Ireland unveiled the harshest budget measures in its history Wednesday, a four-year plan to slash deficits €15 billion ($20 billion) so it can get a massive bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Webmaster's Commentary: Starve the people to fatten the bankers!
This sounds a lot like the US asking HAMAS to stop the Palestinians from shooting back when Israel attacks them. Because South Korea provoked this exchange of gunfire by shooting into North Korean waters in what is a clear provocation.
Obama's agenda here is twofold. First, by shifting the focus from North Korea to China, he draws attention away from that provocation. Second, it is clear that between the G20, in which China refused to alter their currency when "ordered" to do so, and the dropping of the dollar in trade with Russia, that the war focus has shifted from Iran to China, with war with China being the convenenint excuse to erase the debts owed to China, and of course, that is easily worth the few million dead Americans such a war will cost, right President Pansy?
Police are blocking in thousands of student protesters in central London, after a wave of protests against higher tuition fees and university cuts. Two police officers were injured as police held back demonstrators trying to break through their lines. A police van was attacked, fires started and barricades thrown during clashes in Whitehall. There have been occupations at many universities, including Oxford University's Bodleian Library. As darkness has fallen, the scene in Whitehall is now described as being much calmer, as the remaining demonstrators are contained by police.
I guess if your anti-terror training program involves watching a couple episodes of "24," this was a textbook operation. But it seems fairly obvious that if a squad of terrorists did try to infiltrate Manhattan or any other urban area, they would not dress in camouflage to do it, and would not be sprinting. It just struck me that I am writing about how these authorities vastly overreacted to an unlikely security threat at the same time that the TSA is insisting on the right to look in our underpants.
The current Big Bang model doesn’t supply a reason as to why a low entropy, highly ordered state existed at the birth of our universe unless things were set in order before the Big Bang occurred. Webmaster's Commentary:
So once again the observed universe does not fit the "God made it all" theory and once again rather than go back and question the prime assumption, the scientists try to "epicycle" their way out of the paradox.
VIDEO at link. Excerpts from a speech by Chris Hedges.
The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel's murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank. Dedicated to the children of GAZA
What emerges in these pages is a detailed and scrupulously balanced account of how the Great Recession bubbled up from decades of government housing goals, financial engineering, craven lawmakers, ignorant homebuyers, sleazy subprime lenders and arrogant Wall Street executives.
NEW YORK — Insider-trading charges are being prepared against a vast network of consultants and traders across the US financial industry in a years-long probe that a report suggests will reveal a pervasive culture of backroom dealing. The investigation could be the largest insider-trading probe in US history, The Wall Street Journal said Saturday citing people close to the issue, with federal officials examining if multiple, organized insider-trading rings reaped illegal profits of tens of millions of dollars.
"It was felt widely on Maui, and apparently a few people on Oahu have felt it," Fryer said. "We've had a couple of reports from Wailuku and Maalaea, people saying, 'Hey, it really shook.'"
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We just barely felt the first one here at Pearl Harbor. But in addition to these two unusual quakes, there has been a recent swarm of small quakes on the Big Island well away from the southern flank of Kilauea, which is where quakes normally occur. So something is shifting underneath our archipelago.
If public deficits were the real problem—not just a pretext—military spending particularly in the U.S. would be drastically cut. Taxes would be raised. Of course, tax increases have consequences. Higher sales and value-added taxes reduce consumer purchasing power, further weakening markets in times of recession. Taxes on enterprise revenues can reduce expenditures for plant and equipment and lead to the failure of more businesses.
The last month has seen growing public debate over the shambles of the Afghan war. The much-heralded counter-insurgency is failing and the Obama administration and its allies are killing more civilians than ever before. Winning hearts and minds, indeed. At such times, unembedded journalism and thinking is essential.
In one of the United States Congress’ most recent displays of “Israel First” policy, 39 Representatives, all Democrats, have requested that President Obama pardon Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for the State of Israel in 1987. Pollard is currently serving a life sentence for his crimes.
Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu told state-run media in July that "if the United States truly wants to take into account the overall interests of the Sino-U.S. relationship, then it must on no account send its USS Washington to the Yellow Sea." He called the area "sensitive."
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Between the US debt owed to China, China's refusal to make their own people suffer to fix the US Government's self-imposed economic melt-down, and yesterday's announcement that Russia and China are dropping the dollar for bilateral trade, the US government has a strong motive to start a war with China and try to make it look like either China or China's client state North Korea's fault, in order to justify erasing those debts with bombs and the blood of young Americans. Just as the firing of shells into North Korea's waters was a provocation, the deployment of the USS George Washington into the Yellow Sea is a provocation. And I note that Popular Science December magazine features a cover story about the Chinese "threat" to US aircraft carriers!
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon on Wednesday condemned a petition against Israel which was signed by one hundred famous Norwegians. "Those who call for a boycott against Israel are in effect boycotting the peace process by automatically and unequivocally endorsing the Palestinian position and pushing them further away from the negotiating table," Ayalon said in a statement. "We expect the Norwegian government to condemn this boycott."
The Norwegians, led by the country’s national soccer coach, signed a petition demanding a cultural and academic boycott of Israel, accusing its educational institutions of “playing a key role in the occupation” and equating it with apartheid. Webmaster's Commentary:
Memo to Israeli DFM Ayalon; just in case you have been asleep, continually for the last several months, there is no peace process moving forward, largely due to the Israeli government's intransigence.The world is neither fooled nor amused by the reality that Israel doesn't really want peace; it wants territory, and by any means necessary.
It is an unfortunate reality that whatever policies are implemented in the UK are eventually implemented here in the United States. It was only a short time before Britain’s increased domestic surveillance, horrid healthcare system, and curtailment of free speech reached the shores of America. Of course, the United States serves as a breeding ground for the exportation of its own brand of tyranny . . .
St. Petersburg, Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday. Webmaster's Commentary:
One has to wonder if it was only coincidence, that on the day China and Russia make this announcement, South Korea decides to provoke the Chinese-client state, North Korea, with military exercises, exercises in which "US advisors" participated?!?
Our government paid 6.4 of our tax dollars to bail out JP Morgan, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and friends divvied up the 6.4 trillion dollars. These same banks are responsible of predatory lending scams, illegal foreclosure, and the fabrication of mortgage and foreclosure documents...Read More
Many of Portugal's public services have ground to a halt as workers strike in a bid to weaken the government's resolve to make deep budget cuts. Rail services, urban transport, flights, rubbish collection, healthcare and banking were all disrupted by the first general strike in decades.
Allegations arise in Portugal that last Friday the committee of Georgia celebrated its stay at the NATO Summit in Lisbon by holding a raucous party with eighty prostitutes in its luxury hotel. Is this how NATO spends its money?
In one of the United States Congress’ most recent displays of "Israel First" policy, 39 Representatives, all democrats, have requested that President Obama pardon Jonathan Pollard, an American convicted of spying for the State of Israel in 1987. Pollard is currently serving a life sentence for his crimes. Americans suffer every day at the hands of abstract, fleeting "threats to national security" and yet when our national security has been conclusively violated…this is what our congressmen come up with. To buy into such a subversion of moral decency is utterly treacherous. Webmaster's Commentary: In writing this letter, these Congressional representatives have made it crystal clear for whom they work, and it is not for the interests of those Americans who voted them into office: they work for the interests of Israel.
The Israeli government should be damned grateful that the US didn't execute Pollard for his crimes, period, end of discussion!
Brand new laboratory test results just in Monday morning are showing troubling problems with gulf seafood. WFTV sent shrimp to be tested after scientists disagreed on whether it is safe to eat after the oil spill, and the results are raising a lot of red flags.
After last month's plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States aboard a cargo plane, former U.S. Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's whiskerless visage was ubiquitous on cable news. Solemnly warning that the nation needed stronger security procedures, Chertoff patiently repeated his talking points on ABC News's "World News Tonight", "Fox and Friends", CNBC's "Squawk Box" and Bloomberg TV. Almost unmentioned in these appearances: Chertoff has a lot to gain financially if some of these measures are adopted.
TSA is a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists. Pistole has given the finger to US senators and representatives, state legislators, and the traveling public who have expressed their views that virtual strip searches and sexual molestation are too high a price to pay for “security.” Indeed, the TSA with its Gestapo attitude and methods, is succeeding in making Americans more terrified of the TSA than they are of terrorists. Make up your own mind. What terrifies you the most. Terrorists, who in all likelihood you will never encounter in your lifetime, or the TSA that you will encounter every time you fly and soon, according to Pistole, every time you take a train, a subway, or drive in a car or truck?
People are getting savvy fast on the secrets of the Federal Reserve. Before long everyone will be aware that the Fed makes money out of thin air. It won’t be long and the Fed will be out of business and rightly so, because it is a criminal enterprise and the public is discovering that via the Internet and talk radio. The free ride for the insiders is coming to an end. The conclusion of the failure of the Fed is about to be sound money, currency backed by gold. The struggle to suppress gold and silver are about to come to an end and they are about to again find their true place in the monetary establishments of the world. Gold will again become the ultimate world currency and it is proving that now and has proved that over the past 18 months.
What we see is a natural path by nations to extricate themselves from the control of Wall Street and the City of London, which have dominated the world for so long. All these facts considered we believe gold will find its way substantially higher with the participation of these nations, a factor the West never figured on. At the root of all this is that the Fed is supposed to be saving the US economic and financial structure. They are not doing that, they are saving the banking system and Wall Street instead and these are the miscreants that caused the problem in the first place. The result of this policy of zero interest rates and easy money is that few are saving.
The men said they are not vigilantes but were trying to protect their homes and help a neighbour. RCMP Sgt. Pierre Gervais would not comment on the case because it is before the courts, but he did discourage people from acting as the Burton men did.
"If you're not in danger, or you can disengage and do it safely, call the police,' he said. "We'll answer those calls and we will take appropriate action." Webmaster's Commentary:
They never have, not once, in all my long years of experience. The cops are NEVER there in time to prevent a crime; they just don't want citizens to defend themselves because then the citizens will realize they do not need the cops at all and fore the lot.
We have been calling the Honolulu police about a drug dealer in our immediate neighborhood for three years now. Nothing. Nada. Zip. The cops are too busy writing speeding tickets for the tourists because that generates revenue.
The first-ever heavy snowfall in 2010 has caused traffic chaos across Germany and Denmark, where a string of blackouts also took place on Wednesday, officials said. Public transport in some areas has been shut down, and municipal authorities are trying their best to rectify the situation.
Russia - China and Russia have decided to renounce the US dollar and resort to using their own currencies for bilateral trade, Premier Wen Jiabao and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin announced late on Tuesday. Webmaster's Commentary:
One of the busiest travels days of the year is off to a smooth start at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. Security checkpoints were flooded with hundreds of people at about 4 a.m. Wednesday, but lines had shortened by 7 a.m. So far, there are no signs of passengers in Charlotte participating in what is being called National Opt-Out Day. Webmaster's Commentary:
"Thank goodness TSA scared all those passengers into driving or taking trains instead because otherwise, it would have been the usual zoo we used to have around here day before Thanksgiving. But look at it! Near empty lines, everything running smoothly; makes my job here at the airport much easier when there are this few passengers coming through. Excuse me a moment. (whispering) What? Layoffs? ME! ARE YOU @#%$ING KIDDING ME? I've been working at this airport for 27 goddamned years! I have a mortgage to pay! I got kids in college! I got a wife in cosmetic surgery!!! You can't lay me off! WHAT AM I GONNA DO NOW?!?" -- Anonymous Airport Official
According to the US government, 41.8 million Americans now receive food stamps. Meanwhile, Washington is spending $7 billion monthly on its nine-year old occupation of Afghanistan, not to mention billions more on trying to build an obedient Afghan army and to pay off Pakistani politicians and general.
All the platitudes, doubletalk, synthetic optimism and fudging at the NATO summit could not conceal the fact that for all their soldiers, fighter aircraft, heavy bombers, tanks, helicopter gunships, armies of mercenaries, and wizardly electronic gear, the western powers are being slowly beaten by a bunch of lightly-armed Afghan farmers and mountain tribesmen. Webmaster's Commentary: The only people "winning" in Afghanistan are the defense contractors and the drug lords.
After eight months under an interim caretaker — the longest period between election and formation for any parliamentary government in history — a recent deal finalized the next Iraqi government. The delay, and the convoluted deal that finally broke the stalemate, reflect the reality of Iraq's political landscape: divided as ever more than seven years after the U.S. invasion.
A Georgia TSA (Transportation Security Administration) behavior detection officer was left in critical condition when he attempted suicide Tuesday evening after allegedly abducting, and sexually assaulting a woman, then giving her a suicide note to deliver. Webmaster's Commentary:
And I am supposed to allow these people to grab my wife's private parts?
TSA has replaced the church as a haven for sexual perverts to operate with impunity!
South Korean officials are promising “enormous retaliation” against North Korea after an hour-long clash between the two nations left two South Korean Marines dead and a number of others wounded. Reports of casualties on the North Korean side have yet to be confirmed.
“I think enormous retaliation is going to be necessary to make North Korea incapable of provoking us again,” insisted South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, who termed North Korea’s artillery strike on a military base an “invasion of South Korean territory.”
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Of course, South Korean President Myung-bak never happens to mention that South Korea's military exercises, accompanied by US "advisors" began the confrontation by shooting into disputed territories. As reported yesterday at:
"The skirmish began after North Korea warned the South to stop carrying out military drills near their sea border, South Korean officials said.
When Seoul refused and fired artillery into disputed waters - away from the North Korean shore - the North retaliated by shelling Yeonpyeong."
As reported today at:
http://www.jpost.com/International
"The USS George Washington, an aircraft carrier carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6,000, shipped out towards Korean waters on Wednesday. According to US officials in Seoul, the carrier left Japan and was expected to join naval exercises with South Korea next week." South Korea is the US's client state militarily; North Korea is China's client state militarily. I would like to hope that those in the bowels of power in DC are not contemplating provoking China into a war, the outcome of which would be not having to pay China back the debt this country owes it, which stands at approximately 843 billion dollars.
It’s the same kind of trade-off TSA implicitly provided when it ordered us to take off our sneakers (to stop shoe bombs), and to chuck our water bottles (to prevent liquid explosives). Security guru and scanner-suit plaintiff Bruce Schneier calls it “magical thinking…. Descend on what the terrorists happened to do last time, and we’ll all be safe. As if they won’t think of something else.” Webmaster's Commentary:
The mortgage documentation mess keeps getting stickier. The latest is this: Countrywide Financial, now owned by Bank of America, appears not to have properly transferred necessary mortgage documents when it sold loans to other banks, which then in turn created residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) from the loans.
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