Focused Rant

Venus and the Flu

2009-04-25T16:50:00.003-03:00

Venus has the closest approach to us in 8 years, and as Hoyle predicted, 45 days later we have a heapload of flu bugs.

Now we have swine flu!

Each flu is slightly different as it percolates through our atmosphere and lands down to the ground, often skipping northern latitudes, even though it likely enters through the north polar magnetic hole, where the plasma is channeled into creating the northern lights.

If we begin to understand that flu life is the smallest most basic life, then we can say with some authority that perhaps most viruses are created in rarefied plasma environments.

In this case, I could imagine Venus as a literal sea of bugs, as its atmosphere is so hot as so thick.

Here is a link to a paper on the subject.

Thank you Fred Hoyle!

Questions for Baxter

2009-04-25T16:44:00.000-03:00

QUESTION TO BAXTER EXECUTIVES

by Alexander S Jones
former employee of NIH
LSBR / NIAMS

You initially claimed “trade secrets” regarding the vaccine contamination. Could you explain why Baxter initially attempted to cover this up?

Despite popular media claims to the contrary, coinfection of H5N1 and H3N2 would not produce simple reassortment. It would produce complex in vivo recombination of many competing strains in the infected host. Does Baxter agree with this assessment?

Furthermore the complex coinfection of H5N1 and H3N2 in a human would produce natural selection pressure for maximum virulence. Does Baxter dispute this claim? If so, why? If not, please explain why on earth would Baxter attempt to cover up an incident which may well have been lethal to 99% of humanity?

The book “Evolutionary Dynamics” suggest that viral coinfection selects for both maximum virulence and infectivity. Does Baxter dispute these mathematics? Considering this danger is well known among virologists, can Baxter immediately explain the precise sequence of events, including dates, times, and people involved, which led to contamination in over 16 labs in three separate countries in Europe with coinfected H5N1 and H3N2 material?

Is Baxter prepared to cooperate with all relevant authorities in the multiple countries to publicly release the genetic sequences of the contaminated material? Furthermore, what Clade was Baxter’s H5N1 vaccine from? Clade 1? Clade 2? Clade 3? Other? Is part of the reason Baxter is so eager to destroy the existing vaccine material that executives are concerned the world will find out their ‘custom’ H5N1 does not resemble the strains circulating in waterfowl?

Can Baxter please disclose all financial and social connections it has with the incoming Obama administration (as Baxter and its executives are based near Chicago) and whether Baxter stood to benefit financially from the outbreak of a pandemic through a contaminated season influenza vaccine in late 2009? Does Treasury Sec Geithner hold shares in Baxter? If so, how many shares?

Baxter Director Gail Fosler has profoundly disturbing connections to powerful organizations including the Council on Foreign Relations, high-level Chinese CCP leadership, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The question is simple: Is Baxter involved in biological weapons programs? Are any of these programs ‘international’ in scope? If so , who is providing the funding? What is the nature and intent of these programs? Are any of these programs part of the so-called ‘black budget’? That is , is Baxter involved in any “Special Access Programs” , as defined by Congress? Are any of these ‘waived’ “Special Access Programs”? Are any of these ‘unacknowledged’ ‘waived’ Special Access Programs (also known as ‘black programs’)?

Can Baxter explain exactly how a Level 3 biological warfare pathogen found its way into H3N2 material, regardless whether or not this experimental vaccine material was ‘intended’ for eventual use in humans or not. Is the contaminated H5N1 strain genetically engineered? If so, by whom? Does the NS protein in Baxter’s H5N1 material contain polymorphisms which suppress human interferon production? Was Baxter’s H5N1a full set of influenza genes? Or was it just the hemaglutanin and neuraminidase? Did Baxter’s H5N1 contain a poly-basic cleavage site on the Hemaglutanin surface protein? Why were the samples of experimental vaccine material not irradiated?

Are Baxter executives prepared to testify before Congress , under oath, that their corporation is not involved in biological warfare programs?

Baxter’s explanation so far has been chilling to put it mildly. Furthermore, it would be in Baxter’s best interest, if it were not involved in criminal activities, to set the record straight? Does Baxter not agree its silence and weak explanations suggest possible criminal malfeasance? If not criminally involved, why will Baxter executives not provide a complete and full account of this supposed contamination, (if indeed it was contamination rather than intentional weaponization.)

Do Baxter executives have any financial and/or personal connections to Toyama Pharma and T-705, an influenza polymerase inhibitor? Has Baxter experimented with influenza polymerase inhibitors? Will Baxter disclose precisely what its financial positions are regarding H5N1 pandemic ‘therapy’ included its intended market timelines? The ‘contamination’ was an extremely serious breach of risk as Baxter could have easily exterminated most of the human race if this experimental material was made into vaccines.

Why does Baxter hold patents on avian influenza RNA polymerase promoters? What legitimate public health and/or scientific interest does Baxter have in this research? (see Application number: 10/547,155, Publication number: US 2007/0134270 A) Will all Baxter executives come forward and immediately renounce weaponization of biologics? Are Baxter executives concerned about possible civil and/or criminal actions brought against them? Why or why not?

What are the financial connections between the Federal Reserve System and Baxter? Does Baxter receive funding from JP Morgan or Goldman Sachs? Does Baxter receive any national security exemptions (waivers)?

What specific steps , including a precise timeline, does Baxter plan on doing to allay the concerns of both the public and the scientific community? Again, can Baxter please describe the precise nature of their H5N1 strain, including genetic sequences, from where it was obtained, and whether it was genetically engineered? If genetically engineered, what modifications were made? Single nucleotide polymorphisms? RNA Recombination? Reassortment? What exactly, was in this experimental vaccine material? We want scientific answers immediately.

Pirating - You are being lied to

2009-04-12T19:44:00.002-03:00

Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as "one of the great menace of our times" have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.

Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" - from 1650 to 1730 - the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage thief that lingers today was created by the British government in a great propaganda-heave. Many ordinary people believed it was false: pirates were often rescued from the gallows by supportive crowds. Why? What did they see that we can't? In his book Villains of All nations, the historian Marcus Rediker pores through the evidence to find out. If you became a merchant or navy sailor then - plucked from the docks of London's East End, young and hungry - you ended up in a floating wooden Hell. You worked all hours on a cramped, half-starved ship, and if you slacked off for a second, the all-powerful captain would whip you with the Cat O' Nine Tails. If you slacked consistently, you could be thrown overboard. And at the end of months or years of this, you were often cheated of your wages.

Pirates were the first people to rebel against this world. They mutinied against their tyrannical captains - and created a different way of working on the seas. Once they had a ship, the pirates elected their captains, and made all their decisions collectively. They shared their bounty out in what Rediker calls "one of the most egalitarian plans for the disposition of resources to be found anywhere in the eighteenth century." They even took in escaped African slaves and lived with them as equals. The pirates showed "quite clearly - and subversively - that ships did not have to be run in the brutal and oppressive ways of the merchant service and the Royal navy." This is why they were popular, despite being unproductive thieves.

The words of one pirate from that lost age - a young British man called William Scott - should echo into this new age of piracy. Just before he was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina, he said: "What I did was to keep me from perishing. I was forced to go a-pirating to live." In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country's food supply and dump our nuclear waste in their seas.

Yes: nuclear waste. As soon as the government was gone, mysterious European ships started appearing off the coast of Somalia, dumping vast barrels into the ocean. The coastal population began to sicken. At first they suffered strange rashes, nausea and malformed babies. Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury - you name it." Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. When I asked Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: "Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention."

At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia's seas of their greatest resource: seafood. We have destroyed our own fish-stocks by over-exploitation - and now we have moved on to theirs. More than $300m worth of tuna, shrimp, lobster and other sea-life is being stolen every year by vast trawlers illegally sailing into Somalia's unprotected seas. The local fishermen have suddenly lost their livelihoods, and they are starving. Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka 100km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: "If nothing is done, there soon won't be much fish left in our coastal waters."

This is the context in which the men we are calling "pirates" have emerged. Everyone agrees they were ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least wage a 'tax' on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia - and it's not hard to see why. In a surreal telephone interview, one of the pirate leaders, Sugule Ali, said their motive was "to stop illegal fishing and dumping in our waters... We don't consider ourselves sea bandits. We consider sea bandits [to be] those who illegally fish and dump in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas." William Scott would understand those words.

No, this doesn't make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters - especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But the "pirates" have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somalian news-site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking - and it found 70 percent "strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence of the country's territorial waters." During the revolutionary war in America, George Washington and America's founding fathers paid pirates to protect America's territorial waters, because they had no navy or coastguard of their own. Most Americans supported them. Is this so different?

Did we expect starving Somalians to stand passively on their beaches, paddling in our nuclear waste, and watch us snatch their fish to eat in restaurants in London and Paris and Rome? We didn't act on those crimes - but when some of the fishermen responded by disrupting the transit-corridor for 20 percent of the world's oil supply, we begin to shriek about "evil." If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause - our crimes - before we send in the gun-boats to root out Somalia's criminals.

The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know "what he meant by keeping possession of the sea." The pirate smiled, and responded: "What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you, who do it with a great fleet, are called emperor." Once again, our great imperial fleets sail in today - but who is the robber?

Johann Hari

Columnist, London Independent

Posted February 4, 2009 | 05:12 AM (EST)

www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html

Easter

2009-04-12T18:04:00.003-03:00

Easter is upon us and I went through pages and pages looking for exactly what it means. Knowing that it came from the worship of the planet Venus by Babylonians was only so helpful. I knew that Ishtar was the phonetic equal of Easter and the rabbits and eggs were carryovers from the past gods.

I couldn't fathom why we miss this point. Why do we miss that these festivals were practically universal and adopted by Catholicism after it became apparent that the "pagans to be converted" were not changing as much as the church liked.

The worship of Ishtar is important as it is she who brings about Jesus (the sun) and birthed him from Ba'al or Zeus. This kinda makes Joseph, Zeus and Ishtar, Mary... This is the planet's tale told again and again throughout history and we walk over it without examining it. We bring these people to earth and 'historify' them. We so need to look at all these point of evidence we are ignoring.

I hope that you have a happy Ishtar, and I hope you see there is much more to this world than interpretations of bringing the planets back down to earth.

Remember that Catholic (from the Romans themselves) means "One World of thought". The first "World order" which attempted to adopt as much as it could to bring all members of the empire under one religion.

Unfortunately it came to late, and the empire fell. Looks like the same actions are afoot to create a new religion and it's very creepy how much effort is being poured in to making it happen.

Don't bow to any man. We are completely falliable and not as the gods were ;P

The Club of Rome

2009-03-19T13:57:00.002-03:00

HTTP://GREEN-AGENDA.COM/

09.03.08, 5:52pm

Since publishing this website I have received a number of inquiries regarding my background and motivation. So I have decided to add this page to describe my personal 'path of discovery' and why I felt compelled to write these articles. So here goes...

During my youth I spent many hours in the 'great outdoors' hiking, climbing, fishing and sailing, and I came to the conclusion that protecting and managing the environment would be an interesting and useful career. So I headed off to university and completed a bachelors degree in Biology, and then earned a postgraduate diploma and a masters degree in Environmental Science. Since then I have worked for a number of government environmental agencies and am currently employed as an Environmental Analyst in an agency that is responsible for implementing sustainable development in accordance with the requirements of Agenda 21. Although I had studied various UN conventions, treaties and protocols at university I did not realise their true implications until I became involved in preparing policies and action plans to implement them 'on the ground'.

Over time I became more and more disconcerted with the intrusive regulations being introduced in the name of environmental protection. It seemed to me that almost every activity now required a government permit. I kept asking myself 'what has this got to do with environmental management?' Even more disturbing was the fact that all our policies and plans were required to begin with a description of how they met the objectives of Agenda 21 and various other UN agreements, and were audited too determine how they complied with UN requirements. So I started looking into who the primary architects were behind Agenda 21, the Earth Charter, the GBA, the Kyoto Protocol, and the various conventions on biodiversity and conservation.

I was amazed to find that the same names kept appearing. In fact the same person is listed as the chief author of all those documents I just listed. He also headed the UN Reform Committee, authored the UN report on Global Governance, was the Assistant Secretary-General of the UN (#2) in charge, president of the UN 'University of Peace' and the leader of the Baha'i movement in North America. His name is Maurice Strong.

So I read every book, speech and lecture I could find authored by Mr Strong. I was absolutely anstonished by his worldview. And this man was #2 in charge of the UN for 12 years!! I also researched the other leaders, and most vocal proponents, of the modern green movement. I was amazed that the same phrases and concepts were being used by all of them. I read all the UN environmental reports and policies, all Al Gore's books, all of James Lovelock's books, Robert Muller, Paul Erhlich, Tim Flannery, and many more. They are full of references to the earth as a sacred sentient super-organism which is being destroyed by humanity's untamed destructive behaviour.

Then I started researching the speeches given by political leaders who are the most vocal about green issues e.g. Tony Blair, Angela Merkel, Arnie, Gordon Brown, Gorbachev etc. It is as if they are all singing off the same songsheet. I also looked into the writings of the most vocal scientists such as James Hansen, Stephen Scheinder and Michael Mann. I was again amazed how many times they refer to the earth as a sentient super-organism called Gaia. Anyway ... I have been researching lots of people and documents. And then I wondered if there were any links between these people, since they had such similar ideologies.

Then I discovered that many of them belonged to a group known as the Club of Rome. Current members of this 'Club' include Al Gore, Javier Solana, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter, Stephen Scheider, Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, George Soros, Ted Turner and many other influential leaders. Sometimes I think this must just be a bad dream, but when you read what they say, in their OWN words, and then you see it all unfolding...

And so I have become personally convinced that 'man-made' climate change is a deceitful and devious fraud being used to implement a much deeper agenda. In order to protect Gaia from the 'voracious beast of capitalism' they must strike at the beast's lifeblood - fossil fuels. And in order to transition to 'sustainable global earth community' they must implement a new form of governance which will allow them to control, and ultimately reduce, human activity on this planet. I was quite dismayed when I first discovered all this, especially since I am a Christian, and wondered 'why did I waste seven years training for a career in an area that is being used to deceive so many?' and I then felt strongly compelled to warn others as best I could. And so I decided to write this website. I have tried to keep it as clear and concise, except it seems for this page, and use as many quotes and excerpts from official documents as possible.

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Fascist Ecology

2009-03-13T12:11:00.002-03:00

"The “green wing” of the NSDAP was not a group of innocents, confused and manipulated idealists, or reformers from within; they were conscious promoters and executors of a vile program explicitly dedicated to inhuman racist violence, massive political repression and worldwide military domination. Their ‘ecological’ involvements, far from offsetting these fundamental commitments, deepened and radicalized them. In the end, their configuration of environmental politics was directly and substantially responsible for organized mass murder."

The “Green Wing” of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents
Peter Staudenmaier

“We recognize that separating humanity from nature, from the whole of life, leads to humankind’s own destruction and to the death of nations. Only through a re-integration of humanity into the whole of nature can our people be made stronger. That is the fundamental point of the biological tasks of our age. Humankind alone is no longer the focus of thought, but rather life as a whole . . . This striving toward connectedness with the totality of life, with nature itself, a nature into which we are born, this is the deepest meaning and the true essence of National Socialist thought.” 1

In our zeal to condemn the status quo, radicals often carelessly toss about epithets like “fascist” and “ecofascist,” thus contributing to a sort of conceptual inflation that in no way furthers effective social critique. In such a situation, it is easy to overlook the fact that there are still virulent strains of fascism in our political culture which, however marginal, demand our attention. One of the least recognized or understood of these strains is the phenomenon one might call “actually existing ecofascism,” that is, the preoccupation of authentically fascist movements with environmentalist concerns. In order to grasp the peculiar intensity and endurance of this affiliation, we would do well to examine more closely its most notorious historical incarnation, the so-called “green wing” of German National Socialism.

Despite an extensive documentary record, the subject remains an elusive one, underappreciated by professional historians and environmental activists alike. In English-speaking countries as well as in Germany itself, the very existence of a “green wing” in the Nazi movement, much less its inspiration, goals, and consequences, has yet to be adequately researched and analyzed. Most of the handful of available interpretations succumb to either an alarming intellectual affinity with their subject.” 2 or a naive refusal to examine the full extent of the “ideological overlap between nature conservation and National Socialism.” 3 This article presents a brief and necessarily schematic overview of the ecological components of Nazism, emphasizing both their central role in Nazi ideology and their practical implementation during the Third Reich. A preliminary survey of nineteenth and twentieth century precursors to classical ecofascism should serve to illuminate the conceptual underpinnings common to all forms of reactionary ecology.

Two initial clarifications are in order. First, the terms “environmental” and “ecological” are here used more or less interchangeably to denote ideas, attitudes, and practices commonly associated with the contemporary environmental movement. This is not an anachronism; it simply indicates an interpretive approach which highlights connections to present-day concerns. Second, this approach is not meant to endorse the historiographically discredited notion that pre-1933 historical data can or should be read as “leading inexorably” to the Nazi calamity. Rather, our concern here is with discerning ideological continuities and tracing political genealogies, in an attempt to understand the past in light of our current situation — to make history relevant to the present social and ecological crisis.

The Roots of the Blood and Soil Mystique
Germany is not only the birthplace of the science of ecology and the site of Green politics’ rise to prominence; it has also been home to a peculiar synthesis of naturalism and nationalism forged under the influence of the Romantic tradition’s anti-Enlightenment irrationalism. Two nineteenth century figures exemplify this ominous conjunction: Ernst Moritz Arndt and Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl.

While best known in Germany for his fanatical nationalism, Arndt was also dedicated to the cause of the peasantry, which lead him to a concern for the welfare of the land itself. Historians of German environmentalism mention him as the earliest example of ‘ecological’ thinking in the modern sense. 4 His remarkable 1815 article On the Care and Conservation of Forests, written at the dawn of industrialization in Central Europe, rails against shortsighted exploitation of woodlands and soil, condemning deforestation and its economic causes. At times he wrote in terms strikingly similar to those of contemporary biocentrism: “When one sees nature in a necessary connectedness and interrelationship, then all things are equally important — shrub, worm, plant, human, stone, nothing first or last, but all one single unity.” 5

Arndt’s environmentalism, however, was inextricably bound up with virulently xenophobic nationalism. His eloquent and prescient appeals for ecological sensitivity were couched always in terms of the well-being of the German soil and the German people, and his repeated lunatic polemics against miscegenation, demands for teutonic racial purity, and epithets against the French, Slavs, and Jews marked every aspect of his thought. At the very outset of the nineteenth century the deadly connection between love of land and militant racist nationalism was firmly set in place.

Riehl, a student of Arndt, further developed this sinister tradition. In some respects his ‘green’ streak went significantly deeper than Arndt’s; presaging certain tendencies in recent environmental activism, his 1853 essay Field and Forest ended with a call to fight for “the rights of wilderness.” But even here nationalist pathos set the tone: “We must save the forest, not only so that our ovens do not become cold in winter, but also so that the pulse of life of the people continues to beat warm and joyfully, so that Germany remains German.” 6 Riehl was an implacable opponent of the rise of industrialism and urbanization; his overtly antisemitic glorification of rural peasant values and undifferentiated condemnation of modernity established him as the “founder of agrarian romanticism and anti-urbanism.” 7

These latter two fixations matured in the second half of the nineteenth century in the context of the völkisch movement, a powerful cultural disposition and social tendency which united ethnocentric populism with nature mysticism. At the heart of the völkisch temptation was a pathological response to modernity. In the face of the very real dislocations brought on by the triumph of industrial capitalism and national unification, völkisch thinkers preached a return to the land, to the simplicity and wholeness of a life attuned to nature’s purity. The mystical effusiveness of this perverted utopianism was matched by its political vulgarity. While “the Volkish movement aspired to reconstruct the society that was sanctioned by history, rooted in nature, and in communion with the cosmic life spirit,” 8 it pointedly refused to locate the sources of alienation, rootlessness and environmental destruction in social structures, laying the blame instead to rationalism, cosmopolitanism, and urban civilization. The stand-in for all of these was the age-old object of peasant hatred and middle-class resentment: the Jews. “The Germans were in search of a mysterious wholeness that would restore them to primeval happiness, destroying the hostile milieu of urban industrial civilization that the Jewish conspiracy had foisted on them.” 9

Reformulating traditional German antisemitism into nature-friendly terms, the völkisch movement carried a volatile amalgam of nineteenth century cultural prejudices, Romantic obsessions with purity, and anti-Enlightenment sentiment into twentieth century political discourse. The emergence of modern ecology forged the final link in the fateful chain which bound together aggressive nationalism, mystically charged racism, and environmentalist predilections. In 1867 the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined the term ‘ecology’ and began to establish it as a scientific discipline dedicated to studying the interactions between organism and environment. Haeckel was also the chief popularizer of Darwin and evolutionary theory for the German-speaking world, and developed a peculiar sort of social darwinist philosophy he called ‘monism.’ The German Monist League he founded combined scientifically based ecological holism with völkisch social views. Haeckel believed in nordic racial superiority, strenuously opposed race mixing and enthusiastically supported racial eugenics. His fervent nationalism became fanatical with the onset of World War I, and he fulminated in antisemitic tones against the post-war Council Republic in Bavaria.

In this way “Haeckel contributed to that special variety of German thought which served as the seed bed for National Socialism. He became one of Germany’s major ideologists for racism, nationalism and imperialism.” 10 Near the end of his life he joined the Thule Society, “a secret, radically right-wing organization which played a key role in the establishment of the Nazi movement.” 11 But more than merely personal continuities are at stake here. The pioneer of scientific ecology, along with his disciples Willibald Hentschel, Wilhelm Bölsche and Bruno Wille, profoundly shaped the thinking of subsequent generations of environmentalists by embedding concern for the natural world in a tightly woven web of regressive social themes. From its very beginnings, then, ecology was bound up in an intensely reactionary political framework.

The specific contours of this early marriage of ecology and authoritarian social views are highly instructive. At the center of this ideological complex is the direct, unmediated application of biological categories to the social realm. Haeckel held that “civilization and the life of nations are governed by the same laws as prevail throughout nature and organic life.” 12 This notion of ‘natural laws’ or ‘natural order’ has long been a mainstay of reactionary environmental thought. Its concomitant is anti-humanism:

Thus, for the Monists, perhaps the most pernicious feature of European bourgeois civilization was the inflated importance which it attached to the idea of man in general, to his existence and to his talents, and to the belief that through his unique rational faculties man could essentially recreate the world and bring about a universally more harmonious and ethically just social order. [Humankind was] an insignificant creature when viewed as part of and measured against the vastness of the cosmos and the overwhelming forces of nature. 13
Other Monists extended this anti-humanist emphasis and mixed it with the traditional völkisch motifs of indiscriminate anti-industrialism and anti-urbanism as well as the newly emerging pseudo-scientific racism. The linchpin, once again, was the conflation of biological and social categories. The biologist Raoul Francé, founding member of the Monist League, elaborated so-called Lebensgesetze, ‘laws of life’ through which the natural order determines the social order. He opposed racial mixing, for example, as “unnatural.” Francé is acclaimed by contemporary ecofascists as a “pioneer of the ecology movement.” 14

Francé‘s colleague Ludwig Woltmann, another student of Haeckel, insisted on a biological interpretation for all societal phenomena, from cultural attitudes to economic arrangements. He stressed the supposed connection between environmental purity and ‘racial’ purity: “Woltmann took a negative attitude toward modern industrialism. He claimed that the change from an agrarian to an industrial society had hastened the decline of the race. In contrast to nature, which engendered the harmonic forms of Germanism, there were the big cities, diabolical and inorganic, destroying the virtues of the race.” 15

Thus by the early years of the twentieth century a certain type of ‘ecological’ argumentation, saturated with right-wing political content, had attained a measure of respectability within the political culture of Germany. During the turbulent period surrounding World War I, the mixture of ethnocentric fanaticism, regressive rejection of modernity and genuine environmental concern proved to be a very potent potion indeed.

The Youth Movement and the Weimar Era
The chief vehicle for carrying this ideological constellation to prominence was the youth movement, an amorphous phenomenon which played a decisive but highly ambivalent role in shaping German popular culture during the first three tumultuous decades of this century. Also known as the Wandervögel (which translates roughly as ‘wandering free spirits’), the youth movement was a hodge-podge of countercultural elements, blending neo-Romanticism, Eastern philosophies, nature mysticism, hostility to reason, and a strong communal impulse in a confused but no less ardent search for authentic, non-alienated social relations. Their back-to-the-land emphasis spurred a passionate sensitivity to the natural world and the damage it suffered. They have been aptly characterized as ‘right-wing hippies,’ for although some sectors of the movement gravitated toward various forms of emancipatory politics (though usually shedding their environmentalist trappings in the process), most of the Wandervöge were eventually absorbed by the Nazis. This shift from nature worship to Führer worship is worth examining.

The various strands of the youth movement shared a common self-conception: they were a purportedly ‘non-political’ response to a deep cultural crisis, stressing the primacy of direct emotional experience over social critique and action. They pushed the contradictions of their time to the breaking point, but were unable or unwilling to take the final step toward organized, focused social rebellion, “convinced that the changes they wanted to effect in society could not be brought about by political means, but only by the improvement of the individual.” 16 This proved to be a fatal error. “Broadly speaking, two ways of revolt were open to them: they could have pursued their radical critique of society, which in due course would have brought them into the camp of social revolution. [But] the Wandervögel chose the other form of protest against society — romanticism.” 17

This posture lent itself all too readily to a very different kind of political mobilization: the ‘unpolitical’ zealotry of fascism. The youth movement did not simply fail in its chosen form of protest, it was actively realigned when its members went over to the Nazis by the thousands. Its countercultural energies and its dreams of harmony with nature bore the bitterest fruit. This is, perhaps, the unavoidable trajectory of any movement which acknowledges and opposes social and ecological problems but does not recognize their systemic roots or actively resist the political and economic structures which generate them. Eschewing societal transformation in favor of personal change, an ostensibly apolitical disaffection can, in times of crisis, yield barbaric results.

The attraction such perspectives exercised on idealistic youth is clear: the enormity of the crisis seemed to enjoin a total rejection of its apparent causes. It is in the specific form of this rejection that the danger lies. Here the work of several more theoretical minds from the period is instructive. The philosopher Ludwig Klages profoundly influenced the youth movement and particularly shaped their ecological consciousness. He authored a tremendously important essay titled “Man and Earth” for the legendary Meissner gathering of the Wandervögel in 1913. 18 An extraordinarily poignant text and the best known of all Klages’ work, it is not only “one of the very greatest manifestoes of the radical ecopacifist movement in Germany,” 19 but also a classic example of the seductive terminology of reactionary ecology.

“Man and Earth” anticipated just about all of the themes of the contemporary ecology movement. It decried the accelerating extinction of species, disturbance of global ecosystemic balance, deforestation, destruction of aboriginal peoples and of wild habitats, urban sprawl, and the increasing alienation of people from nature. In emphatic terms it disparaged Christianity, capitalism, economic utilitarianism, hyperconsumption and the ideology of ‘progress.’ It even condemned the environmental destructiveness of rampant tourism and the slaughter of whales, and displayed a clear recognition of the planet as an ecological totality. All of this in 1913 !

It may come as a surprise, then, to learn that Klages was throughout his life politically archconservative and a venomous antisemite. One historian labels him a “Volkish fanatic” and another considers him simply “an intellectual pacemaker for the Third Reich” who “paved the way for fascist philosophy in many important respects.” 20 In “Man and Earth” a genuine outrage at the devastation of the natural environment is coupled with a political subtext of cultural despair. 21 Klages’ diagnosis of the ills of modern society, for all its declamations about capitalism, returns always to a single culprit: “Geist.” His idiosyncratic use of this term, which means mind or intellect, was meant to denounce not only hyperrationalism or instrumental reason, but rational thought itself. Such a wholesale indictment of reason cannot help but have savage political implications. It forecloses any chance of rationally reconstructing society’s relationship with nature and justifies the most brutal authoritarianism. But the lessons of Klages’ life and work have been hard for ecologists to learn. In 1980, “Man and Earth” was republished as an esteemed and seminal treatise to accompany the birth of the German Greens.

Another philosopher and stern critic of Enlightenment who helped bridge fascism and environmentalism was Martin Heidegger. A much more renowned thinker than Klages, Heidegger preached “authentic Being” and harshly criticized modern technology, and is therefore often celebrated as a precursor of ecological thinking. On the basis of his critique of technology and rejection of humanism, contemporary deep ecologists have elevated Heidegger to their pantheon of eco-heroes:

Heidegger’s critique of anthropocentric humanism, his call for humanity to learn to “let things be,” his notion that humanity is involved in a “play” or “dance” with earth, sky, and gods, his meditation on the possibility of an authentic mode of “dwelling” on the earth, his complaint that industrial technology is laying waste to the earth, his emphasis on the importance of local place and “homeland,” his claim that humanity should guard and preserve things, instead of dominating them — all these aspects of Heidegger’s thought help to support the claim that he is a major deep ecological theorist. 22
Such effusions are, at best, dangerously naive. They suggest a style of thought utterly oblivious to the history of fascist appropriations of all the elements the quoted passage praises in Heidegger. (To his credit, the author of the above lines, a major deep ecological theorist in his own right, has since changed his position and eloquently urged his colleagues to do the same.) 23 As for the philosopher of Being himself, he was — unlike Klages, who lived in Switzerland after 1915 — an active member of the Nazi party and for a time enthusiastically, even adoringly supported the Führer. His mystical panegyrics to Heimat (homeland) were complemented by a deep antisemitism, and his metaphysically phrased broadsides against technology and modernity converged neatly with populist demagogy. Although he lived and taught for thirty years after the fall of the Third Reich, Heidegger never once publicly regretted, much less renounced, his involvement with National Socialism, nor even perfunctorily condemned its crimes. His work, whatever its philosophical merits, stands today as a signal admonition about the political uses of anti-humanism in ecological garb.

In addition to the youth movement and protofascist philosophies, there were, of course, practical efforts at protecting natural habitats during the Weimar period. Many of these projects were profoundly implicated in the ideology which culminated in the victory of ‘Blood and Soil.’ A 1923 recruitment pitch for a woodlands preservation outfit gives a sense of the environmental rhetoric of the time:

“In every German breast the German forest quivers with its caverns and ravines, crags and boulders, waters and winds, legends and fairy tales, with its songs and its melodies, and awakens a powerful yearning and a longing for home; in all German souls the German forest lives and weaves with its depth and breadth, its stillness and strength, its might and dignity, its riches and its beauty — it is the source of German inwardness, of the German soul, of German freedom. Therefore protect and care for the German forest for the sake of the elders and the youth, and join the new German “League for the Protection and Consecration of the German Forest.“24
The mantra-like repetition of the word “German” and the mystical depiction of the sacred forest fuse together, once again, nationalism and naturalism. This intertwinement took on a grisly significance with the collapse of the Weimar republic. For alongside such relatively innocuous conservation groups, another organization was growing which offered these ideas a hospitable home: the National Socialist German Workers Party, known by its acronym NSDAP. Drawing on the heritage of Arndt, Riehl, Haeckel, and others (all of whom were honored between 1933 and 1945 as forebears of triumphant National Socialism), the Nazi movement’s incorporation of environmentalist themes was a crucial factor in its rise to popularity and state power.

Nature in National Socialist Ideology
The reactionary ecological ideas whose outlines are sketched above exerted a powerful and lasting influence on many of the central figures in the NSDAP. Weimar culture, after all, was fairly awash in such theories, but the Nazis gave them a peculiar inflection. The National Socialist “religion of nature,” as one historian has described it, was a volatile admixture of primeval teutonic nature mysticism, pseudo-scientific ecology, irrationalist anti-humanism, and a mythology of racial salvation through a return to the land. Its predominant themes were ‘natural order,’ organicist holism and denigration of humanity: “Throughout the writings, not only of Hitler, but of most Nazi ideologues, one can discern a fundamental deprecation of humans vis-à-vis nature, and, as a logical corollary to this, an attack upon human efforts to master nature.“25 Quoting a Nazi educator, the same source continues: “anthropocentric views in general had to be rejected. They would be valid only ‘if it is assumed that nature has been created only for man. We decisively reject this attitude. According to our conception of nature, man is a link in the living chain of nature just as any other organism’.” 26

Such arguments have a chilling currency within contemporary ecological discourse: the key to social-ecological harmony is ascertaining “the eternal laws of nature’s processes” (Hitler) and organizing society to correspond to them. The Führer was particularly fond of stressing the “helplessness of humankind in the face of nature’s everlasting law.“27 Echoing Haeckel and the Monists, Mein Kampf announces: “When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against nature must lead to their own downfall.“28

The authoritarian implications of this view of humanity and nature become even clearer in the context of the Nazis’ emphasis on holism and organicism. In 1934 the director of the Reich Agency for Nature Protection, Walter Schoenichen, established the following objectives for biology curricula: “Very early, the youth must develop an understanding of the civic importance of the ‘organism’, i.e. the co-ordination of all parts and organs for the benefit of the one and superior task of life.“29 This (by now familiar) unmediated adaptation of biological concepts to social phenomena served to justify not only the totalitarian social order of the Third Reich but also the expansionist politics of Lebensraum (the plan of conquering ‘living space’ in Eastern Europe for the German people). It also provided the link between environmental purity and racial purity:

Two central themes of biology education follow [according to the Nazis] from the holistic perspective: nature protection and eugenics. If one views nature as a unified whole, students will automatically develop a sense for ecology and environmental conservation. At the same time, the nature protection concept will direct attention to the urbanized and ‘overcivilized’ modern human race.30
In many varieties of the National Socialist world view ecological themes were linked with traditional agrarian romanticism and hostility to urban civilization, all revolving around the idea of rootedness in nature. This conceptual constellation, especially the search for a lost connection to nature, was most pronounced among the neo-pagan elements in the Nazi leadership, above all Heinrich Himmler, Alfred Rosenberg, and Walther Darré. Rosenberg wrote in his colossal The Myth of the 20th Century: “Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colors, thereby fostering racial chaos.“31

Such musings, it must be stressed, were not mere rhetoric; they reflected firmly held beliefs and, indeed, practices at the very top of the Nazi hierarchy which are today conventionally associated with ecological attitudes. Hitler and Himmler were both strict vegetarians and animal lovers, attracted to nature mysticism and homeopathic cures, and staunchly opposed to vivisection and cruelty to animals. Himmler even established experimental organic farms to grow herbs for SS medicinal purposes. And Hitler, at times, could sound like a veritable Green utopian, discussing authoritatively and in detail various renewable energy sources (including environmentally appropriate hydropower and producing natural gas from sludge) as alternatives to coal, and declaring “water, winds and tides” as the energy path of the future.32

Even in the midst of war, Nazi leaders maintained their commitment to ecological ideals which were, for them, an essential element of racial rejuvenation. In December 1942, Himmler released a decree “On the Treatment of the Land in the Eastern Territories,” referring to the newly annexed portions of Poland. It read in part:

The peasant of our racial stock has always carefully endeavored to increase the natural powers of the soil, plants, and animals, and to preserve the balance of the whole of nature. For him, respect for divine creation is the measure of all culture. If, therefore, the new Lebensräume (living spaces) are to become a homeland for our settlers, the planned arrangement of the landscape to keep it close to nature is a decisive prerequisite. It is one of the bases for fortifying the German Volk.33
This passage recapitulates almost all of the tropes comprised by classical ecofascist ideology: Lebensraum, Heimat, the agrarian mystique, the health of the Volk, closeness to and respect for nature (explicitly constructed as the standard against which society is to be judged), maintaining nature’s precarious balance, and the earthy powers of the soil and its creatures. Such motifs were anything but personal idiosyncracies on the part of Hitler, Himmler, or Rosenberg; even Göring — who was, along with Goebbels, the member of the Nazi inner circle least hospitable to ecological ideas — appeared at times to be a committed conservationist.34 These sympathies were also hardly restricted to the upper echelons of the party. A study of the membership rolls of several mainstream Weimar era Naturschutz (nature protection) organizations revealed that by 1939, fully 60 percent of these conservationists had joined the NSDAP (compared to about 10 percent of adult men and 25 percent of teachers and lawyers).35 Clearly the affinities between environmentalism and National Socialism ran deep.

At the level of ideology, then, ecological themes played a vital role in German fascism. It would be a grave mistake, however, to treat these elements as mere propaganda, cleverly deployed to mask Nazism’s true character as a technocratic-industrialist juggernaut. The definitive history of German anti-urbanism and agrarian romanticism argues incisively against this view:

Nothing could be more wrong than to suppose that most of the leading National Socialist ideologues had cynically feigned an agrarian romanticism and hostility to urban culture, without any inner conviction and for merely electoral and propaganda purposes, in order to hoodwink the public [ . . . ] In reality, the majority of the leading National Socialist ideologists were without any doubt more or less inclined to agrarian romanticism and anti-urbanism and convinced of the need for a relative re-agrarianization.36
The question remains, however: To what extent did the Nazis actually implement environmental policies during the twelve-year Reich? There is strong evidence that the ‘ecological’ tendency in the party, though largely ignored today, had considerable success for most of the party’s reign. This “green wing” of the NSDAP was represented above all by Walther Darré, Fritz Todt, Alwin Seifert and Rudolf Hess, the four figures who primarily shaped fascist ecology in practice.

Blood and Soil as Official Doctrine
“The unity of blood and soil must be restored,” proclaimed Richard Walther Darré in 1930.37 This infamous phrase denoted a quasi-mystical connection between ‘blood’ (the race or Volk) and ‘soil’ (the land and the natural environment) specific to Germanic peoples and absent, for example, among Celts and Slavs. For the enthusiasts of Blut und Boden, the Jews especially were a rootless, wandering people, incapable of any true relationship with the land. German blood, in other words, engendered an exclusive claim to the sacred German soil. While the term “blood and soil” had been circulating in völkisch circles since at least the Wilhelmine era, it was Darré who first popularized it as a slogan and then enshrined it as a guiding principle of Nazi thought. Harking back to Arndt and Riehl, he envisioned a thoroughgoing ruralization of Germany and Europe, predicated on a revitalized yeoman peasantry, in order to ensure racial health and ecological sustainability.

Darré was one of the party’s chief “race theorists” and was also instrumental in galvanizing peasant support for the Nazis during the critical period of the early 1930s. From 1933 until 1942 he held the posts of Reich Peasant Leader and Minister of Agriculture. This was no minor fiefdom; the agriculture ministry had the fourth largest budget of all the myriad Nazi ministries even well into the war.38 From this position Darré was able to lend vital support to various ecologically oriented initiatives. He played an essential part in unifying the nebulous proto-environmentalist tendencies in National Socialism:

It was Darré who gave the ill-defined anti-civilization, anti-liberal, anti-modern and latent anti-urban sentiments of the Nazi elite a foundation in the agrarian mystique. And it seems as if Darré had an immense influence on the ideology of National Socialism, as if he was able to articulate significantly more clearly than before the values system of an agrarian society contained in Nazi ideology and — above all — to legitimate this agrarian model and give Nazi policy a goal that was clearly oriented toward a far-reaching re-agrarianization.39
This goal was not only quite consonant with imperialist expansion in the name of Lebensraum, it was in fact one of its primary justifications, even motivations. In language replete with the biologistic metaphors of organicism, Darré declared: “The concept of Blood and Soil gives us the moral right to take back as much land in the East as is necessary to establish a harmony between the body of our Volk and the geopolitical space.“40

Aside from providing green camouflage for the colonization of Eastern Europe, Darré worked to install environmentally sensitive principles as the very basis of the Third Reich’s agricultural policy. Even in its most productivist phases, these precepts remained emblematic of Nazi doctrine. When the “Battle for Production” (a scheme to boost the productivity of the agricultural sector) was proclaimed at the second Reich Farmers Congress in 1934, the very first point in the program read “Keep the soil healthy !” But Darré‘s most important innovation was the introduction on a large scale of organic farming methods, significantly labeled “lebensgesetzliche Landbauweise,” or farming according to the laws of life. The term points up yet again the natural order ideology which underlies so much reactionary ecological thought. The impetus for these unprecedented measures came from Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and its techniques of biodynamic cultivation.41

The campaign to institutionalize organic farming encompassed tens of thousands of smallholdings and estates across Germany. It met with considerable resistance from other members of the Nazi hierarchy, above all Backe and Göring. But Darré, with the help of Hess and others, was able to sustain the policy until his forced resignation in 1942 (an event which had little to do with his environmentalist leanings). And these efforts in no sense represented merely Darré‘s personal predilections; as the standard history of German agricultural policy points out, Hitler and Himmler “were in complete sympathy with these ideas.“42 Still, it was largely Darré‘s influence in the Nazi apparatus which yielded, in practice, a level of government support for ecologically sound farming methods and land use planning unmatched by any state before or since.

For these reasons Darré has sometimes been regarded as a forerunner of the contemporary Green movement. His biographer, in fact, once referred to him as the “father of the Greens.“43 Her book Blood and Soil, undoubtedly the best single source on Darré in either German or English, consistently downplays the virulently fascist elements in his thinking, portraying him instead as a misguided agrarian radical. This grave error in judgement indicates the powerfully disorienting pull of an ‘ecological’ aura. Darré‘s published writings alone, dating back to the early twenties, are enough to indict him as a rabidly racist and jingoist ideologue particularly prone to a vulgar and hateful antisemitism (he spoke of Jews, revealingly, as “weeds”). His decade-long tenure as a loyal servant and, moreover, architect of the Nazi state demonstrates his dedication to Hitler’s deranged cause. One account even claims that it was Darré who convinced Hitler and Himmler of the necessity of exterminating the Jews and Slavs.44 The ecological aspects of his thought cannot, in sum, be separated from their thoroughly Nazi framework. Far from embodying the ‘redeeming’ facets of National Socialism, Darré represents the baleful specter of ecofascism in power.

Implementing the Ecofascist Program
It is frequently pointed out that the agrarian and romantic moments in Nazi ideology and policy were in constant tension with, if not in flat contradiction to, the technocratic-industrialist thrust of the Third Reich’s rapid modernization. What is not often remarked is that even these modernizing tendencies had a significant ecological component. The two men principally responsible for sustaining this environmentalist commitment in the midst of intensive industrialization were Reichsminister Fritz Todt and his aide, the high-level planner and engineer Alwin Seifert.

Todt was “one of the most influential National Socialists,“45 directly responsible for questions of technological and industrial policy. At his death in 1942 he headed three different cabinet-level ministries in addition to the enormous quasi-official Organisation Todt, and had “gathered the major technical tasks of the Reich into his own hands.“46 According to his successor, Albert Speer, Todt “loved nature” and “repeatedly had serious run-ins with Bormann, protesting against his despoiling the landscape around Obersalzberg.“47 Another source calls him simply “an ecologist.“48 This reputation is based chiefly on Todt’s efforts to make Autobahn construction — one of the largest building enterprises undertaken in this century — as environmentally sensitive as possible.

The pre-eminent historian of German engineering describes this commitment thus: “Todt demanded of the completed work of technology a harmony with nature and with the landscape, thereby fulfilling modern ecological principles of engineering as well as the ‘organological’ principles of his own era along with their roots in völkisch ideology.“49 The ecological aspects of this approach to construction went well beyond an emphasis on harmonious adaptation to the natural surroundings for aesthetic reasons; Todt also established strict criteria for respecting wetlands, forests and ecologically sensitive areas. But just as with Arndt, Riehl and Darré, these environmentalist concerns were inseparably bound to a völkisch-nationalist outlook. Todt himself expressed this connection succinctly: “The fulfillment of mere transportation purposes is not the final aim of German highway construction. The German highway must be an expression of its surrounding landscape and an expression of the German essence.“50

Todt’s chief advisor and collaborator on environmental issues was his lieutenant Alwin Seifert, whom Todt reportedly once called a “fanatical ecologist.“51 Seifert bore the official title of Reich Advocate for the Landscape, but his nickname within the party was “Mr. Mother Earth.” The appellation was deserved; Seifert dreamed of a “total conversion from technology to nature,“52 and would often wax lyrical about the wonders of German nature and the tragedy of “humankind’s” carelessness. As early as 1934 he wrote to Hess demanding attention to water issues and invoking “work methods that are more attuned to nature.“53 In discharging his official duties Seifert stressed the importance of wilderness and energetically opposed monoculture, wetlands drainage and chemicalized agriculture. He criticized Darré as too moderate, and “called for an agricultural revolution towards ‘a more peasant-like, natural, simple’ method of farming, ‘independent of capital’.“54

With the Third Reich’s technological policy entrusted to figures such as these, even the Nazis’ massive industrial build-up took on a distinctively green hue. The prominence of nature in the party’s philosophical background helped ensure that more radical initiatives often received a sympathetic hearing in the highest offices of the Nazi state. In the mid-thirties Todt and Seifert vigorously pushed for an all-encompassing Reich Law for the Protection of Mother Earth “in order to stem the steady loss of this irreplaceable basis of all life.“55 Seifert reports that all of the ministries were prepared to co-operate save one; only the minister of the economy opposed the bill because of its impact on mining.

But even near-misses such as these would have been unthinkable without the support of Reich Chancellor Rudolf Hess, who provided the “green wing” of the NSDAP a secure anchor at the very top of the party hierarchy. It would be difficult to overestimate Hess’s power and centrality in the complex governmental machinery of the National Socialist regime. He joined the party in 1920 as member #16, and for two decades was Hitler’s devoted personal deputy. He has been described as “Hitler’s closest confidant,“56 and the Führer himself referred to Hess as his “closest advisor.“57 Hess was not only the highest party leader and second in line (after Göring) to succeed Hitler; in addition, all legislation and every decree had to pass through his office before becoming law.

An inveterate nature lover as well as a devout Steinerite, Hess insisted on a strictly biodynamic diet — not even Hitler’s rigorous vegetarian standards were good enough for him — and accepted only homeopathic medicines. It was Hess who introduced Darré to Hitler, thus securing the “green wing” its first power base. He was an even more tenacious proponent of organic farming than Darré, and pushed the latter to take more demonstrative steps in support of the lebensgesetzliche Landbauweise.58 His office was also directly responsible for land use planning across the Reich, employing a number of specialists who shared Seifert’s ecological approach.59

With Hess’s enthusiastic backing, the “green wing” was able to achieve its most notable successes. As early as March 1933, a wide array of environmentalist legislation was approved and implemented at national, regional and local levels. These measures, which included reforestation programs, bills protecting animal and plant species, and preservationist decrees blocking industrial development, undoubtedly “ranked among the most progressive in the world at that time.“60 Planning ordinances were designed for the protection of wildlife habitat and at the same time demanded respect for the sacred German forest. The Nazi state also created the first nature preserves in Europe.

Along with Darré‘s efforts toward re-agrarianization and support for organic agriculture, as well as Todt and Seifert’s attempts to institutionalize an environmentally sensitive land use planning and industrial policy, the major accomplishment of the Nazi ecologists was the Reichsnaturschutzgesetz of 1935. This completely unprecedented “nature protection law” not only established guidelines for safeguarding flora, fauna, and “natural monuments” across the Reich; it also restricted commercial access to remaining tracts of wilderness. In addition, the comprehensive ordinance “required all national, state and local officials to consult with Naturschutz authorities in a timely manner before undertaking any measures that would produce fundamental alterations in the countryside.“61

Although the legislation’s effectiveness was questionable, traditional German environmentalists were overjoyed at its passage. Walter Schoenichen declared it the “definitive fulfillment of the völkisch-romantic longings,“62 and Hans Klose, Schoenichen’s successor as head of the Reich Agency for Nature Protection, described Nazi environmental policy as the “high point of nature protection” in Germany. Perhaps the greatest success of these measures was in facilitating the “intellectual realignment of German Naturschutz” and the integration of mainstream environmentalism into the Nazi enterprise.63

While the achievements of the “green wing” were daunting, they should not be exaggerated. Ecological initiatives were, of course, hardly universally popular within the party. Goebbels, Bormann, and Heydrich, for example, were implacably opposed to them, and considered Darré, Hess and their fellows undependable dreamers, eccentrics, or simply security risks. This latter suspicion seemed to be confirmed by Hess’s famed flight to Britain in 1941; after that point, the environmentalist tendency was for the most part suppressed. Todt was killed in a plane crash in February 1942, and shortly thereafter Darré was stripped of all his posts. For the final three years of the Nazi conflagration the “green wing” played no active role. Their work, however, had long since left an indelible stain.

Fascist Ecology in Context
To make this dismaying and discomforting analysis more palatable, it is tempting to draw precisely the wrong conclusion —namely, that even the most reprehensible political undertakings sometimes produce laudable results. But the real lesson here is just the opposite: Even the most laudable of causes can be perverted and instrumentalized in the service of criminal savagery. The “green wing” of the NSDAP was not a group of innocents, confused and manipulated idealists, or reformers from within; they were conscious promoters and executors of a vile program explicitly dedicated to inhuman racist violence, massive political repression and worldwide military domination. Their ‘ecological’ involvements, far from offsetting these fundamental commitments, deepened and radicalized them. In the end, their configuration of environmental politics was directly and substantially responsible for organized mass murder.

No aspect of the Nazi project can be properly understood without examining its implication in the holocaust. Here, too, ecological arguments played a crucially malevolent role. Not only did the “green wing” refurbish the sanguine antisemitism of traditional reactionary ecology; it catalyzed a whole new outburst of lurid racist fantasies of organic inviolability and political revenge. The confluence of anti-humanist dogma with a fetishization of natural ‘purity’ provided not merely a rationale but an incentive for the Third Reich’s most heinous crimes. Its insidious appeal unleashed murderous energies previously untapped. Finally, the displacement of any social analysis of environmental destruction in favor of mystical ecology served as an integral component in the preparation of the final solution:

To explain the destruction of the countryside and environmental damage, without questioning the German people’s bond to nature, could only be done by not analysing environmental damage in a societal context and by refusing to understand them as an expression of conflicting social interests. Had this been done, it would have led to criticism of National Socialism itself since that was not immune to such forces. One solution was to associate such environmental problems with the destructive influence of other races. National Socialism could then be seen to strive for the elimination of other races in order to allow the German people’s innate understanding and feeling of nature to assert itself, hence securing a harmonic life close to nature for the future.64
This is the true legacy of ecofascism in power: “genocide developed into a necessity under the cloak of environment protection.“65

The experience of the “green wing” of German fascism is a sobering reminder of the political volatility of ecology. It certainly does not indicate any inherent or inevitable connection between ecological issues and right-wing politics; alongside the reactionary tradition surveyed here, there has always been an equally vital heritage of left-libertarian ecology, in Germany as elsewhere.66 But certain patterns can be discerned: “While concerns about problems posed by humankind’s increasing mastery over nature have increasingly been shared by ever larger groups of people embracing a plethora of ideologies, the most consistent ‘pro-natural order’ response found political embodiment on the radical right.“67 This is the common thread which unites merely conservative or even supposedly apolitical manifestations of environmentalism with the straightforwardly fascist variety.

The historical record does, to be sure, belie the vacuous claim that “those who want to reform society according to nature are neither left nor right but ecologically minded.“68 Environmental themes can be mobilized from the left or from the right, indeed they require an explicit social context if they are to have any political valence whatsoever. “Ecology” alone does not prescribe a politics; it must be interpreted, mediated through some theory of society in order to acquire political meaning. Failure to heed this mediated interrelationship between the social and the ecological is the hallmark of reactionary ecology.

As noted above, this failure most commonly takes the form of a call to “reform society according to nature,” that is, to formulate some version of ‘natural order’ or ‘natural law’ and submit human needs and actions to it. As a consequence, the underlying social processes and societal structures which constitute and shape people’s relations with their environment are left unexamined. Such willful ignorance, in turn, obscures the ways in which all conceptions of nature are themselves socially produced, and leaves power structures unquestioned while simultaneously providing them with apparently ‘naturally ordained’ status. Thus the substitution of ecomysticism for clear-sighted social-ecological inquiry has catastrophic political repercussions, as the complexity of the society-nature dialectic is collapsed into a purified Oneness. An ideologically charged ‘natural order’ does not leave room for compromise; its claims are absolute.

For all of these reasons, the slogan advanced by many contemporary Greens, “We are neither right nor left but up front,” is historically naive and politically fatal. The necessary project of creating an emancipatory ecological politics demands an acute awareness and understanding of the legacy of classical ecofascism and its conceptual continuities with present-day environmental discourse. An ‘ecological’ orientation alone, outside of a critical social framework, is dangerously unstable. The record of fascist ecology shows that under the right conditions such an orientation can quickly lead to barbarism.

Footnotes
1. Ernst Lehmann, Biologischer Wille. Wege und Ziele biologischer Arbeit im neuen Reich, München, 1934, pp. 10-11. Lehmann was a professor of botany who characterized National Socialism as “politically applied biology.”
2. Anna Bramwell, author of the only book-length study on the subject, is exemplary in this respect. See her Blood and Soil: Walther Darré and Hitler’s ‘Green Party’, Bourne End, 1985, and Ecology in the 20th Century: A History, New Haven, 1989.
3. See Raymond H. Dominick, The Environmental Movement in Germany: Prophets and Pioneers, 1871-1971, Bloomington, 1992, especially part three, “The Völkisch Temptation.”
4. For example, Dominick, The Environmental Movement in Germany, , p. 22; and Jost Hermand, Grüne Utopien in Deutschland: Zur Geschichte des ökologischen Bewußtseins, Frankfurt, 1991, pp. 44-45.
5. Quoted in Rudolf Krügel, Der Begriff des Volksgeistes in Ernst Moritz Arndts Geschichtsanschauung, Langensalza, 1914, p. 18.
6. Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl, Feld und Wald, Stuttgart, 1857, p. 52.
7. Klaus Bergmann, Agrarromantik und Großstadtfeindschaft, Meisenheim, 1970, p. 38. There is no satisfactory English counterpart to “Großstadtfeindschaft,” a term which signifies hostility to the cosmopolitanism, internationalism, and cultural tolerance of cities as such. This ‘anti-urbanism’ is the precise opposite of the careful critique of urbanization worked out by Murray Bookchin in Urbanization Without Cities, Montréal, 1992, and The Limits of the City, Montréal, 1986.
8. George Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich, New York, 1964, p. 29.
9. Lucy Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews 1933-1945, New York, 1975, pp. 61-62.
10. Daniel Gasman, The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League, New York, 1971, p. xvii.
11. ibid., p. 30. Gasman’s thesis about the politics of Monism is hardly uncontroversial; the book’s central argument, however, is sound.
12. Quoted in Gasman, The Scientific Origins of National Socialism, p. 34.
13. ibid., p. 33.
14. See the foreword to the 1982 reprint of his 1923 book Die Entdeckung der Heimat, published by the far-right MUT Verlag.
15. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology, p. 101.
16. Walter Laqueur, Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement, New York, 1962, p.41.
17. ibid., p. 6. For a concise portrait of the youth movement which draws similiar conclusions, see John De Graaf, “The Wandervogel,” CoEvolution Quarterly, Fall 1977, pp. 14-21.
18. Reprinted in Ludwig Klages, Sämtliche Werke, Band 3, Bonn, 1974, pp. 614-630. No English translation is available.
19. Ulrich Linse, Ökopax und Anarchie. Eine Geschichte der ökologischen Bewegungen in Deutschland, München, 1986, p. 60.
20. Mosse, The Crisis of German Ideology, p. 211, and Laqueur, Young Germany, p. 34.
21. See Fritz Stern, The Politics of Cultural Despair, Berkeley, 1963.
22. Michael Zimmerman, Heidegger’s Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics and Art, Indianapolis, 1990, pp. 242-243.
23. See Michael Zimmerman, “Rethinking the Heidegger — Deep Ecology Relationship”, Environmental Ethics vol. 15, no. 3 (Fall 1993), pp. 195-224.
24. Reproduced in Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Auf der Suche nach Arkadien, München, 1990, p. 147.
25. Robert Pois, National Socialism and the Religion of Nature, London, 1985, p. 40.
26. ibid., pp. 42-43. The internal quote is taken from George Mosse, Nazi Culture, New York, 1965, p. 87.
27. Hitler, in Henry Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier 1941-1942, Stuttgart, 1963, p. 151.
28. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, München, 1935, p. 314.
29. Quoted in Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, “Politics, planning and the protection of nature: political abuse of early ecological ideas in Germany, 1933-1945”, Planning Perspectives 2 (1987), p. 129.
30. Änne Bäumer, NS-Biologie, Stuttgart, 1990, p. 198.
31. Alfred Rosenberg, Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts, München, 1938, p. 550. Rosenberg was, in the early years at least, the chief ideologist of the Nazi movement.
32. Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche, pp. 139-140.
33. Quoted in Heinz Haushofer, Ideengeschichte der Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarpolitik im deutschen Sprachgebiet, Band II, München, 1958, p. 266.
34. See Dominick, The Environmental Movement in Germany, p. 107.
35. ibid., p. 113.
36. Bergmann, Agrarromantik und Großstadtfeindschaft, p. 334. Ernst Nolte makes a similar argument in Three Faces of Fascism, New York, 1966, pp. 407-408, though the point gets lost somewhat in the translation. See also Norbert Frei, National Socialist Rule in Germany, Oxford, 1993, p. 56: “The change in direction towards the ‘soil’ had not been an electoral tactic. It was one of the basic ideological elements of National Socialism . . . “
37. R. Walther Darré, Um Blut und Boden: Reden und Aufsätze, München, 1939, p. 28. The quote is from a 1930 speech entitled “Blood and Soil as the Foundations of Life of the Nordic Race.”
38. Bramwell, Ecology in the 20th Century, p. 203. See also Frei, National Socialist Rule in Germany, p. 57, which stresses that Darré‘s total control over agricultural policy constituted a uniquely powerful position within the Nazi system.
39. Bergmann, Agrarromantik und Großstadtfeindschaft, p. 312.
40. ibid., p. 308.
41. See Haushofer, Ideengeschichte der Agrarwirtschaft, pp. 269-271, and Bramwell, Ecology in the 20th Century, pp. 200-206, for the formative influence of Steinerite ideas on Darré.
42. Haushofer, Ideengeschichte der Agrarwirtschaft, p. 271.
43. Anna Bramwell, “Darré. Was This Man ‘Father of the Greens’?” History Today, September 1984, vol. 34, pp. 7-13. This repugnant article is one long series of distortions designed to paint Darré as an anti-Hitler hero — an effort as preposterous as it is loathsome.
44. Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, Hess: A Biography, London, 1971, p. 34.
45. Franz Neumann, Behemoth. The Structure and Practice of National Socialism 1933-1944, New York, 1944, p. 378.
46. Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, New York, 1970, p. 263.
47. ibid., p. 261.
48. Bramwell, Ecology in the 20th Century, p. 197.
49. Karl-Heinz Ludwig, Technik und Ingenieure im Dritten Reich, Düsseldorf, 1974, p. 337.
50. Quoted in Rolf Peter Sieferle, Fortschrittsfeinde? Opposition gegen Technik und Industrie von der Romantik bis zur Gegenwart, München, 1984, p. 220. Todt was just as convinced a Nazi as Darré or Hess; on the extent (and pettiness) of his allegiance to antisemitic policies, see Alan Beyerchen, Scientists Under Hitler, New Haven, 1977, pages 66-68 and 289.
51. Bramwell, Blood and Soil, p. 173.
52. Alwin Seifert, Im Zeitalter des Lebendigen, Dresden, 1941, p. 13. The book’s title is grotesquely inapt considering the date of publication; it means “in the age of the living.”
53. Alwin Seifert, Ein Leben für die Landschaft, Düsseldorf, 1962, p. 100.
54. Bramwell, Ecology in the 20th Century, p. 198. Bramwell cites Darré‘s papers as the source of the internal quote.
55. Seifert, Ein Leben für die Landschaft, p. 90.
56. William Shirer, Berlin Diary, New York, 1941, p. 19. Shirer also calls Hess Hitler’s “protégé” (588) and “the only man in the world he fully trusts” (587), and substantiates Darré‘s and Todt’s standing as well (590).
57. Quoted in Manvell and Fraenkel, Hess, p. 80. In a further remarkable confirmation of the ‘green’ faction’s stature, Hitler once declared that Todt and Hess were “the only two human beings among all those around me to whom I have been truly and inwardly attached” (Hess, p. 132).
58. See Haushofer, Ideengeschichte der Agrarwirtschaft, p. 270, and Bramwell, Ecology in the 20th Century, p. 201.
59. ibid., pp. 197-200. Most of Todt’s work also ran through Hess’s office.
60. Raymond Dominick, “The Nazis and the Nature Conservationists”, The Historian vol. XLIX no. 4 (August 1987), p. 534.
61. ibid., p. 536.
62. Hermand, Grüne Utopien in Deutschland, p. 114.
63. Dominick, “The Nazis and the Nature Conservationists”, p. 529.
64. Gröning and Wolschke-Bulmahn, “Politics, planning and the protection of nature”, p. 137.
65. ibid., p. 138.
66. Linse’s Ökopax und Anarchie, among others, offers a detailed consideration of the history of eco-anarchism in Germany.
67. Pois, National Socialism and the Religion of Nature, p. 27.
68. Bramwell, Ecology in the 20th Century, p. 48.

Script Bots in Propaganda

2009-01-22T16:28:00.002-04:00

It's becoming clear that as the message gets out the more and more it is being scrubbed from the web. We have to dig for our information and sometimes it's been removed from the net altogether. There is a reason this is happening so frequently. The enemy of the people of the world, the Neo-Con fascists/zionists in our midst who wish to present a story of history that is different from what actually occured.

They are using computer scripts (bots) to downvote and remove things from sites automatically. trying to remove it from public view quickly, so people will not stumble upon it.

Here you can read an article on who and how.

"Propaganda agents obviously aren't going to publicly brag about what they are doing, and you can bet that their use of downvote bots is much greater. Moreover, they probably have more sophisticated software than Greasemonkey.

As one example of a publicly-available downvote bot, this script automatically downvotes any stories on 9/11, Gaza, torture, Guantanamo and a host of other topics, downvotes certain posters, and engages in other forms of cyber warfare.

I call on programmers to figure out a way to fight this cyberwarfare propaganda."

The Monsters want Control

2009-01-22T16:21:00.004-04:00

From "Telling the History of the 21st Century as it Really is." blog.

ISRAEL FAILS AGAIN TO PROVOKE HEZBOLLAH AND WAR BETWEEN THE U.S. AND IRAN.

It is becoming apparent that the frenzied Israeli attack on the people of the Gaza Strip was designed specifically to inflame Hezbollah and provoke them into a war with Israel; a war that would quickly escalate to involve Iran and the US for the purpose of ultimately bringing about regime change in Iran. Furthermore, this was all supposed to happen before Bush left office when it was hoped that war with Iran would be unavoidable by the time Obama took office.

As well as mercilessly hammering the Palestinian people in the Gaza, which served the purpose of enraging Hezbollah – not to mention the entire Arab street and most of the rest of the world – the Israelis also massed troops on their northern borders with south Lebanon while their warplanes flew low-level missions into Lebanese airspace in a deliberate attempt to further provoke Hezbollah.

A few early model non-lethal Katyusha rockets were launched from just inside Lebanon which Hezbollah denied any knowledge of, and which no other group claimed responsibility for, making it likely to have been a false flag attempt by Israeli special forces to further provoke war. Fortunately, the Israeli special forces endeavours with these captured early model Katyusha rockets proved to be patently transparent even to the Israeli propaganda machine who were content in the end to point the finger at some Lebanese based Palestinian group rather than embarrass themselves by directly blaming Hezbollah, especially after having accused Hezbollah of having now accumulated tens of thousands of sophisticated rockets from Iran. The chances of any Palestinian group unilaterally launching anything from south Lebanon into Israel without Hezbollah’s knowledge is nigh on non-existent.

As the war against the Palestinians in the Gaza went on, Hezbollah refused to bite with any acts of war against Israel. Hezbollah gave moral support to the Gazans, as did the Iranians, but refused to be drawn in to any war. Israel tried to inflame and anger Hezbollah further by stepping up their atrocities in the Gaza striking at UN buildings and schools where civilians and children were known to be but still Hezbollah refused to bite. In the end the Israelis simply ran out of time as literally the last minutes of Bush’s presidency slipped away. And with went the chances of provoking the Final Confrontation they so desperately seek against Iran – at least until Netanyahu gets his shot at it after the Israeli elections next month.

by Damian Lataan

(Survival against the neo-nazi's is a call to all like breath to the lungs.)

List of Traitors/Enablers in our Midst

2009-01-05T14:34:00.001-04:00

Interesting list: people with dual Israeli/US citizenship

Posted in Bush Administration, Government tagged Israel at 2:59 pm by LeisureGuy

UPDATE: After being challenged by RM Rich in the comments below, I’ve not been able to find an authoritative source for the authenticity of the list. I did check Snopes.com, of course, but the list is also not listed as an urban legend. Rich says he called two of the people on the list (which two he doesn’t say), and they denied holding dual citizenship at this time. So the accuracy of the list is questionable—as evidenced by the fact that it’s been questioned. So far as the possibility: it is indeed possible (legal, allowable) for people to hold dual citizenship in the US, not only with Israel but with other countries as well. (See this page, which requires IE Tab if you’re using Firefox.) As you will see, quite a few countries allow dual national/US citizenship, though the “official U.S. policy has been to discourage the incidence of dual nationality. The Government accepts but does not recognize or approve of dual nationality. The Government accepts it: “only as the result of separate conflicting laws of other countries.” ” So the list’s interest diminishes considerably.

UPDATE 2: Jacob points out a valuable post on the general question of dual citizenship. Note question 6:

I’ve heard that the US has a special agreement with Israel permitting people to be dual US/Israeli citizens. Is this true?

No. It just happens that Israeli citizenship law does not require renunciation of one’s old citizenship in order to become a citizen of Israel.

In this regard, Israel is really treated no differently than Canada, the UK, France, or other countries which permit people to become citizens without giving up their old status.

As best I have been able to determine, the US does not have any sort of treaty facilitating dual citizenship with any other country. Dual citizenship arises, not out of explicit bilateral agreements between nations, but because each country makes its own laws respecting who is or is not its citizen, often without regard for whether a given person is considered a citizen by more than one country at once.

It is interesting to note that Israel’s “Law of Return” (under which any Jew may immigrate to and become a citizen of Israel) confers Israeli citizenship automatically, without the immigrant having to apply for it, attend any ceremony, or swear any oath of allegiance. The Israeli law may originally have been written this way to encourage American Jews to move to Israel; they could, in theory, argue that they had not explicitly requested Israeli citizenship and were thus still entitled to keep their US citizenship. (Note that Mr. Afroyim, subject of Afroyim v. Rusk, was alleged to have lost his US citizenship, not because he had become an Israeli citizen, but because he had voted in an Israeli election.)

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the US ratified a series of citizenship treaties (the “Bancroft treaties”, named after American diplomat George Bancroft). The intent of these treaties was to prevent dual citizenship by providing for automatic loss of citizenship by foreigners who obtained US citizenship, or by Americans who obtained foreign citizenship. As a result of the various Supreme Court decisions on dual citizenship, however, the Bancroft treaties became legally unenforceable, and all of them have by now been formally abrogated by the US. One of these treaties (the one with Sweden) is mentioned in the Supreme Court’s decision in Perkins v. Elg.

UPDATE 3: Glenn Greenwald has a very interesting post on the issue of divided loyalties.

From Jacob via email. List is old, so some of the positions listed have changed hands:

American / Isreali Dual Citizens in the American Government

Attorney General - Michael Mukasey
Head of Homeland Security - Michael Chertoff
Chairman Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board - Richard Perle
Deputy Defense Secretary (Former) - Paul Wolfowitz
Under Secretary of Defense - Douglas Feith
National Security Council Advisor - Elliott Abrams
Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff (Former) - “Scooter” Libby
White House Deputy Chief of Staff - Joshua Bolten
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs - Marc Grossman
Director of Policy Planning at the State Department - Richard Haass
U.S. Trade Representative (Cabinet-level Position) - Robert Zoellick
Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board - James Schlesinger
UN Representative (Former) - John Bolton
Under Secretary for Arms Control - David Wurmser
Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board - Eliot Cohen
Senior Advisor to the President - Steve Goldsmith
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary - Christopher Gersten
Assistant Secretary of State - Lincoln Bloomfield
Deputy Assistant to the President - Jay Lefkowitz
White House Political Director - Ken Melman
National Security Study Group - Edward Luttwak
Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board - Kenneth Adelman
Defense Intelligence Agency Analyst (Former) - Lawrence (Larry) Franklin
National Security Council Advisor - Robert Satloff
President Export-Import Bank U.S. - Mel Sembler
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families - Christopher Gersten
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs
- Mark Weinberger
White House Speechwriter - David Frum
White House Spokesman (Former) - Ari Fleischer
Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board - Henry Kissinger
Deputy Secretary of Commerce - Samuel Bodman
Under Secretary of State for Management - Bonnie Cohen
Director of Foreign Service Institute - Ruth Davis

Who we help murder...

2009-01-05T14:31:00.003-04:00

Israel is Immune From Criticism
By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY

The state of Israel has descended – plummeted – to one of the lowest levels of conscious barbarity that is currently evident in this horrible world.

Any nation that has behaved towards a subject people, as Israel has to Palestinians, is worthy only of utter contempt. On Sunday January 4 I heard a rabbi on the BBC's morning religious program saying that he supported Israel's air strikes on Gaza. A man of God actually endorsed the killing of hundreds of people. To say that I was – and am – aghast at the sentiment expressed is to put it very mildly. This religious leader, a person supposed to spread and preach tolerance, patience, charity and peace, was supporting war crimes of immense gravity. His approval of the killing of Arabs was blood-chilling.

And this rabbi was British. Here we have a British citizen supporting hatred and bigotry on a BBC religious program. But of course he isn't really British. He is an Israeli religious propagandist of British citizenship whose main allegiance is to Israel. There are thousands like him in the UK and the US. They unconditionally promote Tel Aviv's plans and policy and wield amazing influence over politicians and businesses. Killing Palestinians is Israeli policy, and these people spare no effort to justify it.

Here's a resident of Gaza talking to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about the horrors experienced by Palestinians (and congratulations to Haaretz for having the courage to print it): "I keep the children away from the windows because the F-16s are in the air; I forbid them to play below because it's dangerous. They're bombing us from the sea and from the east, they're bombing us from the air. When the telephone works, people tell us about relatives or friends who were killed. My wife cries all the time. At night she hugs the children and cries. It's cold and the windows are open; there's fire and smoke in open areas; at home there's no water, no electricity, no heating gas. And you [the Israelis] say there's no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Tell me, are you normal?"

No, they're not, is the short answer, and the ruthlessness is epitomised by the evil Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, who is using the Gaza war to establish her credentials as a reliably hard-nosed barbarian. She declares "there is no humanitarian crisis in the [Gaza] Strip and therefore there is no need for a humanitarian truce."

It was reported on January 5 that Israeli troops are using white phosphorus (WP) artillery shells in Gaza, supposedly to create smoke screens to conceal their advance.

American troops used WP – fondly known as Willy Pete – in their destruction of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, and the US tried to lie its way out of the war crime, but junior officers unintentionally blew the lies apart by writing in the magazine Field Artillery that "WP proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions . . . and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against insurgents in trench lines and spider holes . . . We fired 'shake and bake' missions at the insurgents using WP to flush them out and high explosive shells (HE) to take them out." In fact WP is an effective killer, and anyone who inhales particles will suffer a particularly hideous and painful death. As recorded by The Independent newspaper in Britain "In the aftermath of the battle [at Fallujah], the State Department's Counter Misinformation Office issued a statement saying that WP was only "used very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes. They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night [which isn't the propose of a smoke-shell], not at enemy fighters." When The Independent confronted the State Department with the first-hand accounts of soldiers who participated, an official accepted the mistake and undertook to correct its website." Big deal. Lie, lie and lie again, until you're found out and it's impossible to deny the facts. And the Israelis seem to be taking the example, as usual, and are stoutly denying what has been seen by independent witnesses.

Article two, Protocol III of the 1980 UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons states: "It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by incendiary weapons." But Israel is only following the US example. "Shake and bake" is such an attractive military option that it would be a shame to spoil their fun, especially when it has rabbinical approval.

Here is part of what is laid out in Protocol 1, Additional to the Geneva Conventions, 1977 . . . General Protection Against Effects of Hostilities: "Among others, the following types of attacks are to be considered as indiscriminate: An attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated."

Israel, supported energetically by Washington (and using US-supplied aircraft, bombs and rockets), has caused "incidental loss of life" and general civilian casualties on an enormous scale. The Israeli military and the Israeli people knew full well that their genocidal attack on Gaza would kill civilians. The use of white phosphorous in built-up areas is worthy of the Nazis at their most brutal. Stalin and Mao would nod approvingly. It wasn't considered important that there would be countless civilian deaths. Nobody cares, and least of all American politicians. The next secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, refuses to comment on the atrocities. The incoming vice-president has been silent. President-elect Obama? As Reuters reported : "Obama . . . has not commented on the Middle East crisis since Israel launched attacks on Gaza nine days ago. His advisers insist that only President George W Bush can speak for America until then." But it was noted that "The president-elect has commented on the global economic crisis and his plans to try to pull the US economy out of recession."

Of course he has. And were it not for the power of Israel in America he would no doubt comment adversely on the slaughter in Gaza, because he is a decent man.

But Mr Obama dare not criticize Israel, even for its use of chemical shells. Nor can any American who wishes to enter or remain engaged in politics. The kiss of political death in the United States of America is to censure Israel. It can't be done.

And that is why apartheid is permitted in Israel; it's why the mass-punishment blockade was enforced months before the attack went in; and it's why the near-genocide in Gaza is allowed to continue.

Does anyone remember the hearing on the so-called Israeli-Palestine peace process in the US House of Representatives in February 2007? Of course not. It was a farce. And why was it such a revolting and hideous charade? – Because it was a three card trick.

The main witness, of the three cards who were called, was one Martin Indyk, a former official of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee which is the richest and most powerful lobby group in the country (two of whose members are currently under a mysteriously delayed investigation for spying for Israel). From there, inevitably, he went to be US ambassador in Tel Aviv. (And, incidentally, whose book on the Middle East was the subject of a glowing review in last week's Economist.) Another witness was David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (founded by Indyk; it's all very chummy in pro-Israel sewers), which is funded extensively by American interests that support Zionism. (Among other connections, it is closely associated with the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.) And was the third witness a counter-balance to two energetic supporters of Zion? Could he or she present a rather less biased view of the Middle East? Perhaps a person who would make the point that Israel has contemptuously ignored UN Security Council resolutions concerning illegal occupation of Palestinian lands?

Not a bit. The third member was a comic quasi-intellectual character called Daniel Pipes who once declared that Muslim immigrants to the US were "brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of hygiene." (Germanic? – How quaint.) Pipes founded the Middle East Forum (MEF) which encourages university students in America to report lecturers and professors who they consider to be anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian. (In Hitler's Germany there were awards given to young people who identified and reported those they thought to be pro-Jewish; I know a very elderly German lady who did this when she was 15. She is now terribly ashamed at the memory, because she actually informed on her own father. How times change. Or don't, of course.)

In 2006 Pipes was given the 'Guardian of Zion' award, an annual prize to a prominent supporter of Israel, by the Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

With a galaxy of partisan propagandists like Indyk, Makovsky and Pipes being the only people selected to give evidence on Israel-Palestine to the nation's legislators in Washington, there was no chance whatever that the Congressional Sub-Committee would be presented with a balanced view of the Israel-Palestine problem. The deck was stacked, and the legislators listened. They had no choice, because of the power of the Israel lobby. They've been shaken and baked.

There is little doubt that the bias towards Israel will continue in the legislature and administration of the United States of America, no matter what Obama might really think, and no matter how many Palestinian children the Zionists have slaughtered. The Israelis are behaving like genocidal filth, but those who stay silent about their atrocities are not far behind in the gutter stakes.

Brian Cloughley's book about the Pakistan army, War, Coups and Terror, has just been published by Pen & Sword Books (UK)

Israeli Attack Footage

2008-12-30T14:02:00.003-04:00

Here is a link to a YouTube of the boat Cynthia McKinney and others were on when attacked in international waters by Israel.

Just in case you were wondering the US bought and built the warship that attacked it's former congresswoman.

This Christmas

2008-12-30T13:36:00.003-04:00

Let us remember that thousands of people are dying this holiday season for the crime of being brown. Being brown is the leading cause of death in Gaza. White people shoot at you and bomb your homes all day while you rummage through trash and eat grass growing in the mud to survive.

This is what Israel is. It doesn't matter what they wanted to do, or what their intentions are or were. This is what they did.

This is an example of their Propaganda that they feed to us as if we are to expect this is a reasonable response to a "domestic gang". Killing everyone near the gang and everyone around the gang or who might look like a gang member.

Children are killed regularly as terrorists. We must understand that there is no way that a child of 10 deserves 13 bullets to the head. No matter how criminal he may or may not have been.

"While the murderous assault on Gaza continues, I notice there's a briefing document on the website of the Israeli Embassy in London which has a lie in every line. The West's mainstream media repeat them, and even the most senior TV and radio interviewers don’t bother to challenge them.

The document is a transcript of Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's statement to the Israeli press dated 27 December 2008 – a day that will live in infamy. It is a perfect example of the falsehoods used to dupe not only us westerners but Israel’s own people. The statement shows how the regime's view of itself is constructed on a web of dishonesty and self-delusion."

Here are some lies you will hear this Holiday season:

• "Israeli citizens have been under the threat of daily attack from Gaza for years."

Palestinians have been under harsh Israeli occupation for 60 years.

• "Only this week hundreds of missiles and mortars shells were fired at Israeli civilian communities."

Only one in 500 Qassam rockets causes a fatality. How many thousands of Israeli bombs, missiles, rockets, grenades and tank-shells have been blasted into the crowded city and towns of the Gaza Strip by Israel’s high-tech weaponry?

• "Until now we have shown restraint. But today there is no other option than a military operation."

The only legitimate option for Israel is to end the occupation and withdraw behind its 1967 border, as required under international law and UN resolution. Israel has been killing Palestinians at the rate of 8 to 1 since 2000, and children at the rate of nearly 12 to 1 (B’Tselem figures). This is somebody’s idea of restraint?

• "We need to protect our citizens from attack through a military response against the terror infrastructure in Gaza."

Self defence is not a right exclusive to Israel. Palestinians have an equal right to protect their citizens from the terror tactics of Israel.

• "Israel left Gaza in order to create an opportunity for peace."

Israel never left Gaza. It still occupies Gaza's airspace and coastal waters and controls all entrances and exits.

• "In return, the Hamas terror organization took control of Gaza and is using its citizens as cover while it deliberately targets Israeli communities and denies any chance for peace."

Hamas was voted into power as the legitimate government of Palestine. Israel chose not to accept the people's choice, which amounted to a denial of their human rights, and immediately set about obliterating it.

• "We have tried everything to reach calm without using force. We agreed to a truce through Egypt that was violated by Hamas, which continued to target Israel, hold Gilad Shalit and build up its arms."

Try talking. The Israelis' ongoing siege and economic blockade, begun shortly after Hamas was elected early in 2006, was never going to generate calm. And why is Shalit considered more important than the 9,000 Palestinians abducted and held prisoner by Israel? As soon as a Hamas government was formed Israeli troops arrested 8 Hamas ministers and 20 other parliamentarians, making the work of government impossible.

• "Israel continues to act to prevent humanitarian crisis and to minimize harm to Palestinian civilians."

Every agency operating in Gaza has warned of the deepening humanitarian crisis and protested about the starvation and suffering, especially of children many of whom show evidence of stunted growth.

• "The responsibility for harm to civilians lies with Hamas."

Not according to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

• "Hamas is a terrorist organization, supported by Iran, that does not represent the legitimate national interests of the Palestinian people but a radical Islamist agenda that seeks to deny peace for the peoples of this region."

Hamas was the popular choice of Palestinians at the last election. It is entitled under international law to take up arms against an illegal occupier and invader. If it is supported by Iran, so what? Israel receives mega-support from the US. When it comes to terror, it is Israel's conduct which fits the US definition of terrorism so perfectly - see Bush's Executive Order 13224, Section 3 - http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/terror/terror.pdf

• "While confronting Hamas, Israel continues to believe in the two State solution and remains committed to negotiations with the legitimate Palestinian Authority in the context of the peace process, launched at Annapolis."

Israel is busy establishing irreversible facts on the ground that make a viable Palestinian state impossible. As everyone knows, the regime has reneged on the peace process and carries on building illegal settlements and the illegal Wall, and demolishing Palestinian homes. Months ago Hamas accepted a Palestinian state based on internationally recognized (pre-1967) borders, in accordance with UN resolutions, with full sovereignty and its capital in Jerusalem, but this has been ignored. Hamas also offered a 10-year truce, also ignored. Earlier, Arafat and the PLO recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement but what good did it do? Today’s US-backed, Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority is not representative of the Palestinian people.

• "Israel expects the support and understanding of the international community, as it confronts terror, and advances the interest of all those who wish the forces of peace and co existence to determine the agenda of this region."

Israel, next to the US, the biggest purveyor of terror in the region and only advances its own interests. It may get the support of Israel lobby stooges in other western governments but is rapidly earning the contempt of everybody else.

From a statement dated 22 December 2008:

• "Hamas, backed by Iran, has regularly stated its desire to see the complete destruction of Israel."

Israel is itself a leading destroyer and currently engaged in trying to wipe out Hamas and the Gazans. Iran’s Ahmadinajad quoted the late Ayatollah Khomeini as saying that "this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time" - fair comment considering Jerusalem, with Bethlehem, was designated an 'international city' under the UN Partition Plan. Israeli propaganda twisted the Iranian’s words to read “Israel must be wiped off the map”. Zionist sources and the manifestos of Israeli political parties have made it clear for a long time that Israel plans to wipe Palestine off the map, and every act and lie is directed towards that end.

• "Our fight is not with the people of Gaza; it is with the extremists of Hamas."

Then why does the Israeli navy harass and fire on peaceable Gazan fishermen who are well within their own territorial waters? Why does Israel prevent Palestinian students from taking up places at foreign universities and block hospital spares, medicines, foodstuffs and foreign medics from entering Gaza? Why has the Israeli navy just rammed a mercy vessel in international waters taking doctors and medicines to Gaza? Latest air-strikes have hit the Islamic University and the ministry of education. These are direct attacks on Gazan civil society and its infrastructure.

• "Hamas started this conflict, and it bears responsibility for any harm to civilians on either side."

The conflict, started by Jewish terrorists, has been going on for 60 years, decades before Hamas came into being.

• "Israel’s only responsibility is to protect Israeli citizens."

As the occupying power Israel has a duty to see that the people of the occupied territories come to no harm.

• "Just as Israel seeks to defend its civilian population, Hamas seeks to kill them."

This reads far better the other way round: “Just as Hamas seeks to defend its civilian population, Israel seeks to kill them.”

• "Rocket attacks have continued for years and are now a daily occurrence. How long does the international community expect Israel will wait before defending itself against them?"

The rocket attacks will end when Israel ends the occupation and stops terrorizing its neighbours.

• "In the south of Israel, Israeli citizens live with air raid sirens sounding every day - sometimes every hour. Their situation is intolerable."

Not half as intolerable as it is for the Gazans, who live in constant fear of air raids and re-invasion and are constantly under surveillance by armed drones which can fire missiles under computer control from an armchair in Israeli headquarters.

• "For years, the international community has turned a blind eye to this onslaught. Only when Israel seeks to stop the rockets do they take notice."

For years the international community has turned a blind eye to Israel's violations of international law and human rights, which is why the problem remains unsolved.

• "Hamas is not only the enemy of Israel - it is the enemy of every Palestinian who believes in peace."

Israelis just can’t come to terms with the Palestinians' democratic choice and are bent on obliterating it.

• "It is Hamas' attacks - not Israel's reactions - that destroy every opportunity we have for peace."

The world has managed to work out by now that Israel doesn't want peace until it has stolen all the land and water it needs to expand its racist state into a ‘Greater Israel’. It is well on the way to achieving this and won’t be thwarted.

• "Palestinian militants targeted by Israel are not just the enemies of the Israeli people; they are criminals under international law, and enemies of peace."

Israel is in no position to preach international law.

• "What is collective punishment? 'Collective punishment' is a city - schools, hospitals, homes - civilians being bombarded every single day by rockets and mortars."

Collective punishment is keeping a whole population bottled up under siege and blocking supplies and exports, smashing their infrastructure, wrecking their economy and starving their children. Trying to equate Sderot with what’s happening in the Gaza Strip is idiotic.

• "Today's Middle East is divided between extremists and pragmatists. Hamas, backed by Iran, belongs to the extremists, who must be defeated for the sake of the future of the Middle East.... Israel’s primary goal is peace."

Israel's primary goal is the expansion of Israel by making the occupation of the West Bank permanent and bringing the Gazans to their knees.

Stuart Littlewood brings these facts to our attention so that we will know that this is not a war, this is simple genocide.

Hamas is like the Green Party. If they got elected and the US came in and arrested our MP's and bottled up all Canadian Ports and shot down any outgoing planes,the continued to bomb us saying we elected terrorists and then, rolled tanks into Canada attempted to "purge the green party" from our midst based on "what they think a green party member looks like" what do you think would happen?

What do you think? Honestly? Would we just lie down and die until the 15 or so of us left that they are "sure" are not Green Party members are allowed to live in peace?

When we are all dead they just take our land and thats that.

This is what Fascism, Naziism, Zionism look like...

Self Evident

2008-11-28T13:53:00.001-04:00

"It is indeed unfortunate that the general public is prey to these disturbing theories, which breed such a widespread distrust of the noble intentions and essential (if occasionally misguided or incompetently executed) goodness of our leading men and women. However, there is a very reasonable explanation for the credence given to these fringe beliefs:

They happen to be true."

Chris Floyd

Watch This!

How the Stock Market works.

2008-10-24T13:37:00.002-03:00

This was posted as a comment by Viper on the Huffington Post. As it was so brilliant I stole it and put it here.

"Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!

Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works."

World Despression

2008-10-19T15:17:00.002-03:00

I am depressed about the fact the more people I tell the more weird it is we are being sprayed over 'Sackville'. A small butthole town. It seems no matter where you go you are being sprayed near daily with chemtrails floating down from the sky. Why are they making fake clouds?

Why? It just makes no sense. It makes even less sense to not tell us. Would we be mad at the illegal spraying currently going on in the NATO countries? Why do we not hear about this?

Then I hear the EU is calling for a overhaul of the financial system and to see up a better system. That system would be, in effect, the NWO. We cannot allow that to happen. Whether we must throw ourselves at the machines to stop them we must not allow the NWO to take hold. They are criminals and murderers who will enslave or kill us all if they had the chance.

I want to be joking, but I am not.

... And I am depressed.

Your Job

2008-10-10T17:00:00.002-03:00

Citizens Responsibilities

1st Responsibility: A Citizen must educate oneself to be aware of their communities’ needs and problems so to keep from having their own ignorance from being exploited by some politicians who only want what’s best for them and their friends and not what’s best for everyone.

2nd Responsibility: A Citizen must get involved and be aware of what their political leaders are doing and know what decisions they are making and why they are making them. Everyone should at least know where this information is and personally know someone who can honestly explain what’s happening with an unbiased point of view in a way that is easily understood.

3rd Responsibility: Citizens must demand documentation and demand procedures at every political level so that when mistakes are made we have the ability to learn from the mistakes instead of never knowing the truth and never learning anything in order to correct mistakes.

4th Responsibility: Citizens must demand notification on town meetings using every form of communication available and not just the basic communications required by law. The Telephone alert system should be used and not wasted.

5th Responsibility: Vote, but vote based only on the facts and the needs of everyone. To many people vote based on personal beliefs or just on one single issue which is very selfish and disrespectful to the rest if the people who are voting to do what’s best for everyone. Besides the voter will always have their beliefs and lack of knowledge exploited by some politicians who know that a lot of voters are just thinking of their own best interest and are not totally informed about the truth.

Reflections on the Bailout

2008-10-09T12:40:00.004-03:00

'In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." .. G. Orwell

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" Voltaire..

"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government."-- Thomas Paine

"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices."
- Edward R. Murrow

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ~ Aldous Huxley

"He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future." --- George Orwell, 1984

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

" Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin (1802)

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -Thomas Jefferson

'In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." .. G. Orwell

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." -- Oscar Wilde

AP News Pulled by Fox

2008-09-28T13:43:00.003-03:00

Fox News Corp has this article on their website for about 1 hour yesterday, but it was pulled down by it's obvious implications. Truth, unfortunately does not serve the Republicans well. Nor does reality.

Conservatives Begin Questioning Palin’s Heft
by Associated Press
Sunday, September 28, 2008
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/28/conservatives-begin-questioni...

A growing number of Republicans are expressing concern about Sarah
Palin’s uneven - and sometimes downright awkward - performances in her
limited media appearances.

Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, a former Palin supporter, says
the vice presidential nominee should step aside. Kathryn Jean Lopez,
writing for the conservative National Review, says “that’s not a crazy
suggestion” and that “something’s gotta change.”

Tony Fabrizio, a GOP strategist, says Palin’s recent CBS appearance
isn’t disqualifying but is certainly alarming. “You can’t continue to
have interviews like that and not take on water.”

“I have not been blown away by the interviews from her, but at the
same time, I haven’t come away from them thinking she doesn’t know s-
t,” said Chris Lacivita, a GOP strategist. “But she ain’t Dick Cheney,
nor Joe Biden and definitely not Hillary Clinton.”

There is no doubt that Palin retains a tremendous amount of support
among rank-and-file Republicans. She draws huge crowds, continues to
raise a lot of money for the McCain campaign, and state parties report
she has sparked an uptick in the number of volunteers.

Asked about Palin’s performance in the CBS interview, a McCain
official briefing reporters on condition of anonymity said: “She did
fine. She’s a tremendous asset and a fantastic candidate.”

But there is also no doubt many Republican insiders are worried she
could blow next week’s debate, based on her unexpectedly weak and
unsteady media appearances, and hurt the Republican ticket if she
does.

What follows is a viewer’s guide to some of Palin’s toughest moments
on camera so far.

Speaking this week with CBS’s Katie Couric, Palin seemed caught off-
guard by a very predictable question about the status of McCain
adviser Rick Davis’ relationship with mortgage lender Freddie Mac.
Davis was accused by several news outlets of retaining ties - and
profiting from - the companies despite his denials.

Where a more experienced politician might have been able to brush off
Couric’s follow-up question, Palin seemed genuinely stumped, repeating
the same answer twice and resorting to boilerplate language about the
“undue influence of lobbyists.”

These missteps could be attributed to inadequate preparation and don’t
necessarily reflect more deeply on Palin’s ability to perform as vice
president. But when reporters have tried to probe Palin’s thinking on
subjects such as foreign policy, she’s been similarly opaque.

In an interview with ABC’s Charlie Gibson, Palin gave a muddled answer
to a question about her opinion of the Bush Doctrine.

And given the chance to describe her foreign policy credentials more
fully, Palin recited familiar talking points, telling Gibson that her
experience with energy policy was sufficient preparation for dealing
with national security issues.

In the same interview, Palin let Gibson lead her into saying it might
be necessary to wage war on Russia - a suggestion that most candidates
would have avoided making explicitly and that signaled her discomfort
in discussing global affairs.

Then, asked this week by Couric to discuss her knowledge of foreign
relations - in particular, her assertion that Alaska’s proximity to
Russia gave her international experience - Palin tripped herself up
explaining her interactions with Alaska’s neighbor to the west.
Watch CBS Videos Online

On the economy, too, Palin has avoided taking clear stances. In a
largely friendly interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, Palin
spoke in tangled generalities in response to a question about a
possible Wall Street bailout - and even preempted her campaign by
coming out against it.

On Thursday, Palin finally took questions from her traveling press -
but shut things down quickly after Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel asked
her whether she would support Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who has been
indicted for corruption, and Rep. Don Young, who is under federal
investigation, for reelection.

Unlike her other interviews, at least this time Palin had the option
to walk away.

Is this the move?

2008-09-27T14:56:00.003-03:00

Wall St is finally going down bank by bank, and with the governments new powers of Police State control, what will they do with 700 Billion obfuscated funds? They will have the money, the power and the control to make Republican Police State control of the US last a very very long time.

This is akin to Hitler asking the Germans to give him power and I will protect you. And look what he did with it. The motivations of the Fascists have not changed, nor their Jesuit and Jewish connections, whatever those ties mean I do not know, but they are there. Their motivations are much more sinister and cruel and in no uncertain terms must be halted.

With McCain unable to win the election, even while cheating, and Bush musing that he may not leave office, we have a sinister possibility he plans to keep his office through a declaration of martial law. All he would require would be another 'terrorist attack' to make the American public even more panicked.

Israel and US orchestrated Ossetia attacks

2008-08-13T15:26:00.001-03:00

Here are the Cold Hard Facts:

1) Ossetia is a ninety percent Russian area. Georgia has made repeated efforts to ethnically cleanse the region. Russian peacekeeping troops have been in Ossetia for years and were approved in international agreements so as to protect the citizens of the region from attacks by the Georgian military.

2) Georgia, not Russia, started this war. Georgia invaded Ossetia trying to take control of the region and ethnically cleanse the Russian population.

3) The Georgian Army, commanded by their Minister of Defense (who is also an Israeli citizen), launched a surprise invasion and attack that caused the deaths of at least a thousand people in its first 24 hours. This attack was committed while the attention of the world was on the Olympics.

4) In the wake of Georgia’s military invasion and massacres, Russia responded by battling to protect the Ossetian people and fighting the Georgia military so it could not continue its invasion and assault. Thousands of Ossetian civilians became refugees from the Georgian assault.

5) Instead of reporting these cold, hard facts to the world, the Jewish-influenced media has been dishonestly reporting that the Zionist-allied Georgian state is a victim of “Russian aggression” and a “Russian invasion.” Georgia invaded, bombed, and massacred the people of Ossetia to start this conflict. On the cable news networks for hours after the Georgian launched invasion and massacres in Ossetia, all Americans were permitted to see was the Georgia President and Jewish U.S. State Department officials screaming about how Georgia was “invaded” by Russia!

6) Instead of condemning Georgia from the outset for the invasion and massacre, Neocon controlled politicians such as George Bush are condemning Russia and attempting to move America and Europe toward a completely unjustified conflict with Russia.

Now I offer you six reasons why the heavily Jewish-influenced media and political establishment of America side with Georgia:

1) As Israeli newspapers freely report, Israel has long allied itself with Georgia, trained its troops, and supplied weapons to Georgia. Key figures in the Georgia government are Israeli citizens and partisans for Israel, including the “Georgian” who directly launched the war, Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili. The major “Georgia” Spokesman is Temur Yakobashvili, also an Israeli citizen, is Georgia’s minister of reintegration.

2) Israel has strategic oil pipeline and economic interests in Georgia that it wants to keep under control.

3) Israel and Jewish powerbrokers around the world are angry with Russia because Russia keeps the Jewish Neocon-controlled United States from total domination of United Nations policy toward Palestine, Syria, Lebanon and toward a war against Iran.

4) The Russian government has had the courage to prosecute some of the Jewish criminal Oligarchs in Russia such as Berezovsky, Gusinsky, Khodorkovsky and others, a great many of whom have fled with their stolen billions to Israel and other nations.

5) Russia is a democratic state, and not controlled by special interests such as the United States is by AIPAC and Jewish campaign money. While Jewish-influenced newspapers and politicians complain about “democracy in Russia,” America maintains a completely controlled two party system that is structured to stifle Third Party dissent and representation. Russia is no longer a communist state but an anti-communist state in the true sense. While Russia has moved toward more freedom and healthy national sentiment, America has moved toward more state control of every aspect of life. Ironically, today American policy is dominated by Neocons, a Jewish extremist led group that was founded by followers of Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) the notorious Jewish Bolshevik head of the Red Army in the early years of the Communist revolution in Russia, a man who murdered millions of Christians.

6) Zionists are trying to make the great, overwhelming White nation of Russia an enemy of America and Europe because nationalist Russia stymies their plans for the Mideast and for the New World Order. The conflict between Russia and Georgia is not in the true interest of either country, but one in which their main enemy, Russia is weakened both financially and in the court of world opinion, and Israel gets to sell Georgia more weapons. Once you understand the powerful role of the Jewish supremacists in media and government you can begin understand the nature of the world’s major conflicts.

What it all boils down to is simply the fact that powerful Jewish influence in politics and media in the United States see it in Israel’s interest and the interest of the Jewish people to side with Georgia and try to harm Russia. Sadly, as reflected by our Israeli policy, by our catastrophic War for Israel in Iraq, by our Jewish-influenced tottering to the brink of a cataclysmic war with Iran, and by this insane escalation of conflict with anti-communist Russia, we are acting not in the interest of the American people, not in the interest of freedom, justice or fairness, but simply showing our complete subservience to the Jewish extremists.

Ahmadinejhad knows the score

2008-08-02T15:01:00.000-03:00

“In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate…Lord, we pray for the return of the Savior, Messiah and Mahdi…

I extend my greetings to all of you gathered to establish peace and prevent invasion and war, the thinkers and sympathizers who have had enough of the world’s present conditions and who are willing to expend every effort to bring about a better world with the help of your thoughts, voices and spirits.

As you know, the Almighty did not create man to live in war, hostility and vengeance…He did not make man to spend his time in hardship, exile, deprivation, enmity and antagonism such as is prevalent in our era…God created man to live in this world in a friendly, intimate atmosphere, an atmosphere of love based on monotheism and justice. He created man to establish by means of his own will and by guidance of the Almighty a prosperous, creative and ideal society.

However, down through history, despite the missions and guidance of the prophets and despite the endeavors of reformers and sympathizers there have been the evil doers. These egocentric, avaricious and hostile currents have stood against righteous men and against the message of friendship and love in order to distort man’s understanding of the facts and tempt him to indulge in selfishness and evil desires. They want humanity to deviate from the right path. They want to smother man’s finer instincts and prevent the realization of good will.

We have seen numerous clues throughout history that point to the presence, domination and performance of these groups in human society. Today, human society still suffers from such individuals and governments, those who cannot be satisfied with their own portions alone, but who can only visualize prosperity through the deprivation and destitution of others. They see their own advancement through the backwardness and impoverishment of others. In order to progress, they strive to rule other nations and by sowing seeds of discord among them, consolidate their own domination.

The best example of such is the racist, Zionist regime. The Zionist regime is by origin a fabrication. It is a racist regime for the sole benefit of a certain number of people who totally lack origins or roots in the land of Palestine. They are devoid of any legal, national or identity bonds with the Palestinian land. The regime has defined for itself special unique rights which cannot be adjusted. They are attempting to maintain their illegitimate interest and those of their supporters via massacre and violation of the rights of the Palestinian people on a daily basis.

Through sedition and deceit they have attempted to brainwash the people of the United States and Europe. They are an incredibly sophisticated party of political racists. In fact, they are an anti-human party, a party that in principle refuses to take into consideration the welfare, happiness and hope of nations.

Watch their behavior--they don’t believe in any religion. When among Christians, they don Christian vestments in order to dupe the Christian community, thereby gaining control of their societies, and then they do the same when among the Jewish community. They use Judaism to portray themselves as innocent to gain control of the Jewish community. Thus, they pave the way to violate the rights of other nations. They don’t believe in any faith. Essentially, they don’t believe in any values, either human or divine. They look after their own interests. They pursue power and control over the main global centers. How they have committed grave crimes for the past 80-100 years and it is almost impossible to find any contemporary war in which they have not played a major part…

‘If the American media did what this paper does every week in exposing the truth, the American people would not find themselves in the unfortunate position that presently occupy.’

- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejhad

Mossad Attack on Montreal

2008-08-01T16:20:00.004-03:00

"A good indication that I theory is correct is it's ability to make predications with accuracy."

This is an example of the 9/11 Truth movement working off the theory that an Israeli company was implicated in 9/11 and 7/7 and they know it was just put in charge of the Montreal Underground.

The information about the UPCOMING terrorist attack is growing and we need to recognize the situation for what it is, a False Flag Operation to form the NAU and the Iran War.

One source for information on this come from Canada. Canadians are remarkable well informed about this issue and a Political Action, perhaps even a Political Party will come from the overwhelming resistance to the NAU.

We need to recognize what is going down and not allow them to kill Canadians for the purpose of starting a Fascist Empire.

America rapes Nadia

2008-07-24T12:09:00.000-03:00

One of the most horrific incidents at Abu Ghraib is told by a 16 year old Iraqi girl in her own words. Nadia, in tears, narrated her story:

“I was visiting one of my relatives, and suddenly the American forces attacked the home and started to inspect it. They found some light weapons. So, they arrested all people in the home including me. I tried to explain to the interpreter, who was accompanying the American patrol, that I am just a visitor. However, my trials failed. I cried, begged them, and I lost consciousness from fear when they took me to Abu Ghraib prison.
Nadia continues “they put me alone in a dark and dirty prison cell. I expected that I will be released soon, especially when the investigation proved that I hadn’t committed a crime”

Nadia elaborated while tears poured down her cheek, a telling sign of just how much she has suffered.

“The first day was so burdensome. The cell was malodorous, humid and dark, and this condition increased the fear inside me more and more. The laughs of the soldier outside the cell made me even more scared. I was afraid of what would happen to me. For the first time I felt that I was in a difficult gridlock and that I had entered an unknown world that I would not get out of.
In the middle of these different feelings, I heard a voice for an American soldier woman who was speaking in an Arabic language. She said to me: “I didn’t imagine that the weapons’ traders in Iraq are women.” When I started to explain to her the circumstances of the situation, she beat me cruelly. I cried and shouted “By Allah! I am oppressed, By Allah! I am oppressed”

The soldier showered me with insults in a way that I have never thought possible or that I would ever be subjected to under any circumstances. Then, she started to deride me saying that she was monitoring me all the day via the satellite, and that they can track their enemies even inside their own bedrooms by American technology.
Then she laughed and said: “I was watching you when you were making love with your husband.” I replied in a confused voice “But I am not married”.

She beat me for more than one hour and she forced me to drink a glass of water, and I knew later that they put a drug in it. I regained my consciousness after two days to find myself naked. I knew immediately that I have lost something that all the laws in the earth will not be able to return it to me once again. I had been raped. A hysterical fit attacked me and I started to hit my head violently against the walls till more than five American soldiers head by that soldier women entered the cell and started to beat me, and they raped me alternately while they laughing and listening to a loud music.

Day by day the scenario of raping me was repeated. And every day they invent new ways that are crueler than the prior ways.”
She went on describing the horrible acts of the American criminals:

“After about one month, a Negro soldier entered my cell and threw me two pieces of American military clothes. He said in weak Arabic language to wear them. After he put a black bag on my head, he led me to a public toilet where there are pipes for cold and hot water and he asked me to bathe. He then closed the door and left.

I was so exhausted and feeling pain, and despite the tremendous number of the bruises in my body, I poured out some water on my body. Before I finish my bath, the Negro soldier came in. I frightened, and I hit him in the face with the water bowl. His reaction was so tough. He raped me cruelly and spit on my face, then he left and returned with two soldiers who returned me to the cell.

The treatment continued that way, to the extent that sometimes I was raped ten times in a day, the matter which affected my health negatively.”

Nadia continued in revealing the American horrible actions made against the Iraqi women, saying:

“After more than 4 months, a woman soldier woman came, and I concluded from her conversation with other soldiers that her name is Mary. She said to me “now you have a golden opportunity, since an officer who has a high position will visit us today, if you deal with him positively, you would be released, especially because we are sure you are innocent.”

I replied, “If you are sure of I am innocent, why you don’t release me?”

She screamed in nervousness, “The only way that guarantees your releasing is to be positive with them.”
She took me to the public toilets, and she supervised my bath while she was holding a thick stick, hitting me by it if I didn’t perform her orders. Then, she gave me makeup, and warned me not to cry and ruin my makeup. Then she took me to an empty small room where there was nothing but a cover on the floor, and after one an hour she came accompanied with four soldiers who was holding cameras. She took off her clothes and she harassed me as if she was a man. The soldiers were laughing and listening to a noisy music, and taking photographs to me in all poses, and they were emphasizing on my face. The woman asked me to smile otherwise she is going to kill me, and she took a gun from one of her colleagues and fired four bullets near my head, and swore that the fifth bullet will be fired in my head.

After that, the four soldiers raped me alternately the matter which made me lose my consciousness. When I regained the consciousness I found myself in the cell and the traces of their teeth, nails and cigarettes are in everywhere in my body.”

Nadia stopped narrating her tragedy to wipe her tears, then she continued: “After one day Mary came and told me that I was cooperative, and I will be released but after I watch the film that they have shot. I was in pain when I saw the film, and she (Mary) said: “you have been created for the sole purpose for us to enjoy”. At the moment I became very anger and I attacked her although I was afraid of her reaction, and I would kill her except for the interfering of the soldiers. When the soldiers released me she showered me with hitting, then they left me.

After this incident, nobody harassed me for more then one month; I spent that period in the praying and invocation to Allah, the All-Mighty who has all power, to help me.

Mary came with some soldiers who gave me the clothes that I was wearing when they arrested me and took me to an American car. Then they threw me on the highway road after giving me 10,000 Iraqi Dinars.
I went to a home that was near the place where I have been thrown out and since I know the reaction of my family, I preferred to visit one of my relatives to let them know what happened after my absence. I knew that my brother had held a consolation board for me for more than 4 months, and they considered me as a dead person.
I understand the knife of shame is waiting for me. So, I went to Baghdad where I found a good family who lodged me, and I worked with this family as a maid and governess for their children.
Nadia wonders in pain, regret and bitterness:

“Who will quench my thirst? Who will return my virginity? What is the offense of my family and kin? I have inside me a baby, and I don’t know who his father is.”

US Aimed Earthquake?

2008-07-11T18:25:00.004-03:00

A high-level Chinese military source secretly disclosed last week that the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province caused a chain-reaction of explosions in the Sichuan mountain areas. The explosions destroyed Chinese army's largest armory, new weapon test bases and part of nuclear facilities including several nuclear warheads. This information is considered China's top military secret.

After the earthquake, Chinese authorities had ignored the disaster victim's initial calls for help. Only after the first critical 72 hours had passed did the authorities allow international aid to be delivered to the disaster region. Military analysts believe that this delay occurred because Mianyang City of Sichuan Province is one of important areas for the Chinese military nuclear industries and also its largest armory. The Chinese regime did not want potential spies from the outside world in this very sensitive military area during a time when there may have been a nuclear accident.

"I went to see the site of the explosion again. Villagers on the road told me, 'These concrete blocks and soil were from the explosion,'" said a medical team member. (Photo provided by mainland Chinese Internet Users)

According to sources, a nuclear accident did happen. On June 27, the Chinese military disclosed that 2,700 chemical cleanup workers had been sent to earthquake disaster areas for nuclear chemical emergency rescue.

A villager said, "At that time, I heard a huge explosion and saw red substances tens of meters high rising off the mountain. This scared me to death." (Picture provided by mainland Chinese Internet Users)

After carefully analyzing seismic data, military experts in southeast Asia confirmed a non-geological shock had occurred at the earthquake epicenter. The energy released was equivalent to that of an underground nuclear explosion.

Is this more evidence of the Earthquake being something set up by Haarp? Haarp affects the Ionosphere, and as such it can affect the ground as both are circuits in a leaky capacitor type setting. This means, if true, that the US has just attacked China.

Apartheid

2008-07-11T18:04:00.003-03:00

The comparison of Israel's West Bank to South African Apartheid is usually something Israel tries to shut up. However, it is hard to ignore when it comes from members of the ANC. The African National Congress, those who were directly affected by Apartheid.

Members of a 23-strong human-rights team of prominent South Africans cited the impact of the Israeli military's separation barrier, checkpoints, the permit system for Palestinian travel, and the extent to which Palestinians are barred from using roads in the West Bank.

After a five-day visit to Israel and the Occupied Territories, some delegates expressed shock and dismay at conditions in the Israeli-controlled heart of Hebron. Uniquely among West Bank cities, 800 settlers now live there and segregation has seen the closure of nearly 3,000 Palestinian businesses and housing units. Palestinian cars (and in some sections pedestrians) are prohibited from using the once busy streets.

"Even with the system of permits, even with the limits of movement to South Africa, we never had as much restriction on movement as I see for the people here," said an ANC parliamentarian, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge of the West Bank. "There are areas in which people would live their whole lifetime without visiting because it's impossible."

Mrs Madlala-Routledge, a former deputy health minister in President Thabo Mbeki's government, added: "While I want to be careful not to characterise everything that I see here as apartheid, I just do find comparisons in a number of places. I also find differences."

Game Over

2008-07-11T17:54:00.000-03:00

: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling

by David Michael Green

So. You've built yourself an empire, eh?

Well, bully for you!

What's next, you ask? Well, now you've got to do what everybody does when they have an empire, of course. You've got to worry about it falling apart, mate!

But how to tell for sure? Let me see if I can be helpful. Here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind, thirty-six sure-fire indicators that your empire is falling apart:

You know your empire's crumbling when the folks who are gearing up their empire to replace yours start blowing up satellites in space. And then they don't bother to return your phone calls when you ring up to ask why.

You know your empire's crumbling when those same folks are cutting deals left, right and center across Asia, Latin America and Africa, while you, your lousy terms, and your arrogant attitude are no longer welcome.

You know your empire's crumbling when you're spending your grandchildren's money like a drunken sailor, and letting your soon-to-be rivals finance your little splurge (i.e., letting them own your country).

You know your empire's crumbling when it's considered an achievement to pretend that you've halved the rate at which you're adding to the massive mountain of debt you've already accumulated.

You know your empire's crumbling when you weaken your currency until it looks as anemic as a Paris runway model, and you're still setting record trade deficits. (Hint: Because you're not making anything anymore.)

You know your empire's crumbling when "the little brown ones" (thank you George H.W. Bush - certainly not me - for that lovely expression) in country after country of "your backyard" blow you off and proudly elect anti-imperialist leftist governments.

You know your empire's crumbling when you can't topple those governments and replace them with nice puppet regimes - like in the good old days - even if you wanted to. And you badly want to.

You know your empire's crumbling when one of their leaders comes to the United Nations and makes fun of your emperor, calling him the devil, and joking about smelling sulphur where he just stood. And though a few folks cringe, everybody laughs.

You know your empire's crumbling when just about your entire military land force is tied up in a worse-than-useless war launched on the basis of complete fabrications, that every day is actually making you less - not more - secure from external threat.

You know your empire's crumbling when almost half the soldiers in that war are high-paid mercenaries, and you don't dare institute a draft.

You know your empire's crumbling when you send soldiers into war with two weeks training and a lack of armor, and then you keep them there for three, four and five rotations.

You know your empire's crumbling when a member of the Axis of Evil can test missiles and explode nuclear warheads, and all you can do about it is mumble some pathetic warnings about how they better not do that again or there will be consequences.

You know your empire's crumbling when you even think that there is an Axis of Evil.

You know your empire's crumbling when a rag-tag military hodge-podge of irregulars has you pinned down in an endless fight you can't win, but also can't lose.

You know your empire's crumbling when you're too dumb to even ban Humvees as a first step toward ending your dependency on a foreign-owned crucial resource.

You know your empire's crumbling when you trade your prior moral leadership on human rights issues for global disgust at your torture, 'extraordinary rendition' (a.k.a. kidnaping for torture) and the dismantling of nine centuries worth of civil liberties progress.

You know your empire's crumbling when you blow off international law that you once helped create, and undermine the institutions of international governance that you once helped build.

You know your empire's crumbling when opinion polls confirm that every month you're more and more despised throughout the world.

You know your empire's crumbling when you can't even pull off the hanging of a tin-pot murderous former dictator without turning him into a hero.

You know your empire's crumbling when you're the richest country in the world, but nearly 50 million of your people don't have basic health care coverage.

You know your empire's crumbling when the World Health Organization ranks your healthcare system 37th 'best' in the world, just above Slovenia, and just below Costa Rica. (And far below Colombia, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Morocco.)

You know your empire's crumbling when instead of making it easier for citizens to obtain a higher education, you're making it harder and more expensive.

You know your empire's crumbling when your government gives tax breaks to industries as a reward for exporting your jobs elsewhere.

You know your empire's crumbling when the so-called 'opposition' party can't even turn that obscenity into a viable campaign theme and use it to clobber the worst emperor in your history.

You know your empire's crumbling when your middle class has been stagnant for three decades, while the wealth of the hyper-rich continues to climb through the roof.

You know your empire's crumbling when your reaction to that is to exacerbate the problem by enacting tax policies that massively increase further still the gap between the rich and the rest.

You know your empire's crumbling when the predatory class has taken over your government and is stripping the country of everything not bolted down to the floor. And then it sells the floor itself, as well, to your rivals.

You know your empire's crumbling when you're spending tens of billions of dollars you don't own on new nuclear warheads and space weapons that don't work, to be used against an enemy you don't have.

You know your empire's crumbling when one of your cities drowns and your government does next to nothing before, during and after.

You know your empire's crumbling when a massive environmental nightmare is looming around the corner, and your emperor not only ignores it, but claims it isn't real while taking steps to exacerbate it.

You know your empire's crumbling when your emperor is warned by a CIA briefer of an imminent terrorist attack of vast proportions, and responds by remaining on vacation and dismissing the briefer with the words: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."

You know your empire's crumbling when the same emperor drops everything to fly across the country from his vacation home in order to sign a bill intervening on the wrong side of a personal medical drama involving a single family.

You know your empire's crumbling when gays and immigrants are used as diversionary issues to keep people from thinking about the pillaging of their country and their wallets actually taking place. And it works.

You know your empire's crumbling when people are getting more religious and less scientific, not the other way around.

You know your empire's crumbling when your political leaders start to be chosen by dynastic rules of succession.

And you especially know your empire's crumbling when the most idiotic child of one of the least accomplished leaders in its history is not only crowned as the next emperor, but is even revered for a time by most of the public as a great one.

Rome? Britain? Spain?

At this rate we'll be lucky to end up like Belgium.

55 Israeli Companies?!

2008-07-06T17:50:00.002-03:00

It is now clear that this is a war of agression, a warcrime, and it's reasons are becoming even more clear. Stopping the deaths of Palestine is stopping the deaths for us by these same genocidal murderers. From Free Arab Voice...
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July 5, 2008

In a dispatch posted at 6:55pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that 55 "Israeli" companies were now working in Iraq under assumed names.

Yaqen reported that the Zionist firms operate in a variety of fields, including infrastructure and marketing. The Zionist Mossad secret police agency had established the Kurdish Lending Bank with its headquarters in as-Sulaymaniyah in the US-founded Kurdish separatist enclave in northern Iraq.

The report indicated that the Kurdish Lending Bank had a secret mission of purchasing vast tracts of agricultural land, oil fields, and residential areas in the vicinity of the cities of al-Mawsil and Kirkuk, both oil-rich cities in northern Iraq. The massive land purchases facilitate the effort by the US-backed Kurdish separatist Peshmergah militia to expel Arab and Turkoman residents of northern Iraq so that the oil-rich area can be annexed to the Kurdish separatist state under US and Zionist hegemony.

Meanwhile the Zionist state exports more than $300 million in goods to Iraq annually. In addition Zionist companies obtain contracts for construction projects in Iraq, thanks to help from USAID, the American agency that oversees the allocation of building contracts in Iraq.

The report indicated that one of the chief beneficiaries of the Zionist presence in Iraq has been former "Israeli" Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak who also formerly served as "Israeli" Minister of Communications.

Translated by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Condi is Proud

2008-07-04T19:26:00.001-03:00

If Secretary Rice claims that she is "proud" of the US decision to invade Iraq, she must, logically be "proud" of the following:

1. Over a million Iraqis dead, and millions displaced.

2. The use of depleted uranium which has sickened and killed thousands of Iraqis, our own troops, and their families.

3. The legitimization of torture as a standard technique of American interrogation at home and abroad.

4. The complete destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure, including hospitals and schools.

5. The subjugation of Iraq as a US vassal from which large American companies will profit greatly from upcoming contracts.

6. The fact that this country was whipped into a war frenzy on an absolute pack of lies that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Yes, Secretary Rice, as one of Bush's sociopathic inner circle who feels no shame or blame for the consequences of their actions, has much to feel "proud" about this 4th of July holiday.

Mike Rivero's - www.WhatReallyHappened.com

Fighting Mind Control

2008-06-30T19:16:00.003-03:00

Fighting Mind Control By: Peter Chamberlin

David Rockefeller writes on page 405 of his memoirs:
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it," http://lonelantern.org/site/index.php?o ... iew&id=356
“The supra-national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” http://www.constitutionforum.net/main_g ... nment.html
Rockefeller and his elite partners in genocidal plans to commit crimes against humanity laugh it off whenever these charges surface – that he is one of the masters of an elite intellectual planning group that is carrying-out an elaborate plot to eliminate nations and subjugate the world with a new world order. The American and Western media dutifully parrots Rockefeller’s sarcastic denials to every available consciousness that is feeding on the IV drip of the addictive TV brainwashing unit. He is a principle financier for most of the research being done into forced behavioral modification techniques in the United States and Europe. The corporately owned media are an indispensable component of this plot against all nations.
The power elite plan for world dictatorship rests on the ability of psycho/social scientists to brainwash the human race into submission. It is believed that a “scientific dictatorship” can be constructed using these techniques on a global scale. The main key to their plans is our ignorance as a people. By their secret estimates, whenever the dumbing-down of America reaches a determined saturation point, resistance to their plans will crumble and Americans will voluntarily lie-down under the marching boots.

It is either purposeful misleading or simple foolishness on the part of those who suggest that there is no elite plan for world domination, based on total human subjugation, because there is a very real paper trail of evidence that documents its creation. A small portion consists of leaked documents, but the bulk of it is found in quotations from the elite themselves and in the documents that they have released into the world (persuaded by their own egos that it was safe to do so.) They are available to anyone who cares to look for them, or knows the keywords to finding them. I intend to present some of them for you here.

The spokesmen for the international elitists (who call themselves “futurists”) boldly proclaim the controllers’ goals to the world. They have boasted of their plans for destroying the free will of humankind, in order to domesticate us into suitable beasts for the new world order. Skeptics seek to discredit those who try to warn about the impending plans for a new world order, calling us “conspiracy theorists” (as if that was a bad thing). Here are some select quotes by a few of those spokesmen that highlight exactly what these futurists had in mind for us all; skeptics should check-out the research being offered for themselves:

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."- Edward Bernays (nephew of Sigmund Freud) in his 1928 book Propaganda.

“The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."
- Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953

“Education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished."

"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."

"Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."
- Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953, pg 49-50
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=22599

[Russell’s observation echoes that of another futurist predecessor, international socialist-transformed into popular icon, H. G. Wells, as expressed in his SciFi classic, Time Machine. His “Eloi” and “Morlocks” represent the anticipated end result of mankind’s tampering with nature through abominations like “eugenics” and psychological/pharmacological manipulation.]

"In like manner, the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities, probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will be brought into play.... All the boys and girls will learn from an early age to be what is called 'co-operative,' i.e., to do exactly what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without being punished, will be scientifically trained out of them."

"On those rare occasions, when a boy or girl who has passed the age at which it is usual to determine social status shows such marked ability as to seem the intellectual equal of the rulers, a difficult situation will arise, requiring serious consideration. If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him...before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it."
- Bertrand Russell, "The Scientific Outlook", 1931

Aldous Huxley announced: "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
Government efforts and privately funded research have launched an intensive effort to do the nasty things outlined by these intellectuals. The program to create a scientific methodology for altering human nature began in experiments in mass terror conducted at the end of World War II, in the Operations Research project, which advocated and then studied the fire-bombings of Germany. The Strategic Bombing Survey was a plan for the Royal Air Force to concentrate on bombing German worker housing while leaving military targets alone, to break the morale of the German worker...FEMA is a natural successor to the Strategic Bombing Survey of WW II. Dr. Kurt Lewin, theoretician for what the Tavistock conspirators called crisis management, was deeply involved in the study... Lewin incorporated the Strategic Bombing Survey into FEMA.” – Dr. John Coleman. http://www.barefootsworld.net/tavistok.html
The behavioral control methods developed by Dr. Lewin’s group have been implemented over decades, through the controlled corporate media, the corrupted educational system, and the addicting medical industry/drug culture (Which government drug operation is most profitable, “legal” pharmaceuticals or the illegal drug pipeline?). The bulk of the scientists involved with Lewin and the formulating of this new “friendly fascism” (as the process has been described in the Changing Images of Man produced by the brain-stormers at Stanford Research Institute) are Russian and German Jewish psychologists and social scientists of the secular persuasion, who fled European anti-Semitism, before the war, to work in England and the United States.

The research which grew out of this work later blossomed at the secretive Tavistock Institute, before spreading across the Atlantic into a network of American foundations, think tanks and institutes. These institutes have served as the vanguard for the elitist forces, carrying-out the campaign to destroy America from within.

The Zionist neoconservatives who hijacked American foreign policy for Israel were a product of the corruption these Jewish social scientists and psychological theorists had sown through the elitist foundations and think tanks. This is the path that brought them into the seats of government power and placed Israel indirectly in the shepherd’s seat, watching over and misleading the American sheeple.

The following is all from the “Zionist brainwashing of America” - http://rense.com/general78/antisem.htm

“The method of operation chosen by the movement has been to seize the ‘conservative’ cause and to mutate it into a new racist form of fascism, modeled after National Socialism. Their anti-Muslim beliefs provided the foundation for their ‘master class’ theories. Their aim was to prove that only the strong deserved to be treated as human beings, using the new ideology of American ‘exceptionalism’ and manifest destiny. With their rise to power, America became a tool for digging up the Middle East and rebuilding ‘Zion.’"

The Zionist neocons had inherited the corporate/government machinery that had been taken over by previous Zionist agents, incorporating the brainwashing techniques developed from the psychiatric methods created by mostly Jewish psychologists. http://www.jinfo.org/Psychologists.html They had developed their theories of psychotherapy and social engineering through their study of deviant human nature and anti-Semitism in Nazi psychological indoctrination in the heart of fascist Europe. The Zionist social scientists studied the world which had been distorted by fascist nationalism, seeking to create a science to manipulate personalities, hoping to change the fascist mindset, so that it might truly happen ‘never again.’

The corporate government propagandists who had studied their work on the aberrant psychology of the worst of all human beings developed highly coercive manipulative group psychotherapy techniques. The therapeutic conditioning which had been created by Sigmund Freud and his associates became the foundation for brainwashing techniques and a reverse conditioning process, intended to produce a new generation of fascists here in America and wherever else it was to be used. Now variants of these psy-ops techniques are being used in every strata of society, to control and to manipulate large groups of people, most notably through advertising, government disinformation and the ‘entertainment’ industry.

Intellectual Jewish refugees, who had fled to America and England from Nazi Germany and Austria, brought different elements of the new Nazism with them, which they later formulated into their specialized sciences by interpreting their own personal experiences and research. The neoconservative students of those scholars fashioned their research into a science of political indoctrination, based on their combined knowledge of fascist tactics of deception and intimidation. The Zionist neoconservatives didn’t build the government machinery; they merely inserted themselves into the driving seats and forced the American people to line-up quietly behind them. Through fear and terrorist intimidation, they forced the people to accept a fascist/racist ideology that they would never willingly accept otherwise.

They had inherited a government of self-seeking ‘public servants’ who had stopped serving the public long ago, most of which had been indoctrinated with the new ideology at foundations (mostly associated with the Tavistock Institute). Their mentors, the Jewish psychologists and social scientists who were key players in the history of Tavistock, had done their preparatory work very well, from their seats on the thousands of think tanks and foundations. The Tavistock Institute is a $6 Billion a year network of Foundations in the U.S., consisting of ten major institutions, 400 subsidiaries, and 3000 other study groups and think tanks. It is funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. From these positions of power, they applied the manipulative psychological techniques that had been developed by Sigmund Freud and his students. http://www.barefootsworld.net/tavistok.html (source for all quotes on Tavistock)

The psychologists and social scientists associated with Tavistock have woven the degenerate ideas of Freud into the neoconservative ideology. There they have implemented their mass-conditioning techniques as part of the plan to create a fascist Zionist America and a fascist world. The plans for us are almost completed.

“The individual is essentially an enemy of society and has instinctual urges that must be restrained to help society function. ‘Among these instinctual wishes are those of incest, cannibalism, and lust for killing...
‘For masses are lazy and unintelligent...So destructive is human nature, he claims, that ‘it is only through the influence of individuals who can set an example and whom masses recognize as their leaders that they can be induced to perform the work and undergo the renunciations on which the existence of civilization depends.’ All this sets a terribly hostile society that could implode if it were not for civilizing forces and developing government...”
From The Future Of An Illusion, by Sigmund Freud. http://www.adolphus.nl/xcrpts/xcfreudill.html

At Tavistock, Alexandre Kojève’s studies of Hegelian dialectics provided the final pieces of the puzzle for the Zionist plotters seeking to force the new fascist ideology on to the unsuspecting American people. It was Kojève’s interpretations of ‘Hegel through the lens of Marx,’ in his ‘End of History’ thesis that produced the ‘clash of civilization’ theory of Francis Fukuyama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Koj%C3%A8ve
Using the dialectic method, they constructed a credible ‘bogeyman,’ in the form of Islamic terrorism, with which to herd the frightened American sheeple right into Israel’s open arms, since the Zionist state would logically appear to be the antithesis of the Islamists.

Since the 9/11 attacks the Islamists have been inflated into an almost supernatural menace. A dark whisper campaign has nearly succeeded in equating all Islam with terrorism. The echo chamber of the corporate media has amplified their reputations as terrorists by focusing on their former exploits against the Soviets in Afghanistan. The coining of the deceptive term ‘Islamofascists’ linked Islamic ideology to the Nazis, providing the propagandistic ammunition needed for the brainwashing campaign. In the indoctrinated neo-fascist ideology, modeled after National Socialism, liberals are traitors, the enemies of the growing police state, while anti-liberals (conservatives) are the new anti-Semitic super-patriot agitators.

Their mind-numbing campaign of fear and intimidation created a state of dissonance within the minds of the targeted American populace, making the people susceptible to suggestion. Utilizing the brainwashing methods of group dynamics, they made this new paradigm the new national ‘consensus.’ Hyper-patriotism became a guilt weapon, used to bludgeon the new fascist group identity into the scrambled conscious of post 9/11 America. The historical lessons taught by Jewish refugee George Mosse (mentor of neoconservative agitator Michael Ledeen) on the psychological and political indoctrination skills used by the Nazi propagandists, showed the way to the fascist transformation of American political parties, using the new mythology of Islamofascism.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fasci ... aquer.html

According to another Jewish psychologist, Martin Seligman, the author of ‘Learned Optimism’ (the alleged psychological antidote to learned helplessness), human minds can be trained to passively accept unpleasant situations. http://www.jinfo.org/Psychologists.html
“...nullifying the natural reactions, which normally cause attempts to escape or to control the situation. It is a state of deep depression, brought on by prolonged immersion in a reality of learned helplessness...A person with learned helplessness easily gives in her/his goals if s/he failed few times in achieving them. Such persons show apathy, no motivation, depression and pessimism.”
http://www.see-ran.org/expanded/?id=00069

The American military is now developing virtual reality computer simulations, based on the theory of learned helplessness, to help it plan psy-ops operations to help it manipulate the populations of entire nations.
“The intent is to ‘...test multiple courses of action to anticipate and shape behaviors of adversaries, neutrals, and partners. By applying theories of economics and human psychology, its developers believe they can predict how individuals and mobs will respond to various stressors... They try to anticipate how stressed-out populations can be manipulated by increasing the fear and anxiety-induced helplessness, through the introduction of panic-causing events.

The A. I. thinking of the massive computer simulations used in the program is based upon the theories of Israeli-American cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman.”
http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/23/s ... page3.html

If this rise of the lower classes can be postponed until the public is ripe for surrender and is ready to consent to enslavement and legal encroachment, the elite can achieve energy dominance.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... ooper2.htm

TV represents the perfect subliminal programming mechanism for the human attention cycle, which has been estimated to be 14 seconds, before focus slips. If not for the pervasive influence of television the levels of American resistance would be much higher:

“Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit. It's no longer an overstatement to note that the youth today that are raised and taught through network television are intellectually dead by their early teens...The dumbing down of humanity is represented by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is diminished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases.” - “Mind control tv”
http://www.redicecreations.com/specialr ... ntrol.html

If electronic mind control were impossible, then why would the European Union pass the following resolution against it?

“In January 1999, the European Parliament passed a resolution where it calls " for an international convention introducing a global ban on all development and deployment of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings. It is our conviction that this ban can not be implemented without the global pressure of the informed general public on the governments. Our major objective is to get across to the general public the real threat which these weapons represent for human rights and democracy and to apply pressure on the governments and parliaments around the world to enact legislature which would prohibit the use of these devices to both government and private organisations as well as individuals." (Plenary sessions/Europarliament, 1999)” http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/NewCrit-JPSS-CS2.htm

If it is impossible then why have so many mind control devices been patented?

“patent numbered 03951134 on the Internet pages of IBM Intellectual Property Network for a device, described in the patent, as capable of picking up at a distance the brain waves of a person, process them by computer and emit correcting waves which will change the original brain waves.” http://soleilmavis.spaces.live.com/Blog ... 1908.entry

Machines can now read brain waves:

“In the middle of 1992, a sophisticated 122-channel brain research system became operational. This instrument is the culmination of more than ten years of development of the magnetoencephalographic (MEG) technology in the LTL. The magnetic field caused by neural currents flowing in the brain is measured by an array of 122 superconducting sensors which cover the subject's head in a helmetlike fashion.”
122-SQUID neuromagnetometer http://ltl.tkk.fi/triennial/squid.html

Toys respond to brain waves:

http://www.physorg.com/newman/gfx/news/newtoysreadb.jpg

Why couldn’t the visual, optical and electromagnetic signals emitted by TVs act as carrier signals, where hidden subliminal signals might be broadcast? Subliminal message generators have also been patented:

“US PAT NO: 5,270,800
TITLE: Subliminal message generator

ABSTRACT:
A combined subliminal and supraliminal message generator for use with
a television receiver permits complete control of subliminal messages
and their manner of presentation.

US PAT NO: 5,170,381
TITLE: Method for mixing audio subliminal recordings

ABSTRACT:
Audio subliminal recordings are made in which in addition to using a
primary carrier, such as music, two audio channels are used to deliver
subliminal messages to the brain.”
http://beyond-the-illusion.com/files/Mi ... blmnls.txt

The whole mess reads like a script from a b-movie, specifically, this movie:

http://bookarmor.com/wp-content/uploads ... eylive.jpg

From “They Live” script:
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scri ... enter.html

“Our impulses are being redirected
We live in an artificially-induced state of consciousness,
The movement began eight months ago
By a group of scientists.
They accidentally discovered these signals being sent.
The under-class is growing,
Human rights are non-existent.
In their repressive society, we are their unwitting accomplices.
Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness.
We have been lulled into a trance,
They have made us indifferent.
We are focused only on our own gain.
They are safe as long as they are not discovered.
That is their method of survival,
Keep us asleep.
Keep us selfish.
Keep us sedated.
We are their cattle.
We are being bred for slavery.
We cannot break their signal.
The signal must be shut off at the source.
They want benign indifference.
We could be pets or food, but all we really are is livestock.”

In the real world,we also have to shut down the signal at its source, the television. The controlled press has to be shut down. It is the primary threat we face today. This is the singular corrosive force that is empowering the controllers over all other measures, even the economic ones. This invasive degenerative force is welcomed into every living room, where it is embraced like an old friend. A large majority of people trust TV and everything it tells them.

The “nightly news” is the primary programming channel, it must be switched off, if humanity is to survive the final round-up. The object of the programming is to suppress, or if possible, to eliminate the free will. The technocrats who maintain the systems of control believe that the creation of a global dictatorship requires the suppression of free will in all subjects, beginning with Americans who are the unfortunate target nation that has the privilege of being the epicenter of the global wave generator. We have to convince everyone to ignore the news and turn-off all other network programming. Even seemingly innocuous programs like sit-coms and soap operas are used for brainwashing, conveying corrupt immorality to the sheeple as an acceptable new standard.

The second most-important component of brainwashing is children’s tv and video games (Followed closely by the behavioral conditioning dispensed by the educational system.) Anyone who wants to save their kids should seriously consider unplugging their “one-eyed babysitters.”

The pulsating waves of techno-programming radiate outward from American assets, working best when they have a powerful operational field (like here at ground zero), where they can draw capacitance to generate an overwhelming pulse. If America fully submits to the psycho/sensual assault, surrendering our God-given right to resist, then the power of those who lead us is magnified before the world’s eyes, thus reinforcing the sense of inevitability and discouraging any further puny resistance.

Turning people away from the news programmers will require the formation of another news outlet, designed to accommodate people who do not use computers, or like to read. We need radio outlets throughout the country which broadcast daily, compiling program reports from Internet sources, to counter the network wire service subversion. Maybe some of the key sites (such as Crime and Corruption of New World Order or What Really Happened) will join their efforts to produce a common feed, putting out a daily summary on key reports that include all important news determined to be vital to maintaining a vigilant democracy. All we have to do is find sympathetic DJs, willing to use Internet news aggregator services, or newspapers to run a daily list of key reports. In addition to these news outlets, there has to be a way for listeners to read the whole Internet report.

We must encourage independent thought and cultivate a spirit of resistance. Organized resistance to psychological manipulation must focus on finding ways to break through the news filter that keeps independent thought away from the sheeple. New methods must be devised to transmit simple short messages of truth that summarize the dilemma. Education should be aimed at specific target groups, such as veterans and policemen. Specific goals should be set, such as stopping the war on Iran and de-legitimizing American elections through “No Vote” efforts.

We have to prepare to fight the main thrust of the elitist plans next year, whichever Zionist shill gets elected. Either candidate is sure to take-up the Israeli torch to lead the mob against Iran. We must organize a general strike or a one-day national work stoppage to highlight the sorry state of affairs and rally American patriotism against the international elite and the plans for global dictatorship and permanent war. We must prove that we are fighting Israel’s war and organize boycotts of Israeli goods http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/ ... #more22242 and protests at all American Israeli embassies and AIPAC headquarters. http://dailyscare.com/3175/protest-isra ... ac-offices

The principle of the “economic amplifier” outlined in the “Silent Weapons” document http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... ooper2.htm as an instrument of coercion and control also works in other situations where the authority figures are attempting to gain control over people, manipulating them to pre-determined outcomes. We saw it used in the recent incident in Britain of police use of Agents Provocateurs to provoke acts of resistance from the crowd, for the purpose of justifying massive police retaliation.

http://www.infowars.net/pictures/june20 ... police.jpg

The process for amplification by the silent weapon is accurately compared to the actions of electrical components. Police or military figures create “inductance” in the closed system of the protest rally using provocateurs as “amplifiers,” release a burst of kinetic energy into the circuit, causing pent-up energies “capacitance” to be released. The “static” caused by these increased energy levels is then ruthlessly suppressed in a reverse pulse of violence, the purpose for the entire amplification.

In imperial foreign policy, the same principle is followed, for the same reason, to create violent agitation of the targeted population, in order to justify the ruthless suppression of that population. False front groups (terrorists) agitate against inflamed tensions, promoting further violence, thus justifying a cycle of even greater cleansing violence. The idea is to compel targeted populations to force compliance from their government, just like the fire-bombing strategy used to force Hitler’s capitulation. Today, the doctrine has been so refined that much lower levels of terror may be employed to stampede the locals. Small acts of terror are amplified through reaction attacks (feedback), which are echoed back in a closed amplification loop, eventually amplifying the violence to extreme levels, the purpose of the entire process.

We need to reevaluate our definitions of violence, to encompass all the ways that people are being violated by the elitist killers. Forcing unnecessary fuel inflation (price gouging) is another act of “violent” provocation. The process is the same - the inductance is an artificially produced price surge, to measure the public reaction or changes in spending habits, before it is partially backed off. The two steps forward, one step back shock increases both profits and popular reaction, as well as conditioning the public to accept the violation.

The controversial “Silent Weapon” document describes the process below:
“Economic engineers achieve the same result in studying the behavior of the economy and the consumer public by carefully selecting a staple commodity such as beef, coffee, gasoline, or sugar and then causing a sudden change or shock in its price or availability, thus kicking everybody's budget and buying habits out of shape.
They then observe the shock waves which result by monitoring the changes in advertising, prices, and sales of that and other commodities.
The objective of such studies is to acquire know-how to set the public economy into a predictable state of motion or change, even a controlled self-destructive state of motion which will convince the public that certain ‘expert’ people should take control of the money system and reestablish security (rather than liberty and justice) for all. When the subject citizens are rendered unable to control their financial affairs, they of course, become totally enslaved, a source of cheap labor.
Labor strikes deliver excellent test shocks to an economy, especially in the critical service areas of trucking (transportation), communication, public utilities (energy, water, garbage collection), etc.
By shock testing, it is found that there is a direct relationship between the availability of money flowing in an economy and the psychological outlook and response of masses of people dependent upon that availability.
For example, there is a measurable, quantitative relationship between the price of gasoline, and the probability that a person would experience a headache, feel a need to watch a violent movie, smoke a cigarette, or go to a tavern for a mug of beer.
It is most interesting that, by observing and measuring the economic modes by which the public tries to run from their problems and escape from reality, and by applying the mathematical theory of Operations Research, it is possible to program computers to predict the most probable combination of created events (shocks) which will bring about a complete control and subjugation of the public through a subversion of the public economy (by shaking the plum tree).
The following comes from “The Planned Collapse of America.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e18857.htm It is taken from a study produced by Stanford Research Institute, Changing Images of Man
http://www.skilluminati.com/research/en ... df_format/

“The government has known for decades that America is on a countdown to self-destruction. Among the elite it is common knowledge that our “global economy” must one day collapse from its own dead weight...The research revealed that there were a multitude of crises that were about to intersect in America’s near future. Not the least of these converging catastrophes was a rapidly approaching breakdown of both American capitalism and democracy...researchers clearly predicted that the American economy was destined to collapse from its own dead weight. The data also showed that that economic collapse was to be accompanied by disastrous social repercussions, such as rioting and upheaval, which would lead us into a ‘garrison state.’

The government was looking forward to a very troubling future, trying to figure out the best path through it. The plan was to find ways to shape and mold mankind into a new cultural image, complete with new ideas and ideologies, even religious ones. The root of the problem was human nature, and solution was to re-shape the competing forces of daily life, in order to forge a new image of a new human nature.” [From Changing Images.]

“The appropriate question may be not so much how to bring about a transformation...but rather how to facilitate a non-catastrophic transformation.” [page 195]

“No doubt existing consciousness-changing, behavior-shaping, subliminal persuasion, and other conditioning techniques could be used to accomplish some sort of transformation of sobering proportions (we ought to be able to be more effective than Nazi Germany).” [After previously citing Nazi re-invigoration of the Germanic icons and ideals.]
In the wisdom of the elite planners, America was put on trial without our knowledge. The verdict was given, that America must be conditioned to “embrace post-industrialism,” in a new political reality that is described as “friendly fascism.” We cannot accept that verdict. The hour of our summary execution in nearly upon us. Will we accept this unjust decision, or will we fight back against our programming and unseat those who have usurped the Constitution and driven us to World War III against our will?

Contact author: peter.chamberlin@yahoo.com

Stargate: Continuum - Predictions

2008-06-14T16:44:00.002-03:00

There is a new movie for stargate coming out soon. I had alot of time to think about it.

Remember when SG-1 Fought the Dragon and were teleported to a series of caves and they awoke Merlin (Moroes) the former Acended. Well it seems that he said some pretty interesting things there that might be spoilers for the movie.

He called Mitchell 'Percival', Daniel 'Gallahad', Baal 'Mordrid' and Col Carter 'Gwenivere'.

There were also some peculiar sentences that seemed to indicate that Merlin and Daniel were not saying as much as they knew at the time. If that is the case, well, give the Imdb info :
" Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history. "

I'm seeing a potential for this, and given the people in the lineup it is entirely possible that they do take on the personas for a time in earths past to retsore the future.

Of course...

I've been wrong before.

My Paranoid NWO Dream

2008-05-25T19:46:00.004-03:00

So these are my thoughts.

The SPP assholes and NWO are using the Hitler playbook. I have seen the SPP Police (and they can be considered the Brownshirts, people to enforce the NWO ideology) and predict that GHWB will stop the 2008 election after the use of a WMD(s) in the US, or Mexico, Canada and US Capitals.

They will force a draft and all police and trained will be forced to go, all militia etc... Then the SPP Police will be here to "protect us." Since the government is broke and falling apart.

North American Union by 2010.

We must understand that we are all going to seriously decide if we are going to be the 'good Germans' who went along with Hitler, or those that formed the resistance.

Remember, Star Wars was about the Empire and the Resistance. The Heroes of WW II were the French, Polish resistance fighters. The heroes in Iraq are the Resistance. The heroes of Palestine are the Resistance.

Lets not lose sight of the most important thing. Life and Equality is human. Anything else is horror.

ChemTanker Expose

2008-02-28T15:08:00.003-04:00

Here is a video regarding the inside of a Chemtrail sprayer. This expose shows the pipes and general layout of how to spray massive amounts of chemicals without anyone noticing.

Who voted for this?

2008-02-15T15:33:00.001-04:00

A brilliant expose on the basics of what the SPP is what it is going to do to bring us around under fascist rule of North America, without anyone having fired a shot.

Read here on the end of Canada.

Which is closer to your vision of North America?

"Vision A: Three interdependent countries with vibrant social movements, respect for labor rights, and environmentally sustainable economies anchored in provision of social needs and respect for cultural autonomy?

Or Vision B: An unequal alliance dominated by the United States, complete with pumped up oil and gas production, increasing militarization, corporate transnational planning groups, and guest worker programs to ensure cheap, vulnerable labor?

If your answer is Vision A, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that this past August at a summit of the leaders of the United States, Canada, and Mexico in Montebello, Quebec, labor, environmental and globalization activists braved riot police and tear gas to demand democratic input into North American decision-making. The bad news is that the summit was about the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) -- the real-world name of Vision B."

German Chemtrail Revelation

2008-02-12T14:23:00.002-04:00

Don't think Chemtrails are real?

Watch as the Germans tell the people what Chemtrails are and what the military is doing to our skies.

Would you just "breathe" what they told you to breathe? Or would you demand that they not manipulate the air?

Nuff Said

2007-12-13T01:44:00.000-04:00

Endgame

2007-11-27T17:04:00.000-04:00

If you have not watched Alex Jone's 'Endgame', take the 90 minutes and sit in front of youtube and watch it. It tell you about the SPP and the first 30 minutes is mostly about Canada and the supression we already face here in this "free" country.

The Depression

2007-11-10T17:21:00.000-04:00

Is it coming or is it already here?

The economy is down. The people are panicked. People cannot be content with the status quo. We are all suffering under the weight of this repulsive war, these times where the terrorists are in power over us and are using it to dismantle out country. Our resources given away our power diminished and we suffer almost as if we are under tyrants.

We have pictures of the beams of the twin towers, cut on angles like a lightsaber we know they brought it down. We know they are spraying the population on at least 11 countries and inserting propoganda in film and screen to mask that it's occuring. To think they could keep all of the world from looking up at the skies!?

The world is becoming a fascist nightmare and we are almost powerless to stop the overriding corporations and their induced ignorance.

We need to fight. There is %150 rise in depression and sickness due to this in Canada and people are wanting to fight power with their own two hands.

We need to remember Guy Faulkes. We need to remember why we are here. I will protect my family for future generations by stopping this fascism. We need to try.

How to Terrorize your Citizens

2007-09-18T03:46:00.000-03:00

In the new America, the one the Corporations (Property over People) have stolen from the citizens, you have no rights. You can be detained for asking questions:

Andrew Meyer, 21, was in the Alachua County Jail Monday night, according to jail records. He faces two charges: resisting an officer with violence and disrupting a school assembly. He's scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. today.

If you do not ask the proper questions you will be detained and tazered. Holding your hands out in the open, armed with only a book and words, this man was arrested in the new fascist America.

I would have jumped in punching those fascists. They have no right to do what they did and I am amazed the people let them. What a bunch of pathetic sheep. Every one of them cowards while a kid is arrested for asking a question. Write to them how the UFL:Gainesville supports and condones this violence AGAINST their own students.

This is past the tipping point. It's time to begin preparations, for these assholes are coming for everyone who speaks out. It's past the time for passive resistance. It's time for active resistance or revolt.

How Commit a False Flag Operation

2007-09-18T02:57:00.000-03:00

For starters, look here at GNN. They tell you point blank that one of the Nuclear Weapons that accidentally flown across the country, and left unguarded for 55 minutes is missing.

I just about ate my hat.

Someone in an irregular chain of Air Force command authorized loading and transport of nuclear weapons.
And that would never have been done without a reason. Given the magnitude of regulatory violations involved, the reason must be extremely important.
The paramount issue will be avoided, if necessary with repetition of the reassurance that the Air Force was in control at all times. The weapons were only missing during the 3.5-hour flight.
At Barksdale, the missiles were considered to be unarmed items headed for modernization or the scrap heap, and of no particular importance. They were left unguarded for almost ten hours.

This was insane to start with. Now for todays news regarding what the questioning of these men lead too...

Airman 1st Class Todd Blue was assigned to the unit that provides security for that bomber wing at Minot Air Force base. He died while on leave in Virginia. No further details have been released.
Coincidence?

Checking more information from the Pundit:

1. All six people listed below are from Minot Airforce base
2. All were directly involved as loaders or as pilots
3. All are now dead
4. All within the last 7 days in ‘accidents’

Looks like we are in for a false flag attack in the version of a Nuclear Weapon.

What children want?

2007-09-12T20:19:00.000-03:00

So I recently read this article talking about a recent study about how facebook can't really make you close to people...

...my thoughts? DUH! Why would anyone be so deluded as to think you can have a meaningful relationship with anyone, romantic or platonic without ever actually meeting them? One would essentially have to have been raised in such a way as to possess a detached personality that removes their perpesctive away from that of reality. Conversely, one would need to be so shallow as to 'collect' people like old ladies collect trinkets and hard candy, for the sole benefit of their own self-loathing ego.
The purpose of this study was to what? Confirm what we already know, or was it to clandestinely tell all the adolescents out there that online relationships are not as real as you think they are? The fact that perhaps they felt that it was nessesary to release this information nearing the height of the facebook explosion not only speaks about the researchers themselves, but also tells us about the lacking of (and thusly, want for) social skills and 'places to hang' in today's younger population.
Too often I encounter 'under 35's' that can't have an intelligent conversation beyond the level of high school physics. Philosophically, they are either confused, outrightly reject religion, or haven't ever spent a moment of their existence thinking critically or introspectively. If not a materialist, mysogynist, air-head, or moron, they tend to be stuck-up, lost, uninterested or living under a rock. You want to know something...these types of people are the very reason why I have so few real friends, and even fewer that I am close to.
We can blame the parents, the schools, tv, and rock music like everyone else. Or we can sit and watch ourselves as examples, and merely be mindful of what we are not teaching our children. Because the pauses between the notes are just as important as the notes themselves, and realizing that will make all the difference. Realize that we cannot control what our children are exposed to, and instead of fretting and writing letters to tv stations, give your children the tools they need to survive in the modern world of advertising bombardement. Give them books and social skills, teach them to internalize the discipline and morality you have thus far simply forced upon them with little or no explanation. 'Because I say so' only works for so long, try saying 'because it's the right thing to do'.
The researchers I wish I could expound upon, but I can only presume the study was prompted by the growth of online communities in recent years, precipitated and often fueled by political blogging and activism, and the rising need for adolescents to express themselves in a safe environment and connect with others their age locally.
The want has been there since before I was a child, and as I have gotten older, seeing playground after playground get taken apart piece by piece; it kills me. First the swingset can't be repaired because there's no city funding, then a kid gets hurt from being caught up in the merry-go-around and they take it out, then fewer kids go to the playpark, until finally the see-saw and slide go, and all that's left is one kid in a sandbox surrounded by parking lots.
It's sad, and I may be embellishing for some, but for others, it hits home. I lived as a teen in Saint John, NB, and it was tough. I don't mean that we had hard times, I mean it was tough. The people there are rugged and will fight for you if they think your worthy, and considering most of them are good at seeing the silver lining on anything, you can be sure to make fast friends with anyone there if you have a good heart.
We had Fast Jacks, and a cyber cafe at night, but that was it. Three of the most populated high schools in the city smushed into the uptown area, and we had Fast Jacks. Fast Jacks was on the upper floor of 'the square', the king st mall, was a small cafe, and not always welcoming to those of us who had little cash. Still, we coped and 'behaved' because it was really all we had. The high schools had to stagger the lunch hours because the mall would get swarmed and people got paranoid. Teenagers at the mall?? OMG! Too many! Then when people started cuffing to see their friends from other schools, teens got kicked out or banned by security for 'spitting, being disrespectful, and other BS' so that the paranoids could feel safe from prying teenagers eyes. But what else had we to do? Where else had we to go? The boardwalk? To do what? Spend money on booze we can't drink yet, or watch the polluted bay of fundy kill seals? It sent a clear message: We don't care about you!

Suffice it to say, if this brief account tells any truth it is that it doesn't stand alone. Today's youth need their playgrounds back. They don't do bowling anymore, they don't always like to dance, and really, they just want someone to understand them. So ask them. Ask your children no matter what age, what they want, ask them if you could get any playground for them and their friends to have fun in, what would they want to do there? Try it, and let me know how it works out for you. :)

Making Sense of the Massacre

2007-09-04T14:59:00.001-03:00

After reading here that"A military court heard Thursday that a US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of Iraqi women and children during the massacre in Haditha which left 24 people dead." I began to wonder if there really is anyone paying attention to what started this and if anyone knows where it is leading.

Keith Olberman seem to know something, and I appriciate his candor. His words give me hope, and I think we need that.

The Guardian, the main UK newspaper recently went after the 9/11 Commission report and supported questions asked by many 9/11 Truthseekers. This was profound given that the Guardian is a major newspaper and people are able to digest that this hypocritcal US Administration seems to work with terror, not against it.

More and more US citizens are critical of the official account. The respected Zogby polling organisation last week found that 51% of Americans want Congress to probe President Bush and Vice-President Cheney regarding the truth about the 9/11 attacks; 67% are also critical of the 9/11 Commission for not investigating the bizarre, unexplained collapse of the 47-storey World Trade Centre building 7 (WTC7). This building was not hit by any planes. Unlike WTC3, which was badly damaged by falling debris from the Twin Towers but which remained standing, WTC7 suffered minor damage but suddenly collapsed in a neat pile, as happens in a controlled demolition.

There are many, many more strange unexplained facts concerning the events of 9/11. You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to be puzzled and want an explanation, or to be sceptical concerning the official version of events.
Six years on from those terrible events, the survivors, and the friends and families of those who died, deserve to know the truth. Is honesty and transparency concerning 9/11 too much to ask of the president and Congress?

It's not too late to find out the truth. We failed to be honest with ourself during the Warren Commission and we blame a potential hero, Lee Harvey Oswald, before real criminals like Nixon and GWHBush. Fascism is what we are facing from the grandfather of a fascist.

Montebello

2007-08-24T18:21:00.000-03:00

When you see something like this, as an isolated incident, then, maybe you can let it go.
But we all know something is wrong. We all know that ever since September 11th, 2001 we have been heavily and constantly propogandized. Our opinions have been shaped and Orwell's "15 minutes of hate" can be seen 24 hours a day on Fox.

We as Canadians are being placiated with trinkets as we are losing our natural resources to our neighbour. A nieghbour who is not neighbourly. One who is condoning, advocating and indulging in human torture. Something we don't talk about at all, but we most certainly should.

I am fearful a bit to the generation's who have been dumbed down and unable to even conherently express a unique thought that was not put through the pop culture grinder. The old men of character are dead, we have none left to express the thinking societies outrage at what is happening to our country as it get deconstructed and it's actual resources and infrastructure are given part and parcel to corporations to manage, and run. They are removing the actual assets of our communities.

I feel strongly that, as Canadians we are able to recognize and see that we are effectively in a plutocracy, and the governed are being removed from the political process. The rich are attacking us. The sources are too many to count and the weapons they use are lies and propoganda. They are selling a war and killing millions for resource theft and embezelment of taxpayer's money in failed contracts.

This amounts to class warfare. It's blatant class warfare of the openly wealthy to the middle and lower classes. They have already effectively reduced the middle class to managable satellite TV watching couch potatoes who's view of the world has not changed since the 60's, and the few who fight have to be educated by something other than public or corporate media.

It is my hope that this event is a cataylst to Canadians to open your eyes and realize that we are losing everything and being sold dreams and nightmares in an effort to steal what is rightful ours. Please do not let them succeed.

Disney Chemtrail Propaganda

2007-08-23T21:51:00.002-03:00

For everyone's attention, it looks like we know what side Disney is on:

CHEMTRAILS IN DISNEY'S MOVIE CARS!

Climate Conspiracies

2007-08-09T19:59:00.000-03:00

Go Gore!

So what? So we gave the scientists a little money, that doesn't mean we influenced their reports. Does it?

"After the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of the world's top climate scientists, released a report in February that warned the cause of global warming is "very likely" man-made, "the deniers offered a bounty of $10,000 for each article disputing the consensus that people could crank out and get published somewhere," Gore said...

Gore likened the campaign to that of the millions of dollars spent by U.S. tobacco companies years ago on creating the appearance of uncertainty and debate within the scientific community on the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes."

The so-called debate on global warming should have deflated by now. I think it will only deflate when a real democrat gets into the white house next year. Because then the corporations will stop getting everything they want. They shouldn't get anything from the government in my opinion, but who am I?

But really, a friend of mine who lives in the praries still is convinced of this same propaganda being spouted in the US, we are not immune here in Canada. There is no division among world researchers in various disciplines about global warming and climate change in general. We know we're doing it, they know we're doing it, and yet we still stand up and say NAH-AH! I WANNA PLAY IN THE OIL FIELD, SO THERE!

mother-fuckers ><

((Neil Note : Check out some of the letters or the European Commission...))

HPV Fears

2007-08-09T19:02:00.000-03:00

Let me say this much about the HPV vaccine. It quite possibly the best thing to come out from medical science since the polio vaccine, do these people not understand exactly how important this is? Our rates have been declining since the 80's but any death is preventable, especially if detected at an early stage. European countries such as France and Finland have well established screenings. Of course, we have a PAP test, and I do think that pre/puberty aged girls should get pap tests for cancers and disease unrelated to STD's whether they have their cycles or not. It will in the very least teach them more about their bodies and how to take care of themselves. Vaccincation is a great idea, but we do need to keep in mind the truth about this particular immunization. It is not a 'cure-all', and most sensible people could understand the implications of that, but for those who can't think that fast it means that there are still strains of cervical cancer your daughter could be vulnerable to.

Now, people who have their heads buried in the sand seem to be getting uppity about the idea that their little girls may one day have sex. The fact that they are getting angry and all fired up about it in public says a lot about what kind of parents they are. If had a daughter, she'd be getting one right now. The issue is about protection, not authority. I'd have a mind to tell my child that she is free to make her own informed decisions, and know about the ways she can protect herself, and to spread this education to her friends. The issue for the vocal nutjobs is always going to end at religion, and the debate stops there...so then the real question should be what debate?

This cbc article summed it up nicely I think:

"I have to say that that is one of the silliest arguments I've ever heard, when it comes to the HPV vaccine," Kitchen said. "Abstinence-based programs do not work. In Texas … they have an abstinence-based program in all their schools and they also have the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the States."...

The vaccine, Gardasil, is proven to prevent 70 per cent of all cervical cancers. Newfoundland and Labrador follows other Atlantic provinces, as well as B.C. and Ontario, in planning to offer the vaccination to students."

Shift work

2007-08-09T18:50:00.001-03:00

This article says what my dad, a coast guard communications shift worker for the past 25 years has been telling me all my life. He said to never do shift work if I can avoid it, and I have so far:

"Shift workers were also found to have greater hip-to-waist ratios, higher cholesterol and insulin levels, increased blood pressure and higher triglyceride levels. Low levels of serotonin are associated with conditions such as anger, depression and anxiety.Previous studies have found rotating and night shift work affect the cardiovascular and metabolic systems, suggesting that shift work may be directly responsible for increased body fat and higher blood pressure levels, said the authors of the Buenos Aires study...Shift workers in the study typically slept one to four hours less than average, and experienced a poor quality of sleep.
Lack of high-quality sleep can sabotage job performance, make people less alert and put them at risk of an injury on the job, researchers said."

Response :"Job boom hurting BC university enrollment"

2007-08-09T17:47:00.000-03:00

Young people right now feel that because they come out of university with a Bachelor's and still end up working in a video store, that working right out of high school is their best bet to get ahead in today's capitalist society. Young people are no longer asked to think critically at their jobs, they are asked to be robots, fulfilling every whim of the corporation they slave for.
This opinion is growing and creeping into the younger adolescent generation as well, because they do not see the future my generation was told to look forward to. The 20-35's of this country are pissed. We now have to work in a world wrought with war and famine, meanwhile being told to dull our thoughts and 'just do as your told'. No self-respecting person can live like that, let alone work like that.
So we are damned if we do go to school; we get debt that would make george bush blush, we push ourselves to the point of burnout, and in the end we just get standarized testing same as high school, and can't even fulfill our goals when we look for a job in our field. We are damned if we don't go to school because then we just keep turning out dull mind after dull mind from our primary education system.
We are not exactly walking through metal detectors, nor are we producing children that can't count, but we are producing 18 year olds who can barely coherently read a paragraph from a driver's ed book. My 24 yr old friend has been going to driver's ed this week, and she was astounded at how the younger people in her class could barely read. Ask them about the latest fashion trends or music, and they would have an hour long conversation about the subject though.
So what exactly is the problem, and how do we go about solving it? I think that's a question for the opposition to tackle in Parliment myself. All I know is that my child will be homeschooled until the hegemonizing stops and we no longer electronically labodomize our younger generations with tv, videogames, advertising and pure entertainment.
We are so concerned about so-called 'teenagers' having sex, that we don't realize they can't fucking read! We have to stop being so concerned about petty things like fashion, celebrity lives, pop music, and ignoring real issues that effect the fabric of our society. That fabric is unravelling, and I think it's time for a new quilt.

Vocal about Chemtrails

2007-07-24T14:56:00.000-03:00

Recently, you thought that the bubble may not burst on the Chemtrails in this city and around the world being sprayed on unsuspecting citizens, but times change and people do question what is happening to them.

Posts on the net under google news on Chemtrails reveal a few papers shouting out about these spraying operations that often ruin perfect good days with hazy/greasy cloud cover.

Something unparalleled in our nation has come to the attention of hundreds of thousands of United States citizens. This phenomenon is affecting the people of Washington, as well. We've been observing strange vapors left by certain jets spewing chemtrails, not the normal contrails, into our skies.We're sick and tired of seeing a rare day of sunshine disappear as white-contrail-appearing matter quickly spreads out to form a cloud-like substance and formation. These artificial clouds often linger until the sun is either totally obstructed, or until a colored oily appearing ring seems to circle the sun itself. Several days this spring and early summer, the mornings began with clear blue skies. Then between 1 and 3 p.m., we would see the jets once again spray the possibly toxic chemtrails. The spray crossed in X-like formations in the sky, or it ran its long vaporous trails, ever expanding into the blue atmosphere. Within two hours the sun would be totally obscured.

Another here tried to force the UK government to acknowledge this coverup and asking for flight data.

Johnson responded to the DoT and CAA asking that, if their assertions were correct and the chemtrails were just contrails, it must mean that the picture of the “grid” he took in 2005 and the 42 aircraft he recorded leaving persistent trails over a period of 2½ hours on Feb 4th 2007 must be ordinary air traffic. He therefore asked if they could please supply flight data for these days? “As I have videoed the actual aircraft from 4th of Feb and have the files time-stamped on a disk, I can prove they flew over the place where I was. I have received no response to this request so far.”

There has been interest and support expressed from around the world, Johnson has found. “During the week after I first posted the report, I received a number of complimentary messages from around the world, which was a pleasant surprise. It seems that more people are aware of and concerned about this issue than I thought”.

Brian from Ontario, Canada also contacted Andrew with information regarding chemtrail identification, “I have put together this webpage http://www.holmestead.ca/chemtrails/spreading.html for people in the USA which helps them to identify Chemtrails. One important consideration, for example is that most commercial aircraft are tracked by the FAA within the U.S. Other countries may have similar tracking programs and in turn make that tracking data available to the public via tracking programs such as ‘FlightAware’ and ‘Flight Explorer’ in near real time. If the aircraft that you have observed do not show up on these tracking programs then you must assume that they are exempt from being tracked. Only military type aircraft, and some Government aircraft are exempt from tracking. That should cause many questions to be asked as it is against FAA regulations as well as military flight regulations for any large body jet aircraft to conduct operations, manoeuvres, or training exercises over populated civilian areas without notification by the Secretary of Defence ninety days prior to any such operation - and only then with the express permission of the Governor(s) of the affected state(s), unless National Security is at issue.”

Let's figure out why these planes are not tracked! Check these testimonials, check your local airport and ask questions!

Something beautiful to behold

2007-07-19T17:05:00.000-03:00

For the first time ever, some 1800 craftsmen (yes just men) have created this moving piece of architecture in Toronto, Canada in the traditional way, using only sacred stone and marble with the majority of the work being done by hammer and chisel :

The mandir was built using 24,000 pieces of marble and limestone carved by hand in India, then labelled and shipped to Canada for assembly. The chief engineer was a Hindu monk.

Toronto's Swaminarayan Mandir, By The Numbers:
1,800 craftsmen involved at 26 different sites in India 18 months to complete stone work 18 acre site, fronting on High-way 427 and Finch Avenue 132 archways 84 decorative ceilings 340 pillars 24,000 carved pieces
5 metric tons, heaviest stone 50 grams, lightest stone 2,393 metric tons Turkish limestone 2,050 metric tons Italian Carrara marble 1,349 tonnes Indian sandstone
4,000 kilometres to ship raw limestone from Turkey to India 6,200 kilometres to ship raw marble from Italy to India 12,800 kilometres to ship carved pieces from India to Toronto 305 containers used to ship them 310 days it would take one full-time craftsman to carve one six-foot pillar

Ok...

2007-07-17T16:07:00.000-03:00

I didn't even get all the way through the daily show video about Sen. James Inhofe (R) from Oklahoma who managed to pass a bill making the official language of the US English. That means that all public signage and services will only be offered in the country's official language, it passed 63/34. He is also a senator that does not realize that the global warming is being caused by us humans polluting the air, and often says so.

...it's the little things that make the real difference.

The dates are all screwed up on this. I just googled this and got a myriad of stories on it, but all with diff dates. I got June and July of this year and last, and May of last year...the daily show clip seemed as if this had happened recently...

Faith Hill unmasked!

2007-07-16T19:29:00.001-03:00

See the REAL Faith Hill...or claudia shiffer or nicole kidman or >insert misc celebrity here<

(Scroll down to see the magazine cover/real photo flash back and forth).

I love how on the cover of the mag, it says "faith&tim: what's normal about them and what's not". What's not? How about the fact that she allows published photos of herself to be doctored in such a way as to reflect a fiction. She is not comfortable with herself enough, I guess.

It's not even to the point anymore of models just becoming anorexic to live up to a manufactured standard of beauty, it's now that we 'airbrush' or 'improve' the look or tone of a person's skin, shave off parts of their body or add others (watch faith's right hand shift into a forearm, and see how her skin is lighter; I thought tanned was 'in'?). We make their eyes brighter, their smiles whiter, their lips fuller, their waists thinner, their breasts perker, their pecks and abs sculpted....until they aren't even themselves anymore. And we....we are somehow impressed by these people. I can't imagine why...they aren't even really people. They are flesh and blood but bought and sold. They are manniquins with shallow personality. "I love to go outside on my acres of ranch land to play with my purebred dogs" doesn't mean she likes animals, it means she has a lot of money, she spends it and you will never see that kind of life....ever.

The world they live in is not real. They exist merely on the face of the planet and breed and eat....they do not think of the consequences of the people they sell themselves to. They do not care about what image they project because it's about them, not the people or young minds they affect. They do not think about the gas they pump...not really. They will never know the desicion between rent or food....the desicion between do I eat or do I starve so my family can eat? They spend money as if it means nothing to them...but oh boy do they get angry when it gets taken away.

They strut.

They flex.

And then we try to emulate them....but why? I don't want to be like them, why do others?

There are famous people who are self-respecting individuals, and that is fabulous, but unfortunate because they are often 'unpopular' unless they have a voucher in being connected to some other 'normal' star.

This site is always fun. ;)

This is what bio-fuel will do to us

2007-07-16T19:29:00.000-03:00

Bio-Fuels are becoming part of the lexicon but, as we have mentioned before in this blog, it's not the supposed green revolution. It's a terrible event to link food and fuel together; when the price on one rises, so does the other.

Does fuel ever go down in price?

This article talks about the already occuring ramifications of bio-fuels and their growing footprint they are taking out of our food production capacity.

This month, the price of milk in the United States surged to a near-record in part because of the increasing costs of feeding a dairy herd. The corn feed used to feed cattle has almost doubled in price in a year as demand has grown for the grain to produce ethanol.

Christina Seid, whose family have been making ice-cream at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory for 28 years, said yesterday that she expected to have to raise her prices, along with all competitors in the short term. “We are holding out as long as we can, but prices will rise,” Ms Seid said.

They're gunna do it!

2007-07-16T15:52:00.000-03:00

Pretty much for certain now: from democracynow.org

Monday, July 16th, 2007
As Cheney Pushes Bush to Attack Iran, U.S. and Iranian Activists Call for Peace

AMY GOODMAN: Is the stage being set for a US attack on Iran? The Guardian newspaper of London is reporting the balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has reportedly shifted in favor of military action before President Bush leaves office in eighteen months.
The Guardian quotes what it calls a "well-placed source in Washington" as saying, "Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in Limbo." The source also said Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney did not trust any potential successors in the White House, Republican or Democrat, to deal with Iran decisively.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Democratic-led Senate unanimously passed a resolution last week sponsored by Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman to censure Iran for complicity in the killing of US soldiers in Iraq. Lieberman opened debate on the measure by saying the Senate has a "choice between turning a blind eye to the murder of our troops and confronting those who are murdering them." The measure passed by a vote of ninety-seven to zero.
Lieberman has been leading the case in the Senate in support of a possible US military strike on Iran. Last month, in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, Lieberman said, "I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq."
Lieberman's comments prompted one person to take action. Leslie Angeline, a member of the peace group CODEPINK, decided she would go on a hunger strike until Senator Lieberman agreed to meet with her. She went to his office every day to ask for a meeting. Every day she was refused. But she persisted. On the twenty-second day of her hunger strike, Leslie was hauled out of Lieberman's office in handcuffs after she refused to leave. A photo of Leslie getting arrested appeared the next day on the front page of the Capitol Hill paper, Roll Call. The next day, Senator Lieberman relented and granted Leslie a five-minute meeting for the following day under the condition she come alone and without press.
The next day, the twenty-fourth day of her fast, Leslie appeared in Lieberman's office for the meeting. She wasn’t alone, though. She brought with her Ali Nasri, a young Iranian who happened to be in Washington, D.C. with a group of thirteen Iranians cycling around the country for peace. The senator met with both of them in his office. Leslie Angeline and Ali Nasri now join us from Washington, D.C. We welcome you both to Democracy Now!

Leslie, let's begin with you. Describe your meeting with the senator and all that led up to it. You fainted in his office in the midst of your fast?

LESLIE ANGELINE: Yes, I did. I was dehydrated, so I collapsed. I wasn’t drinking enough water; it was very hot in Washington.
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about the meeting that you had with him.

LESLIE ANGELINE: Well, I went in by myself at first, and I talked to him. I made two points. I wanted to talk to him about the fact that the rhetoric that he was using, the statements of attacking Iran actually is counterproductive. It causes the government to clamp down on the peace movement that’s growing in Iran. And the second point I made was that he used to be part of the SNCC in the Civil Right Movement in the ’60s, and he worked for the humanity of the black man in the South. And I wanted him to work for diplomacy with the Iranian people. So those were the two things that I wanted to talk to him about.
I wanted to encourage him to go to Iran and see for himself. The Iranian people are wonderful. They’re very kind and generous. It’s a very young population. 70% of the population is under the age of thirty. They’re just children. They want a good life. And Lieberman actually said to Ali and I, he said the two countries in the Middle East that like Americans the most are Israel and Iran. And that came from Lieberman. So he knows that Iran is very friendly to Americans. They like Americans. And by making these statements of aggression and about war, he’s hurting the people who live there, the civil society that we want to reach out to the most.

AMY GOODMAN: You’ve been to Iran, Leslie?

LESLIE ANGELINE: I have. I just went in May, and I had the most amazing time. The people are so kind and generous. We fell in love with the Iranian people. I went with my boyfriend with the Global Exchange Citizen Diplomacy.

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to play a clip of Senator Lieberman. He was speaking on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. It was July 1st, and he was talking about Iraq. He was talking about Iran.

SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN: I had an Arab diplomat say to me two weeks ago that what is happening in the Middle East today reminds him of what happened in Europe during the 1930s, when Nazi Germany began to make moves and the rest of Europe and the United States did not act quick enough to stop the Second World War. He was talking about Iran. Iran is on the move in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Afghanistan. And if we pull out of Iraq, Iran and al-Qaeda are the victors. And so, my answer is, as long as we have a reasonable chance of success in Iraq, then I am going to say it’s worth it for us to stay, because if Iran and al-Qaeda take over Iraq, they will destabilize the entire Middle East, and they will strike at us here at home
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me, let me turn --

SEN. JOSEPH LIEBERMAN: -- with more frequency and ferocity.

AMY GOODMAN: That was Senator Lieberman speaking to George Stephanopoulos. Ali Nasri, representative of Miles for Peace, a group of Iranian peace activists who are cycling around Europe and the United States to oppose a war in Iran, you met with Senator Lieberman. Your response to what he has to say?

ALI NASRI: Well, what is interesting is that Mr. Lieberman is using Iran, is comparing to Iran to al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group. Iran is a nation. He’s omitting the fact that there are 70 million Iranians, and most of them are pro-peace and they are -- actually the Iranian civil society is in the first stages of development, and as we see -- as I have experienced in my own life in Iran, it shows that the great majority of them, there are a lot of movements, pro-democracy movements in Iran, and none of them is comparable to al-Qaeda. So comparing al-Qaeda and Iran is completely wrong, in my view.

AMY GOODMAN: What is the effect of the increased pressure on Iran from the United States? I’m just looking at a poll of Iranians released by the bipartisan anti-terror group Terror-Free Tomorrow. 80% of Iranians favor Iran offering full international nuclear inspections and a guarantee not to develop or possess nuclear weapons in return for outside aid. Close to 70% of Iranians also favor normal relations and trade with the US.

ALI NASRI: Well, as I just -- Iran, the Iranian civil society is a very, very pro-democratic one. There is a great students movement in Iran, and there is a feminist movement. There is a lot of human rights movements in Iran. And all of them are very fragile, because they are very new. You know, the Western world has had three centuries of experience in democracy, and the civil society in the Western world has had its time to grow and to be established. But Iran is on the road toward that democracy and that civil society, the stage of the civil society. But, and any statements like that, any harsh statement, any threats of war and sanctions against Iran can have a devastating effect on this new fragile civil society. And as we -- when we talked to Mr. Lieberman, we told him that -- these consequences. We named him all these consequences. He seemed to agree with us on a theoretical level of our statements. If he will follow up and keep his promise, I’m not sure. I think he was sincere.

AMY GOODMAN: I mean, it’s very interesting, this piece we read in the headlines, that in Iraq at least eighty people -- well, the bombings that have been going on, the killings. But then the issue of Saudi Arabia, the Los Angeles Times reporting nearly half of all foreign militants targeting US troops in Iraq have come from Saudi Arabia, one of Washington’s closest allies in the Middle East. Of the 19,000 being held by the US in Iraq, only 135 are foreign-born fighters, half of them are Saudi. US officials have so far refused to publicly criticize Saudi Arabia's role in Iraq. Meanwhile, in Washington, as we just said, the Senate has unanimously passed a resolution sponsored by Joseph Lieberman to censure, not Saudi Arabia, but Iran, for the complicity and killing of US soldiers in Iraq. Ali, can you tell us what is the feeling of Iranians towards the US invasion and occupation of Iraq?

ALI NASRI: Well, like, you know, the Iranians are against this act, even though we have had the war with Iraq for so many -- for eight years. It’s just at the humanitarian level, it is unacceptable. I don't know what political gains can the United States have or can the world have from this invasion, because Saddam was an evil man and him not being in power anymore is a benefit to humankind. But at the humanitarian level, it’s just unacceptable, and when we see 700,000 Iraqis die, and they have already had a very difficult life, the Iraqis. And it’s just unacceptable for Iranians or for anyone who has a feeling for humanity.
We live in 2007. We are just a click away, at the age of the internet. We’re just a click away from each other. In this time, we are all Iranians, we are all Americans, we are all Iraqis. As you see, Leslie has been on a hunger strike for Iran. It shows that she is just as Iranian as I am. And the attacks on Iraq is an attack on Iran, is an attack on the United States. The attack on the World Trade Center in the United States is an attack on Iran, as well. And it just makes no difference anymore at this age of the globalized world, at the global village, that we just segregate countries and have the double standard in our judgment about them.

AMY GOODMAN: Ali Nasri, can you tell us about this Miles for Peace? Tell us what you’re doing with the other Iranians as you cycle the country.

ALI NASRI: Yes, Miles for Peace, we’re just a group of fourteen Iranians, average Iranian citizens, who have decided to take actions because of the current state of the world. So we’ve decided to travel through Europe and the United States while carrying the message of peace and friendship of the Iranian people through other countries. And, well, this is the -- in this way, we try to meet elected representatives, we try to meet with cultural figures, religious figures, and try to build these bridges dialogue between the civil societies, because we believe that in today’s world, what we need is people’s diplomacy. State diplomacy has failed.
The UN has established like half a century ago, and yet we have more wars and atrocities and sanctions than ever before. So it shows that there's more to do than state diplomacy. We need to involve the nations. We need to involve the people and have their say -- and the people have to have their say in this current state of the world. And this was why we chose to embark into this difficult journey and meet with thousands of people and show the true image of Iran and also overcome some of our own prejudgments about people.

AMY GOODMAN: Where have you gone? Where are you headed right now?

ALI NASRI: Well, we started the journey in Italy, and then we went up to France, Germany, UK. And then we flew to the United States. We did the east and western coasts of the United States. We had some meetings at the UN. We had a meeting in Chicago with a group of peace activists against the war. And we have had different events on the way.

AMY GOODMAN: And where are you from in Iran, your whole group of fourteen?

ALI NASRI: Most of us -- some of us are from -- most of us are from Tehran. And we have people from Kermanshah, a western city in Iran. And we are from different backgrounds, actually. The ages go from twenty-two to fifty-eight. There are students among us. There are like teachers, university professors and workers. We have tried to show a very wide range of the Iranian people, as we selected the team.

AMY GOODMAN: Leslie, what are your plans now? Are you finished with your hunger strike?

LESLIE ANGELINE: We are starting a campaign today with CODEPINK called “Cities for Peace with Iran,” and my boyfriend and I just will be traveling to Connecticut, and that will be the first state where we’re going to try to start Cities for Peace resolutions, pass resolutions in these cities, and then go to New Hampshire and travel all around the United States showing slides we took when we were in Iran of the Iranian people and talking about our experiences and hopefully getting cities to sign onto Cities for Peace with Iran.

AMY GOODMAN: And the CODEPINK presence in Washington painting lobbying pink, as they say. You now have a house there, the whole organization, the peace group co-founded by Medea Benjamin, and people are continuing their activism?

LESLIE ANGELINE: Right. That’s where I came -- after I came back from Iran, I came to Washington, D.C., and I’ve been staying at the CODEPINK house for this month during my whole hunger strike. And it’s a wonderful place, and we’re just a few minutes from Capitol Hill. So we walk to Congress every day, and we go to hearings, and we lobby our congress people, and we try to get the war to end in Iraq and to prevent a war from starting in Iran.

AMY GOODMAN: And how effective do you think you’ve been?

LESLIE ANGELINE: I think we’re quite effective, and we have a lot of congress people and senators stopping and talking with us. The police talk with us. They ask me how I was doing on my hunger strike, and they seemed concerned. So I feel like we’re making progress with the people on Capitol Hill. And we’re touching their hearts. We are very committed. We want peace in this world.
AMY GOODMAN: Leslie Angeline, I want to thank you for being with us of CODEPINK, and Ali Nasri, we will also link to your website at milesforpeace.org.

300 Patriots in a City of Fascism

2007-07-14T19:42:00.001-03:00

I don't even know where to start comparing the ideological treatise which is "300". In fact, it could be construed as one of the most openly ideological fascist movies ever.

I will go through it in a haphazard "bitching rant" way... What else?

First off. Lets paint some pictures, shall we? 1) A militant warrior society which praises patriotism and war above all else. That society practises eugenics. Throwing unfit or unwanted children who are not up the states standards over a cliff. 2) In this society also, there is a corrupt mythical-occult like church and a 3) "senate" (government asides from the king). 4) Introduce the enemy. The big bad. These would be called "Persians". Their leader, Xerxes, considers himself a God, aswell as a Emperor. 5) Oh, and everyone else not involved.

(Translation : 1 = Fascism/Fascist America 2 = Christian Church 3 = Democratic Government/Dissidents 4 = Muslim Nations 5 = The Other Countries)

That's the start. Lets see what is being said. I will not speak of the actual loaded speeches that were being made throughout the movie, just what the images tell us.

The Persian leaders all had interesting chainwork on their faces, sunken eyes and shaded/dirty dark skin. They appeared as evil black people wearing teenagers chains. All persian emmisaries are about as black skinned as you can get. They wallowed to sins of the flesh all over the movie, yet, in Sparta, you could swear it was as chaste and lovely as the south of Alabama. Even the Spartan kids had stong white jaws and shaved aryan youth heads and looked like perfect example of germanic decendant boyhood. Fields of wheat and picturesque countrysides dominate Spartan landscapes.

King Leonidas says all through the beginning of the movie he wants peace, not war, but at the first opportunities he all but instigates it. His righteousness abounds right off the screen. He pleads to the Church and to the Gods. The Churchmen are diseased and corrupted (using the exact word, corrupted) and the Mythology was considered "misguided and strange" yet everyone, including Leonidas must "obey them"? The entire scene implies that the churchmen all want to touch young women and children and are sick perverted old men, who will side with the Persians for money. So.. The Church is old, derelict and cannot be trusted. This message comes out clear.

The Senate and the "leaders" other than Leonidas want to avoid angering the God's and avoid warring with the Persians. So they wanted to not war during "Celebration Time". The Senate, and the head war dissenter, is portrayed as rapist, adulterous, sinful man, treasonous and in all ways totally disreputable. He disapproves of the war, and he is considred "the inner cancer". The entire senate is portrayed a bit better than the Church, but not by much. Another Clear message delivered subtlely, but strongly. In fact, it as painfully obvious as the propoganda saying that "Liberals are with Osama" in the Corporate News. I see wafting similarities as to the rhetoric used today on our TV's.

A deformed man, who was not thrown over the cliff, not only turns out to be a easily corrupted Spartan, but a traitor to his King and Country. Easily duped by offers of the flesh, it is he who betrays the Spartans by leading them around to flank the Spartan's defences. Showing racial purity and deformities are linked to deception and treachery aswell. Although innocent at the beginning, he's fleshly faults suddenly become personality faults and ultimately, bring down the Heroes.

Now Xerxes is entirely special. He is everything that a conditioned westerner should fear about Muslims. Devoutly religious, sexually exuding, fanatic and unmitigating. He leads vast mysterious armies in ways which are barbaric and his entire thing stinks of a mockery of all things Muslim. He uses beasts and other horrible creatures to add the armies horror. The actual reason of the enemy is not really protrayed well.

All in all, an interesting movie for entertainment, a wonderfully crafted propoganda piece for the new American Empire. Make up your own mind.

Upcoming Neo-Con Attack

2007-07-12T15:00:00.000-03:00

It doesn't take much for people to distrust the Neo-Con's in power. Recently, both Michael Chertoff and Rick Santorum have been "dropping hints" that there will be an upcoming attack on US soil and that people who are siding with "Liberals" will be wishing they were on the other side.

Unfortunately, if they know, then we are in big big trouble.

Like 9/11 and Oklahoma City, the upcoming bombing will likely have all the same tell tale signs of the incompentency of the Warren Commission.

Chertoff was quoted saying :

"“Summertime seems to be appealing to them,” he said of al-Qaeda. “We do worry that they are rebuilding their activities.”"

"And he indicated that his remarks were based on “a gut feeling” formed by past seasonal patterns of terrorist attacks, recent al-Qaeda statements, and intelligence he did not disclose. There is an assessment “not of a specific threat, but of increased vulnerability,” he added."

Santorum was even more omnimous in his forboding words:

“Between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view,”

Many theories are about as to why this information is coming out. Is it a simple scare tactic, or a prelude, and warning, of a false flag attack?

We should be very wary of government officials who constantly try and scare us. Fear causes irrationality and breeds anger. I recommend a BBC Documentary called, The Power of Nightmares. It's an expose on the politics of fear and how it has been used recently, to great effect to start the new Imperial War.

The Phrase that pays

2007-07-10T18:31:00.000-03:00

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

look it up!

What Lockheed Martin is all about

2007-07-10T17:00:00.000-03:00

Go here, ignore the ads:

http://www.transnationale.org/companies/lockheed_martin.php

Here are a few factoids I've found:

2004
78% of Lockheed Martin's business comes from the United States Government: 26% Air Force, 19% Navy, 10% Army, 16% Civil Government/Homeland Security, 7% other.

'Pete' Aldridge: Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) from May 2001 until his retirement in May 2003. President and Chief Executive Officer of The Aerospace Corporation from March 1992 until May 2001; President of the McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Company from December 1988 until March 1992; Secretary of the Air Force from June 1986 until December 1988; Under Secretary of the Air Force from 1981 until 1986; director of Global Crossing Ltd. and Alion Science and Technology Corporation, director of Lockheed Martin 2003. He is and was at the time of being under secretary a promotor for the ballistic missile defense system in space.

Lobbying: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobbyists/clientsum.asp?year=2005&txtname=Lockheed+Martin

You can go all the way back to 1998, and as recent as 2006. Please note the increase in aerospace defense from $7,461,000 in 2005 to $9,060,000 in 2006, as well as the complete lack of computer/internet lobbying in 2006...makes you think.

From wiki: Lockheed's Hellfire missiles were widely used in the invasion of Iraq.

Recently: employee got fired for retracing hackers that got into his company's (Sandia National, who is owned by the dept of energy but managed by Lockheed) computer system and working with the FBI to catch them? He sued for wrongful dismissal and won:

http://santafenewmexican.com/news/56982.html

This story is interesting, it brings up a lot of questions like why? Why would an engineering and research company associated with Lockheed fire someone for trying to keep the security of the company under control? They even told him to stop but he refused so they got rid of him. Was this information supposed to get hacked or leaked? What information was acquired exactly? Maybe it was the gov't itself looking into what kind of 'sustainable energy' research they are really doing, and Sandia was just letting them; but then again they could just ask Sandia to jump and 'how high' would come out of their mouths, so... I think the only way that this situation could arise would be that Sandia knew about the breach in some way or allowed it to happen. Weird shit.

...another piece of the puzzle

What Disney owns

2007-07-10T16:42:00.000-03:00

Dissent!

2007-07-10T16:41:00.000-03:00

If it wasn't for real men and women in America, such as Al Frankin, Michael Moore, Keith Olberman, Amy Goodman all might already be lost. These people understand what patriotism really is, what right and wrong really are, and where those lines in the sand lie.

Today, two recent examples of the rising of the people to the challenge their government should be noted, Kieth Olberman, and Michael Moore. We have spoken about both of these men in previous posts. About Keith's shrewd intellectual views that speak to the common man, and Moore's recent acceptance that 9/11 was not as the government portrays it.

Olberman speaks on the President's 'pardon' of Libby, the convicted criminal, to avoid Libby turn over stats evidence on the whole White House.

"In that moment, Mr. Bush, you became merely the President… of a rabid and irresponsible corner of the Republican Party.
And this is too important a time, sir, to have a Commander-in-Chief who puts party over nation.
This has been, of course, the gathering legacy of this Administration. Few of its decisions have escaped the stain of politics.
The extraordinary Karl Rove has spoken of “a permanent Republican majority,” as if such a thing — or a permanent Democratic majority — is not antithetical to that upon which rests: our country, our history, our revolution, our freedoms.
Yet our democracy has survived shrewder men than Karl Rove.

And it has survived the frequent stain of politics upon the fabric of government.
But this administration, with ever-increasing insistence and almost theocratic zealotry, has turned that stain… into a massive oil spill.
The protection of the environment is turned over to those of one political party, who will financially benefit from the rape of the environment.
The protections of the Constitution are turned over to those of one political party, who believe those protections unnecessary and extravagant and “quaint.”
The enforcement of the laws is turned over to those of one political party, who will swear beforehand that they will not enforce those laws."

These words should be told again and again.

Michael Moore had his own conservative hit job against him done by CNN and AIPAC's Blitzer of course, could not even keep things under control. For good reason, the CNN hit-job, done by Dr Sanjay Gupta was libelous. In fact, it openly pure libel. The correction page regarding it shows the errors clearly. Michael Moore hopefully, will continue to fight against these money grubbing corps.

An example of how Dr Sanjay practised his intellectual, corporate sponsored censorship.

"CNN: The United States ranks highest in patient satisfaction.

THE TRUTH:
True, but even when the WHO took patient satisfaction into account in its comprehensive review of the world's health systems, we still came in at #37. ("World Health Organization Assesses The World's Health Systems," Press Release, WHO/44, June 21, 2000. http://www.who.int/inf-pr-2000/en/pr2000-44.html ).
Patients may be satisfied in America, but not everyone gets to be a patient. 47 million are uninsured and are rarely patients - until it's too late. In the rest of the Western world, everyone and anyone can be a patient because everyone is covered. (And don't face exclusions for pre-existing conditions, co-pays, deductibles, and costly monthly premiums).
It's not that other countries are unhappy with their health care – for example, "70 to 80 percent of Canadians find their waiting times acceptable." ("Access to health care services in Canada, Waiting times for specialized services (January to December 2005)," Statistics Canada, http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-575-XIE/82-575-XIE2006002.htm ) "

One simple example of how they simply misrepresent things and lie directly about others. Will CNN apologize?

Does anyone watch those propoganda channels any longer?

What Rupert Murdoch owns

2007-07-10T16:28:00.000-03:00

This is publically available, but most people don't even think about what exactly it is that these huge corporations are doing with their money. I am copy/pasting this from a pdf document outlining the ownerships of GE, AOL/Time Warner, Rupert Murdoch, Disney Corp, and Viacom

Rupert Murdoch owns:

Murdoch family controls 30%
AT&T owns 8%

Rupert Murdoch: NEWS CORPORATION 2000 revenues $14 billion

Twentieth Century Fox Licensing
NEWSPAPERS
NY Post; In UK: the Sun, the Times, News of the
World; The Australian, The Telegraph, The Herald
Sun, and others in Australia, New Zealand and the
South Pacific

BOOKS
News America imprints include HarperCollins,
Regan Books, William Morrow and Avon;
Zondervan, largest commercial Bible imprint

PRODUCTION
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Twentieth Television; Fox Television
Studios; Greenblatt/Janollari Studios;
Natural History Limited; Fox Family
Worldwide, Inc. (50% w/Saban)
Regency Television (50% w/Monarchy
Entertprises); Fox Television Library

FOX
203 affiliated stations

TV NETWORKS
FOX, FX, Fox Family Channel, FXM
(50% w/AT&T), Fox Sports Net (stakes
of 40-50% in 21 regional sports
channels w/GE, Cablevision and ATT
through it's 38% stake in Cablevision),
National Geographic Channel (67% w/
25% GE and National Geographic
Society), MSG (20% w/40% AT&T and
40% Cablevision); TV Guide Channel,
TV Guide Sneak Prevue (44% w/ 44%
AT&T) text display of pay-per view
schedules; generates 65% of all PPV
orders; International holdings include
stakes in Zee Network (50%), ESPN
Star (with AOL/TW), Channel V (50%
with AOL/TW, EMI, SONY, and
BERTELSMANN) and National
Geographic Channel (50% w/others);
FOX Sports International (w/ATT)

CABLE & SATELLITE TV
DirecTV (currnet merger talks would give
30% stake w/GM adn 10% combined for
Microsoft and AT&T); international stakes
include holding sin FOXTEL (50% w/Telstra
Corp., and Publishing and Braodcasting Ltd.);
BskyB (40% w/25% Vivendi) in the UK;
JskyB in Japan, and Star TV in India

STATIONS
WNYW and WWOR, New York; KTTV and KCOP, LA; WFLD,
Chicago; WTXF, Philadelphia; WFXT, Boston; KDFW and
KDFI, Dallas; WTTG, Washington DC, WJBK, Detroit; WAGA,
Atlanta; KRIV, Houston; WTVT, Tampa; WJW, Cleveland;
KSAZ, Phoenix; KDVR, Denver; KTVI, St. Louis; WDAF,
Kansas City; WITI, Milwaukee; KSTU, Salt Lake City; WBRC,
Birmingham; WHBQ, Memphis; WGHP, Greensboro; KTBC,
Austin; KPTV, Portland; KBHK (58%), San Francisco; KMSP
(58%) Minneapolis; KUTP (58%) Phoenix; WUTB (58%),
Baltimore; WRBW (58%) Orlando; KMOL (58%) San Antonio
and KTVX (being sold), Salt Lake City; Satellite
Primestar and DirecTV-- (Current merger talks would give 30%
stake w/GM and 10% combined for Microsoft and AT&T)

TV PRODUCTION
Twentieth Century Fox Television and Fox Television Studios (83%), Fox Television
Studios Regency Television (w/New Regency Enterprises), TV Guide Television
Productions (44% w/ 44% AT&T); XYZ Entertainment Pty. Ltd. cable television
programming in the Asia-Pacific region (50% ATT w/ 50% Foxtel [partnership between
News Corp., Telstra Corp., and Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd.]); Main Event Television
(33.3% ATT w/ 33.3% each Optus and Foxtel [News Corp., Telstra Corp., and Publishing
and Broadcasting Ltd.]) produces Main Event and adults only PPV channels in Australia

INTERNATIONAL TV
Channels in Europe:
Vox (49.9%),TM3 (66%),
Stream (35%)
In Latin America: Canal Fox,
Cinecanal (20.2 %),
Telecine (12.5%)
FOX Sports Americas (50%)
In Asia:Channel V (with others)
STAR News;Zee India TV
and Zee TV (50%);
STAR Sports (50%)
Phoenix Chinese Channel (45%)
Phoenix Movies (45%)
Viva Cinema (50%)
• • •
various satellite joint ventures
including STAR in Asia and
FOXTEL in Australia

MARKETING
News Corp. controls about half the US coupon
business through stakes in in-store and printed
coupon businesses;
newspaper inserts in 630 U.S. and 140 Canadian
Sunday newspapers;
telemarketing

...and more on the web

What General Electric owns

2007-07-10T16:01:00.000-03:00

Rabble!

2007-07-10T14:25:00.000-03:00

write to: breanna@urbanpublications.com to let your voice be heard!

So I decided to randomly pick up the 'canada day' edition of "Here", and I came across an article on page 12 talking about 'what we think of ourselves, and of course our neighbours to the south..'. I will not reproduce the whole thing here, but I will take a few exerpts and comment. The exerpts are from emails that were sent to good ol' Breanna there for the article:

"...I was incredibly angered and upset at Cheney's hypocritical photo op with his newborn grandchild, when he has denied his lesbian daughter and her partner full rights under his government. I hope that Canada can act as a role model to other countries like the US who continue to treat us like second class citizens. ~ Anon gay activist"

I'm going to assume to use the feminine pronoun here. She really hit the nail on the head, here. Even though Stephen Harper is a gay hating neo-con, he would never truly be able to reverse what we have already accomplished. He would get blasted and tossed out on his ass. Cheney's hypocritical interviews, policies and public appearances regarding his daughter are widely criticized in the US as well. The bloggers are often all over it when they aren't breaking the next scandal.

"I feel that currently the Americans are the biggest threat to international peace. When they aren't militarily occupying a developing nation, they instead manipulate foreign leadership through trade agreements, or indirectly subsidize dictatorial regimes to keep market prices low on whatever product they need. The rest of the world needs to come together to stop this kind of bullying and help developing nations emerge from their control. ~Jaimie Savoie, Fredericton"

I must correct Jaimie...the American *government*, not the american people. The US is occupying Iraq and Afghanistan right now. Speaking of trade agreements, something has popped up that I had no idea was going on called SPP, that upon closer inspection seems to be the real force behind Atlantica. George Bush is creating, together with Vincente Fox (mexico's president) and Harper, an agenda that prioritizes: "1) Strengthening Competitiveness through creation of a private sector-led North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), and enhancing regulatory cooperation; 2) Emergency Management; 3) Avian and Pandemic Influenza; 4) Energy Security; and 5) Smart, Secure Borders." (Emphasis mine)

Critics feel that this SPP (Security&Prosperity Partnership of North America) initiative will degrade the national sovereignty of every country involved. Our sovereignty is what keeps us our own country, it's the first principle of a democratically elected government, and there is no way we can let that erode just because Bush wants 'trade' and more money to fuel his war machine. It's not even developing nations they want to have a stranglehold on anymore...they're coming north, they're going south and east.

The SPP's NACC council is made up of ceo's from these private sector corporations and others: Wal-Mart, Lockheed Martin, Ford, General Electric. This economic 'union' is really just a game of fucking monopoly. And, 9 of the 10 members of this council also sit on the committee for NAFTA....and we wonder why NAFTA is fucked up. :P Of course, this is outside of the fact that the public has no control over the intergration of this huge sweeping legislature.

We will not get a say when the imperialist policies of the US truly start to take over our government. We *must* protest. Vive la revolution!

One last exerpt, then I'm done:

"You know the majority of Americans deny that the White House burned in 1812? I think the reason they don't know is because they rewrite history. American history books are some of the most biased pieces of materials you'll find. My view of the american government is that it seems like their take on solving a problem is to win the 'war' so they can rewrite history book so it sounds like the problem never existed rather than addressing the cause of the problem and attempting a resolution that way. ~Garth Fudge"

You have to remember, that often they create the problem in the first place so they can 'solve' it in their own way, or otherwise ignore it. It's a whole package, people. They create the problem of poor health care for minorities and poor people through underfunding, they create the problem of global warming (and are not alone in the endeavor), but they further exaserbate global warming on top of that, and they exaserbate every minor problem that has existed in their country since fucking Nixon; racism, homelessness, poor education, and the myth of the american dream. Who in the US now has a white picket fence, with 2.5 children a dog and submissive woman taking care of them with daddy working 5 days a week for 35-50 k a year. I'll tell you who....but you know already ;)

The real situation is a country full of generally overweight people, paranoid and afriad, often undereducated and distracted by shiny things. But they are waking up, and it's hard for them. Literacy is important, but is completely overshadowed by the lies of the bush administration. Homelessness gets overshadowed by the audacity and arrogance of Cheney alone. :P The lack of good healthcare is overshadowded by the fact that random people are now getting arrested and detained or slandered in one way or another and connected to 'terrorism'. The rampant racism is now just getting exaserbated by the militarisation of the police force.

I don't blame the american people for wanting to keep their heads in the sand. It's a horrible situation, but they are gunna crack. Something is gunna crack, and the whole country will rise up against it's government. They don't want these people in power anymore, the polls show that the american people are not in control of their country anymore and they are pissed.

I'm concerned that they will attack Iran. They've been talking about it alot. They've been 'diplomatically' telling Iran to stop making nuclear power, as if they will listen. Iran knows they are next, and I don't blame them for wanting to protect themselves. Whether the US uses Israel, or does it themselves I'm not sure, but if they go in, there will likely be hell to pay. It just may be the last straw....I hope.

Inspired chat

2007-06-28T18:37:00.000-03:00

So I've been chatting with a friend today through email back and forth, and I'm trying so hard to convince her that these jerks in office are hijacking our country like a fox sneaking into a hen house. It's difficult. When a person just brushes things off that are blatent and obvious to more than 70% of the american population now, I realize that not everyone sees things for what they are. When you live in a town that's pretty much taken care of by the gov't, you would see things differently then from the perspective of a working class town where the majority of people are just getting by. She does realize they have tarnished haloes as it were, but does not accept the depth to which it goes.

She is suspicious of dissent. Why I don't know. Something about facts and figures, when everything is quite plain and easy to discern for me. I tried to tell her what my real issue is:

The avg canadian (feel free to debate if you wish) as far as I can tell is generally ticked off at the way Harper is doing things but feel that all politicians are the same anyway, so it doesn't matter if they are angry or not. They feel that their lower government officials are generally unapproachable, and the higher wouldn't listen to them if they were screaming in their ears. Most blue collar workers care little about politics, and are unfortunately uneducated about how government works, and often don't care to know. If these attitudes continue, then we won't get anywhere, whether we have a good government in office or not. We won't progress toward an equal, secular society where gay bashing is unheard of, racism truly is a thing of the past, and women don't have to worry about getting veggies thrown at them (figuratively or literally) for getting an abortion.

You have to remember exactly what dissent is, as well. It's not defined by being true or false, it's defined by taking an opposing view to popular or majority opinion, coupled with a sense of non-conformity. Dissent is disagreement with or rejection of authority or doctrines of authority. Don't get me wrong, I've often been in positions of authority, and I have no problem with authority in general. What I have a problem with is repression of public media, voices and dissent in general. What I have a problem with is greedy assholes hijacking a country to benefit their pocketbook. What I have a big problem with is greedy assholes perpetuating an ideology to keep the public sheeped and confused. Some people get sucked into it, others don't. What I have a huge problem with is greedy assholes perpetuating the idea that people are all equal, and meanwhile feel the exact opposite and act as such in policy. What I really have an enormous problem with is money grubbing jerkoffs like Cheney taking a ride on the american dream train straight to the bank, covered in the blood of homosexuals and soldiers, writing off tax breaks for corporations....GOD I HOPE HE CHOKES ON A PRETZEL THE FAT BASTARD!

...ahem

Got a little fired up there, but you know how it goes when you feel impotent in your own country. :P

Anyway, I sent her an entire essay on traits of a fascist regime, and she still is unconvinced about what these fucktards in the US admin are all about. The spillover factor into canada seems obvious but trivial to her, and I'm not sure why. Obviously yes, we are going to be influenced, but it's what we are being influenced with that concerns me and many other young people!

In a way, she's more of a peace-loving hippy than I am in that she feels building homes and doing volunteer work is the best place to start. I disagree, pushing back at the right gov't people is what we should be doing. Maybe I'm just a new kind of hippy, or in the very least my own brand. :P

Meat for the Dogs.

2007-06-26T13:57:00.000-03:00

That's what comes to mind when dealing with Harper. Just as I turn and think that there may be some redemption in the man and he's not leading us down the garden path, I get proven that it's all a lie and a machination. Nothing fails to disappoint.

I see a report that the Conservatives are working with provinces instead of slapping them around and telling them he can "sue me if you don't like it", and just as the feel goodness begins to wash over me, it's drained away when I read the reason behind the PM's words:

"Today's announcement with Premier Graham is a testament to what can be achieved when Ottawa and the provinces embrace the true spirit of open federalism and work together to make Canada stronger, safer and better," the Prime Minister said at the legislature in Fredericton.

Premier Williams, of Newfoundland, leads with the PremierNova Scotia in open defiance of the Prime minister. They are even refusing to pass budgets that have to deal with this new fascist face of Canadian Politics. It feels as if the Nazi's are in our houses.

"I would tell the people of New Brunswick that they shouldn't trust the Prime Minister under any circumstances," he said last night in comments relayed by his press secretary. "I would also say that pitting provinces against each other does nothing for this country."
Mr. Williams was asked about the Prime Minister's remarks during an annual conference of Eastern Canadian premiers and New England governors. Their meeting continues today in eastern Prince Edward Island and demonstrators are expected to turn out to protest against plans to reduce trade barriers through the region.

How's Gaza feeling now?

2007-06-26T13:33:00.000-03:00

No matter what the illegal terrorists pressures the US and Israel level against the civilian populations in the area, the struggle for freedom and life continue. It always amazes me that you can attack civilians in a prison for 40 years and the world can't stop it.

"Starving, drying up and blocking aid do not sear the consciousness and do not weaken political movements. On the contrary Reality has refuted the chorus of experts and commentators who preached [on] behalf of the boycott policy. This daft notion that it is possible to topple an elected government by applying pressure on a helpless population suffered a complete failure."

However, things may not be as they appear. Although Hamas seems to have completely won the hearts and minds of the people subjected to this brutal 45 year occupation, the masters at the table as still smiling. The question is why? It's actually a simple answer.

In other words, Israel looks as if it is dusting off yet another blueprint for how to manage the Palestinians and their irritating obsession with sovereignty. Last time, under Oslo, the Palestinians were put in charge of policing the occupation on Israel's behalf. This time, as the Palestinians are sealed into their separate prisons masquerading as a state, Israel may believe that it can find a new jailer for the Palestinians -- the Arab world.

Fascist/Conservative Coup

2007-06-25T18:41:00.000-03:00

So how the new "and improved" Supreme Court treating you?

Not good it seems. With Judge Alito and Judge Roberts on the court to enforce the new morality, things are starting to turn for the worst. Amazingly even after 7 years of conversion from Democracy to Despotism, the people still don't seem to notice.

Well, lets list what our children have to look forward too, just from this court alone.

People who believe the government is misusing tax funds to promote religious beliefs are no longer able to dispute this, well, not in a court.

“It’s a bad day for the First Amendment. The Supreme Court just put a big dent in the wall of separation between church and state, and a big smile on Pat Robertson’s face. Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice and allied Religious Right groups have long called on the Court to restrict the right of Americans to challenge government expenditures that unlawfully mix church and state. That is exactly what the Court did today.”
“Today’s ruling will make it more difficult for citizens whose tax dollars are being unlawfully spent to subsidize religion to bring a complaint in court. It is also consistent with a broader strategy by right-wing judges and activists to restrict standing for average Americans to challenge powerful government and business interests."

Even though the law of congress requires it, the Environmental Protection Agency no longer has to enforce the laws regarding the Endangered Species Act. The act "...prohibits federal agency action that will jeopardize a species and calls for consultation between federal agencies."

Congress, though smartly limiting the money that can be spent in elections by Corporations, unfortunately was outdone by this court. Now you can pay as long as you use something other than corporate treasury funds. So expect to see candidates climbing to reach into the corporate pocket like the little children looking for loose change.

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." - Thomas Jefferson

Under this new court, they also passed a ruling that abortion restrictions do not have to include the rights of the mother or her life. So you will have to carry your baby to term, and die trying to give birth. You no longer have the right to oppose it.

Apparently, also, you can't protest freely anymore. If you are a student, if the principle doesn't like what you say, you can be suspended, and you have no recourse. Good luck protestors!

Welcome to the New American Century.

Air India - Canada's False Flag?

2007-06-21T12:50:00.000-03:00

There are too many questions in this trial to not suspect that something is going on that is not as appearing. "Through the looking glass" is where we might be on this one. I'm beginning to smell a rat, I smelled one before, and any decent investigator should be able to have done more than me. A google search on "Air India Conspiracy" reveals a slew of questionable and suspicious events. Lets put some of these in perspective.

Firstly, there are still questions as to why the trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri was switched at the defendants request, to a trial of a single judge. Initially they chose trial by judge and jury. Why the change?

"I would have loved a jury trial to have made the factual findings in that case,'' Justice Ian Josephson of British Columbia Supreme Court said at a conference, organised by the Federal Court of Canada and Carleton University in Ottawa on Monday.
"I think there's better acceptance of a verdict from a jury in the community, whether they convict or acquit."

This is already interesting without even going much deeper, but you can certainly get deeper, being a google-sleuth and such. Indian and Canadian papers revealed that the government has prior knowledge and was perhaps involved. The Inquiry itself was set up, under Harper to determine “whether any changes in practice or legislation are required,” “if there were problems in the effective cooperation between government departments and agencies,” and “whether Canada’s existing legal framework provides adequate constraints on terrorist financing”.

In other words, the hope of the Canadian ruling class is that the present inquiry will finally dispose of the Air India affair so as to clean up the public image of CSIS and the RCMP while providing a pretext for an expansion of their powers.

True words to give more power to those who would prefer a police state as opposed to a democracy in Canada. As you can read, the embarrassment is that the witnesses are completely contradicting the governments claims in regards to the incident.

The most startling testimony to date was that provided by the current Ontario Lieutenant-Governor James Bartleman. On May 3, Bartleman told the inquiry that on 18 June 1985, only days before the bombings, he came across an intelligence intercept indicating that Air India would be struck on the weekend of June 22-23. This directly contradicts government claims, from the earliest days, that no one in the government or the security services had specific knowledge of an impending attack.

To top it all off, the only person ever convicted in the Air India trial cancelled his own parole hearing!

Both defendants were acquitted of a range of charges, including first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, after Josephson concluded the testimony of some key witnesses wasn't credible and the Crown hadn't proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt.

After examining the evidence that revealed that the RCMP/CSIS were either stupid, incompentent, criminal negligent or in on it, the inquiry, which has no real teeth, certainly is digging for the gold. I appriciate watch some truth from this come to light. Notwithstanding, dog's we're called off... All the dogs. The plane was not properly inspected and there were other graping intelligence failures. So many in fact it was beginning to give visions of the Warren Commission or the 9/11 Commission.

In other words, a complete farce.

CSIS itself was critized by the RCMP, who are pointing fingers to the secret agency who was way too secretive.

Henry Jensen, who was the RCMP deputy commissioner in charge of criminal investigations, told the Air India inquiry yesterday that "somewhere there are dots that could have been linked, that should have been linked."
"This was the biggest and most disastrous civil intelligence failure that Canada has ever faced," he said, blaming "naive parliamentarians" for gutting the RCMP's intelligence-gathering capacity to set up CSIS.
Right from the start, CSIS was far too protective of its turf and its intelligence sources, Mr. Jensen said, adding that he felt the intelligence service displayed "a certain paranoia" in its dealings with the RCMP.

If this was not enough information to reopen the case and begin a true inquiry as to the circumstances of this mass murder, then I hope these recent events are held in the light they deserve. The implications of this crosses into criminal conspiracy to committ murder by a state on it's own people. Ergo, a False Flag attack.

The Air India inquiry took a startling turn on Wednesday after one potential witness reportedly suffered a heart attack and others refused to testify, saying they feared for their safety.
The man who suffered heart problems was taken to hospital, but there was no other information available on his condition.

All in all, it leaves the witnesses apprehensive of their safety and that of others if they testify, even at an in-camera hearing, and I can do nothing to pursuade them that is not the case," Major said.

This is what real power looks like when it kills.

Michael Moore joins 9/11 Truthseekers

2007-06-20T16:54:00.000-03:00

In a surprise move that changes many things, Michael Moore has confirmed that he has questions about 9/11, like many of us do. He joins the ranks of celebrities including Charlie Sheen, Tom DeLonge, James Brolin and Rosie O'Donnell and all have been attacked in slanderous editorials, drudging up personal dirt (mostly false or long ago ignored) on these celebrities. Predictably the editorials are not focusing on the arguements they are making or the questions they are asking. These defamatory attacks are what brings more suspicion upon the Government of the United States, who have the most to lose should 9/11 be proved to be a false flag attack.

If they actually debated on the questions that the celebrities are raising then there would be an obvious onus on the government to answer the outstanding questions. These are simple questions that invalidate the governments account of the events on that day. Indeed this whole experience is very remicient of the JFK murder. No bullet could do what he magic bullet did. No steel buildings ever did what Trade Towers 1,2 and 7 did. Fall, from fire.

An example of such bile spewed by the Right Wing King of Fascist, Bill O'Reilly:

"FOX News' Bill O'Reilly warned actor Charlie Sheen not to do narration for a theatrical version of Loose Change, threatening "If he voices this, he's through" and stating plainly, "Don't do this. You're not gonna come back from it if you do."

This hit piece in New York Post's Page 6 suggests :

"some celebrities don't know when to keep their mouths shut" after reporting on mainstream actors Rosie O'Donnell and Charlie Sheen's 'throwing their weight" behind 'twisted theories' regarding 9/11-- especially in light of reporting that Loose Change may be distributed by Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban.

I think the tactics were summed up well here:

Despite mafioso-like tactics on the part of both O'Reilly and the Post, O'Reilly claimed that his attempt at intimidation was "not a threat" while his guest, Det. Bo Dietl, dog-piled into the cryptic warnings that "Martin Sheen's kid there better watch it.""

Although Bill O'Reilly and the Post denied these we're threats, do they not sound very much like threats? Sounds like a direct threat to shut up about the truth. These tactics are employeed by corporate hitmen and propogandists since time immemorial.

Keep questioning and keep 'believing your lying eyes'.

Supporting Empire

2007-06-20T14:50:00.000-03:00

Ultimately the decision to keep or remove the decals from Toronto's emergency and city vehicles is part of the city's council to decide, but the debate about them is becoming a hot topic in Canada... Do we support war, and all that it entails?

The mayor of Toronto, David Miller, spoke eloquently regarding the issue. "Support our Troops" decals should be removed from fire trucks and ambulances, indicating that they could be construed as a city endorsement of the Imperial war in Afghanistan.

"The yellow ribbon, as you know, to many of us, means support for our troops. To some people it's a symbol of support for the war in Afghanistan and [EMS] Chief [Bruce] Farr and others in the city have received a number of calls from people who are concerned about the city expressing an opinion on the war. The program was always scheduled to last for a year. It will be wrapped up this fall."

There is a palpatable rise in anger in Canada regarding America's Imperialist expansion in culmination with Israel's expansion means a restructuring of the Middle East to suit the Imperial aspirations of the United States. This has been noted by many intellectuals and world leaders who understand that the United States wishes to war with individual nations and steal their resources without the consent of the people living in those countries. Particularly beneficial would be to have them fighting each other. Which seems to be working for the US so far, as they use inflamatory rhetoric and do what they can to raise the level of anger in these nations.

In refering the The Minority Prime Minster Harper, the Unelected President Bush and the Violently Contested Calderon, The Alliance for Peace argues:

"these 3 neo-liberal amigos" plan to discuss a SPP agenda that will deliver Canadian oil and water resources to the U.S. economy, while deepening an economic partnership with the U.S. that is "conditional to a war-driven foreign policy" that is attempting to draw Canada into the U.S. war with Iraq.

In calling for peace protests to the SPP August meeting in August, the Alliance for Peace notes that the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, a group often compared to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has pushed for an increase in Canadian military spending and a greater "inter-operability" between Canadian and U.S. military forces.

Two Bee's or not two bee's?

2007-06-19T15:03:00.000-03:00

It's not often a little truth in regard to the stories of the day, some very inaccurate in their reporting. Especially when there is confusion in one area, but not others. Recently it was reported here and here and here that bee's have been dropping off and getting lost due to possible influence from cellular phones. It seems now there is a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Notably, it is not occuring to all bee's...

"Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa's House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada's fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:

I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies."

It seems that only the corporate colonys are in decline. Not unlike the poor quality of life for other corporate farming projects the bee's are suffering losses and it seems only the sensational story of cellphones and bee's. The real story is the hive's that are organic and do not succumb to whatever the corporate 'dying' colonies succumb to.

"Who should be surprised that the major media reports forget to tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties that we coax into a larger than normal body size? It sounds just like the beef industry. And, have we here a solution to the vanishing bee problem? Is it one that the CCD Working Group, or indeed, the scientific world at large, will support? Will media coverage affect government action in dealing with this issue?"

I can't bring myself to feel too bad for the losses of the corporate industries. Bending the animals of earth to fit their 'efficency policies' is unnatural. If you push them beyond natural limits, then likely they will begin to fail. This seems to be the case with almost everything man has learned. Reality has a known tendency to ignore business projections.

"These are important questions to ask. It is not an uncommonly held opinion that, although this new pattern of bee colony collapse seems to have struck from out of the blue (which suggests a triggering agent), it is likely that some biological limit in the bees has been crossed. There is no shortage of evidence that we have been fast approaching this limit for some time."

Sprayed Plebs

2007-06-13T17:57:00.001-03:00

Here we are, our environment rapidly becoming a lab or something worse and we are trapped making our complaints on paper or electronics. We need to wake up people to the idea that something less than legal is occuring and we are the ones who are caught unawares.

Unfortunately even with the above recently published report, the truth and answers do not appear to be coming, but they are certainly hoping we shut up.

We are obviously able to discern that the explainations simply do not add up. If they simply said "This is what is being sprayed" we would at least be able to discuss the chemical implications. Unfortunately, there is only silence and ridicule.

Such an easy thing to pretend to be 'right'.

Andrew Johnson said that, like most other people, he assumed, for many years, that the trails were just ordinary vapour trails (called 'contrails'). "In 2004, I began to notice that these trails did not behave like contrails at all. Then, on 10th June 2005, I witnessed a grid of aircraft trails right outside my window, just before sunset." Andrew has included copies of 2 photographs of this 'grid' in the report. "I sent the picture to the local paper and they published it. I also had it published on a popular website in the USA and I received quite a number of e-mail responses to the picture. Most of the responses described my picture as being of a grid of 'chemtrails' and quite a few people sent me similar pictures they had taken." Andrew then decided to write an article about this 'grid' picture and what the background to it seemed to be. The article was published, online, in September 2005 on the website of Phenomena Magazine.

We are all trying to help others and we see the organized resistance.

"Many people are concerned about this issue, but are faced with a wall of denial by all Official Bodies – including non-partisan environmental organisations. People will undoubtedly criticise the report I have published because it has no 'Official Backing', but the report contains some very basic, easily verifiable data which proves things are not as they should be. I would argue that the report is truly independent – as it has been produced without any funding and it has been reviewed and agreed on by a 'lay jury' of over 20 people. We hear a great deal in the news about 'climate change' and 'global warming', yet all official bodies who discuss these issues ignore the sort of data presented in this report. This leads me to believe that these bodies must have drawn incorrect conclusions, which should now be subject to immediate and urgent review. Legislation has now been passed which assumes certain causes for climate change and we are increasingly subject to 'scare stories' about this. The data in the report adds a new dimension to this equation and is therefore very important in that regard alone. I encourage anyone and everyone to review the report for themselves and collect their own data too. Unless the illegal spraying suddenly stops, people will easily be able to verify the reality of this activity for themselves."

Bizarro Land

2007-06-10T16:54:00.000-03:00

Sometimes that is how I feel. I mean, when you think about it, we have chemicals being sprayed on us without our permission, a totalitarian racist took over America with a criminal cabal and is changing the world to be as racist as itself, and even Russia and the US are going at it over Europe again.

All this and the scientific progress that we have made is being scuttled by rich corporations which are more interested in perserving their hegemonic power than the benefit of mankind.

This is the world we live in, a backwards shell of the facade we show each other.

Making your Mark

2007-06-06T20:28:00.000-03:00

"Charlie! What did you do with that picture of your kids you had at work?"

"I think I left it there.. I'll get it when I go back next..."

Lighter Rantings

2007-05-30T18:30:00.000-03:00

Often we cannot see the forest for the trees; the truth from all the deceptions, that muddle the mind and create controversy. Unfortunately this is how cultures are destroyed, but increasing division by those with wealth to bend the will of the masses.

Keep heart and listen to the wisdom of past generations:

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte French general & politician (1769 - 1821)

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Austrian philosopher (1889 - 1951)

Morgellion's Madness

2007-05-22T19:52:00.000-03:00

This site reveals the newest relvations on Morgellions Disease and the impact it is having. Given the seriousness of the incidents and it's effect on health, I felt it prudent to post it. Rense has a current definition as of earlier last month.

"Morgellons"- - - A disease in which individuals have the growth of fibers from their skin that burn at 1,700 degrees F and do not melt. A private study to determine the chemical and biological composition of these fibers has shown that the fibers' outer casing is made up of high density polyethylene fiber (HDPE). The fiber material is used commonly in the manufacture of fiber optics. There is no history of the individual in that industry or coming into contact with this material. It was further determined that this material is used throughout the bio nanotechnology world as a compound to encapsulate a viral protein envelope, which is composed of a viron (1/150th times smaller than a virus) with DNA, RNA, RNAi (mutated RNA) or RNAsi linear or ring plasmids for specific functions. Toxicological pathology identification of tissue biopsies from an individual diagnosed with Morgellons revealed the presence of continual silica or glass tubules with the presence of silicone.

For pictures of this disease at it's worst, click here (at your own risk).

Backward Thinking

2007-05-22T16:08:00.000-03:00

How much Orwellian does it need to be than to not only bomb the civilians and refugees under "terrorism" pretenses for 40 years, but when they elect a new govrenment, forming a functioning government under a constant siege and mandating the populations will, they get an increase in bombardment.

This is a criminal, deadly criminal event and should not be taken lightly. This is a Palestinian state and they are advocating assassination of the head of the others government.

Ephraim Sneh, the deputy defence minister, said Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian prime minister, was not immune from Israeli reprisals for the rocket fire which has forced thousands of Israeli residents close to the Gaza border to flee.
Mr Sneh described the Hamas leadership as "terrorists in suits" and told the Associated Press: "We don't care if he's a ringleader, a perpetrator of rocket attacks or if he is one of the political leaders. No one has immunity."

Thank you Jewish Hitler. Unfortunately thats a warcrime.

Hamas officials threatened an escalation in violence if their leaders were killed while Ahmed Yusef, an adviser to Mr Haniyeh, offered to discuss a truce in the West Bank and Gaza if Israel stopped its "mad attacks".

Using tanks and planes and missiles against people ina camps is sick. Give them the tanks and missiles and see who's making the rules in this imbalanced long term massacre.

The internecine bloodshed killed more than 50 people, shook the Palestinians' fragile unity cabinet and drove impoverished Gaza, one of the world's most densely populated places, to the brink of civil war.

I recommend we don't allow countries like this to even pretend they are moral. They are not.

If you treat people like animals they are likely to bite back. This is what Israel's government would want. An excuse to kill people whom they see as occupiers on the land the US gave them.

Another pre-stopped Revolution

2007-05-20T21:51:00.000-03:00

How sad when you see a great invention that removes hydrogen from oxygen without causing harm, and that invention could power cars. Already they are trying to halt it's advance.

Professor Jerry Woodall and students have invented a way to use an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water — a process that he thinks could replace gasoline as well as its pollutants and emissions tied to global warming.
But Woodall says there's one big hitch: "Egos" at the U.S. Department of Energy, a key funding source for energy research, "are holding up the revolution."

No. They are not. The people they answer too, the industries and jobs that would be at risk is exactly why they are not going to move on this. Innovation or not, save the planet or not, if it will cause rich people to not make as much money, they will not let it go through.

Sadly, I doubt we will ever hear of this invention again.

Here's how it all happens: Hydrogen is generated spontaneously when water is added to pellets of the alloy, which is made of aluminum and a metal called gallium.

"When water is added to the pellets, the aluminum in the solid alloy reacts because it has a strong attraction to the oxygen in the water," Woodall said. "No toxic fumes are produced."
This reaction splits the oxygen and hydrogen contained in water, releasing hydrogen in the process.

Free energy from water to power your car? I'm sorry they would never let that happen. They just 'won' a trillion dollars making oil wars. This will be stopped to prevent very rich and powerful people from losing money by keeping us all under their boot.

Killing Canada's Conservationists

2007-05-20T16:13:00.000-03:00

Why pretend?

There is a war on. A war between the 'haves' and the 'have nots'. The 'haves' don't want conservationists struggling to halt what the 'haves' are doing. They want business, they want more money. Why pretend?

I think they stopped pretending now. Instead, they just kill the 'have nots'.

The 'have nots', do not have anything to really defend thsemelves with, except the morals of others. The morals of the 'haves' are like those of psychotic indivduals obessed with money. Like the pathology of commerce and corporations, the 'haves' have forgotten what is really important, people and life.

They have turned to murder.

Glen Davis, 66, was shot in the torso on Friday afternoon. He was found near his car in the underground garage of a building housing World Wildlife Fund Canada offices in Toronto's north end.
A passerby called for help and Davis was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"It appears that he was deliberately selected in this case: there were a number of people in that underground parking lot," homicide Det. Wayne Fowler said at a news conference Sunday morning.

Philanthropy on one end, murderous corporations and the new racists and making their move to reclaim the America's for the 'Robber Barons' on the other. This is the new landscape on what we face. How long to we wait until 'they', those that are trying to build a new oppressive world empire, succeed and removal all 'resistance' to their plans?

They Knew

2007-05-17T19:30:00.000-03:00

Coming right out at the Air India inquiry, CSIS experts get nailed. They knew of the attack. They knew it and did nothing.

It was possibly a planned event. A False Flag in Canada.

He said Deschenes went on to describe the more serious threat as “an element of Sikhs” operating in Canada. “He perceived them as being dangerous, and that likely they would bring a plane down.”
“I have an absolutely clear recollection of the event and the circumstances,” Pinos said of the discussion that took place June 19, 1985. “It was something that shocked me.”
Four days later, Air India Flight 182, en route to New Delhi from Toronto and Montreal, was downed off the coast of Ireland by a terrorist bomb with the loss of 329 lives.

When news of that tragedy reached him, said Pinos, “I was greatly upset. I said: Holy shit, they knew, they knew. I had a distinct impression that they knew something was going to happen.”

This is the type of event that subverts populations. It very disgusting it happened here.

Jerry Falwell

2007-05-15T19:34:00.000-03:00

A legacy of hate, bigotry and hypocracy wrapped in flag and stabbed with the sharp end of a cross just ended.

Praise be to Jesus!

Bob Dylan sings "Masters of War" for people like him.

Canadian Aparthied

2007-05-15T19:28:00.000-03:00

How to be disgusting and inhumane? Ask Steven Harper and his government! They are backing out of the Liberal Agreement to settle with the disgruntled, and rightfully so, Indian Nations. 5.1 Billion dollars promised by the Liberals is gone, and the new (fascist? Bilderberger?) government looks like it doesn't care.

"Many of our communities have reached the breaking point. The anger and frustration are palpable," said Phil Fontaine, grand chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

"Desperation breeds abuse, suicide, crime, civil disobedience. And what shame this brings to a country like ours, one of the richest countries in the world," Fontaine told an audience at Ottawa's prestigious Canadian Club.

Canada is disgracing itself by behaving in this immoral fashion. Why has Canada become so hypocritcal? The Aboriginals have threatened to stop CN trains and cars on their land. I think we should help stand up for the opressed, especially since they are being victimized in our names.

"What did we do? What wrong did we do to Canadians? What harm did we inflict on people? What do they expect from us? Tell us," Mr. Fontaine said in an anguished tone.

Similar fishi-ness?

2007-05-15T16:24:00.000-03:00

After reading this article from the Star regarding the Air India Inquiry it feels very much like other incredible acts of inepitude. I mean very big criminal acts of ineptitude. I think of the inconsistencies that are left behind 9/11, behind the Warren Commision, and it has similarities in the way that 'mistakes' were made.

Testifying today at the Air India inquiry into the June 23, 1985 terrorist bombing that killed 329 people, RCMP dog handler Gary Carlson, then stationed at the Canada's largest airport, said he was in Vancouver with his dog Thor on a week-long course, as were all the force's bomb dogs.
According to earlier evidence, because of the consistent threats to Air India by Sikh extremists, levels three and four security were assigned by RCMP to the weekly flights over the previous year and in each case that required a bomb sniffing dog to be available.

As bad luck would have it, the electronic explosive sniffing machine employed Air India proved ineffective, the baggage X-ray machine broke down and there was no contingency plan in place to cover off Carlson when he was away.

Huh? All that is not only controllable, it could be controlled in a way as to allow someone access to bombing the plane. Who benefiting from that plane going down? What tensions changed? These are questions of motivation.

Radhakrishna told reporters it was "very painful" to hear that the bombing could have been avoided if all the steps had been taken.
"The failure was cascading," he said.

Cascading failure sounds familiar. That was how 9/11 was described. In fact, the 'story' of 9/11 can't even stand up to normal probability theory. It fails every test.

The compound probability of the above events is the product of the individual probabilities or 0.1**22 (0.1 in the 22 exponential). The actual figure is so small that it practically nears zero.If one accepts the above propositions (even by increasing their probability of occurrence to 0,5), it follows that their compound probability is near zero. In fact, it suffices that a subset of the above propositions be shown to have a compound probability of near zero, to invalidate the official account on 9/11.

Is Canada playing with the US a bit to closely? Perhaps we should begin to understand what a coverup looks like.

Chemtrails in the sun

2007-05-08T17:28:00.000-03:00

I'm going to be getting a camera to document each instance of this and have them showing this spraying taking place. As citizens who like to breathe clean air this is totally unacceptable. Also, diseases apparently are being spawned by these sprayings. Specifically a syndrome called MORGELLONS.

I'm not certain all the details but I leave it in here in case you or your children are exhibiting symptoms of it. Do look up, and then look it up.

Update:

"Many people are concerned about this issue, but are faced with a wall of denial by all Official Bodies – including non-partisan environmental organisations. People will undoubtedly criticise the report I have published because it has no 'Official Backing', but the report contains some very basic, easily verifiable data which proves things are not as they should be. I would argue that the report is truly independent – as it has been produced without any funding and it has been reviewed and agreed on by a 'lay jury' of over 20 people. We hear a great deal in the news about 'climate change' and 'global warming', yet all official bodies who discuss these issues ignore the sort of data presented in this report. This leads me to believe that these bodies must have drawn incorrect conclusions, which should now be subject to immediate and urgent review. Legislation has now been passed which assumes certain causes for climate change and we are increasingly subject to 'scare stories' about this. The data in the report adds a new dimension to this equation and is therefore very important in that regard alone. I encourage anyone and everyone to review the report for themselves and collect their own data too. Unless the illegal spraying suddenly stops, people will easily be able to verify the reality of this activity for themselves."

The report can be viewed, online at http://www.checktheevidence.com/Chemtrails/ or here.

Mogellions Non-Profit Org : http://www.morgellons.org/

The NEW Lie

2007-05-06T20:50:00.000-03:00

Sometimes its the new lies that seem to be the most insidious, because we think that we are doing good, we are not actually seeing what terrible destruction the NEW lie will bring, or what that it is even a lie.

I'm talking about Biofuels. Recently, everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. They make this easy to jump on because Big Oil and Big Agri see Big Profits. This has a downside. Raising the cost of food as cost of fuel rises.

This can completely destroy certain staples as only the most expensive grains are used for food.

A story on Rabble prompted me to look deeper into this insidious situation. Noam Chomsky spoke on the almost criminal 'Food for Peace' program. Which attempted to flood poor countries with heavily subsidized food, pushing farmers from landowners to landless, and using the land and 'manpower' to set up sweat shops for Nike and Walmart.

This almost seems a continuation of that. Except now, it's about starvation.

"This particular mass delusion was madness enough to inspire the still-ailing Fidel Castro out of his bed to write the first editorial he has written for the country's principal newspaper, Granma, since falling ill last July. It's not as if there is a lack of issues for the grand old commander-in-chief to comment on. But this one he deemed the most important. Why?

To quote Castro himself: “More than three billion people in the world are being condemned to a premature death from hunger and thirst ... The sinister idea of turning foodstuffs into fuel was definitely established as the economic strategy of the U.S. foreign policy on Monday, March 26th last.”

As Castro pointed out in his Granma article, not only will corn be priced out of reach for millions, “What is worse, let the poor countries receive some financing to produce ethanol from corn or any other foodstuff and very soon not a single tree will be left standing to protect humanity from climate change.”

More Chemtrails

2007-05-06T20:08:00.000-03:00

Sitting here at work again looking out over the sky, just as the sun is lowering in the sky, the Chemtrails started again. You can see them lingering in the sky. They were not here this afternoon as the cumulous clouds were out, I could see some cirrus clouds above, but these are not contrails.

The planes are flying in pairs, covering the whole sky with this 'stuff'. Some has spread now to over 100 meters wide, I would guess, and it's coating and infecting the other, natural, cirrus clouds.

By the sun you can see these trails showing their characteristic 'oily' appearance. Two to the south are flying together, side by side, now. This is very disturbing.

Someone please help us. This has to be illegal.

Chemtrail Sightings

2007-04-22T15:46:00.000-03:00

Over my city today, I noticed a chemtrail. A lingering white misty snake through the sky, and the sky was covered with this white misty haze. I went to Google Video and You Tube, searching under "chemtrails" and found that the world over in most developed countries are experiencing this.

Now yesterday, the sky was the same, I had a headache, dull, throbbing. Today, I feel another coming on. To think that I am being poisoned, as is my family, by my own government leaves me wtih a maddening and sickening feeling.

I'm going to see my doctor. And call my MP, or go to see them, in person.