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Monday March 2nd, 2009
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Revealed: 'There was no Cabinet debate in run-up to war,' says Short as Government refuses to release minutes
posted 03/02/2009, 12:43 AM (The Daily Mail)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
The Government is refusing to release minutes of Cabinet meetings before the Iraq War because they would reveal there was no discussion on the issue.
Details surrounding two crucial meetings on the eve of the conflict were laid bare for the first time yesterday when former Cabinet Minister Clare Short, who was present at both, gave a full account of what happened.
She told The Mail on Sunday the main reason for the ‘scandalous’ decision not to publish the minutes was not to protect confidential discussions about the war, but to cover up the fact there was no such discussion.
At the last Cabinet meeting, no debate on the legality of the war was allowed and Tony Blair, then Prime Minister, said brusquely: ‘That’s it.’
The official records would also put an end to claims by Gordon Brown’s supporters that, in private, he had grave doubts about the war, said Ms Short. In fact, he led the Cabinet campaign to accuse France of sabotaging British and American attempts to win United Nations support for the attack on Saddam Hussein.
‘It is extraordinary when you hear people like Jack Straw say that the Cabinet minutes cannot be published because you have to preserve Cabinet confidentiality and robust decision-making,’ said Ms Short, who resigned as International Development Secretary after the war.
‘The bitter irony is that what they are doing is concealing the fact there was no robust decision-making. The minutes will reveal there was no real Cabinet discussion about the Iraq War. That is the real scandal.’
Ms Short spoke out after the Government blocked an order by the Information Commissioner to reveal minutes of Cabinet meeting... (more)InformationLiberation Analysis:
The significance of this can not be stated lightly. This exposes as clear as day how wars are really started, there is no debate, no discussion among leaders, no nothing. It is nothing more than a mere formality. |
The Official Lie: On the brink of war
posted 03/02/2009, 12:51 AM (The Telegraph)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
As the members of the Cabinet shuffled into the Cabinet meeting room in Downing Street at 4pm on March 17, 2003, there was an enormous weight of expectation on the shoulders of Lord Peter Goldsmith, the attorney general. He was not a member of the Cabinet, but he had been invited to brief the meeting on his answer to a simple question: would the invasion of Iraq, which the Americans planned to start within the week, be legal?
All hope of a second UN resolution explicitly authorisi... (more)InformationLiberation Analysis:
Though subtle, this article creates a very different impression from the way Minister Clare Short described it. She said there was NO DEBATE, the decision to go to war was tantamount to a mere formality. This article, which is filled with plenty of drama and intrigue, tries to create the impression there was debate, it is suggesting the idea that there actually is a government which controls things, they are just cowardly and meek in the face of their great leader, afraid to use their influence which had the potential to stop this war. This is a lie though, and it must be exposed as such if people are ever going to wake up to the fact they don't have a government, they have nothing more than rulers and masters, and we are nothing more than their serfs.
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
The Great "Global Crisis of Maturity" and the New World Order
posted 03/02/2009, 12:43 AM (Old-Thinker News)
[Category: Commentary]
The Technological Revolution
"Although technological powers will be vast and progress will likely be made, the normal level of social resistance and political stalemate is likely to oppose change. Thus, it may take an occasional environmental collapse, global wars and terrorism, or yet unknown calamities to force the move to global consciousness." -- William E. Halal, Emerging Technologies and the Global Crisis of Maturity
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Clinton, Quigley, and the New World Order
posted 03/02/2009, 12:41 AM (The End Run)
[Category: Commentary]
I’ve been doing a lot of research lately, and I recently came across this little-known quote while reading through Bill Clinton’s book My Life. In Chapter 24, he writes:
“I ended 1987 with my third speech of the decade at the Florida Democratic convention…
I told the Florida Democrats, "We have to do nothing less than create a new world economic order and secure the place of the American people within it." The central arguments I made were "We've got to pay the ... (more) |
Guardsmen to conduct urban training at Arcadia in April
posted 03/02/2009, 12:40 AM (Daily Times Herald)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The Carroll National Guard unit will train on urban military operations by holding a four-day exercise at Arcadia.
The purpose of the April 2-5 drill will be to gather intelligence, then search for and apprehend a suspected weapons dealer, according to Sgt. Mike Kots, readiness NCO for Alpha Company.
Citizens, law enforcement, media and other supporters will participate.
Troops will spend Thursday, April 2, staging at a forward operations base at Carr... (more) |
Iowa Guard ends urban war exercise amid outcry
posted 03/02/2009, 12:40 AM (The Des Moines Register)
[Category: Resistance]
The Iowa Army National Guard has dropped plans for urban warfare training in the western Iowa town of Arcadia after being deluged by nearly 100 e-mails and phone calls from gun-rights advocates nationwide.
The four-day event in April would have involved between 90 and 100 combat troops arriving in the Carroll County community in a convoy with a Blackhawk military helicopter flying overhead.
Troops would have gone door to door, asking the town's 443 residents about a... (more) |
Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN - Feb. 27, 2009
posted 03/02/2009, 12:40 AM (CuttingThroughTheMatrix.com)
[Category: Commentary]
Men Blowing Bubbles Scoot with Loot---Again:
"The Age of International Pirate Pranksters,
Their Hand-Picked Governments, Private Banksters,
Barricading Themselves for Summer of Riots,
While Taxpayers' Money Goes to Bailouts and Buyouts,
The IMF May Print Global Currency, It Seems,
Fulfilling the Vision of John Maynard Keynes,
The Big Boys have Seen It Coming for Years,
Trained Police and Military to Take Care of Fears,
Plan wa... (more) |
Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist
posted 03/02/2009, 12:39 AM (The Daily Mail)
[Category: Science/Technology]
Social networking websites are causing alarming changes in the brains of young users, an eminent scientist has warned.
Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are said to shorten attention spans, encourage instant gratification and make young people more self-centred.
The claims from neuroscientist Susan Greenfield will make disturbing reading for the millions whose social lives depend on logging on to their favourite websites each day.
Facebook f... (more)Most people are nothing more than a composite of television characters they associate with and uncritically emulate. - Chris |
Bush should have executed Gitmo detainees, says former CIA officer
posted 03/02/2009, 12:37 AM (Raw Story)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A former CIA officer has said it's ridiculous that the Bush administration didn't execute numerous prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, regardless of whether they have had a trial, when it had the chance.
"Many of those individuals that are there are enemy combatants and that's based on the Geneva Conventions and should be executed," said Gary Berntsen, who spent 20 years with the CIA, to Fox's Gretchen Carlson on the show, Fox & Friends. "It's ridiculous that the Bush administration, aft... (more)Yes, because we can't have the masses finding out that many of the detainees were children and others did not even know the earth was round. - IL |
A rare peek at Homeland Security's files on travelers
posted 03/02/2009, 12:37 AM (BudgetTravel)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security. Inside, I found 20 photocopies of the government's records on my international travels. Every overseas trip I've taken since 2001 was noted.
I had requested the files after I had heard that the government tracks "passenger activity." Starting in the mid-1990s, many airlines handed over passenger records. Since 2002, the government has mandated that the commercial airlines deliver this informatio... (more)"My biggest surprise was that the Internet Protocol (I.P.) address of the computer used to buy my tickets via a Web agency was noted. On the first document image posted here, I've circled in red the I.P. address of the computer used to buy my pair of airline tickets." |
Private military companies to supersede regular armies
posted 03/02/2009, 12:36 AM (Pravda.ru)
[Category: Geopolitics]
 Private military companies (PMCs) have become rather popular nowadays in terms of providing specialized expertise or services of a military nature. These units can compete with special services and regular armies. There are such companies in Russia, although they are not so widely spread in the country in comparison with their prototypes in the West. As experience shows, the PMCs will prevail in the future.
The history of private military companies started on June 24, 1997, when e... (more) |
Drought to cut off federal water to Calif. farms
posted 03/02/2009, 12:29 AM (Associated Press)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the deepening drought gripping the state.
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials said parched reservoirs and patchy rainfall this year were forcing them to completely stop surface water deliveries for at least a three-week period beginning March 1. Authorities said they haven't had to take such a drastic move for more than 15... (more)They're pulling an Enron with the water supply... |
Colleges on extremist signs watch
posted 03/02/2009, 12:29 AM (BBC News)
[Category: Big Brother/Orwellian]
College staff are being urged to be vigilant for students who access extremist material on the internet or use extremist graffiti symbols.
Guidelines are being sent to further education colleges in England to try to prevent students becoming drawn to violent extremism and terrorism.
Skills Secretary John Denham said the "toolkit" would facilitate open debate.
Similar guidelines have already been issued to primary and secondary schools, as well as to u... (more) |
Mobile prison cells will cage criminals on the beat
posted 03/02/2009, 12:28 AM (The Telegraph)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The "mobile urban jails" will be used in targeted areas such as those rife with knife crime and anti-social behaviour or where there is no police station nearby.
They will allow officers to process criminals, fingerprint them and issue, on-the-spot fines, bail or court summons without having to go back to a police station.
A satellite link will even allow a custody sergeants to charge offenders via video while offenders could be held for up to six hours.
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Soros Says Financial Crisis Marks End of a Free-Market Model
posted 03/02/2009, 12:28 AM (Bloomberg)
[Category: Economy]
Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor George Soros said the current economic crisis has its roots in the financial deregulation of the 1980s and marks the end of a free-market model that has since dominated capitalist countries.
Liberalization of the financial industry begun by the Reagan administration has led to a series of breakdowns forcing government intervention, Soros told economists and bankers last night at a private dinner at Columbia University in New Yo... (more) |
Police warn that Britain faces summer of rage due to recession
posted 03/02/2009, 12:28 AM (The Guardian)
[Category: Economy]
Police are preparing for a "summer of rage" as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against financial institutions, the Guardian has learned.
Britain's most senior police officer with responsibility for public order raised the spectre of a return of the riots of the 1980s, with people who have lost their jobs, homes or savings becoming "footsoldiers" in a wave of potentially violent mass protests.
Superintendent David Hartshorn, who he... (more) |
French Professor Sacked Over 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
posted 03/02/2009, 12:28 AM (RussiaToday)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
An academic in France has been sacked by the Ministry of Defence after questioning the official version of events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. He now reportedly plans to sue the government.
Aymeric Chauprade lost his job allegedly over the introduction to his latest book about political crises around the world, and more specifically, that the 9/11 attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. were an orchestrated "American-Israeli conspiracy". The Defence Minister had strong objec... (more) |
CNBC Analyst: Global Bank, Global Currency Within 15 Years
posted 03/02/2009, 12:26 AM (Prison Planet)
[Category: Economy]
 Head of market analysis for Schneider Foreign Exchange Stephen Gallo told CNBC yesterday that the financial crisis will lead to the creation of a global central bank and a global single currency within 15 years, echoing the call of top globalists who have exploited the problems they created to push for a new world financial order.
Highlighting the significance of the introduction of the Euro, Gallo said that the single currency was “where we are headed globally on a monetary basis... (more) |
Fluoride Will Be Added To City Tap Water
posted 03/02/2009, 12:25 AM (SKY News)
[Category: Brave New World]
Health chiefs have agreed the controversial move of adding fluoride to the water supply of 195,000 people in Southampton and and South Hampshire.
Southampton Primary Care Trust argues it is the only way to reduce tooth decay in children across the city.
But campaigners fear fluoride could have health risks, saying adding it to tap water amounts to mass medication.
Five million people in England and Wales have been drinking water with added fluoride fo... (more) |
Mosquitoes as new medical syringes
posted 03/02/2009, 12:23 AM (Null-Hypothesis.co.uk)
[Category: Brave New World]
 New plans to use mosquitoes as micro-syringes have been released by a leading British biotechnology company. John Soames, Chairman of the Medical Life Sciences group based in Cambridge, England, held a press conference yesterday afternoon to announce the news to the world’s media. The new technology is set to revolutionise the medical profession, allowing minuscule amounts of drugs, vaccines and serums to be injected directly into patients.
Soames said yesterday; “the amount of d... (more) |
Sir Fred Will Not Give Up £16.6m Pension Pot
posted 03/02/2009, 12:23 AM (SKY News)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
 Sir Fred has written to the Government to say he will not be handing back his £16.6m pension pot.
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Chancellor Alistair Darling have both called on the former bank chief executive to forego some of the money.
And Mr Brown also said that legal action would be taken if necesarry to claw some of the money back.
In his letter to City Minister Lord Myners, Sir Fred wrote: "I am told the topic of my pension was specific... (more) |
Get Ready for Mass Retail Closings
posted 03/02/2009, 12:22 AM (Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance)
[Category: Economy]
About 220,000 stores may close this year in America, says our guest, retail consultant Howard Davidowitz of Davidowitz & Associates. As more Americans save and spend less, it's clear there's too much retail space. Just visit Web site deadmalls.com and track retail's growing body count. And luxury retailers? They're on "life support," Davidowitz says. |
Royal Bank of Scotland to pay staff £1 billion in bonuses
posted 03/02/2009, 12:22 AM (The Telegraph)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
The bank’s board has begun discussions about the bonuses with UK Financial Investments (UKFI), the body set up by the Treasury to manage the Government’s shareholdings in Britain’s ailing banks.
The scale of the plan is likely to increase public anger as the recession deepens, and add to the frustration of ministers. It comes as Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, announces in The Sunday Telegraph today his plans for an independent review of the way banks are managed, including the ... (more) |
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