<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647</id><updated>2012-01-30T14:33:55.939-08:00</updated><category term='economy'/><category term='WMD'/><category term='propaganda'/><category term='neocons'/><category term='Great Britain'/><title type='text'>poorrichard's blog</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2543</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-4924893908460926023</id><published>2012-01-30T14:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T14:33:55.949-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Strange Sounds in Sky Explained by Scientists</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="article-info"&gt;                  &lt;div class="m-bar"&gt;GeoChange Journal&lt;br /&gt;Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00 CST&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="article-print"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/240863-Strange-Sounds-in-Sky-Explained-by-Scientists#"&gt;&lt;img alt="Print" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/images/print_article.png?1289256289" title="Print this article" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="article-body"&gt;    &lt;div class="article-image to-right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92878/full/Elchin_Khalilov.jpg" rel="ibox&amp;amp;ignore_target=true" target="_blank" title="© unknown"&gt;&lt;img alt="Elchin Khalilov" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92878/medium/Elchin_Khalilov.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="tiny"&gt;© unknown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="caption"&gt;Elchin Khalilov&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="caption"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mr.  Khalilov, what is the nature of the unusual very low-pitched sounds  reported by a great number of people in different parts of the planet  since the summer of 2011? Many call them "The Sound of the Apocalypse".  Information about that comes from all over the world: US, UK, Costa  Rica, Russia, Czech Republic, Australia, etc. &lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have analyzed records of these sounds and found that most of their  spectrum lies within the infrasound range, i.e. is not audible to  humans. What people hear is only a small fraction of the actual power of  these sounds. They are low-frequency acoustic emissions in the range  between 20 and 100 Hz modulated by ultra-low infrasonic waves from 0.1  to 15 Hz. In geophysics, they are called acoustic-gravity waves; they  are formed in the upper atmosphere, at the atmosphere-ionosphere  boundary in particular. There can be quite a lot of causes why those  waves are generated: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes,  storms, tsunamis, etc. However, the scale of the observed humming sound  in terms of both the area covered and its power far exceeds those that  can be generated by the above-mentioned phenomena.       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article-image to-left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92879/full/2.jpg" rel="ibox&amp;amp;ignore_target=true" target="_blank" title="© unknown"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92879/medium/2.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="tiny"&gt;© unknown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="tiny"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="BoldGrey"&gt;In that case, what could be causing this humming in the sky?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In our opinion, the source of such powerful and immense manifestation of  acoustic-gravity waves must be very large-scale energy processes. These  processes include powerful solar flares and huge energy flows generated  by them, rushing towards Earth's surface and destabilizing the  magnetosphere, ionosphere and upper atmosphere. Thus, the effects of  powerful solar flares: the impact of shock waves in the solar wind,  streams of corpuscles and bursts of electromagnetic radiation are the  main causes of generation of acoustic-gravitation waves following  increased solar activity. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Given the surge in solar activity as manifested itself in the higher  number and energy of solar flares since mid-2011, we can assume that  there is a high probability of impact of the substantial increase in  solar activity on the generation of the unusual humming coming from the  sky. It should be pointed out that solar activity began to rise sharply  since early 2011, with its amplitude significantly higher than all  forecasts given by a number of influential scientific institutions in  2010 and 2011. Meanwhile, the observed increase in solar activity is  fully consistent with the forecast of the International Committee &lt;em&gt;GEOCHANGE&lt;/em&gt;  published in the Committee's Report in June 2010. If this growth rate  of solar activity continues, its amplitude by the end of 2012 will be  higher than the amplitude of 23rd solar cycle, and in 2013-2014 the  solar activity will reach its peak the amplitude of which was predicted  by us to be 1.5 - 1.7 times higher than the amplitude of the 23rd cycle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article-image to-right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92880/full/nebo.jpg" rel="ibox&amp;amp;ignore_target=true" target="_blank" title="© unknown"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92880/medium/nebo.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="tiny"&gt;© unknown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="tiny"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="BoldGrey"&gt;But you said that the cause of the "sky hum" can lie within Earth's core as well, what does it mean?&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is one more possible cause of these sounds and it may lie at the  Earth's core. The fact is that the acceleration of the drift of the  Earth's north magnetic pole which increased more than fivefold between  1998 and 2003 and is at the same level today points to intensification  of energy processes in the Earth's core, since it is processes in the  inner and outer core that form the Earth's geomagnetic field. Meanwhile,  as we have already reported, on November 15, 2011 all ATROPATENA  geophysical stations which record three-dimensional variations of the  Earth's gravitational field almost simultaneously registered a powerful  gravitational impulse. The stations are deployed in Istanbul, Kiev,  Baku, Islamabad and Yogyakarta, with the first and last one being  separated by a distance of about 10,000 km. Such a phenomenon is only  possible if the source of this emanation is at the Earth's core level.  That huge energy release from the Earth's core at the end of the last  year was some kind of a start signal indicating the transition of the  Earth's internal energy into a new active phase. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article-image-large to-center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92881/full/earth.jpg" rel="ibox&amp;amp;ignore_target=true" target="_blank" title="© unknown"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92881/large/earth.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="tiny"&gt;© unknown&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Intensification of the energy processes in the Earth's core can  modulate the geomagnetic field which, through a chain of physical  processes at the ionosphere - atmosphere boundary level, generates  acoustic-gravity waves the audible range of which has been heard by  people in the form of a frightening low-frequency sound in different  parts of our planet. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In both cases, even though the causes of acoustic-gravity waves are of a  quite understandable geophysical nature, they are indicative of the  expected significant increase in solar activity and the geodynamic  activity of our planet. There is no doubt that processes in the core  rule the internal energy of our planet, therefore,&lt;strong&gt; we should  expect by the end of 2012 a sharp rise in strong earthquakes, volcanic  eruptions, tsunamis and extreme weather events with peak levels in 2013 -  2014.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Comment: &lt;/strong&gt;For further information on "strange sounds from the sky" watch the latest Sott report: &lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/240826-New-Sott-Report-Strange-Noises-in-the-Sky-Trumpets-of-the-Apocalypse-" target="_blank"&gt;Strange Noises in the Sky: Trumpets of the Apocalypse?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-4924893908460926023?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.sott.net/articles/show/240863-Strange-Sounds-in-Sky-Explained-by-Scientists' title='Strange Sounds in Sky Explained by Scientists'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/4924893908460926023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/strange-sounds-in-sky-explained-by.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/4924893908460926023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/4924893908460926023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/strange-sounds-in-sky-explained-by.html' title='Strange Sounds in Sky Explained by Scientists'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-7133381851942840946</id><published>2012-01-30T14:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T14:13:32.754-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Will Israel Assassinate Obama?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://3.gvt0.com/vi/IheJ2Rohz1c/0.jpg" height="356" width="550"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IheJ2Rohz1c&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="550" height="356"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IheJ2Rohz1c&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Edward Adler, the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times in candor and  chutzpah suggested that Israel assassinate the President of the United  States to serve its war agenda against Iran. He states matter-of-factly  in the article that Israels highest inner circles have certainly  considered the operation. In 2009 I wrote an article for DavidDuke.com  that stated that the biggest Zionist danger would be an assassination of  Obama, which would propel their agenda and put the final nails in the  coffin of American freedom. Now this Jewish extremist editor proves that  my concerns were completely justified. This video is the ultimate  expose' of Zionist treachery and treason against America.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-7133381851942840946?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheJ2Rohz1c&amp;feature=player_embedded' title='Will Israel Assassinate Obama?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/7133381851942840946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/will-israel-assassinate-obama.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/7133381851942840946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/7133381851942840946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/will-israel-assassinate-obama.html' title='Will Israel Assassinate Obama?'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-5391697312465913503</id><published>2012-01-30T13:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T13:33:05.445-08:00</updated><title type='text'>United Nations Preparing to Manage Global Mental Health</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Brandon Turbeville&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/united-nations-preparing-to-manage.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Activist Post&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;In  a world where national sovereignty is rapidly becoming a thing of the  past, announcements that the United Nations will be taking the lead on  any variety of topics is no longer shocking. Indeed, there is a real  push across the world to view the United Nations as the ultimate  authority on virtually every issue, from human rights to nutritional  content in food. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Through  decades of propagandizing, the United Nations has developed an  undeserved reputation for humanitarianism and democracy. As a result,  the vast majority see the United Nations as a benevolent organization  which they can call on to defend human rights in their home countries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  Unfortunately, national sovereignty rarely enters into the equation  anymore, as the average citizen tends to look straight to the United  Nations to address their concerns, bypassing their own governments. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;As case in point, a recent report by AFP, entitled, “&lt;a href="http://www.ticotimes.net/layout/set/print/Current-Edition/Top-Story/News/Experts-urge-U.N.-to-address-mental-health-_Friday-January-20-2012" target="_blank"&gt;Experts urge U.N. to address mental health&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;,”  discusses how a recent article in PLoS Medicine, a reputable medical  journal, has called for the United Nations General Assembly to develop a  plan to tackle mental, neurological, and substance-abuse disorders  (MNS). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2146736968904133647&amp;amp;postID=5391697312465913503" name="more"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The  article was authored by Vikram Patel of the London School of Hygiene  and Tropical Medicine and Judith Bass from Johns Hopkins School of  Public Health in the United States, among other contributors. They  write, “The time has come for recognition at the highest levels of  global development, namely the U.N. General Assembly, of the urgent need  for a global strategy to address the global burden of MNS disorders.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;They also state that investment is  needed in three different, but key, areas – “expanding knowledge about  mental health disorders, better access to evidence-based programs of  care and treatment, and protection of human rights.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Although  the further understanding of mental health disorders and their  treatment is a laudable goal, it is also one in which both the  Psychiatric/Psychological complex and the United Nations have a horrible  track record. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Indeed,  even within individual national boundaries, the  Psychiatric/Psychological complex has vastly more authority that it  needs or deserves. When one multiplies that oppressive authority with  the global jurisdiction of the United Nations, as well as the U.N’s  tendency to introduce tyrannical guidelines in its own right, we can see  a clear recipe for disaster. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://activistpost.net/survivalseedbank.html"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="noshadow" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_qLAIskTQXUc/TVxr_EnYeqI/AAAAAAAAGzo/SeV_Frv5FHg/seedbankonly.jpg" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;In an excellent breakdown of the situation, &lt;a href="http://thedailybell.com/3541/UN-Tackles-Mental-Disorders-Will-Supervise-World-Sanity-With-Peoples-Charter-for-Mental-Health-" target="_blank"&gt;the Daily Bell writes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The  ultimate element of this charade (and probably the reason for it) will  be a People’s Charter for Mental Health that will provide the  opportunity for the elites to create yet more command-and-control  bureaucracies. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;To  begin with these bureaucracies may seem innocent and even innovative.  But over time it will become apparent that the UN is setting up some  sort of worldwide mental health apparatus to evaluate people’s emotional  and intellectual stability.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0.5in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Worst  case – if it gets that far – the UN will try to provide itself not only  with the authority to evaluate people’s mental competence but also the  authority to send people to mental institutions and re-education camps  if they are not sufficiently docile and open to the appropriate level of  mind control. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Although  this analysis may appear extreme to some, the fact is that it is not  nearly as extreme as it may sound at first. Considering the level of  control that the Psychiatric/Psychological complex currently wields over  our lives, the transition of this undeserved authority from a national  level to that of an international body is not at all far-fetched.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Indeed,  an authoritarian standard-setting UN-based organization in the areas of  mental health would no doubt be an issue for all to be concerned with.  The UN has, on virtually every occasion, shown its aptitude toward  oppressive legislation, lack of concern for human dignity and individual  rights, as well as forcing its guidelines upon the rest of the world by  stealth and economic sanctions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;For  instance, the standard-setting organization for food, Codex  Alimentarius, has consistently forced its guidelines on national  governments by virtue of the WTO trade dispute settlement mechanisms.  Codex Alimentarius guidelines involve &lt;a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2011/01/codex-alimentarius-global-fallout-of.html" target="_blank"&gt;reducing the level of nutrition&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; available in &lt;a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/methods-of-health-tyranny-codex.html" target="_blank"&gt;vitamin and mineral supplements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;, allowing for the increased proliferation of genetically modified food, and &lt;a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/codex-alimentarius-revised-general.html" target="_blank"&gt;unlimited irradiation of food products&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;. (See my book &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&amp;amp;ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf" target="_blank"&gt;Codex Alimentarius – The End of Health Freedom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://activistpost.net/survivalherbbank.html"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_qLAIskTQXUc/TYfmZFlbqSI/AAAAAAAAHt0/OBEg-GQS56o/survivalherbs2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;U.N.-related &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIbfWAndG84" target="_blank"&gt;organizations like the IMF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; (International Monetary Fund) are also highly successful at implementing &lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/romanian-pm-warns-anti-austerity-riots-may-destabilize-country/" target="_blank"&gt;austerity programs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; on debt-ridden &lt;a href="http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110224/world-news/clashes-in-greece-during-anti-austerity-demonstration.351730" target="_blank"&gt;countries like Greece&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; as a &lt;a href="http://theintelhub.com/2011/12/16/europes-big-break-technocratic-austerity-or-democratic-development/" target="_blank"&gt;pre-condition for more loans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;, which are themselves nothing more than an increase of irrational debt by virtue of the sacrifice of living standards and &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/24/greece-islands-sale-save-economy" target="_blank"&gt;tangible physical wealth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Even the WTO (World Trade Organization), another U.N.-related agency is famous for &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19tue3.html?_r=1" target="_blank"&gt;dismantling any protectionist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  tariffs or subsidies imposed by nation states upon cheap products being  dumped into their economies. It is also well-known for punishing any  nation that even slightly steps away from the agenda of globalism. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;A  U.N.-controlled bureaucracy overseeing the treatment and diagnosis of  mental health disorders, addiction, or anything else that would so  greatly involve the individual, is without a doubt a recipe for  disaster. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The  Psychiatric/Psychological complex already wields entirely too much  authority over the lives of supposedly free human beings. This  authority, as it currently exists, must be taken away. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"&gt;We  cannot afford to give this industry any more control over our lives,  much less give international authority to the detriment of national  sovereignty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Mullins, South Carolina. He  has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University where he earned  the Pee Dee Electric Scholar’s Award as an undergraduate. He has had  numerous articles published dealing with a wide variety of subjects  including health, economics, and civil liberties. He also the author of &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=829&amp;amp;ID=e78aa577-49b0-493b-aa44-c84db9d0c8cf"&gt;Codex Alimentarius - The End of Health Freedom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2235&amp;amp;ID=c3a655cd-5dc7-421a-8a8b-cf74c194ffc5"&gt;7 Real Conspiracies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebookpatch.com/BookStoreDetails.aspx?BookID=2800&amp;amp;ID=155692ca-65ff-418c-b267-5ea8549d93a7"&gt;Five Sense Solutions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;  &lt;i&gt;Brandon Turbeville is available for podcast, radio, and TV interviews. 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/dir/Medical/pills-for-infants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/dir/Medical/pills-for-infants.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;by: S. D. Wells&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;(NaturalNews) Aluminum Lake food coloring, used to heavily coat liquid medicines for children, contains dangerous amounts of aluminum and harmful synthetic petrochemicals. These "petrochemicals" are carcinogens containing petroleum, antifreeze and ammonia, which cause a long list of adverse reactions. Aluminum poisoning can lead to short and long term central nervous system (CNS) damage, such as memory impairments, autism, epilepsy, mental retardation, and dementia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Research shows that just 4ppm of aluminum can cause the blood to coagulate. This is what causes Alzheimer's Disease and has been documented to inhibit learning. Aluminum consumption can also be associated with the development of bone disorders, including stress fractures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also known as tartrazine, FD&amp;amp;C Yellow Aluminum Lake is a chemical concoction derived from coal tar. It is known to be a reproductive toxin. All artificial colors contain Aluminum Lake, so when your child gets to pick between red, blue or green medicine, they're really choosing which poison they get to consume. Several chemically enhanced food colorings contain ammonia and therefore produce compounds proven to cause various cancers in animal studies, according to CSPI, the Center for Science in the Public Interest. (http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/ads/300x250/shgnn5.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.naturalnews.com/ads/300x250/shgnn5.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most widely used food colors and their damaging actions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Blue #1: Research shows it causes kidney tumors in mice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Blue #2: Research shows even higher incidence of tumors, specifically gliomas in male rates (a type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Red #2: Toxic to rodents, even at modest levels, and causes tumors of the bladder.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Red #3: FDA recognized it in 1990 as a cause of thyroid cancer in animals. It was banned in cosmetics, but still allowed in food and medicine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Red #40: Most popular dye of all. Debilitates the immune-system in mice. Allergic reactions common.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Green #3: Causes bladder and testes tumors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Yellow #5: Affects behavior and induces severe hypersensitivity reactions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;• Yellow #6: Causes adrenal tumors in animals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following is taken directly from FDA's Regulatory Process and Historical Perspectives: "Color additives are important components of many products, making them attractive, appealing, appetizing, and informative. Added color serves as a kind of code that allows us to identify products on sight, like candy flavors and medicine dosages." Really?! Decoding medicine dosages on sight?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There has been a 55% increase in U.S. toxic food dyes just since the year 2000. There are over 15 million pounds of dyes put in foods, drinks, candy and medicine every year, and the FDA does nothing to protect consumers from the colorful barrage of poison. (http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/food/artificial-food-colors.htm)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Studies reveal that children have consumed as much as three pounds of dye by the age of twelve&lt;br /&gt;Here are some popular product and "brand" names you may mistake as exempt products: RD&amp;amp;C dyes and colors in baked goods, beverages, candy, cereal, drugs, pet food, personal care products, cosmetics, cough syrups, NyQuil,Tylenol, Robitussin,Jello, gelatins, Cheetos, Skittles, Fruity Pebbles, Marachino cherries, sausage, Mountain Dew, Doritos, chewing gum, and powdered drink mixes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;American companies doing business in Europe currently have to change their products to natural colorings to meet European Union strict regulations. The FDA's rationale is that because artificial food colorings are used mainly in foods and medicines of low or no nutritional value, that the American public should "already be aware" of health implications, so it doesn't matter if other toxins are added.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are your options as opposed to poisonous medicines? Consult a naturopath (ND) for advice on ingredients in food and medicine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources for this article include&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://chemicaloftheday.squarespace.com/todays-chemical/2009/7/7/fdc-yellow-5-aluminum-lake.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.amoils.com/health-blog/the-8-most-common-artificial-food-dyes-and-what-they-can-do-to-your-health-3/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.fda.gov/ForIndustry/ColorAdditives/RegulatoryProcessHistoricalPerspectives/default.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/165315-overview&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/food/artificial-food-colors.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.feingold.org/Research/dyesinfood.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.intlfoodcraft.com/color_guide.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(http://www.amoils.com/health-blog/the-8-most-common-artificial-food-dyes-and-what-they-can-do-to-your-health-3/)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://healingautismandadhd.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/artificial-food-coloring-is-evil/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://jennifercopley.suite101.com/health-concerns-regarding-artificial-colours-a197580&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;744Share &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; [Share this Article]&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-2476270534912919371?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.naturalnews.com/034813_childrens_medicines_aluminum_pills.html' title='Children&apos;s medicines coated with brain-damaging aluminum'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2476270534912919371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/childrens-medicines-coated-with-brain.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/2476270534912919371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/2476270534912919371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/childrens-medicines-coated-with-brain.html' title='Children&apos;s medicines coated with brain-damaging aluminum'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-484773082521155323</id><published>2012-01-30T03:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T03:42:11.990-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cell Phones, EMF Negatively Altering Important Regions of the Brain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="float: left; margin: 17px 17px 17px 0;"&gt;&lt;ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 280px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 336px;"&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://naturalsociety.com/" title="Mike Barrett"&gt;Mike Barrett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;NaturalSociety&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 27, 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="satelitewaves 210x131 Cell Phones, EMF Negatively Altering Important Regions of the Brain" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-11010" height="131" src="http://naturalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/satelitewaves-210x131.png" style="margin: 2px 8px 4px 0px;" title="Cell Phones, EMF Negatively Altering Important Regions of the Brain" width="210" /&gt;A  new Greek scientific study has demonstrated how frequency  electromagnetic fields, namely cell phones, portable phones, WiFi, and  wireless computer equipment, alter important protein changes in the  brains of animals. Exposure to electromagnetic frequencies is the result  of our advancing technologies, but it is important to study these  effects so people know exactly what they’re dealing with in order to  take the necessary precautionary measures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="color: #959138;"&gt;Cell Phones, EMF Negatively Altering Important Regions of the Brain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;The study, entitled “Brain proteome response following whole body exposure of mice to mobile phone or wireless DECT base radiation,” was published in the journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine. Important areas of the brain such as the hippocampus, cerebellum, and frontal lobe are regions responsible for learning, memory, and other functions. These areas are negatively impacted by microwave radiation, even at levels below the safety guidelines put in place by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation protection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Researchers found that 143 proteins in the brain were negatively impacted by radio frequency radiation over a period of 8 months. A total of 3 hours of cell phone exposure were simulated over the 8 month time period, and the results showed that many neural function related proteins’ functional relationship changed the for worse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is known that short term exposure of microwaves exuded from a cell phone, depending on how far the antenna is from the head, can penetrate as much as 1 1/2 inches into the brain, but this study focuses more on the long term effects and how EMF impacts specific brain proteins. This provides new evidence of the potential relationship between EMF and health complications stemming from EMF such as headaches, dizziness, sleep disorders, and even tumors and Alzheimer’s disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another &lt;a href="http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/russian-res-children-emf/"&gt;study conducted&lt;/a&gt;  by a Russian team of researchers also showed that EMF and cell phones  cause significant long-term cognitive decline in children. It may be  time for parents to re-determine if young children should really be  using these devices with growing bodies and developing brains.&lt;br /&gt;A  number of foreign countries are attempting to adopt precautionary  protocols to limit cell phone use in an attempt to mitigate the number  of adverse effects they have on human health. In 2011, the WHO/IARC  released a report stating that&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/iarc-rf-carc/"&gt;cell phone radiation may have a carcinogenic effect&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on humans. 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           &lt;img alt="Quantcast" border="0" height="1" src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-ab3gTb8xb3dLg.gif" style="display: none;" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://theuglytruth.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/maddogisrael.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-34882" height="444" src="http://theuglytruth.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/maddogisrael.jpg?w=550&amp;amp;h=444" title="maddogisrael" width="550" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span id="more-34881"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;2012 Mark Glenn&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/"&gt;http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry-content"&gt;‘Since the Mossad had all the security arrangements in hand, it would not be a problem bringing the killers as close as they wanted to President Bush and then staging his assassination. In the ensuing confusion, the Mossad people would kill the ‘perpetrators,’ scoring yet another victory for the Mossad. With the assassins dead, it would be difficult to discover where the ‘security breach’ had been, except that several countries involved in the conference, such as Syria, were regarded as countries that assisted terrorists.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;—Ex-Mossad officer Victor Ostrovsky, describing in his book ‘The Other Side of Deception’ how Israel’s Mossad planned to assassinate President George Bush at the Madrid peace conference in October of 1991 for the purpose of blaming it on ‘Arab’ terrorists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘What are we accomplishing?’ they asked. ‘Here is this man performing many miraculous signs. If we allow him to go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away our place and our nation.’ Then one of them named Caiphas who was High Priest that year spoke and said “You fools know nothing at all. Do you not realize it is better that one man die than that the whole nation perish?’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;—Book of John&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, well, whadda ya know, YET ANOTHER Zionist goombah from within the Jewish community has ONCE AGAIN called upon Yahweh–the God of war and racial favoritism–to rain death and destruction down upon someone deemed ‘not friendly enough’ to Israel…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pardon the seemingly inappropriate yawning and slight shrug of the shoulders here, but the truth is–&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is news?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While we’re having one of our ‘well, shut my mouth’ moments here, how about–&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Smoking believed to cause lung cancer”…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“New Year’s Day to fall on January 1st this year…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As much as it may appear so, nevertheless the fact is this–we’re not being cute here, folks. We’re as serious as a heart attack despite what appears to be something of a cavalier demeanor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘Jewish terrorism’…We should be waaaay past getting excited over something like this, given recent events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember (as if we could possibly forget) a good portion of last century’s major events has been just that—Biblically-inspired Jewish terrorism and its byproducts… A non-stop, revolving newsreel of horror and human suffering, a veritable ‘Jews gone wild’ docudrama featuring such blockbusters and bonecrushers as Gaza, Lebanon, Deir Yassin, the Six Day and Yom Kippur Wars, the destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the unrest in Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Cast Lead, USS LIBERTY, 911, JFK, RFK, the bombing of the King David Hotel, etc, etc, etc…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is, we could go on and on with examples such as these, and we can be rest assured it WILL go on and on with examples such as these, because, quite simply, it is in the nature of the beast to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 20th century has been epochal in the sense that the apocalyptic marriage between synagogue and state has resulted in Jewish interests (or their lackeys) rubbing the magic lamp, loosing the terrible Old Testament Genie and then sending him forth on a seek-and-destroy mission against Israel’s enemies, real or perceived…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, using the past century as precedent, getting all hot-n-bothered about someone from within the Jewish community ‘Talking Torah’ as it were concerning ‘Mr. or Mrs. Anti-Semite’ biting the bullet because of some less-than-acceptable position viz-a-viz the Jewish state is (or should be) passé…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…and even when it involves something as ‘unique’ in its flavor as an American Jewish publisher threatening the life of the US President.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, did we forget to mention that? Yes, that’s right, a Jewish individual writing for a Jewish newspaper dealing exclusively with Jewish issues is calling for the leader of the “free world” to be JFK’d…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not Islamic…Not KKK…not NRA, IRA, or KLA…not Militia of Montana, Aryan Nations or any of those OTHER ‘terrorist’ groups the JMSM is constantly causing the rest of civilized society to piss its collective pants over with its non-stop screeching…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But rather, ‘Jewish,’ as in AIPAC, ADL, JDL, World Jewish Congress, Richard Perle, American Jewish Committee, Emergency Committee for Israel, Paul Wolfowitz, the Republican Jewish Coalition, Christians United for Israel, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Alan Dershowitz, Abe Foxman, Eric Cantor, Sarah Silverman, and on and on and on and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;on…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this case, we have before us one Andrew Adler, publisher/owner of the Atlanta Jewish Times, publically calling upon Israel’s assassination agency Mossad to send President Obama off on a one-way trip to eternity. Specifically, his (under NORMAL circumstances) criminally-actionable words being to the effect that Bibi “9/11-was-good-for-Israel” Netanyahu should—&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Give the go-ahead for US-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice-president to take his place and forcefully dictate that United States’ policy includes helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘Take out’—Now, forgive the obvious naiveté here, but does our kind, gentle, harmless, moral, humanitarian, pure-as-the-wind-driven-snow, God-fearing Jewish man mean ‘take out’ in the friendly, cordial sense, as in a dinner engagement?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or does he mean it in The Godfather sense, as in going on a deep-sea fishing expedition in a manner up close and personal?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A question that MUST be asked, because according to the narrative forced upon all thinking people today, the fact is that Jews don’t kill people, and they CERTAINLY don’t make threats against the life of the US President for something as seemingly-trivial as there being insufficient funds in his ‘Affection-for-all-things-Jewish’ bank account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Either way, Gosh, there is something SOOOOOO familiar about that scenario Adler &amp;amp; co laid out…Lemme see, hmmmm…Wait. No, no, no, don’t tell me, I can figure it out…Right on the tip of my brain…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why, of course…This is PRECISELY what happened in the aftermath of someone deciding to ‘take out’ JFK (after which time a pliant, pliable, and properly pro-Israel protagonist named LBJ took over) and before the dead president’s body had even begun to assume room temp, the floodgates for the Jewish state were opened in terms of money, no-questions-asked political support and an end to Kennedy’s insistence that Israel open up her nuclear weapons program for international inspection…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…all of that no more than an interesting coincidence, we can be rest assured…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now, at a time when Jewish interests barely conceal the power they wield over the American political process–from who gets elected to which wars America fights–we have a wiseguy from La Famiglia talking about how the Prez needs to be smacked around for his insolence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And just what–according to Adler &amp;amp; co–was the capital offence El Presidente committed warranting such a hefty fine?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;–Did he threaten to withhold a penny of the $30 million per day that Israel gets from the US?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;–Did he threaten to open a new investigation into Israel’s deliberate attack on the USS LIBERTY that resulted in 34 American sailors being killed?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;–Did he call for the Mossad agents arrested on 9/11 who were seen by witnesses cheering as the towers were coming down to be extradited back to the US so that they could be further questioned by US law enforcement about the particulars surrounding their being ‘sent to document the event’, as they revealed on an Israeli television program shortly after they returned?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;–Did he instruct Attorney General Eric Holder to force AIPAC to register as a foreign agent under FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, thus legally prohibiting the biggest lobby in Washington from bribing our lawmakers into rubber stamping Israel’s foreign policy demands upon the American people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently, from what Adler wrote in his piece, Obama’s cardinal sin, the unpardonable crime on his ledger sheet exists solely in having not (yet) attacked Iran and killed tens of millions of innocent people per Israel’s order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, that’s right, because AMERICA, a sovereign country (the legal definition of which is that she doesn’t have to do Jack-Squat other than what’s in her own best interests) because this sovereign country refused to expend EVEN MORE of her money, blood, and resources in escalating the ‘clash of civilizations’ that Israel’s strategists have been planning now these last 20 centuries, Obama should be handed walking papers to his own grave. Forget the incalculably-high price America has paid—the TRILLIONS of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives destroyed on both sides of the equation in Israeli-orchestrated war theatres such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, etc, etc, etc…The mere fact that Obama has not (yet) performed his designated role as angel of death in killing Iran’s first born, second-born, 3rd, 4th, and on and on and on is the reason his existence needs to be wiped off the map of the living.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kinda says something about the mentality of these folks, does it not?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which brings us back to our main point here, which is, simply—&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The nature of the beast…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As crazy as it all sounds, what has to be remembered throughout all of this is that Adler’s ‘final solution’ to Israel’s ‘Obama Problem’ was/is not an aberration by any means. As much as the rest of his cousins and confreres within the Jewish community did an impressive job rending their robes, gnashing their teeth and in general uber-theatricizing their ‘outrage’ over his statements (as if Adler’s ‘going biblical’ on Obama was something as out of the ordinary as a snow storm in the Sahara) the fact of the matter is—as one theatricist famously put it many moons ago–they protesteth too much.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, Adler was not ‘meshuggenah’, as Jewish interests have (with obvious panic) maintained in the immediate aftermath of his dangerous slip of the forked tongue. His statements were not ‘outrageous’ or ‘heretical’ in the ‘Jewish’ sense. Despite the recent well-funded, well-orchestrated and well-choreographed campaign of screeching on the part of organized pro-Israel interests (desperate to put the Mossad Genie back in the bottle and change the discussion towards something less, well, REVEALING) the fact is–religiously speaking—Adler was/is on terra firma in making the statements he did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s right. In letting his religiously-fueled imagination get the better of his mouth in pushing for the assassination of a world leader deemed an enemy of Israel, Adler was the dictionary picture of a ‘good’ Jew. The course of action he was/is advocating is PRECISELY what former Old Testament luminaries such as Moses, Joshua, Solomon, David, Mordechai, Esther and the rest of the Kosher KKK would be advocating as well, were they here (as if they weren’t here already in personages such as Netanayhu, Barak, Omert, Livni, etc, etc, etc).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No point kvetching about it folks, it is what it is. Go back and read your bibles for yourselves and you’ll see how ‘God’ instructed ‘his’ people to deal with ‘existential’ threats like Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember, these are people of ‘the book’, meaning their Torah, a book that describes in Kristol-clear imagery what happens to those who act less-then-reverentially when handling that most precious apple of Yahweh’s eye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using just ONE INSTANCE–the fact that Egypt’s destruction is celebrated yearly in the Jewish religious feast known as Passover and that Obama has been referred to TIME AND AGAIN in the Jewish press as ‘the new Pharaoh’ and that now we have an important member from within the American Jewish community talking about him meeting with an untimely end is not by any stretch of the imagination one of the aforementioned ‘well, shut my mouth’ events.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What’s just as relevant to all this is the fact that Obama is black…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now to those who have fallen hook, line and sinker for the agit-prop stinker that Jewish interests are and always have been the front line forces working against anti-black racism, here is a small spoonful of bitter reality you need to swallow before going any further—INSTITUTIONALIZED ANTI-BLACK RACISM BEGAN WITH JUDAISM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American president, being at least partly of African descent means—Judaically-speaking–he carries with him the biblical ‘Curse of Canaan’, meaning he can do nothing more/be nothing more in the ‘Jewish’ sense than a slave to Shem, from whom the Jews claim their descent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, in the bigger scheme of things, the same Jewish interests who spent a helluva lotta cheddar prior to 2008 in the semi-regular slave auction known as the Presidential campaign expect him to respond with YESSUH when given an order and to then carry out his tasks on the plantation known as the US…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…and organizing a slave rebellion isn’t one of those tasks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A little harsh on the ears, you say? Well, then take it up with Israel’s former chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadiah Yusef, who—in a small news item that barely received the kind of attention it should have–bemoaned the fact that “We live in a time when slaves are governing us and are trying to control us” and then threatened that the time of ‘Moshiac’—the Jewish messiah—was near, and when he gets here, boy oh boy, are the rest of us gonna be real sorry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here is the REAL kicker in all of this—the Jewish interests making all this noise in trying to change the subject concerning Adler’s frank discussion of Israel’s ‘should be’ kiss of death KNOW ALL OF THIS TO BE THE CASE.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Adler’s language and demeanor are no different in essence than that of Genovese wiseguy Joseph Valachi’s 1963 testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations. At the time, panicked-to-the-point-of-pissing-their-pants organized crime interests assailed the Senate hearings as a ‘witchhunt’ born out of bigotry and sought to distance themselves and their activities from Valachi’s damning testimony by claiming he was insane and a congenital liar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So too with Adler’s recent belching out loud and filling the air with the alarming and unpleasant odor indicating the kinds of mental processes taking place deep within the Jewish gut viz-z-viz Barack Hussein Obama and his Middle East policy, and the manner by which Jewish interests have made such a scene by holding their noses and going ‘EEEEEEYYYYUUUUUU!!!’ In essence, Adler’s piece is the dorsal fin sticking out of the water indicating something dangerous lurking below the surface, and we can just forget about the possibility—as put forth by his Jewish detractors—that the fin we are seeing is a figment of our anti-Semitic imagination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fact is, given that the very basis of Israel’s existence is all this Old Testamentism and the political intrigue it encompassed at an earlier time, the only thing that should be shocking is that Obama has not already been assassinated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And let’s not kid ourselves about whether Israel possesses both the means and the motive to have such an event materialize with the wave of her magical Mosaic staff. If she could get away with it in 1963 she could certainly pull it off today, and particularly in a political environment such as now when various candidates for various high offices—including that of the presidency—are out-slutting each other in demonstrating who is willing to show more skin in what has become the political version of the Dance of the 7 Veils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Furthermore, we can be rest assured of this as well—in the event (likely or not) that something ‘biblical’ were to happen to ‘the new Pharaoh’, there would be celebrating within the greater part of the pro-Israel Jewish community the world over, who have been wishing the worst and screaming like banshees ever since Obama began making unpleasant noises concerning Israel’s settlements in the West Bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still too much of a stretch? Consider then that as President, Obama is YET to visit Israel. Now, are we to assume that this is due to his busy schedule, or rather to the fact that the various national security apparati of the United States responsible for protecting him explained in the clearest of terms that his security cannot be guaranteed in the Jewish state? George Bush, for all the trips that he made to the Middle East—IN WAR-TORN COUNTRIES HE WAS PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR DESROYING MIND YOU–nevertheless reserved his first visit as Prez to the Jewish state until towards the end of his 2nd term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And interestingly, as soon as he landed in Ben Gurion airport he was met on the tarmac by a group of rabbis who passed along to him an Old Testament-looking scroll outlining what was expected of him as President before leaving office. Entitled ‘Megillat Bush’, it read as follows–&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To George W. Bush…who comes to Jerusalem, eternal capital of our land, joy of the entire earth…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…If you truly desire peace and wish to be counted in the company of the truly righteous, we call upon you to declare to all the world the following-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘I George Bush declare that the Land of Israel was bequeathed to the nation of Israel by the Creator of the world which He gave to His people Israel, the eternal people. Therefore I call upon all the nations to save themselves from certain doom and recognize that this land is the exclusive rightful inheritance of the people of Israel. He who denies this truth endangers all life on earth.’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘Or, Heaven forbid, you can choose the second option…to willfully aid in destruction…You certainly know what the God of Israel did to Egypt and to all Israel’s enemies from time immemorial. Do you imagine you can escape from the struggles in Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon? We cannot forget the deeds of our patriarchs, whose example guides us through every generation…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…Understand this well–God ordained that the role of the nations of the world is to strengthen the nation of Israel. Therefore it behooves you to declare: “I, George Bush, Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States of America, will instruct all of my troops to protect the Divine rights of the nation of Israel, and remove from her any threat.” Before you is a choice: You can merit eternal life, or be inscribed for eternal disgrace. Your fate and that of all those with you hangs in the balance of the destiny of our land…’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, for those who will say that the aforedescribed were just the rantings of a few old men with no pull or influence, remember that they could not have gotten this close to Bush without clearance from the highest levels within the Israeli government, meaning that Jewish interests wanted to convey the idea that this was a diplomatic communique from the Jewish state to America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘New’ and ‘novel’, the image of pro-Israel thugs blowing poisoned kisses, sticking pins in dolls resembling their enemies and demanding as interest on their ‘loan’ of the Presidency to Obama a pound of his flesh like Shylock?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing new under the sun, and especially with regards to the nature of the beast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, the truth is when it comes to Jewish terrorism–it’s always there, tugging at the sleeve, poking us on the shoulder, clearing its throat, tapping its watch, huffing-and-a-puffing and reminding us of our ‘obligations’ to the continued existence of the Jewish state. The only people to whom it’s news are those who long ago checked out of Hotel Reality and are now known as Mr. or Mrs. Comfortably Numb on Fantasy Island.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the rest of us however–currently-registered guests at the Hotel Reality–witnessing what’s transpired has been like watching that old movie based on the Stephen King novel Cujo, with our larger-than-life (literally) St. Bernard slowly but surely succumbing to the inevitable effects of rabies—madness, violence, terror and death…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;…Because at the end of the day, week, month, year or millenium, the truth is that once Mother Nature has spoken, she’s spoken and there is no negotiating, and in the case involving Israel, the mad dog of the Middle East (as former Israeli Defense Minister described her) and her behavior—whether it is murdering millions in the Middle East or ruminating about murdering an American president who will not bend the knee before her, she is doing no more than what her nature dictates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therefore, let what is left of humanity do the same and recognize that there is nothing but disaster to be had by befriending this mad, rabid creature. Let a sane world decide that one century of unrestrained Jewish terrorism was more than enough and therefore make the executive decision to cancel the upcoming season of ‘Jews Gone Wild’ and replace it with a modernized version of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’. Let immediate policies–designed to put as much distance as possible between a civilized, healthy world and this frothing-at-the-mouth canine—be immediately adopted until such time as this wild animal can be dealt with in a manner that is rational, humane and geared towards the common good of all men.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But above all else, let there be no more surprise when mutts and mongrels from the pack such as Adler &amp;amp; co wander into town, snarling and growling in the menacing fashion he did, because when all is considered, in light of what has been known now for some time, such snarling and growling is simply in the nature of the beast.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-5440856437861878117?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/nature-of-the-beast/' title='Nature of the Beast'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/5440856437861878117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/nature-of-beast.html#comment-form' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/5440856437861878117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/5440856437861878117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/nature-of-beast.html' title='Nature of the Beast'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-8724844266196502651</id><published>2012-01-29T12:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T12:56:24.554-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Theory of Life Claims to Unite Fields of Science</title><content type='html'>Case Western Reserve University via sott.net&lt;br /&gt;Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:56 CST         &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article-print"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/240822-New-Theory-of-Life-Claims-to-Unite-Fields-of-Science#"&gt;&lt;img alt="Print" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/images/print_article.png?1289256289" title="Print this article" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="article-body"&gt;&lt;div class="article-image to-left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92797/full/Gallery_Image_8770.jpg" rel="ibox&amp;amp;ignore_target=true" target="_blank" title="© Case Western Reserve University"&gt;&lt;img alt="Erik D. Andrulis" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92797/medium/Gallery_Image_8770.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="tiny"&gt;© Case Western Reserve University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="caption"&gt;Erik D. Andrulis, Assistant Professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Case Western Reserve University. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Earth is alive, asserts a new scientific theory of life emerging  from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The  trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate,  non-living objects  -  for example, planets, water, proteins, and DNA  -   are animate, that is, alive. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Erik Andrulis, PhD, assistant professor of molecular biology and  microbiology, advanced his controversial framework in his manuscript  "Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life," published in the  peer-reviewed journal, &lt;i&gt;Life.&lt;/i&gt; His theory explains not only the  evolutionary emergence of life on Earth and in the Universe but also the  structure and function of existing cells and biospheres. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to resolving long-standing paradoxes and puzzles in  chemistry and biology, Andrulis' theory unifies quantum and celestial  mechanics. His unorthodox solution to this quintessential problem in  physics differs from mainstream approaches, like &lt;a href="http://astrobio.net/interview/650/the-elegant-universe-of-brian-greene" target="_blank"&gt;string theory,&lt;/a&gt; as it is simple, non-mathematical, and experimentally and experientially verifiable.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The basic idea of Andrulis' framework is that all physical reality can  be modeled by a single geometric entity with life-like characteristics:  the gyre. The so-called "gyromodel" depicts objects  -  particles,  atoms, chemicals, molecules, and cells  -  as quantized packets of  energy and matter that cycle between excited and ground states around a  singularity, the gyromodel's center. A singularity is itself modeled as a  gyre, wholly compatible with the thermodynamic and fractal nature of  life. An example of this nested, self-similar organization is the  Russian Matryoshka doll.        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By fitting the gyromodel to facts accumulated over scientific  history, Andrulis confirms the proposed existence of eight laws of  nature. One of these, the natural law of unity, decrees that the &lt;a href="http://astrobio.net/pressrelease/4100/rewriting-the-book-of-life" target="_blank"&gt;living cell&lt;/a&gt; and any part of the visible universe are irreducible. This law formally establishes that there is one physical reality. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another natural law dictates that the atomic and cosmic realms abide by  identical organizational constraints. Simply put, atoms in the human  body and solar systems in the universe move and behave in the exact same  manner.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article-image to-right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92798/full/Gallery_Image_314.jpg" rel="ibox&amp;amp;ignore_target=true" target="_blank" title="© Comby Institute"&gt;&lt;img alt="James Lovelock" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/image/image/s4/92798/medium/Gallery_Image_314.jpg" title="Click to enlarge" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="image-caption"&gt;&lt;span class="tiny"&gt;© Comby Institute&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="caption"&gt;James Lovelock proposed the Gaia hypothesis, in which Earth is a self-regulating organism.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"Modern  science lacks a unifying, interdisciplinary theory of life. In other  words, current theories are unable to explain why life is the way it is  and not any other way," Andrulis says. "This general paradigm furnishes a  fresh perspective on the character and meaning of life, offers  solutions to protracted problems, and strives to end divisive debates." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One debate swirls around the scientific merit of James Lovelock's popular &lt;a href="http://astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_retrospection&amp;amp;task=detail&amp;amp;id=2302" target="_blank"&gt;Gaia hypothesis.&lt;/a&gt;  By showing that the Earth is theoretically synonymous with life,  Andrulis' paradigm substantiates the Gaian premise that all organisms  and their surroundings on Earth are closely integrated to form a single  self-regulating complex system. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another legendary quarrel is that between biblical creationists and  neo-Darwinian evolutionists. In demonstrating that the origin and  evolution of life is a consequence of natural laws and physical forces,  this theory synthesizes arguments and dispels assumptions from both  sides of the creation-evolution debate. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To test his paradigm, Andrulis designed bidirectional flow diagrams that  both depict and predict the dynamics of energy and matter. While such  diagrams may be foreign to some scientists, they are standard reaction  notation to chemists, biochemists, and biologists. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Andrulis has used his theory to successfully predict and identify a hidden signature of &lt;a href="http://astrobio.net/pressrelease/3415/a-small-step-in-the-rna-world" target="_blank"&gt;RNA&lt;/a&gt;  biogenesis in his laboratory at Case Western Reserve University School  of Medicine. He is now applying the gyromodel to unify and explain the  evolution and development of human beings. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="BoldGrey"&gt;Reference:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life, &lt;i&gt;Life,&lt;/i&gt; Vol. 2:1-105 (2012).   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sott.net/articles/show/240822-New-Theory-of-Life-Claims-to-Unite-Fields-of-Science#"&gt;&lt;img alt="Print this article" border="0" src="http://www.sott.net/images/print_article.png" title="Print this article" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-8724844266196502651?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.sott.net/articles/show/240822-New-Theory-of-Life-Claims-to-Unite-Fields-of-Science' title='New Theory of Life Claims to Unite Fields of Science'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/8724844266196502651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-theory-of-life-claims-to-unite.html#comment-form' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/8724844266196502651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/8724844266196502651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-theory-of-life-claims-to-unite.html' title='New Theory of Life Claims to Unite Fields of Science'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-847289571038002067</id><published>2012-01-29T12:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T12:29:12.451-08:00</updated><title type='text'>'Capitalism on verge of collapse'</title><content type='html'>Click on the Title for the video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script&gt;var so = new SWFObject('../player/player.swf', 'single', '450', '300', '0');so.addParam('allowfullscreen', 'true');so.addVariable('file', 'http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/01-29-2012/news_analysis.flv');so.addVariable('image', 'http://previous.presstv.ir/photo/Site Video/01-29-2012/Shabir_Razvi.jpg');so.addParam('wmode','transparent');so.addVariable('autostart', 'true');so.addVariable('stretching', 'exactfit');so.addVariable('controlbar', 'over');so.write('mediaspace');var player;function playerReady(obj) {player = $(obj.id);addListeners();};function addListeners() {player.addModelListener('TIME', 'timeMonitor');};function timeMonitor(obj) {$S('divSliderProg').width = obj.position / obj.duration * 451 + 'px';};&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="divLead"&gt;The European Union needs a 'whole system change' to recover from the debt crisis it is facing as its economic troubles are an outcome of 'corrupt capitalism,' an economic expert tells Press TV.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;“It [The EU and Greece in particular] needs a whole change of the system,” said British economic commentator Shabbir Razvi in a recent interview, adding that, it requires 'bold steps.' &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Bold steps meaning that the whole capitalism; the crisis of capitalism has to be seen from the perspective that capitalism stinks because it is corrupt. It has corrupted the politicians; it has corrupted the whole society by way of bankers having the final say as to what happens in each of the countries and Greece is a very good example whereby the bankers are trying to have their way,” the London-based economist said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He went on to say the whole problem with capitalism is that “capitalism awards greed and the greedier the bankers become, the more bonuses they get, the more higher salaries they get, which in turn corrupts the whole system because the politicians are having Jolly knees-ups at the banker's parties.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Sunday, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also denounced Western capitalism in his opening speech at the Islamic Awakening and Youth conference in Tehran, saying  that the Western capitalism is on the verge of collapse, and that the world should find an alternative system that guarantees amity and justice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;VG/JR&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-847289571038002067?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.presstv.ir/detail/223817.html' title='&apos;Capitalism on verge of collapse&apos;'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/847289571038002067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/capitalism-on-verge-of-collapse.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/847289571038002067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/847289571038002067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/capitalism-on-verge-of-collapse.html' title='&apos;Capitalism on verge of collapse&apos;'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-2778012130947308783</id><published>2012-01-29T11:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T11:57:15.407-08:00</updated><title type='text'>More US scrap metal headed for Persian Gulf</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1360887538577227639"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4f2420c1ecad04153200000e-400-300/uss-ponce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4f2420c1ecad04153200000e-400-300/uss-ponce.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;USS Ponce joins USS Enterprise in Persian Gulf&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://yayacanada.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-us-scrap-metal-headed-for-persian.html"&gt;By YaYaCanada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much clearer could it be that a false flag event is planned?&lt;br /&gt;Further to our earlier discussion about the US having found a way to  dispose of its scrap metal and at the same time create a pretext (with  the help of Israel?) for WWIII, here is the latest news report (bolding  mine):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pentagon deploys ‘mothership’ to Persian Gulf as tensions with Iran escalate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pentagon is rushing a “mothership” to the Middle East to be used by  commando teams as unrest in the region heightens, reports The Washington  Post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. Navy is planning to refit the USS Ponce, an amphibious  transport docking ship, which was about to be retired and  decommissioned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Ponce was commissioned in 1971 - it's now over 40 years old. Wikipedia reports:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On 2 December, 2011, Ponce came home to await decommissioning on 30  March, 2012, when she would be towed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and  be placed with the mothball fleet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now "she" is headed to the Gulf. How much clearer could it be that a false flag event is planned?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stop The False Flag Attack On The U.S.S. Enterprise&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt; Posted by &lt;span class="fn"&gt;CanSpeccy&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-timestamp"&gt; at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" href="http://canspeccy.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-us-scrap-metal-headed-for-persian.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"&gt;&lt;abbr class="published" title="2012-01-28T17:53:00-08:00"&gt;5:53 PM&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-comment-link"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-icons"&gt; &lt;span class="item-action"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=5867260065662559631&amp;amp;postID=1360887538577227639" title="Email Post"&gt; &lt;img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" width="18" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=5867260065662559631&amp;amp;postID=1360887538577227639" title="Email Post"&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-2778012130947308783?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://canspeccy.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-us-scrap-metal-headed-for-persian.html' title='More US scrap metal headed for Persian Gulf'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2778012130947308783/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-us-scrap-metal-headed-for-persian.html#comment-form' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/2778012130947308783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/2778012130947308783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-us-scrap-metal-headed-for-persian.html' title='More US scrap metal headed for Persian Gulf'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-232929522573964692</id><published>2012-01-29T11:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T11:25:46.496-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bill Gates, Monsanto hijack 'humanitarian aid' efforts to push GMO agenda</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/dir/Food/Plant-Crop-GMO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/dir/Food/Plant-Crop-GMO.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;(NaturalNews) Those still in denial about the connection between the so-called "humanitarian" efforts of the Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, and the bigger agenda to thrust genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) on the populations of the world (among other things), need look no further than the Golden Rice Project (GRP) for proof that things are not as they seem. Hailed as the solution to "micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries," GRP is actually nothing more than an attempted Trojan horse to usher GMOs into countries that have thus far rejected them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to a recent story published by Food Consumer, the Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $20 million to develop "golden rice," a type of GM rice that allegedly contains higher than normal levels of vitamin A. Monsanto, creator of this "Frankenrice," claims the crop will help end the epidemic of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) that afflicts many living in poor Asian countries. Sounds great, right? Except for the fact that introducing the rice threatens to actually worsen the VAD crisis, and promote economic and ecological debacles of epic proportions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Golden rice is a Trojan horse for pushing through GE-friendly biosafety regulations under the guise of humanitarian aid," reports Food Freedom. "Once in place, these regulations open the door for the biotech industry to bring in commercial, patented GE crops; USAID and Monsanto accomplished exactly this in Kenya with their sweet potato project."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Monsanto repeatedly uses the same strategy to sneak its Frankencrops into poor countries. It grabs hold of a food or agriculture crisis, and claims it has the solution. Its solution, of course, is always the same -- persuade farmers to adopt its patented crops, and lock them into a system where they must rely on Monsanto for expensive pesticides and the yearly purchase of new, self-destructing GM seeds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real solution for poor countries -- including those in Asia that are stricken by high rates of VAD -- is to increase their agricultural biodiversity, and cultivate an enhanced system of small-scale, family-owned farms that produce a variety of nutrient-rich, natural foods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In a biodiverse farm, a family would have easy access to all these [beta carotene and vitamin A-rich foods]. But the mono-cropping agricultural technology (promoted by Monsanto) ... has to a large extent, destroyed dietary biodiversity in rural Asia, which is the main cause of malnutrition," wrote the Pesticides Action Network Asia &amp;amp; the Pacific (PANAP) in a press release, emphasizing that Monsanto and the Gates Foundation's "solution" of golden rice will only exacerbate the problem of nutrient deficiency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/ads/300x250/Swanson_300x250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.naturalnews.com/ads/300x250/Swanson_300x250.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"[Monoculture] has seriously aggravated VAD. In fact, the Green Revolution has caused the loss of thousands of diverse local rice varieties ... [m]any of these local varieties had special nutritional value. Golden rice perpetuates the industrial model of agriculture and so instead of reducing VAD, it will actually contribute to worsening its rate of occurrence."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources for this story include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Safety/gmo/genetically_engineered_ric...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032834_humanitarian_aid_GMOs.html#ixzz1ksQLW33g&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-232929522573964692?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.naturalnews.com/032834_humanitarian_aid_GMOs.html' title='Bill Gates, Monsanto hijack &apos;humanitarian aid&apos; efforts to push GMO agenda'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/232929522573964692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/bill-gates-monsanto-hijack-humanitarian.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/232929522573964692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/232929522573964692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/bill-gates-monsanto-hijack-humanitarian.html' title='Bill Gates, Monsanto hijack &apos;humanitarian aid&apos; efforts to push GMO agenda'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-6320762290184175614</id><published>2012-01-29T09:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T05:35:10.435-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Elitist Rioters Run The Global Financial System, And They Are Using America To Create Hell on Earth</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/January201295/z_i.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/January201295/z_i.jpg" width="341" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt;by &lt;span class="fn"&gt;Saman Mohammadi via &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;disquietreservations.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"An Age of Hell is now upon us:&lt;br /&gt;The earthly body pierced with spears." - Arthur Rimbaud, &lt;a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=9EMNm6H8H8wC&amp;amp;pg=PA78&amp;amp;lpg=PA78&amp;amp;dq=%27On+The+Subject+of+Flowers:+Remarks,+Addressed+To+The+Poet,%27&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=E0nky1wzL-&amp;amp;sig=uYIitgtLUrsLe5qSDWWbl6E1M6Y&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=6tYkT9nQJsqxgwfL0bj3CA&amp;amp;ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%27On%20The%20Subject%20of%20Flowers%3A%20Remarks%2C%20Addressed%20To%20The%20Poet%2C%27&amp;amp;f=false"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'On The Subject of Flowers: Remarks, Addressed To The Poet,'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; July 14, 1871. (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A  culture like ours -- a culture so uniformly dedicated to inflicting   pain, to cruelty, to violence, to destruction, to creating hell on earth   -- does not deserve to survive for another moment. Many signs lead one   to believe that it may not survive much longer." - Arthur Silber, &lt;a href="http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2011/11/culture-dedicated-to-creating-hell-on.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"A Culture Dedicated to Creating Hell on Earth,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; November 21, 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The   destruction of our basic liberties, the overthrow of our Republic, and   basic protections, and checks and balances, is in overdrive right now.   And the good news is finally people are starting to wake up, but they   have no idea on average just how serious our straits are. Now, there is  a  good side to that and there is a bad side to that. Because the  ruling  class are so openly criminal and sloppy and out of control, it  should be  easy to wake people up fully and to bring these crooks to  justice.  People should realize we've got a completely illegitimate  global  government structure and the United States is one of the main  hearts to  it all. And only by fully awakening can we turn things  around." - Alex  Jones, &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/vQR8uNvZPQU" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'The SHTF A Long Time Ago!!!'&lt;/a&gt; January 28, 2012.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Well, gentlemen, when the shit hits the fan, some guys run and some guys stay." - From the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--IcPqrLDBA"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;film&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105323/quotes"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;'Scent of a Woman,'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (1992).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The fears we know&lt;br /&gt;Are of not knowing. Will nightfall bring us&lt;br /&gt;Some awful order. . . ?" - W. H. Auden, 'The Age of Anxiety,' (1947). (2).&lt;/blockquote&gt;When  riots come to America, don't blame the rioters at the  bottom. Blame  the rioters at the top of the political and economic  pyramid who have  ransacked the public purse and stolen trillions of  dollars from  tax-paying American citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a civilization, we have more to  fear from reckless elites who pillage the earth and obstruct justice in  the name of stability and order than from dirty and stupid rioters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We  can't pretend that stability and order exists within the West when the  truth about 9/11, the crime of the ages, has remained buried in the  mainstream world for a decade and counting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A world order that is  based on terror, lies, mass murder of innocent citizens, and the most  sophisticated propaganda campaign in human history, is no order at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  West and the world is in a state of chaos and lawlessness. Whoever  possesses the most guns has the last say. Anarchy and madness reigns  around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Absolute hell is the local and global  environment that has been created since 9/11 by the Maoists in  Washington, who agree with Mao that, "political power grows out of the  barrel of a gun."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By comparison, the Founding Fathers of America  believed that government power is based on the consent of the governed.  If they defended that belief today on American streets they would be  labeled domestic terrorists by the hijacked government and media,  detained in secret prisons, and killed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The leaders of America  and the West are far from the best men that America and the West have to  offer to the world. Individuals who have no sense of shame or guilt  lead the highest institutions of Western civilization, whether  political, academic, scientific, medical, or media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The scum and  the insane rise to the top in modern society, as William S. Burroughs,  John Lennon, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Anton Wilson, Terence McKenna, and  many others have all said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ginsberg told TVO host Allan Gregg in an &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-H5SmLieII"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;interview in the 1990s&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Since  the whole caste of government and media is not transparent but opaque,  built on secrecy and manipulativeness, the area of poetry then becomes a  free area where people can actually not be paranoid, where  understanding what's been said is being said for real.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In  1945, Kerouac came over to my room at Columbia. . .And I had a new poem  and I read it to him. And it was too late for him to go home. So he  stayed in my room, we had our underwear on, and I was a virgin. Nothing  happened. And we slept together. And then somehow somebody came to  visit, the dean of student faculty bursted into the room and found us in  bed together and assumed what would for them would be the worst, for me  would've been the best, for them would've been the worst cause they  were so homophobic in those days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I was called down to the  dean's office and he said to me, 'Mr Ginsberg, I hope you realize the  enormity of what you've done.' And I looked at him and I realized he was  completely mad. And he was running Columbia College. So I said this is  going to be a funny scene. So I said 'Yes sir, I'm completely ashamed of  myself, what can I do,' but I realized he was nuts. And, to a great  extent, the entire society was nuts. And I felt kind of liberated like a  man who was in the land of the sleepwalkers who could see, or the land  of the blind who can see. But not only on that, but on many, many  subjects like I'd smoke the grass, a little bit of grass, and I realized  the government party line was stupid. Like some kid in Russia who knew  that the Stalinist party line was fraud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much of the American  party line, the official, New York Times even, to the CIA and the state  department, the narcotics bureau, and the whole police agency, is  actually racist, prejudiced and corrupt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So then it becomes fun. . .I'm trying to wake these people up, they're sleepwalking." (3). &lt;/blockquote&gt;In  the last four decades, America's crazy political leaders have given   America and the world two of the most horrific and criminal wars in   human history: the illegitimate Global War on Drugs and the illegitimate  Global War on Terror. Trillions of  dollars have been wasted by  governments, and hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings have  perished as a result of these two insane global wars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The elite strategists who manufactured both wars from scratch have created an age of perpetual darkness and horror.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allan Gregg gave a very important lecture in November 2011 called, &lt;a href="http://allangregg.com/?p=69"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"On Authenticity – How the Truth Can Restore Faith in Politics and Government,"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in which he said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Even someone with only a passing interest in current affairs would know our political leaders are in big trouble.    A few years ago, Seth Meyers of Weekend Update on Saturday Night  Live  developed a routine where he lampooned politicians by simply asking   “Really!” …. no narrative; not even a snappy punch-line; simply a run a   clip of a politician followed by an incredulous “Really!” Jon Stewart   has taken this vein of comedy one step further where the joke doesn’t   even require speech … just show the politician speaking; pause for a   moment; and arch an eye brow. Both routines are invariably followed by   gales of laughter. Not only is the joke on our elected leaders, it seems   they are the only ones left on the planet who don’t get it.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Most  often short of outright lies, our elected leaders seem to have become  congenitally unable to speak the unvarnished truth – and everyone knows  it. Like the travel agent, or restaurant critic, our leaders run the  risk of becoming moribund because they have not been able to modulate  their behaviour or find their voice in this new reality." (4).&lt;/blockquote&gt;The death of political authority in the West has been a long and continuous process, and mostly a quiet affair.&lt;br /&gt;In  her book, 'Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey,' Sallie Nichols said  that many Western poets foresaw the crisis of authority and the madness  of modern civilization. She wrote:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;"Since the turn of the century, our poets have seen the darkness coming. Over fifty years ago, William Butler Yeats warned:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Turning and turning in the widening gyre&lt;br /&gt;The falcon cannot hear the falconer;&lt;br /&gt;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;&lt;br /&gt;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,&lt;br /&gt;The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere&lt;br /&gt;The ceremony of innocence is drowned;&lt;br /&gt;The best lack all conviction, while the worst&lt;br /&gt;Are full of passionate intensity.&lt;/blockquote&gt;What  better description of our present dilemma? The infamous "Watergate  horrors" of our outer history were but tiny ripples in a sea of  confusion and corruption in which the inner spirit of men everywhere has  become engulfed. The ceremony of innocence is indeed drowned, and  anarchy is loosed upon the world. As Yeats foresaw, the debacle is no  longer merely a matter of greed and lust for power -- these are  peripheral concerns. It is "the centre" that will not hold. Something is  dead wrong at the core of life. We are empty of meaning." (5).&lt;/blockquote&gt;The  elitist manipulators of human destiny and human history know that they  have lost the trust of the people of the planet, but they're confident  that an authoritarian global government will solve all their problems.  They speak of a "new age" and a "new world order" and they plan to start  World War III by attacking Iran which would mark the end of this dead  age.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since war is the father of change, the mad men in the  Western power elite need their big war with Iran to advance their plot  for a new world order. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Unleashing mass death, mass  destruction, and mass misery upon the world is the only way these freaks  can retain their absolute power over mankind in the new age that is  already here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Notes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Rimbaud, Arthur. (2002). &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Rimbaud Complete: Volume One, Poetry and Prose&lt;/span&gt;. Edited and translated by Wyatt Mason. Random House: New York. Pg. 83.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Auden, W. H. (2011). &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue&lt;/span&gt;. Edited by Alan Jacobs. Originally published in 1947 by Random House: New York. Pg. 34.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Allan Gregg's &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-H5SmLieII"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;interview&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; with Allen Ginsberg sometime in the 1990s. Quote is from the 23:40 - 26:39 mark.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Gregg, Allan. &lt;a href="http://allangregg.com/?p=69"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"On Authenticity – How the Truth Can Restore Faith in Politics and Government."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The 2011 Gordon Osbaldeston Lecture. November 19, 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Nichols, Sallie. (1980). &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Jung and Tarot: An Archetypal Journey&lt;/span&gt;. Red Wheel/Weiser: York Beach, ME. Pg. 167.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alex Jones: The SHTF A Long Time Ago!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Sound of Shit Hitting the Fan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt; Posted by &lt;span class="fn"&gt;Saman Mohammadi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-timestamp"&gt; at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/elitist-rioters-run-global-financial.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"&gt;&lt;abbr class="published" title="2012-01-29T00:33:00-05:00"&gt;12:33 AM&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-6320762290184175614?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/elitist-rioters-run-global-financial.html' title='Elitist Rioters Run The Global Financial System, And They Are Using America To Create Hell on Earth'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/6320762290184175614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/elitist-rioters-run-global-financial.html#comment-form' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/6320762290184175614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/6320762290184175614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/elitist-rioters-run-global-financial.html' title='Elitist Rioters Run The Global Financial System, And They Are Using America To Create Hell on Earth'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-2338288860282166598</id><published>2012-01-29T08:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T08:27:29.995-08:00</updated><title type='text'>This New Commando 'Mothership' Is Being Rushed To The Middle East</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="byline"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/January201294/ap110302016768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="203" src="http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/January201294/ap110302016768.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/robert-johnson"&gt;Robert Johnson&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="pipe"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;nobr title="Read comments"&gt;        &lt;/nobr&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="share"&gt;businessinsider.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="share"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="small clear-both"&gt;&lt;div class="KonaBody post-content"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Pentagon&amp;nbsp;is wasting no time in modifying its forces to meet the needs of a more &lt;a href="http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/01/defense-leon-panetta-says-smaller-military-cutting-edge-012612w/"&gt;specialized and commando-based military&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-wants-commando-mother-ship/2012/01/27/gIQA66rGWQ_story.html?hpid=z1"&gt;The Washington Post&lt;/a&gt; reports the Pentagon is fast-tracking the conversion of&amp;nbsp;the 1960s warship &lt;a href="http://www.ponce.navy.mil/"&gt;USS Ponce&lt;/a&gt; to use as a "commando mothership" base for&amp;nbsp;special forces&amp;nbsp;teams in the Middle East.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The re-christened Ponce will hold small &lt;a href="http://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/detail.asp?ship_id=F470-CRRC-Combat-Rubber-Raiding-Craft"&gt;Combat Rubber Raiding Craft&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.zodiacmarineusa.com/bombard-tenders/bombard-typhoon"&gt;Zodiac style boats&lt;/a&gt;), and &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bi-next-generation-helicopters-2012-1"&gt;helicopters routinely employed by the SEAL teams&lt;/a&gt; that are now becoming famous for their successful clandestine operations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The news broke through Pentagon procurement documents, and though the  Navy has refused to announce where the Ponce will be stationed,  military&amp;nbsp;paperwork suggest it will sail the Persian Gulf.&lt;br /&gt;The fact that further documentation says the ship will "support mine  countermeasure missions" fuels speculation that the Ponce will be used  in the Strait of Hormuz should Iran follow through on its threats to try  and shutter the waterway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The commissioning of this new &lt;a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/afsb.htm"&gt;Afloat Forward Staging Base&lt;/a&gt;  (AFSB) could signal a return for the SEALs to maritime-focused missions  after spending the last decade immersing themselves in Iraq and  Afghanistan. The Ponce will serve along with another AFSB previously  stationed in the Gulf, the &lt;a href="http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=35604"&gt;USS Cleveland&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the Pentagon is wasting no time in getting the SEALs, and the  Ponce, to wherever they're going, Pentagon spokesman Captain John Kirby  told &lt;a href="http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpps/news/pentagon-sends-floating-base-to-middle-east-dpgonc-20120127-kh_17430637"&gt;FOX News&lt;/a&gt; that he denied the Post's claim that they were "moving with unusual haste" in refitting the Ponce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"While this &lt;a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/uss-ponce-commando-mothership-2012-1#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; color: darkgreen; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; color: darkgreen; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"&gt;work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  is being done in an expeditious fashion," Kirby said, it is not  accurate to surmise that this signals a rush to meet some urgent combat  requirement."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/seal-team-6-jessica-buchanan-somalia-2012-1"&gt;The Navy SEALs&lt;/a&gt; were used this week to &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/seals-rescue-somalia-jessica-buchanan2012-1"&gt;recover two hostages&lt;/a&gt; being held in Somalia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/uss-ponce-commando-mothership-2012-1#ixzz1krh4bve5" style="color: #003399;"&gt;http://www.businessinsider.com/uss-ponce-commando-mothership-2012-1#ixzz1krh4bve5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-2338288860282166598?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.businessinsider.com/uss-ponce-commando-mothership-2012-1' title='This New Commando &apos;Mothership&apos; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cruelhoax.ca/jamaffiliates/image.php?bid=1&amp;amp;mid=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="48" src="http://www.cruelhoax.ca/jamaffiliates/image.php?bid=1&amp;amp;mid=1" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="biometrics.jpeg" class="mt-image-left" height="228" src="http://www.henrymakow.com/upload_images/biometrics.jpeg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;" width="221" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.25em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.25em;"&gt;The vision of the &lt;i&gt;goyim&lt;/i&gt; as cattle is coming true. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.5625em;"&gt;Biometrics is the&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;human equivalent of a dairy cow's ear tag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.25em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 1.25em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;by Chris Goodmenbetter&lt;br /&gt;(henrymakow.com)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;It's official.&lt;/b&gt; The biometric cataloging of the human race has begun. &lt;a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-05-19/india/28318094_1_uid-database-iris-scan-welfare-schemes"&gt;India's intent to record&lt;/a&gt;  it's entire nations' 1.2 billion people by iris and fingerprint scans  signals a devious high tech human monitoring and control agenda. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although  no one ever asks for such systems, biometrics will be sold to the  populace as cool, sexy, convenient, safe and secure but will eventually  prove to be a living hell for everyone on planet earth. Most just don't  know it yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;--- To surveil and identify, sold as to serve and protect&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In  order to recognize biometrics as the human equivalent of a dairy cow's  ear tag, a brief explanation is in order. One of many current biometrics  systems is referred to as "facial recognition" technology. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When  someone volunteers to get their drivers' license or passport, photos  are required to have an unobstructed, relaxed, static, straight-on  portrait face.&amp;nbsp; The subjects' photo is then digitized and entered into a  computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Via biometric software algorithms, the constant  inter-relational dimensions are measured, such as height, width,  relation of the nose to the eyes, mouth to chin's end etc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facial  expressions, such as smiling for instance, alter these ratio  calculations and are no longer allowed during photography.&amp;nbsp; Based upon  these unique facial landmarks, an identifying number is arrived at,  assigned and data based. Biometrics standards are also  internationalized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similar biometrical examples in sporadic use  include fingerprint, palm, retinal &amp;amp; iris scans, gait and speech  recognition and cranial thermal ( measuring unique thermal heat  signatures of a persons' scalp) recognition. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to  operate, these biometrics systems require some kind of input device to  connect the real world with database, such as a person placing their  hands on a scanner or peering into one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Facial, cranial and gait  recognition rely on vast networks of un-invited CCTV video cameras  which, not surprisingly, account for their dramatic weed-like  proliferation into society.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The physically dangerous full body  x-ray scanners used at U.S. airports (now thankfully banned in several  countries which initially had them) can peer right through clothing and  record and store a 360 degree&amp;nbsp; biometric profile for future use  (travelers' personal ticket and/or passport info is stored in  conjunction with their scan.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Similar existing street level  systems can scan anyone's body as they walk down the sidewalk without  their even knowing it. These real time scans can then be compared to  existing databases (which a subject previously provided at the airport,  as example.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ultimately, biometrics offers a means to identify,  surveil and monitor an entire populace's actions and whereabouts in real  time. (see &lt;a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Paranoid.htm"&gt;DARPA's Total Information Awareness Network&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;BUILDING THE DATABASE&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;AND GROOMING THE POPULACE&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In  February 2008, at a cost of one billion dollars per year, the FBI  awarded a ten year contract to Lockheed Martin to develop a giant  database of biometric data including fingerprints, iris scans, and DNA,  which the FBI refers to as the "Next Generation Identification" (NGI).  The goal is to have such personal data from every human being on file.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How perfect it is then that Lockheed Martin also be responsible for both the Canadian and British Census.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like  with any indoctrination form, it's important to get children friendly  with biometrics as early as possible. SONY and Microsoft use facial  recognition in their latest Playstation and XBOX.&amp;nbsp; Why not - it's fun!  Many schoolchildren are thumbscanning to get school lunches or take out  library books. Childrens' cartoons abound with biometric references.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Familiarizing  society with biometrics is critical to it's adoption. Through "patient  gradualism" (or in similar military terms, "mission creep"), the slow  change takes place while minimizing resistance and reaction.&amp;nbsp; Humans are  the most adaptable beings on the planet and if perceptions appear  natural, we tend to accept them. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;PERSONAL STATEMENT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I  refuse to submit to a biometrics photo, iris or thumb scan. As a  result, I am no longer able to legally drive a car, or get on a  commercial airplane (international or domestic), despite 23 years on the  road without a single accident or ticket (an insurance company's  actuarial dream), as driver's licenses and passports now employ this  loathsome technology. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have to ask yourself: 'what's your own personal line in the sand'?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Collins was instrumental in gaining Ireland's' independence from the British Crown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He  proved an indefatigable adversary who overcame Britain's' best not only  because of his highly unorthodox (read: CREATIVITY) tactics but also  undoubtedly due to the fact that the British authorities had no  knowledge of him! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They had no known pictures, profiles or  whereabouts of the man. Such un-predictable wildcards terrify monolithic  oligopolies. Collins managed to free the Irish, from the back of a  bicycle. If alive today, I doubt Collins would have submitted to  biometrics either.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recommend the movie &lt;i&gt;"Michael Collins"&lt;/i&gt; with Liam Neeson as an introduction to the man.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We  still have the power of choice, for the most part, as to who gets what  information about ourselves but the only sure way to secure this  information is to never divulge it in the first place. In an information  war, databases are the weapon of your foe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Observe wild animals  in nature. They carry no I.D., roam as they please, occupy no database  and yet somehow they are able to thrive. They are free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it stands, your average crow stands freer than most humans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------------- &lt;br /&gt;http://www.cruelhoax.ca/jamaffiliates/image.php?bid=1&amp;amp;mid=1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&amp;nbsp; References and suggested reading:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Citibank to roll out voice biometrics&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;   http://www.zdnet.com.au/citibank-to-roll-out-voice-biometrics-339306609.htm?feed=rss&amp;amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnetaustralia+%28ZDNet+Australia%29&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/New-Iscon-Whole-Body-Scanner-Now-Offers-Integrated-Biometric-Capabilities-Detect-All-1343909.htm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/01/dutch_police_develop_mobile_bo.php &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/01/17/nypd-testing-gun-scanning-technology/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6309917.stm&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ( make sure to take in readers' comments at that link )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/malls-go-big-brother-with-black-friday-cell-phone-tracking-20111124&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6309917.stm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=837&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; "One generation is all we need"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com/main/news_cats.php?cat_id=39&amp;nbsp;  ( excellent biometrics &amp;amp; implantable microchip news archive )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-6970706702467525630?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.henrymakow.com/refuse_biometrics.html' title='Resist Biometrics - Your Liberty Depends on It'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/6970706702467525630/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/resist-biometrics-your-liberty-depends.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/6970706702467525630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/6970706702467525630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/resist-biometrics-your-liberty-depends.html' title='Resist Biometrics - Your Liberty Depends on It'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-6079452783481538483</id><published>2012-01-29T06:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-29T07:04:59.646-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Truth Behind the Coming “Regime Change” in Syria By Shamus Cooke</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/coverStoryPictures2/28853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.globalresearch.ca/coverStoryPictures2/28853.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;amp;aid=28853"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Global Research&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;via http://williambowles.info&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;After meeting again to decide Syria’s fate, the Arab League again  decided to extend its “monitoring mission” in Syria. However, some Arab  League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood.  These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy — want to  declare the Arab League monitoring mission “a failure,” so that military  intervention — in the form of a no fly zone — can be used for regime  change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span id="more-53592"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The United States appears to be using a  strategy in Syria that it has perfected over the years, having succeeded  most recently in Libya: arming small paramilitary groups loyal to U.S.  interests that claim to speak for the local population; these militants  then attack the targeted government the U.S. would like to see  overthrown — including terrorist bombings — and when the attacked  government defends itself, the U.S. cries “genocide” or “mass murder,”  while calling for foreign military intervention.&lt;br /&gt;This is the strategy that the U.S. is using to channel the Arab  Spring into the bloody dead end of foreign military intervention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, the U.S. media and government are fanatically giving the  impression that, in Syria, the local population would like foreign  militarily intervention to overthrow their authoritarian president,  Bashar Assad. But facts are stubborn things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After spinning these lies, &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; was forced to  admit, in several articles, that there have been massive rallies in  Syria in support of the Syrian government. These rallies are larger than  any pro-government demonstration that the U.S. government could hope to  organize for itself. The New York &lt;i&gt;Times&lt;/i&gt; reports:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“The turnout [at least tens of thousands — see picture in link] in  Sabaa Bahrat Square in Damascus, the [Syrian] capital, once again  underlined the degree of backing that Mr. Assad and his leadership still  enjoy among many Syrians, nearly seven months into the popular  uprising. That support is especially pronounced in cities like Damascus  and Aleppo, the country’s two largest.” (January 13, 2012).&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; is forced to admit that the two largest  cities — in a small country — support the government (or at least oppose  foreign military intervention).&lt;br /&gt;This was further confirmed by a poll funded by the anti-Syrian Qatar Foundation, preformed by the Doha Debates:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“According to the latest opinion poll commissioned by The Doha  Debates, Syrians are more supportive of their president with 55% not  wanting him to resign.” (January 2, 2012).&lt;/blockquote&gt;If people in Syria do not want foreign intervention — a likely reason  that so many attended pro-Assad demonstrations — what about the  so-called Free Syrian Army, which the United States has given immense  credibility to and which claims to speak for the Syrian people?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Free Syrian Army — like its Libyan counterpart — appears to be  yet another Made-in-the-USA militant group, by route of its ally Turkey,  a fact alluded to by the pro U.S.-establishment magazine, &lt;i&gt;Foreign Affairs&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Why does the Syrian [government] military not rocket their [Free  Syrian Army] position or launch a large-scale assault? The FSA fighters  are positioned about a mile from the Turkish border, near enough to  escape across if the situation turned dire.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;The article also quotes a Free Syrian Army member who states: “Every  [Free Syrian Army] group in Turkey has its own job,” Sayeed said. “[The  Turks] gave us our freedom to move.” (December 8, 2011).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article also mentions that the Free Syrian Army is calling for a  “no fly zone” over certain regions of Syria, which would destroy the  Syrian government military; the possible starting locations of this no  fly zone are on the Syrian borders of either Turkey, Jordan, or Iraq —  all three are either strong U.S. allies or client states.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A “no fly zone” is the new euphemism that means the U.S. and its  European military junior partners in NATO will intervene to use their  advanced fighter jets to destroy the Syrian military, as happened in  Libya. In Libya the no fly zone evolved into a “no drive zone” and  eventually a “no survival” zone for anything resembling the Syrian  military — or anybody who armed himself in defense of the Libyan  government.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As in Syria, Libya’s largest city, Tripoli, never had large  anti-government demonstrations. The anti-Libyan government/pro-U.S.  paramilitary group that attacked Libyan forces was so tiny that it took  months to take power after 10,000 NATO bombing sorties (bombing  missions) that destroyed large portions of Libya’s infrastructure, as  documented by the independent Human Rights Investigations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s totally unimaginable that any large section of Syrian society  would invite a NATO-backed no fly zone, i.e. war, into Syria. The  examples of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya are too glaring for any Middle  Eastern nation not to notice. For the Free Syrian Army to demand a NATO  invasion of Syria is enough to label the FSA a U.S. puppet group  striving for political power, deserving to be condemned.&lt;br /&gt;This strategy of using a proxy army to undermine an anti-U.S.  government has a grisly past. This strategy is celebrated in the book  Charlie Wilson’s War, which tells the true story of the U.S. government  sending weapons and cash to Islamic extremists to wage a terrorist  campaign against the Afghan government, which was an ally of the Soviet  Union at the time. The attacks eventually led to the Afghan government  asking for Soviet military re-enforcements, whose presence in  Afghanistan created a degree of popular support for the extremists who  eventually became known as the Taliban.&lt;br /&gt;The same scenario also played itself out in Kosovo, where the tiny,  U.S.-backed Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) began a terrorist campaign  against the government of Yugoslavia, intending to separate Kosovo into  an independent nation. When the Yugoslav government attempted to defend  itself from the KLA — while imitating its violent tactics — the U.S. and  other western governments labeled it genocide, and invaded Yugoslavia,  calling it a “humanitarian invasion.” To this day the U.S. is one of few  nations that recognizes Kosovo as an independent nation while Kosovo  faithfully serves the interests of the United States&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same proxy war strategy — by the U.S. and other European powers —  played a crucial role in numerous wars throughout Africa, which  culminated in the massive Congo War that killed over five million  people, as French journalist Gerard Prunier describes in his book,  Africa’s World War.&lt;br /&gt;In Syria history is repeating itself, and some non-U.S. allies are very aware of it. &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;/i&gt; reports:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“[Russia's Foreign Minister] said that foreign governments [the U.S.,  Turkey, etc.] were arming ‘militants and extremists’ in Syria.”&lt;/blockquote&gt;The Foreign minister also gave an accurate description of U.S. foreign policy towards Iran:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“Mr. Lavrov offered a similarly grave message about the possibility  of a military strike against Iran, which he said would be a  “catastrophe.” He said sanctions now being proposed against Tehran were  “intended to have a smothering effect on the Iranian economy and the  Iranian population, probably in the hopes of provoking discontent.”  (January 19, 2012).&lt;/blockquote&gt;Most ominously, the Russian Foreign Minister said that U.S. foreign  policy in Syria and Iran could lead to a “very big war,” i.e., a war  that becomes regional or even international in scope, as other powers  intervene to uphold their interests in the region.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Russia has offered a way to avoid war in Syria and is pursuing it  through the UN Security Council; it is the same path being pursued by  the pro-U.S. government in Yemen: maintaining the current government in  power until elections are called. Unfortunately, Yemen is an ally of the  U.S. and Syria is not — the U.S. and its allies are blocking the same  approach in Syria in order to pursue war.&lt;br /&gt;The Syrian government opposition bloc inside of Syria, the National  Coordination Committee, opposes foreign military intervention. A leader  of the NCC is Hassan Abdul Azim, who wisely states;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;“We refuse on principle any type of military foreign intervention  because it threatens the freedom of our country,” (January 19, 2012).&lt;/blockquote&gt;This is very likely the prevailing opinion inside of Syria, since the  threat of no fly zones will result in the same mass bombings  experienced by the citizens of Tripoli in Libya. The fake Syrian  opposition outside of the country, The Syrian National Council, is yet  another U.S. puppet — now allied with the Free Syrian Army — begging for  a military invasion of Syria in order to “liberate” it. Of course the  western media tells only the perspective of the pro-U.S. Syrian National  Council.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. has proven on multiple occasions that military solutions  solve nothing, having torn asunder the social fabric of Afghanistan,  Iraq, and now Libya. The working people of Syria and Iran do not desire  “help” from the U.S. government and its allies to prevent bloodshed. The  working people of these countries could liberate themselves from their  authoritarian governments, as did the Tunisians and Egyptians, which is  precisely the point: the U.S. is intervening militarily to re-gain  control over a region that slipped out of its hands during the Arab  Spring. This military approach serves to push the working people of the  targeted country into the hands of their government while creating a  humanitarian catastrophe for the invaded nation. The working people of  the United States have no interest in aggressive war and have a  responsibility to learn about U.S. government propaganda so that they  can demand its end in the streets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Shamus Cooke is a social worker, trade unionist, and writer for Workers Action ( &lt;a href="http://www.workerscompass.org/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.workerscompass.org&lt;/a&gt; )&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sources&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/world/middleeast/syrians-rally-in-support-of-assad.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/world/middleeast/syrians-rally-in-support-of-assad.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.thedohadebates.com/news/item/index.asp?n=14312" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.thedohadebates.com/news/item/index.asp?n=14312&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/08/syria_free_army_rebels?page=0,3" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/12/08/syria_free_army_rebels?page=0,3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/tag/nato-bombing/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://humanrightsinvestigations.org/tag/nato-bombing/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/russia-warns-west-it-risks-war-over-syria-iran-20120119-1q8ei.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.smh.com.au/world/russia-warns-west-it-risks-war-over-syria-iran-20120119-1q8ei.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/world/europe/russia-warns-against-support-for-arab-uprisings.html?_r=3&amp;amp;ref=world" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/world/europe/russia-warns-against-support-for-arab-uprisings.html?_r=3&amp;amp;ref=world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;a href="http://rt.com/news/syria-protests-russia-dialogue-149/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://rt.com/news/syria-protests-russia-dialogue-149/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="snap_nopreview sharing robots-nocontent"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class="sharing_label"&gt;Spread the Word:&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="share-custom"&gt;&lt;a class="sharing-anchor share-service-visible" href="http://williambowles.info/2012/01/29/the-truth-behind-the-coming-regime-change-in-syria-by-shamus-cooke/#"&gt;Share&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="share-end"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="translate_block"&gt;&lt;a class="translate_translate" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2146736968904133647&amp;amp;postID=6079452783481538483" id="translate_button_post-53592" lang="en"&gt;[Translate]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;Sometimes, but not always related posts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://williambowles.info/2012/01/05/america-preparing-military-intervention-syria-rt/" rel="bookmark" title="‘America preparing military intervention in Syria’ — RT"&gt;‘America preparing military intervention in Syria’ — RT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://williambowles.info/2012/01/04/canadian-researcher-targeting-syria-change-regions-geo-political-reality-h-sabbagh/" rel="bookmark" title="Canadian Researcher: US Targeting Syria to Change Region’s Geo-Political Reality By H. 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To gain control  over oil, as well as the popular and revolutionary uprisings in the  Middle East,” said President Ahmadinejad in his opening speech at the  Islamic Awakening and Youth conference in Iran's capital city, Tehran,  on Sunday.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“It is clear that this was a historical scheme,” the Iranian president added.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahmadinejad warned the regional countries against the West's plots to sow discord in the Middle East in order to save Israel.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Iranian president added that the West intends to cause religious  and ethnic rifts in a certain country by using other regional states. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahmadinejad denounced the West's claim of advocating democracy and  justice and added that the Western capitalism is on the verge of  collapse, and that the world should find an alternative system that  guarantees amity and justice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nearly 1,200 young participants from 73 countries are in Iran to attend the two-day international conference in Tehran. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The role of the youth in the wave of the Islamic Awakening which has  swept through the Middle East and North Africa since early 2011 will be  discussed at the conference.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ASH/MYA/HJL                 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-top: solid 1px #ebebeb; 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 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1&gt;We Weren’t Going to Stay Stupid Forever&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;Of those who work in Special Operations and such things, I  am&amp;nbsp;one of&amp;nbsp;the very few&amp;nbsp;with a background in international finance.&amp;nbsp; This  is not written for public consumption but I will publish it anyway, do  with it as you will.&amp;nbsp; I am writing to our “community.”&amp;nbsp; You know who you  are.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the past few years, amounts of money and practices none of us had imagined have been hitting the news.&amp;nbsp; We hear one day that the Federal Reserve secretly lends out trillions of dollars.&amp;nbsp; It doesn’t say whose dollars or where they went or what America got in return.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America got screwed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Years ago, I had been asked to look after a former Reagan official named Lee Wanta.&amp;nbsp; Some of you will understand this sentence, who does the asking and what “look after”means.&amp;nbsp; I knew he had been kidnapped in Switzerland and, though a diplomat, sent to the US and imprisoned on criminal charges we knew to be a total invention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His personal attorney was Chief Legal Council for the Central Intelligence Agency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My retiree job is as an intelligence contractor working with pro-US clients.&amp;nbsp; I “brief,” not interview.&amp;nbsp; I am not a journalist by trade.&amp;nbsp; I am one of the thousands of Americans that middle age has turned from a “knock in the back of the head” guy to someone who can talk his way out of a dozen foreign jails.&amp;nbsp; I am simply one of many Americans that few know exist, a Marine, a Vietnam veteran and someone who spent much of his life with his head upside down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The deal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wanta has court documentation that he is owed $7.2 trillion dollars.&amp;nbsp; Initially, $4.5 trillion was transferred to the Federal Reserve Bank while issues of law and taxes were negotiated.&amp;nbsp; This is the remainder of a larger fund, transferred into the US while litigation was to determine tax liability and little else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secretly, a group of individuals has been using and diverting these funds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why does the fund exist?&amp;nbsp; Wanta worked for Reagan, National Intelligence Coordinator and then was nominated by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa at Reagan’s request to take over as Inspector General of the Department of Defense.&amp;nbsp; Instead, Reagan assigned Wanta to a project to raise huge amounts of money trading currency.&amp;nbsp; Much of this is on the internet and much of it is correct.&amp;nbsp; The total amount raised, based on collateral supplied by the US Department of Treasury in a secret intelligence operation was 27 trillion USD.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the years, all but $4.5 trillion was stolen, much of it by a previous US president, some by the CIA, much by banks.&amp;nbsp; Years ago, I was sent account numbers on some of the money and tried to locate it in concert with foreign intelligence agencies.&amp;nbsp; I would have returned the funds to the US government.&amp;nbsp; Included is 2000 tons of gold, and dozens of bank accounts around the world.&amp;nbsp; I have the account numbers, talked to the bankers and even, in one case, went directly to a chief of state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stolen cash is impossible to recover when half of it is paid out in bribes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As most of what I am writing is probably classified, let’s pretend I am making this all up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, back to Wanta.&amp;nbsp; During this time, Wanta had gone to court to recover his funds, which had grown to over $7 trillion.&amp;nbsp; The rest of the money, much of which came from currency trading at the largest scale in world history, we will never find.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now a court has ordered Wanta to receive his money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The company to receive the money is Ameritrust.&amp;nbsp; The board members of Ameritrust are well known public people, a former Vice President, senators, generals and admirals and, of course, me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The money is, officially, in the Federal Bank of Richmond and the order to return the funds was signed by the President of the United States based on an agreement with the Federal Courts.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Involved, over a period of years, is a group of people every American will know, from presidents and vice presidents to the heads of the Federal Reserve, Secretaries of Treasury, names like Bush and Cheney, Paulson, Bernake, Gore, some names working for America and too many trying to steal part of the money for themselves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some tried to steal all of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you heard news stories about the Federal Reserve making secret loans to the crooked ”bail out banks” that weren’t authorized by congress, they were lending out the $7.2 trillion “Wanta dollars” ordered paid by President Obama and the Federal Courts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you wondered how the Federal Reserve, that couldn’t print a few billion dollars without authorization from congress, lent out trillions that technically didn’t exist with no permission at all and there was no investigation, no questions asked and the story forgotten a day later, you will begin to understand by the end of this.&amp;nbsp; You will be extremely upset and angry also.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thus far, here is part of that settlement I can tell you of but first, I had Wanta check out.&amp;nbsp; To do that, I went to a top army intelligence officer from the Pentagon, one who had been Defense Attache to Israel and who had worked in Special Operations, war plans, clandestine operations and such since he was an A Team leader in Vietnam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I put him on with Wanta for hours and had Wanta interrogated.&amp;nbsp; Wanta knew dozens of the highest classified operations in US history, knew every Pentagon official including much highly detailed personal information and to what was our top Army intelligence officer, that he was, unquestioningly, working for years at the highest levels of US intelligence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The man who grilled him still hangs up the phone whenever I mention 9/11, a close personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the deal:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ameritrust agrees to buy $1 trillion in 10 year treasury bonds, which will finance America’s national debt for the next year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ameritrust, as outlined by the court, agrees to pay $1.7 trillion in income tax, reducing the national debt significantly overnight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ameritrust has set aside $6 billion for disbursement, under my advisement, monies for two purposes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1. Development of a program to end veteran homelessness and save a generation of young veterans.&amp;nbsp; This is entirely privately donated money.&amp;nbsp; A non-profit entity exists and programs can start today.&amp;nbsp; Not one cent will be stolen or diverted.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2. Fund efforts to aid in closing the US border and put a 100% end to illegal immigration and drug trafficking.&amp;nbsp; This involves billions of dollars, carefully administered, with the full cooperation of state and local officials who have already been consulted and are onboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ameritrust has set aside, minimally, $1 trillion USD to build a high speed rail system for the United States with almost all components domestically constructed.&amp;nbsp; This system includes stations, hotels and much more.&amp;nbsp; The minimal impact will include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 1. Initial employment will begin at 80,000 with full employment in the manufacture, installation and security of this system 400,000 new jobs, all privately financed without one cent of taxpayer money.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 2. Veterans will receive preference on all jobs but, as is obvious, employment goes well beyond our available veteran community.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 3. Required technologies and the entities that control such will be purchased and manufacturing facilities will be located within the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The economic impact on other transportation systems, particularly airlines, has been predicted and funding is available to minimize disruption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America, of course, will become the world’s tourist destination, travel costs for top domestic destinations will lower by a minimum of $65% and no debt will be involved.&amp;nbsp; 400,000 paychecks will end the recession, produce tax revenue to allow additional paydown of national debt and, for the first time in decades, actually raise the standard of living in America.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is all documented.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Studies showing lowered emissions and freedom from oil imports are almost frightening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this does, of course, is give Americans things that other nations around the world have had for years but at lower cost, financed through the foresight, frankly, of President Ronald Reagan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This entire project was his plan.&amp;nbsp; I had no idea.&amp;nbsp; That we are dealing with it now is because criminal elements within our government and financial industry including the Federal Reserve System have subverted this plan, ignored court orders and violated so many laws we can’t even count.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This money is here today, it is 20 years old, it requires no new currency issue, it pays down debt and adds nothing but jobs, revenue and hope.&amp;nbsp; To stop this from moving forward, Wanta was kidnapped and jailed, court cases involving the top lawyer in the United States have gone on for 6 years and millions have been spent to either keep this out of the press or misrepresent facts that exist on enough legal documents to fill a Fed Ex van.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At one point, Wanta was put in a mental institution.&amp;nbsp; He gave the psychiatrist a telephone number to call.&amp;nbsp; Vice President Al Gore answered and confirmed Wanta’s identity.&amp;nbsp; Vice President Gore also confirmed that he had been informed that Lee Wanta was dead.&amp;nbsp; When Gore learned Wanta was alive in the room, we suspect this is why Wanta is here and the Reagan/Ameritrust program is coming back to life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The psychiatrist ordered Wanta’s release.&amp;nbsp; Instead of release, he was jailed and the psychiatrist “warned” and then fired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can prove this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You have heard these stories a dozen times, Sibel Edmonds, John Wheeler III, Susan Lindauer and a hundred names you will never hear.&amp;nbsp; Ask why Senator Paul Wellstone of Wisconsin and his family are dead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the real world we live in, why we pay so much for gas when the world money markets have crashed, when demand is nothing but prices rise daily and nobody ever asks anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we want to know and “we” is not a harmless bunch of cranks.&amp;nbsp; “We” means many of the people who formerly and currently represent key “capabilities” that protect and defend the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We want to know why, for years, the Federal Reserve illegally “loaned” trillions of dollars to banks that claimed they were insolvent, money in escrow and not under their authority for distribution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We want to know why, for years, the Secretaries of Treasury authorized these illegal acts which have been reported in the news but never investigated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We want to know where the trillions of dollars are in profits that were generated by using this currency to collateralize offshore transactions never listed by the banks who received the illegal loans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read that one again until you understand the extent of what I am saying and how obvious all of this is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The money has been there to put America on her feet.&amp;nbsp; Nobody ever explained how the Federal Reserve could lend trillions of dollars “illegally,” money never under their official control but rather under the supervision of the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to funding existing legal authorities to end illegal immigration overnight and begin a real war on drug trafficking, at some point there will be unpaid state income taxes totaling over $200 billion dollars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have the full backing of state governors, select members of congress and those financial leaders who choose to profit from honest business instead of insider trading and financial scams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This means “change.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What we demand?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We want monies owed and ordered to be paid as law requires to be paid.&amp;nbsp; All we are demanding is restoration of rule of law in accordance with existing court orders and legal judgements, nothing more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also have law enforcement and intelligence officials who tell us that they will never sleep another night until they have hunted all these people involved down and have seen justice done.&amp;nbsp; They say they are willing to spend their lives hunting assets, even to the ends of the earth, beginning with vacation homes, yachts, family trusts, safe deposit boxes, anywhere on the planet and that existing laws covering money laundering and terrorism give them the needed tools.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The term I keep hearing is “continuing criminal enterprise.”&amp;nbsp; I am more a builder than one to seek retribution but others are not so forgiving.&amp;nbsp; We believe this is why funds are being held up, out of fear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As there is enough money here for Ameritrust to be the most powerful congressional lobby, being a “corporate person,” the richest ever imagined, think of the irony.&amp;nbsp; The laws meant to deprive Americans of their rights being used to restore democracy and rule of law.&amp;nbsp; The idea is frightening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As billions are assigned for veterans relief at a time of extreme national emergency, failure to do so is unthinkable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America was never intended to be what it has become.&amp;nbsp; We have the funds, the plans and the people to begin a rapid and well conceived turn-around of America.&amp;nbsp; This is a plan of investment in America, of hard work, of the most extreme form of financial conservatism thinkable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is about work and paying taxes and building in America for America by Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ask yourself who has been blocking this, who is above the law?&amp;nbsp; Court documents on all of this, as required by law, are in the public domain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Welcome to any who think this is less than we say.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-4930670724145978035?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/01/28/heres-the-deal-fixing-america/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=heres-the-deal-fixing-america' title='Roadmap to Redressing Economic Terrorism in America'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/4930670724145978035/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/roadmap-to-redressing-economic.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/4930670724145978035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/4930670724145978035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/roadmap-to-redressing-economic.html' title='Roadmap to Redressing Economic Terrorism in America'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-7389279813446758634</id><published>2012-01-28T12:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T12:45:26.638-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How Iran could beat up on America's superior military</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2 class="subhead"&gt;America's defense budget is roughly 90 times bigger than Iran's. But Iran has a well-honed strategy of asymmetric warfare.&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="sByline"&gt;By                       &lt;a class="ui-author" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/About/Contact/Staff-Writers/Scott-Peterson"&gt;Scott Peterson&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="ui-staffline"&gt;Staff writer&lt;/span&gt; /       January 26, 2012   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="podStoryGal"&gt;&lt;div class="thePhoto"&gt;&lt;div class=" jcarousel-skin-storygal"&gt;&lt;div class="jcarousel-container jcarousel-container-horizontal" style="display: block;"&gt;&lt;div class="jcarousel-clip jcarousel-clip-horizontal"&gt;&lt;ul class="jcarousel-list jcarousel-list-horizontal" id="pgallerycarousel" style="left: 0px; width: 390px;"&gt;&lt;li class="jcarousel-item jcarousel-item-horizontal jcarousel-item-1 jcarousel-item-1-horizontal"&gt;   &lt;a class="thickbox" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/0126-world-ohormuz/11576770-1-eng-US/0126-world-ohormuz_full_600.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/0126-world-ohormuz/11576770-1-eng-US/0126-world-ohormuz_full_380.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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     The US defied the warning of a top Iranian general this week and sent the &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/USS+Abraham+Lincoln" target="_self"&gt;USS Abraham Lincoln&lt;/a&gt; – flanked by British and French warships – through the &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Strait+of+Hormuz" target="_self"&gt;Strait of Hormuz&lt;/a&gt;  at the mouth of the Gulf. A senior Iranian lawmaker scoffed that the US  "did not dare" to send its ship alone, because of the danger posed by  the Islamic Republic. If Iran were to close the strategic waterway, as  it has threatened to do, the American aircraft carriers "will become the  war booty of Iran," he declared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="promotion-tag"&gt;&lt;div class="promotion-tag-p"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1229/Getting-the-Strait-of-Hormuz-straight-an-FAQ" target="_blank"&gt;RELATED: FAQ on the Strait of Hormuz &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Such bluster is not all talk. The US may outspend the Islamic Republic nearly 90-to-1 on defense. But Iran, heir to ancient &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Persia" target="_self"&gt;Persia&lt;/a&gt;'s naval innovation&lt;b&gt;,&lt;/b&gt; has a well-honed asymmetric strategy designed to reverse that advantage.&lt;br /&gt;A 2002 &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/U.S.+Armed+Forces" target="_self"&gt;US military&lt;/a&gt; exercise simulating such a conflict proved devastating to American warships.&lt;br /&gt;Indeed,  Iran can cause immense harm, analysts say, without ever directly facing  off against far superior conventional US forces. Even a few incidents –  like mines laid in the Gulf, or Iran's small-boat swarming tactics  against oil tankers or a &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/U.S.+Navy" target="_self"&gt;US Navy&lt;/a&gt; ship – could raise fears of insecurity to unacceptably high levels.&lt;br /&gt;It  could also have far-reaching economic consequences, including a spike  in oil prices, since roughly a third of all seaborne oil shipments pass  through the Strait of Hormuz – making it the single most important choke  point for oil tankers in the world.&lt;br /&gt;"[Iran's] final aim is not to  physically close [the strait] for too long, but to drive up shipping  insurance and other costs to astronomical heights – which is just as  good, in terms of economic damage, as the physical closing of the  strait," says a former senior European diplomat who recently finished a  six-year tour in Tehran.&lt;br /&gt;"If you are not sure whether you will get  hit, or if you get hit not by conventional force but some wild boat  that might float around in the sea – or a mine or two –&amp;nbsp;that will create  far more insecurity than a battle line where the strait is closed," he  says.&lt;br /&gt;And Iranian harassing tactics are just the start, he adds.  Other layers include artillery and rockets stationed at the Strait of  Hormuz, Kilo submarines, and mini-submarines from which divers can be  sent out to damage ships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2146736968904133647&amp;amp;postID=7389279813446758634" id="eztoc11572480_1" name="eztoc11572480_1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Many options short of full-blown war&lt;/h2&gt;Iran's  conventional military forces are often aging and of limited capability.  Iran spent just $7 billion on defense compared to America's $619  billion defense budget in 2008, the latest year for which Iran's data  was available, according to the &lt;a href="http://milexdata.sipri.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's database&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Iran's  strategy of asymmetric warfare recognizes that, since the 1979 Islamic  Revolution, Iran has little chance of winning any face-to-face military  contest with powerful enemies like the &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+States" target="_self"&gt;United States&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Instead,  Iran aims to "exploit enemy vulnerabilities through the used of  'swarming' tactics by well-armed small boats and fast-attack craft, to  mount surprise attacks at unexpected times and places" which will  "ultimately destroy technologically superior enemy forces," writes &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Iranian+Armed+Forces" target="_self"&gt;Iranian military&lt;/a&gt; expert Fariborz Haghshenass in a 2008 study based on published doctrines of the &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Revolutionary+Guard" target="_self"&gt;Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps&lt;/a&gt; (IRGC).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="promotion-tag"&gt;&lt;div class="promotion-tag-p"&gt;OPINION:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0119/5-reasons-US-must-avoid-war-with-Iran" target="_blank"&gt;5 reasons US must avoid war with Iran&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In  any future fight, Iran would likely "avoid escalating the conflict in a  way that would play to US strengths in waging mid- to high-intensity  warfare – by employing discreet tactics such as covert mine-laying,  limited submarine options, and occasional mobile shore-based attacks,"  writes Mr. Haghshenass, in the study for the &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/The+Washington+Institute+for+Near+East+Policy" target="_self"&gt;Washington Institute for Near East Policy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;In fact, Iran has many options short of a direct challenge in the Persian Gulf.&lt;br /&gt;"Iran  could seek to create perpetual, low-grade instability in the strait,  mostly through asymmetric means, with the objective of making it an  aquatic 'no-man's land,' " says Reza Sanati, in an analysis published by  the Tehran Bureau/PBS Frontline website. "For Iran, the choice is not  'to close' or 'not to close,' but rather to &lt;i&gt;clog&lt;/i&gt;. A major global choke point, once considered safe, would no longer be so."&lt;br /&gt;The  US "would be drawn into providing the manpower and bearing the  exorbitant cost for removing the impediments," adds Mr. Sanati, while  the risk of inadvertently sparking a war would "vastly multiply."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2146736968904133647&amp;amp;postID=7389279813446758634" id="eztoc11572480_2" name="eztoc11572480_2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Devastating result for US in war game&lt;/h2&gt;Iran's  asymmetric focus is no secret. It has sought to enhance deterrence by  claiming repeated triumphs during large military exercises, and by  fielding new hardware, from super-fast torpedoes and to kamikaze drones.&lt;br /&gt;During the &lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0422/Iran-war-games-begin-with-new-ultra-fast-speed-boats" target="_blank"&gt;"Great Prophet V" exercise&lt;/a&gt;  in April 2010, for example, the IRGC Navy trumpeted the launch of a new  "ultra-fast" watercraft that it claimed was less detectable by  radar.&amp;nbsp;Across the shimmering Gulf waters, Iran fielded &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/300+%28Movie%29" target="_self"&gt;300&lt;/a&gt; boats in a swarming attack, with commandos landing on one of the target warships.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="promotion-tag"&gt;&lt;div class="promotion-tag-p"&gt;IN PICTURES:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Iran-s-military-might" target="_blank" title="Iran's military might"&gt;Iran's military might&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"The  Strait of Hormuz belongs to the region and foreigners must not  intervene in it," military spokesman Ali Reza Tangsiri said at the time.&lt;br /&gt;That  warning echoed the words of a ranking Iranian cleric in 2008 that the  "first shot" fired against Iran would turn the Israeli capital &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Tel+Aviv" target="_self"&gt;Tel Aviv&lt;/a&gt; and the US fleet in the Persian Gulf into "the targets that would be set on fire in Iran's crushing response."&lt;br /&gt;More than a decade earlier, in 1997, then-IRGC commander &lt;a class="inform_link" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Mohsen+Rezaei" target="_self"&gt;Mohsen Rezaei&lt;/a&gt;  said "Iran will never start any war," but if the US attacked first "we  will turn the region into a slaughterhouse for them. 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by Stuart Littlewood&amp;nbsp; -&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/stop-the-pro-israel-lobby/"&gt;Intifada-Palestine.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Queen needs a new royal yacht. But the British government says it  can’t afford to buy her one. The £80 million for the project must come  from private sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Leading British companies will… be asked to donate funds in exchange  for naming rights to various decks and facilities on board,” says &lt;em&gt;The Guardian&lt;/em&gt;.  Does this mean Her Majesty will be seen entertaining in the Goldman  Sachs stateroom and sipping daiquiris on the Starbucks sun-deck? Will  she shelter from squalls in the Murdoch salon and arrive and depart via  the Revlon helipad?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last royal yacht, &lt;em&gt;Britannia&lt;/em&gt;, was a highly successful  tool for promoting Great Britain Limited. That being the case, such an  important national asset ought to be government funded, not sponsored by  tacky brand names.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;£80 million is chickenfeed in the great scheme of things. Why are we  so hard up that there’s not enough in the public purse to pay for a new  boat for our beloved sovereign? One reason, of course, is because for  years we’ve been suckered into joining the United States in fighting  Israel’s wars of aggression. Given our huge debts it beggars belief that  we’re gearing up for another one… this time against Iran… and pushing  the oil markets to the edge of panic.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Haven’t we had our fill of warmongering idiocy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;War fever was magnified at the weekend with an announcement that the  Ministry of Defence had splashed out another £14 million on building a  replica Middle East village in Thetford Forest for training our troops.  It’s complete with shops, fully furnished homes, the stench of rotting  meat and a bomb survivor with limbs blown off. &lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/5256219/MoD-builds-Afghan-village-in-Norfolk.html"&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/5256219/MoD-builds-Afghan-village-in-Norfolk.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The site was originally a replica Nazi village built in 1942, but  that was training for a war of a very different kind… a war in defence  of our realm and for our very survival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why do we get dragged into these illegal and inhuman expeditions to  devastate countries that are no threat to us? Because a team of  Israel-firsters in our midst think it’s smart to promote the ambitions  of a foreign power at the expense of our own national interest and  everyone else’s. They have taken command and control of our country by  infiltrating the highest levels of government. For example they hold the  key jobs in the Foreign Office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our watchdogs ought to have booted them out for violating the sacred  principles of conduct in public life, but these leeches are now  permanently attached while the dogs are de-fanged and petted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_38639" style="width: 310px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/stop-the-pro-israel-lobby/hague460x276/" rel="attachment wp-att-38639"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-38639" height="180" src="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hague460x276-300x180.jpg" title="Hague460x276" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;Channel  4's film alleges that William Hague faced threats of a withdrawal of  funding from CFI after he described a retaliatory attack by Israel on  Lebanon in 2006 as 'disproportionate'. Photograph: Martin Godwin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="wp-caption-text"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I can imagine just how robustly the criminal regime in Israel is  reprimanded by prime minister David Cameron, a self-declared Zionist, by  foreign secretary William Hague, an avid fan of Israel since his  teenage years, by Alistair Burt a former officer of the Conservative  Friends of Israel and now minister for Middle East affairs, and by  Ambassador Gould in Tel Aviv who I’m told is the first Jew appointed to  that post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The proposed lobby register &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our coalition government has just provided a glimmer of hope for a  solution – an unintended consequence no doubt – by releasing a woolly  discussion document on proposals for a statutory register of lobbyists.  This is part of a promise to clean up politics and provide greater  transparency in the wake of scandals that destroyed the last shred of  public confidence in our political system.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The government defines lobbyists as ‘those who seek to influence or  change government policy on behalf of a third party’. The document  itself &lt;a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Introducing%20a%20Statutory%20Register%20of%20Lobbyists.pdf"&gt;http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Introducing%20a%20Statutory%20Register%20of%20Lobbyists.pdf&lt;/a&gt;  says that a register should include information about the names of  individual lobbyists and lobbying firms and the names of their clients.  “In addition, we propose that the register should include whether a  lobbyist was previously a Government Minister or a Senior Civil Servant.  The Government does not propose that any information on meetings should  be included in a register.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, only third-party lobbying firms will have to declare their  clients and record former ministers and government officials they have  on their books. Firms employing in-house lobbyists needn’t register at  all.&lt;br /&gt;The register should also offer the same transparency as provided for  Ministers, special advisers and senior officials. The recent Fox-Werrity  outrage showed how unreliable that is. It took determined digging by a  retired former ambassador to shine light into the dark and sinister  corners of that affair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tamasin Cave from the &lt;em&gt;Alliance for Lobbying Transparency&lt;/em&gt;, an  organisation representing a number of charities, unions and campaign  groups, said the proposals “are fundamentally flawed and have the  lobbyists’ fingerprints all over them. We need a statutory register to  require lobbyists to reveal who is lobbying whom, what they are seeking  to influence and how much money they are spending.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Independent&lt;/em&gt; has already blasted the government for  attempting a ‘”whitewash” while campaigners say the move does nothing to  clean up the lobby industry’s reputation for forging unhealthy  relationships between senior politicians and leading lobbying firms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will ministers be required to declare why they are meeting lobbyists  or which firms or groups they are representing? Apparently not, says &lt;em&gt;The Independent.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now’s your chance!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about those who lobby on behalf of a lawless foreign power? It  is vitally important to halt lobby groups like Friends of Israel in  their tracks. Consultation closes on 13 April, so now’s your chance.  Members of the public can make their views known to: Statutory Register  of Lobbyists, Cabinet Office, Fourth Floor, 1 Horseguards Road, London  SW1A 2HQ. Alternatively, email &lt;a href="mailto:registerlobbyists@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk"&gt;registerlobbyists@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk&lt;/a&gt; marking your response with ‘Statutory Register of Lobbyists’ in the subject field of your email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make sure you let the government know that you know what a rotten,  treacherous game they are playing. The three main political parties in  the UK each have a ‘Friends of Israel’ group to ensure pro-Israel  members are embedded at all levels in the British political  establishment and at the very heart of government, no matter who is in  power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Campaigners argue that these placemen inhibit the government when it  comes to taking a principled stand on foreign affairs issues and  especially on matters relating to Israel’s criminal acts.&lt;br /&gt;Or the unjustified ganging up against Iran.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The aim of Friends of Israel is to promote the interests of Israel  within the British Parliament. The Israeli regime is racist in its  treatment of the Arab population and criminal in its territorial  ambitions. The manifestos of Israel’s political parties are horrific.  MPs who align themselves with Israel and endorse its practices are  contradicting our own anti-racist laws and international and human  rights laws.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should MPs and ministers be acting on behalf of a foreign military  power at the expense of our own interests and security? Of course not.  They are expressly forbidden to let outside influence cloud their  judgment. To do so would breach the second of the Seven Principles of  Public Life, namely Integrity – “Holders of public office should not  place themselves under any financial or other obligation to outside  individuals or organisations that might seek to influence them in the  performance of their official duties.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet Friends of Israel lobby groups go to great lengths to influence  those in power. Some say that FoI membership is a necessary passport to  high office.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the man in the street is entitled to look at the Seven Principles  of Public Life and say that the activities of lobbies like Friends of  Israel are against the intentions, both in word and spirit, of those  Principles. Disgraced defence secretary Dr Liam Fox was quoted on the  Conservative Friends of Israel website as saying: “…We must remember  that in the battle for the values that we stand for, for democracy  against theocracy, for democratic liberal values against repression –  Israel’s enemies are our enemies and this is a battle in which we all  stand together or we will all fall divided.” This was when his party was  in opposition. Fox presumably spoke for all Friends of Israel in his  party (that’s 80 percent of Conservative MPs according to some claims)  who were hoping to form the next government. He would have Parliament  and the country believe that Israel’s enemy, Iran, must become Britain’s  enemy – the sort of dangerous nonsense that could lead our nation to  disaster and once again cause hundreds of thousands of innocent people  to be shredded and incinerated… Don’t his sort ever learn?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And seldom do FoI members declare an interest when speaking or  writing about the Middle East. That is unacceptable in the ‘Mother of  Parliaments’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the United States there are growing calls for the Israel lobby  AIPAC, which is so super-powerful that it calls the shots in Congress  and has presidential candidates grovelling to Israel’s agenda, to be  classified as an agent of a foreign power and treated accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Double standards prevail&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The British government ordered a warship to join the US flotilla  steaming through the Strait of Hormuz “to underline the unwavering  international commitment to maintaining rights of passage under  international law”. It’s a response to Iran’s threat to close that  seaway if the West imposes an oil embargo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Royal Navy ships have been patrolling there continuously since the  1980s, but brave Britain hasn’t lifted a finger to keep the sea lanes to  Gaza open in response to Israel’s endless illegal blockade and brutal  assaults on Gaza’s fishermen and peaceful humanitarian vessels trying to  reach the besieged population with aid.&lt;br /&gt;And yesterday the EU announced an embargo on Iranian oil exports,  which Britain had been pressing for. It is horribly reminiscent of the  bully-boy tactics of the early 1950s, when Britain and America  engineered a similar embargo and brought Iran to its knees in order to  overthrow the democratic government of Dr Mossadeq and reinstate the  hated Shah and his secret police. Why? Because Iran wanted to control  its own oil and Britain and the US didn’t like that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This latest move amounts to another direct attack on Iran’s economic  lifeline and smacks of collective punishment and economic terrorism. It  will cause hardship to ordinary citizens and further hostility  throughout the Islamic world. Nothing pleases Israel more, but why are  we so eager to dance to Israel’s tune and damage ourselves in the eyes  of world opinion?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hague said: “Today’s sanctions show how serious EU member states are  about preventing nuclear proliferation…” But he and the EU are not in  the least serious about nuke-bristling Israel’s refusal to sign up to,  or even discuss, non-proliferation. No sanctions there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile hard-pressed British and European motorists are likely to  pay a heavy price for this tomfoolery when oil prices rocket. And we are  still waiting for proof that Iran has actually done something wrong,  are we not? Where does Hague think he’s leading us?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Notice too how the British government’s broadcast regulator has  chosen this moment to silence PressTV, Iran’s English-language  broadcaster in the UK, by revoking its licence and thus suppressing the  other side of the story. PressTV was an inconvenient voice that ruffled  too many fine feathers among Britain’s bloodthirsty elite. Truth and  free speech, as usual, are the first casualties in softening up the  public for war.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Stuart Littlewood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24 January 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;*********&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2011/06/archbishop-of-canterbury-reprimanded-by-angry-holy-land-christians/stuart-littlewood-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-31740"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-31740" height="150" src="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/stuart-littlewood1-150x150.jpg" title="stuart-littlewood" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Stuart Littlewood’s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; book &lt;em&gt;Radio Free Palestine&lt;/em&gt; can now be read on the internet by visiting &lt;a href="http://www.radiofreepalestine.org.uk/"&gt;www.radiofreepalestine.org.uk&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="height: 50px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 300px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;     &lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;     &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/stop-the-pro-israel-lobby/&amp;amp;title=Stop%20the%20Pro-Israel%20Lobby" rel="nofollow"&gt;     &lt;img alt="Add to Del.cio.us" src="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/plugins/addtothis/delicious.png" style="border: 0px solid; height: 48px; width: 48px;" /&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;     &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;     &lt;a href="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/feed/rss/" rel="nofollow"&gt;     &lt;img alt="RSS Feed" src="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/plugins/addtothis/feeds.png" style="border: 0px solid; height: 48px; width: 48px;" /&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;     &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;     &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/stop-the-pro-israel-lobby/" rel="nofollow"&gt;     &lt;img alt="Add to Technorati Favorites" src="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/plugins/addtothis/technorati.png" style="border: 0px solid; height: 48px; width: 48px;" /&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;     &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;     &lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/stop-the-pro-israel-lobby/&amp;amp;title=Stop%20the%20Pro-Israel%20Lobby" rel="nofollow"&gt;     &lt;img alt="Stumble It!" src="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/plugins/addtothis/stumble.png" style="border: 0px solid; height: 48px; width: 48px;" /&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;          &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;     &lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;amp;url=http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/stop-the-pro-israel-lobby/" rel="nofollow"&gt;     &lt;img alt="Digg It!" src="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/plugins/addtothis/digg.png" style="border: 0px solid; height: 48px; width: 48px;" /&gt;     &lt;/a&gt;          &lt;/td&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sajithmr.me/"&gt;&lt;img alt="www.sajithmr.me" src="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/plugins/addtothis/sajithmr.png" style="border: medium none;" title="Powered By Sajithmr.me" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;     &lt;/table&gt;&lt;a class="ow_button_border" href="http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2012/01/stop-the-pro-israel-lobby/#" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="ow_logo" style="background-color: #0095c8; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img class="ow_logo_img" src="https://onlywire.com/images/onlywire_logo_small.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ow_text" style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"&gt;Bookmark &amp;amp; Share&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="shr-publisher-38635 shareaholic-show-on-load" style="height: 78px; margin-left: 0px; overflow: hidden;"&gt;&lt;div class="shr-bookmarks shr-bookmarks-bg-shr" style="background: url(&amp;quot;http://www.intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/images/sharing-caring-hearts.png&amp;quot;) no-repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; height: 100%; margin-left: 10px; overflow: hidden; padding: 26px 0pt 0pt 10px;"&gt;&lt;ul class="shr-socials"&gt;&lt;li class="shr-40 shareaholic" style="margin-left: 0px ! 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However, pound for pound, based on size, its policies, and regional threat, Israel stands out.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daily, its crimes against humanity continue. On January 23, Jerusalem police arrested two Palestinian officials, Khaled Abu Arafeh and Mohammed Totah.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said both men were wanted for unspecified “Hamas activities” with no further comment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas, of course, is Palestine’s legitimate government. Israel and America spuriously call it a terrorist organization. Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri said arresting both men was a “Zionist crime.” Palestine’s parliament hasn’t functioned since Hamas and Fatah split in 2007.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both men were arrested at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Sheikh Jarrah offices. For the past 18 months, they sought refuge there protesting Israel’s illegal deportation orders after their ID cards were revoked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Abu Arafah served as Hamas minister for Jerusalem affairs. Totah’s a Hamas PLC representative. Months earlier, Hamas legislator Mahmoud Atoun was arrested. He also sought ICRC refuge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas parliamentarians are repeatedly targeted. Around two dozen remain imprisoned. Twenty are uncharged under administrative detention. At one time, 40 Hamas PLC members were lawlessly incarcerated for belonging to the wrong party, not any crimes they committed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 19, Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Aziz Dweik was arrested for alleged terrorist connections. Despite a thinly veiled lie, a military court on January 24 ordered him detained uncharged for six months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 20, lawmaker Khaled Tafesh was arrested and detained at Ofer Prison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemned Israel’s actions. It called them “a plan to undermine the results of the (January 2006) Palestinian legislative elections (and) to abort the Palestinian reconciliations efforts.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PCHR also called them Fourth Geneva-prohibited collective punishment. It demanded immediate release of those held, strongly condemned storming ICRC’s office, and said doing so violated international humanitarian law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel falsely claimed ICRC’s office has no diplomatic status, making it fair game for Israeli lawlessness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel’s War on Hamas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 25, Jerusalem Post writer Khaled Abu Toameh headlined, “Israel has declared war on Hamas in West Bank,” saying:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the past few days alone, five Hamas PLC members were arrested. “Early Tuesday, IDF soldiers arrested Abdel Jabbar Fukaha, a Hamas legislator, in Ramallah and confiscated documents, a laptop and mobile phones from his home.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His wife said their son Mujahed was summoned to appear Sunday for interrogation. After serving a four-month sentence, Fukaha was released from Israeli prison in February 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“In a related development, Hamas legislators in Tulkarm said on Tuesday that an Israeli security official phoned them and ordered them to close their office immediately. Fathi Qarawi and Riad Raddad said it was the second threat received in the past month.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s part of an Israeli campaign to destroy Hamas, they believe, adding:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Israel has declared war on Hamas. But we won’t be deterred and we will continue to fulfill our duties.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas leaders believe Israel’s trying to sabotage reconciliation with Fatah and foil planned May parliamentary and presidential elections. It wouldn’t be the first time strong-arm Israeli tactics subverted Palestinian elections and other legitimate activities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri denounced Israeli’s scheme, saying:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Israel thinks that the arrests will destroy Hamas’ chances of winning the elections. On the contrary, these measures will only increase (our) popularity.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He also called on human rights organizations to intervene and pressure Israel to release lawlessly detained “legislators who were elected by the people in a democratic vote.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lawless Home Demolitions, Land Theft and Dispossessions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among other rogue policies, home demolitions and land theft define Israeli repression. On January 23, East Anata’s bedouin compound was bulldozed and destroyed for the fifth time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) calls it “a living symbol of resistance to Occupation and the desire for justice and peace.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICAHD’s Itay Ephshtain said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“People are somber, traumatized and grief stricken. Nearly 100 people are out in the elements now on a cold night. Children, babies, mothers, fathers. Some of us from ICAHD did try to block the bulldozer, but were beaten back by soldiers.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, Epshtain was personally beaten and sustained minor injuries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Called Beit Arabiya, the site was home to Arabiya Shawemreh, her husband Salim and seven children. Their home was previously destroyed four times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each time, ICAHD, Palestinians, and international peace activists rebuilt it. Now it’s again gone. On January 23 around 11PM, a bulldozer accompanied by soldiers arrived. Beit Arabiya as well as other residential and agricultural structures in Arab al-Jahalin Bedouin compound were destroyed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beit Arabiya initially got a demolition order in 1994. At issue was failing to get a building permit on their own land. ICAHD Director Jeff Halper vowed to help Salim and Arabiya rebuild, saying:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We shall rebuild. We must rebuild forthwith as an act of political defiance of the occupation and protracted oppression of Palestinians.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“ICAHD is as determined as always to rebuild the home, and endure in its struggle to bring about justice and peace.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Salim and Arabiya dedicated their home to Rachael Corrie and Nuha Sweidan. Both women, an American and Palestinian, were murdered resisting Gaza home demolitions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Weeks earlier on December 6, The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights called on Israel to cease house demolitions, forced evictions, and residency revocations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICAHD’s publication “No Home, No Homeland” highlights the issue. It estimates about 26,000 Palestinian homes destroyed since June 1967 for “punitive, land clearing/military, and administrative” reasons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Occupied Palestinian land, doing so violates international law. Israel spurns it. As a result, Palestinian suffering continues. Women and children are especially affected. Forced displacement further harms them. ICAHD called 2011 a record year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;World leaders turn a blind eye. Israeli officials are green-lighted to commit crimes with impunity. They take full advantage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama’s “Ironclad” Commitment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his January 24 State of the Union address, Obama highlighted his unwavering support, saying:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Our ironclad commitment to Israel’s security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Among other ways, it’s reflected in billions in military aid and regular increased amounts. In August 2007, Bush increased it by $6 billion over the next decade. Despite budget constraints, Obama added more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In FY 2012 alone, an additional $236 million will help develop three Israeli missile programs: Arrow-2, David’s Sling, and Arrow 3. Israel already gets over $3 billion annually, plus unknown add-ons if requested.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If Americans knew” reports that while Israel gets “at least $8.2 million each day in military aid,” Palestinians get zero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Final Comment&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On January 22, London Guardian writer Harriet Sherwood headlined, “The Palestinian children – alone and bewildered – in Israel’s Al Jalame” Prison, saying:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Young children are physically and verbally abused. It’s nightmarish. Cell 36 and others like it are “where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement for days or even weeks. One 16-year-old” said he’d been isolated for 65 days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cells are “barely wider than the thin, dirty mattress that covers the floor. Behind a low concrete wall is a squat toilet, the stench from which has no escape in the windowless room. The rough concrete walls deter idle leaning; the constant overhead light inhibits sleep.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Low-quality food arrives through door flaps, depriving children of human contact. Brutal interrogations break the monotony. Shackled hands and feet to a chair for hours, they’re questioned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most often, their alleged “crime” is stone-throwing. Most deny doing it. Physical and verbal abuse follow. Many face sleep deprivation exhaustion. “Day after day they are fettered to the chair, then returned to solitary confinement. In the end, many sign confessions” in desperation. Later they say they were coerced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many as 700 Palestinian children are arrested annually. Some are 10 or younger. Mistreatment is extreme. Emotional trauma results.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Nader Abu Amsha, director of Beit Sahour’s YMCA juvenile rehab program:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“(F)amilies think that when (their) child is released, it’s the end of the problem. We tell them (it’s only) the beginning. You see children who are totally broken. It’s painful to see the pain of these children, to see how much they are squeezed by the Israeli system.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s more evidence of rogue Israeli lawlessness. Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti told Maan News that conflict and abuses will continue until Israel ends occupation and withdraws to pre-1967 borders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He believes Palestinian national unity and nonviolent resistance stand the best chance of achieving it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barghouti’s a prisoner of conscience serving five consecutive life sentences plus 40 years for wanting to live free. Free or imprisoned, he symbolizes hope. Supporters hope he’ll be freed one day to lead them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ABOUT THE AUTHOR: &lt;/b&gt;Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his &lt;a href="http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the &lt;a href="http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/" target="_blank"&gt;Progressive Radio News Hour&lt;/a&gt; on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening. He is also the author of “&lt;a href="http://www.claritypress.com/Lendman.html" target="_blank"&gt;How Wall Street Fleeces America&lt;/a&gt;“&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;h2&gt;The Progressive News Hour&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rachael Rudolph &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rudolph is Managing Editor of Encompassing Crescent. 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Buchanan&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;via theburningplatform.com&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;U.S.  Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama’s man in Moscow, who just took up his  post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;In  1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National  Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose mission is  to promote democracy abroad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;The  NDI has been tied to color-coded or Orange revolutions such as those  that dethroned regimes in Serbia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and  Lebanon. The project miscarried in Belarus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;The  NDI is one of several agencies, dating to the 1980s, that were set up  to subvert communist regimes. With the end of the Cold War, however,  these agencies were not decommissioned, but recommissioned to serve as  something of an American Comintern.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Where  the old Comintern of Lenin sought to instigate communist revolutions  across the West and its empires, post-Cold War America decided to  promote democratic revolutions to remake the world in the image of late  20th century America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;In 2002, McFaul wrote a book: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0801488141?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=lewrockwell&amp;amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0801488141"&gt;Russia’s Unfinished Revolution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;"&gt;Vladimir Putin’s men are not unreasonably asking if he was sent to Moscow to finish that revolution. Putin has already accused Hillary Clinton of flashing the signal for street demonstrations to begin – to protest Russia’s December’s elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nor is it surprising the Putin’s people are suspicious of McFaul, who added to his problems by meeting with anti-Putin dissidents the day after he presented his credentials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McFaul says this is part of his “dual-track engagement” with Russian society. Before leaving for Moscow, he told NPR’s “Morning Edition”: “We’re not going to get into the business of dictating (Russia’s) path (to democracy). … We’re just going to support what we like to call ‘universal values’ – not American values, not Western values, universal values.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what, exactly, are these “universal values”?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And who are we to impose them on other nations? Did Divine Providence assign us this mission? Who do we Americans think we are?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all, we do not even agree ourselves on what is moral and immoral, good and evil. Indeed, our own deep disagreements on what is moral and what is not are at the root of the culture wars tearing this country apart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In America, women have a constitutional right to an abortion. Scores of millions have availed themselves of that right since Roe v. Wade. Yet traditionalists of many faiths – Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Orthodox and Jewish – reject any such woman’s right and regard it as a moral abomination.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do homosexuals have a right to cohabit, form civil unions and marry?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a few American states, yes; in others, no. But try to impose those values on nations of the Muslim and Third Worlds, where homosexuality is a moral outrage and even a capital offense, and our ambassadors will find themselves in physical peril.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does McFaul believe democracy is a universally superior system of government? Yet our own founding fathers detested one-man, one-vote democracy. Democracy does not even get a mention in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Federalist Papers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, believed society should be ruled by a “natural aristocracy” of “virtue and talent.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the promotion of democracy is a mission of our diplomats, are we to subvert the monarchies of Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we see how democracy empowered the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis in Egypt, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, does it even make sense to insist that it be embraced by nations where the populations are pervasively anti-American?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the universally right stand on capital punishment – the Rick Perry position in Texas or the Andrew Cuomo position in New York?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the United States, all religions – Santeria, Wicca, Islam, Christianity – are to be treated equally and all kept out of the public square and the pubic schools. In a Muslim world that contains a fifth of mankind, Islam is the one true faith. Rival faiths have few or no rights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are we going to push the Islamic world to treat all religions equally?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We celebrate religious, racial and ethnic diversity. The Chinese, who persecute Uighurs, Tibetans, Christians and Falun Gong, detest that diversity and fear it will tear their country apart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We believe in freedom of speech and the press.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet, in France, if you deny the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians in 1915, you are guilty of a crime, while in Turkey if you affirm that the Turks committed genocide, you have committed a crime. Should U.S. diplomats battle for repeal of both laws? Or mind our own business?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If America wishes to lead the world, let us do it by example, as we once did, not by hectoring every nation on earth to adopt the American way, which as of now, does not seem to be working all that well for Americans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McFaul should stick to his diplomatic duties.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jefferson had it right, “We wish not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country.” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;January 28, 2012&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Patrick J. Buchanan [&lt;a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan-contact.html"&gt;send him mail&lt;/a&gt;] is co-founder and editor of &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amconmag.com/"&gt;The American Conservative&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;. He is also the author of seven books, including &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312341156/lewrockwell/"&gt;Where the Right Went Wrong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Churchill-Hitler-Unnecessary-War-Britain/dp/030740515X/lewrockwell/"&gt;Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;. His latest book is &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312579977/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=lewrockwell&amp;amp;camp=14573&amp;amp;creative=327641&amp;amp;linkCode=as1&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0312579977&amp;amp;adid=199DF4YSJQQ92E36PAEV&amp;amp;"&gt;Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; See &lt;a href="http://buchanan.org/blog/"&gt;his website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-5859692490067192125?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=28372' title='Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/5859692490067192125/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-commissioned-us-to-remake-world.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/5859692490067192125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/5859692490067192125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/who-commissioned-us-to-remake-world.html' title='Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-4547394046347400272</id><published>2012-01-28T10:08:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T10:09:57.460-08:00</updated><title type='text'>US: Why All the Robo-signing?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.opinion-maker.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/call_your_ag.jpg"&gt;opinion-maker.org&lt;img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-18855" height="197" src="http://www.opinion-maker.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/call_your_ag-300x197.jpg" title="call_your_ag" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;b style="color: maroon;"&gt;Shedding Light on the Shadow Banking System&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;By Ellen Brown&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The Wall Street Journal &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203735304577169014293051278.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; on January 19&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;  that the Obama Administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state  attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the  “robo-signing” scandal.&amp;nbsp; The scandal involves employees signing names  not their own, under titles they did not really have, attesting to the  veracity of documents they had not really reviewed.&amp;nbsp; Investigation  reveals that it did not just happen occasionally but was an  industry-wide practice, dating back to the late 1990s; and that it may  have clouded the titles of millions of homes.&amp;nbsp; If the settlement is  agreed to, it will let Wall Street bankers off the hook for crimes that  would land the rest of us in jail – fraud, forgery, securities  violations and tax evasion.&lt;br /&gt;To the President’s credit, however, he seems to have &lt;a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-24/obama-will-create-unit-to-investigate-mortgage-misconduct.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;shifted&lt;/a&gt; his position on the settlement in response to protests before his State of the Union address.&amp;nbsp; In his speech on January 24&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;,  President Obama did not mention the settlement but announced instead  that he would be creating a mortgage crisis unit to investigate  wrongdoing related to real estate lending.&amp;nbsp; “This new unit will hold  accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and  help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many  Americans,”&amp;nbsp;he said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Deeper Question Is Why&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Whether massive robo-signing occurred is no longer in issue.&amp;nbsp; The  question that needs to be investigated is why it was being done.&amp;nbsp; The  alleged justification—that the bankers were so busy that they cut  corners—hardly seems credible given the extent of the practice.&lt;br /&gt;The robo-signing largely involved assignments of mortgage notes to  mortgage servicers or trusts representing the investors who put up the  loan money.&amp;nbsp; Assignment was necessary to give the trusts legal title to  the loans.&amp;nbsp; But assignment was delayed until it was necessary to  foreclose on the homes, when it had to be done through the forgery and  fraud of robo-signing.&amp;nbsp; Why had it been delayed?&amp;nbsp; Why did the banks not  assign the mortgages to the trusts when and as required by law?&lt;br /&gt;Here is a working hypothesis, &lt;a href="http://4closurefraud.org/2010/10/10/mandelman-the-signin-or-pardon-me-mr-banker-but-your-remic-is-showing/http:/4closurefraud.org/2010/10/10/mandelman-the-signin-or-pardon-me-mr-banker-but-your-remic-is-showing/" rel="nofollow"&gt;suggested by&lt;/a&gt;  Martin Andelman: securitized mortgages are the “pawns” used in the pawn  shop known as the “repo market.”&amp;nbsp; “Repos” are overnight sales and  repurchases of collateral. &amp;nbsp;Yale economist Gary Gorton &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/crisisqa0210.pdf" rel="nofollow"&gt;explains&lt;/a&gt;  that repos are the “deposit insurance” for the shadow banking system,  which is now larger than the conventional banking system and is  necessary for the conventional system to operate.&amp;nbsp; The problem is that  repos require “sales,” which means the mortgage notes have to remain  free to be bought and sold.&amp;nbsp; The mortgages are left unendorsed so they  can be used in this repo market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Evolution of the Shadow Banking System&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Gorton observes that there is a massive and growing demand for  banking by large institutional investors – pension funds, mutual funds,  hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds – which have millions of dollars to  park somewhere between investments.&amp;nbsp; But FDIC insurance covers only up  to $250,000.&amp;nbsp; FDIC insurance was resisted in the 1930s by bankers and  government officials and was pushed through as a populist movement: the  people demanded it.&amp;nbsp; What they got was enough insurance to cover the  deposits of individuals and no more.&amp;nbsp; Today, the large institutional  investors want similar coverage.&amp;nbsp; They want an investment that is  secure, that provides them with a little interest, and that is liquid  like a traditional deposit account, allowing quick withdrawal.&lt;br /&gt;The shadow banking system evolved in response to this need, operating  largely through the repo market. “Repos” are sales and repurchases of  highly liquid collateral, typically Treasury debt or mortgage-backed  securities—the securitized units into which American real estate has  been ground up and packaged, sausage-fashion. The collateral is bought  by a “special purpose vehicle” (SPV), which acts as the shadow bank. The  investors put their money in the SPV and keep the securities, which  substitute for FDIC insurance in a traditional bank. (If the SPV fails  to pay up, the investors can foreclose on the securities.) To satisfy  the demand for liquidity, the repos are one-day or short-term deals,  continually rolled over until the money is withdrawn. This money is used  by the banks for other lending, investing or speculating. Gorton &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/crisisqa0210.pdf" rel="nofollow"&gt;writes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;This banking system (the “shadow” or “parallel” banking system)—repo  based on securitization—is a genuine banking system, as large as the  traditional, regulated banking system.&amp;nbsp; It is of critical importance to  the economy because it is the funding basis for the traditional banking  system. Without it, traditional banks will not lend and credit, which is  essential for job creation, will not be created.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;All Behind the Curtain of MERS&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The housing shell game was made possible because it was all concealed  behind an electronic smokescreen called MERS (an acronym for Mortgage  Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.).&amp;nbsp; MERS allowed houses to be  shuffled around among multiple, rapidly changing owners while  circumventing local recording laws.&amp;nbsp; Title would be recorded in the name  of MERS as a place holder for the investors, and MERS would foreclose  on behalf of the investors.&amp;nbsp; Payments would be received by the mortgage  servicer, which was typically the bank that signed the mortgage with the  homeowner.&amp;nbsp; The homeowner usually thinks the servicer is the lender,  but in fact it is an amorphous group of investors.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This all worked until &lt;a href="http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/homeowners.php" rel="nofollow"&gt;courts started questioning&lt;/a&gt;  whether MERS, which admitted that it was a mere conduit without title,  had standing to foreclose. &amp;nbsp;Courts have increasingly held that it does  not.&lt;br /&gt;Making matters worse for the servicing banks, Fannie Mae sent out a  memo telling servicers that in order to be reimbursed under HAMP—a  government loan modification program designed to help at-risk homeowners  meet their mortgage payments—the servicers would have to produce the  paperwork showing the loan had been assigned to the trust.&lt;br /&gt;The hasty solution was a rash of assignments signed by an army of  “robosigners,” to be filed in the public records.&amp;nbsp; But the documents are  patent forgeries, making a shambles of county title records.&lt;br /&gt;Complicating all this are tax issues.&amp;nbsp; Since 1986, mortgage-backed  securities have been issued to investors through SPVs called REMICs  (Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits).&amp;nbsp; REMICs are designed as tax  shelters; but to qualify for that status, they must be “static.”&amp;nbsp;  Mortgages can’t be transferred in and out once the closing date has  occurred.&amp;nbsp; The REMIC Pooling and Servicing Agreement typically states  that any transfer significantly after the closing date is invalid.&amp;nbsp; Yet  the newly robo-signed documents, which are required to begin foreclosure  proceedings, are almost always executed long after the trust’s closing  date.&amp;nbsp; The whole business is quite&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://deadlyclear.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/the-remics-have-failed-the-remics-have-failed/" rel="nofollow"&gt;complicated&lt;/a&gt;,  but the bottom line is that title has been clouded not only by MERS but  because the trusts purporting to foreclose do not own the properties by  the terms of their own documents.&lt;br /&gt;John O’Brien, Register of Deeds for the Southern Essex District of  Massachusetts, calls it a “criminal enterprise.”&amp;nbsp; On January 18&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;, he &lt;a href="http://4closurefraud.org/2012/01/18/john-l-obrien-jr-register-of-deeds-calls-for-criminal-action-against-the-big-banks-says-they-acted-like-criminal-enterprise/" rel="nofollow"&gt;called for a full scale criminal investigation&lt;/a&gt;,  including a grand jury to look into the evidence.&amp;nbsp; He sent to  Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, U.S. Attorney General  Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz over 30,000 documents  recorded in the Salem Registry that he says are fraudulent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;From Lending Machines to Borrowing Machines&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The bankers have engaged in what amounts to a massive fraud, not  necessarily because they started out with criminal intent, but because  they have been required to in order to come up with the collateral (in  this case real estate) to back their loans. &amp;nbsp;It is the way our system is  set up: the banks are not really creating credit and advancing it to  us, counting on our future productivity to pay it off, the way they once  did under the deceptive but functional façade of fractional reserve  lending. &amp;nbsp;Instead, they are vacuuming up our money and lending it back  to us at higher rates. &lt;br /&gt;“Instead of lending into the economy,” says British money reformer  Ann Pettifor, “bankers are borrowing from the real economy.”&amp;nbsp; She &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ann-pettifor/the-broken-global-banking_b_748628.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt; in the Huffington Post in October 2010:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: .5in;"&gt;[T]he crazy facts are these: bankers now  borrow from their customers and from taxpayers. They are effectively  draining funds from household bank accounts, small businesses,  corporations, government Treasuries and from e.g. the Federal Reserve.  They do so by charging high rates of interest and fees; by demanding  early repayment of loans; by illegally foreclosing&amp;nbsp;on homeowners, and by  appropriating, and then speculating with trillions of dollars of  taxpayer-backed resources.&lt;/div&gt;Not only has the system destroyed county title records, but it is  highly vulnerable to bank runs and systemic collapse.&amp;nbsp; In the shadow  banking system, as in the old fractional reserve banking system, the  collateral is being double-counted: it is owed to the borrowers and the  depositors at the same time.&amp;nbsp; This allows for expansion of the money  supply, but bank runs can occur when the borrowers and the depositors  demand their money at the same time.&amp;nbsp; And unlike the conventional  banking system, the shadow banking system is largely unregulated.&amp;nbsp; It  doesn’t have the backup of FDIC insurance to prevent bank runs. &amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;That is what happened in September 2008 following the bankruptcy of  Lehman Brothers, a major investment bank.&amp;nbsp; Gary Gorton explains that &lt;a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/explaining_finreg_shadow_bank.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;it was a run on the shadow banking system&lt;/a&gt;  that caused the credit collapse that followed.&amp;nbsp; Investors rushed to  pull their money out overnight.&amp;nbsp; LIBOR—the London interbank lending rate  for short-term loans—shot up to around 5%.&amp;nbsp; Since the cost of borrowing  the money to cover loans was too high for banks to turn a profit,  lending abruptly came to a halt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fixing the System&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The question is how to eliminate this systemic risk.&amp;nbsp; As noted by &lt;a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/214371-shadow-banking-system-ready-to-blow-again" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Business Insider&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Regulate shadow banking more tightly, and you probably have to also  provide government backstops. Shudder. Try to shut the thing down or  restrict it and you suck credit out of the system, credit which much of  the non-financial “'real” economy uses and needs.&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly, countries with strong public sector banking systems largely escaped the 2008 credit crisis.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://fgv.academia.edu/kurtvonmettenheim/Talks/32644/Observations_on_Banking_in_BRIC_Countries" rel="nofollow"&gt;These include the BRIC countries&lt;/a&gt;—Brazil  Russia, India, and China—which contain 40% of the global population and  are today’s fastest growing economies.&amp;nbsp; They escaped because their  public sector banks do not need to rely on repos and securitizations to  back their loans.&amp;nbsp; The banks are owned and operated by the ultimate  guarantor—the government itself.&amp;nbsp; The public sector banking model  deserves further study.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever the solution, a system that requires the slicing and dicing  of mortgages behind an electronic smokescreen so they can be bought and  sold as collateral for the pawn shop of the repo market is obviously  fraught with perils and is unsustainable.&amp;nbsp; Please contact your state  attorney general and urge him or her not to go through with the  robo-signing settlement, which will be granting immunity for crimes that  are not yet fully known.&amp;nbsp; Phone numbers are &lt;a href="http://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/stateattorneygenerallist.php" rel="nofollow"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The surface of this great shadowy second banking system has barely been scratched.&amp;nbsp; It needs a very thorough investigation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wpfblike" style="height: 30px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="ratingblock "&gt;&lt;div class="ratingtext "&gt;&lt;div id="gdr_text_a18851"&gt;Rating: 5.5/&lt;b&gt;10&lt;/b&gt; (2 votes cast)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-4547394046347400272?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.opinion-maker.org/2012/01/us-why-all-the-robo-signing/' title='US: Why All the Robo-signing?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/4547394046347400272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-why-all-robo-signing.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/4547394046347400272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/4547394046347400272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-why-all-robo-signing.html' title='US: Why All the Robo-signing?'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-882947361983118308</id><published>2012-01-28T09:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T10:01:29.877-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ten Red Lines Washington's Totalitarian Terrorist State Has Crossed</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt;by &lt;span class="fn"&gt;Saman Mohammadi via disquietreservations.blogspot.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;The government in Washington is a &lt;a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2011/07/10-reasons-why-america-is-failed.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;failed terrorist state&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.   It can no longer manage American public opinion, its violations of   international law are resented by many nations, and it has failed to   psychologically dominate the world by unleashing terror at home and   abroad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To put it simply, nations are not afraid of America   because it has military strength combined with political vision, rather,   they are afraid because America's leaders are insane and   self-destructive. In other words, they are afraid of a failed terrorist   state, not a global superpower.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta likes to speak about &lt;a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-respond-iran-blocks-strait-panetta-151235350.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"red lines."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   An example he gives is Iran closing the Straits of Hormuz. That's a  red  line in the eyes of the managers of Washington's failed terrorist   state. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In an alternative universe, one in which  America was not the  global bully, red lines in relation with foreign  enemies would be  reasonable and necessary. Red lines are needed in  international  relations. They establish boundaries and help  antagonistic nations to  keep the peace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In history, aggressive  nations led by despots and  thugs have not recognized red lines, whether  political or moral,  artificial or natural. Nazi Germany crossed many  red lines before it was  finally pushed back and defeated. Israel has  crossed one red line after  another vis-à-vis the Palestinians and the  Arabs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel's  failed terrorist state crossed the ultimate red  line along with  Washington's failed terrorist state on September 11,  2001. By murdering  three thousand Americans in an act of cold blood,  both terrorist states  erased all red lines and proceeded to spread  terror and tyranny across  the Middle East and the West.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below, I list ten red lines  that Washington's failed totalitarian terrorist state has crossed  vis-à-vis the American people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;   Killing three thousand American citizens on September 11, 2001 in one  of the  biggest acts of state terror and mass murder by any state in the  history  of mankind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;   Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy,   and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr by the shadow CIA,   shadow FBI, and other tentacles of the illegitimate National Security   State.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt; Political   parties stealing elections and mainstream media outlets engaging in   election fraud by using perception management techniques to dismiss the   popularity of anti-Establishment candidates like Ron Paul.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4.&lt;/span&gt;   Destruction of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights by the NWO   traitors, who are full of hate and venom towards the American people    and the human race.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5.&lt;/span&gt;   Destruction of the U.S. economy by the private Federal Reserve System,    multinational corporations, and government regulations designed by NWO   traitors. The  Federal Reserve's financial crimes and cover-ups from   1913 to 2012 reveals a legacy  of fraud, deception, and high treason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;6.&lt;/span&gt; The cover-up of Barack Obama's CIA background by U.S. government authorities and the establishment media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;7.&lt;/span&gt;   The CIA shipping in drugs from Latin America and Afghanistan into   America, and creating in the process a drug economy, a parapolitical   structure in Washington, a prison-industrial complex, and many other   evils.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;8.&lt;/span&gt; Making   indefinite detention of American citizens legal in the 2012 NDAA Act   without giving any justification or explanation other than pointing to   the invented boogeyman "Al-Qaeda" as the impetus for the law.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9.&lt;/span&gt;   Turning North America into a military battlefield and threatening to   use brute force against dissidents and activists who have been branded   as "domestic terrorists" and "anti-government extremists."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;10.&lt;/span&gt;   Waging war against the rights, security, and happiness of the American   people, as well as the people of many other nations, including Canada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Washington's   failed totalitarian terrorist state has crossed many other red lines.  It does  not recognize basic human morality, human rights, or  international law. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.23);"&gt;As  a result of its arrogance and decadence, it shares the fate of all  naked emperors in the history of  civilization, which is political death  and collapse.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer"&gt;&lt;div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"&gt;&lt;span class="post-author vcard"&gt; Posted by &lt;span class="fn"&gt;Saman Mohammadi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-timestamp"&gt; at &lt;a class="timestamp-link" href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/01/ten-red-lines-washingtons-totalitarian.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"&gt;&lt;abbr class="published" title="2012-01-27T21:11:00-05:00"&gt;9:11 PM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/abbr&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="post-icons"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="comments" id="comments"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2146736968904133647&amp;amp;postID=882947361983118308" name="comments"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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SOPA and PIPA have been stopped (at least  for now) in the United States, but a treaty known as ACTA (the  Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is far worse than either of them.&amp;nbsp;  ACTA was quietly signed by Barack Obama back on October 1st, 2011 and  most Americans have never even heard of it.&amp;nbsp; But it could mean the end  of the Internet as we know it.&amp;nbsp; This new treaty gives foreign  governments and copyright owners incredibly broad powers.&amp;nbsp; If you are  alleged to have violated a copyright, your website can be shut down  without a trial and police may even show up at your door to take you to  prison.&amp;nbsp; It doesn't even have to be someone in the United States that is  accusing you.&amp;nbsp; It could just be a foreign government or a copyright  owner halfway across the world that alleges that you have violated a  copyright.&amp;nbsp; It doesn't matter.&amp;nbsp; So far, the U.S., the EU and seven other  nations have signed on to ACTA, and the number of participants is  expected to continue to grow.&amp;nbsp; The "powers that be" are obsessed with  getting Internet censorship one way or another.&amp;nbsp; The open and free  Internet that you and I have been enjoying for all these years is about  to change, and not for the better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how come the U.S. Senate never voted on ACTA?&amp;nbsp; Doesn't the U.S.  Constitution mandate that all treaties must be approved by a two-thirds  vote in the Senate?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course it does.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Barack Obama has gotten around this by calling ACTA an "executive agreement", which is a load of crap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, this is the kind of nonsense we are getting out of  Obama on a regular basis now.&amp;nbsp; He has shown endless disdain for the U.S.  Constitution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some members of Congress are expressing deep alarm over ACTA.&amp;nbsp; For example, U.S. Representative Darrell Issa is calling ACTA "&lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/27/acta-moves-forward-in-europe-despite-protests-what-it-means-for-our-freedom-online/" target="_blank" title="more dangerous than SOPA"&gt;more dangerous than SOPA&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are some members of Congress that are even demanding that ACTA  be submitted to the U.S. Senate for a vote.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately, their voices  are very few so far, and ACTA is getting next to no coverage in the  mainstream media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this new treaty is very, very serious.&amp;nbsp; It basically mandates  that all Internet communications be constantly monitored for copyright  infringement.&amp;nbsp; Sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter will have to  monitor accounts for copyright infringement 24 hours a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are alleged to have committed a violation, you might not just lose your social media account or your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You could potentially be sent to prison.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-bodycopy clearfix"&gt;What we are talking about is Chinese-style Internet censorship for the entire globe.&lt;br /&gt;The following comes from &lt;a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/27/acta-moves-forward-in-europe-despite-protests-what-it-means-for-our-freedom-online/" target="_blank" title="a recent Forbes article"&gt;a recent Forbes article&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Why does ACTA matter to the media and citizens?” &lt;a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/11/sopa-protectip.html#acta" target="_blank" title="writes Alex Howard"&gt;writes Alex Howard&lt;/a&gt;.  “Consider the phrase “intermediary liability.” That’s the principle  that websites on the Internet, like YouTube, Internet service providers,  web hosting companies or social networks, should not be held liable for  the content created or uploaded by their users.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The new rules proposed in ACTA essentially transform Western ISPs  into something more along the lines of ISPs in China and other more  restrictive nations.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;One of the worst elements of ACTA is that it would allow accusers of  copyright infringement to completely and totally bypass judicial review.&lt;br /&gt;If you don't think that ACTA will change the Internet, just check out the following excerpt from a recent article &lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/obama-signs-global-internet-treaty-worse-than-sopa/" target="_blank" title="by Paul Joseph Watson"&gt;by Paul Joseph Watson&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will  be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from  the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove  content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a  precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its  potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Big sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter may just decide that it  is too much of a hassle to monitor millions of pieces of content.&amp;nbsp;  Allowing users to constantly post content on their sites would be a huge  risk.&amp;nbsp; In fact, if they are found to be allowing "copyright  infringement", those sites could be permanently shut down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The American people need to get educated about this new treaty before  it is too late.&amp;nbsp; There is still a chance that we could get the U.S.  Congress to take action against this new treaty.&lt;br /&gt;Under ACTA, Internet service providers will essentially be required  to become the police of the Internet.&amp;nbsp; This was explained in a recent  article &lt;a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/11/10/acta-will-force-your.html" target="_blank" title="by Cory Doctorow"&gt;by Cory Doctorow&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;New revelations on ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting  Trade Agreement (ACTA), a secretive global copyright being privately  negotiated by rich countries away from the UN: ACTA will require ISPs to  police trademarks the way they currently police copyright. That means  that if someone accuses you of violating a trademark with a web-page,  blog-post, video, tweet, etc, your ISP will be required to nuke your  material without any further proof, or be found to be responsible for  any trademark violations along with you. And of course, trademark  violations are much harder to verify than copyright violations, since  they often hinge on complex, fact-intensive components like tarnishment,  dilution and genericization. Meaning that ISPs are that much more  likely to simply take all complaints at face-value, leading to even more  easy censorship of the Internet with nothing more than a trumped-up  trademark claim.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;One of the big problems with ACTA is that it is way too broad and way too vague.&lt;br /&gt;Vague language allows authorities to "interpret" the law any way that they see fit.&lt;br /&gt;This can often lead to selective enforcement.&amp;nbsp; Websites that  authorities like will be left alone, while those that they don't like  will be harassed or completely shut down.&lt;br /&gt;ACTA was written in secret and it has been pushed through very, very quietly.&amp;nbsp; The following comes from &lt;a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/26/meet-sopas-evil-twin-acta/" target="_blank" title="a recent CNN article"&gt;a recent CNN article&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Like many trade agreements, ACTA is a confusing mess.  Even its signatories don't agree on how it's supposed to work. The way  it's been pushed forward has also been unruly -- talks have been held in  secret, without any kind of legislative oversight or input from  citizens or public-interest groups. The public only became aware of it  in 2008, a couple of years after discussions began, when Wikileaks  published a discussion paper. Since then, drafts of the pact have been  released to the public, each successively less onerous to critics.  Reportedly, though, big media and pharmaceutical lobbyists have been  privy to the talks all along&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Of course - this is a chance for big media and big corporations to take control of the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;The way ACTA has been pushed on us has been absolutely disgusting.&amp;nbsp;  In fact, one key EU official that was in charge of investigating ACTA  has resigned in protest over how this whole thing has gone down.&amp;nbsp; He  says that ACTA is basically being &lt;a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120126/11014317553/european-parliament-official-charge-acta-quits-denounces-masquerade-behind-acta.shtml" target="_blank" title="crammed down the throats"&gt;crammed down the throats&lt;/a&gt; of the European people....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;I want to denounce in the strongest possible manner  the entire process that led to the signature of this agreement: no  inclusion of civil society organisations, a lack of transparency from  the start of the negotiations, repeated postponing of the signature of  the text without an explanation being ever given, exclusion of the EU  Parliament’s demands that were expressed on several occasions in our  assembly.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;As rapporteur of this text, I have faced never-before-seen  manoeuvres from the right wing of this Parliament to impose a rushed  calendar before public opinion could be alerted, thus depriving the  Parliament of its right to expression and of the tools at its disposal  to convey citizens’ legitimate demands.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Everyone knows the ACTA agreement is problematic, whether it is  its impact on civil liberties, the way it makes Internet access  providers liable, its consequences on generic drugs manufacturing, or  how little protection it gives to our geographical indications.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This agreement might have major consequences on citizens’ lives,  and still, everything is being done to prevent the European Parliament  from having its say in this matter. That is why today, as I release this  report for which I was in charge, I want to send a strong signal and  alert the public opinion about this unacceptable situation. I will not  take part in this masquerade.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;For much more on ACTA, please watch the remarkable video &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Xg_C2YmG0&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded#%21" target="_blank" title="posted below"&gt;posted below&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It does a great job of explaining exactly what ACTA is and why we need to be so concerned about it....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world is changing and the Internet is changing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don't speak up now, the Internet as we know it today may soon be gone for good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;amp;x=0&amp;amp;tag=theeconomiccollapse-20&amp;amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;amp;y=0&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;field-keywords=big%20brother%20&amp;amp;url=search-alias%3Daps#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=aps" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-1986" height="396" src="http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/The-Future-Of-The-Internet-460x396.jpg" title="The Future Of The Internet" width="460" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="sociable"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="sociable-tagline"&gt;Help Make A Difference By Sharing These Articles On Facebook, Twitter And Elsewhere:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-6411432268497288914?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/acta-global-internet-censorship-now-even-foreign-governments-will-be-able-to-have-your-website-shut-down' title='Shut Down  Global Internet censorship is here.'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/6411432268497288914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/shut-down-global-internet-censorship-is.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/6411432268497288914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/6411432268497288914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/shut-down-global-internet-censorship-is.html' title='Shut Down  Global Internet censorship is here.'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-7677984747755355601</id><published>2012-01-28T08:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T08:28:19.598-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?</title><content type='html'>GO TO SOURCE/TITLE FOR LINKS AND PHOTOS &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fukushima may in fact have been caused by an act of war under the cover of an environmental disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I permit and encourage entire site mirrors of all my articles. Copy them and run them as your own; my topics are huge and often need distributed protection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Easy read version&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Japanese version&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took them three hundred years and trillions of dollars to build a theatre of darkness, yet the light of only one match can burn it down. Do not let this light go out. Archive and POST!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist, Updated Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a massive report. If you have troubles understanding it, just look at THIS picture of the vanished reactor, THIS picture of the destroyed facility and THIS picture, of Magna BSP's camera. Then scroll down to the photos of the NON EXISTENT quake damage and seismic charts which prove there was no 9.0 and therefore the very real tsunami could not have been natural. The fact that what happened in Japan did not occur naturally has been very well documented by a skilled investigator, who spent hundreds of hours getting to the bottom of this story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NEW INFO: Japan offered to enrich uranium for IRAN!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HERE ARE THE LINKS: Ynet news... Inside Japan News Network...The New American...Rianovosti news...Hindustan Times...Zee News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND FOUR MONTHS LATER, THE DIMONA DOZEN SHOWED UP WITH A REALLY FANCY CAMERA!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This report uses classified leaked high resolution photos of the destruction of Fukushima originally posted on Pink Tentacle to support its claims.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Reactor 3 is completely missing, which means the press and anyone who has claimed anything about pressures, temperatures, containment, ect about reactor 3 after March 14 are lying and people need to pay attention to it, because failure of the public to realize the massive extent of the lies about what is going on there will leave the door open to a repeat event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Reactor 4 is Building 7, demolished by explosives. Reactor 4 had been defueled and was undergoing replacement of it's internal stainless steel shroud, yet blew it's containment anyway. That is the FINAL smoking gun, an empty reactor is inert, and cannot produce an explosion, yet one happened at 4 that was so powerful it destroyed the structure leaving it in danger of falling over. Overheated open fuel pools cannot produce hydrogen because in an open fuel pool the water boils off at 100 Celsius, and won't be present in pressurized form at 2,000 degrees Celsius to liberate it's hydrogen by losing it's oxygen to the zircon cladding in the fuel rods. The rods will prefer the free oxygen in the air and burn long before attempting to claim the oxygen in whatever humidity there might be. Because fuel rods only contain 20 percent fissionable material, they also cannot produce the "prompt criticality" "The most qualified nuclear engineer in the world" Arnie Gundersen has spoken of. I got to the bottom of the Arnie Gunderson story, and added the results of that investigation further down the page. He has been put on a pedastal and pumped up enormously by a press that wants a misleading story, all the while he is a despised outcast of the greater engineering community. The explosion at #4 was flatly impossible absent the use of an explosive device, and as a result the disaster at Fukushima is FAR FAR WORSE than ANYTHING Gundersen is willing to say. Gundersen is towing the line and hiding the true magnitude of what happened there because if it became widely known serious questions would be asked. When have you heard Gundersen talk about a totally missing reactor?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Reactor 4's dome was removed for defueling. Drone photos prove it. This dispels the rumors surrounding unit 4's explosion. Some people have said that this reactor was secretly in operation to enrich plutonium. This photo proves it was disassembled for shroud replacement as stated. Tepco is going out of it's way trying to explain the explosions, especially at reactor 4, because they did indeed occur, so an explanation is needed. As a result, they are giving reasons that cannot happen, just to say something. They need to see this post and get the Arava perspective(Arava is a district surrounding Dimona).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. That the destruction of the facility is so severe it could only have been accomplished with nuclear weapons. Hydrogen produces a non-ideal subsonic explosion. It cannot turn concrete into dust. It can produce high pressures if sealed off, but the metal roof on all the reactor containments should have provided the relief and been the only thing destroyed. It takes a high intensity explosive to strip concrete off rebar, a blast wave many times faster than supersonic. This means that whatever happened at Fukushima did not have blast characteristics that fit the "official" story. If you missed it in the high resolution photo of the destroyed facility, I took a car that was laying around in the remains and placed it on top of one of the blown away walls at reactor 3, which clearly gives the reference that the walls had support columns at least 15 feet thick. Fukushima was built with the Mark 1 containment design, but beyond Mark 1 standards which was a common upgrade(reference is the included photos, it is obvious). It is true that gas explosions can be very destructive, but only in facilities that were not designed to handle them. Even the basic mark 1 containment was many times beyond capable of withstanding the worst hydrogen blast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. That nuclear weapon(s) were placed inside of the reactor containment(s) disguised as security cameras installed under contract this year by Arava based security firm Magna BSP (Arava is a district around Dimona, not a city.) Their "security cameras" weighed over 1,000 pounds and were the size and shape of gun type nuclear weapons.The reason Magna BSP gave for the odd shape, enormous weight, and giant proportions of their cameras was that they were stereoscopic. They have creatively called them bi-scopic so when you search on google their monstrous cameras are the only thing that comes up (outside of Dj lighting and a gun scope) Try it. Type "Biscopic camera" into google images,(without the quotes) it's a hoot! This helps marketing I guess. The need for such a large stereoscopic camera could be plausible at an airstrip, where the camera would need depth perception out miles, but not indoors where focal lengths are short. Other manufacturers have units appropriate for indoor focal lengths which are only twice the size of ordinary monocular security cameras. Depth perception going out miles could also be accomplished with two separately mounted cameras weighing only a few pounds; the giant thousand pounder is a dead giveaway. Magna does make passive radar systems which require a large body, but the owl could accomplish it's claimed function with two small lightweight cameras (5 or so lbs, not tiny) and the processor in a modern laptop. Why this giant thing? note - a not yet produced graphical model is what you see most on Google, the ones produced thus far are ugly boxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;. . . . . . . . . .9/11, 4/11, 3/11? see a pattern? Let's not see a 6/11. Your time and effort in spreading the word may really make a difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Due to the many positive e-mails about getting the truth out, rather than hold back I am going to put the original information back. It follows below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The quake was not what we were told.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, the quake was a bold faced lie, packing a political agenda. There is even more proof now, and it goes beyond the linked Japanese chart. This original seismic data is the smoking gun, however, I have something better. I finally suppressed the urge to vomit and analyzed the lies told by the USGS, and from them wrote this sad, sad story about how it really was, not what you will see in the video. Keep in mind that precise top speeds of flying debris cannot be determined with accuracy, but this story will at least be close to the numbers put out by the USGS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The people in the newsroom did not die, this story is what would have happened if the USGS charts were true.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meet Atsuo, Airi, and Akiyoshi. They were all the best and most dedicated people at the NHK newsroom, in Sendai Japan. Akiyoshi loved Airi, and Atsuo was the one who introduced them. Unfortunately, all 3 died in the quake. Akiyoshi got a severe cut and bled to death when he hit a display screen behind him at 44 miles an hour, and was then thrown out through a hole in a collapsed wall. Airi followed pretty much the same path, and died beside him in the rubble. Atsuo flew through the open door behind him, then crashed through a window and was crushed when he landed in a massive seismic crack in the road, which closed in on him. Others in the newsroom died also, but I never thought up names for them. At least, according to the official USGS charts. The laser printer was never found, but the table it was on ended up on top of the rubble, smashed to pieces, where one of the few survivors used a piece of the metal frame to splint his broken leg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The video below is the one I pulled the frames out of for the sad, sad story. It is a video of a newsroom at the hardest hit area in Japan, and it SAYS IT ALL. This is when the quake was happening live. They are alarmed there is an earthquake, but most people stay seated in their chairs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some people even keep typing on their computers as the quake happens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, note that most of the stuff stays on the desks, at the end, a laser printer is still sitting on a cheap table, ect. some things fall but things return to normal quickly, all the while the English announcer is reading a script of devastation with all the pep of some paid fool who does not believe what he is saying in a cheezy infomercial. The quake was significant, but only in a 6.0 sense, as recorded by the seismographs. This is important footage, because it proves the earthquake measured at a 6.8 was an instrumentation based richter reading. Confusion between the Shindo and Richter scale is being used to cover this up . I chose this video because it's location is documented to have been the worst affected, and was recorded in a news room with a known fixed location.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This video gets deleted off youtube occasionally, if it does not work check back later and I might have re-linked it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember that this video is proof of what really went on. This means there never were significant aftershocks, never was a natural tsunami, and if they lied about that, what else? This video is pivotal and vital to exposing the truth. Sure there was a quake, but at this newsroom it was not much over a six if it even was a six. I chose this video because the news room is within eyeshot of station MYG012, which was used by the USGS to make these graphs which represent an 8.8, as was stated in this (English) newscast and was probably used as a guide to fudge the lie due to the closeness of the newsroom to the seismic station. Looking at these charts, it is super easy to get a rough guess at how fast people would have flown. 44MPH to the North, and 28MPH to the East. Those are not precise numbers but the charts are proven wrong by the video because according to the charts people should have entered uncontrolled flight. Here is the full chart put out by the USGS Of course, they offer no reading from MYG011, which was closest to the 9.0 "epicenter" by a long shot, because it only got a 5.63's worth of shaking. I will do that work for them. That map is below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I challenge ANYONE to send me pictures of this quake showing me devastation in an area not hit by the tsunami. All we have, all the pictures are tsunami damage. Let's see pictures of quake damage. The Kobe quake was a 6.9/7.2 depending on source. That makes this quake, at a 9.0 100X as powerful. Sendai was near the epicenter and would have been devastated if it really happened. Look at the earthquake photos of damage from the Kobe quake, and try to find ONE THING SIMILAR in SENDAI. Just try. They do not exist. Outside of the tsunami, the quake which supposedly hit Sendai with many times the power of the one in Kobe, did not destroy a single building there. Sendai was only 48 miles from the epicenter of this "9.0" which would have devastated everything in an area 1,000 miles across if it was real. All of Japan would be toast. Try to find a photo of seismic damage in Sendai. I challenge you. Try to find it in any of the coastal cities, as little as 25 miles from the "epicenter". I looked for 5 hours, and except for some tanks that fell at a brewery not a single one exists. No pictures of collapsed skyscrapers or high rises equals NO 9.0. You will not find a single skyscraper photo where the windows got broken either. You will find no downed power poles, no flipped over cars, no uprooted trees, no derailed trains (except for one the tsunami hit), and the road damage is typical of even a 5.0. You will not find pictures of a single damaged multi story building or even a structurally damaged wood framed house outside the tsunami zone. In Sendai the quake messed up grocery stores and kitchens and that really is about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now, I will say it like I knew it had to be.&lt;br /&gt;I believe the phony 9.0 story was used as seismic cover for a tsunami nuke, which produced the tsunami of a 9.0 when detonated in the Japan trench (where no earthquakes of significance happen) as punishment for Japan offering to enrich uranium for Iran. The rest of the story, the concealment, is black ops. Bet on it. In the tsunami videos, the tsunami rips through pristine and undamaged cities, where business as usual is obvious and the tsunami is an ambush; not 9.0 earthquake ravaged debris. The quake is a paper thin story taped together by the undeserved trust of a gullible public. And the stories? The CIA did not hire a million people last year for nothing. If there is evidence of a 9.0 SHOW ME. A 9.0 will devastate an area over 1,000 miles across. That is how big a 9.0 is. The entire nation should be in ruins, especially judging from the damage the 6.9 Kobe quake did, and no where, no where outside the tsunami zone in the entire country is there a single damaged multi story building, a single collapsed bridge, a single structurally damaged wood framed house, or skyscraper. If a picture exists that can be definitively pinned to this quake, show me. The only collapsed structure in all of Japan was an old welfare shelter near station MYG004, the true epicenter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a look at these frame captures, and ask a question - Why is no one trying to run? Why are the cars all just parked peacefully as the tsunami arrived? Why was there no warning? Why did the tsunami sirens only go off after the tsunami arrived? Could it be that the people and the governement had not felt a significant earthquake and did not measure one either?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Question: Why are none of the roads packed with people trying to flee the approaching tsunami?&lt;br /&gt;Could it be that the people and government were not expecting one? Tsunami sirens blare only when it arrives, rather than 40 minutes before, which is how much warning they would have had if a real quake in the ocean had been detected. Consider that. Parking lots full of cars, everyone at work, no one trying to leave. AMBUSH!!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When people keep typing at their keyboards during the quake, it's obviously not what we were told.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RUSH UPDATE, May 28&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When reviewing the seismic data for the supposed 9.0, I knew there were instead 3 small simultaneous inland epicenters. This made me suspicious right from the start that the quake was artificially triggered and used as seismic cover for a tsunami bomb. But I needed a reason to believe an artificial quake could have been done. I suspected that either Japan was testing nukes and Israeli intelligence was onto it and used the tests as the "start of clock" for their operation, or Israel managed to smuggle nukes into lava tubes and tunnels far underground to trigger earthquakes and contain the blasts. So I was hunting for tunnels and lava tubes near each of the three epicenters, and wanted to find them before writing this into this report. As it turns out, I did not need to. This military briefing with Secretary of Defense William Cohen, dated all the way back to 1997! shows that even then, Cohen knew about EM weaponry that could trigger quakes and set off volcanoes. I have ignored everything regarding this subject, I thought it was the realm of kooks. I thought EM weaponry would be effective in weather modification only, but I am not going to argue with the Secretary of Defense. There are obviously then, energy technologies which have never been publicized, such weaponry would need far more energy input than the electrical grid could provide. And the systems Cohen spoke of in 1997 would be outdated now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cohen stated: "Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important. - William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense, April 28, 1997. Left unsaid by William Cohen is that such systems would be developed by DARPA and owned by America first!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would expect with 14 years of advancement that these technologies could now trigger devastating earthquakes in non-seismic zones. Bejamin Fulford, an experienced Journalist with a long history and a paid access site, is predicting that the floods along the Mississippi are in fact caused by Haarp, which will then be followed by a manmade earthquake along the New Madrid fault, and then a subsequent attack at 15 reactors in the nation's agricultural heartland. If this is so, it will make Fukushima look like a cake walk. I myself have verified that the Siemens SCADA system Stuxnet targets has been used to replace the old control systems at a majority of American nuclear facilities. It is therefore important for people to SPREAD THE WORD. They have already started with the flooding, which is phase 1. Phase 2 will be the earthquake, destroying levees and totally unleashing the raging Mississippi. Phase 3 will be a virus attack at nuclear facilities. THE ELITE ARE COWARDS. IF THE WORD IS SPREAD SUFFICIENTLY, THEY WILL NOT DARE TO PROCEED TO PHASE 2 AND 3, Mold grows best in the dark.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following picture is the strongest reading for this quake on any seismogram anywhere in Japan. This was before the lie machine got running smoothly. Early on there were a few sputters and this REAL chart got out. As you can see on this chart, it was a 6.67 on the Richter scale, (not shindo scale, confirmed by PGA reference) This would fit in with NO structural damage in Sendai and the level of shaking in the video&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This quake was initially asessed a 6.8, and the seismic data will show anyone the epicenter was inland, not at sea. So it started a 6.8, then got upgraded to a 7.9, then got upgraded to an 8.4, then got upgraded to an 8.8, then got upgraded to a 9.0, and had the epicenter put out in the ocean. Now many are saying it was a 9.1 which would bump up MYG011's number to 1200 from 1070, and it is all based on tsunami effects, not seismic data.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following seismograms clearly show epicenters from 3 separate small quakes all occuring simultaneously. This is what would be expected of an attack, rather than a natural occurence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One problem with people grasping how big a 9.0 is, is exponential charts which will hide how much energy is really being released behind confusing gradient marking. To answer the need for clarity, I got out the calculator and produced a chart that shows you how big a 9.0 earthquake is on a linear scale. Make sure you expand and scroll it, it is 5,000 pixels tall. Due to its large verticle height it opens on the left side of the screen and is almost invisible until you expand it. Confusion over how GIANT a 9.0 really is has helped the elite scammers enormously in their lie. There is simply no way much of anything will remain standing, yet as the tsunami rolls in . . . . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now, I will bite. This is what I did not want to publish, but I know it has to be true. Call this creative journalism, because I never called Netanyahu, but here is the most rational conclusion I can draw, based on all info gathered so far including the original not faked seismic data.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I honestly believe Japan is being held a nuclear hostage. It all makes sense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Japan offers to enrich uranium for Israel's GREAT SATAN, Iran&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Immediately, Israel sets up front companies masquerading as security companies, and one of them succeeds in getting a security contract at a Japanese nuclear facility. 4 months later the Dimona Dozen shows up, and under the cover of a security contract gets unlimited access to the heart of Fukushima. They plant the virus, install real cameras outside the facility, and functional poorly disguised nuke cameras inside the facility. In addition to this, they install an unauthorized data connection to allow control of all the guts of the facility via the virus. (they admitted to this connection, as discussed later on this page)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. After installing Stuxnet and the nukes they scram&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Israel waits for one of the many natural quakes in Japan to provide cover for a tsunami bomb, and they already have it at the bottom of the Japan trench. VLF communications are established with the bomb to penetrate the water. David in Dimona gets seismic reading from Japan. 6.67 in progress, BOOM. (new evidence shows the quake most likely was not natural)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tsunami comes in, swamps stuxnet infected power plant, direct video feed from legitimate cameras security company installed gets to David via totally unauthorized channel, and David knows just when to cut the generators off. Others on the team do all they can to counteract measures taken by the employees at fukushima, who are unaware an attack is taking place and do not understand why everything is going crazy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Israeli Prime Minister calls Japan, and says TAKE THAT for offering help to Iran, and ya know, there are FIVE MORE NUKES in the ocean off the coast of Japan, and we are going to set those off and destroy your coastal cities if you do not forget that 6.67, and say it was a 9 to cover for tsunami effects. AND NOW we are going to make your people DEMAND you move away from nuclear power so you can NEVER threaten us like that again. We are BLOWING UP FUKUSHIMA DIIACHI and you are going to go along with whatever story we tell you to. SO THERE!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. David and his pals close ALL valves to the reactors via the remote data link they admitted to installing, and put them full throttle, to melt them down while the virus keeps control room readouts displaying false info, like nothing is going on even though the place is coming apart. After enough mayhem ensues to provide plausibility, they set off planted nukes and blow the place sky high.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And even if the quake was real, there are nukes that can reach an 8.4. Close enough. Though I have yet to work out the final details, I probably have enough to hang them because:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I got the real seismic data that proves beyond a doubt the quake is not what we were told and was in fact an inland 6.8, (calculated higher than the seismogram due to the triangulated true epicenter being a little higher) which would get noticed but not feared in quake ridden Japan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Numerous referenced sources prove Stuxnet really was written by Israel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Japan really did offer to enrich Uranium for Iran, and Israel has been documented to have attempted to destroy the reactor in Iran, and probably did. Japan contributing to Iran's nuclear future would make them just as much an enemy to Israel as Iran. Israel would want them taken out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. It is documented that a team from Israel, with a history consisting only of working in Israeli defense, got unlimited access to a Japanese nuclear facility, which then went boom&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Reactor 4 had been defueled and proven disassembled, and therefore no explosion there was possible. What should have happened at reactor 4, if anything at all? the fuel pools should have melted down and caught fire once the water boiled off from lack of recirculation AT Worst, and badly contaminated the containment structure, NOTHING ELSE. NO explosions, NOTHING ELSE. Reactor 4 is building 7, PERIOD. Why did an explosion there happen that was so severe it blew the outer containment walls (4 feet thick) and inner containment walls that were much thicker? Reactor 4 is reportedly now in danger of falling over. HOW?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. The Japanese government is going along with the story of a scientifically proven false 9.0. There is a reason, and my guess is that Israel has made threats to wipe out Japanese coastal cities with additional tsunamis if the government of Japan speaks a word of what went on, there should be no reason for Japan to go along with this other than a continued threat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is it not interesting this "quake" reportedly happened at the bottom of the Japan trench, which would be perfect for hiding an atomic bomb blast?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is the Department of Homeland Security trying to keep American industries (and nuclear facilities) in the dark about Stuxnet? After Fukushima fell victim to unwary operators, I would think such a conference would be a TOP priority here! The genie is out of the bottle. It is a fact that the writers of Stuxnet intend to use it. So cancelling a well researched conference about the vulnerabilities of the Siemens SCADA system to Stuxnet in the name of "keeping hackers from getting info" seems to me like an effort to keep the threat alive. Ignore the fluff at the beginning, and read the "About TakeDownCon" summary near the bottom so you know what they actually cancelled rather than settle for the no-panic fluff at the beginning. This is SERIOUS. I fear that by the time the Hacker Halted conference happens in October, the summer of disaster may have passed. And if it has not, I bet any discussion of Stuxnet at Hacker Halted will also be cancelled. Stuxnet is too good a toy for a very powerful group to let go of. Something is fishy here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other publications picked up this story now, and are poo pooing the issue into the ground. They are obviously attempting to morph responsibility for Stuxnet style attacks away from Israel so that they can regain cover and use the weapon as a false flag tool to destroy internet freedom. This is where they are going to go with this - count on it, and when the disasters happen there will be a cozy blanket of lies shielding Israel from all blame. Never forget, THIS IS THEIR BABY, NEVER FORGET. Prior to them doing this, WE NEVER HEARD OF IT.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About "prompt criticality" - As it turns out, Arnie Gundersen, mister "prompt criticality" with regard to the massive explosion at #3 is very poorly credentialed. His crowning achievement was playing with a 100 watt open water tank reactor in a classroom for a short period of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuel rods are only 20 percent fissionable, sometimes even less, and until you reach over 90 percent purity in U238 and about 70 percent purity in Plutonium NO "prompt criticality" is possible in ANY case no matter how much of it you have laying around. Furthermore, even with 100 percent pure material you need a precision trigger slamming or crushing material together to get a detonation. Even if 100 percent pure material is slammed together at high speed, if it is not done right you will get only a nuclear "sputter" that pushes the pieces apart, and no detonation. Nukes are hard to do! Why have so many of us seemed to have forgotten that nuclear detonations are hard to accomplish? The "prompt criticality" in spent fuel story is something I would have expected to hear from an Ewok praying to a gold robot. I can't believe even a scammer would have the guts to suggest it, let alone allow it to be spread around in his name. For an explanation for the explosions, just look at the cameras the Dimona Dozen brought in. If someone is waving a degree as an anchor for this "prompt criticality" bull hockey, remember that there is such a thing as a paper trained idiot and if you look into Gundersen's background you will discover he is barely that, with his ONLY hands on experience outside a classroom being an intern at a nuclear facility two years before he got his degree!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the mainstream media wanted the facts, why did they pick this guy? Because he said what they wanted, truth be damned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"We at Vermont Yankee are well acquainted with Arnie and his exaggerations. He plays to a public and a legislature that has zero knowledge of nuclear power or engineering and is willing to accept any negative claim as truth." And since he gave an impossible "prompt criticality" explanation which diverted attention away from the only real explanation for the magnitude of the explosion at #3 - a nuke, they gave him a ton of air. Enough said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This post has been greatly improved via input from readers. If you have information proving any points wrong, or think something should be clarified, as well as new info that can further solidify the case, contact me. Thanks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you read this far, I invite you to take part in the Truth Project&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article about Fukushima follows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_______________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fukushima was impossible. The swamping of the external generators by the tsunami was irrelevant, because the real emergency backup systems are driven by steam from the reactors themselves. No electricity is needed to operate three separate emergency systems at each reactor, each of which will keep a reactor safe even if only one works. Interesting it is then that all 9 non electrical backup systems across the three fueled reactors failed. This is technically impossible outside of willful intent, and was likely the result of a Stuxnet attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stuxnet was designed specifically to target Siemens SCADA controllers and is most effective at tampering with fluid control systems. The centrifuges it attacked in Iran were ideal. So are the fluid control systems at a nuclear facility. Oil refineries are equally at risk, Stuxnet is most dangerous when affecting a system which needs to control the flow of any liquid, be it hydraulic, for cooling, or combining chemicals. Stuxnet is documented to have been produced by the Israeli Defense Forces, for the purpose of destroying any industrial system that can be destroyed by improper fluid flow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magna BSP, a Dimona based company with no history outside of IDF contracts prior to Fukushima has a suspiciously short domain history despite a 10 year claimed history. Magna BSP had a full time internet linked two way connection to the Fukushima reactor room(s) all the way through the disaster. They told TEPCO about that connection on March 15 (after everything blew sky high) via an article printed in the Jerusalem Post. Why did Manga BSP wait until everything was blown sky high to tell Tepco the data link existed, and then did not tell them face to face? I find it hard to believe that TEPCO would not have been interested in viewing a reactor that was about to explode. It seems impossible that Tepco would not have wanted to view the reactor, and probably did not ask because the link was kept a secret. It is a simple fact that internet connections are never allowed inside a reactor's containment. The connection was mentioned in the Jerusalem Post AFTER the destruction was finalized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stuxnet has two modes, random and administrative. It can be administered to optimize the damage and can also transmit setup information and industrial system information to a remote computer. Once installed on the host system via a flash drive it causes that system to violate it's normal security protocols and internet administration becomes possible if a connection exists. Tampering is not visible on the control room readouts, because Stuxnet learns what "normal" looks like and keeps the temperature, pressure, and other readouts within normal limits so that the operators are oblivious to the destruction happening in secret. Stuxnet appeared in Japan in June of 2010, shortly after Magna BSP arrived. Remote administration mode can be adjusted on demand to suit any need. No doubt the people at Fukushima sat there in idle mode thinking all was well until something screamed or went boom and at that point it would be too late to do anything other than cry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a lifer in the types of control systems Fukushima and it's clone, TVA owned Browns Ferry have. BOTH have been upgraded to modern Siemens controllers running the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system Stuxnet was designed to attack; upgrades are the norm in any major facility. On many blogs people say the controls were old and therefore Stuxnet immune; they are out of touch or have no knowledge of industrial control systems. I actually ferreted it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I will explain in detail why the problems before the explosions had to be sabotage&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The diesel generators were not out in the open as we were led to believe, they were in fact located in the basements of the turbine buildings which were sealed off and never significantly flooded. One of them stayed running the entire time, but the electrical switch gear attached to it disconnected it for an unexplained reason which made it useless. Each of the backup generators at Fukushima were capable of running 14,000 households each, which means they had to be over ten megawatts each. It is obvious then that Fukushima was set up to survive on only ONE of 13 backup generators, and ONE did keep running. One would be many times larger than needed to run last ditch backup systems at all reactors, but would not keep business as usual. But that is not the real story, which is that even others which were high and dry stopped as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hypothesize that the ONE generator that kept running was kept as a lone reserve, never hooked up to a SCADA controller. Why did the switch gear disconnect a working generator? That is the type of thing Stuxnet was designed to do. On top of these things, emergency generators arrived on scene within 9 hours, before anything bad happened at all but were not able to provide power because the switch gear would not let them. This deceptively written report from the World Nuclear Association contains all this information, but it is presented in a way which will cause you to overlook these things if you are not careful while reading it. This report contains accurate information presented in a very misleading way, which will protect the liars who wrote it - they actually did speak the truth here but in a way it would be missed by virtually anyone. Study the facts presented here with the full ramifications of those facts in mind, not their shallow misleading conclusions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From this report you can get:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The generators never got submerged - you have to connect the dot between them being in a contained area and the tsunami thereby not being able to get to them. Some water got into one of the the turbine buildings where several were located and flooded the lowest point in that building to a depth of 4 feet, which means that even if the generators were on the floor at the lowest point they likely would not have been swamped because they are too big - the water would not get past the footings. Perhaps a one megawatt generator would have swamped; certainly not one of the big diesels, which were, according to this report enough to run 14,000 homes each. In addition to this, there were several generators in a second location that never got flooded at all. One of these generators kept running but was not able to get power into the facility because the switchgear prevented it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. You have to have watched the robot videos, which clearly show the switch gear that malfunctioned after the tsunami never got wet - there was a non tsunami reason for the failure. Also look at the high resolution photos referenced below. There is no switch gear for the diesel generators outside the facility, it is all indoors in areas higher than the water got. Remember that there was no emergency when the off site generators arrived, which means that they could work efficiently to get things up and running. With my experience in this area, Assuming it DID get soaked, a complete replacement of high capacity switch gear should only take an afternoon if done with an emergency attitude. A truck mounted crane or a forklift does all the heavy lifting and the stuff is modular. In every major facility there are spares galore. It is not that hard to make the terminations. A worst case scenario could have been addressed before things went horribly awry, that is, unless a virus did not let the new switch gear activate either. It would take days to conclude a virus was messing things up. You would not expect that. I am sure there is a LOT we never heard about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. That batteries held, leaving only a one hour gap in time where there was no power present to run things before adequate off site power drove into the facility on the road all nice and ready to hook up, but was denied to by switch gear which this report says was swamped but that is likely an assumption because swamped switchgear could have been replaced even before the batteries died. The fact that the offsite generators were able to be driven into the facility also proves that other lies told about the earthquake in general - employees leaving only to find cracks in the road so bad they had to walk home; Why? Why lie like this? AT LEAST this report has some modicum of honesty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. You have to look at the chart that shows the thermal output of the reactors 8 hours after the earthquake, which is when the batteries running the electrical cooling pumps died, the output at that time was less than 20 megawatts from each reactor, which means that they would not have had troubles before the off site generators were hooked up to restore power if it was not denied by what I suspect was stuxnet infected switch gear. The real critical time is in the first 3 hours after shutdown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Reactor 3 exploded entirely, yet this reactor had the most functional backup systems. At least this report says the explosion remains "unexplained". Perhaps those who wrote the report should take a look at this for an answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. The reactors are stated to be an "early 1960's design" apparently to mislead people into believing they were outdated even when installed. This was not the case. Their design was an early 60's concept but in fact a late 60's design, and since installation takes years, what more could you expect in the early 70's? The reactors were in fact a very safe design. This report at least states that the facility was very well updated. Identical reactors at TVA owned browns ferry have been certified safe and licensed to operate through the year 2035. These reactors were also converted over to run the Siemens Scada system. The reactors at Fukushima were not garbage. The fastest cars in production still function on a late 1800's concept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hypothesize that the situation at Fukushima is not being properly assessed by facility controllers because STUXNET is STILL giving false readings to the control panels, readings which obviously have to be false because they show containment pressure when confidental leaked photographs prove beyond a doubt no containment exists AT ALL at reactor 3. There is not even a reactor there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This report is perfectly inaccurate with regard to reactor 3 containment. Perhaps the people who wrote this report have not actually looked at the facility or seen the confidential photographs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This report supports what I have said here entirely. It was written by an experienced reactor operator. I found this on May 10. I was absolutely right!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each reactor has 8 separate emergency backup systems, each capable of saving the reactor on it's own. Three are designed to function perfectly if all power is lost and even the generators fail. Fukushima did not need any electrical systems operating AT ALL to keep itself from blowing up, when power is lost steam from the reactors is automatically diverted from the generator turbines to two totally separate steam turbines connected to totally separate water pumps needing only reactor steam to power them. Even that backup system has dual redundancy, only one of the two is needed for the job. But the valves which have to activate to re-divert the steam, all 6 valves on a total of 3 fueled reactors, eventually failed to. At reactors 1 and 3 these systems worked, but switched off at reactor 1 within an hour and off at reactor 3 after running for more than two days. No one has been able to explain why these systems switched off all by themselves, when they need a powered command to switch off. At reactor 2 they were never allowed to activate. This can only happen if the control system tells them to shut off or stay off, absent intervention from the controller they automatically and seamlessly switch cooling modes to passive rather than electrical.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some readers may remember that the real issue at Fukushima was malfunctioning valves, and the need to get someone past the radiation to open them. These are the valves that were spoken of. Because Stuxnet kept the readouts normal, no one knew this system did not function until major problems happened as a result flooding the area where the valves are with radiation. This prevented last ditch efforts (running and cutting the wires). One automatic valve jamming and mechanically failing would be a surprise,6 failing can only be sabotage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition to this, another completely independent separately piped backup with an entirely different electronic decision tree which injects borated water at a pre charged 3,500 PSI into the reactor to irrevocably shut down all chain reactions (reactor rebuild required) also simultaneously failed at all 3 fueled reactors. The borated water systems have explosive operated valves so reliable that even one out of 3 failing would be a ten thousand to one possiblity, if that. The reliability of the borated water systems is technically theoretically assured. All three failing at the same time at Fukushima can only mean sabotage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;High pressure in all of the reactors proves the quake did not damage any of the infrastructure at fukushima because any leaks would have let the pressure go. In addition to this, the seismic readings at Fukushima were 6.07 Fukushima was designed to handle being at the epicenter of an 8.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The media keeps harping about how all the water went away. It only did because these three backup systems were prevented from cooling the reactor which caused the water to boil off and never be replaced. High pressures were talked about constantly in the press; This means beyond a doubt that all 6 steam powered backup systems were intact, and all 3 borated water systems were intact also because if they were not the pressure would have escaped through them. Absent emergency backup control power keeping the virus alive; (control power Magna BSP admitted was there the whole time by mistake when they said their cameras and supporting computers captured the explosions and maintained a data link) the valves which control these systems would have opened when the generators failed and there would have been no disaster. 3 worst case scenarios where all 9 automatic valves across 9 separate emergency backup systems are held shut by the controller when no power should have been present to prevent them from activating can only mean sabotage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A historical perspective of Fukushima shows the hydrogen blasts were bogus.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hydrogen blasts could not have damaged Fukushima so badly, this is a media fed lie. If hydrogen gas alone mixed with air could produce blasts strong enough to blow reactor containment buildings to pieces, which are among the strongest structures on earth (exceeded in strength only by ones like Hoover Dam,) then hydrogen gas filled bombs would be the prime military option. In reality, the Three Mile Island incident proved hydrogen ignition in open air after reactor meltdown is likely to only scare employees, while causing no damage at all to the facility, as was the case there. It is extremely important to know the differences between the boiling water reactor design and the design of Chernobyl. At Chernobyl, a hydrogen blast DID cause destruction of the facility, but it was because the reactor design caused hydrogen and oxygen at a perfect ratio to ignite at thousands of PSI inside the reactor pressure vessel. That's a big difference from hydrogen alone igniting in relatively oxygen starved open air at one atmosphere (14.5 PSI). The difference would be similar to the difference between a small firecracker and a case of dynamite; there were many orders of magnitude lower blast potential at Fukushima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just to be absolutely safe after the Three Mile Island incident, many nuclear facilities installed hydrogen hard vent stacks hooked directly up to the relief valves on their reactors, and Fukushima was one of them. This was to prevent a hydrogen buildup in the containment building in the event of a core meltdown, which caused a minor explosion at Three Mile Island. These stacks are the tall white towers you see in the photographs of Fukushima, and they are effective in getting rid of hydrogen buildup, are directly piped, and vent completely outside. "Hard piped" means that the electrical failures would have had nothing to do with the blasts, because a hard vent is exactly that - no fan needed at all because the system is sealed. Even if the hard piping at all 3 fueled Fukushima reactors failed entirely, it should not have been any worse than Three Mile Island which did not have any hard venting to begin with. While hydrogen venting might be a problem if it ignited, it would not mean the death of a facility. It makes no sense that at Fukushima we got a nuclear weapon style mushroom cloud far in excess of the highest yield conventional bomb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below are the classified photos&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What then, caused the explosions? The containment walls were at their thinnest points in the lowest allowed General Electric design a minimum of 4 foot thick steel reinforced concrete, were likely to be a minimum of 8 feet thick, and were totally blown away. All concrete was stripped from the rebar, which was left dangling. Reactor 3 vanished entirely,as seen in the classified photo used to compare the destruction to the diagram and reactor 4 appears to have been blown to pieces as seen in this classified photo The yellow dome which should be sitting on top of reactor 4 can be clearly seen on the wrong side of the containment building. This type of destruction is is indicative of hard weaponry in use; a hydrogen air mix will not do that. Reactors are not made out of tinfoil. On top of this, there was no potential for an explosion at reactor 4 at all, it had been defueled. SO WHAT, PRAY TELL, BLEW IT APART? That's the dirty question no one is asking - how did that happen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To give you an idea of how big the reactors at Fukushima were, look at this. It's the top of the same make and model at Fukushima's American twin, TVA owned Brown's Ferry, and it is only the top. The yellow dome sits above this, and is even bigger. (here the yellow dome has been removed for refueling). over 150 feet of reactor sits below that cap. Hydrogen will not vaporize that, which appears to be what happened to #3, only a nuclear weapon would. Reactors are about 14 digits beyond incapable of going supercritical even with a complete core meltdown. The reactors did not explode, something placed in their vicinity did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Magna BSP had access to the reactors at this facility. They were based in Dimona, which is a military base that manufactures nuclear weapons. Stuxnet was made in their yard. They are stated to be a military company.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is extremely strong evidence that Dimona based Magna BSP placed nuclear weapons at the exploded or vanished reactors at Fukushima, possibly hidden inside one of their unbelievably GIANT stereoscopic cameras. These cameras were installed inside the reactor containment of Fukushima reactor 3 under the cover of a security contract in the year prior to the disaster. These cameras are identical in size and appearance to a gun type nuclear weapon. Since previous hydrogen explosions at boiling water reactors have never caused any sort of damage to equipment or buildings, even during complete meltdowns, it begs the question how on earth one at reactor 3 produced a mushroom cloud. Three Mile Island sits in the evidence pool against what we have been told about Fukushima. History does matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One problem with the reporting in the mainstream media is that it failed to convey just how massive and strong the containment structures really were, as seen in this classified photo. A hydrogen explosion would only blow the sheet metal off the steel framed roof if it even did that, at Three Mile Island the hydrogen ignition did nothing at all. It just scared employees. Another thing the reporting failed to convey is the gravity of the disaster. Compare the containment diagram to the remains of reactor 3. It is painfully obvious that many tons of highly radioactive plutonium in the containment pools is nowhere to be found, the entire floor they were on is completly gone. We are getting lied to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That was a LOT more than a hydrogen blast, and as a result there are thousands of pounds of plutonium scattered everywhere. TEPCO was ridiculed for initially stating that the radiation from the facility was "immeasurable". I think they at first told the truth. Now they have this story about the Fukushima 50. Is it in fact a "wag the dog"? No one could be there and live. Why is remote controlled heavy equipment doing the cleanup? The official story is hydrogen blasts, not nukes, so the story line has to at least be within the far outer limits of what a hydrogen blast could actually accomplish; not missing reactors and entire fuel pools blown away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I suggest you ponder the pictures and materials presented and reach your own conclusion. A government issued training manual for the reactors at Fukushima is here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that Osama, who has been dead for 10 years is officially dead, Al Quaida is going to use a nuke, so they say; I strongly urge you to consider this article if a nuke actually does go off somewhere or if other nuclear facilities start acting like Fukushima.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only reason I believe the management at Fukushima is not telling it like it really was is because victim status has been so well asserted by the ethnic group in question that it is career suicide to point the finger at them, even when they try to kill you. I find it interesting that all 12 Non Japanese employees of Magna BSP returned to Israel a week before the tsunami . . . . .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I might have understood the need for Stuxnet if it's use would have ended with Iran. Unfortunately that does not appear to be the case. I do hope this article breaks their toy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of you who are reluctant to re-post this because the wording is too strong, I ask you to consider this;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real answer came out of Fukushima. We have a member of the international community which has already done horrendous damage to a very advanced and (presently) innocent civilization and we simply cannot continue to tolerate it. Consider what ignoring this will cost you. Are you prepared to have a major disaster at the convenience of the couch; because you sat there watching TV rather than dragging your butt over to the computer to at least spread the word? Are your video games, ball games, 4x4 and porno really worth continuing to lose everything for? Is your religion going to keep you silent as well? We really need a serious wake up call. Please let this post be it, rather than some other unforseen disaster.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you to the many readers who pointed out flaws, gave tips, and suggested clarifications, you studied this indeed! My thanks also goes out to the radio hosts who have had me on the air and invited me to appear to discuss this subject. BTW, this article was written via code entry, without spell check. Consider that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These references included as e-mail compatible links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.threemileisland.org/science/what_went_wrong/index.html&lt;br /&gt;www.defense-update.com/products/m/magna.htm&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/turbine.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8326274/Israeli-security-chief-celebrates-Stuxnet-cyber-attack.html&lt;br /&gt;www.english.pravda.ru/history/22-02-2011/116985-Israeli_general_boasts_authoring_Stuxnet-0/&lt;br /&gt;www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8326387/Israel-video-shows-Stuxnet-as-one-of-its-successes.html&lt;br /&gt;www.reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=magnabsp.com&amp;amp;type=domain&lt;br /&gt;www.magnabsp.com&lt;br /&gt;www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=212168&lt;br /&gt;www.infosecisland.com/blogview/12628-Japans-Nuclear-Crisis-Stuxnet-and-SCADA-Defenses.html&lt;br /&gt;www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T101004003493.htm&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/door.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/borated.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.news.discovery.com/earth/2011/03/12/fukushima-zoom.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/03/25/25climatewire-us-experts-blame-fukushima-1-explosions-and-19903.html?amp=&amp;amp;pagewanted=all&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/reference.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/containment.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/reactorlid.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.pcworld.com/article/224811/fukushima_daiichi_workers_clear_debris_by_remote_control.html&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/03.pdf&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/core.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.jimstonefreelance.com/camera.jpg&lt;br /&gt;www.rense.com/general93/hid.htm&lt;br /&gt;www.pinktentacle.com/2011/04/high-resolution-photos-of-fukushima-daiichi/ (source of high resolution photos)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-7677984747755355601?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima1.html' title='Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/7677984747755355601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/did-dimona-dozen-murder-fukushima-50_28.html#comment-form' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/7677984747755355601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/7677984747755355601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/did-dimona-dozen-murder-fukushima-50_28.html' title='Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50?'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-4578477721071847293</id><published>2012-01-28T03:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T03:15:17.999-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Business As Usual at the FDA</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="tabs-outer"&gt;&lt;div class="header section" id="header"&gt;&lt;div class="widget Header" id="Header1"&gt;&lt;div id="header-inner"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="post-header"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="post-body entry-content"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AJXIwXvFErk/TyLCQc6BvcI/AAAAAAAAOPU/q2g5MpD5f1U/s1600/FDA+-+Grant+Money.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AJXIwXvFErk/TyLCQc6BvcI/AAAAAAAAOPU/q2g5MpD5f1U/s200/FDA+-+Grant+Money.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Karen De Coster, &lt;i&gt;Contributing Writer&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/business-as-usual-at-fda.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Activist Post&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203436904577153160177537828.html?mod=djemHL_t#articleTabs%3Darticle"&gt;This story in the &lt;i&gt;Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;barely   made a splash last week – “FDA Panelists Had Ties to Bayer.” Three   advisors who had financial ties to Bayer AG were invited to serve on a   “safety committee” for the FDA to assess the safety of four Bayer AG   birth control drugs. All three individuals were either paid consultants,   researchers, or speakers. Here’s a paragraph from the article:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Jill Hartzler Warner, an FDA official who oversees  advisory  committees, said the agency is 'prohibited from giving the  public any  information contained in a financial disclosure' from  committee  members. When picking committees, the FDA weighs 'whether a  meeting  would affect the financial interest' of a panelist. The agency  also  does 'look at whether past relationships would give the appearance  of  being a conflict,' she said.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Apparently, having worked for  Bayer and getting paid by the company  does not qualify as a past  relationship that would give the appearance  of being a conflict.  Business as usual at one of the government’s  largest and most  invincible criminal organizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2146736968904133647" name="more"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-failure-of-the-fda-why-were-still-using-antibiotics-on-livestock/251442/"&gt;Another article in &lt;i&gt;The Atlantic&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   (be forewarned, the writer is a dedicated leftie) believes the FDA has   failed because American industrial food interests still use  antibiotics  on animals in concentrated animal feeding operations  (CAFOs).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Roughly 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United   States are given to healthy farm animals to foster rapid growth and make   up for unhygienic living conditions. Many bacteria that live on  animals  adapt and transfer to humans, spreading superbugs that are  often  resistant to treatment.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;ins style="border: none; display: inline-table; height: 60px; margin: 0; padding: 0; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 468px;"&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In the end, the article praises the EU for its central food and price   planning, and the author is rigid in her belief that the U.S. should   mimic the EU with its own central planning, with the FDA leading the   way. Nowhere does the author mention the corporatocracy and the culture   of corruption that enables and maintains the industrialized CAFO model.   Michael Pollan, author of &lt;i&gt;Omnivore’s Dilemma&lt;/i&gt; (one of the most   important books written in the last 50 years, in my opinion), was all   over this topic long ago. One of the best articles &lt;i&gt;ever&lt;/i&gt; on this topic was written by him in the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;/i&gt; in 2007:&amp;nbsp;”&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/magazine/16wwln-lede-t.html?_r=3&amp;amp;ref=magazine&amp;amp;oref=slogin"&gt;Our Decrepit Food Factories&lt;/a&gt;.” Here, Pollan writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The first story is about MRSA, the very   scary&amp;nbsp;antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus bacteria that is now   killing more Americans each year than&amp;nbsp;AIDS&amp;nbsp;— 100,000 infections  leading  to 19,000 deaths in 2005, according to estimates in The Journal  of  the&amp;nbsp;American Medical Association. For years now, drug-resistant  staph  infections have been a problem in&amp;nbsp;hospitals, where the heavy use  of  antibiotics can create resistant&amp;nbsp;strains&amp;nbsp;of bacteria. It’s Evolution   101: the drugs kill off all but the tiny handful of microbes that, by   dint of a chance mutation, possess genes allowing them to withstand the   onslaught; these hardy survivors then get to work building a   drug-resistant superrace. The methicillin-resistant staph that first   emerged in hospitals as early as the 1960s posed a threat mostly to   elderly patients. But a new and even more virulent strain — called  'community-acquired MRSA' — is now killing young and otherwise healthy   people who have not set foot in a hospital. No one is yet sure how or   where this strain evolved, but it is sufficiently different from the   hospital-bred strains to have some researchers looking elsewhere for its   origin, to another environment where the heavy use of antibiotics is   selecting for the evolution of a lethal new microbe: the concentrated   animal feeding operation, or CAFO.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Pollan goes on to explain  that roughly 70% of all antibiotics that  are used in America are fed  to animals in order to sustain their lives  so they can live in  unnatural and filthy conditions. Pollan also writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://activistpost.net/survivalseedbank.html"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="noshadow" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_qLAIskTQXUc/TVxr_EnYeqI/AAAAAAAAGzo/SeV_Frv5FHg/seedbankonly.jpg" style="background: none;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;That  seems to be a hallmark of industrial agriculture: to  maximize  production and keep food as cheap as possible, it pushes  natural  systems and organisms to their limit, asking them to function as   efficiently as machines. When the inevitable problems crop up — when   bees or pigs remind us they are not machines — the system can be   ingenious in finding 'solutions,' whether in the form of antibiotics to   keep pigs healthy or foreign bees to help pollinate the almonds. But   this year’s solutions have a way of becoming next year’s problems. That   is to say, they aren’t 'sustainable.' &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;…Whenever  we try to rearrange natural systems along the lines of a  machine or a  factory, whether by raising too many pigs in one place or  too many  almond trees, whatever we may gain in industrial efficiency, we   sacrifice in biological resilience. The question is not whether systems   this brittle will break down, but when and how, and whether when they   do, we’ll be prepared to treat the whole idea of sustainability as   something more than a nice word.&lt;/blockquote&gt;In addition to the hormones  and antibiotics that are used to keep  confined animals alive long  enough to produce an excess of cheap meat, &lt;a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/foodirradiation.htm"&gt;the U.S. government, through the CDC, actively promotes the irradiation of food for&lt;/a&gt; … our “safety.” The FDA, on its website, &lt;a href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodIngredientsPackaging/IrradiatedFoodPackaging/ucm135143.htm"&gt;promotes the belief that the radiation of food is safe&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The Food and Drug Administration has approved irradiation   of meat and poultry and allows its use for a variety of other foods,   including fresh fruits and vegetables, and spices. The agency determined   that the process is safe and effective in decreasing or eliminating   harmful bacteria.&lt;/blockquote&gt;In fact, the FDA went so far as to promote  the idea that irradiated  foods could be labeled as “pasteurized” as a  way to “soften” the  language so that consumers do not know what they  are buying. (&lt;a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-04-04-food-radiation_N.htm"&gt;See this article in &lt;i&gt;USA Today&lt;/i&gt; in 2007&lt;/a&gt;.)&amp;nbsp;As Pollan writes in &lt;i&gt;Omnivore’s Dilemma&lt;/i&gt;,   “The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the   ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Karen De Coster, CPA is a libertarian accounting/finance professional   and freelance writer covering food freedom, regulatory abuses and free   market economics. 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              &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="dateright"&gt;       &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div style="float: left; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.directive21.com/berkey-water-purifier-products.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://theintelhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ber1.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="all" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theintelhub.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Intel Hub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Shepard Ambellas &amp;amp; Avalon&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 27, 2012&lt;br /&gt;Los Angeles —&amp;nbsp;By now you may have heard of the many&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.rense.com/general17/statebystate.htm" target="_blank"&gt;FEMA camps located throughout the United States&lt;/a&gt; which will serve as holding centers for U.S. citizens during times of civil unrest.&lt;br /&gt;The camps are no conspiracy theory and they happen to be popping up at a rapid rate in the Continental United States (&lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/nagpra/documents/BasesMapIndex.htm" target="_blank"&gt;CONUS&lt;/a&gt;). In fact, &lt;em&gt;Infowars&lt;/em&gt; recently reported on a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/fema-camp-rendition-hubs-discovered/" target="_blank"&gt;new detention hub located at the Los Angeles Airport (LAX)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But what about the fact that every stadium is a FEMA camp hiding in  plain sight, stagnantly awaiting its grim use one day in the near  future?&lt;em&gt; (Think New Orleans Super Dome)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The roots of this diabolic agenda trace back to the Reagan/Oliver North era and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84" target="_blank"&gt;REX84 Program&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;However, modern-day Congress is still approving these camps under the  guise of terror provisions set forth by the staged attacks of 9/11 and &lt;strong&gt;USA PATRIOT Act&lt;/strong&gt;  which was signed into law by Bush in 2001 but created years before to  be implemented after the Oklahoma City Bombing, which, to this day, has  been covered up by corrupt FBI and Southern &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit" target="_blank"&gt;Poverty Law Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; operatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://theintelhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dodgers-Stadium-WC.png"&gt;&lt;img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-60370" height="350" src="http://theintelhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Dodgers-Stadium-WC.png" title="Dodgers Stadium (WC)" width="588" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Photo:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Wikicommons&amp;nbsp;— Dodgers Stadium&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Yesterday, an urban warfare drill conducted over downtown Los Angeles  had area residents shaken up as 4 black OH-6 “Little Birds” and one  “Blackhawk” helicopter with military personal aboard, invaded the city  of angels, with more drills set for today.&lt;br /&gt;Sadly these military maneuvers by special operations forces of the U.S. military are now nearly commonplace in the CONUS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Helicopters hovered for awhile over the US Bank building,  made a drop at a park, and flew over the Lakers Stadium while a game was  in progress.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The operational forces used the Dodgers Stadium as a staging point (mock FEMA Camp) to base the training session out of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stadiums have and will be used as FEMA camps during  martial law type situations during future civil unrest and or economic  collapse.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hurricane Katrina was a prime example of how law enforcement and  military work together during times of martial law to set up FEMA camps  in sports stadiums as well as take part in large scale, illegal gun  confiscation.&lt;br /&gt;One curious aspect of the ‘Exercise’ is the involvement of the AON  Tower. As recently mentioned in the New York Times in the January 11th  Edition, AON is leaving the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aon’s main corporate offices are located in Austrailia which begs the question, “&lt;a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/silverstein.html" target="_blank"&gt;Could  Larry Silverstein have been involved with Aon in the WTC purchase and  subsequent Destruction and Insurance Payoff of $7,000,000,000.00?&lt;/a&gt;“.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;small&gt;Advertisement&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/center&gt; &lt;a href="http://theintel.survivefoo.hop.clickbank.net/"&gt; &lt;img height="240" src="http://www.survivefoodcrisis.org/aff/300x250-2.gif" width="240" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;An April 2004&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2004-04-29/justice/attacks.insurance_1_single-occurrence-larry-silverstein-swiss-reinsurance?_s=PM:LAW" target="_blank"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; article reads;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Larry Silverstein signed the lease just six weeks before  the WTC’s twin towers were brought to the ground by terrorists in the  September 11, 2001, attacks.&lt;br /&gt;Silverstein contended that the two jetliners crashing into the twin  towers about 15 minutes apart should be considered two separate events,  which would allow him to collect the maximum from the insurers for each  tower, as much as $7 billion.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;After all, this line of possible affiliation is logical given that &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aon_Corporation" target="_blank"&gt;Aon is an Insurance Company&lt;/a&gt; who would have benefited from such a covert secret government operation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In fact, Chicago is Aon’s corporate headquarters in the  United States and was designated the WTC of Chicago. Is there a  possibility that a False-Flag Operation and subsequent rescue operation&amp;nbsp;  is being practiced ‘right-in-plain-sight’?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is there the possibility that a Nuclear Event might be  planned for Chicago – Obamas Hometown and now the preplanning stages for  Martial Law Implementations by Rham Emanuel and the G8 Summit?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is this conspiracy theory or are we witnessing the  planning stages of a Flase-Flag Event that could bring about Martial Law  – the result of Domestic Terrorism?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you think about it, most major cities are equipped with enough stadiums to hold a good chunk of dissident citizens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Footnote: &lt;/strong&gt;Aon has connections to Larry Silverstein&lt;br /&gt;As reported by &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-02-02/business/0502020227_1_silverstein-properties-larry-silverstein-freedom-tower" target="_blank"&gt;Bloomberg;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Aon Corp. has been hired to find coverage for developer  Larry Silverstein’s construction of a new skyscraper on the site of New  York’s World Trade Center. Chicago-based Aon will arrange construction,  liability and worker’s compensation insurance for the 1,776-foot Freedom  Tower, the company and Silverstein said in a statement Tuesday.  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Get a load of this…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congregation Beth Shalom in Corona, California has sent Mel Gibson a  letter in hopes of guilting him into forking over some cash to bail them  out of a bad investment they made on their local synagogue. Apparently,  the group took out a giant loan that they can’t afford to pay back and  are now facing foreclosure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a move reminiscent of something out of post-war Germany, the  Southern California synagogue is looking to Gibson as though he should  pay some kind of “Holocaust” style reparations for the so-called  anti-Semitic&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2006/07/28/gibsons-anti-semitic-tirade-alleged-cover-up/" target="_blank"&gt;tirade&lt;/a&gt; he made back in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I guess it’s not enough that Mel has already spent millions of  dollars contributing to Jewish charities, including $5 million to the  Jewish Cedars Sinai Hospital. Not to mention getting down on his knees  and apologizing to the Jewish community on numerous occassions—only to  have his career railroaded anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entertainment website &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/01/27/mel-gibson-temple-anti-semitic-contribution/" target="_blank"&gt;TMZ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;apparently got&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;their hands on the &lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/01/27/mel-gibson-temple-anti-semitic-contribution/" target="_blank"&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt;. Here’s what it says:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Our proposal to you, Mr. Gibson, is since you have been cited as  an Anti-Semitic, and have denied those allegations, what better way to  prove to all your fans and the nay Sayers — than to endorse and help  raise funds for our cause — SOS, Save Our Synagogue…“Mr. Gibson, we  offer you to be a Mensch and make a sizable contribution to our cause.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s what you call CHUTZPAH, folks!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="wpadvert" style="background: #; margin: 10px auto; padding: 5px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 410px;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cccccc; display: block; font: 8px/1em Verdana,sans-serif; letter-spacing: 1px; padding: 0pt 1px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase;"&gt;Advertisement&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="google_ads_div_wpcom_sharethrough_ad_container"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 class="sd-title"&gt;Share this:&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class="share-stumbleupon"&gt;&lt;a class="share-stumbleupon sd-button share-icon" href="http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/california-jews-shake-down-mel-gibson-for-reparations/?share=stumbleupon&amp;amp;nb=1" rel="nofollow" title="Click to share on StumbleUpon"&gt;StumbleUpon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="share-digg"&gt;&lt;a class="share-digg sd-button share-icon" href="http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/california-jews-shake-down-mel-gibson-for-reparations/?share=digg&amp;amp;nb=1" rel="nofollow" title="Click to Digg this post"&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="share-reddit"&gt;&lt;a class="share-reddit sd-button share-icon" href="http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/california-jews-shake-down-mel-gibson-for-reparations/?share=reddit&amp;amp;nb=1" rel="nofollow" title="Click to share on Reddit"&gt;Reddit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="share-end"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2146736968904133647-2512346681943046396?l=poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/california-jews-shake-down-mel-gibson-for-reparations/' title='California Jews Shake Down Mel Gibson For Reparations'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/feeds/2512346681943046396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/california-jews-shake-down-mel-gibson.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/2512346681943046396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2146736968904133647/posts/default/2512346681943046396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2012/01/california-jews-shake-down-mel-gibson.html' title='California Jews Shake Down Mel Gibson For Reparations'/><author><name>poorrichard</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10841839148479119096</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mU_hy2qyscg/TrBdnZxKUiI/AAAAAAAAAW8/AMRrw91Bqmc/s220/Picture%2B4.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2146736968904133647.post-6523450852269306926</id><published>2012-01-28T02:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T02:19:48.963-08:00</updated><title type='text'>AMA Paper Proposes Law Forcing People into Experimental Vaccine Trials</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="alignright" style="margin-right: -8px; margin-top: -7px;"&gt;&lt;span class="st_facebook_vcount"&gt;&lt;span class="stButton" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="st_sharethis_vcount"&gt;&lt;span class="stButton" style="color: black; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://naturalsociety.com/" title="Mike Barrett"&gt;Mike Barrett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NaturalSociety&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 27, 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img alt="vaccinedrip 210x131 AMA Paper Proposes Law Forcing People into Experimental Vaccine Trials" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-11015" height="131" src="http://naturalsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/vaccinedrip-210x131.png" style="margin: 2px 8px 4px 0px;" title="AMA Paper Proposes Law Forcing People into Experimental Vaccine Trials" width="210" /&gt;How would you react if I were to tell you that you or your child were forced to participate in experimental vaccine trials? A paper published by the American Medical Association’s Virtual Mentor wants to do just that. It seems that the amount of current participants in current experimental vaccine trials is a bit too low, so why not create a federal law forcing each person to need to “opt-out” of experimental vaccine trials in an attempt to better society?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The proposed law is lunacy to say that least, stating that individuals must make a “mandated choice” to participate in such experimental trials. People shouldn’t be automatically enrolled in experimental trials or need to state in advance their decision to “opt-out”. Along with the law will come a customer list for big pharma, where each participant’s information will be shared with the pharmaceutical companies in order to gather trial and field test data. Of course this isn’t so different from how things operate now, where individuals are enrolled into big pharma’s database even if you exempt your child from vaccination. But if big pharma can’t produce enough positive data from those who actually want to volunteer for introducing a new product to the FDA for approval, they may just try to force people to participate or use a segment of the population that is ignorant to the laws surrounding the trials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happens if these experimental vaccines cause harm? There are laws already set in place that essentially give vaccine manufacturers immunity to legal repercussions. That is to say that if your child is harmed from a vaccine, the vaccine manufacturers are not financially or morally responsible. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 protects vaccine manufacturers from any liability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another example of similar medical and political tyranny is when a document was signed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, where both vaccine makers and federal officials were granted complete legal immunity from any repercussions — regardless of whether or not the case is valid. Signed in July of 2009 by Sebelius, the document drew upon the provisions of a law signed in 2006 created for public emergencies. Granting swine flu vaccine makers legal protection and establishing a compensation fund, the legislation allows for vaccine makers to virtually disregard consumer safety.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is interesting to note that these laws are still needed even though health officials and vaccine makers tout vaccines as being 99.99% effective. But it isn’t so surprising, given the countless occasions in which vaccines have ruined both the lives of children and parents. Furthermore, previous attempts to test the anthrax vaccine on unsuspecting participants went sour after the public was alerted to the shocking history behind the anthrax vaccine. In a 2007 report by the CDC in conjunction with theVaccine Healthcare Centers of the Department of Defense and the watchdog group Government Accountability found that ”between 1 and 2 percent” of vaccinated military personnel experienced ”severe adverse events, which could result in disability or death.”As a result of public outrage, the government called off the testing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What would even happen if there were complications in future trials? Going by past history with other experimental vaccines, severe complications would probably just be hidden. The controversial trials of experimental AIDS vaccines that led to the loss of innocent lives have already been ignored by mainstream scientists and reporters. Even the scientists responsible for the deaths covered up the situation, failing to report the fatalities of their trials in order to prevent the public from finding out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Giving big pharma a guaranteed customer list of&amp;nbsp; individuals while simultaneously giving them immunity from lawsuits is quite the deal. 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&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/governments-worldwide-raise-acceptable-radiation-levels-based-upon-politics-not-science.html" rel="bookmark" title="5:48 pm"&gt;&lt;span class="entry-date"&gt;January 24, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="meta-sep"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="author vcard"&gt;&lt;a class="url fn n" href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/author/washingtonsblog" title="View all posts by WashingtonsBlog"&gt;WashingtonsBlog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="entry-content"&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: #000099;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;h3 style="color: #000099;"&gt;Instead of Protecting People, Governments Cover Up by Raising “Safe” Radiation Levels &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=&amp;amp;esrc=s&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;ved=0CCAQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonsblog.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fepa-stops-daily-monitoring-of-radioactivity-when-we-need-it-more-than-ever.html&amp;amp;ei=ZXf1TrXTD6qhiALn26m3Dg&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGUubcsHFvp8vavK4Y7BIc6lt0KGg&amp;amp;sig2=sCaYZHnSHlzNmPmVv9G_dw" target="_blank" title="American"&gt;American&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/05/09/bc-radiation-monitoring.html" target="_blank" title="Canadian"&gt;Canadian&lt;/a&gt; authorities have virtually stopped monitoring &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;airborne &lt;/span&gt;radiation.&lt;br /&gt;Neither &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/coming-to-a-store-near-you-radioactive-fish.html" title="the FDA refuses to test fish for radioactivity"&gt;American&lt;/a&gt; nor &lt;a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/After+Fukushima+fish+tales/5994237/story.html#ixzz1kKQOordT" target="_blank" title="Canadian"&gt;Canadian&lt;/a&gt; authorities are testing fish for radioactivity.&lt;br /&gt;Does that mean that we don’t have to worry about radiation from Fukushima?&lt;br /&gt;It is a little hard to know, given that what is deemed a “safe level”  of radiation is determined by politics … rather  than science.  For  example, current safety standards are based on the ridiculous assumption  that &lt;a href="http://www.ieer.org/reports/referenceman.pdf" target="_blank" title="everyone exposed is a healthy man in his 20s"&gt;everyone   exposed is a healthy man in his 20s – and that radioactive particles   ingested into the body cause no more damage than radiation hitting the   outside of the body&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;And one of the main advisors to the Japanese government on Fukushima &lt;a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/living-with-fukushima-citys-radiation-problem/blog/38305/" target="_blank" title="announced"&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;If you &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;smile&lt;/span&gt;, the radiation will not affect you.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/UOgaBUDFeb4/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UOgaBUDFeb4&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /&gt;&lt;embed width="320" height="266"  src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UOgaBUDFeb4&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOgaBUDFeb4" target="_blank" title="Here’s the video"&gt;Here’s the video&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;br /&gt;In the real world, however, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/how-to-help-protect-yourself-from-low-level-radiation.html" title="even low doses of radiation"&gt;even low doses of radiation&lt;/a&gt;   can cause cancer.  Moreover, small particles of radiation – called   “internal emitters” – which get inside the body are much more dangerous   than general exposures to radiation. See &lt;a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/27/3A/S11" target="_blank" title="this"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/3/149.short" target="_blank" title="this"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.   And radiation affects &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/killing-the-unborn-with-radiation.html" title="small children much more than full-grown adults"&gt;small children much more than full-grown adults&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, &lt;a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/29/world/la-fg-japan-radiation-children-20110529" target="_blank" title="Japan"&gt;Japan&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/government-responds-to-nuclear-accident-by-trying-to-raise-acceptable-radiation-levels-and-pretending-that-radiation-is-good-for-us.html" title="U.S."&gt;U.S.&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9I4foG6HeA" target="_blank" title="EU"&gt;EU&lt;/a&gt; all just &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;raised &lt;/span&gt;the radiation levels they deem “safe”.&lt;br /&gt;Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen &lt;a href="http://solarimg.org/?p=1722" target="_blank" title="says"&gt;says&lt;/a&gt;  that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary  Clinton  signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the  U.S. will &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;continue buying seafood from Japan&lt;/span&gt;, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials.&lt;br /&gt;And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the scientifically  accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo  science.   Specifically, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley Labs used a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;mutant &lt;/span&gt;line  of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low  doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that  &lt;a href="http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2011/12/20/low-dose-radiation/" target="_blank" title="everyone"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;everyone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is immune to low doses of radiation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;/center&gt; In reality, not only is there &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/low-level-doses-of-radiation-can-cause-big-problems.html" title="overwhelming evidence"&gt;overwhelming evidence&lt;/a&gt; that low doses of radiation can cause cancer, but there is some evidence that low doses can – in certain circumstances cause &lt;a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075914/" target="_blank" title="more damage than higher doses"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;more damage&lt;/span&gt; than higher doses&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;As I &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/how-to-help-protect-yourself-from-low-level-radiation.html" title="pointed out"&gt;pointed out&lt;/a&gt; in April:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists &lt;a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=XAwAAAAAMBAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA12&amp;amp;dq=beir+iii+extremely+low+level+radiation&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ei=Nk27TaKWNpD6swO4ks27BQ&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;resnum=10&amp;amp;ved=0CGEQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=beir%20iii%20extremely%20low%20level%20radiation&amp;amp;f=false" target="_blank" title="reported"&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt;  that one of the best-known scientists of the 20th century – Dr. John  Gofman – also believed that &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;chronic low level radiation is more  dangerous than acute exposure to high doses&lt;/span&gt;.  Gofman was a doctor  of nuclear and physical chemistry and a medical  doctor who worked on  the Manhattan Project, co-discovered uranium-232  and -233 and other  radioactive isotopes and proved their  fissionability, helped discover  how to extract plutonium, led the team  that discovered and characterized  lipoproteins in the causation of  heart disease, served as a Professor  Emeritus of Molecular and Cell  Biology at the University of California  Berkeley, served as Associate  Director of the Livermore National  Laboratory, was asked by the  Atomic  Energy Commission to undertake a series of long range studies on   potential dangers that might arise from the “peaceful uses of the atom”,  and wrote four scholarly books on radiation health effects.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;And see &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/japanese-canadian-and-american-officials-have-betrayed-their-citizens-by-hiding-radiation-akin-to-murder.html" style="font-style: italic;" title="this"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/governments-have-been-covering-up-nuclear-meltdowns-for-fifty-years-to-protect-the-nuclear-power-industry.html" title="this"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/announcement-of-cold-shutdown-of-fukushima-reactors-is-based-on-a-political-decision-rather-than-science.html" style="font-style: italic;" title="this"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="shr-publisher-8367 shareaholic-show-on-load" style="height: 80px; margin-left: 0px; overflow: hidden;"&gt;&lt;div class="shr-bookmarks shr-bookmarks-bg-shr" style="background: url(&amp;quot;http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/images/sharing-shr.png&amp;quot;) no-repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; display: block; height: 100%; margin-left: 10px; overflow: 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Indeed, Delingpole recently authored/updated a  must-read book on the subject entitled ‘Watermelons: The Green  Movement’s True Colors’ / ‘Watermelons: How the Environmentalists are  Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s  Future’[1]. However, even elements of the liberal mainstream press in  the UK now seem to be grudgingly acknowledging that ‘Green’  environmental groups are being observed to have “become” organs of  Fabian ‘Red’ collectivism (if, in Gramsci[2] and Alinsky[3] style, their  leaderships weren’t largely set up that way to start with). Thus in the  UK, ‘The Independent’ newspaper has permitted guest writer Alexander  Wickham to write “It seems that, increasingly, our Green Party is  showing more of a resemblance to the Socialist Workers’ Party or UK  Uncut than to an environmentalist movement.” Alexander Wickham, ‘When  you think of a Green Party, what comes to mind?’The Independent, 24  January 2012:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/24/when-you-think-of-a-green-party-what-comes-to-mind/"&gt;http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/24/when-you-think-of-a-green-party-what-comes-to-mind/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wickham goes on to somewhat naively state “the environment should not  be an issue of right or left. People of all political persuasions  should be welcomed to support the ecological cause, not simply  dyed-in-the-wool lefties.” With regard to Caroline Lucas, left-leaning  UK Member of Parliament and leader of the Green Party of England and  Wales, Wickham observes: “The fact that Ms. Lucas was one of the most  popular speakers at the Fabian [Socialist] Society’s annual conference  was hardly surprising.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wickham’s apparent (I will return to this point below) concern over  Green Party association with an Socialism is well-justified. The Fabian  strategy[4] is the military technique of gradually wearing down one’s  opponents that is historically associated with Roman General Fabius  Maximus[5] and applied in political terms by followers of Karl Marx and  others. It was augmented with the technique of infiltration or  ‘entryism’[6] by the likes of Gramsci and Trotsky[7]. Such techniques  were also favoured by Saul Alinsky: and his de-facto  heiress-presumptive, Hillary Rodham Clinton[8], amongst others.  Moreover, the sinister wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing[9] motif of the Fabian  Society is very revealing. In the view of many researchers of the ‘New  World Order’, it signifies a predatory elitism that is quite different  from the gradual introduction of commonly-defined ‘socialism’ (that  falsely purports to be benevolent towards all of humanity).&lt;br /&gt;The Fabian Society Stained-Glass Window[10], commissioned by George  Bernard Shaw[11], shows Shaw and Sidney Webb[12] hammering the world  into their chosen form. Their modus-operandi is to fool, co-opt and  manipulate well-meaning liberals (or what Lenin and Stalin are reputed  to have referred to as ‘poleznye idioty’ or ‘useful idiots’[13]) into  helping implement something they do not fully understand. At the base of  the window Shaw appears to be cajoling or mocking such useful idiots.  The wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing shield is visible directly above the Fabian  hammered globe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In his lamentation over trends in the ‘green’ movement in The  Independent, Alexander Wickham writes “Of course there is an important  role for left-wing political parties in Britain. It is understandable  that fringe parties might move to the left to fill the gap created by  Labour. But it is a great shame if this happens at the expense of  environmentalism. Sometimes in politics it is best to stick to what you  know. The Green Party should go back to being green.” From such a  statement however it is difficult to conclude whether Wickham is more  concerned with the ‘green’ movement being found-out and exposed as  red-collectivists than them actually being red-collectivists?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As an ex-environmental activist I would be the first to argue that we  do indeed need a genuine non-aligned environmental movement to stand  against industrialists that do not genuinely attempt to limit  environmental pollution. The green movement however, has decidedly  shifted from such a laudable role into a destructive anti-human pressure  movement: hell-bent on reversing beneficial industrialisation,  preventing third-world countries from meaningful development and  effectively wishing to send most common people back to life as it was in  the middle and stone ages in many respects. In the UK, the likes of the  now defunct Sustainable Development Commission’s Professor Tim Jackson,  with one Charles Prince of Wales as chief cheerleader, effectively want  to destroy UK industry and material well-being and mask the fact with  ‘spirit-level’ psychobabble: where common people are to be told there is  more to life than material goods (as if we didn’t already know that) to  help us reduce availability and use of such goods in the coming new age  of ‘green austerity’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Translated into ‘oikspeak’ this means that you  and I enjoy the ‘spiritual’ experience of communal omnibus travel while  Charles Windsor presumably runs his Royal range rovers, trains, planes,  helicopters and boats on biofuels. One could in some respects forgive  such pointless anti-industrial lunacy if Prince Charles, heir to one of  the world’s greatest fortunes, were to first reduce his own material  well-being to precisely the level advocated for his future ‘subjects’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The intellectual bankruptcy of such ‘green’ anti-industrialism is  that it views human beings as just ‘consumers’, when we are in fact  amazing producers as a speices. It also views the world as a closed  energy/resource system when it is not. Pseudo-environmental  anti-industrialism is utterly demolished in two absolute must-read  books:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves’by Dr Matt Ridley[14]:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rational-Optimist-How-Prosperity-Evolves/dp/0007267126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327421089&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rational-Optimist-How-Prosperity-Evolves/dp/0007267126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327421089&amp;amp;sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;‘Ferraris For All: In Defence of Economic Progress’by Daniel Ben-Ami[15]:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferraris-All-Defence-Economic-Progress/dp/1847423469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327421463&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferraris-All-Defence-Economic-Progress/dp/1847423469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327421463&amp;amp;sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do however believe that, in commendably and expertly explaining the  virtues of freedom and productive industrial economies (virtues that,  as pointed out, most of us unwisely take for granted and are in danger  of losing), these two otherwise excellent authors (along with the  aforementioned James Delingpole) make two fundamental mistakes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, in my view, they underestimate the waste of human productive  resource and the sheer human suffering that free-markets can cause in  not sufficiently helping workers to continually adapt and retrain in  growing and fast-changing economies. If you leave retraining (which is  often very costly for employers who have no guarantees that, once  trained, employees will not move on to work for a competitor) to ‘the  market’ alone it is often delayed, inefficient and leads to under or  unemployment that can be a breeding ground for precisely the kind of  destructive Fabian nonsense that these, and this, author seeks to avoid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second; Ridley, Ben-Ami and Delingpole, all fail to fully understand  and differentiate between constructive industrial and scientific  progress in global food production and destructive corporatist monopoly.  The fact is that there is a decades-long documented and eugenics-linked  “food as a weapon” war that is centred around the Rockefeller/Kissinger  axis every bit as much as the better-known drive to control and  weaponise oil production. The food as a weapon agenda has increasingly  controlled and monopolised global agriculture and distribution, grossly  exaggerated Malthusian population and food concerns, harmed natural soil  fertility and natural pest-control, and undermined more harmonious  medium and large-scale agricultural methods. It has also used  genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for disingenuous reasons in a  global programme that may be a toxic Pandora’s-Box of fearful epic  proportions. Like all monopolistic adventures, it is driven neither by  efficiency or the best interests of humankind. An absolute must-read  book on “food as a [globalist] weapon” to be read alongside those of  Ridley and Ben-Ami is the eye-opening ‘Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden  Agenda of Genetic Manipulation’by F William Engdahl[16]:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeds-Destruction-Hidden-Genetic-Manipulation/dp/0973714727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327424349&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeds-Destruction-Hidden-Genetic-Manipulation/dp/0973714727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327424349&amp;amp;sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is in fact an elitist agenda to not only control food and oil,  but everything and every one on planet earth. Such hubris is called a  “scientific dictatorship” or global governance by a plutocratic elite.  The modus operandi employed to gradually herd humanity into accepting  such a dire future is the Hegelian false-flag problem-reaction-solution  technique: false-flag terrorism in the case of the World Trade Centre on  11th September 2001 and false-flag economic sabotage presently raging  throughout the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the latter case, to use an analogy of a car as the global economy,  with the driver being the capitalist financial markets: the  establishment essentially wants us to believe that the massive global  car-crash we’ve just witnessed is all the fault of a profit-drunk  driver. The deeper truth is however that said car really crashed because  an elite globalist political class had the brakes removed just prior to  the “accident”. ‘Crash Investigators’ should therefore examine who was  behind and who permitted recent key financial market deregulation: such  as repeal of the 1932 US Glass–Steagall measures by the  Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999[17] and the similar mid-1980s ‘Big  Bang’[18] deregulation in the City of London. By design, the people  respond by getting angry with so-called free-market economics (via  co-opted movements such as ‘Occupy Wall Street’ etc) and clamour for  ‘something to be done’. The ‘something to be done’ calls are then met by  a globalist ‘here’s one we prepared earlier’ ‘global problems need  global solutions’ fix. Thus we are all inexorably moved along the  internationalists’ conveyor-belt towards global collectivist governance:  including a planned one-world banking system and one-world electronic  cash-free currency. A concise absolute must-read book on this subject is  entitled:&lt;br /&gt;Crisis by Design: The Untold Story of the Global Financial Coup and What You Can Do About It, by John Truman Wolfe:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.themoneymasters.com/430-2/"&gt;http://www.themoneymasters.com/430-2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crisis-Design-Untold-Global-Financial/dp/0982201567/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1326713793&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crisis-Design-Untold-Global-Financial/dp/0982201567/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1326713793&amp;amp;sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The planned global collectivism is intended to benefit an elite class  at the expense of ordinary people, not to promote social justice and  equality as Fabians misleadingly claim. Under such an end-game-solution  meaningful mass-democracy will be dead and ongoing ‘eco-scam’ population  reduction schemes will gain momentum: “… the resultant ideal  sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one  billion.”[19].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The increasingly discredited ‘catastrophic anthropogenic global  warming (CAGW)’ theory needs to be viewed therefore in the context of  the broader agenda of globalist elites. Returning to The Independent  newspaper article by Alexander Wickham and his comment that “The Green  Party should go back to being green”, I find it astonishing that such  comment confines itself to the association of environmentalism with  ‘socialism’ and makes no mention of the elephant-in-the-room that is  environmentalism’s unfortunate association with discredited CAGW theory.  Said theory is scientifically untenable[20] and has shown itself to be a  prime example of what Professor Bruce Charlton identified as  money-backed “Zombie Science” or “propaganda”[21]. Indeed, ‘green’  propaganda, with which a complicit BBC has been caught red-handed (pun  intended), has been ably demonstrated by Andrew Montford in his  must-read ‘Conspiracy in Green’ booklet[22]:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.bishop-hill.net/conspiracy-in-green/"&gt;http://www.bishop-hill.net/conspiracy-in-green/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In spite of continuing increases in human-produced atmospheric  carbon-dioxide the trend in average global warming temperatures came to a  halt between 1998 and 2001 and then marginally declined. IPCC predicted  temperature and sea-level rises failed to materialise and not only have  climate modelling assumptions proved to be misplaced, there is good  prima-facie evidence warranting formal investigation of scientific fraud  by warmists. Under such circumstances it is astonishing that the  ‘green’ movement continues to demonise entirely beneficial plant-food  that carbon-dioxide is, argues for carbon-taxes, perpetuates the myth of  peak-oil/energy and strives to block sensible energy policies that are  the life-blood of modern industrial society. Such ‘green’ policy amounts  to either malign or misplaced (depending on individuals’ degree of  ‘useful idiocy’) global vandalism that has needlessly cost and is  costing human lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In their present incarnation, ‘greens’ are not only ‘red’ by  association with Fabian ‘socialist’ agendas, they are associated with  the colour red because they effectively have blood on their hands.  Warmist, anti-industrial ‘greens’ are tools of elite globalist  eugenicists: whose real reason for wanting to reduce population numbers  is fear of losing neo-feudalistic control to a developing and awakening  mass humanity. Having had to abandon plans to co-opt the green movement  with false fears of ‘the ice-age cometh’ because global temperatures  rose in the 1980s, in their own words, globalist elites, through The  Club of Rome, stated : “The common enemy of humanity is man. In  searching for a new enemy to unite us, WE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA that  pollution, the threat of GLOBAL WARMING, water shortages, famine and the  like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human  intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour  that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”  [capitalised emphasis added].[23]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a reason that such elites “came up with” such propaganda; In  the words of George Herbert Walker Bush to the US Congress on September  11, 1991: “What is at stake, is more than one small country. It is a  big idea, a New World Order…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;REFERENCES:&lt;br /&gt;[1] ‘Watermelons: The Green Movement’s True Colors’ by James Delingpole, 2011. ISBN: 9-780-9833-4740-8. And see:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://jamesdelingpole.com/"&gt;http://jamesdelingpole.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the new 2012 version: ‘Watermelons: How the Environmentalists are  Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s  Future’ by James Delingpole, 2012. ISBN: 978-1849542173:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watermelons-Environmentalists-Destroying-Stealing-Childrens/dp/1849542171/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327416688&amp;amp;sr=8-2"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watermelons-Environmentalists-Destroying-Stealing-Childrens/dp/1849542171/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327416688&amp;amp;sr=8-2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[2] Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) – Founding  member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy and one of  the most important Marxist thinkers in the 20th century:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramsci"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramsci&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[3] Saul Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) – American  community organizer and writer noted for his book ‘Rules for Radicals’  of which Alinsky writes, “What follows is for those who want to change  the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince  was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for  Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[4] &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_strategy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[5] &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabius_Maximus"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabius_Maximus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[6] ‘Entryism’ (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by  which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to  infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, or take  over entirely:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entryism&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[7] For example, the ‘French Turn’ refers to the classic form of  entryism advocated by Leon Trotsky in his essays on “the French Turn”:  In June 1934, he proposed that the French Trotskyists dissolve their  Communist League to join the French Section of the Workers’  International (SFIO) and that it also dissolve its youth section to join  more easily with revolutionary elements. The tactic was adopted in  August 1934, and was successful despite opposition:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Turn"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Turn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[8] It is of note that Alinsky was the graduate thesis subject of  latter-day internationalist power-broking, carbon-taxing Hillary Rodham  Clinton:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_clinton"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_clinton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[9] &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_in_Sheep%27s_Clothing"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_in_Sheep%27s_Clothing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[10] &lt;a href="https://sites.google.com/site/logansron/fight-the-nwo"&gt;https://sites.google.com/site/logansron/fight-the-nwo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Window"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Window&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[11] &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[12] &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Webb"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Webb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[13] &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiots"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[14] ‘The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves’, by Dr Matt Ridley, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-00-737890-6. And see:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rational-Optimist-How-Prosperity-Evolves/dp/0007267126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327421089&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rational-Optimist-How-Prosperity-Evolves/dp/0007267126/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327421089&amp;amp;sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rationaloptimist.com/"&gt;http://www.rationaloptimist.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[15] ‘Ferraris For All: In Defence of Economic Progress’ by Daniel Ben-Ami, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-84742-346-7. And see:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://danielbenami.com/"&gt;http://danielbenami.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferraris-All-Defence-Economic-Progress/dp/1847423469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327421463&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ferraris-All-Defence-Economic-Progress/dp/1847423469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327421463&amp;amp;sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[16] ‘Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic  Manipulation’ by F William Engdahl, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-9737147-2-2. And  see:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/"&gt;http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeds-Destruction-Hidden-Genetic-Manipulation/dp/0973714727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327424349&amp;amp;sr=8-1"&gt;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeds-Destruction-Hidden-Genetic-Manipulation/dp/0973714727/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1327424349&amp;amp;sr=8-1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[17] Glass–Steagall Act:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_steagall"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_steagall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[18] Big Bang (financial markets):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_%28financial_markets%29"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_%28financial_markets%29&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[19] The Club of Rome, ‘Goals For Mankind’. See ‘The Green Agenda’ at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://green-agenda.com/index.html"&gt;http://green-agenda.com/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[20] For scientific evidence debunking the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), see for example:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/"&gt;http://wattsupwiththat.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://joannenova.com.au/"&gt;http://joannenova.com.au/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://climatedepot.com/"&gt;http://climatedepot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/"&gt;http://www.thegwpf.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/"&gt;http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.repealtheact.org.uk/"&gt;http://www.repealtheact.org.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[21] Professor Bruce Charlton ‘Zombie science: A sinister consequence  of evaluating scientific theories purely on the basis of enlightened  self-interest’ peer-reviewed paper. 2008, Published by Elsevier Ltd.  Doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2008.05.018. A pdf version of the paper is freely  available on various websites including the following link :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mantleplumes.org/WebDocuments/Charlton2008.pdf"&gt;www.mantleplumes.org/WebDocuments/Charlton2008.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Professor Charlton’s own blog is at:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2009/08/zombie-science-of-evidence-based.html"&gt;http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2009/08/zombie-science-of-evidence-based.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[22] ‘Conspiracy in Green’ booklet by Andrew Montford. 2011:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bishop-hill.net/conspiracy-in-green/"&gt;http://www.bishop-hill.net/conspiracy-in-green/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Montford"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Montford&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[23] Club of Rome. ‘The First Global Revolution’ (1991). 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/Indelible-Bill-Owens-photo-of-Richie-Ferguson-main.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/Indelible-Bill-Owens-photo-of-Richie-Ferguson-main.jpg" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b&gt;By&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/frank_ryan/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Frank Ryan&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article_body"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Before  our very eyes, a generation of Americans is losing faith in the  American dream and adopting attitudes and behaviors that emphasize  living for the day, not planning to take care of their own futures.&amp;nbsp;  They clearly see the problems ahead and draw rational conclusions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Most  of our problems have been caused by government.&amp;nbsp; The unintended  consequences of poorly thought out legislation or legislation designed  merely to garner votes for re-election is wreaking havoc on economic  opportunity for our country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;For one, the regulatory burden by our government on &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/regblog/2011/10/the-costly-effects-of-regulatory-burdens.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;economic growth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;  is well-known.&amp;nbsp; The regulatory impact of the Dodd-Frank bill, the  Affordable Care Act, No Child Left Behind, and the EPA all influence  costs but, concurrently, adversely affect productivity and our  competitiveness in world markets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TRSUM/index.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Social Security underfunding&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;  has been known since the mid-1970s, yet Congress has failed to enact  any meaningful solution to the problem.&amp;nbsp; The most recent extension of  the 2% tax holiday on the FICA tax will only exacerbate the budget  shortfall.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/node/16960438"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;cost of college education&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; has continued to skyrocket such that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/03/pf/student_loan_debt/index.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;student debt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; is at an all-time high.&amp;nbsp; Many students now find it almost impossible to repay their &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3"&gt;student loans&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editorial-health-insurance-costs-are-crushing-american-families/article_89bef57a-8cac-585e-b7eb-28d7a6f7de0d.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;cost of medical insurance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;  and medical care is prohibitive for most Americans.&amp;nbsp; The Affordable  Care Act was passed with the intent of providing insurance for all  Americans.&amp;nbsp; In reality, all the Act does is reduce income for the  medical care providers and increase costs for younger workers.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Concurrently, despite rapidly dropping home prices, homes are not appreciably &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://economistsoutlook.blogs.realtor.org/2011/03/07/median-age-of-home-buyers-2001-2010/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;more affordable&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;  for the average American.&amp;nbsp; Increasing property taxes, pay freezes, and  tighter credit standards have made home ownership seem less likely for  today's generation.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;When  all of these issues and structural changes are reviewed, it should be  no wonder that the millennial generation views work differently from how  an older-generation worker does.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;In  a class that I recently presented to a group of CPAs, I mentioned these  structural changes as a cause for concern in attempts to restart the  economy.&amp;nbsp; I indicated that my concern was that today's employee may not  be taking a long-term perspective toward his career and their community.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;A  student suggested to me that her generation had lost hope. &amp;nbsp;I was a  little stunned by her remark.&amp;nbsp; Her response was not that they have lost  hope for themselves, but instead that they have lost hope in the system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The  student indicated that the people of her generation have no hope of  receiving Social Security, yet they are paying into it.&amp;nbsp; Furthermore,  the people of her generation understand that they will have to provide  for their retirement while attempting to pay off substantial student loans, thereby further cutting disposal income.&amp;nbsp; She also indicated that her generation realizes that &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1"&gt;investing in&lt;/span&gt;  equities for a better future has borne limited results, as seen by the  decimated 401(k) plans and IRAs, such that continued investing makes  little sense.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The  student then went on to advise me that parents are living longer, and  her generation expects to need to care for aging parents. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The  student was convinced that all that she was taught by her parents -- to  save, to work hard, to provide for another day -- is pure fiction.&amp;nbsp; Her  parents' American Dream is her generation's nightmare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;She  and her generation have seen bad behaviors continuously rewarded by our  government. &amp;nbsp;They have seen the victimization of society in the minds  of elected leaders with no one held accountable for his or her actions.&amp;nbsp;  The current generation has seen an unparalleled growth of entitlement  behavior in many of their peers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new roman,times;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The  net result of all of this is that the productive element of her  generation intends to live for the moment.&amp;nbsp; She and her friends intend  to achieve a work-life balance that properly reflects this new  understanding of what life will be like for her generation.&amp;nbsp; In their  minds, why plan for retirement if retirement is never an option?&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: times new rom
