Friday, December 10, 2010

WikiLeaks and the Sound of Silence






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WikiLeaks and the Sound of Silence

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 02:25 PM PST

The scope and scale of WikiLeaks is a marvel to behold. Some praise it as the ultimate form of democracy. Others as the epitome of the most sacred of liberty's principles: the right to know.

Yet the real story here is not what's revealed but what's withheld. The marvel is not what we now know but what is already known that is left unsaid. And what's given an interpretive spin by those newspapers granted priority access.

The facts suggest that WikiLeaks is less about the right to know than the right to deceive.

Survivor Consistency

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 06:01 AM PST

Jewish proponents of the "mistaken identity" theory of the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967 focus on inconsistencies of the ships survivors. Thus, they will argue that some of the witnesses before the Naval Court of Inquiry testified that they could spot the Israeli flag on the attacking torpedo boats, and then later said they couldn't. Or they will argue that some witnesses testified that the attacking planes had identifiable markings; other eyewitnesses said they didn't. In short, they make a big issue out of the confusion and chaos inherent in such events to try to cover up the truth.

WikiLeaks Reveals Diplomatic Cables on Aafia Siddiqui

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 05:47 AM PST

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On September 23 in federal court, she was sentenced to 86 years in prison, though committed no crime. It's a gross miscarriage of justice, compounding what's she's already endured, following her March 30, 2003 abduction, imprisonment, torture, prosecution, and conviction on spurious charges.

Through sentencing she was in New York City solitary confinement and may still be there, pending transfer to Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell in Fort Worth, TX, a hellhole described as a facility "provid(ing) specialized medical and mental health services to female prisoners." If she's there long-term, it'll be a death sentence, its harshness precipitating it sooner, not later.

 

Geert Wilders and the Growing Jewish Influence in Dutch politics

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 09:11 AM PST

The Dutchman Geert Wilders is a break-away parliamentarian from the Liberal Party who founded his own Freedom Party in 2004. Since his youth he has developed an emotional bond with the Jewish state and has visited Israel at least more than 40 times. As a youngster he went there to work in the Kibbutz, a socialist experiment of collective farming, and had an abortive relationship with a Jewish girl. His second wife is the Jewish-Hungarian diplomat Krisztina Marfaimarried.

Happy Hanukkah: On Jewish Demons

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 10:42 PM PST

HamsaOn December 2, 2010, begins Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday which commemorates the inauguration of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BC. Accordingly, the name means "inauguration" in Hebrew. Observed during eight nights, a candle is added to a nine-branched candelabrum – called Hanukkyah in Hebrew – each night. The ninth candle is used to light the others. In the Jewish tradition, Hanukkah is special because it doesn't appear in the Bible; i.e. it is a holiday not commanded by God (the same applies to Purim). As a result of that it offers an extraordinary insight into the transition of the Judaic culture from being based in the Bible to one based in the blasphemous Talmud.

Michael Shermer debunks the "19 hijackers" conspiracy theory!

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 06:17 PM PST

Nevertheless, we cannot just dismiss all such theories out of hand, because real conspiracies do sometimes happen. Instead we should look for signs that indicate a conspiracy theory is likely to be untrue. The more that it manifests the following characteristics, the less probable that the theory is grounded in reality.

WikiStink

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:14 PM PST

Over a quarter of a million diplomatic cables, marked – 'secret' , 'confidential', or 'unclassified' – to and from the US State Department have been 'leaked' to the public, presumably by a whistleblower. On the surface, it seems like the sort of thing that restores power to the people. It arms us all with knowledge and reminds those in power that they must answer to the public.

Then you pause to think. And that's when the holes in this narrative become obvious.

Cleaning House Essential for Mideast Peace

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 12:02 PM PST

Considering that the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority have shamefully ran out of original ideas and remain deadlocked on the issue of peace negotiations, it may thus be time for all three to do some house cleaning. Whether this will herald a new and successful approach remains to be seen but certainly dependant on their commitment to fairness and peacemaking in the Middle East.

 

Rigged Food Safety Bill May Die in House

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 11:10 AM PST

It looks like the draconian FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) may be killed in the House, according to Roll Call, a newspaper covering Capitol Hill.

Corporate media spins the bill.

"A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate's lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House," writes John Stanton for the newspaper.

The futility of arguing over how to skin the cat

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 08:06 AM PST

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There are many ways how to skin a cat and a lot of people get carried away discussing which method is best. What they forget unfortunately, is that before skinning it we first have to spot, catch, and - some people might even suggest - kill the cat.

The main reason why the dissident movement is so embarrassingly ineffective is that it is so busy bickering and bitching within its ranks.

Dissidents - by definition - are not a very agreeable lot. If they keep refusing to work with anyone who doesn't totally agree with them on everything, they will never be able to mount a force strong enough to achieve anything.


Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 02:34 AM PST

steve lendmanThe Pew Charitable Trusts "uses public opinion polling and other research tools to produce reports that track important issues and trends." Its new report is titled, "Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility," focusing on America's burgeoning prison population and enormous cost. Now over $50 billion annually, it "consum(es) 1 in every 15 general fund dollars."

The nation spends recklessly on harshness, leaving little little left for society's needs. No wonder Pew found that people today are worse off than their parents at the same age, and "42 percent of Americans whose parents were in the bottom fifth of the income ladder remain there themselves as adults." As for race, Americans of color, especially Blacks, fare significantly worse than whites.

 

Arundhati Roy: 'Kashmir is not part of India'

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 04:10 PM PST

"Kashmir's accession to India was accepted by us at the request of the Maharaja's government and the most numerously representative popular organization in the state which is predominantly Muslim. Even then it was accepted on condition that as soon as law and order had been restored, the people of Kashmir would decide the question of accession. It is open to them to accede to either Dominion (India or Pakistan) then," wrote Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in a telegram to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, October 31, 2010.

However, later, Nehru did send Indian army to occupy princely states of Hyderabad and Junagarh against the wishes of their Muslim rulers who had decided to join Pakistan.

Recent Jewish and Muslim pro-immigration activism

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:30 AM PST

Just in case there remained any doubt, non-White groups are leading the charge on legalizing the illegals and raising even further the numbers of legal immigrants. The latest things I've come across (in addition to Newsweek's predictable puff piece on Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Dem, IL) "the most passionate, tireless, and nettlesome voice in Congress on immigration matters") is a grant from the Ford Foundation to the American Jewish Committee:

The Ford Foundation has awarded a grant of $500,000, the second in two years, to support AJC programs to strengthen intergroup relations in the United States and mobilize for comprehensive immigration reform.

U.N. a Playground for Spies of all Political Stripes

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 06:46 AM PST

Thalif DeenThe United Nations has long been a veritable playground for spooks of all political stripes to spy on each other - going back to the days of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War in the 1960s and '70s.

A 1975 U.S. Congressional Committee, led by Senator Frank Church, charged with investigating the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) laid bare some of the diplomatic shenanigans at the world body.

 

Islamophobia in UK

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 05:02 AM PST

According to the latest study in the UK, Muslims living away from large urban centers are more likely to face attacks, threats and intimidation. Press TV's Fareena Alam reports from London.

On the brink of Korea War II

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 06:08 PM PST

As we stand on the brink of resumption of the Korean War in which China has never stopped being the committed ally of North Korea -- exactly as we have been supportive of South Korea (only more so).

The Chinese communists were always allied with the Opium Power -- that is the City of London Jewish merchant bankers.  An alliance of China unification mindedness -- until all the world is China -- with Zionism with its Jewish supremacism.  If the Chinese were not in on the conspiracy of international finance (the opium power -- the british empire -- the directors of the use of American power in the now-expired "American Century" -- then Nancy Pelosi who represents the congressional district that is dominated by San Francisco's China Town, then Nancy Pelosi -- a European woman's face concealing a Zionist and China hegemon fanatic servator - a false-front for Chinese Communist and Zionist  power.

The Self-Sacrifice of Real Truthseekers and Whistleblowers

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:06 PM PST

Taking full advantage of a school holiday, we were in Berlin during the first week of November.  Having lived in Wannsee for several years, my children were delighted to see old friends and go "trick or treating" in the enclave of Steinstücken, where the locals really know how to celebrate Halloween.  We also visited our good friend Jutta Rabe, who has worked many years on digging for the truth of what really happened to the Baltic ferry Estonia, which sank on September 28, 1994, with more than 852 lives lost.

Czars U.S.A Illusion of Democracy Grim Dry Run For Military Police State

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 02:50 PM PST

As the trajectory of criminality dynamic by Czars accelerates, the illusion of Democracy hoax becomes reality on "Thanksgiving Day Legacy c.2010" Posted by Salem News. Holiday travel conflict that goes beyond comprehension of any normal citizenry.  Translation, the "Chances are Greater that Americans can be Hit or Killed by Lightning in a Bathtub than by Artificial Terrorists," on any day of the year.

Feminism in Ancient Sparta

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 06:39 AM PST

Feminism is not a modern invention, as many suppose. It existed in the ancient world - and its consequences were largely the same as now. A classic example is the Greek city-state of Sparta. It would shock most people to know that the famous warrior state was a paradise for women (relatively speaking) but it was. The Spartans granted educational and economic equality to women - and it contributed greatly to their eventual downfall. Spartan girls were given the same curricula as the boys and encouraged to engage in sports. They were also granted the right to hold property in their own name and inherit property on an equal basis. The Spartan economy was largely agricultural. While Spartan men were away on war Spartan women ran the household and controlled the finances. As much as 35%-40% of Spartan land was owned by women some of whom became quite wealthy.

Moral and Aesthetic Idealism among Whites: The Constant Gardener

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 11:16 AM PST

There seems to be a certain moral fervor in many of us Whites. It's apparent among the Puritans and some of their noisier descendants, the abolitionists of the 19th century. They waged Holy War on behalf of righteousness (see also here), often on against their own people on behalf of people quite a bit unlike themselves.

I was reminded of that while watching The Constant Gardener, a film starring John Fiennes as Justin Quayle, a minor British diplomat posted to Kenya who is married to crusading humanitarian activist Tessa, played by Rachel Weisz. We see her originally holding forth in a room crowded with journalists blaming the British government for what's going on in Africa, her rhetoric so extreme that the room quickly empties. Although Tessa is married to the White diplomat, her heart is in all things African. We see her flirting with an African doctor, openly consorting with him at a high-level cocktail party, then opting to have his baby in a hospital swarming with poor Africans, except for the White nurses and doctors. The birth of the baby happens as though it is part of the natural order of things—the husband is just fine with it, acting as if there's nothing to notice, while the father of the baby looks on proudly. Tessa's only thought is to help the poor African girl in the next room.

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The tribulations of the Tuareg

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 11:19 PM PST

Are the Tuareg tribesmen of the Sahara, as many media reports are now intimating, allied to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)?

This question has become especially pertinent since the abduction of seven employees of two French companies from their living quarters in Arlit, northern Niger, in September.

Cine Politics-Collapse

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 08:25 AM PST

The documentary 'Collapse' was directed by Chris Smith. Smith's past films have focused on outsiders and 'collapse' is the result of an extraordinary 14-hour-long interview with former police officer turned radical investigative journalist Michael Ruppert. Since 1998, Ruppert has published his controversial online news letter called 'From the Wilderness'. He predicts the collapse of nothing less than our modern industrial civilization. Ruppert explains how oil is entrenched in everything we have. Beyond automobiles, it is the basis of our plastics, our food supply and indeed our whole energy devouring culture. He warns we are under precipice of peak oil, the moment when oil demand outstrips supply and the world we build on fossil fuel begins to collapse. Is peak oil upon us now and will film of Ruppert predicting the end of the industrial world be viewed in the years to come with the same awe as Ruppert's pressing warning of the financial meltdown? To discuss 'Collapse', Russell Michaels is joined by Tim Robey and Manouchehr Takin.

Shahid Alam's 'Israeli Exceptionalism'

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 04:53 AM PST

People have been against both the idea and practice of Zionism since its inception. Zionism is an ideology that has never earned the support of all Jews, and one that has never been accepted by the vast majority of Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. Zionism has likewise failed to achieve significant support in the so-called Third World, and has been almost uniformly rejected by black nationalists inside the United States. Yet Zionism has been successful insofar as its desire to create a Jewish-majority nation-state has been achieved. Despite its discursive self-image as a liberation movement, Zionist practice is colonialist and brutally violent. In his latest book, 'Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism', M. Shahid Alam explores these paradoxes with great skill and insight. 'Israeli Exceptionalism' takes its place among a series of recent books that question the logic of Zionism. Most of these books argue in favor of a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict; inherent in that argument is a rejection of Zionism. Alam takes a slightly different approach in his rejection of Zionism, one that is global in scope. He points out that "as an exclusionary settler colony, Israel does not stand alone in the history of European expansion overseas, but it is the only one of its kind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries".

"It's instability, not poverty, that does the greater damage to children."

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:19 AM PST

Following on the NYTimes report acknowledging the well-known fact that income levels do not account for race differences in IQ, another report emphasizes that poverty does not account for the family instability. This study followed "5,000 children and their urban, primarily minority parents." Only 50% of the fathers were living with mothers at the time of the birth of the child, and "within five years, a tiny 15% of the unmarried couples had taken wedding vows, while a whopping 60% had split up. At the five-year mark, only 36% of the children lived with their fathers, and half of the other 64% hadn't seen their dads in the last month. One-half to two-thirds of the absent fathers provided little or no financial support." Things got worse when both the mothers and especially the fathers went on to have children with other partners.

EU deal threatens HIV drug supplies

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 06:56 AM PDT

Until recently, Loon Gangte thought the days of watching his friends die of Aids because they couldn't get access to medicine were firmly in the past.

In a decade and a half since being diagnosed with HIV, Gangte, a 43 year-old living in New Delhi, has seen his illness transform from a death sentence into a manageable condition, thanks largely to the availability of cheap medicines produced in India.

Following Mexico's drug money trail

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 08:04 AM PDT

A rally and conference against Mexico's drug war poured fresh blood onto the streets of Ciudad Juárez over the weekend, when police shot a 19-year-old student in the back with a high-powered assault rifle.

Laura Carlsen, who spoke at the anti-militarisation event which had been billed as a "march against death", said the shooting of the student on a university campus was "a game changer" in the country's spiralling violence.

Online privacy: digitally exposed

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 08:59 AM PDT

In January 2010, an Irish teenager named Phoebe Prince, whose family had recently settled in the United States, took her own life after months of relentless bullying, both online and off.  Nine students were charged on various accounts for the harassment that lead to Prince's suicide, and as a result, the state of Massachusetts has enacted a new bill to deal with online and offline bullying.

Last month, a young man named Tyler Clementi committed suicide after his roommate secretly videotaped then broadcast live a homosexual encounter involving the young man.  Clementi's roommate, Dharun Ravi, and Ravi's friend Molly Wei have been charged with invasion of privacy.

 

Death By Globalism—Economists Haven't A Clue

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 11:12 PM PDT

Have economists made themselves irrelevant?  If you have any doubts, have a look at the current issue of the magazine, International Economy, a slick endorsed by former Federal Reserve chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, by Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, by former Secretary of State George Shultz, and by the New York Times and Washington Post, both of which declare the magazine to be "ahead of the curve."

The Portland Tree Bomber and The Powers That Be

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 08:20 AM PST

What a difference a week can make! Before Thanksgiving the Terror War was becoming odious and dubious. Anger at the interminable fighting and increasing police intrusions was growing.

"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." -- 1984

Theft of Bread Daily and Worst Circuses In World History

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 05:55 AM PST

The Roman Empire dispensed bread and circuses to its citizenry to distract them from the criminality that had taken over Rome c.46BC. Circuses that were extravagant productions to divert citizenry from storming the gates of the corrupt Roman Senate. America c.2010 confiscates it's citizenry bread daily and perpetuates phony and artificial circuses to the masses who have no clue as to where to storm let alone where the gates are located. Hint Washington, DC.

Lieberman Has Power To Shut Down Websites With A Phone Call

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:19 AM PST

Senator Joe Lieberman, the man behind legislation to give President Obama a kill switch for the Internet in the move towards a Chinese-style government controlled world wide web, now has the power to shut down websites with a mere phone call, as was underscored yesterday when Amazon axed Wikileaks from its servers after being pressured to do so by Lieberman's Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Targeting Silwan's children

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 10:27 AM PST

Earlier this year, "Mahmoud" came home to see a letter with his name on it, instructing him to come to the Russian Compound prison facility in Jerusalem.

The 15-year-old Palestinian resident of the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem went to the prison with his father, mother and aunt. He was interrogated for seven hours.

"I felt nervous," said Mahmoud, as he quietly explained what happened to him from the office of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, a news and information center run by Silwan residents.


The New York Times Endorses Haiti's Coup d'Etat "Elections"

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 06:04 AM PST

steve lendmanTwo previous articles explained the sham, outrageous enough to make a despot blush.

No matter for The New York Times, a notorious voice for wealth and power. On November 30, its editorial titled "Haiti After the Vote" endorsed the sham, saying:

Despite elections "sullied by low turnout, polling-place confusion and accusations of voter intimidation, ballot stuffing and other fraud....international observers from the Organization of American States and the Caribbean Community agree with Haiti's national election council (the Provisional Electoral Council - CEP), which has declared that the election was fundamentally sound."

 

WikiLeaks' harsh lesson on imperial hubris

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 11:28 AM PST

The WikiLeaks disclosure this week of confidential cables from United States embassies has been debated chiefly in terms either of the damage to Washington's reputation or of the questions it raises about national security and freedom of the press.

The headlines aside, most of the information so far revealed from the 250,000 documents is hardly earth-shattering, even if it often runs starkly counter to the official narrative of the US as the benevolent global policeman, trying to maintain order amid an often unruly rabble of underlings.

Britain Bans Exports of Execution Drug Sought by U.S.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 10:39 AM PST

William FisherAfter first resisting the efforts of human rights and legal advocates, the British government has now backed down and placed an immediate ban on the export of lethal injection drugs to be used in U.S. executions.

The well-known legal charity, Reprieve, has been campaigning to secure a ban on the export of sodium thiopental to the U.S. for execution purposes for the past month. On Monday, the British government's secretary of state of business innovation and skills agreed to impose such an order.

 

The Lesser Evil

Posted: 29 Nov 2010 04:38 AM PST

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Do you hate the United States of America? Not its people, of course, but its government, the industrial-military complex, the media, the legal system, the financial sector, have I overlooked anything? Is there anything about America you don't hate, apart from a distant memory of the brand "America" you were brainwashed with when you were a child?

You are not alone. In fact, we have reached a point, where this hate, anger, disgust and pity towards everything American is shared by a significant proportion of people both inside and outside the United States. This was long overdue. I mean, how far do you have to push a people until it realises that it is being ruled not by human beings, but by blood-sucking, psychopathic monsters?

Who is Playing with Balochistan?

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 08:10 PM PST

The Political leadership seems to be rightly focused on most vital issue being faced by Pakistan, cohesion amongst its federating units. Balochistan has assumed multidimensional importance on national as well as international forums. Aghaz Haqook- e- Balochistan to address Political, economic and social deprivation of Balochis is a step in same direction.

Balochistan in its vast area, full of natural resources holds treasures of hidden secrets, the hidden hands of the friends and foe. Latest trends of flowery words, molding ideas, building perceptions, media handling and cyber net management has played a dominant role in turning friends to look foe and vice versa.

BOMBSHELL, For those who insist that the "Illuminati" is a myth

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 05:47 PM PST

The first gentleman in this video giving his report to Parliament is now dead, and this video was recorded on November 1st, just 21 days ago.

Lord James of Blackheath describes a Private "Foundation" which has more money than all the governments of the world put together. This "Foundation X" willing to bail out the world "for nothing". What a lovely sounding old Lord this man is BUT is he seriously this naive?

Save a Jew, save yourself!

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 04:51 PM PST

The pro-Israel lawmakers had a field-day on November 4, 2010 election for the Congress and Senate. It was accomplished by the financial contributions by Jewish lobby groups and the 65-million-strong Christian Zionist fanatics. The occupation of Palestine by the European Jews could not materialized without the help of Zionist Christians in Europe and the US. Even to this day, the blind support of Israel by the governments in the US, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, EU, etc. comes maily from the Christian Zionists.

According to PEW Poll results released by CNN – 78% of born-again Evangelical Christians (Catholic, Protestant and other Christian denominations) voted for the Republican part members who showed their support for Israel.

Poorest nations see a glint of hope

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 06:33 AM PST

When the UN General Assembly recognised a special category of member states ranked as Least Developed Countries (LDCs) back in 1971, there were only 25 which qualified for the dubious distinction of being the "poorest of the world's poor".

But since then, the numbers have kept rising, reaching a high of 50. So far, the only two countries to "graduate" from LDC status - indicating a significant improvement of their economies - were Botswana in 1994 and Cape Verde in 2007.

Once Again, God's Chosen Sex

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:51 AM PST

Everyone these days claims that rape is the crime of crimes. Just to show the utter insanity of registering "sex offenders", consider the following analogy. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service are considering the application of Joseph Stalin to become an American citizen. "I see, Mr. Stalin, that you have murdered twenty million people, 80% of them male, in your gulags. I think we can overlook that in the interests of détente. Welcome to the United States, Mr. Stalin. You are now an American citizen." Six months later: "O my God, Mr. Stalin. You sexually abused a ten year old girl! You are now a sex offender. You must register with our CIA wherever you go in the world. If you do not, then you will have to repay all those billions in Lend-Lease we gave you in WW2 as forfeited bail."

The "Right to Migrate" Trumps All

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 10:01 PM PST

The Center for Immigration Studies has issued a report, Fewer Jobs, More Immigrants, maintaining that despite the loss of 1 million jobs, 13.1 Million immigrants arrived in the last decade. The level of immigration remained the same despite a huge worsening of job creation.

Most tellingly, in 2008-2009, in the midst of the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, 2.4 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the United States, even though 8.2 million jobs were lost over the same period.

What's Really Behind Quantitative Easing QE2? The Looming Threat of a Crippling Debt Service

Posted: 20 Nov 2010 06:11 PM PST

The deficit hawks are circling, hovering over QE2, calling it just another inflationary bank bailout.  But unlike QE1, QE2 is not about saving the banks.  It's about funding the federal deficit without increasing the interest tab, something that may be necessary in this gridlocked political climate just to keep the government functioning.

On November 15, the Wall Street Journal published an open letter to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke from 23 noted economists, professors and fund managers, urging him to abandon his new "quantitative easing" policy called QE2.

Bayer AG and the death of the birds

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST

The German chemicals giant Bayer AG is again coming under fire for releasing chemicals onto the market with highly alarming apparent side effects. Earlier US and German authorities investigated whether Bayer CropScience brand, Poncho, their best selling pesticide, played a role in the alarming and mysterious death of entire bee colonies. Now scientists in Holland are examining what is causing the sudden decline of bird population in Europe. The prime suspect is a revolutionary new form of pesticide containing a "systemic" insect killer called neonicotinoid. The leading maker is Bayer AG's subsidiary, Bayer CropScience, which is also the GMO division of Bayer.

Glenn Beck: From Islamophobe to anti-Semite

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:06 PM PST

Glenn Beck was nominated by the FAIR magazine as one of America's top 12 Islamophobe in October 2008. He is a TV Show host at CNN, owned by the Zionist Christian billionaire Rupert Murdoch. On October 13, 2010 – Rupert Murdoch was honored for protecting 'Israel's good image' by Anti-Defamation League (ADL), one of the most powerful Israel Lobby groups in United States. Glenn Beck has repeatedly equated Islam with Nazism (though Nazi Army had 150,000 German Jews among them) and Holy Qur'an with Hitler's Mein Kampf which was written over 1,300 after the revelation of Holy Qur'an. Since Glenn Becks associates himself with Islamophobe Jews like Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz and Mark Steyn – ADL always supported Glenn Beck's 'freedom of speech' (though Helen Thomas was not awarded that freedom for criticizing Jews for occupying Arab lands).

White Women are 12.4 Times More Likely to be Murdered by a Black Husband Than by a White Husband

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 07:48 PM PST

Of spouse homicides occurring from 1979 to 1981, 96.3 per cent occurred in intraracial marriages. Spouse homicides in marriages where the husband was Black and the wife was White constituted 1.4 per cent of the total, and marriages where the husband was White and the wife was Black accounted for 0.5 per cent. Spouse homicide incidence rates were 7.7 times higher in interracial marriages relative to intraracial marriages.

Uncovering Algeria's civil war

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 06:34 AM PST

Challenging the dominant narrative on Algeria's brutal civil war has never been an easy task. But an investigation into the killing of seven French monks in the midst of the conflict is providing a rare opportunity to dig further into the allegations that the country's secret services deliberately fostered the descent into violence.

Brothers Christian, Luc, Christophe, Michel, Célestin, Paul and Bruno were kidnapped by a group of armed men from their Cistercian monastery in Tibéhirine, Algeria on the night of March 26-27, 1996. Two months later, they were dead. Only their heads were ever found.

Modern art was CIA 'weapon'

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 01:26 PM PST

For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.

Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected!

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 07:07 PM PST

kevin-macdonald

I was shocked to read the headline in the NYTimes: "Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected." Expected by whom?

A new report focusing on black males suggests that the picture is even bleaker than generally known. Only 12 percent of black fourth-grade boys are proficient in reading, compared with 38 percent of white boys, and only 12 percent of black eighth-grade boys are proficient in math, compared with 44 percent of white boys.

John Christopher's The Death of Grass

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 09:47 AM PST

Right wingers love apocalyptic scenarios, so I suppose it is no surprise that, after wading through a turgid and sludge-like philosophical tome of nearly 500 pages, packed with somniferous prose of purely academic interest (and in an awkward translation from the German original), my choice for light reading was John Christopher's apocalyptic novel, The Death of Grass.

NIA Warns Of Food Crisis, "Societal Collapse" In Response To Fed Money Printing

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 12:16 PM PDT

The National Inflation Association is warning of a food crisis in America as soon as next year and possible "societal collapse" as a result of the Federal Reserve's new quantitative easing program that threatens to eviscerate the buying power of the greenback.

"For every economic problem the U.S. government tries to solve, it always creates two or three much larger catastrophes in the process," said NIA's President Gerard Adams. "Just like we predicted this past December, the U.S. dollar index bounced in early 2010 and has been in free-fall ever since. Bernanke's QE2 will likely accelerate this free-fall into a complete U.S. dollar rout," warns Adams.

America: Land of Police State Persecution

Posted: 06 Nov 2010 02:46 AM PDT

steve lendman

What do you call a country that glorifies wars and violence in the name of peace. One that's been at war every year in its history against one or more adversaries. One that believes pacifism is sissy and unpatriotic. One that feels militarism is a higher form of civilization. One that threatens planetary life.

One corrupted by malfeasance. One with the world's largest prison population, a domestic gulag besides others abroad. One placing no value on human rights and life. One exploiting the many for the few. One empowering money over people, championing concentrated wealth. One calling fake elections real.

 

Bill Gates Funds Approval of GM Mosquitoes to Combat Dengue

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 10:43 AM PDT

There has been much debate about the pending FDA approval of genetically modified salmon that grows to maturity twice as fast as a natural salmon.  Its many detractors have labeled it "Frankenfish" and say it will spoil the natural marine environment, as well as being potentially harmful for human consumption. While that debate continues, it looks like another genetically modified live organism may be approved for release into the ecosystem: GM mosquitoes.

The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced plans to combat Dengue fever and other mosquito-borne illnesses with genetically modified mosquitoes designed to make them sterile or simply kill them off, as reported on the U.N news service IRIN:

Politics dressed as entertainment

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Coming on the eve of midterm elections, many asked about the political importance of the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" organised by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Would it be able to help the Democrats bounce from what is looking like a major shellacking coming their way today?

Given the lack of any real shared political platform or vision for the country, the political relevance of the rally seems unworthy of serious discussion. There was no call to action or clear directives. It was as if the centre-left has moved on from Moveon.org. It appeared primarily to be about amusement mixed with some feel-good politics about the need for well-behaved political deliberation as the backbone for American democracy.

The high and the mighty

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Cannabis is California's number one cash crop. This fall, voters will decide whether or not to fully legalise the drug and transform US drug policy.

The implications are huge if it passes. It will have a profound effect on the state's struggling economy, the overburdened criminal justice system and even the raging drug war in neighbouring Mexico that has claimed nearly 30,000 lives.

In the meantime, no politicians running for statewide office are supporting the measure. What does that say about the politics of cannabis?

Scientific American: Kill More Babies To Save Earth

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:23 AM PDT

Following the leak of a United Nations blueprint which outlined the plan to replace fearmongering about global warming with the contrived threat of overpopulation, a Scientific American report mimics precisely that talking point, pushing the notion that programs of mass abortion and birth control need to be encouraged in order to reduce the amount of humans on the planet exhaling carbon dioxide.

Barack Obama's plan for NWO 'Carbon Tax'

Posted: 05 Jun 2008 12:34 PM PDT

The Wiki Hoax

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:17 PM PST

True colors, we are seeing them now.  Those still trying to peddle the Wikileaks myth, the boyish grin concealing the powerful conspiracy, espionage and treason at the highest levels of American society, these are the real enemies of the information age.

There are two opinions of Wikileaks.  The worlds intelligence services all, every single one, believes Wikileaks is simply an intelligence agency playing games.  They say this to each other, Vladimir Putin and  Zbigniew Brzezinski have announced it to the world and others are following suit.

"Return to sender" - Israel blocks the mail to Gaza

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 09:43 AM PST

During the last four years of siege, Israel has tightly restricted the movement of people and goods in and out of the occupied Gaza Strip, which is home to 1.5 million Palestinians, the vast majority refugees.

Palestinians in Gaza cannot even communicate by mail, as Israel also severely restricts or delays the delivery of post including letters and packages.

German Govt 'Crying Wolf' on Terrorist Attacks

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 10:21 PM PST

Government officials in Germany are being accused of manipulating threats of terrorism to induce public hysteria, even while warning against such reactions. The self-contradictory approach has prompted German citizens to call the terror warnings "farcical" and "negligent."In mid-November, three separate instances of supposed terrorist threats were made public, only to be dismissed as hoaxes days later. This practice of 'crying wolf' is leaving many Germans suspicious of their government's intentions.

 

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has close links to the Economist, controlled by the Rothschild banking family

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 10:05 PM PST

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has won an award from the "Economist" magazine, a financial publication controlled by the Rothschild banking family, and he has also featured on an "Economist" video clip, raising questions about conflicts of interest.  Assange predicted a bank run could be triggered by bank data leaks but he does not mention that this would result in the robbery of millions of people because of the way the fractional reserve banking system works, and profit the banks.

Is a false flag bank run hyped by the banker's media and carried out by a Rothschild operative being planned to rob millions and to implement emergency laws?

Mother Kept In "Glass Cage" For Almost An Hour By TSA For Resisting Over Breast Milk

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 05:38 AM PST

The latest case of TSA tyranny to hit the headlines comes in the form of a young mother who was subjected to enhanced groping and then shut inside a screening box for almost an hour by agents after she refused to allow them to put her breast milk through an x-ray device, a legitimate request that is even written into the TSA's own guidelines.

The ordeal, which took place at Phoenix airport earlier this year, was captured on security cameras, which Stacey Armato, who is also a lawyer, gained access to, but only after repeated requests and careful editing by the TSA had taken place.

The "Holo" Inquisition Loses a Round

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 08:30 AM PST

The German  "Holocaust" Inquisition has dropped my trial in order to avoid my questioning the official "Holocaust" expert Prof. Wolfgang Benz!

For seven years now I have been occupied almost exclusively with the so-called "Holocaust" and the findings of Revisionism.

At first I was highly skeptical of the Revisionist movement and so I examined it very closely.

 

North Korea Deploys Missiles, Targets Fighter Jets

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 10:27 AM PST

North Korea upped the ante on Sunday as South Korea and the United States conduct military exercises described as a show of force in response to North Korea's artillery bombing of South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island last week.

North Korea's missiles "appear to be targeting our fighter jets that fly near the Northern Limit Line (NLL)," a source told the Yonhap New Agency. The Soviet-designed SA-2 missile has a range of between 13 and 30 kilometers. "The military is preparing for the possibility of further provocations as the North Korean military has deployed firepower near the NLL and is preparing to fire," the source said.

Max Keiser: Teutonic Genie out of bottle, America punches itself in face

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 08:45 AM PST

Max Keiser, financial analyst and host of RT's Keiser Report says Germany is ready to emerge as the world's new superpower.

The Story of the Good Mooselim

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 10:50 AM PST

It was a dark but not a stormy night probably around 12:30 in the morning on a very heavily traveled road outside of a major metropolitan center.   Mark was driving and he was exhausted having just finished a challenging take-home engineering examination that was more math than English.  He and his older brother, Jason, already out of college and working in a similar field were driving home to spend the holiday with their parents, two hopeless romantics with useless degrees in liberal arts, but I digress.  Suddenly up ahead Mark saw a car spin completely out of control, he had no idea what had happened, all he could see was the headlights of a car as it spun around and landed in the median strip.  As the brothers came closer they could see that two cars had collided and that the damage was severe.  Mark pulled over to the side of the road and the brothers called 911 and exited their car to see if they could offer assistance to the victims.

Alien vs. Predator (Part 2)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 06:34 AM PST

We all have heard stories about politicians throwing the wildest insults and accusations at each other in parliament, but then hanging out together outside parliament like the best of friends. The reason for that phenomenon is of course that Western democracy is as much of a genuine competition as World Wresting Federation. Everything is scripted, just for show, and the competitors are all owned by the same people.

California Plunged into Welfare Funding Crisis

Posted: 21 Nov 2010 10:30 PM PST

The news that California borrows $40 million every day from the federal government to pay unemployment insurance takes on an ominous meaning when compared to government figures which show that 78 percent of all welfare recipients in that state are of immigrant or nonwhite origin.

In what is the clearest proof yet that immigration does not bring prosperity, but rather poverty and financial collapse, a report in the Los Angeles Times has revealed that the state of California already owes $8.6 billion for welfare payments.

Bill Gates: Register Every Birth by Cellphone To Ensure Vaccination, Control Population Growth

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 05:46 AM PST

On the tails of a recent TED conference where Bill Gates stated that vaccines need to be used to reduce world population figures, he added more to this insanity last week with a keynote address at the mHealth Summit, an annual gathering whose supposedly focuses on improving health care through mobile technology.

Gates told an audience of more than 2,000 that if we could register every worldwide birth on a cell phone, we could ensure that children receive the proper vaccines. He also said the key to controlling population growth is to save the lives of children under 5; and the next big thing in technology is robots.

Definitve analysis of this and all recessions

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 01:32 PM PST

The Definitive Analysis of the Economic Crisis, showing why neither debt-financed stimulus, nor the gold standard, nor allowing total liquidation of all distressed businesses and households make sense, and why only the taking of money creation and credit monopoly of the hands of the financial sector and putting it in the household sector (and not the government sector) is the real solution.

Replacing Usury Capitalism with  and American version of Social Credit wherein the market economy is led by household demand with money that does not come from bank loans.

Ringleader in Torture Case Gets only 18 Years

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 04:00 PM PST

The Christian and Newsom murders are one of the most gruesome slayings in US history. The young white couple [right] were abducted by a group of black thugs. They were both gang raped and tortured. The female victim was kept alive for days so she could be gang raped over and over. One initial report on the local Knoxville news even stated that the perps took viagra so the gang rapes would last longer.

A curious carrot for Khartoum

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:34 AM PST

Sudan, officially called a "state sponsor of terrorism" by the United States for 17 years, could finally shed that designation next summer - for doing something that has nothing to do with international terrorism.

The Obama administration announced earlier this week that Sudan could be removed from the "state sponsors of terrorism" list if January's planned referendum on south Sudanese independence goes as planned.

Cataloguing Biodiversity Presents a Challenge

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 05:32 PM PST

An international agreement reached in the Japanese city of Nagoya constitutes a great step forward towards protecting biodiversity from decimation, but also represents an enormous legislative and administrative task, environment experts say.

The Nagoya protocol, signed in late October by the 193 member states of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, includes more than 40 measures aimed at fighting bio-piracy and preventing misappropriation of genetic resources.

 

More Reflections on Hate Whitey Boy Tim Wise

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:19 PM PST

White-hating Tim Wise (at least half Jewish), appears to have awakened the justified ire of White people all over the place, but now the fool is spluttering that he only meant OLD WHITE CONSERVATIVES. Make note of the "old" part.

In his world view, if you're a young White person, than you're probably another like-minded "progressive," i. e. not an old evil White fart, those out to reign in "progress towards the wonderful egalitarian world" arrogant types like Wise envision for America. You know, America turned into a Third-World shit hole, as happy homos march down the street butt-naked, in high heels and a bright pink feather up their ass.

The Impotence of Elections

Posted: 03 Nov 2010 01:44 PM PDT

In his historical novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa writes that things have to change in order to remain the same. That is what happened in the US congressional elections on November 2.

Jobs offshoring, which began on a large scale with the collapse of the Soviet Union, has merged the Democrats and Republicans into one party with two names. The Soviet collapse changed attitudes in socialist India and communist China and opened those countries, with their large excess supplies of labor, to Western capital.

Lords of the Ring

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 08:47 PM PDT

Many moons ago and for a few years only, I wore my locks long and sported colourful garb and roamed the psychedelic haunts of Paris, London or Amsterdam, usually holding a joint in one hand while employing the other to underline with languid gestures my latest concept of how to bring instant peace and love to the world. As for my fellow freaks and hippies, most subsisted on very little, at least money-wise, but nearly all had pets, the latter named frequently after a brand of heroes much en vogue during those innocent times. For cats, Galadriel stood high on the agenda, also Arwen and Legolas. In Amsterdam my next-door neighbour, a middle-aged lady with henna-dyed hair, flowing dresses and tinkling bells around one fat ankle, owned a huge tomcat called Gollum . When he was one day run over by a lorry, she came and cried bitterly into my lap. I did my best to comfort her, though secretly rejoiced because the cunning bastard, nomen est omen , used to be a veritable bane for the local sparrows and blackbirds, and long since had I weighed means of abandoning him in a far-away place without coming under suspicion. As for dogs, I remember a Frodo, Bilbo and Pippin, also one Boromir , him a mighty Leonberger and the gentlest fellow I've ever met. 

Health overhaul may lead to free birth control

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:58 AM PDT

Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.

That could start a shift toward more reliable — and expensive — forms of birth control that are gaining acceptance in other developed countries.

California Voters Take on the Drug War

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 01:31 AM PDT

The great divide between politicians and the people is showing itself in California where polls show the voters support Proposition 19 and where the mainstream politicians mostly oppose it.

To many Americans, there are few policies more bankrupt than the prohibition on marijuana use, a recognition that a blue-ribbon panel reached four decades ago, urging an emphasis on drug education rather than incarceration.

Inside Story - Global corruption

Posted: 27 Oct 2010 07:11 AM PDT

Is corruption a local issue or has it become a global disease? And can there be a global mechanism to fight it?

Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 05:18 AM PDT

Common Dreams Staughton Lynd could have built an enviable career as an academic but for his conscience. His conscience led him as a young undergraduate disgusted by the elitism around him to drop out of Harvard, and tortured him when he returned to finish his degree. It plagued him after he received his doctorate from Columbia and saw him head to the segregated South to join his friend Howard Zinn in teaching history at the historically black Spelman College. It propelled him to become the director of Freedom Schools in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964. It prodded him a year later to chair the first march against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., and join Tom Hayden and Herbert Aptheker on a trip to Hanoi.

Microsoft Proposes Government Licensing Internet Access

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 11:13 AM PDT

A new proposal by a top Microsoft executive would open the door for government licensing to access the Internet, with authorities being empowered to block individual computers from connecting to the world wide web under the pretext of preventing malware attacks.
Speaking to the ISSE 2010 computer security conference in Berlin yesterday, Scott Charney, Microsoft vice president of Trustworthy Computing, said that cybersecurity should mirror public health safety laws, with infected PC's being "quarantined" by government decree and prevented from accessing the Internet.

Cine Politics-The Unreturned

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:54 AM PDT

In this edition of Press TV's Cine Politics, the documentary "The Unreturned" by American filmmaker Nathan Fisher and the thematic elements concerning 4.7 million Iraqis displaced and living in the refugees are reviewed.

America's Food Chain: The Crisis, the Attack, the Kill

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 05:38 AM PDT

In this three-part series, Food Chain Radio host Michael Olson interviews key people in the food freedom movement. From gun-blazing bureaucrats who attack small food producers to legislation like S 510 which threatens to hyper-regulate whole food operators out of business, Olson questions guests about government motives, who's behind the legislation, and where the crisis really lies.

Olson notes that the U.S. "has a serious food safety crisis, and so its agents, with guns drawn and warrants in hand, are breaking down the doors of the little people who sell food to their neighbors. But wait... which is in crisis: local food or industrial food?"

Women Are Our Allies

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:10 PM PDT

A frequent complaint among traditionalist White political activists is the under-representation of female involvement in pro-White campaigning. Certainly, one factor favoring male interest in this political endeavor is the fear that a world run by White radical traditionalists would deny women economic autonomy, relegating them to the traditional roles of mother and housewife. And to a large degree women can be forgiven for being nervous, because, not only is this caricature perpetuated by the establishment culture, but one sees little in the literature associated with White Nationalism that does anything other than substantiate the caricature: invectives against butch feminist excess are twinned with lamentations at the plummeting White birthrate and a longing for the pre-feminist social order. When one considers that many women today view the older order as stupefying, mummifying, and (where marriages were loveless or abusive) a serotonin suppressor, it is not surprising that they regard the White Nationalist proposition as a backward step into a dark age of subaltern womanhood.

'Don't Wait Till Tomorrow'

Posted: 10 Sep 2008 09:16 AM PDT

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Real Airport Security

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 10:25 PM PST

First we created what has turned into the ultimate TSA abuses reference video..."The TSA is Out of Control"

Then, we traced the problem to its source, a government-criminal enterprise operated by Michael Chertoff.

Now, we present the solution.

Please share this video far and wide.

Welcome To The Wikileaks ZioMatrix!

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 04:00 PM PST

Like a lot of people now,  I've had serious reservations that all this Wikileaks business is nothing but a giant Zio "psyops" program for the Internet generation (I've never trusted them enough to add the link to my site). Sure, it appears to be a giant exposure of the US government and all, but is it really? To me, it stinks to high heaven of a Jewy MOSSAD/CIA disinfo program.

The biggest thing making me suspicious is simply all the media attention the whole story is now getting. You think for one lousy minute they would be going on and on like this if it was real? And what about all the explosive 9/11 stuff out there the mainstream media patently ignores? Nor does it have any revelations concerning the always-so-innocent and victimized Israel.

WikiLeaks exposes Egypt's duplicity in Gaza siege

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 11:34 AM PST

More than 250,000 classified US diplomatic cables released by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks include statements made behind closed doors that could prove embarrassing for Egypt's government, say analysts.

The embassy missives lift the veil on Egypt's advice to US administration officials concerning the growing political influence of Iran, military strategy in Iraq, and Cairo's pledge to isolate Hamas. More provocatively, they suggest Egypt's complicity in Israel's devastating military assault on Gaza in late 2008.

TSA Caves On Pat Downs But Mandates Government Permission For All Fliers

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 06:43 AM PST

In response to the national outcry surrounding invasive pat down measures, the TSA has been forced to refine its airport security procedures, but has simultaneously entrenched its policy that requires government permission for all Americans who wish to fly, creating what critics have labeled a Communist-style system of internal checkpoints.

After a public revolt against naked body scanners and TSA groping that was primarily spearheaded by the Drudge Report website, TSA chief John Pistole announced yesterday was looking at refining pat down procedures to make them "less intrusive."

The New York Times Again Censoring WikiLeaks

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 02:30 AM PST

steve lendmanOn November 28, WikiLeaks began releasing over 250,000 leaked State Department and US Embassy cables (many designated "secret"), dating from 1966 through end of February 2010. Their content ranges from embarrassing to important revelations about US spying on allies and the UN, ignoring corruption and human rights abuses in "client states," corporate lobbying, backroom dealmaking, disparagements of foreign leaders, and overall revealing a much different America than its public persona. Most of all, it offers more proof of a sham democracy, a lawless imperial state rampaging globally though little, if anything, of a smoking gun nature was disclosed.

 

'4 Bln Euros vanish from EU budget annually'

Posted: 28 Nov 2010 03:55 AM PST

Gripped by protests and crisis, EU nations are being forced to fend for themselves. It is time to go back to the drawing board, before it is too late, believes Nirj Deva, MEP, UK Conservative Party. He says the entire construct of the European Union is becoming unmanageable."The construct is incapable of meeting the challenges of the 21st Century. It was constructed after the war - Churchill's 'Empires of the Mind' in a single European space. It was constructed to prevent a major war in the Continental Europe by locking Germany, France and all the other countries into single space with settled values - democratic, pluralistic - diverse, but accountable values," Deva told RT. "Now it needs a new construct to be able to work in cooperation with Russia, with primary energy producers and suppliers, to work as a good neighbor in areas such as Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and so on. We need therefore a much more flexible construct," he added.

Uri Avnery on Religious Jews

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 11:49 AM PST

Uri Avnery is an insightful observer of the Israeli scene and Judaism in general. In a recent column, he notes that the early Zionists were anti-religious, at least partly because prominent orthodox rabbis were anti-Zionist. But David Ben-Gurion subsidized "a few hundred" Yeshiva students so they could spend their time studying rather than working or joining the military. Now, these "Torah-shielded parasites"  "constitute 13% of the entire yearly crop of those liable to the draft. Moreover, 65% of all Orthodox male citizens do not work at all and live on the public purse."

Truth Is Out: Katyn massacre carried out on Stalin's direct orders

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:21 AM PST

Joseph Stalin was responsible for the mass killing of Polish prisoners in Western Russia in 1940 - Russia's parliament accepted the Soviet leader ordered the Katyn massacre that has soured relations between Moscow and Warsaw for years.

Polls Tell Different Stories On New Korean War

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 12:05 PM PST

A new Rasmussen Reports poll conducted this week claims nearly 70% of Americans expect tensions between North and South Korea to build and they support U.S. military assistance, according to UPI.

The results show 68 percent believe war is imminent in the wake of North Korea's terror bombing that killed soldiers and civilians in South Korea earlier in the week.

Nowhere left to run

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 03:09 AM PST

It has been a strange political season. It began sitting in Istanbul with Swedish friends, digesting the news that the rabidly anti-immigrant Swedish Democrats had won an unprecedented 5.6 per cent of the vote in the country's parliamentary elections. Analysts immediately began to predict that the election would mark "an entirely new political landscape" and "the beginning of an era of sharper political division in Sweden".

Who would have thought that a mere six weeks later, pundits and analysts across the Atlantic would write almost identical words in the wake of the US midterm elections? Do these similarities point to a bigger story? Is 2010 proving to be a watershed year in politics in the West (we could add the historic defeat of the British Labour Party to this list, as well as elections in Greece in which the ruling Socialist Party pledged to impose unprecedented austerity measures)?

Economists Send Fed Open Letter Warning of QE2′s Perils

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 02:23 PM PST

Economists are worried about the Federal Reserve's QE2. "We believe the Federal Reserve's large-scale asset purchase plan (so-called "quantitative easing") should be reconsidered and discontinued," write a number of economists in an open letter sent to Fed boss Bernnake. "We do not believe such a plan is necessary or advisable under current circumstances. The planned asset purchases risk currency debasement and inflation, and we do not think they will achieve the Fed's objective of promoting employment."

In fact, QE2 will destroy employment. It will create new asset bubbles that will rival the old ones. Creating funny money out of thin air will exacerbate the problem, says Marc Faber.

Implicit Whiteness and the Republicans

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 08:18 AM PST

Boys will be boys.

Kevin MacDonald's work on the concept of "implicit whiteness" in his essay "Psychology and White Ethnocentrism" (acacdemic version) is a major breakthrough for White Nationalism. Ethnocentrism—usually stigmatized as "xenophobia" and "racism"— is a preference to be around genetically similar people. Anti-ethnocentrism—a preference for people unlike ourselves—is sold today as "diversity," the secret ingredient that adds "strength" wherever it is found.

According to MacDonald, ethnocentrism is a natural phenomenon, hard-wired into the oldest and deepest levels of the brain. Anti-ethnocentrism, however, exists as a conscious moral conviction. From a psychological point of view, therefore, anti-ethnocentrism is relatively superficial, even though it currently dominates our culture and politics.

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Alien vs. Predator (Part 1)

Posted: 14 Nov 2010 05:04 PM PST

alien vs. predatorOne of the biggest puzzles of mankind is how human beings came into existence. The differences between animals and humans are too fundamental to be sufficiently explained by evolution theory. The genesis story of the bible makes even less sense. If an all powerful and all knowing god had created us, why did he do such a less than perfect job? A far more sensible explanation is that modern humans are the result of alien genetic manipulation. It would explain both our ape-like instincts and our unique mental abilities.

Judeo-pornographic society headed for totalitarian communist slavery

Posted: 10 Nov 2010 08:48 PM PST

I remember Solzhenitsyn's very unpopular address delivered at Harvard in 1978.  Nixon did not complete his second term in 1976 as he should have and Spiro Agnew did not become the 38th President.  Jimmy Carter, another CFR minion, was president and anti-communism was out of style -- this despite the fact that the anti-communists were right in every issue.

Kicking and Screaming

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 07:43 AM PST

et of a recent hit piece on the Council of Conservative Citizens in Essence Magazine entitled "A Look Inside Hateful Right-Wing Fringe Groups". I've already ridiculed their transparent double-standards in my article, "The Essence of Hypocrisy", but the final sentence of the article caught my eye. It deserves a closer examination…

That boundary [voting for Barack Obama] has been crossed; we can never go back. Even kicking and screaming, America must move forward.

 

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