The Emperor's Seven Signing Statements
posted 07/02/2009, 10:18 AM (David Swanson)
[Category: Commentary]
Lawless detention is the least of it. State secrets and warrantless spying scrape the surface. Drone attacks and ongoing torture begin to touch it. But central to the power of an emperor, and the catastrophes that come from the existence of an emperor, is the elimination of any other force within the government. Signing statements eliminate congress. Not that congress objects. Asking congress to reclaim its power produces nervous g... (more) |
Color Revolutions, Old and New
posted 07/02/2009, 10:18 AM (Stephen Lendman)
[Category: Commentary]
In his new book, "Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order," F. William Engdahl explained a new form of US covert warfare - first played out in Belgrade, Serbia in 2000. What appeared to be "a spontaneous and genuine political 'movement,' (in fact) was the product of techniques" developed in America over decades.
In the 1990s, RAND Corporation strategists developed the concept of "swarming" to explain "communication patterns and movement of" bees and... (more) |
Pirates of the Mediterranean
posted 07/02/2009, 10:18 AM (Paul Craig Roberts)
[Category: Commentary]
On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy, in international waters, illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstructi... (more) |
The Honduran coup: another US destabilization operation
posted 07/02/2009, 10:18 AM (World Socialist Web Site)
[Category: Geopolitics]
While publicly opposing the military coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday, the Obama administration on Monday indicated that it will not cut off aid to the Central American country or demand Zelaya’s reinstatement.
Following a White House meeting with Washington’s closest Latin American ally, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, President Obama reiterated the position that the ouster of Zelaya was illegal. However, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told report... (more) |
News agencies gagging 'gay' factor in boy's rape
posted 07/02/2009, 10:17 AM (World Net Daily)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
 Editor's note: The content of this story is graphic in nature and may be objectionable to some readers.
News coverage of a Duke University official accused of raping his adopted 5-year-old son and offering the child to someone else is apparently lacking what some say is a key piece of information: the fact the alleged perpetrator is a homosexual who lives with another "gay" man.
Frank Lombard, associate director of the Health Inequalities Program at the uni... (more) There is a reason the media is ignoring this, it highlights the insanity of letting homosexual grown men adopt little boys carte blanche. - Chris |
Young women 'lured into bankruptcy by celebrity lifestyle'
posted 07/02/2009, 10:16 AM (The Telegraph)
[Category: Economy]
The research, based on figures that show the majority of bankrupts under 24 are now female, concluded that women succumb to the temptation for spending sprees as they assert their independence.
Last year 55 per cent of young bankrupts were female, compared to 48 per cent five years ago. In total, 1,560 women under 24 were declared bankrupt compared to 1,250 men in the same age group.
Many young women have become trapped in debt because they buy designer clothes and... (more) |
Cap and Trade Bill HR 2454 Will Lead to Capital Flight
posted 07/02/2009, 10:16 AM (Dr. Ron Paul)
[Category: Economy]
In my last column, I joked that with public spending out of control and the piling on of the international bailout bill, economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress. It is getting harder to joke about such a thing however, as the non-partisan General Accounting Office (GAO) has estimated that the administration's health care plan would actually cost over a trillion dollars. This reality check may have given us a temporary reprieve on this particular disastrous policy, however an equally d... (more) |
Oregon Resoundingly Passes Hemp Bill
posted 07/02/2009, 10:16 AM (DailyKos)
[Category: Resistance]
Mon Jun 29, 2009 at 06:37:57 PM PDT Monday afternoon, on a resounding 46-11 vote, the Oregon House passed a bill clearing the way for licensing industrial hemp farming in the state. Barring a highly unusual veto of a bi-partisan bill by Governor Kulongoski (D), Oregon will become the 17th state overall to pass pro-hemp legislation - the sixth this year.
Now all that's needed is federal action.
... (more) |
CNBC Host Flips Out When Bloggers Dare to Challenge His Assertion The Recession Is Over, Calls Bloggers
posted 07/02/2009, 10:16 AM (BusinessInsider)
[Category: General]
On some CNBC show we don't know much about because it airs when decent people are eating dinner with their families and the rest of us are having a drink with friends, Dennis Kneale decided he'd had enough of bloggers comparing him to Beaker from the Muppets and fat ladies in thongs on the beach. It was time to strike back.
The video is below, so you can watch the train-wreck yourself. He personally names DealBreaker and Zerohedge as the blogs that have been unfair to him. Perhaps... (more) How to become a TV news anchor:
1. Sell your soul
2. Read a teleprompter |
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Talk About Their Awakening to The New World Order
posted 06/30/2009, 5:09 PM (PrisonPlanet)
[Category: Resistance]
 Alex welcomes reality MTV stars Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag to discuss their awakening to the New World Order. Alex talks with Timothy F. Ball, a retired university professor and global warming skeptic. He heads the Natural Resources Stewardship Project and is the former head of Friends of Science, a non-profit organization of those who are skeptical of human-caused global warming. GCN host and WRH editor Mike Rivero updates ... (more) InformationLiberation Analysis:
I am aware of the whole media storm surrounding these two but the reality is they are extremely well informed. I am very surprised they were so well spoken and aware despite only having just woken up one month ago. They were clearly very intelligent and I don't really give a damn about the media hype surrounding them. It takes serious chutzpah for someone in their position to put themselves so on the line like this, they seemed to take it in stride. I wish them all my best. - Chris, IL |
Breaking Down The Official Word From The Pirate Bay
posted 06/30/2009, 8:16 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Science/Technology]
[InformationLiberation commentary in italics and brackets] TPB might change owner
Yes, it's true.
News reached the press today in Sweden - The Pirate Bay might get aquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB.
A lot of people are worried. We're not and you shouldn't be either!
TPB is being sold for a great bit underneath it's value if the money would be the interesting part. It's not. The interesting thing... (more) A trite little piece of fluff, I don't want to hold them to some high accord but this nonsense is just patronizing, maybe they are being blackmailed who knows. They sold out for a paltry sum (7.8mil US) considering how incredibly popular the site is, but the really sad thing is the new ownership clearly wants to kill the site and use it's dead carcass as some 'new itunes' like pay site. - Chris, IL
P.S. I should say if they simply said "were sick of it all and we give up" I would be fine with it. |
Commentary from Pirate Bay users
posted 06/30/2009, 8:30 AM (ThePirateBay.org)
[Category: Resistance]
#77. srvrsyde - Today 11:25
I am so pissed that I must write a speech. Are you able to buy anything today? What happened to the little man's rights and everything nice talk? Should it be that if you are rich enough, they can buy anything, incl. democratic freedoms and rights? It is really convenient for giant companies to only be able to buy up everything they do not like. Perhaps it is something Iran should think about, buy demonstrators silence, then the jaw and stop ... (more) |
The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents
posted 06/30/2009, 8:16 AM (TorrentFreak)
[Category: Science/Technology]
 Alongside the news that The Pirate Bay will sell shares on the Swedish stock market come some other significant changes. The site itself will decentralize and stop hosting and tracking torrents. Instead, The Pirate Bay will use a third party tracker and torrent hosting service to serve its users.
Earlier today The Pirate Bay announced that it would be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) who are listed on the Swedish stock market. So, Pirate Bay users can not only share... (more) Horrible news, bit torrent is based on the free exchange of information, they are saying they will be pushing some new software to ensure all copyright holders get compensated, well that's all fine and dandy but what it really means is they will be tracking every and all downloads through their new "third party tracker", and that means no more freedom, just approved freedom within a tiny restricted boundary. - Chris, IL |
The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal
posted 06/30/2009, 8:16 AM (TorrentFreak )
[Category: Science/Technology]
According to gaming company Global Gaming Factory X, it is in the the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay for $7.8m (SEK 60 million). The acquisition is scheduled to be completed by August and will see the site launch new business models to compensate content providers and copyright owners.
Software company Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) says it is in the process of acquiring The Pirate Bay and file-sharing technology company Peerialism. GGF claims to have the biggest network of in... (more) |
Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag, and Miley Cyrus Twitter about Infowars and the New World Order
posted 06/29/2009, 8:21 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Resistance]
 In an interesting turn of events "Heidi and Spence" are acting as though they have woken up to the New World Order and are plugging away to their combined 800,000 followers on twitter endlessly about the "New World Order Global Elite." Even Miley Cyrus got in the fray asking "what is infowars?"
Miley Cyrus: @heidimontag i dont understand what is @infowars ?
10:18 AM Jun 28th from mobile web
Spencer writes: Everyone please tune in to the Alex Jones radio sho... (more) Update: They're on the air right now and they seem totally genuine. They're speaking off the top of their head and they are clearly very intelligent and know what they are talking about. I think they had a full fledged genuine awakening! ;) I'll post the interview asap. - Chris, IL |
DoD Terrorism Test, Can you Pass?
posted 06/29/2009, 9:27 AM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Commentary]
The following is a test from a Department of Defense Training Manual which was just recently released and distributed en masse to DoD personnel. Can you pass it?
Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism activity?
Select the correct answer and then click Check Your Answer.
O Attacking the Pentagon
O IEDs
O Hate crimes against racial groups
O Protests So what... (more) |
H.R. 675: Building Obama’s Civilian National Security Force
posted 06/29/2009, 9:27 AM (Infowars)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
In January, without any recognizable corporate media coverage, Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat, introduced H.R. 675. The bill would amend title 10 of the United States Code and extend to civilian employees of the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. The bill was referred to the Armed Services Committee on January 26, 2009.
Filner’s bill would ... (more) |
Pentagon Rebrands Protest as "Low-Level Terrorism"
posted 06/29/2009, 9:26 AM (Antifascist Calling)
[Category: Commentary]
You have to hand it to Pentagon securocrats and their corporate cronies, they never miss an opportunity to demonize, vilify or otherwise slander domestic political dissent as "terrorism."
The American Civil Liberties Union reported June 10 that "Anti-terrorism training materials currently being used by the Department of Defense (DoD) teach its personnel that free expression in the form of public protests sho... (more) |
DoD Training Manual: Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism"
posted 06/29/2009, 9:26 AM (Salon.com)
[Category: Commentary]
The Department of Defense is training all of its personnel in its current Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course that political protest is "low-level terrorism."
The Training introduction reads as follows:
"Anti-terrorism (AT) and Force Protection (FP) are two facets of the Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Assurance Program. It is DoD policy, as found in DoDI 2000.16, that the DoD Components and the DoD elements and personnel shall... (more) |
Bankster Bailouts Of 2008/9 Exceed Over 200 Years Of Major Government Spending
posted 06/29/2009, 9:26 AM
 The amount of US taxpayer money committed to bailouts over the last 12 months by far exceeds the combined cost of major historical events dating back over 200 years.
The combined amount spent, lent, consumed, borrowed, printed, guaranteed, assumed or otherwise committed to bailouts by the government from March 2008 to March 2009 amounts to some $15 TRILLION.
To emphasize how much money that is, the producers of the book Bailout Nation, put toget... (more) |
Experts Say Houston Dome May Help Environment
posted 06/29/2009, 9:25 AM (Huliq)
[Category: Science/Technology]
The science of mega engineering says we can save Houston with a Dome. Imagine building a huge Dome that covers the entire city, that is higher than Houston's skyscrapers.
One solution to counter the almost overwhelming environmental challenges facing Houston is to cover it with a giant geodesic dome. You can watch the video at the Discovery channel and explore how a giant geodesic dome may save the city from a grim environmental future.
Houston is in peril. The coun... (more) What a coincidence this is the exact plot the of the recent Simpsons movie... |
MSPs get power to fine over climate change
posted 06/29/2009, 9:24 AM (The Scotsman)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
A RAFT of new powers to crack down on wasteful homeowners and businesses were passed yesterday, giving the Scottish Government the tough tools it needs to meet what have been hailed as the world's most ambitious emissions targets.
Measures voted through by Parliament included the power to fine householders and companies if they do not take action to improve the energy efficiency of their houses and buildings.
Charges could be brought in for plastic bags, and busines... (more) |
Fined £50... for dropping a tenner
posted 06/29/2009, 9:22 AM (Sunday Express )
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A SHOPPER who dropped a £10 note in the street by accident has been fined – for littering.
Arthritis sufferer Stewart Smith was leaving a charity shop when the banknote fell from his hand, without him realising.
Stewart, 36, at first expressed his gratitude to the two officers who approached him to point out that the note had fallen to the ground.
But moments later, after recovering the note, he was stunned to be accused of littering and slapped with ... (more) |
'Infomercial King' Billy Mays Found Dead in Home
posted 06/28/2009, 8:36 PM (Fox News)
[Category: General]
Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday.
Mays, 50, was found unresponsive by his wife inside his Tampa, Fla., home at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Tampa Police Department.
Police said there were no signs of forced entry to Mays' residence and foul play is not suspected. Authorities said an autopsy should be complete by Monday afternoon.
... (more) |
New World Order Rams Through Sham Cap & Trade Bill
posted 06/28/2009, 12:46 AM (Infowars)
[Category: Commentary]
The U.S. House of Representatives are nothing more than prostitutes for the international banking cartel. Brothels in Washington D.C. were packed Friday afternoon with eager congressman who sold Americans out 219-212 in favor of The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES). Also dubbed “Waxman- Markey” the bill will implement the infamous cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions, signaling the NWO’s final moves towards total financial bondage.
Under the guise ... (more) |
Britain to advertise abortion to youngsters
posted 06/28/2009, 12:46 AM (Spero News)
[Category: Brave New World]
From the country that brought you the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe -- television ads for condoms and abortion. Will the British government never get it? The more “harm reduction” they go in for, the worse the problem gets.
June 19th saw the end of a three-month consultation by the government’s broadcasting standards watchdog, the BCAP, on a proposal to allow abortion clinics to advertise on TV before 9pm. Condom ads, currently confined to one channel, would also be sho... (more) "Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed? Like you just can't handle any more responsibility? (crying baby sounds in background) Well, you can solve all that (sky opens, birds start flying, empowering music begins) with an abortion from Abby's Abortion Clinic, the only abortion clinic which is good for your acne as well! So stop on by and get rid of your acne and that "extra baggage" as well!"
***
"I was afraid of the responsibility I was going to have to take on, I was only 17 and I was pregnant, what do I know about changing diapers? All I know about is Justin Timberlake!
Well, that's when my doctor told me about Aborto-Inc, a "clinic" which could cure me of my new found disease called childbirth, I stopped by for a "visit" and sure enough they cured me of my "little problem." I even learned how I was helping to save the environment by reducing my carbon footprint! Now I am free as a bird to be the person I've always wanted to be! Thanks Aborto-Inc! |
Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up
posted 06/28/2009, 12:46 AM (Times Online )
[Category: Science/Technology]
Internet users face regular “brownouts” that will freeze their computers as capacity runs out in cyberspace, according to research to be published later this year.
Experts predict that consumer demand, already growing at 60 per cent a year, will start to exceed supply from as early as next year because of more people working online and the soaring popularity of bandwidth-hungry websites such as YouTube and services such as the BBC’s iPlayer.
It will initially lead t... (more) InformationLiberation Analysis:
This is fearmongering and an excuse to get everyone to switch over to Internet 2, a highly regulated, taxed, and heavily controlled internet where all traffic goes through one single central hub "for our security." If you want to have your own website you need to register to have a subdomain of some university's website, IE, infolib.umd.edu. Obviously a site like this will be deemed "hate speech" because we are "anti-government." All hail the free internet of the future. - Chris, IL |
Rothschild and Freshfields founders had links to slavery, papers reveal
posted 06/28/2009, 12:46 AM (Financial Times)
[Category: History]
Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family's 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery, records from the National Archives show, even though both have often been portrayed as opponents of slavery.
Far from ... (more) |
McMenacing? Cop Accused Of Pulling Gun At McD's
posted 06/28/2009, 12:46 AM (CBS News)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
DENVER (CBS4) ― A Denver police officer has been suspended after allegedly brandishing his gun at a McDonald's restaurant in Aurora after his order took too long to fill.
Aurora police confirmed the CBS4 investigation saying the incident occurred May 21 at the McDonald's at 18181 East Hampden Avenue.
A spokesperson for the Aurora Police Department said they plan to present the case -- now classified as a felony menacing incident -- to the Arapahoe County Distr... (more) Protect and serve... |
Feds To Get Power To Target Websites Making "False Claims"
posted 06/28/2009, 12:46 AM (PrisonPlanet)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
 The Federal Reserve refuses to disclose where trillions of dollars in bailout money went and yet the FTC is more concerned about snooping into the financial affairs of bloggers who make a few bucks off affiliate relationships, according to new guidelines set to be introduced later this year that would give the government a foot in the door to regulate and shut down blogs for making “false claims”.
“New guidelines, expected to be approved late this summer with possible modification... (more) |
Robert Fisk's World: The jury is out on the Iranian model of religion and politics
posted 06/28/2009, 12:46 AM (The Independent)
[Category: Commentary]
The most nauseous photograph to come out of the Iran tragedy was not the bloodied demonstrators in Tehran, but a Reuters picture of former Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, "fighting back tears" in Washington as he declared that Neda Agha Sultan, the young woman shot dead by Ahmadinejad's thugs a week ago, "was now for ever in my pocket". I bet she is, by God! "I have added her to the list of my daughters," the son of the brutal and merciless late Shah, told the world.
Needless t... (more) |
Auto-ban: German town goes car-free
posted 06/28/2009, 12:32 AM (The Independent)
[Category: General]
The Germans may have given the world the Audi and the autobahn, but they have banished everything with four wheels and an engine from the streets of Vauban – a model brave new world of a community in the country's south-west, next to the borders with Switzerland and France.
In Vauban, a suburb of the university town of Freiburg, luxuriant beds of brilliant flowers replace what would normally be parking outside its neat, middle- class homes. Instead of the roar of traffic, the resi... (more) "A model brave new world"... That just about sums it up. - Chris
Key Line: Being virtually car-free is only the start of what has been hailed as one of Europe's most successful experiments in green living and one which is viewed increasingly as a blueprint for a future and perhaps essential way of living in an age of climate change. |
House Passes Nightmare "Cap And Tax" Bill
posted 06/27/2009, 1:42 AM (PrisonPlanet)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
This is far worse than just a "new tax" as Republicans are complaining - this is the total takeover of the American economy by private banking interests through the carbon trading system.
It is also the entrée for the complete and total subjegation of any freedoms we had left and the beginning of nightmare regulation and suffocating control over every aspect of our personal lives by millions of green stasi tasked with enforcing impossible to attain goals of 80% carbon dioxide redu... (more) Quotes from top globalists:
"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment
"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
"We require a central organizing principle - one agreed to voluntarily. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric offered in lieu of genuine change - these are all forms of appeasement, designed to satisfy the public’s desire to believe that sacrifice, struggle and a wrenching transformation of society will not be necessary." - Al Gore, Earth in the Balance
"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation." - Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies
"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are." - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control." - Professor Maurice King
"Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it." - Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
"The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet." - Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." - Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University |
Iran Falling to US PSYOPS?
posted 06/26/2009, 10:50 PM (Paul Craig Roberts )
[Category: Commentary]
President Obama called on the Iranian government to allow protesters to control the streets in Tehran. Would Obama or any US president allow protesters to control the streets in Washington, D.C.?
There was more objective evidence that George W. Bush stole his two elections than there is at this time of election theft in Iran. But there was no orchestrated media campaign to discredit the US government.
... (more) |
Obama Claims CIA Involvement In Iran "Patently False"
posted 06/26/2009, 10:50 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Geopolitics]
President Barack Obama was forced to address accusations that the CIA was involved in fomenting the post-election riots in Iran during his White House press conference yesterday, claiming the allegations were "patently false," despite the fact that the U.S. government publicly gave the CIA approval to undertake a destabilization campaign in Iran more than two years ago.
"There are reports suggesting that the CIA is behind all this - all of which is patently false but it gi... (more) |
Mousavi, Celebrated in Iranian Protests, Was the Butcher of Beirut
posted 06/26/2009, 10:50 PM (CQ Politics)
[Category: Geopolitics]
He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.
Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s, personally selected his point man for the Beirut terror campaign, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, and dispatched him to Damascus as Iran's ambassador, according to former CIA and military officials.
... (more) |
D.C. Crash Kills General Who Scrambled Jets on 9/11
posted 06/25/2009, 6:09 AM (Bloomberg)
[Category: General]
 Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr., retired commanding general of the D.C. National Guard, is shown in this undated photo. Wherley and his wife, Ann, were among those killed in the collision of two Metro trains Monday, June 22, 2009 in Washington.
(AP Photo/National Guard Bureau)
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- David F. Wherley Jr., the head of the Washington National Guard who scrambled jets over the city during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was among those killed in the worst com... (more) |
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EC calls for one world internet governance
posted 06/24/2009, 6:16 AM (The Register)
[Category: Science/Technology]
The European Commission is once again calling for the United States to let go of ICANN and place it under international supervision.
Echoing an earlier appeal from EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, the Commission said in a statement today that future internet governance "should reflect the key role that global network has come to play for all countries."
... (more) |
Cashless society by 2012, says Visa chief
posted 06/24/2009, 6:16 AM (The Independent)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
Paying for goods with notes and coins could be consigned to history within five years, according to the chief executive of Visa Europe.
Peter Ayliffe said that, by 2012, using credit and debit cards should be cheaper and more convenient than cash.
Some retailers could soon start surcharging customers if they choose to buy products with cash, because of the greater cost of processing these payments, he warned.
Visa Europe briefed the British Retail Co... (more) |
Bank Rescue Costs EU States $5.3 Trillion, More Than German GDP
posted 06/24/2009, 6:15 AM (Bloomberg)
[Category: Economy]
 June 12 (Bloomberg) -- European governments have approved $5.3 trillion of aid, more than the annual gross domestic product of Germany, to support banks during the credit crunch, according to a European Union document.
The U.K. pledged 781.2 billion euros ($1.1 trillion) to restore confidence in its lenders, the most of any of the 27 EU members, according to a May 26 document prepared by officials from the European Commission, the European Central Bank and member states and obtain... (more) |
Time for 'new world order': Brazilian President
posted 06/24/2009, 6:15 AM (AFP)
[Category: Geopolitics]
The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday.
Speaking after a meeting with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev in the Kazakh capital Astana, Lula called on the global community to seize on the crisis to create a fairer world for developing nations.
"I want to say that before the crisis, there were many countries wh... (more) |
Obama Regulatory Reform Plan Officially Establishes Banking Dictatorship
posted 06/22/2009, 11:31 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Commentary]
 President Obama's plan to give the privately-owned and unaccountable Federal Reserve complete regulatory oversight across the entire U.S. economy, which is likely to be enacted before the end of the year, will officially herald the beginning of a new form of government in the United States - an ultra-powerful banking dictatorship controlled by a small gaggle of shadowy and corrupt elitists.
The new rules would see the Fed given the authority to "regulate" any company whose ... (more) |
We have created a monster... banks with access to public funds
posted 06/22/2009, 11:31 PM (Sunday Herald)
[Category: Economy]
THE ECONOMY: an apology.
"Readers of the nation's press over the last six months might have been forgiven for believing that there was an economic recession. Headlines like: Doom Britain, It's Worse Than The Great Depression and Mothers Start Selling Children For Food might have led casual readers to conclude that Britain was in a very severe financial crisis. We would like to make it clear that there was not a jot or tittle of truth in these reports and that the British economy i... (more) |
Ron Paul Slams Federal Reserve’s New Dictatorial Powers
posted 06/22/2009, 11:31 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Economy]
Responding to the Obama administration's new regulatory reform plan, which will officially hand the Federal Reserve complete dictatorial control over the U.S. economy, Congressman Ron Paul told MSNBC that the Fed was now more powerful than Congress.
Paul emphasized that no amount of regulation could compensate for a financial system created and controlled by the Federal Reserve that was completely unstable to begin with.
"The regulations should be on the Fed... (more) |
Court allows first juryless criminal trial
posted 06/22/2009, 11:30 PM (The Guardian)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The court of appeal today ruled that a criminal trial can be heard without a jury for the first time.
Three judges in London, headed by the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, gave the go-ahead because of a "very significant" danger of jury tampering. Lord Judge said the case concerned "very serious criminal activity" arising from a robbery at a warehouse at Heathrow airport in 2004.
Reporting restrictions ban the identification of four defendants. Their trial will take... (more) Lord Judge went on: "In this country, trial by jury is a hallowed principle of the administration of criminal justice. It is properly identified as a right, available to be exercised by a defendant unless and until the right is amended or circumscribed by express legislation."
In other words: Despite my flowery language, it's not a right. It's a privilege, one which we can take away from you at any time we deem fit. - IL |
It is Now Illegal to Photograph Buildings in America
posted 06/22/2009, 11:30 PM (Washington Post)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
If you happen by 3701 N. Fairfax Drive in Arlington and decide you have a sudden craving for a photograph of a generic suburban office building, and you point your camera at said structure, you will rather quickly be greeted by uniformed security folks who will demand that you delete the image and require that you give up various personal information.
When Keith McCammon unwittingly took a picture of that building, he was launched on an odyssey that has so far involved an A... (more) |
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