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by David Piney

Recent news being underreported or avoided by the mainstream media monopoly!

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One of the greatest peacemakers that ever lived: Mikhail Gorbachev. When receiving the Nobel peace prize he defined peace as inherent harmony and mutual help. He said a peace which is just a respite from wars is not worthy of the name. But real peace is the ascent from simple coexistance to cooperation and common creativity among countries and nations. And peace is not not unity in similarity he said, but unity in diversity, and in the comparison and conciliation of differences. Without people like Gorbachev our generation may well have experienced the incomprehensible horror of nuclear war. Lest we forget. Lest we forget.

Aspartame: Sweet Misery -- A Poisoned World! The very first day in office president Reagan began the neocon deregulation binge by manipulating the FDA to get Nutrasweet approved. Regardless that testing proved it caused brain damage, tumours, diabetes, etc. Donald Rumsfeld was hired by Nutrasweet manufacturer G.S. Searle in 1977 as CEO in order to get the product approved, and when Reagan came to office the floodgates were opened. And the cost to humanity has been horrendous. This must see video offers an important glimpse of the pathological self-interest of corporate corruption. And the stark fact remains that only the public themselves have been able to track down and expose these crimes nowadays, ranging the gamut from 911 through to the JFK assassination, and now the health effects of GMO`s and aspartame. That`s why the neocons say the private sector is more efficient at managing than government -- because government is more inclined to be hampered by regulations and ethical operating practices.

Russia is ready for a pre-emptive strike on European missile defense systems if the US refuses dialogue, stated Russia’s Chief of General Staff Nikolay Makarov at the Moscow ABM conference.

Mainstream Media Won't Publish about The looming End Of The US Petro Dollar. Most of us know that with absolue power comes inherent hubris, which fortuneately is inclined to undermine and negate absolute power. Apparently America didn't know that. In fact the US itself has just accelerated the decline of its petrol dollar hegemony over world markets. US sponsored sanctions against Iran were possible because Iran trades its oil in US petro dollars -- thus deny Iran access, and you deny its trade... or so they presumed. But obviously what the US has really done is to force compliant petro dollar merchants to simply use other trade mechanisms, and thus accelerate its own economic decline.

Spain admits economic and social crisis “of huge proportions”. Nearly half the population are living in or close to poverty. A 25% unemployment rate (50% of youth), slashed social & municipal budgets, climbing evictions & sparse new mortgages issued (45% of norm) means increasing emigration and homelessness -- even though housing prices have dropped 29% since the crash. And there little hope in sight. (Gas prices are over $10 gallon in Europe.)

25 Scary Statistics About The U.S. Economy Since Obama Took Power.

This is the second Jewish historian who's research concluded that the Palestians are in fact are the real descendants of the Jewish people that lived there in biblical times. They say that the Egyptians kept meticulous historical records, and there is no evidence whatsoever that the biblical Jews were enslaved in Egypt, nor lived there in any numbers. And therefore there was no Exodus. Many Jews in the Holly Land were slaughtered by the Romans in 70AD of course, but the descendants remained there to this day -- though inticed by politics to adopt the Muslim religion of their governors over the millennia. Professor Sands from Tel Aviv University quotes Ben Gurion and other notable Zionists whose writings before 1929 clearly portrayed the native residents of Palestine as the descendants of the biblical Jew. Dr. Norman Finkelstein was the first to fight mainstream academia a few years ago to express similar conclusions, which eventually cost him tenure at DePaul (but seemingly brought quiet to the issue). Yet the essence of Middle East conflict -- which threatens to explode in WW3 with the invasion of Iran -- revolves around the unfathomable injustice suffered daily by the Palestinian people under radical Zionism. Go figure!

An insightful view of the US/NATO struggle to counterbalance the rise of BRICKS nations. Saddam's only barrage in the "mother of all wars" of course, was his revolutionary attack on the US petrol dollar by accepting Euros for oil sales. World reserve currencies fell from 85% US dollars to less then 60% today as a result of the spread of Saddam's tactic. And BRICKS nations are accelerating the decline, as matter of policy. As well, the US reputation crisis since Bush is likely responsible for the decline of its technical innovation too, as support for US hedgemony dries up from within. Thus hamstrung, and an increasingly vulnerable economic target, the US is facing formidable long-term challenges in its attempt to gain full spectrum dominance over humanity.

Consequences of BP Gulf oil spill now becoming known: US closes Gulf fishing April 2012. Flood of fishermen reports of diseased and deformed sea life glimpses what many scientists long predicted from such a massive environmental catastrophe.

Russia prepares for a US-Israeli military strike against Iran. General Leonid Ivashov, president of the Academy of Geopolitical Science, wrote that “a war against Iran would be a war against Russia” and he called for a “political-diplomatic alliance” with China and India. (With the recent doubling of Russian military budgets to 23 trillion rubles, expectation of conflict seems high.)

Over 300 economists, including three Nobel Laureates, recently signed a petition that encourages government to consider marijuana legalization in America. Legalizing marijuana would save $7.7 billion per year in enforcement, and generate $2.4 billion annually if taxed like consumer goods, or $6 billion per year if taxed like alcohol and tobacco. (The underlying problem -- in my opinion -- is that pot smokers just want to peacefully gather with friends and listen to music, instead of aggressively fighting all those wars the US is lining up nowadays. After all, it's ol' boy alcohol that got us where we are today: that liquid courage that fires domineering aggression. And what imperialist nation wants peaceable hippies?)

More evidence that Hitler never wanted war with England. Certainly the "miracle" of Dunkirk and the magnamity offered the Vichy government were confirmation of Hitler's stated claims in "Main Kampf" that; "If one wanted land and soil in Europe, then by and large this could only have been done at Russia's expense"... Hitler said there was only one single ally (to have) in Europe: England. To gain England's favor he said, no sacrifice should have been too great. Including apparently, renouncing colonies and sea power, to spare British industry German competition.

A brief history of the real cause of WW1. Of course the devil is in the details, which this author doesn't get into, but nonetheless it effectively sketches the landscape for further research.

World farmers protest epidemic of (big money) land grabs.
Also watch video here ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75kRnfJ_Ga8&feature=player_embedded

S&P downgrades Ontario outlook: a clear warning shot.

CBS 60 Minutes says there's a mass exodus of Christians from the Holy Land. Of 800,000 Christians that used to live there only 11,000 remain -- less then 2%. In Syria, Iraq and Egypt Christians are being targeted; hundreds have been murdered and many churches burned -- likely as war scapgoats. But in Israel and Palestine they weren't targeted specifically, yet they've chose to leave in droves. Will there soon be no Christians in the Holy Land?

Mass internet surveillance -- complete with prosecution by secret courts using secret evidence -- now proposed for UK.

CIA / DoD turf war brewing? DoD wants their own clandestine sevices (coverts) worldwide. (I've witnessed first hand the significant rise of Canadian military covert forces, due to the neocon "deep integration" agenda.)

Frank BBC documentary: Censorship, Vanunu, and "Israel's Secret Weapons".

Mitt Romney denounced as "parasite capitalist". He is accused of profiteering by hostile takeovers of prosperous businesses, then ruthlessly slashing employees, raiding pensions and creating onerous company debts in order to pay elevated dividents to backers. They say he's liquidated 10's of thousands of jobs in his career.Wall Street Journal reviewed 77 deals he directed and found one in three were left in serious financial difficulty, and one in five were wholly bankrupted. He was simply buying companies, loading them up with debt and then looting the balance sheet says author. It's the very model that drove the American economy off the cliff, then left other people to manage the wreckage. And now he's a presidential candidate. It's like hiring the proverbial wolf to guard the chicken coop it seems to me.

Breast Cancer Survivor Jailed Over $280 Medical Bill: In effect, Debtor's Prison Returns to the U.S. And it's becoming ever more prevalent. (The next phase is prison forced employment it's said, where hand-to-mouth wages not only bring downward presure on national wages, but pay for the massive prison expansion now planned. Coming to Canada soon -- under Harper.)

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul expressed support for moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. (Embassies are typically associated with national capitals) Dozens of UN resolutions have condemned Israel since the 1967 war for its illegal occupation, and attempts to annex Jerusalem as its capital. Ron Paul clearly has no respect for international law nor the concerted judgement of humanity.

WikiLeaks Supporters Plan US Foundation to Restore Funding. Five hundred days have passed since a cartel of the world's largest financial players, Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union instituted a consolidated, extrajudicial financial blockade against WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks strongly condemned the "extrajudicial" action (and measure of control this elite cartel has over the international cash transfer system).

Moon Landing Hoax a Conspiracy Theory? Did US Land On The Moon? Bill Kaysing, a technical writer for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne -- who designed the Appolo rockets -- says no one has landed on the moon to date, nor even ventured beyond earth's protective radiation barrier. And he outlines compelling evidence. I regret not viewing this Documentary sooner. It encourages a healthy measure of scepticism (knowing the New World Order proclivity for guile). And so far NASA attempts to provide absolute evidence of lunar landings leave a measure of plausible doubt. The search for truth continues...

Iraq 'could break up' warns Vice-President Hashemi. He said the country was at a crossroads, and urgent action had to be taken now to prevent it breaking up along sectarian and ethnic lines. (The tactic used by the US to weaken Iraqi collective defence was to foment civil war, now Maliki continues the exploit to install autocratic rule.)

The US security infrastructure has a long sordid history of guile in attacking the personal reputation of opponents in public (FBI COINTELPRO for example). But it's rare for them to be caught red-handed. Usually if evidence does surface it simply becomes a matter for the historical record long after the event, and damage to the target is wholly achieved. But on this occasion they were sloppy, and were caught. The details of the magnitude of slander that was wielded against the victims wasn't reported, but you can bet it was sufficient to garner public contempt, and thus justify simpleton retaliatory participation: the mark of the Beast.

How Goldman Sachs Captured Europe: The European Stabilization Mechanism.

Contined consumption reduction (austerity) was confirmed Tuesday in the IMF’s "World Economic Outlook" report, which made clear there was no prospect of a “normal” pattern of economic recovery. The "Global Stability" report published Wednesday noted that European banks intend to cut their balance sheets by $2.6 trillion, dealing another blow to business credit and household borrowing, thus prompting a call for further government-funded bank bailouts to cover the increased bankruptcies. Of course, the bank bailouts will raise government debt to GDP ratios resulting in demands for more government public spending cuts. And public cuts lower consumer demand and GDP falls, thus raising the government debt to GDP ratio, leading to pressure for more public cuts: an endless cycle. (Ingenious downsizing plan, you must admit! Yet inevitable, as humanity nears the end of the conventional oil era -- our primary energy supply.)

For every US soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands. More than 6,500 US veteran suicides are logged every year. Apparently the human soul has grave difficulty living with the horrors committed in war.

This excellent investigative documentary of 911 explores events in much more detail than has been previously published, and seems to have gained glimpses of insider investigative information. Best of all, it was produced by a young member of the coming generation to inherit this New World Order mess, Ryan Dawson, who is outraged at PNAC guile & lawlessness, and wants government fixed in order to kindle hope for a decent future ahead. God bless the cause.

Fukushima's pool #4 is in danger of falling, and if it loses its cooling water the resulting meltdown will release 10 times more radiation than Chernobyl. Tokyo and 50% of Japan will be lost, and Fukushima will become so hot it will remain unapproachable for 50 years as it continually spews massive radiation into the atmosphere, threatening all life on earth. The figures offered in this "must read" article are shocking. They're saying that the massive tonage of radioactive material that's stored in all the fuel pools at Fukushima is only half of the radiation that's already been leaked into the environment since the nuclear age began (From atmospheric weapons testing mostly, and Chernobyl, and from processing). Yet they consider "The Greatest Single Threat to Humanity" right now, is Fuel Pool Number 4, which contains around 13% of the radionuclides stored at Fukushima, and only 7% of what is already lying around the planet from pre-70's nuclear weapons testing. (No wonder 1/3 of us get cancer nowadays.) You must read this article to understand the magnitude of the threat. Knowing that the nuclear power industry is really just the tail of the nuclear weapons Beast, any hope for solution depends on political reform humanity-wide.

Fukushima cleanup will begin burning radioactive material with less than 8000 deteriorations per second (geiger counter clicks) per kg. Yet according to US regulations, this amount of hazardous radiation should be buried long-term as nuclear waste. Thus with massive tonnages of radiation now proposed to be foisted skywand from burning, the world is about to suffer another severe exposure, another Fukushima disaster in fact (and especially west coast Canada and the US, due to prevailing winds).

Gasoline prices throughout the 27 European nations is now above $10/gallon.

Israel: Documents show Defence Ministry planned West Bank land grabs. And the best Palestinian lands have been taken, including the crucial aquifers.

For those who have never seen the daily reality of the Palestian people, this is a "must see" glimpse of their life under occupation.

The environmental best seller of all time, "Limit to Growth", from the 70's, is revisited. The projections made then were dead-on so far. And thus the future prospects for humanity look bleak as it stands. Non renewable resources will continue their ever-steepening plummet, which began at the turn of the 20th century with the exploitation of oil. Food & industrial production per capita are about to peak by 2015 and then fall precipitously to 1900 levels by 2100. The world population will continue to rise until 2030 -- as will pollution -- and then fall off in a bell curve trajectory into the 22nd century, where Oliver Twist type poverty appears to become the world norm. God help us...

Daily, ordinary people take it upon themselves to stand up and speak out against the New World Order insanity. This must see video is such an example. The simple honesty here would shame the great orators of history with its profound elegance. Leah Bolger was arrested during her brief submission to the Senate Committee. God bless your moral courage Leah, we need more like you.

I personally have serious reservations about the Ron Paul candidacy. His ideology suits the elite agenda as an ideal strategic alternative, and either way they have the bases covered. It matters not to them whether they wield fascist totalitarianism or laissez faire feudalism it seems to me, their power to rule remains absolute. It's not surprising that Romney's primary donors are bankers and their cronies -- led by Goldman Sachs. Ron Paul's donor list is a little surprising though...

This must read article outlines the neocon mobilization of Christian fundamentalists to their cause, at the tremendous expense of humanity and world peace. It was the vote of Christian fundamenalists that brought the Bush agenda (war crimes) to power in fact.

Bill Moyers brings insightful guests to elaborate the neocon recruitment of Christian fundamentalists, and how this movement (through true Christian values) could be turned around to bring exemplary world peace instead.

Mark Carney with a succinct Canadian economic projection: there's big trouble ahead.

US Department of Homeland Security have placed a massive order for 450 million rounds of hollow point bullets (special kill design). This news clip asks the question why so many bullets? DHS aren't military, this is a domestic agency regulating US citizens. Are they expecting massive revolt in America over unfolding economic conditions? Does the occupy-Wall-Street movement trajectory scare them that much? ... What's up?

CIA whistle blower, John Kiriakou, who leaked the Guantanamo waterboarding torture practices to reporters has been charged for the leak, and is out on a $250,000 bond. He scheduled to be arraigned on April 13, 2012 in a US District Court in Alexandria, Va. He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted.

An African-American cop from Chicago is facing 80 years behind prison for attempted murder after four white cops shot him 28 times and left him for dead.

February 2012 David Krieger and Daniel Ellsberg were arrested in the middle of the night at Vandenberg Air Force Base, protesting the imminent test flight of a Minuteman III inter-continental ballistic missile. Hundreds of US and Russian land-based missiles remain constantly on high-alert status, ready to be launched within minutes. A false alarm (which has happened numerous times already) has the potential to launch World War III and precipitate human extinction. The last such calamity was 65 million years ago, with a comet collision that caused the extinction of the dinosaur and 70% of the species on earth. The calamity in our case would not be a celestial event, but rather the launching of weapons we created by our own cleverness, supposedly for our own security. The resulting nuclear winter would duplicate the dinosaur extinction conditions, from which few, if any, would survive. Alas... these longtime activists ask for public effort to help bring sanity to an insane policy. Just eliminating the 450 launch-ready US missles would greatly mitigate the danger. America's numerous nuclear subs are readily able to inflict massive retaliation with over a thousand warheads. Just removing the hair trigger Minuteman silos would make the world much safer say the authors, and America none the weaker.

The brutal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida by the captain of a Neighbourhood Watch (vigilante) group is heating up. The shooter, George Zimmerman, son of a veteran -- now a retired magistrate -- was a longtime cop wannabe. No charges have been laid against Zimmerman dispite public demonstrations across the country. The 911 transcript clearly shows that Zimmerman singled out Martin for attention because of his race and age says author, then pursued and confronted Martin despite being told by a police 911 dispatcher not to do so. Importantly, this valuable insight casts light on New World Order legislation, such as Florida’s notorious “Stand Your Ground” law, permitting “justifiable homicide” if someone simply feels threatened. This category of homicide has tripled in Florida since the law's inception in 2005. And guess what... the US model of lawless vigilanteism -- to augment law enforcement -- is coming to Canada soon.

Just when you think the Depleted Uranium scandal couldn't get any worse? This author says bllions of people in surrounding high population zones will suffer cancers and sterility from the NATO Mideast wars. Every time NATO used these weapons a toxic radioactive cloud wafted into the skies, which were tracked by a UK radiation monitoring centre. It was estimated that in UK alone the fallout exposure was sufficient to cause mass sterility. As well, there's (vague) evidence he says that the jet stream was manipulated to direct radioactive clouds toward India and other high population zones. Every service person that the UMRC research team tested at Nangarhar proved positive for radiation 100 to 400 times normal. The research team said that every bombsite they visited the civilian populations were ill:"These people presented symptoms consistent with internal contamination by uranium".

Thatcher papers show how Murdoch’s media domination was secured.

The endless rise of US police lawlessness and vigilanteism. Coming to Canada soon.

A heartwarming video of that rare group who continue to fight the good fight.

NSA 101. This must read insight glimpses the US National Security Agency's (NSA) expansion and reach since 911. An NSA chief, and co-founder of the Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center, held his thumb and forefinger close together and said “We are that far (in the US) from a turnkey totalitarian state.” All telecommunications data worldwide is now stored by the US. Once a name (or sample voice print) is entered into the stored database (Narus), all archived and real-time phone calls and other communications to and from that person are automatically routed to NSA recorders for playback. But the NSA focus is in accessing other nation's databases. NSA supercomputer breakthrough technologies (now at 2.33 petaflops & fast approaching 20 petaflops) means they're soon able to brute force crack older encryptions. Thus the need for stored information intercepts, anticipating they'll all be decipherable soon. The total of all human knowledge from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. Yet global Internet traffic alone will reach 1,000 exabytes per year by 2015, triple that of 2010. And that's with only 2 billion -- largely casual -- users. What of the future, with 9 billion people -- by then likely wholly plugged in?

UK unveils plan to sell off the roads. Rothschild suggested in a report in 2010 that privatising the road network in England could raise £100bn. Rail privatisation in UK was supposed to lead to cheaper fares too, and lower costs, but instead has given these powerful vested interests more power, more profits, while increasing taxpayer costs. And this is in fact the essence of the neocon power grab begun under Thatcher, the privatization of infrastructure, and renewal of the aristocratic omnipotence they enjoyed under feudalism.

The desperate circumstances thrust upon Greece have devastated its people. The 1200% increase in HIV among drug addicts for example, in wake of losing their needle exchnage program, glimpses real-life Greece, as does the most dramtic rise of malaria since colonial times. But to the rescue, substantial oil and gas has been discovered there. Tellingly, in a recent visit from Hilary Clinton, who tried to divvy up the resource among competing interests, she suggested a 20% share for both Turkey and Greece who share the Cyprus seabed. And the remaining 60% share she pledged to Noble Energy of Houston Texas. Sadly, her husband, former president Bill Clinton, is currently a Washington lobbyist for Noble Energy.

An important video refresher on the historical blueprint used for undermining a free democracy. The 10 steps used by world despots to convert a free society are readily apparent today in America says Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America. This must see video is a testimony of the kind of courage and struggle for insight that's needed to save Canada's Just Society from the travesty of encroaching fascism.

Alex Jones needs no introduction. His crusade to uncover poltical lawlessnes in our age is legendary. A must see video.

UN panel approves report praising Gaddafi's human rights record. The report was previously sidelined under pressure from antiGaddafi forces. Gaddafi's Libya looked after its people by far the best on the continent I've concluded. But this luxurious benevolence, and adamant independence streak, made him a target of US foreign policy, that demands compliance with the US global economic downsizing ethos.

Current military training means inevitable atrocities says insider, who recounts attempts at "killer mindset" development tactics at the US recruiting centre boot camp, where he was a recruit during his youth.

In homage to US journalist Gary Webb. Gary officially committed sucide. He died before he'd completed the final edition of his 9 year investigation into CIA drug smuggling. According to the coroner he shot himself in the head: twice.

Harper and New World Order lawlessness, which has defined his party ethic from the outset. Over 700 Canadians that refused support for the Conservative Party in a phone survey, received fraudulent calls mimicking Elections Canada, redirecting them to a polling station address change. The fraudsters had to have direct access to the Conservative phone survey results -- which was closely guarded -- in order to target those opposition voters. Many targeted voters traced the fraudulent call display numbers, which revealed the Conservative Party call centre was the origin.

Over 10,000 mentally ill Michigan inmates face Tasers and torture under New World Order system.

MMT: Modern Money Theory vs mainstream junk economics; there is another option to European austerity. A must listen audio.

Russia says Libya's new regime are training the Syrian rebels.

Surveillance State: The Making of the US Internal Security Apparatus. Video lecture by Professor McCoy. An amazing historical unfolding.

Unarmed man shot dead by police in English village. Police hit squads rise in UK under New World Order agenda. It would be more accurate to describe this incident not as traditional policing but as the work of a paramilitary force tasked with performing a targeted assassination.

The debt swap agreed Thursday night by majority of the creditors won't prevent the bankruptcy of Greece. It merely shifts the cost of the inevitable bankruptcy from the private to the public sector, on which about three-quarters of the Greek debt will fall.

The plight that Greece faces now comes to the American Midwest; Banker dictatorship prescribed for Detroit workers.

Front-runner for NDP leader considered joining Harper Conservatives

An insider’s view of Wall Street criminality.

How Greece could take down Wall Street.

Khader Adnan has been on a hunger strike for 63 days. His life is in serious danger. He is Palestinian detained in an Israeli prison without charge, or hope of justice. Sadly, it's a sign of the times for an entire generation of Palestinians. He cries out from his hospital bed against the grotesque injustices his people continue to suffer, while the world community -- the great extoller of noble principles -- looks on with seeming indifference. Tragically, he may have paid with his life in order to have his simple cry published to the world.

Russia plans spending about 23 trillion rubles (about $770 billion US) over the next decade to purchase more than 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles, more than 600 combat aircraft, dozens of submarines and other navy vessels and thousands of armoured vehicles. Welcome to the New World Order.

Author Tom Carter says the recent "sting" widely heralded by the fBI to foil a terrorist plot was actually engineered by them, in order to prove the threat from Al Qaeda is real in the US, and thus to justify the rise of a police state.

Is This Video Why Judge Andrew Napolitano Was Fired from Fox And His Political Commentary Program Canceled? The frank assessment of world politcs he pressented here is a rare occurrence on mainstream TV. It likely cost him his career.

Harper's Canada helped NATO ouster Gadhafi. Nato forces (including Canada) was supposed to enforce the UN embargo of military equipment from entering Libya says Montreal Gazette, but instead permited massive weapon shipments to the rebels.

Giordano Bruno, brilliant philosopher and scientist -- stubbornly recalcitrant -- burnt at the stake 400 years ago in order to preserve the power of status quo. A must read.

Israel To Demolish Palestinian Solar Energy Program

The CIA's Family Jewels. The runaway Agency Violated its Charter for 25 Years; pursued control of mainstream media, wiretapped opposition journalists and dissidents; plotted assassinations, insurrections and coups of legitimate democractic governments; and used the unwitting public to experiment on with despicable technologies; etc.

Harper has tabled their invasive spying plan (Bill C-30) to mandate that every Internet provider must hand "authorities" access to the private information of any Canadian, at any time, without a warrant -- thus your password... affording them full control over your communications. As well, through Harper's Bill C-11, Big Media lobbyists are seeking the power to compel telecom providers (who will now have surveillance capabilities) to cut Internet access for no good reason, remove or hide vast swaths of the Internet from its customers, and to lock users out of their own services. The authors of this article are asking for donations in order to launch a public effort to oppose this neo-con outrageous agenda. If this is still a democracy, you are being called to action on a very important issue.

Nortel collapse linked to Chinese hackers says author. Corporate espionage continues against Canadian firms. (According to my own experiences, Canadian government financed coverts are major players in corporate espionage here too, in order to control who has domestic power -- in support of the staus quo elite.)

The chief of the US military's Special Operations Command (SOCOM) wants greater autonomy in dispatching elite killer squads to every corner of the globe. JSOC units have been involved in some of the worst atrocities in the Middle East. They carried out wholesale assassinations of opponents of the Iraqi occupation and were implicated in systematic torture of detainees. JSOC, like the CIA, has been empowered to draw up kill lists of alleged terrorists and launch assassination missions. Unlike the CIA, it is not required to secure a “presidential finding” authorizing lethal covert operations, or submit to congressional oversight. Special operations forces have already been deployed in over 75 countries.

Once a prisoner has been executed in the US, prosecutors steadfastly oppose reopening cases to conduct post-mortem DNA checks or consider any new evidence. The reasoning is obvious: The dead cannot be brought back, and it may bring the system of justice into severe disrepute. The U.S. is virtually the only democracy left in the death-penalty club. America's enthusiasm for executions is exceeded only by places like China, Iran and North Korea. Those countries just write off the occasional execution of an innocent as the cost of doing business. But when you hear some of the Americans in this article being executed, steadfastly proclaiming their innocence with their dying breath, while calmly condemning the justice system for its pursuit of blatant murder, it becomes unnerving for everyone witnessing.

The very real danger of frack gas harvesting to the Great Lakes watershed. The Marcellus shale geological structure has rich deposits of natural gas, enought to power the entire US for 14 years. But the technology used to extract the gas has proven to seriously threaten entire water supplies, as well as land fertility. And radioactive radium 226 is also released from the shale into the environment, and in dangerous quantities. 400,000 gas wells are planned. For those living in the Great Lakes region this is a must see video.

Iran's response to US or Israeli aggression is to close the Straits of Hormuth, where 40% of the world oil traffic must pass. And it's no idle threat, because the US is not yet technically able to keep the Straits open and confront Iran on its home turf says author.

Anyone wholly believing the recent spate of abduction attempts in Ontario is likely too naive to understand the agenda of New World Order social engineers. On average 1 or 2 children under 18yrs old are reported missing in an amber alert situation in Ontario yearly. The fact that 4 in one week occurred, and in the most visible public places no less, and they involved small children who were able to beat off adult men abductors by kicking and screaming, simply defies reason.

Greece's largest police union has threatened to issue arrest warrants for officials from the country's European Union and International Monetary Fund lenders for demanding deeply unpopular austerity measures.

Allegations of the Chinese government selling Falun Gong prisoners body parts for transplant on the black market may be true. US surgeon says the only way body parts could be made available on such short notice is to have a record of prisoner's blood and tissue types and then to execute target subjects as foreign customers check into China's transplant clinics. Israel is also accused of this practice with its Palestinian prisoners.

Appointment of new US ambassador heightens tensions with Russia. A military strike against Iran would be a catastrophe Russia says. General Vladimir Popov said that Russian military engagement in the conflict was possible if Iran came close to military collapse from the US. Russian state budget for 2012-14 plans doubling military and defense expenditures.

Under Harper, Canada has pursued a more U.S.-style foreign policy. This includes tougher sanctions on Iran and Syria. Much like the U.S., Harper has singled out Iran as a threat to international peace saying (against all evidence) the regime is seeking a nuclear weapon, and would be prepared to use it. Defense Minister Peter MacKay has also indicated that if necessary, Canada's armed forces are ready to offer assistance in Syria. More than ever, the U.S, and Canada share a more common approach to advancing elitist interests, in not only North America but around the globe.

The rise of America's privatized prisons is directly related to the explosion in incarceration rates says author -- over 722% per capita since the 70's. Ironically much of US military equipment is produced in its prisons where inmates are paid as little as 17 cents hr. and are exposed to a toxic soup of chemicals, including the bane of this generation, depleted uranium dust. Private prisons make their profit of course by reducing money spent on prisoners, thus conditions are forever inclined to slide. But worst of all is their powerful political lobby that continually pushes for profits and thus increased business through harsher prison sentencing, higher incarceration rates and anti parole initiatives. And this model is apparently where Harper is leading Canada.

Just as ancient imperialist Rome, US hegemony depends on buying whatever or whoever they want. Human avarice, and the resulting legions of opportunists bought, are the wedge they drive to break and restructure power structures throughout the world. The core ethic is simple self interest at the expense of the rest, little different than the animal kingdom ethos.

The neutering and privatization of public wealth was the fundimental agenda of the neo-con ascension to power that began with the Thatcher / Reagan era. The culmination of this agenda is the current Euro debt crisis. The total assets of all European millionaires has grown faster in recent years than the combined debt of all the European governments. The explosive growth of these assets is due to the intensified exploitation of the working public generally, especially through the neo-con policy of massive tax cuts for businesses and top earners. One of Germany's leading business publications Handelsblatt has estimated that wealthy Greek individuals have stashed away €560 billion in foreign accounts, which is almost twice the entire Greek national debt.

A summary of the political clash beween China, Russia and the US over Syria, and ultimately Iran.

US says Russia and China's UN Veto against US proposed sanctions against Syria was "Disgusting", "Shameful", "Deplorable", "a Travesty" . . . Really?" Here's a quick glimpse of the United States Veto record at the United Nations from 1972–2011.

February 1st 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Documents leaked by this young US private first class, pointed to a long history of corruption, war crimes, and imperialism by the United States government in international dealings. According to journalists, Manning's alleged actions helped fuel democratic uprising around the world, including the Arab Spring movements. He shed light on secret corporate influence on US foreign policies, motivated a democratic revolution in Tunisia, and contributed to the Obama Administration withdrawing all U.S.troops from the occupation of Iraq.

It’s too late to save the jobs in London. Caterpillar has closed a plant and cashiered its workers, but it has opened our eyes: it’s not just the jobs on the factory floor that are lost, but the technology that buttresses them. A locomotive factory is now gone, which developed with help from public money. The tech train is now leaving the station, and heading south to the US — with a free pass from Canada's (neo-con loyal) politicians.

The Criminal Code's justification for physical punishment of children, such as spanking, should be removed Canadian researchers say. Children who have experienced physical punishment tend to be more aggressive toward parents, siblings, peers and, later, spouses, and are more likely to develop antisocial behaviour. Physical punishment is also associated with a variety of mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety and use of drugs and alcohol. Pain from punishment could disrupt parent-child attachment, increase levels of the stress hormone cortisol, or interfere with how the brain regulates stress. When parents in more than 500 families were trained to reduce their use of physical punishment, the difficult behaviours in the children also declined.

Criminal charges against Montrealer who filmed undercover police at Montreal G20 protest to be heard in court

Massive U.S. Military Buildup Reported Around Iran; Up to 100,000 Troops Ready By March.

Less than four years after then-presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged to create “the most transparent administration in history,” his administration has prosecuted more government whistleblowers under espionage laws than all prior administrations combined.

It's great te hear from Gorbachev again. As always his insights are clear, comprehensive and gladly welcome. He calls for a "moral basis" in world governance, and laments its absence. And concludes as long as America is militarily omnipotent, and is openly predatory, target nations (such as Iran) will pursue nuclear weapons to defend themselves. He thus encourages "mutual security" among world nations as a policy standard.

When new DNA technologies emerged they found 25% of the over 400 US death row convicts were innocent. How can prosecutors and police make such egregious mistakes? Are they simply rewarded for convictions -- as opposed to solving society's criminal problem? This article from the "Innocence Project" offers insight.

Chris Hedges sues Obama over indefinite detention (NDAA). "This is about the egregious destruction of the rule of law. That’s what our ancestors fought for, is to uphold the Bill of Rights, due process rights, right to a (fair) trial by jury. And all of this is being abrogated by this legislation. ...the security establishment did not want this bill, and the FBI Director Mueller actually goes to Congress and says publicly they don’t want it: why did it pass? What pushed it through? And I think, without question, the corporate elites understand that things, certainly economically, are about to get much worse. I think they’re worried about the Occupy movement expanding. And I think that, in the end — and this is a supposition — they don’t trust the police to protect them, and they want to be able to call in the Army. And if this bill goes into law, and it’s slated to go into law in March, they will be able to do that."

Human rights groups charge NATO with war crimes in Libya.

The World Bank has issued a grim 2012 forecast on the outlook for the world economy, citing potential for crisis worse than that which followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.

It's very difficult to explore the evidence presented, that LBJ conspired to have JFK killed, without being swayed. And many insightful and corroborative articles on the subject are easily found online. http://www.viewzone.com/lbj/index.html

As soon as Obama is finished “liberating” Tehran, it’ll be on to Venezuela. You can bet on it says author. Venezuela sits on the biggest ocean of oil in the world, “over 500 billion barrels”. And Chavez has systematically raised the standard of living for the poor and middle classes of Venezuela, while strengthening the institutions that have transformed the country into one of the hemishpere’s most vibrant democracies. He's reduced poverty by 50%, established free universal healthcare, K-through-college education, and enshrined civil liberties under the constitution. US citizens have every reason to be envious of the social safety net Chavez has created for his people via his Bolivarian Revolution. Thus Corporate mandarins regard Chavez as a troublemaker (a threat to the established order) and they’re doing whatever they can to get rid of him.

Amid deceptive propaganda, America's foundering war effort in the heart of the world's oil stocks bodes ominous. Once again, just as in Vietnam, the military prowess of the single greatest power on the planet is being defeated, and it's largely due to public opposition.

Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?

New Years day 2012, US totalitaraian state now official? Obama has signed the National Defence Authorization Act into law, permiting indefinite detention of targets anywhere in the world, without arrest, trial, evidence or appeal. Clearly, 911 has fully taken us from a Just Society semi-democracy to the threshold of military dictatorship: as planned from the outset.

Tantalizing evidence of the Higgs boson.

Ticking Clock: Unfolding U.S. War Plans Against Iran. (And the stated possibility of Russia's Military Involvement in defending Iran.)

Hundreds of Sears, Kmart stores to close. Even though they've been continually bleeding red ink there's few options. Things look bleak. Even selling stores is not much of an option, according to Credit Suisse analyst Gary Baiter. “There is not enough value in the real estate to do much with,” Balter told Business Week. “Who is going to buy the stores? There are no buyers. There is no one growing in US retail.”

The North American Homeland Security Perimeter: A Threat to Canada's National Sovereignty.

Bird flu virus is back in the headlines. US researchers have created a contagious form of the very lethal Avian Flu virus, that's meant to infect humans. Devastating worldwide pandemic is once again a major concern. Lovely!

Not long ago Detriot was America's manufacturing hub, the home of Henry Ford's manufacturing genius, and a literal jewel in the capitalist crown. It now lays in ruins. Huge portions of the city are virtually abandoned as people seek jobs elsewhere. The average home price for this once thriving icon is now $6,000, which provides a stark glimpse of where we're headed under New World Order energy crisis management.

US legislation empowering indefinite detention of anyone, anywhere in the world, without charge or evidence, nor with access to courts or appeal, is now assured. And the legislation is designed broadly enough to scoop up antiwar protesters too says author.

I rarely view the litany of firsthand accounts of the attrocities being committed by New World Order raw expediency. But occasionaly I'm compelled to understand what's going on over there. And though I haven't had the guts to delve into this article enough to corroborate its authenticity, it's likely true -- and certainly an eye opener.

A glimpse of what Bradly Manning bears in military prison is also a valuable insight. This recreation of Brad's everyday reality is indicative of the need for systemic reform, which motivated his effort from the outset. This video, combined with this appended link to an insightful article, gives valuable glimpses. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/mann-j15.shtml

The incremental and insidious loss of Canadian sovereignty by stealth, in a deep integration union with the United States (according to their regulations and practices) was planned from the very outset of the Free Trade deal. Paul Hellyer, former deputy Prime Minister of Canada, says documents at the time showed that the Free Trade deal was only the first step in union with the US. And NorthCom, a division of the US military, now proudly proclaims that its command mandate is "to extend military jurisdiction over sea, land and civil forces North American wide". Accordingly, NorthCom is officially charged with the defence of the United States, Porto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Canada and Mexico.

The five bureaucrats assigned to implement the U.S. border plan.

Russian partnership tactic with US fading. Alternatively, the Russia / Germany partnership is doing very well, and combined with China's might, may well signal the decline of NATO hegemony in Eurasia. Russia has now threatened to close its borders to US supply lines to Afghanistan, thus ending the war there for a secure seaport pipeline route to the Caspian basin oil reserves. And Russia says the START ballistic missile treaty is also jeopardized as a result of new technologies its been forced to develop for defence. Combined with recent Russian arms sales to Syria, and intervention on behalf of the Serbs in Kosovo, a new chapter in New World Order hegemony seems about to unfold.

The net effect of the establishment of the EU was to optimize the empowerment of European corporations, and to play labour groups off against each other. Germany especially benefitted, and strengthened its dominant position, while weak states have grown even weaker. German industry has more than doubled its exports since the introduction of the euro. In 2007, it recorded a trade surplus of nearly €200 billion, while 19 of the 27 EU members recorded a foreign trade deficit. The euro ensured that the German currency remained stable and comparatively low in value both at the European and international level, which was extremely advantageous for the German export industry. Had the German mark been retained, its exchange rate would have increased significantly. The introduction of the euro had the opposite effect on the economically weaker countries of southern and eastern Europe. Their trade and industry were unable to compete with imports from the stronger member countries. Prices—and, to a lesser extent, wages—rose and undermined competitiveness. Unlike in the past, this situation could no longer be redressed by a devaluation of national currencies. The widening gap was not immediately visible. The introduction of the euro gave the weaker countries access to loans at favourable rates. This triggered construction and speculation booms in Spain and Ireland. However, only the elite and certain sections of the middle classes benefited, while the euro meant rising prices for the working class from the very start as well as overwhelming competition for small businesses. The boom finally burst with the outbreak of the international financial crisis, European banks had invested heavily in toxic US bonds. Within a short period, the total debt of the Irish state rose from 25 percent of GDP to 100 percent because the government decided to issue a guarantee covering all of the speculative losses of the banks.

The inexorable US march to nuclear war with Russia?

More stark allegations of police state tyranny within RCMP management: this time by an RCMP officer.

The Constitution Is Dead: The Transition is towards an Orwellian Police State.

Congressman Greyson says there's been over "26 TRILLION Dollars In Bank Bailouts! That's Not Including TARP!" And that means over $100,000 in debt for every man , woman and child in the United States. Yet this unprecedented corporate welfare decision was arbitrarily made by a non elected body of private bankers who run the Federal Reserve system.

Harper's true colours show, now that he has a majority government. Armed US police are now allowed to petrol Canada accompanied by Canadian police. And RCMP marine patrols in Canada are now required to have a US Coast Guard officer on board. Lovely! (Lucky for them Trudeau's not here.)

US lawmakers have just passed the National Defence Authorisation Act that permits the indefinite detention of anyone in the world that the US military chooses, without charge, without evidence or without recourse to the courts: ever. This is the darkest day for the future of America and for humanity since the dawning of the rule of law in 1215 with the Magna Carta.

Not only did police help plan the vandalism at Toronto G20 summit, but they facilitated its exercise says the World Socialist website. And it's not the first time they've been caught red handed as agent provocateurs they say. After all, live TV coverage of blazing and burned out police cars littering the demonstration route, means increased public support for police crackdown on anarchists, and thus increased police budgets. The RCMP SS was disbanded in disgrace for this kind of "dirty tricks" mindedness under Trudeau. Under Harper's irrational social conservatism ideology they're further empowered.

Historical review of the 1971 Attica prison riot. Except for the state crimes against first nations, this event is considered the most bloody one day encounter between Americans since the US civil war. Twenty nine prisoners and 10 of their hostages were gunned down, as 3000 rounds of ammo were indiscriminately fired into the teargas filled courtyard at Attica prison. The primary intent was to teach future prisoners a get tough lesson. And police and guards went on a vindictive rampage against the largely black and Porto Rican prisoners afterwards, committing despicable mass torture and targeted executions. President Nixon and governor Rockefeller (who decided the retaliatory course of action) gloated over the success of the endeavour, saying the loss of a few hostages was well worth the price.

Good news for a change. Central banks open the U.S. dollar taps. The European "death spiral" is thus being addressed. Thus proving the continuation of the EU has value to the financial elite, who are basically engineering world consumption downsizing with all this smoke and mirrors economic hocus-pocus. None the less, they're offering a much softer landing for the EU then the 50% decline of productivity projected by yesterday's OECD report.

World depression is forecast if Euro breaks up says OECD report. Economists agree, saying EU production generally could fall by 50%, "a crisis of apocalyptic proportions". Italy's bond yield is weighed so heavily by the market that its industrial growth will have to rise to over 8% just to avert higher interest charges from its debt to GDP ratio, an unsustainable and hopeless circumstance. (Although a valuable insight, this socialist article blames capitalism per se for the slow motion train wreck that's unfolding, instead of the decline of the world oil supply that's the real cause.)

Professor Peter Dale Scott traces the rise of the New World Order shadow government through its roots in the elite's military industrial complex, through the Kennedy assassinations and Iran Contra milestones, to 911 and today.

Economist Ellen Brown says that hidden private sector interest charges now comprise about 40% of everything we buy. For government projects the hidden interest charges amount to 50% she says. It's time for an economic bill of rights?

The spy infrastructure in Canada that's meant to monitor and disrupt activism.

Charities spent an average of 18 cents of every dollar on fundraising 10 years ago. “Today, the average is 35 cents.” Some of the top charities in Canada spend nearly 50% on fundraising. Such as; Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario 49.1% -- Canadian National Institute for the Blind 48.8% -- Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada 48.4% -- War Amps of Canada 46.2% -- Canadian Diabetes Association 44.4% -- The Kidney Foundation of Canada 44% -- Canadian Cancer Society BC & Yukon Division 41.1%

Europe dictatorship rising? "Total policing" mandate in UK once again implemented. Draconian lock-down and control tactic clearly shows the ruling elite are no longer prepared to tolerate any form of public demonstration to express political or social opposition.

Europe dictatorship rising? Papandreou forced to resign because he demanded a democratic referendum to decide Greece austerity proposals? Berlusconi forced out of office because he publicly blamed the EU for Italy's increasing poverty? So says John Laughland, from the Paris Institute of Democracy and Cooperation.

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