first stage of a controversial "emergency plan" to intern and deport thousands deemed a threat to the Jewish character of the state.
Israel Radio reported that dozens of Africans, mainly from South Sudan, had already been detained in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, including mothers and children.
"This is only a small group of the infiltrators," Interior Minister Eli Yishai said. "I'm not acting out of hatred of strangers but love of my people and to rescue the homeland."
The goal is to repatriate all the estimated 60,000 African migrants, whose growing numbers are seen by many Israelis as a law and order issue and even a threat to the long-term viability of the Jewish state.
Illegal migration, and the pool of cheap labor it provides, is a common headache for developed economies. Israel is grappling with its own special ghosts as it tackles the problem.
For some in Israel, built by immigrants and refugees, internment and deportation are bad solutions that may damage the international image of the country needlessly.
They say rounding up members of a different racial group and holding them in camps for deportation may invite allusions to the Nazi Holocaust, however unfair such comparisons may be, and betrays Jewish values.
NOT CRIMINALS
About 500 Sudanese men held an orderly protest in Tel Aviv on Sunday against expulsion, the solution chosen by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after two months of heated debate over how to handle the flow of migrants.
"We are refugees, not criminals," the Sudanese chanted, in a retort to allegations that Africans prey on Israeli citizens, following high-profile rape allegations.
Many Sudanese, including hundreds who escaped from conflict and humanitarian disaster in Darfur, have been in Israel for several years, living in legal limbo without formal refugee status, but peaceably, they say.
Now they are caught up in a wave of hostility towards blacks in general, focused on a poor area of south Tel Aviv where they congregate.
"We're being called a cancer and an AIDs virus on the Israeli people, by politicians in the Knesset," said protest organizer Jacob Berri. He accused government right-wingers of racist incitement and inflammatory language.
The number of migrants crossing into Israel over the Sinai desert border has accelerated since 2006. It ballooned last year when revolution distracted Egypt's attention from policing Bedouin people-smugglers operating in the Sinai peninsula.
Israel has now built a high fence along the frontier.
"My policy with regard to the illegal infiltrators seeking work is clear," Netanyahu said in a May 29 speech. "First of all, to stop their entry with the fence and at the same time to deport the infiltrators who are in Israel."
He warns of Africans "flooding" and "swamping" Israel, threatening "the character of the country". Emergency measures to reverse the influx will include "detention facilities with thousands of units", Netanyahu said last week.
Berri said the South Sudanese number about 700. They know when they are not wanted and will leave, he said. But their refugee status must first be assured by the United Nations, and third-country resettlement programs established.
TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Israeli human rights and activist groups back the Africans. But rightwing and religious parties say that if they are not stopped today's 60,000 will become 600,000 in a few years, in a population of 7.8 million.
Poor south Tel Aviv residents say affluent north Tel Aviv Jews can afford to be liberal, because the Africans are not in their back yard. An opinion poll last week showed 52 percent of Israelis agree that the Africans are "a cancer".
"They've come here to rape and steal," one Israeli woman shouted at a small but ugly anti-migrant demonstration earlier this month in south Tel Aviv. "We should burn them out, put poison in their food," said an elderly man.
Netanyahu urges restraint. "We are a moral people and we will act accordingly. We denounce violence; we denounce invective. We respect human rights," he said, but added: "Israel cannot accept "infiltrators from an entire continent".
The term "infiltrators" is also used by authorities to describe armed Palestinian militants.
Voluntary deportees will get financial assistance.
"Whoever comes forward will get his grant ... from the moment you come to immigration authorities and say you will pack up, from that moment you will be given an opportunity to pack up, and the grant of 1,000 euros," Yishai said.
The first planeload is expected to leave Israel next week.
I am not a Zionist, nor am I an anti-zionist. But I do believe Israel has the right to survive. Just as every people in the world do. Israel is literally surrounded by countries who want them wiped off the map. This is the truth and not "Zionist Propaganda". Millions of people HATE them and want them eliminated. They are forced to take extreme and pre-emptive measures to assure their survival. And we cannot judge them unless we are in their shoes.
But I also don't think America should do their dirty work.
I am not a Zionist, nor am I an anti-zionist. But I do believe Israel has the right to survive. Just as every people in the world do. Israel is literally surrounded by countries who want them wiped off the map. This is the truth and not "Zionist Propaganda". Millions of people HATE them and want them eliminated. They are forced to take extreme and pre-emptive measures to assure their survival. And we cannot judge them unless we are in their shoes.
But I also don't think America should do their dirty work.
We do also have to account the suppression of the Palestinians they have to ensure their survival too. We have to see how it may make other countries upset. Its very barbaric. Its a complicated issue there as well as the entire middle east. Both sides are wrong and I condemn all violence...both sides are stuck I dont see any hope for peace its very sad.
We do also have to account the suppression of the Palestinians they have to ensure their survival too. We have to see how it may make other countries upset. Its very barbaric. Its a complicated issue there as well as the entire middle east. Both sides are wrong and I condemn all violence...both sides are stuck I dont see any hope for peace its very sad.
The Palestinians are suppressed by their own government. I think they should start there before they start pointing fingers as the Israeli's and Americans. However, if they point the finger at their own governments they're sure to be chopped off. lol
The Palestinians are suppressed by their own government. I think they should start there before they start pointing fingers as the Israeli's and Americans. However, if they point the finger at their own governments they're sure to be chopped off. lol
Thats a good point too, of course they are. But whats worse, their own government suppressing them? Or the Israelis incrementally killing people, taking whats left of their land, cutting off food and medical supplies, using bombs, heavy artillery and chemical weapons, etc....
I bet most who have family that died is a result of Israel and not the Palestine goverment. Most of their sufferings are caused by Israel.
Just to add....If you have modern weapons and all suited up in professional attire, your called an army. If you use out-dated weapons, guerilla tactics to defend your homeland and dress in random clothing on your called a "terrorist organization."
Just to be clear again...its a big mess and both sides have issues.
Thats a good point too, of course they are. But whats worse, their own government suppressing them? Or the Israelis incrementally killing people, taking whats left of their land, cutting off food and medical supplies, using bombs, heavy artillery and chemical weapons, etc....
I bet most who have family that died is a result of Israel and not the Palestine goverment. Most of their sufferings are caused by Israel.
I'm going to be honest, neither of us are over there seeing what's going on first hand, so it's hard to really know what's going on. I trust half of what I see and nothing of what I hear.
If all that is true, in your opinion what would be the Israeli's reason for suppressing the Palestinian civilians?
I'm going to be honest, neither of us are over there seeing what's going on first hand, so it's hard to really know what's going on. I trust half of what I see and nothing of what I hear.
If all that is true, in your opinion what would be the Israeli's reason for suppressing the Palestinian civilians?
Israel wants all (most) of their land, and the settlements keep expanding...Palestines defend themselves so Israel just want those people to shut up and grow up, or die and go away...they are not allowed to save their face.
Many Israelis are born in their country, and they just want to live there in peace. Its easy for them to hate the other group...they are stuck in a bad situation as well.
Its natural in this situation for both sides to hate each other.
We really need a 2 state solution and allow Palestine to rule their own land and not have it continually taken by Israelis. I do want both to have their own land.
Israel wants all (most) of their land, and the settlements keep expanding...Palestines defend themselves so Israel just want those people to shut up and grow up, or die and go away...they are not allowed to save their face.
Many Israelis are born in their country, and they just want to live there in peace. Its easy for them to hate the other group...they are stuck in a bad situation as well.
Its natural in this situation for both sides to hate each other.
We really need a 2 state solution and allow Palestine to rule their own land and not have it continually taken by Israelis. I do want both to have their own land.
You can argue the Israeli's were there first. You can argue the Native Americans were here first. But who was here before them? And who was there before the Israeli's. It's a never ending conflict. These people have been fighting over that land for literally thousands of years. Conquest has been a part of human events since time immemorial.
I agree a two state solution is key and the only way for peace down the road. Unfortunately over the past 20 years every time it's about to be settled, the Palestinians receive massive pressure from Hammas, Iran and others not to follow through and instead not recognize Israel completely.
Here's how I look at it. To break it down as simple as possible. There are good Jews and bad Jews. Good Palestinians and bad Palestinians. If the Jewish state was THAT evil, and wanted ALL of the land, they would have used the nuclear weapons they have to take out whatever middle eastern country they want. IF, Iran or the extremist sect of Palestine had nukes, they would have already sent a nuke over to Israel with one of the bombs they shoot over there every day. At the end of the day I have more faith in good coming from people who live in a democratic/capitalistic nation, than those living under a dictatorship and Sharia law.
Is playing politics a good enough reason for endorsing a Goldman Sachs-funded, flip flopping, warmongering Bilderberg puppet? Invalid Link Removed & Invalid Link Removed confront Rand Paul.
Rand Paul Confronted on Bilderberg: ‘No Comment’ on Logan Act Violations
Invalid Link Removed
June 10, 2012
RAND IN 2010: Denouncing Bilderberg & Goldman Sachs Influence
Obama Seeks US Congressional Ratification of UN Global Gun Control Treaty
Susanne Posel
Infowars.com
June 16, 2012
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Gun sculpture at the United Nations in New York.
Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State has announced that the Obama administration is working with the United Nations (UN) to approve, through the US Congress, the Small Arms Treaty (SAT).
Clinton affirmed that the US would facilitate talks with the UN in the Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, as long as it “operates under the rules of consensus decision-making. Consensus is needed to ensure the widest possible support for the Treaty and to avoid loopholes in the Treaty that can be exploited by those wishing to export arms irresponsibly.”
This global gun control scheme, concocted by the UN, is called the Invalid Link Removed (IACT). Disguised as a way to combat terrorism, insurgents and international criminals, this document endeavors to secure the world’s citizens cannot defend themselves.
The IACT will empower the UN to literally force the US government to:
• Enact internationally agreed licensing requirements for Americans
• Confiscate and destroy unauthorized firearms of Americans while allowing the US government to keep theirs
• Ban trade, sale and private ownership of semi-automatic guns
• Create and mandate an international registry to organize an encompassing gun confiscation in America
Senator Jerry Moran Invalid Link Removed (signed by 44 other senators) to President Obama; warning him not to continue his push for ratification of the SAT. Moran wrote: “Our country’s sovereignty and the Second Amendment rights of American citizens must not be infringed upon by the United Nations. Today, the Senate sends a powerful message to the Obama Administration: an Arms Trade Treaty that does not protect ownership of civilian firearms will fail in the Senate. Our firearm freedoms are not negotiable.”
The US is the world’s largest exporter of firearms; while private sales between citizens, collectors and sportsmen would all be internationally regulated with the approval of IACT. This includes rules over ammunition, and procurement.
The Obama administration, in an attempt to appear coy, agreed to sign only if other states agreed to as well. Yet many Senators, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and pro-gun advocates perceive IACT as the first step in international gun control and will not abide by while Obama gives the UN over-reaching power to destroy our 2nd Amendment and our Constitutional Republic.
A final version of SAT, which is based on IACT will be drafted by 2013.
Chris Cox, the NRA’s top lobbyist, explains: “As we have for the past 15 years, the NRA will fight to stop a United Nations Arms Trade Treaty that infringes on the Constitutional rights of American gun owners.” Cox feels that Senators like Moran “sends a clear message to the international bureaucrats who want to eliminate our fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms. Clearly, a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty that includes civilian arms within its scope is not supported by the American people or their elected U.S. Senators. Senator Moran is a true champion of our freedom. We are grateful for his leadership and his tenacious efforts on this issue, as well as the 44 other senators who agree with the NRA’s refusal to compromise on our constitutional freedoms.”
Last month, in Invalid Link Removed, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has awarded defense contractor Invalid Link Removed with an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement for .40 caliber hollow point ammunition.
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ATK has secured a major Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity deal to supply up to 450 million rounds of .40 caliber ammunition to the Department of Homeland Security . . . The 1 year contract with four option years comes at a time when many Americans believe that DHS, along with certain aspects of the military, will soon turn their sights on the American people during some sort of martial law scenario . . . We are proud to extend our track record as the prime supplier of .40 caliber duty ammunition for DHS, ICE,” said Ron Johnson, the president of ATK’s Security and Sporting group.”
This particular type of bullet is meant to expand upon impact “engineered for 100-percent weight retention, limits collateral damage, and avoids over-penetration.”
This order is not the first for DHS. In 2009, Invalid Link Removed for delivery of 200 million hollow point bullets.
The economic state of America has caused US citizens to purchase armory at an incredible rate. A national “Invalid Link Removed” last March saw a shortage of guns in stores for the first time.
“I have never seen such a situation in all my years as a gun owner, hunter and cop,” said Invalid Link Removed, a New York police officer and shooting instructor. “I’m hearing from fellow shooters that they are stockpiling ammunition these days because they are afraid of what they’re seeing in this country.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reported that an estimated 6 million requests for pre-sale guns in 2009 reflects a 26% increase.
In response to Americans arming themselves, President Obama is seeking Congress to approve the UN’s international governance over our 2nd Amendment while claiming that it is only an attempt to create more stringent gun legislation for the American public’s protection.
This post was reposted from Susanne Posel’s blog, Invalid Link Removed.
Death Summit 2012: A Window Into 21st Century Eugenics
Jurriaan Maessen
June 18, 2012
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The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro has begun. The global leviathan that is the United Nations bares its teeth. In the months preceeding the summit, a continuing stream of publications has poured down from every corner of the transnational community, in essence calling for global governance of the environment as well as a stark reduction in the global human population. These two items are very much intertwined, according to the growing pile of UN papers flying from the supranational tree, all basically stating that the first is necessary in order to facilitate the latter.
One of these leaves circles down to us from the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) displays a collection of “key messages” written by the usual suspects, such as dedicated man-hater Invalid Link Removed, eco-terrorist Invalid Link Removed and NASA’s own mad-as-hell environmentalist Invalid Link Removed. Their joint statement titled “Invalid Link Removed” was clearly designed to inspire the UN and its upcoming confab to make haste with global government. In their manifesto the impatient fiends call for a global implementation of population policies and rights being trampled upon in order to address what they call “the population issue”:
“The population issue should be urgently addressed by education and empowerment of women, including in the work-force and in rights, ownership and inheritance; health care of children and the elderly; and making modern contraception accessible to all.”, they write.
“Globally, we must find better means to agree and implement measures to achieve collective goals.”
The authors go on to assert that “in the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.”
Decrying that “funding (for worldwide fertility control) decreased by 30% between 1995 and 2008, not least as a result of legislative pressure from the religious right in the USA and elsewhere”, the authors call for “education and planning needed to foster and achieve a sustainable human population and lifestyles.”
Now what do you think this means exactly, a sustainable human population? James Lovelock in 2009 gave us the answer, called for the culling of the population with a desired outcome of 1 billion people worldwide.
James Lovelock - Population Reduction "max 1 billion"
Lovelock also Invalid Link Removed in 2010 that humans are too stupid to prevent climate change- therefore governments worldwide, preferably a one world government, must prevent it for them.
Of all the eco-fascists penning down proposals, Paul Ehrlich may be considered the most bloodthirsty of the bunch- with his continuing insistence on massive population reduction. Few people need to be reminded of the words he wrote in Ecoscience which he Invalid Link Removed, the current White House science czar. To highlight a few of these:
“Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.”
Remember this when you read his proposals for a global society necessary to “address population issues”. Also out of Ecoscience:
“… Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist.”
This suggestion might well come to pass, considering the statements issued by an organization calling itself the “Regeneration Project”, when recently it suggested in their manifest Invalid Link Removed that the UN Security Council expand its mandate “to include environmental issues and security issues related to the environment” as well as “an International Court for the Environment (ICE) to settle disputes related to the environment and international environmental law.”
“(…) global institutions”, they say, “will be responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring sustainable development policies going forward. Currently left largely to UNEP and the UN’s Commission on Sustainable Development, there is a desire by many to strengthen the authority of these institutions and/or create a new World Environment Organization (WEO).”
The group also called upon governments and NGO’s to create “personal carbon quotas, essentially making carbon a new form of currency for Individuals.”
A global carbon policy, in other words, enforced by a global carbon court. Furthermore, the group advocates implementation of population stabilization policies at the upcoming summit:
“Securing commitments from governments to try to stabilize global population”, the document reads.
Stabilize the global population no less, and using UN member-states (governments) as the enforcers of policies designed to achieve that goal. Here we have yet another example of key globalist players proposing far-reaching measures to exercise control over the masses, not for the sake of control itself (that’s something for the minor psychopaths that play along), but with the objective of culling the human population globally.
Another measure proposed by the Regeneration Project:
-Establishing a World Environment Organization (WEO)
The envisioned “Planetary Regime” is nearing when we take into consideration this set of proposals issued by the group. We might be surprised were the group not co-sponsored by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Bank. We have come to expect such things from these organizations. It was the World Bank Invalid Link Removed (page 8 ) that “drastic steps” may be necessary if developing nations do not comply with their population control directives.
It was not the first time that the Regeneration Project sought to cull the human population. In their paper Invalid Link Removed the group, consistent with the Georgia Guidestones, advises governments to keep the population under a certain number:
“(…) stabilizing population to not more than eight billion people”, the Unfinished Business report explains.
Another concept that has been thrown out there, is that humanity has now entered a new geological era, dominated not by natural processes, but by man. This new age, ominously dubbed “the Anthropocene” can only be reversed, the UN says, when transnational rule wipes out sovereign rule- a suggestion that has a distinct tyrannical ring to it.
This particular promo, designed to prelude the Earth Summit, has been put out by a team of UN-sponsored scientists. The Invalid Link Removed associated with the “short film” states it has been set up by “researchers and communicators from some of the leading scientific research institutions on global sustainability.”
The “leading scientific institutions” the website mentions are visible at the credits-page, namely: the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Stockholm University and other organizations aimed at promoting global governance.
The film itself follows the same old tiresome script we’ve heard so often from the mouths of neo-eugenic propagandists: too many people, shrinking icecaps, rising sea levels and all the rest.
In an very recent paper by Colorado state university professor Philip Cafaro titled “Invalid Link Removed“, the term “Anthropocene” pops up once more- and once again the finger is explicitly pointed towards humanity as the prime evildoer. Citing the UN’s debunked Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the professor paints a picture of gloom and doom (page 57):
“Scientists now speak of humanity’s increased demands and impacts on the globe as ushering in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Such selfish and destructive appropriation of the resources of the Earth can only be described as interspecies genocide.”
He of course forgets to mention that if there’s one thing constant about climate, is that it changes constantly. Furthermore, the idea that CO2 emissions have any significant impact on the earth’s atmosphere has really been put back on the fiction-shelf where it belongs :
“It is past time to acknowledge the immense injustice toward other species represented by climate change and other human assaults on the biosphere”, the professor goes on to say: “and to reform our environmental ethics and behavior accordingly.”
What the professor means when he writes “behavior”, is not just some friendly “family planning”- campaign. He actually writes that in order to prevent global Armageddon, only the most draconian policies will do:
“Ending human population growth is almost certainly a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for preventing catastrophic global climate change. Indeed, significantly reducing current human numbers (emphasis added) may be necessary in order to do so.”
An important distinction. It is one thing to end growth. It’s quite another thing to reduce current human numbers.
“(…) we are more likely to achieve a decent future for the world’s poor if we end global population growth as quickly as possible. In fact, reducing the human population may be necessary in order to achieve such a future.”, the professor repeats himself on page 54.
Cafaro regards the issue as an ethical one- and stresses once again that nothing less than a significant reduction in the current human population is necessary.
“My first substantive assertion in the second half of this paper is as follows”, he writes. “The consensus regarding acceptable limits to global climate change demands, at a minimum, that we take steps to end human population growth. Indeed, taking such limits seriously probably supports significantly reducing the size of the current global human population. Given the role population growth has played and will play in accelerating climate change under business as usual, no less cautious policy would appear to pass ethical muster.”
Decrying that “the IPCC’s position seems to be that population control is too controversial to discuss.”, the professor goes on to say that “(…) the failure to address population issues distorts our judgments regarding just what we should do to mitigate and adapt to climate change, and what constitutes a fair international division of labor regarding these efforts.”
As Cafaro continues his case for stringent populationpolicies worldwide, he touches upon the inevitable question whether to implement such policies by force or on a voluntary basis:
“(…) the question of coercion may not be avoidable forever. It is an article of faith among many progressive writers in this area that voluntary methods are sufficient to limit populations to acceptable levels, but that probably does not hold true for all times and places, and it may not hold true for the world as a whole in the 21st or 22nd centuries.”
The professor then argues that for any population policy to be effective, it has to be done by coercion:
“China’s policies have largely stabilized its population, while some nations that rely solely on non-coercive measures, like India, continue to balloon.”
The professor can of course not wholly avoid the issue of free will perhaps revolting against a UN enforced global population-reducing assault:
“True, for many people, telling them what kind of car to drive or how many children to have will seem an intolerable infringement of their rights. But then we should move expeditiously to put non-coercive or less coercive incentives in place that achieve the desired ends. If these prove insufficient, then we may have to accept stricter limits on our freedom to consume or to have children.”
Another a bunch of scientists involved with the “Planet under Pressure” confab- one of whom stated earlier that Invalid Link Removed- is featuring the Anthropocene-film prominently on its website, in addition to calling for global government to stem the tide of “human-induced climate change”.
As part of the State of the Planet Declaration issued by the UN-backed organization, a collection of high-level scientists now pushes the idea of global governance, calling it “Earth System Governance”. The declaration reads:
“Governments must take action to support institutions and mechanisms that will improve coherence, as well as bring about integrated policy and action across the social, economic and environmental pillars. Current understanding supports the creation of a Sustainable Development Council within the UN system to integrate social, economic and environmental policy at the global level. There is also strong support for strengthening global governance by including civil society, business and industry in decision-making at all levels.”
Again: a Planetary Regime by any other name…
In a separate policy brief put out by the same confab titled Transforming Governance and Institutions for a Planet under Pressure the initiators again openly promote the emergence of global government when they write under the header “Prepare Global Governance for a Warmer World”:
“At the global level, the institutional framework seems ill prepared to cope with the consequences of massive global change that will affect such major systems as food, water, energy, health and migration, and their interactions. While massive changes, for example in sea level, may not be imminent, future dangers can be minimized if institutional reform is planned and negotiated today. Global adaptation programmes thus need to become a core concern of the UN system and governments.”
It has of course been exhaustively documented that if there’s one thing constant about the climate, is that it changes constantly. Furthermore, the idea of world government is much older than any global warming-craze the elite have come up with. As lord Christopher Monckton points out, the UNEP and other agencies within the UN system are just extra bureaucracies that are out to ruin individual freedom, replacing real liberty with the artificial sort under an planetary rule. Furthermore, all this emphasis on culling the population must give even the most gullible reader pause.
Jurriaan Maessen’s post first appeared Invalid Link Removed.
An online language school has been criticised - for employing scantily-clad glamour models to teach people Chinese.
Invalid Link Removed, whose motto is 'Learning Mandarin in an unconventional way', has become a runaway hit.
Would-be teachers are asked to submit a full-body photo, as well as any relevant modelling or teaching experience.
The course's latest lesson, called Mirror, is conducted by two lingerie-wearing models who discuss their body shapes and diets.
Other lessons feature models making pillow talk in bed, sucking fruit and cleaning a black London cab with foamy sponges.
Kaoru Kikuchi, the University of Nottingham architecture graduate behind the site, said the project aimed to make Mandarin more accessible.
"If you go the textbook way with all these Chinese characters it just makes you intimidated," said the Toyko-born model and designer.
Mick Gleissner, the Hong Kong-based filmmaker who produces the videos, said he hoped to inspire foreigners facing "the Herculean task of learning Chinese."
"Chinese is intimidating. You look at the characters, the strange melody of sounds. And then you watch a video like this and it's kind of ridiculous but it's also fun," said Gleissner, originally from Germany.
But Annie Chan, chairwoman of Hong Kong's Association for the Advancement of Feminism, complained that the website "exoticised" Chinese women.
And Sue-Mei Thompson, executive director of Hong Kong's Women's Foundation, said her group was "vehemently opposed to gender stereotyping, especially anything that objectifies women as sex objects".
The New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War
Special Ops, Drones, Spy Games, Civilian Soldiers, Proxy Fighters, and Cyber Warfare
by Nick Turse
Global Research, June 14, 2012
It looked like a scene out of a Hollywood movie. In the inky darkness, men in full combat gear, armed with automatic weapons and wearing night-vision goggles, grabbed hold of a thick, woven cable hanging from a MH-47 Chinook helicopter. Then, in a flash, each “fast-roped” down onto a ship below. Afterward, “Mike,” a Navy SEAL who would not give his last name, bragged to an Army public affairs sergeant that, when they were on their game, the SEALs could put 15 men on a ship this way in 30 seconds or less.
Once on the aft deck, the special ops troops broke into squads and methodically searched the ship as it bobbed in Jinhae Harbor, South Korea. Below deck and on the bridge, the commandos located several men and trained their weapons on them, but nobody fired a shot. It was, after all, a training exercise.
All of those ship-searchers were SEALs, but not all of them were American. Some were from Naval Special Warfare Group 1 out of Coronado, California; others hailed from South Korea’s Naval Special Brigade. The drill was part of Foal Eagle 2012, a multinational, joint-service exercise. It was also a model for -- and one small part of -- a much publicized U.S. military “pivot” from the Greater Middle East to Asia, a move that includes sending an initial contingent of 250 Marines to Darwin, Australia, basing littoral combat ships in Singapore, strengthening military ties with Invalid Link Removed and Invalid Link Removed, staging war games in the Philippines (as well as a drone strike there), and shifting the majority of the Navy’s ships to the Pacific by the end of the decade.
That modest training exercise also reflected another kind of pivot. The face of American-style war-fighting is once again changing. Forget full-scale invasions and large-footprint occupations on the Eurasian mainland; instead, think: special operations forces working on their own but also training or fighting beside allied militaries (if not outright proxy armies) in hot spots around the world. And along with those special ops advisors, trainers, and commandos expect ever more funds and efforts to flow into the militarization of spying and intelligence, the use of drone aircraft, the launching of cyber-attacks, and joint Pentagon operations with increasingly militarized “civilian” government agencies.
Much of this has been noted in the media, but how it all fits together into what could be called the new global face of empire has escaped attention. And yet this represents nothing short of a new Obama doctrine, a six-point program for twenty-first-century war, American-style, that the administration is now carefully developing and honing. Its global scope is already breathtaking, if little recognized, and like Donald Rumsfeld’s military lite and David Petraeus’s counterinsurgency operations, it is evidently going to have its day in the sun -- and like them, it will undoubtedly disappoint in ways that will surprise its creators.
The Blur-ness
For many years, the U.S. military has been talking up and promoting the concept of “Invalid Link Removed.” An Army helicopter landing Navy SEALs on a Korean ship catches some of this ethos at the tactical level. But the future, it seems, has something else in store. Think of it as “blur-ness,” a kind of organizational version of war-fighting in which a dominant Pentagon fuses its forces with other government agencies -- especially the CIA, the State Department, and the Drug Enforcement Administration -- in complex, overlapping missions around the globe.
In 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began his "revolution in military affairs," steering the Pentagon toward a Invalid Link Removed model of high-tech, Invalid Link Removed forces. The concept came to a Invalid Link Removed in Iraq’s embattled cities. A decade later, the last vestiges of its many failures continue to play out in a stalemated war in Afghanistan against a rag-tag minority insurgency that can’t be beaten. In the years since, two secretaries of defense and a new president have presided over another transformation -- this one geared toward avoiding ruinous, large-scale land wars which the U.S. has consistently proven unable to win.
Under President Obama, the U.S. has expanded or launched numerous military campaigns -- most of them utilizing a mix of the six elements of twenty-first-century American war. Take the American war in Pakistan -- a poster-child for what might now be called the Obama formula, if not doctrine. Beginning as a Invalid Link Removed drone assassination campaign backed by limited Invalid Link Removed commando raids under the Bush administration, U.S. operations in Pakistan have expanded into something close to a full-scale robotic air war, complemented by Invalid Link Removed helicopter Invalid Link Removed, CIA-funded “Invalid Link Removed” of Afghan proxy forces, as well as boots-on-the-ground Invalid Link Removed by elite special operations forces, including the Invalid Link Removed that killed Osama bin Laden.
The CIA has conducted clandestine intelligence and surveillance Invalid Link Removed in Pakistan, too, though its role may, in the future, be less important, thanks to Pentagon mission creep. In April, in fact, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta Invalid Link Removed the creation of a new CIA-like espionage agency within the Pentagon called the Defense Clandestine Service. According to the Washington Post, its aim is to expand “the military’s espionage efforts beyond war zones.”
Over the last decade, the very notion of war zones has become remarkably muddled, mirroring the blurring of the missions and activities of the CIA and Pentagon. Analyzing the new agency and the “broader convergence trend” between Department of Defense and CIA missions, the Invalid Link Removed noted that the “blurring is also evident in the organizations’ upper ranks. Panetta previously served as CIA director, and that post is currently held by retired four-star Army Gen. David H. Petraeus.”
Not to be outdone, last year the State Department, once the seat of diplomacy, continued on its Invalid Link Removed (and marginalization) when it agreed to pool some of its resources with the Pentagon to create the Invalid Link Removed. That program will allow the Defense Department even greater say in how aid from Washington will flow to proxy forces in places like Yemen and the Horn of Africa.
One thing is certain: American war-making (along with its spies and its diplomats) is heading ever deeper into “the shadows.” Expect yet more clandestine operations in ever more places with, of course, ever more potential for blowback in the years ahead.
Shedding Light on “the Dark Continent”
One locale likely to see an influx of Pentagon spies in the coming years is Africa. Under President Obama, operations on the continent have accelerated far Invalid Link RemovedInvalid Link Removed more Invalid Link Removed of the Invalid Link Removed. Last year’s war in Libya; a regional drone campaign with missions run out of Invalid Link Removed in Djibouti, Invalid Link Removed, and the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Seychelles; a flotilla of Invalid Link Removed in that ocean supporting regional operations; a multi-pronged military and CIA campaign against militants in Somalia, including Invalid Link Removed, training for Somali agents, Invalid Link Removed, Invalid Link Removed, and U.S. Invalid Link Removed; a massive influx of cash for counterterrorism operations across Invalid Link Removed; a possible Invalid Link Removed, carried out on the sly in the region using manned aircraft; Invalid Link Removed of dollars in arms for allied mercenaries and African troops; and a special ops Invalid Link Removed (bolstered by Invalid Link Removed) dispatched to help capture or kill Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and his senior commanders, operating in Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Invalid Link Removed (where U.S. Special Forces now have a new Invalid Link Removed) only begins to scratch the surface of Washington’s fast-expanding plans and activities in the region.
Even less well known are other U.S. military efforts designed to train African forces for operations now considered integral to American interests on the continent. These include, for example, a mission by elite Force Recon Marines from the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force 12 (SPMAGTF-12) to train soldiers from the Uganda People's Defense Force, which supplies the majority of troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia.
Earlier this year, Marines from SPMAGTF-12 also trained soldiers from the Burundi National Defense Force, the second-largest contingent in Somalia; sent trainers into Djibouti (where the U.S. already maintains a major Horn of Africa base at Camp Lemonier); and traveled to Liberia where they focused on teaching riot-control techniques to Liberia’s military as part of an otherwise State Department spearheaded effort to rebuild that force.
The U.S. is also Invalid Link Removed counterterrorism training and equipping militaries in Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mauritania, Niger, and Tunisia. In addition, U.S. Africa Command (Africom) has 14 major joint-training exercises planned for 2012, including operations in Morocco, Cameroon, Gabon, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Senegal, and what may become the Pakistan of Africa, Nigeria.
Even this, however, doesn’t encompass the full breadth of U.S. training and advising missions in Africa. To take an example not on Africom’s list, this spring the U.S. brought together 11 nations, including Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Liberia, Mauritania, and Sierra Leone to take part in a maritime training exercise code-named Saharan Express 2012.
Back in the Backyard
Since its founding, the United States has often meddled close to home, treating the Caribbean as its private lake and intervening at will throughout Latin America. During the Bush years, Invalid Link Removed some Invalid Link Removed exceptions, Washington’s interest in America’s “backyard” took a backseat to wars farther from home. Recently, however, the Obama administration has been ramping up operations south of the border using its new formula. This has meant Pentagon Invalid Link Removed deep inside Mexico to aid that country’s battle against the drug cartels, while CIA agents and civilian operatives from the Department of Defense were Invalid Link Removed to take part in the country’s drug war.
In 2012, the Pentagon has also ramped up its anti-drug operations in Honduras. Working out of Invalid Link Removed and other remote camps there, the U.S. military is supporting Honduran operations by way of the methods it honed in Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, U.S. forces have taken part in joint operations with Honduran troops as part of a training mission dubbed Beyond the Horizon 2012; Green Berets have been Invalid Link Removed Honduran Special Operations forces in anti-smuggling operations; and a Drug Enforcement Administration Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team, originally created to disrupt the poppy trade in Afghanistan, has joined forces with Honduras’s Tactical Response Team, that country’s most elite counternarcotics unit. A glimpse of these operations made the news recently when DEA agents, flying in an American helicopter, were Invalid Link Removed in an aerial attack on Invalid Link Removed that killed two men and two pregnant women in the remote Mosquito Coast region.
Less visible have been U.S. efforts in Guyana, where Special Operation Forces have been training local troops in heliborne air assault techniques. “This is the first timewe have had this type of exercise involving SpecialOperations Forces of the United States on such a grandscale,” Colonel Bruce Lovell of the Guyana Defense Force told a U.S. public affairs official earlier this year. “It gives us a chance to validate ourselves and see where we are, what are our shortcomings.”
The U.S. military has been similarly active elsewhere in Latin America, concluding training exercises in Guatemala, sponsoring “Invalid Link Removed” missions in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Peru, and Panama, and reaching an agreement to carry out 19 “activities” with the Colombian army over the next year, including joint military exercises.
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The New Obama Doctrine, A Six-Point Plan for Global War
Still in the Middle of the Middle East
Despite the end of the Iraq and Libyan wars, a coming drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, and copious public announcements about its national security Invalid Link Removed toward Asia, Washington is by no means withdrawing from the Greater Middle East. In addition to continuing operations in Invalid Link Removed, the U.S. has consistently been at work training Invalid Link Removed, building up military bases, and brokering weapons sales and arms transfers to despots in the region from Bahrain to Yemen.
In fact, Yemen, like its neighbor, Somalia, across the Gulf of Aden, has become a laboratory for Obama’s wars. There, the U.S. is carrying out its signature new brand of warfare with “black ops” troops like the SEALs and the Army’s Delta Force undoubtedly conducting kill/capture missions, while “white” forces like the Green Berets and Rangers are Invalid Link Removed indigenous troops, and robot planes Invalid Link Removed members of al-Qaeda and its affiliates, possibly assisted by an even more secret contingent of Invalid Link Removed.
The Middle East has also become the somewhat unlikely poster-region for another emerging facet of the Obama doctrine: cyberwar efforts. In a category-blurring speaking engagement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Invalid Link Removed at the recent Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida where she gave a Invalid Link Removed talking up her department’s eagerness to join in the new American way of war. “We need Special Operations Forces who are as comfortable drinking tea with tribal leaders as raiding a terrorist compound,'' she told the crowd. “We also need diplomats and development experts who are up to the job of being your partners."
Clinton then took the opportunity to Invalid Link Removed her agency’s online efforts, aimed at websites used by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen. When al-Qaeda recruitment messages appeared on the latter, Invalid Link Removed, “our team plastered the same sites with altered versions… that showed the toll al-Qaeda attacks have taken on the Yemeni people.” She further noted that this information-warfare mission was carried out by experts at State’s Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications with assistance, not surprisingly, from the military and the U.S. Intelligence Community.
These modest on-line efforts join Invalid Link Removed methods of Invalid Link Removed being employed by the Invalid Link Removed and the CIA, including the recently Invalid Link Removed “Olympic Games,” a program of sophisticated attacks on computers in Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities engineered and unleashed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and Unit 8200, Israeli’s equivalent of the NSA. As with other facets of the new way of war, these efforts were begun under the Bush administration but significantly accelerated under the current president, who became the first American commander-in-chief to order sustained cyberattacks designed to cripple another country’s infrastructure.
From Brushfires to Wildfires
Across the globe from Central and South America to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, the Obama administration is working out its formula for a new American way of war. In its pursuit, the Pentagon and its increasingly militarized government partners are drawing on everything from classic precepts of colonial warfare to the latest technologies.
The United States is an imperial power chastened by more than 10 years of failed, heavy-footprint wars. It is hobbled by a hollowing-out economy, and inundated with hundreds of thousands of recent veterans -- a Invalid Link Removed of the troops who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq -- suffering from service-related disabilities who will require ever more expensive care. No wonder the current combination of special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, cyberwarfare, and proxy fighters sounds like a safer, saner brand of war-fighting. At first blush, it may even look like a panacea for America’s national security ills. In reality, it may be anything but.
The new light-footprint Obama doctrine actually seems to be making war an ever more attractive and seemingly easy option -- a point emphasized recently by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace. "I worry about speed making it too easy to employ force," Invalid Link Removed when asked about recent efforts to make it simpler to deploy Special Operations Forces abroad. "I worry about speed making it too easy to take the easy answer -- let's go whack them with special operations -- as opposed to perhaps a more laborious answer for perhaps a better long-term solution."
As a result, the new American way of war holds great potential for unforeseen entanglements and serial blowback. Starting or fanning brushfire wars on several continents could lead to raging wildfires that spread unpredictably and prove difficult, if not impossible, to quench.
By their very nature, small military engagements tend to get larger, and wars tend to spread beyond borders. By definition, military action tends to have unforeseen consequences. Those who doubt this need only look back to 2001, when three low-tech attacks on a single day set in motion a decade-plus of war that has spread across the globe. The response to that one day began with a war in Afghanistan, that spread to Pakistan, detoured to Iraq, popped up in Somalia and Yemen, and so on. Today, veterans of those Ur-interventions find themselves trying to replicate their dubious successes in places like Mexico and Honduras, the Central Africa Republic and the Congo.
Invalid Link Removed demonstrates that the U.S. is not very good at Invalid Link Removed, having gone without victory in any major conflict since 1945. Smaller interventions have been a mixed bag with modest victories in places like Panama and Grenada and ignominious outcomes in Lebanon (in the 1980s) and Somalia (in the 1990s), to name a few.
The trouble is, it’s hard to tell what an intervention will grow up to be -- until it’s too late. While they followed different paths, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq all began relatively small, before growing large and ruinous. Already, the outlook for the new Obama doctrine seems far from rosy, despite the good press it’s getting inside Washington’s Beltway.
What looks today like a formula for easy power projection that will further U.S. imperial interests on the cheap could soon prove to be an unmitigated disaster -- one that likely won’t be apparent until it’s too late.
Nick Turse is the associate editor of TomDispatch.com. An award-winning journalist, his work has appeared in the Invalid Link Removed, Invalid Link Removed, and Invalid Link Removed at Invalid Link Removed He is the author/editor of several books, including the just published Invalid Link Removed (with Tom Engelhardt). This piece is the latest article in his new Invalid Link Removed on the changing face of American empire, which is being underwritten by Invalid Link Removed. You can follow him on Twitter Invalid Link Removed, on Invalid Link Removed, and on Invalid Link Removed.
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Is playing politics a good enough reason for endorsing a Goldman Sachs-funded, flip flopping, warmongering Bilderberg puppet? Invalid Link Removed & Invalid Link Removed confront Rand Paul.
1. he is infiltrating (serving as a double agent to the Libertarians) the Republican Party and working on gaining power through the concrete system or
2. he sold out
3. other
Either way Id prefer he continue the course, great progress was made between 2008 and 2012. He really betrayed the movement, but thats my own opinion and observation. Its possible I may change my mind later on but its difficult to be conclusive on anything right now.
Even if he infiltrated the party to gain power, he really stepped in quicksand.
1. he is infiltrating (serving as a double agent to the Libertarians) the Republican Party and working on gaining power through the concrete system or
2. he sold out
3. other
Either way Id prefer he continue the course, great progress was made between 2008 and 2012. He really betrayed the movement, but thats my own opinion and observation. Its possible I may change my mind later on but its difficult to be conclusive on anything right now.
Even if he infiltrated the party to gain power, he really stepped in quicksand.
Obama Hides Behind ‘Executive Privilege’ In Damage Control Over Fast and Furious
The federal government’s criminal Hegelian plan to create crime along the US border and then ride in as the savior with new gun restrictions – is now in retreat
Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com
June 20, 2012
The House Oversight Committee hearings have put both Eric Holder and the White House on their back heels this morning, further fueling a scandal which has now forced the White House into a rear-guard action.
In a move that is certain to fuel speculation about Barack Obama’s knowledge of the Federal government’s clandestine gun-running operation into the Mexican black market, the President has moved to claim ‘executive privilege’ regarding any documents relating to the notorious “Operation Fast and Furious.”
The case has reached a critical juncture as the House panel has finally moved to hold Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in criminal contempt after he failed to comply with official Congressional requests to hand over thousands of cables and documents relating to the scandal.
According to reports this morning from the Invalid Link Removed:
In a letter sent to Obama late Tuesday, Holder urged Obama to exert executive privilege, because sharing internal documents with lawmakers could “have significant, damaging consequences.” Sharing the documents “would inhibit candor of such Executive Branch deliberations in the future and significantly impair the Executive Branch’s ability to respond independently and effectively to congressional oversight,” Holder wrote to Obama.
Last night, the embattled US Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to cut a deal with the House and Senate committees, hoping to walk free in exchange for handing over missing documents – but Holder’s offer was rejected by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) who plans to move ahead with a motion for contempt.
The Washington Post details Holder’s attempt at a backroom escape from suffering contempt charges:
The attorney general met Tuesday night with leaders of the House oversight committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee in hopes of reaching an agreement that would have Justice hand over requested documents in exchange for the House panel dropping its plans to vote on contempt charges Wednesday.
If the House committee cites Holder for criminal contempt, it would open a process that would require House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) to schedule a floor vote. If passed by the full House, the matter would then move to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen Jr., who is an employee of the Justice Department.
Holding an Executive Branch official in contempt of Congress is rare, having occurred just four other times in the last three decades.
Since the scandal surfaced back in early 2011, commentators had warning that the gravity of the arms trafficking crimes in question could make ‘Fast and Furious’ this White House’s Watergate moment, and a potentially devastating blow to the flagging Obama during the run-up to this November’s US Presidential election.
During a in-depth Infowars.com investigation into Fast and Furious, it was discovered that ATF, DEA and FBI agents working under the direction of the US Department of Justice, were illegally acquiring firearms through straw purchasers in states like Arizona, and then intentionally flooding the black market around the Mexican border regions with thousands of illegal guns – in order to demonize and regulate gun sellers in US border states. As a result, multiple lives were lost at the hands of gangs using Fast and Furious weapons including federal agents in the line of duty. The operation was ultimately designed to set the stage for further restrictions on the Second Amendment and increased gun restrictions in the near future.
Obama’s latest retreat towards executive privilege may be construed by the public and some media as an indirect admission of guilt by association, and will most likely lead to an increase in damage control from White House spin doctors – hoping to avert a similar fate suffered by Richard Nixon, whose cover-up went from bad to worse and eventually led to his humiliating resignation.
Ultimately, Fast and Furious could be the straw which breaks this administration’s grip on the strings of power in the White House.
Watch this Infowars.com mini-documentary on ‘Fast and Furious’ from early May 2012:
“I don’t think the Bush administration would want to see these released," an expert tells Salon
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Over 120 CIA documents concerning 9/11, Osama bin Laden and counterterrorism were published today for the first time, having been newly declassified and released to the Invalid Link Removed. The documents were released after the NSA pored through the footnotes of the Invalid Link Removed and sent Freedom of Information Act requests.
The material contains much new information about the hunt before and after 9/11 for bin Laden, the development of the drone campaign in AfPak, and al-Qaida’s relationship with America’s ally, Pakistan. Perhaps most damning are the documents showing that the CIA had bin Laden in its cross hairs a full year before 9/11 — but didn’t get the funding from the Bush administration White House to take him out or even continue monitoring him. The CIA materials directly contradict the many claims of Bush officials that it was aggressively pursuing al-Qaida prior to 9/11, and that nobody could have predicted the attacks. “I don’t think the Bush administration would want to see these released, because they paint a picture of the CIA knowing something would happen before 9/11, but they didn’t get the institutional support they needed,” says Barbara Elias-Sanborn, the NSA fellow who edited the materials.
Let’s start there. In 2000 and 2001, the CIA began using Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Afghanistan. “The idea of using UAVs originated in April 2000 as a result of a request from the NSC’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism to the CIA and the Department of Defense to come up with new ideas to go after the terrorists in Afghanistan,” a Invalid Link Removed summarizes. The Pentagon approved the plan for surveillance purposes.
And yet, simultaneously, the CIA declared that budget concerns were forcing it to move its Counterterrorism Center/Osama bin Laden Unit from an “offensive” to a “defensive” posture. For the CIA, that meant trying to get Afghan tribal leaders and the Northern Alliance to kill or capture bin Laden, Elias-Sanborn says. “It was forced to be less of a kinetic operation,” she says. “It had to be only for surveillance, which was not what they considered an offensive posture.”
“Budget concerns … CT [counterterrorism] supplemental still at NSC-OMB [National Security Council – Office of Management and Budget] level,” an Invalid Link Removed document reads. “Need forward movement on supplemental soonest due to expected early recess due to conventions, campaigning and elections.” In addition, the Air Force told the CIA that if it lost a drone, the CIA would have to pay for it, which made the agency more reluctant to use the technology.
Still, the drone program began in September 2000. One drone swiftly twice observed an individual “most likely to have been Bin Laden.” But since the CIA only had permission to use the drones for intelligence gathering, it had no way to act on its findings. The agency submitted a proposal to the National Security Council staff in December 2000 that would have significantly expanded the program. “It was too late for the departing Clinton Administration to take action on this strategic request,” however. It wasn’t too late for the Bush administration, though. It just never did.
Former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice has taken credit for the drone program that the Bush administration ignored. “Things like working to get an armed Predator that actually turned out to be extraordinarily important, working to get a strategy that would allow us to get better cooperation from Pakistan and from the Central Asians,” she Invalid Link Removed in 2006. “We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al-Qaida.” Rice claimed that the Bush administration continued the Clinton administration’s counterterrorism policies, a claim the documents disprove. “If the administration wanted to get it done, I’m sure they could have gotten it done,” says Elias-Sanborn.
Many of the documents publicize for the first time what was first made clear in the 9/11 Commission: The White House received a truly remarkable amount of warnings that al-Qaida was trying to attack the United States. From June to September 2001, a full seven CIA Senior Intelligence Briefs detailed that attacks were imminent, an incredible amount of information from one intelligence agency. One from June called “Bin-Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats” writes that “[redacted] expects Usama Bin Laden to launch multiple attacks over the coming days.” The famous August brief called “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike the US” is Invalid Link Removed. “Al-Qai’da members, including some US citizens, have resided in or travelled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure here,” it says.
During the entire month of August, President Bush was on vacation at his ranch in Texas — which tied with one of Richard Nixon’s as the longest vacation ever taken by a president. CIA Director George Tenet has said he didn’t speak to Bush once that month, describing the president as being “Invalid Link Removed.” Bush did not hold a Principals’ meeting on terrorism until September 4, 2001, having Invalid Link Removed the meetings to a deputies’ meeting, which then-counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke has repeatedly said slowed down anti-Bin Laden efforts “enormously, by months.”
For all the information the documents reveal, one huge matter is conspicuously absent: torture. There are nearly 50 CIA documents relating to such matters as the interrogation of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the intelligence gleaned from him, and yet “none of them were declassified at all,” notes Elias-Sanborn. “Certainly, the CIA has a stake in revealing what they did,” and they clearly do not want to reveal their complicity in war crimes.
One last thing is worth mentioning from the documents published today: Anyone with any doubt that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dangerous to the United States is contradicting U.S. intelligence. “Violence between Israelis and the Palestinians, moreover is making Sunni extremists more willing to participate in attacks against US or Israeli interests,” the CIA Invalid Link Removed in February 2001. It is not the only piece of information revealed by the new documents that will be deeply uncomfortable for the Bush administration and hawks across the country.
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Clinton is something huh? At least he was cool, he's the one who plays the sax with sunglasses on late night talk show. Whats most relevant is that the president is a cool celebrity and they used to smoke pot, lol
Downed Turkish Jet Will Be Used By West to Draw Turkey Into Bilderberg and NATO’s Plan
Patrick Henningsen
Infowars.com
June 22, 2012
Details regarding today’s reports of a Turkish Jet which lost contact with air traffic control over Syrian airspace and crashed into Syrian territorial waters, are still unclear.
It is not know whether the jet was shot down or not, but details surrounding this event in what has become an extremely sensitive region already.
According RT, Turkish President Erdogan “did not confirm reports that Damascus had apologized for shooting down the plane”. Turkey has so far refrained from giving any information the two pilots, who are said to have been rescued earlier. More information is expected to be released after a security meeting scheduled for this evening.
If the West and NATO is to enforce a Libya-style ‘no fly-zone’ in Syria, then Invalid Link Removed to run such an operation. In addition, the Syrian Air Force is considering bombing raids as part of their fight against insurgents and al-Qaida terrorists north of Aleppo – who have been using Turkey as refuge from the Syrian Army.
Syrian National Council representative Bassma Kodmani was Invalid Link Removed in Chantilly, VA, another indication that the West’s plans for Syrian regime change and later balkanization – have already been signed off. Kodmani is the Head of Foreign Affairs with the SNC, a coalition of Syrian opposition groups based in Istanbul, Turkey. Clearly, an external agenda is set regarding the destiny of that country.
For full analysis on today’s events, watch this breaking report:
this goes back much earlier. Oliver North advised many during congressional hearings in the 80's that OBL was a serious threat. The Reagan, Bush,Clinton, and Bush II regimes did didly poo about it
this goes back much earlier. Oliver North advised many during congressional hearings in the 80's that OBL was a serious threat. The Reagan, Bush,Clinton, and Bush II regimes did didly poo about it
We also need to take for the equation/puzzle Bin Laden's family, their ties with Bush and their billion dollar corporate empire.
Most people dont know right after 9-11 they flew Bin Laden's family were flown out of the country even when Bush Sr. was grounded from flying. There was no due questioning or anything.
We cant buy or conclude this whole "Bin Laden estranged his whole family" that has been played by mainstream media over and over these years.
We also need to take for the equation/puzzle Bin Laden's family, their ties with Bush and their billion dollar corporate empire.
Most people dont know right after 9-11 they flew Bin Laden's family were flown out of the country even when Bush Sr. was grounded from flying. There was no due questioning or anything.
We cant buy or conclude this whole "Bin Laden estranged his whole family" that has been played by mainstream media over and over these years.
I just particularly enjoy the fact that Bin Laden is the perfect example of why a Ron Paul non-intervention strategy makes sense. If we had let russia just beat themselves to death on afghanistan without intervening, Bin Laden wouldn't have been who he was. Its not the like the outcome there was any different for our helping them, the country's terrain alone made the russians accomplishing anything impossible.
I just particularly enjoy the fact that Bin Laden is the perfect example of why a Ron Paul non-intervention strategy makes sense. If we had let russia just beat themselves to death on afghanistan without intervening, Bin Laden wouldn't have been who he was. Its not the like the outcome there was any different for our helping them, the country's terrain alone made the russians accomplishing anything impossible.
Whistleblower Reveals Plan To Evacuate London During Olympics
200,000 casket linings on standby says undercover journalist who infiltrated security team
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
An undercover journalist going by the pseudonym ‘Lee Hazledean’ has blown the whistle on astounding revelations about how he infiltrated the G4S – the company responsible for security at the London Olympics – and discovered shocking plans for the evacuation of London, 200,000 ‘casket linings’ being on standby, along with botched security procedures that leave the Games wide open to attack.
Hazledean’s interview with Tony Gosling, Invalid Link Removed editor and host of BCFM’s Friday Drivetime, has gone viral on the web over the last few days. Hazledean is an undercover journalist for a television program in London and has worked with news agencies on hard-hitting subjects, but when he approached the mainstream media with his bombshell story, they showed no interest.
When Hazledean asked Channel 4 News Home Affairs Correspondent Andy Davies if he would run the story, Davies said he wasn’t interested and days later Channel 4 ran a puff piece about G4S which portrayed the organization as competent and trustworthy.
“I sent him an email, I called, he wasn’t interested and he said there’s a media blackout on this kind of story, that nobody would be interested in running it,” said Hazledean.
In the interview, Hazledean divulges how he merely had to fill in an application form to get a job with G4S, the private company providing security for the Olympics, that he underwent no background check whatsoever, and that his personal references were not checked.
Employees are given just two days of training to run airport-style security checkpoints which include body scanners, which Hazledean said “would be turned off completely” at peak times, meaning terrorists could just walk straight into the event with ammunition or explosives and have an excellent chance of remaining undetected.
“In fact, I was asked to be a would-be terrorist on the final training day and I was given a knife, a gun and an IED, and on all three occasions throughout the day I got through the metal detector and I also got through the x-ray machine scanner,” said Hazledean, adding that terrorists could quite easily stage a “massacre” given the lax nature of the security.
“They’re not training them properly…it’s quite open to a terrorist attack very easily and I don’t say that lightly,” said Hazledean, adding that he witnessed G4S members doing drug deals while training classes were taking place, while others were taking surveillance photos on their cellphones of supposedly secure areas. Hazledean said a lot of the security staff were poorly qualified and that many of them could barely speak English.
Hazledean also revealed how the large contingent of soldiers being brought into London for the Olympic Games included “a lot of UN troops being posted in and around London,” including American and German troops.
The whistleblower also revealed how unauthorized personnel were being handed G4S uniforms and that uniforms had been stolen.
Hazledean’s most chilling revelation was how he learned about preparations to evacuate London and how, “The security guards used for the Olympics will be at the forefront of getting the public out of London.”
“They seem quite serious about it, they’ve spent a lot of time on this,” said Hazledean, noting how G4S spent two hours talking about the evacuation of London in comparison to just half an hour talking about security screening procedures for the Olympics itself.
The whistleblower also noted how the 100,000 plus troops that would be stationed in London during the Olympics would be enough to carry out such a large scale evacuation.
Another chilling facet Hazledean learned was that 200,000 casket linings (temporary coffins) were being shipped in to London that can hold four bodies each. The whistleblower expressed his amazement at why security guards working on mundane screening procedures would need to be told such information.
The whistleblower also revealed how he was told Predator drones would be circling London in readiness for terrorist attacks, and that G4S employees were shown a video of a drone killing a group of people in Afghanistan.
Hazledean noted how G4S leaders saw the public as “the scum of the earth” and also told their employees that the police had no authority over them. He also related how one of the leaders told him that an event after the Olympics would be a “defining moment” for London but when pressed, refused to divulge what she meant.
Hazledean is not the first to blow the whistle on G4S. Earlier this month, Invalid Link Removedthat she was fired by G4S after complaining that G4S was cutting corners in their security preparations for the Olympics and that she herself had not been vetted.
Speaking with Infowars, Hazledean said that he had been making contingency plans for if his life was put in danger or if he became a target for the authorities in any other way after blowing the whistle on the scandal.
Asked about a Invalid Link Removed that conspiracy theories about a false flag attack occurring at the London Olympics are being deliberately allowed to proliferate in order to make ‘truthers’ look paranoid after nothing happens, Hazledean stressed that merely getting the story out was necessary as it could derail any planned attack.
Lee Hazledean will appear on The Alex Jones Show tomorrow at 1pm CST.
13 Reasons Why The Revolution Might Start with Obamacare.
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Has any of the Supreme Court Justices read the Constitution lately? I can say five of the justices will have to be held accountable for how they ruled. Invalid Link RemovedMany Americans read the Constitution and know with no doubt what is said in simple terms. The Constitution was meant to be understood by the common person. It is not complicated to understand. It does not take a Harvard Law Degree to understand with clarity what the Constitution says about Obamacare. Only lawyers can screw it up with their own twisted thinking and word manipulation to stretch the meaning beyond the intent..Does anyone think the American people will let the US Supreme Court be the final word on a flawed ruling? Let the public backlash begin, the American people by an overwhelming majority will rule Obamacare unconstitutional by non compliance in mass.
I will tell you why Obamacare is unconstitutional, I do not have a law degree, I did not attend collage. I am just a high school graduate. Even a 5 year old child being home schooled can say why the Affordable Heath care act is unconstitutional. Here is why it is unconstitutional applying my knowledge of history, reading the Constitution:
1. The Obamacare individual Mandate is a direct Tax which is unconstitutional under Invalid Link Removed
No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
2. It violates State’s right since the Federal Government does not have the Constitutional Authority to take over Healthcare as stated in the Invalid Link Removed outlined in the Bill of Rights.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
3. This mandate is involuntary servitude or slavery to the big banks and the insurance industries. The Invalid Link Removed states:
either slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
4. It benefits certain industries in a crony capitalist or a monopoly system is illegal in the Constitution under Invalid Link Removed
No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another; nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.
5. Justice Kagan is not supposed to hear this case because of Invalid Link Removed. The reason is; she was part of drafting and passing the Affordable Healthcare Act. I would recommend many state Attorney Generals invalidate the ruling from the High Court on the bases Justice Kagan did not recuse herself as the Invalid Link Removed
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7. This July 4. We celebrate Independence Day breaking all political ties with the King of England because of taxes and government oppressing the colonist as written in the Invalid Link Removedstating:
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Get ready for Invalid Link Removed to come and collect unjust taxes trying to force us to pay for something we do not want.
8. The Individual Mandate is a tax imposed on us, just as the early colonist said in their grievance against the King Stated again in the Invalid Link Removed.
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.
We went from no taxation without representation to TAXATION WITHOUT HESITATION 235 years later
Obamacare was rammed down our throats without our consent.
9. Remember the Invalid Link Removed and Invalid Link Removed. The people will resist and revolt than pay for a tax they never consented to nor are not legally bound under the Constitution. The people back in our early history were the final check on government power.
10. the American people will be the final check on government power as stated again in the famous document signed by 56 people on Invalid Link Removed:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
11. States can ignore the supreme court ruling under this landmark decision Invalid Link Removed victory for the 10th Amendment with Justice Scalia giving the majority opinion writing saying the several states “are not subject to federal direction” reinforcing the Federalist papers quote:
” The great innovation of this design was that-our citizens would have two political capacities, one state and one federal, each protected from incursion by the other”
With another Federalist quote:
” Just as the separation and independence of the coordinate branches of the Federal Government serve to prevent the accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse from either front”
12. States will reject implementing Obamacare for the reason, it cost too much. It will wreck the economies of already on the brink in many states hit hard by the economic depression. It will increase the number of people out of work. Many states will balk,
13. This ruling will also give fuel to people running for state legislators. The people will demand the states to nullify Obamacare with other draconian illegal Federal incursions like the TSA with more intensity.
This ruling might be the spark America needs to find within themselves to take their country back from socialist control freaks. Firearms sales are rising to record levels. The reason is the people see the government as a threat to their safety and security. They do not see the phony enemy of radical Islam as a threat it was years ago. Al Quada is not groping people at the airport and forcing us to pay for health insurance. It is our own government.
This ruling might be a blessing in disguise that could be the best thing to happen for America. This is a good reason more then ever to push back government inside the confines of the Constitution. Are you motivated to take back America? Just face facts, we can no longer sit on the sidelines being a spectator. We no choice but to push back or we will be slaves. I am no slave, are you?
Michael Moore Celebrates Obamacare Law Written by Insurance Companies
Anti-corporate crusader applauds Supreme Court decision to uphold bill crafted by huge corporations
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, June 29, 2012
So-called anti-corporate crusader Michael Moore reacted with glee to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare, despite the fact that the bill was written primarily by the very insurance companies Moore claims to oppose.
Appearing on MSNBC’s The Last Word With Laurence O’Donnell, Moore said the Supreme Court decision was “a great victory” and should be met with “loud cheers throughout the country,” despite the fact that the Invalid Link Removed
Although Moore admits in the interview, “The private, run for profit insurance companies are still running the show,” he failed to acknowledge that big corporations actually wrote the foundation for the entire Obamacare bill.
Invalid Link Removedwhen Obamacare was passed, the genesis of the bill was an “87-page document which became the basis, the foundation, the blueprint from which almost all health care measures in all bills on both sides of the aisle came.”
And who wrote that 87-page white paper? None other than Liz Fowler – who in the two years before the bill was passed and while she was writing the “foundation” for Obamacare, was simultaneously working as Vice President of Invalid Link Removed- one of the largest health insurance companies in America.
Baucus profusely thanked Fowler for being personally responsible for crafting Obamacare. Invalid Link Removedas a “major player” in getting the bill passed.
Despite the fact that Obamacare will dump Invalid Link Removed on already struggling American families, Moore was not satisfied, labeling mandatory government healthcare “the first piece” of the agenda, while cautioning conservatives that the process could not be stopped because it had the momentum of “a huge locomotive.”
“You better get on the train or watch your party implode – that’s my words of advice to the Republican Party,” said the filmmaker.
Meanwhile, Congressman Ron Paul reacted to the news by promising to spearhead a movement to repeal the law.
“Today we should remember that virtually everything government does is a ‘mandate.’ The issue is not whether Congress can compel commerce by forcing you to buy insurance, or simply compel you to pay a tax if you don’t. The issue is that this compulsion implies the use of government force against those who refuse. The fundamental hallmark of a free society should be the rejection of force. In a free society, therefore, individuals could opt out of “Obamacare” without paying a government tribute,” Invalid Link Removed.
Anyone in the military here following along? Just wondering if you know anything about this below. Thanks.
Obama to Soldiers: Pay Up
Threatens to veto bill unless it hikes health care fees for service members
BY: Invalid Link Removed - June 29, 2012 10:22 am
The Obama administration on Friday threatened to veto a defense appropriations bill in part because it does not include higher health care fees for members of the military.
“The Administration is disappointed that the Congress did not incorporate the requested TRICARE fee initiatives into either the appropriation or authorization legislation,” the White House wrote in an Invalid Link Removed expressing opposition to the bill, which Invalid Link Removed.
President Obama’s most recent budget proposal includes Invalid Link Removed for members of TRICARE, the military health care system, and is part of the administration’s plan to cut nearly $500 billion from the Pentagon’s budget.
Invalid Link Removed the administration’s proposal is an effort to increase enrollment in the state-run insurance exchanges mandated under the president’s controversial health care law.
The administration urged the House to “reconsider” to fee increase, arguing they are “essential for DOD to successfully address rising personnel costs.”
The House bill has significant bipartisan support, and easily passed by a margin of 299 to 120.
Mike Adams Invalid Link Removed
Monday, July 2, 2012
Now that Obamacare has been ruled a tax by the U.S. Supreme Court, reality is starting to sink in for all those who emotionally supported it. Promoted as a way to provide either free health care or low-cost health care to the masses, the sobering reality is that under Obamacare, health insurance prices keep rising, not falling. That’s no surprise, of course, since the Obamacare legislation was practically written by the health insurance companies, and they sure didn’t put their weight behind a sweeping new law that would earn them less profit.
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In an era when the so-called “99%” are sick and tired of being exploited by the one percent who control everything, they just handed their medical futures over to precisely the one percent who skillfully monopolize the conventional health care system!
Obamacare is, at every level, a huge victory for the one percent.
A costly new tax on the middle class
By the year 2016, the Obamacare “penalty” tax will reach roughly $2,000 per year for a two-person household. According to Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, 75% of the financial burden of Obamacare’s new taxes will fall onto Americans making less than $120,000 a year (Invalid Link Removed). The great Middle Class, in other words, will bear this new tax more than anyone else.
In effect, what has really happened here is a great swindle: Obama got the middle class to support his legislation by promising it was NOT a tax, and by promising it would LOWER health insurance costs. In reality, however, it RAISES health insurance costs, it IS a tax, and the majority of that tax burden falls squarely on the very same middle-class voters who put Obama into office under false pretenses. That’s a swindle, by any definition.
Not surprisingly, this realization doesn’t sit well with many middle class taxpayers. While the original emotional appeal of Obamacare was nicely packaged and seductively marketed to the masses, the sobering, post-honeymoon reality slaps us all in the face like a wet fish: Smack! This thing is another huge tax increase on the working class! And on top of that, it gives the IRS scary new powers to pry into our private finances. How did you all think compliance with Obamacare was going to be enforced, anyway? It’s going to empower the IRS with even more agents!
Government monopoly for Big Pharma
Even worse than the trillions in new taxes and the IRS spy grid that’s now being set up to monitor compliance with Obamacare, there’s also the sobering fact that Obamacare never even attempted to give consumers a free choice in their health care providers. There’s no coverage of naturopathic medicine, herbal medicine, acupuncture or nutritional therapies. The entire law is written around — and for — Big Pharma and the conventional “sick care” industry that’s best described as a “medical racket.”
Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, we don’t even have a chance to opt out of this corrupt, failed system of patented chemical medications and overpriced surgical procedures. Now, we are forced to hand over our hard-earned money to the very same medical system that we already know is responsible for killing over 750,000 Americans a year. It’s called “iatrogenic death,” and it means death by health care.
So not only are we being chemically abused and medically enslaved in America, we are now financially forced to pay for the privilege of being raked over the coals by the medical establishment. It makes you wonder… where is the “care” in Obamacare?
But wait, there’s more! From this position of being coerced by the government to pay for a system of medicine you don’t even want, it’s not much of a leap to being coerced to undergo medical procedures you don’t want, either.
How Obamacare will lead to mandatory vaccinations for everyone
Forced vaccinations — for adults! — are on the way, friends. And here’s why: Once everybody is “in the system” of mandatory health care, we will begin to hear arguments like this:
“Anyone who refuses to get vaccinated against influenza is thereby at risk of being an influenza carrier and infecting other people, thus increasing health care costs for us all. To save money, government must force everyone to get vaccinated!”
It’s a false argument, of course, but it will be used to literally line people up at courthouses (with the threat of arrest and jail time) and force them all to be vaccinated against their will.
The same false logic can be used to force people to undergo chemotherapy, take AIDS drugs, undergo coronary bypass surgery or be subjected to almost any medical procedure deemed “necessary” by the government. In the realm of mental health and psychiatry, this opens up a Pandora’s Box of exploitation of patients for the purpose of raking in record profits for the criminally-operated psychiatric drug industry.
Such is the inevitable abuse of monopolistic market practices enforced by a corrupt government that serves the interests of its corporate masters: Once the sick care industry has this monopoly and can force everyone to participate, they will exploit that advantage to its fullest profiteering capacity.
Remember: It is the dream of every corporation to dominate the world. Obamacare just gave Big Pharma and the other sick care giants huge monopolistic cheats to pursue precisely that goal.
Sober up, America
In a time when consumers are increasingly demanding transparency, free choice and the ability to shop around for competitive bargains, Obamacare codifies secrecy, mandatory compliance and monopolistic practices.
Maybe it’s time to sober up and take an honest look at what Obamacare really is instead of what Obama promised it would be. People bought into the dream, but what they actually received was a monumental swindle.
Our Government Is The Psychotic Criminal Empire Invalid Link Removed
July 4, 2012
Alex reads through Thomas Jefferson’s July 4th, 1776 Invalid Link Removed. Its words represent the true meaning of Independence Day.
This is for all you Invalid Link Removed that are “fiercely nationalistic,” “suspicious of centralized federal authority,” and are “reverent of individual liberty.”
Neither are funded by the CIA or any other clandestine organization funded by or supported by the USA. I know this for a fact my friend. Do your research somewhere else other than the Internet. Interviews, and declassified reports. We only funded the Mujihadeen to combat Soviet Russia, which obviously worked. Kind of like the Iranians funding Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan. We got a dose of our own medicine. Things have been done this way for thousands of years. We fund Israel, Iran funds Al Qaeda and Mujihadeen, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda in Yemen.
Neither are funded by the CIA or any other clandestine organization funded by or supported by the USA. I know this for a fact my friend. Do your research somewhere else other than the Internet. Interviews, and declassified reports. We only funded the Mujihadeen to combat Soviet Russia, which obviously worked. Kind of like the Iranians funding Al Qaeda in Iraq and Afghanistan. We got a dose of our own medicine. Things have been done this way for thousands of years. We fund Israel, Iran funds Al Qaeda and Mujihadeen, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda in Yemen.
First of all, who told you I do all my research on the internet? You have no idea who I am. I have no idea who you are. Your discrediting yourself anyways since your on the net trying to inform me, its really silly. Do I use internet sources? Yes, I try since we are on the internet so we have to understand the situation here. There is alot of deception out there, both corporate media and goverment are always infiltrating the net with disinformation. We can not even conclude with absolute certainty declassified goverments are the holy grail of truth although I research those myself as well.
The CIA funds Al Queda, it has nothing to do with Iran. We are already using them to cause a civil war in both Iran and Syria in covert operations.
The CIA supported the Lybian Rebels trained by Al Queda backed by the US with their CIA and NATO.
The top Lybian Rebel that the CIA supported admitted to being connected to Al Queda.
The CIA's connection started back in 79 with the "Islamic Warrior Network,"
Defense secretary Robert Gibbs has admitted that US intelligence services started to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention even happened.
Zbigniew Brzezinski Jimmy Carters NSA has admitted in 1998 that the the Mujahadeen later morphed both into Al Queda and the Taliban and that it was an "excellent idea" even though the civil war cost the lives of 400,000.
Al-Queda was used by the CIA historicity to take down regimes such as Bosnia and Kosovo...but this doesnt have to be some silly "conspiracy accusation" we see this as recent as Lybia, look how after it was claimed a success by Obama all the Al Queda flags were flown all over Tripoli as they were slaughtering all the Black Africans. There is much more evidence than these flags, I already knew they were in there about a year before the media even covered a drop of information to the public about an uprising.
Outrageous fearmongering & wasted resources over ‘health improvement aid for smokers’
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Bus passengers were treated like terrorists and passing cars detained for hours as bomb squads, police and sniffer dogs descended on the M6 Motorway in England today. The culprit for this huge “terror scare” turned out to be an electronic cigarette.
“The evacuation of a coach on the M6 toll road which caused long tailbacks on one of the country’s busiest roads was a terror scare caused by the smoke vapour from an electronic cigarette, police have revealed,” Invalid Link Removed
Footage of the aftermath of the incident shows bus passengers being treated like terrorists and lined up on the motorway.
“Aerial footage from the scene revealed that the passengers – including women and children – were sitting within a square enclosure at regular distances from each other surrounded by uniformed officers. Several other cordoned-off areas could be seen, with bright yellow tents erected on the other side of the toll plaza.”
Drivers of passing cars that had nothing to do with the incident were also detained by police for an hour and a half.
“Witnesses told the BBC that cars were stopped on the M6 toll road and left without information from the police for around 90 minutes.
When they began getting out of their cars a police officer informed them to get back in their vehicles, keep the windows closed and the air conditioning off. The cars were then led away from the scene,” states the report.
In a colossal waste of everyone’s time and money, eight fire engines and six police vans arrived in addition to bomb disposal experts and teams of sniffer dogs.
A passenger on the bus – presumably browbeaten by the constant drumbeat of propaganda surrounding “terrorist threats” to London – originally witnessed “vapour escaping from a bag” and reported it to police as a possible unfolding terrorist attack.
Police later admitted that the whole event was in response to a “health improvement aid for smokers” – otherwise known as an e-cigarette, a fake cigarette that releases water vapour instead of smoke.
This is an outrageous example of the fearmongering and hysteria that has gripped Britain in the run up to the 2012 Olympics.
God forbid if the cigarette had actually been real – imagine the panic! One wonders whether Prime Minister David Cameron would have had to assemble his Cobra team and declare a national emergency.
This kind of frothing over-reaction is precisely what governments crave in order to create a society based on fear, paranoia and constant suspicion.
In reality, Invalid Link Removed, people in the west are more likely to die from bee stings or drowning in their own bathtubs than they are in terrorist attacks.
Ignorant statements by a disgruntled civilian. Get your information somewhere OTHER than the media. Don't insult me as well, I have seen documentation that you have not. Spoken with certain people that had their boots on the ground that you haven't. Go post your bull**** in the comments sections of CNN, Fox News, or other website. I'm just stating the facts. And the facts are based on intelligence gathered from shipments across the Iran/Iraq border intercepted via 18X forces on the ground. Not that you know what the MOS 18X is. Iran and Al Qaeda have a lot to do with each other. To say otherwise is foolish. Keep telling yourself otherwise though, it's okay.
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