A newly leaked CIA report prepared earlier this month (.pdf) analyzes how the U.S. Government can best manipulate public opinion in Germany and France -- in order to ensure that those countries continue to fight in Afghanistan. The Report celebrates the fact that the governments of those two nations continue to fight the war in defiance of overwhelming public opinion which opposes it -- so much for all the recent veneration of "consent of the governed" -- and it notes that this is possible due to lack of interest among their citizenry: "Public Apathy Enables Leaders to Ignore Voters," proclaims the title of one section.
But the Report also cites the "fall of the Dutch Government over its troop commitment to Afghanistan" and worries that -- particularly if the "bloody summer in Afghanistan" that many predict takes place -- what happened to the Dutch will spread as a result of the "fragility of European support" for the war. As the truly creepy Report title puts it, the CIA's concern is: "Why Counting on Apathy May Not Be Enough":
European leaders have launched an audacious bid to create an 'economic government of the EU' - even as they were forced to go cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund for a £20 billion bailout of debt-stricken Greece.
In an extraordinary joint statement the EU's two powerhouses France and Germany called for the EU to be handed sweeping powers over economic policy.
They called for 'strong co-ordination of economic policies' across the EU - including countries like Britain which are not in the euro.
And they suggested the creation of an 'economic government of the EU' headed by Herman Van Rompuy, the obscure Belgian federalist who was plucked from obscurity last year to become the EU's first president.
Under the Franco-German plans Britain would still have a seat at the table setting economic policy, but would be one of only 27 voices.
It could eventually mean the end for Britain's jealously guarded powers to set its own tax and spending plans.
The document says Mr Van Rompuy will head a 'task force' from the member states and the European Central Bank, looking at looking at 'all options' to achieve the legal framework for economic government - which could mean EU treaty changes.
If the idea gains momentum, the treaty changes required alterations to enable EU 'economic government' could be tacked on to Croatia's accession treaty next year.
The power grab came on the most calamitous day in the 11-year history of the euro.
In a humiliating move EU leaders were forced to admit they would need a 'substantial' contribution from the IMF in the event of the Greek economy collapsing and threatening to bring down the euro.
The details were due to be discussed further at a meeting of the leaders of the 16 Eurozone countries last night.
Sources said the Washington-based institution would be asked for £9-£13 billion - dealing a major blow to the credibility of the single currency.
The remainder of the cash will come in the form of loans from other European countries - although Downing Street last night insisted Britain would not be asked to stump up a penny.
The hurriedly agreed deal was stitched up between France and Germany ahead of a summit in Brussels yesterday amid fears that failure to tackle the Greek crisis could bring about the collapse of the euro.
British sources last night said Gordon Brown was relaxed about the idea of greater European economic co-operation, provided it did not result in Britain handing over powers on tax, spending and growth.
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Republicans blocked for the second time in recent weeks an extension of unemployment benefits because the cost would be added to the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion budget deficit.
Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, yesterday prevented the chamber from passing a $9 billion measure to extend aid for a month as lawmakers prepared to leave for a two- week recess starting this weekend.
Lawmakers are unlikely to work out a deal by the time benefits begin expiring for some of the unemployed on April 5, said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.
Manley said he anticipated lawmakers would approve the extension, along with retroactive benefits, when they return to the Capitol next month. The break ends April 12.
Sharlene Holt, 3/23/10, M4F – On the Alex Jones show today, a caller noted that he had read an article in Wired Magazine dated 2009 alerting him to the fact that the Obama deathcare plan is being unveiled on the 30-year anniversary of the Georgia Guidestones, a monument celebrating the depopulation agenda of the New World Order elite. The man who commissioned the work, R.C. Christian, told the builder that the monument would serve as a compass, calendar, and clock.Here’s more information about the Guidestones.
One of the world's wealthiest men and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has suggested vaccines as one method of reducing the world's population.
Gates made his remarks to the invitation-only Technology, Entertainment and Design 2010 Conference in Long Beach, Calif. His February address was titled, "Innovating to Zero!"
He presented a speech on global warming, stating that CO2 emissions must be reduced to zero by 2050. Gates said every person on the planet puts out an average of about five tons of CO2 per year.
"Somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero," he said. "It's been constantly going up. It's only various economic changes that have even flattened it at all. So we have to go from rapidly rising to falling, and falling all the way to zero."
CO2 (total population emitted CO2 per year) = P (people) x S (services per person) x E (average energy per service) x C (average CO2 emitted per unit of energy)
Bill Gates presented this equation on curbing CO2 emissions at the 2010 Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference in Long Beach, Calif.
"Let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero," he said. "Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero. That's a fact from high-school algebra."
Discussing the "P," or population portion of the equation, he stated, "Let's take a look. First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion.Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent"
Berg’s suit claims that not only is Obama not a “natural born” American, he is not even a citizen of the U.S. Berg had been an outspoken supporter of Hillary Clinton throughout the campaign, sparking speculation of an ulterior motive. He says he filed the suit for the health of the Democratic Party, fearing the Republicans will raise the question after Sen. Obama’s nomination.
He also claims that Obama is not a naturalized citizen either, and even if he ever was, he lost that citizenship when he was adopted by his Indonesian stepfather and his mother embraced the citizenship of that country. As a minor, Obama’s status legally followed his mother’s, Berg says.
March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Indoor tanning salons will charge customers a 10 percent tax beginning in July in one of the changes Americans will see as a result of the U.S. health-care overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Insurers will be required by September to begin providing health coverage to kids with pre-existing illnesses and allow parents to keep children younger than 26 on their plans as the clock has begun ticking on many of the law’s provisions. Medicare recipients will receive a $250 rebate for prescription drugs when they reach a coverage gap called the donut hole if the Senate passes and the president signs companion legislation approved March 21 by the U.S. House.
The $940 billion overhaul subsidizes coverage for uninsured Americans, financed by Medicare cuts to hospitals and fees or taxes on insurers, drugmakers, medical-device companies and Americans earning more than $200,000 a year. Many of the changes in the bill of more than 2,400 pages, such as requiring most people to have health insurance and employers to provide coverage, will take at least two years to go into effect.
“Most of the major public policy changes embodied in the health care reform legislation will become effective only after the next presidential election in 2012,” said Maury Harris, an economist with UBS AG, said in a research report.
High-Risk Pools
Within 90 days, the law will provide immediate access to high-risk insurance plans for people who can’t get insurance because of a pre-existing medical problem, Harris said. These high-risk pools will be funded by $5 billion in federal grants.
Companies led by Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest health insurer, will be banned within six months from dropping a person’s coverage because of severe illness and from limiting lifetime or annual benefits.
Participants in Medicare, the U.S. government’s health coverage for those 65 and older, are expected get a $250 rebate toward prescription drugs once their benefits run out -- a coverage gap know as the “doughnut hole.” The benefit is part of the package of amendments to the legislation now pending in the Senate. Drugmakers led by New York-based Pfizer Inc. will have to offer discounted drugs to Medicare recipients next year, according to an analysis of the legislation by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Menlo Park, California
In 2013, individuals whose annual income is more than $200,000 and couples making more than $250,000 will see an increase in Medicare payroll taxes. Those taxes will also be expanded to cover dividend, interest and other unearned income.
state government panel recommended Tuesday that Coca-Cola’s Indian subsidiary be fined $47 million for damage to the water and soil in a southern Indian village that it said had been caused by one of the company’s bottling plants. The plant, which opened in 2000 and closed five years later, polluted the groundwater and soil around the village of Plachimada, in the state of Kerala, the panel said. Coca-Cola said in a statement that it was unfortunate “that the committee in Kerala was appointed on the unproven assumption that damage was caused, and that it was caused by Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages.” According to the panel, the bottling plant discharged a sludge that contained toxic chemicals like cadmium and lead. After villagers complained that the water table had dropped and farms were less productive, the village council decided not to renew the plant’s license.
US authorities have arrested a number of anti-war protesters, including high-profile activist Cindy Sheehan, during a demonstration in Washington DC.
Eight peace activists were detained after laying coffins near a fence outside the White House during a Saturday rally in which thousands of anti-war protesters gathered at a park in the area to mark the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq .
They were demanding the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The protesters directed their anger at US President Barack Obama and demanded action against former President George W. Bush and his Vice- President Dick Cheney.
Sheehan, arrested at the end of the march, had earlier said, "We did lose some momentum when Obama came into office, but now we have younger people that are very energetic. They know we can change the world."
Sheehan, who has been and anti-war campaigner since she lost a son in the Iraq war, may stand trial, reports indicate.
She gained repute as a peace activist in 2005 for protesting outside of Bush's Texas ranch.
Thus begins the anger of the states. Starting with Idaho and soon to be joined by 37 other states weary of the over-reach of federal power:
Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter is the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue the federal government if Congress passes health care reform.
Legal experts say the measure, signed today, will likely be struck down. But Idaho’s new law reflects growing frustration with President Barack Obama’s health-care proposal.
If Federal courts strike down 38 state lawsuits, listen for the sound of Gabriel’s horn, as the overt evidence of federal contempt for the people and the states would be impossible to conceal. The feeling of déjà vu, burned into our cultural identity, so palpable even from a distant time, is summated by a single word - liberty.
The distant land of a sovereign parliament, transported to our shores centuries later, is now centralized in DC. The overlords have returned in a different guise; the mask slips, and they are revealed.
We recognize and reject the tyrants - as is our duty.
The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public.
A government report just released provides for the first time a comprehensive official history of Britain's biological weapons trials between 1940 and 1979.
Many of these tests involved releasing potentially dangerous chemicals and micro-organisms over vast swaths of the population without the public being told.
While details of some secret trials have emerged in recent years, the 60-page report reveals new information about more than 100 covert experiments.
The report reveals that military personnel were briefed to tell any 'inquisitive inquirer' the trials were part of research projects into weather and air pollution.
The tests, carried out by government scientists at Porton Down, were designed to help the MoD assess Britain's vulnerability if the Russians were to have released clouds of deadly germs over the country.
In most cases, the trials did not use biological weapons but alternatives which scientists believed would mimic germ warfare and which the MoD claimed were harmless. But families in certain areas of the country who have children with birth defects are demanding a public inquiry.
A volcano in Iceland that had been dormant for about 200 years suddenly erupted, triggering the evacuation of hundreds of people and fears of a more destructive eruption soon.
“This was a rather small and peaceful eruption but we are concerned that it could trigger an eruption at the nearby Katla volcano, a vicious volcano that could cause both local and global damage,” shares Paul Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Earth Science.
A retired U.S General and former NATO commander argued against President Obama’s plans to end the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that bans open gay servicemen to participate in the military. Quite obviously there are more negative connotations associated with the policy that suppresses freedom of expression and wastes millions of dollars of the average taxpayer’s money to replace the gay service members yet at the Senate hearing, John Sheehan supported this policy by using a very infamous event.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, on Saturday, but officials said there was no damage reported.
The quake was centered 27 miles southwest of Guantanamo and had a depth of 14 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
A magnitude-5 quake can cause considerable damage, but Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta, a spokesman at the base, said there was none reported.
There was no tsunami warning issued for the region.
The U.S. base in southeastern Cuba was used to transport supplies and personnel to the aid effort after the devastating 7.0-magnitude January 12 quake in Haiti, about 200 miles away.
Medical experts will be watching closely Monday when a scientist who says she has been intermittently paralyzed by a virusdesigned at the Pfizer laboratory where she worked in Grotonopens a much anticipated trial that could raise questions about safety practices in the dynamic field of genetic engineering.
Organizations involved in workplace safety and responsible genetic research already have seized on the federal lawsuit by molecular biologist Becky McClain as an example of what they claim is evidence that risks caused by cutting-edge genetic manipulation have outstripped more slowly evolving government regulation of laboratories.
McClain, of Deep River, suspects she was inadvertently exposed, through work by a former Pfizer colleague in 2002 or 2003, to an engineered form of the lentivirus, a virus similar to the one that can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Medical experts working for McClain believe the virus has affected the way her body channels potassium, leading to a condition that causes complete paralysis as many as 12 times a month.
Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU.
Fluoride is a soluble salt, not a heavy metal. There are two basic types of fluoride. Calcium fluoride appears naturally in underground water sources and even seawater. Enough of it can cause skeletal or dental fluorosis, which weakens bone and dental matter. But it is not nearly as toxic, nor does it negatively affect so many other health issues assodium fluoride, which is added to many water supplies.
Sodium Fluoride is a synthetic waste product of the nuclear, aluminum, and phosphate fertilizer industries. This fluoride has an amazing capacity to combine and increase the potency of other toxic materials. The sodium fluoride obtained from industrial waste and added to water supplies is also already contaminated with lead, aluminum, and cadmium.
It damages the liver and kidneys, weakens the immune system, possibly leading to cancer, creates symptoms that mimic fibromyalgia, and performs as a Trojan Horse to carry aluminum across the blood brain barrier. The latter is recognized as a source of the notorious "dumbing down" with lower IQ's and Alzheimer's effects of fluoride.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistanand Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States.
TOKYO — A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit off the eastern coast of Japan on Sunday, rattling buildings across a broad swath of the country, including the crowded capital.
There were no reports of casualties, with only light damage to structures near the epicenter, according to local officials.
The quake hit at 5:08 p.m. and was felt most strongly in central Fukushima prefecture about 130 miles (210 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
A vast network of covert CIA facilities appears to be everywhere in the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe. CIA secret prisons were reported to be operating in Poland and Lithuania, and the controversy over this news has divided Europe and triggered a political crisis in several countries. Are the allegations true?
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2009 on March 11, 2010, posing as "the world judge of human rights" again. As in previous years, the reports are full of accusations of the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including China, but turn a blind eye to, or dodge and even cover up rampant human rights abuses on its own territory. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2009 is prepared to help people around the world understand the real situation of human rights in the United States.
LOS ANGELES — James Gray once saw himself as a drug warrior, a former federal prosecutor and county judge who sent people to prison for dealing pot and other drug offenses. Gradually, though, he became convinced that the ban on marijuana was making it more accessible to young people, not less.
"I ask kids all the time, and they'll tell you it is easier to get marijuana than a six-pack of beer because that is controlled by the government," he said, noting that drug dealers don't ask for IDs or honor minimum age requirements.
Instead, we should answer Question 9 by checking the last option — "Some other race" — and writing in "American." It's a truthful answer but at the same time is a way for ordinary citizens to express their rejection of unconstitutional racial classification schemes. In fact, "American" was the plurality ancestry selection for respondents to the 2000 census in four states and several hundred counties.
So remember: Question 9 — "Some other race" — "American". Pass it on.
Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals: "In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto's GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.
According to the study, which was summarized by Rady Ananda at Food Freedom, 'Three varieties of Monsanto's GM corn - Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup� herbicide-absorbing NK 603 - were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities.'"
Pentagon Shooting: Now Everyone’s a Terrorist: "If someone tripled the fire insurance on their house and then it was burned to the ground days later, would you be suspicious? A similar comparison can be made to last night’s shooting at the Pentagon, which was preceded by weeks of hype from both the establishment left and right about the inevitability of 9/11 truthers going postal."
Felonious Vatican Fellows Linked to Gay Prostitution Ring | VF Daily | Vanity Fair: "The Washington Post is reporting that one of Pope Benedict’s ushers and one of the Vatican’s choir members have been linked to a gay prostitution ring. Actually, the usher, Angelo Balducci, had already been arrested last month for corruption that had nothing to do with a prostitution ring. And it was through that unrelated investigation that Balducci, along with the other man, Ghinedu Ehiem, was implicated in charges of prostitution. According to the Post: “Excerpts of the wiretaps and police documents published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica showed that Ehiem, 40, had been in regular contact with Balducci before Balducci's arrest last month and the subject of their conversation was gay sex,” specifically the kind that you pay for. “[A]mong the men Ehiem allegedly procured for Balducci were seminarians. In one, Balducci is quoted as asking Ehiem: ‘At what time does he have to return to the seminary?’”"
One Day You Wake Up And. Transcription by: SwimmingBird
And suddenly one day you wake up, and you begin to look at the life, and the environment around you, and your life. You look at your television, your computer, your kitchen appliances, you look at your life, at your job, your partner, your pets, your children, you look at your neighbors, you look at your neighborhood. And you begin to wonder, how is this all connected? how is this a part of me and how am I a part of this?
But there seems to be so many things that this, that seem to make me unhappy, or nervous, or suppressed, as if, a hamster running on a wheel, trying to keep up, to maintain this whatever. Whatever this is. And suddenly, one stops, and looks and decides this cannot be right. This cannot be right in the sense that my heart has told me many times over, there is something wrong here, there is something wrong here, something needs to be done. Look at the children. Look at my life, look at the television, look at all of the anger, all of the hatred, all of this negativity that is bombarding my eyes, my senses, my environment through sound and vision, through, through temptation, and greed to want more and want more and want more. When all I ever really wanted, was to love, and to be loved, and to make a difference in this world and to share that difference with those that I love. Isnt that all that this is all about? Isnt it time that we get out of the state of denial and take a look at our world and realize that even the slightest anger or deception we have towards those who are intolerant is in itself a negative action. Let us start sharing that love with each other through, awareness the time has come to become to become aware. The time has come to look bravely at the world around us, the world that we have created, the world that has come and invaded our spirits, in such a negative way, where we have become enemies with our friends, and friends with our enemies. It is time for us to look with bravery at what we have allowed to become of our world, what we have allowed to manifest in this reality. Your reality, your life, this is your life, this is it, this moment, this is all we have. If you are thinking about the past you are not in this moment, and you are wasting your life, living in those thoughts of the past. We need to look forward and in order to look forward we have to be brave enough to take a very detailed look at the world around us, whether it is our coworkers actions, the people that we have aligned our self with as friends, and associates. Are they negative people? Do they drive you to do negative things that are unhealthy for your body, your mind, your spirit, for the world around you. And our politics, people must stop being afraid of looking at politics. This runs your world, you are responsible for creating this world, if you do not participate in the creation of this world some one else will do it for you. And as you can see most of us do not like the outcome of what it has become. This empathy or apathy, of allowing some body else to do it for us. We must be brave enough to say I take responsibility now, I take responsibility, I look at the obstacles that I have allowed to create, in the leadership of our world, our country, our state, our cities, our neighborhood associations, our condo associations. Whatever it is that imposes its will upon you and lessens your individual freedoms you must consider to be a threat to your spiritual freedom. Let us now, leave this denial and go and bravely look the obstacles in the face or through them and take responsibility to create a better world beginning right now.
YouTube - "Invisible Empire: A New World Order" Trailer: "Invisible Empire: A New World Order defined sets out to do just that, define the term New World Order and shed light on the power elite, their agenda, and there modes of operation. Filmmaker Jason Bermas who is best known for his work on Loose Change, and more recently Fabled Enemies has decided to go beyond 9/11 and take the next logical step."
"TALCAHUANO, Chile — When the shaking stopped, Marioli Gatica and her extended family huddled in a circle on the floor of their seaside wooden home in this gritty port town, listening to the radio by a lantern's light. They heard firefighters urging Talcahuano's citizens to stay calm and stay inside. They heard nothing of a tsunami — until it slammed into their house with an unearthly roar about an hour after Saturday's magnitude 8.8 quake. Gatica's house exploded with water. She and her family were swept below the surface, swirling amid loose ship containers and other massive debris that smashed buildings into oblivion all around them."
"The February 27 earthquake that rocked Chile and killed more than 700 people possibly shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened our day ever so slightly, a scientist with NASA told Bloomberg.
Earthquakes have the potential to shift hundreds of miles of rock by several meters, which can disrupt the planet and change the distribution of its mass. The Earth’s rotation is affected by these changes, according to geophysicist Richard Gross of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Gross used a computer model to calculate the effects."
Wisdom from other worlds. Today Dr. Bernard brings the Emissaries of Light through for another session, moderated by Rev. Anabel an the rest of the justBernard Show panel. 12 PM ET,US (Podcast available FREE after the show.)
