31 Oct 2008
Barack Obama: The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
PART 2 - PART 3
”I was getting curious as to why Obama, has been dethroning the heir apparent, Hillary Clinton, and gaining such a wide following. You can't even turn on the news without seeing his face blasted on every news channel.
a man who can mesmerize the masses, talking of standing up to organized money, to lobbyists, special interests, but his whole political apparatus is made of members of the same globalist organizations that most of Bush`s administration is made up of, except this time the stated agenda is CHANGE & YES WE CAN” More on TotalReality2012
Tbilisi favours McCain's experience
People in the former Soviet republic of Georgia have been following the US presidential campaign intently - although their fascination is largely based on self-interest.
The Georgian perspective on the contest between John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, and Barack Obama can be reduced to one question: Which one of them will do more for us?
Since the "Rose Revolution" brought the pro-Western government of Mikheil Saakashvili to power in Tbilisi five years ago, Washington has been Georgia's main international supporter - politically, economically and militarily.
Many Georgians appear to believe that the man most likely to maintain and even increase that support is McCain.
McCain has been a regular visitor to the country in recent years, is highly critical of the Kremlin's policies in the region, and during Georgia's recent war with neighbouring Russia, he declared that "today, we are all Georgians".
Vatican orders sexuality tests
In a new document — the second in three years to deal with the effects of a sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Church six years ago — the Vatican said that the early detection of “sometimes pathological” psychological defects of men before they become priests would help avoid tragic experiences.
“The Church ... has a duty of discerning a vocation and the suitability of candidates for the priestly ministry,” said the document from the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education. Times Online
30 Oct 2008
UN peacekeepers braced for full-scale war in central Africa
United Nations peacekeepers were braced for full-scale war in central Africa yesterday as Rwandan-backed rebels closed in on the Congolese city of Goma, sending government troops and civilians fleeing in panic.
Western aid workers described scenes of mayhem in the streets as columns of government tanks and military vehicles streamed out of the city and panicking civilians fled for cover.
Muddy roads were clogged with refugees fleeing into Goma after they had witnessed the retreat of government soldiers from the areas around their camps – only to find that troops had deserted the city too.
“There is absolute panic,” Karl Steinacker, an official with the UN refugee agency, told The Times by telephone from Goma. “The war has arrived in the streets. There are columns of army running away. They are basically abandoning the city.” Times Online
29 Oct 2008
Fish has hernia operation
The 10-inch-long angelfish was laid out on an operating table while a vet and two assistants carried out the unusual surgery.
After being anaesthatised the exotic fish had a tube placed in her mouth and water pumped through her body and out her gills to enable her to breathe.
Vet Sue Thornton repaired the stomach condition using a scalpel, a needle and forceps during the £500 operation.
After being stitched up and brought round the plucky fish was kept under close observation before she went on to make a full recovery.
Carla has been a resident at the London Aquarium for 10 years and staff decided to try and save her rather than put her to sleep when she developed the hernia. Telegraph
Carla the angelfish is NOT a Dead Fish!
Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship
Australia will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government.
The revelations emerge as US tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, and a coalition of human rights and other groups unveiled a code of conduct aimed at safeguarding online freedom of speech and privacy.
The government has declared it will not let internet users opt out of the proposed national internet filter.
The plan was first created as a way to combat child pornography and adult content, but could be extended to include controversial websites on euthanasia or anorexia.
28 Oct 2008
2012 The Future of Mankind
Michael Tsarion presentation at the Granada Forum in Los Angeles, 2006.
Our president(s) and administration(s) are liars and assisting in the fall of america. What are they doing in their positions of power and how did they get there? They have allegences to other forces that we aren't supposed to know about. They serve the Vatican, secret societies, and the British royal family. Their job is to undermine and destroy America, the greatest country on the face of the earth. And they are doing an excellent job of it. This presentation exposes and discusses the reasons behind their agenda. (205 min)
Visit: www.michaeltsarion.com, www.taroscopes.com
The Granada Forum - www.originsandoracles.com
(This posted because the previous Tsarion post with YouTube clips are removed..)
Fluoride Added To Children’s Milk In Schools Throughout UK
Fluoride is being added to children’s milk in 42 schools throughout the city of Sheffield in the UK, despite the chemical’s proven link to liver and kidney damage, cancer and the lowering of IQ.
“A new strategy with the focus of preventing dental problems among children is be introduced in Sheffield,” reports the Yorkshire Post.
The move comes in response to figures showing that the state of children’s teeth in the city is slightly higher than the national average.
“At present, fluoride is added to children’s milk in 42 primary schools in the city. This will continue, and the local NHS is also planning to begin talks on the possibility of adding fluoride to water.” the report continues.
While Fluoride has been proven to have a minimal effect in the prevention of tooth decay, the negative effects of the chemical are legion according to several medical studies, far outweighing any positive aspects.
A recent Scientific American study “Concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid — the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism.”
The report also notes that “a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ.”
Steve Watson & Paul Watson / Prisonplanet.com / propagandamatrix.com
Dumbing Down: How the brainpower of today's 14-year-olds has slipped 'radically' in just one generation
Bright teenagers are a disappearing breed, an alarming new study in the UK has revealed.
The intellectual ability of the country's cleverest youngsters has declined radically, almost certainly due to the rise of TV and computer games and over-testing in schools.
The 'high-level thinking' skills of 14-year-olds are now on a par with those of 12-year-olds in 1976.
The findings contradict national results which have shown a growth in top grades in SATs at 14, GCSEs and A-levels.
The intelligence of Britain's youth is being dumbed down, which experts say is down to television and video games.
But Michael Shayer, the professor of applied psychology who led the study, believes that is the result of exam standards 'edging down'.
His team of researchers at London's King's College tested 800 13 and 14-year-olds and compared the results with a similar exercise in 1976. Mail Online
Also see Shakespeare dumbed down in comic strips for bored pupils (image above) and Deliberate Dumbing Down of America – Free E Book download by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt.
Men charged with plotting to kill Obama
Federal prosecutors charged two men with plotting a "killing spree" against African-Americans that would have been capped with an attempt to kill Sen. Barack Obama while they wore white tuxedos, federal officials said Monday.
Paul Schlesselman, left, and Daniel Cowart said they planned to kill more than 100 African Americans.
The U.S. attorney's office in Jackson, Tennessee, said Daniel Cowart, 20, and Paul Schlesselman, 18, were self-described white supremacists who met online through a mutual friend.
Both men have been charged with illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun, conspiracy to rob a federally licensed gun dealer and making threats against a presidential candidate.
The men planned to kill more than 100 African-Americans, including 14 who would be beheaded, according to the affidavit. But federal law enforcement sources said there was no evidence Cowart, of Bells, Tennessee, and Schlesselman, of West Helena, Arkansas, had any details of Obama's schedule.
"We take this very, very seriously but we see no evidence these guys have the ability or the wherewithal to pull off what they say they wanted to do," one law enforcement source said. CNN.com
27 Oct 2008
McCain Guarantees Victory
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he can “guarantee” a win on Nov. 4 in a squeaker victory that won’t be clear until late that night.
McCain spoke amid signs of a tightening race, and reports of renewed determination among his staff, which is badly outgunned in both money and manpower.
“I guarantee you that two weeks from now, you will see this has been a very close race, and I believe that I'm going to win it,” McCain told interim "Meet" moderator Tom Brokaw. “We're going to do well in this campaign, my friend. We're going to win it, and it's going to be tight, and we're going to be up late.” Politico/Yahoo
Dubai Slaves: The Misery Behind Dubai's Architectural Splendor
As you know, we always wonder at the grandeur of Dubai's buildings: the tallest buildings in the world, the longest bridges, and the weirdest architecture imaginable. When Addy and I were there last year, we marveled at this explosion of concrete, glass, and steel with our own eyes. But we never saw the other side, the misery behind the splendour, the 300,000 illegal almost-slaves who live crammed into labor camps, working—and often dying or getting injured—for a few dollars a day. Fortunately, the Guardian's correspondant Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reminds us about it. gizmodo.com
Workers washing in a labor camp on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. July, 16th, 2008
Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans
The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. At least, it did mine. They are looking for contractors to provide a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" that will let packs of robots "search for and detect a non-cooperative human".
One thing that really bugs defence chiefs is having their troops diverted from other duties to control robots. So having a pack of them controlled by one person makes logistical sense. But I'm concerned about where this technology will end up. New Scientist
Confessions of a former Guantánamo prosecutor
When Army Lt. Col. Darrell Vandeveld began his work in May 2007 as a prosecutor at the Guantánamo Bay military commissions, the Iraq war veteran was one of the most enthusiastic and tenacious lawyers working on behalf of the Bush administration. He took on seven cases. In court hearings he dismissed claims of prisoner abuse as "embellishment" and "exaggeration." Once, when a detainee asked for legal representation only for the purpose of challenging the legitimacy of the military commissions, Vandeveld ridiculed the request as "idiotic."
So it came as a shock in mid-September when Vandeveld announced that he was resigning as a prosecutor because he had grave doubts about the integrity of the system he had so vigorously defended.
In the days following his resignation -- now testifying, remarkably, for the defense counsel in one of his own cases -- Vandeveld said that he went from being a "true believer" in the military commissions to feeling "truly deceived" about them. His deep ethical qualms hinged foremost on the fact that potentially critical evidence had been withheld from the defense by the government.
26 Oct 2008
Landmark E. Howard Hunt JFK Confession Video Tape Ignored
The world exclusive E. Howard Hunt JFK confession video tape was released this week to a deafening silence from the mainstream media, while the dumbed-down general public attempted to dismiss the now deceased whistleblower Hunt, a former CIA operative and Nixon White House insider, as a mentally unstable drunk.
In the video, Hunt discusses LBJ, who saw Kennedy as an “obstacle” to the presidency, and how Johnson consorted with top CIA officials Cord Meyer and William K. Harvey to carry out the assassination plot. Hunt had direct knowledge of the plot because he was part of it in his role as a “bench warmer,” as he described himself.
E Howard Hunt’s deathbed confession needs to be treated with the gravity it deserves, it warrants widespread mainstream media attention - especially in the run-up to the 45th anniversary of the JFK assassination this November 22nd.
UK Tories face call to repay Rothschild £1m loan
The Conservative party faced demands last night to repay a huge loan from a member of the Rothschild banking family 
An Observer investigation has found that the party has benefited from a £1m loan from Lady Victoria de Rothschild, made via a 'non-trading' company that conducts no business and has had no other function in its four-year history than to lend the Tories money.
Ironmade's accounts reveal the firm has been dormant since it was created in April 2005. According to the accounts, 'the ultimate controlling party of the company is Victoria, Lady de Rothschild, by virtue of her control of the entire issued share capital'. Prior to the loan, de Rothschild gave the party almost £130,000 via a series of donations made between 2002 and 2005 under her own name. The Observer
It is argued that the Rothschild family is one of thirteen dynastic bloodlines linked to the Illuminati. New World Order conspiracy theories present the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Phipps', DuPonts, Vanderbilts, Bush family, etc. as the real rulers or would-be rulers of the world. Wikipedia
The Illuminati
Documentary uncovering The Illuminati and New World Order showing the control of the world today and who is behind it. Looks into The Freemasons and Illuminati in detail. For more information see OpenYourEyes
25 Oct 2008
EU Calls For ‘New World Governance’
This video shows Sarkozy (French President holding EU Presidency) and Barroso (EU Commission President) calling for a New World Order, “New World Governance”, “New Global Order”.
The two also talk about how the EU and globalists are determined to use crises to setup the final stages of what they call the “New World Order”.
CNN: “Barroso outlined no specific proposals but said a solution needed to be based on transparency, responsibility, cross-border supervision and global governance”
More information via Wise Up Journal
Freedom, US-style
It’s Freedom from government, Freedom of Individuality, Freedom in totality. LiveLeak
Spanish civil war veterans want nationality
Seventy years ago they marched out of Barcelona for the last time, proud heroes who had risked their lives to fight General Franco's Fascist-backed rebels.
Yesterday, a small band of veterans of the International Brigades returned to mark the anniversary in Sitges, near Barcelona.
Frail, some in wheelchairs, they joined in a chorus of La Bandera Roja, or The Red Flag, an Italian song popular with anti-Fascist forces during the war.
Now the eight British and Irish survivors of the 2,300 men and women who joined the brigades are fighting a new battle against time to win an honour that has stayed out of their grasp: Spanish nationality.
Twelve years after first being offered citizenship for their contributions during the Spanish Civil War, they are yet to become Spaniards.
Times Online and “The Spanish civil war remembered” on the Guardian
24 Oct 2008
Adolf Hitler 'planned propaganda cable TV'
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were working on a Big Brother-style cable television propaganda industry to be broadcast across Germany.
Plans for the system were first found when Soviet soldiers entered Berlin but have recently been re-examined by researchers for a new Russian documentary.
The Orwellian screens would have been set up in public places and would show "people's television", depicting how the Aryan race should live, with the Nazis focusing on news, sport and education.
Ideas included building rooms beside laundries so women could gather round the TV to watch the broadcasts.
Prototype programmes included Family Chronicles: An Evening with Hans and Gelli, which was an early reality TV show depicting a wholesome Aryan life of a young German couple.
More on the Telegraph, there also: Nazis hoped to found empire in Amazonian rainforest
Bailey Bros. Elephant Abuse
Undercover video footage of elephant trainer Mike Swain - working at Bailey Bros. Circus _ abusing elephants Chrissie and Boo. Abuse includes kicking, beating, hooking, and utilizing an electric shock device. Animal Defenders International
The Forgotten Nanking Massacre
The Nanking Massacre, commonly known as the Rape of Nanking, was an infamous war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China, after it fell to the Imperial Japanese Army on December 13, 1937. The duration of the massacre is not clearly defined, although the violence lasted well into the next six weeks, until early February 1938. Japanese officials lied about civilian death figures and still refuse to reveal them properly today. During the occupation of Nanking, the Japanese army committed numerous atrocities, such as rape, looting, arson and the execution of prisoners of war and civilians. Although the executions began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians, it is claimed that a large number of innocent men were intentionally misidentified as enemy combatants and executed as the massacre gathered momentum. A large number of women and children were also killed, as rape and murder became more widespread. More on Wikipedia
Hu Jia Sakharov Prize Spotlights China’s Rights Crisis
The awarding of the European Parliament’s 2008 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to the jailed Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia underscores the urgent need for rights reforms in China, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch reiterated its long-standing call for the release of Hu, who was sentenced last April to three and half years in prison for “incitement to subvert state power,” a charge regularly levelled against critics and dissidents in China.
The European Parliament has described Hu Jia as a “leading symbol of China's human rights problems… He represents all the other Chinese and Tibetan citizens who are repressed: lawyers, journalists, petitioners, human rights activists, writers and cyber-dissidents.” The award ceremony is to take place in Strasbourg on December 17.
“Awarding the Sakharov Prize to Hu Jia on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights sends a powerful message to the Chinese government,” said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “Beijing pledged to improve human rights and to show the world a ‘harmonious society’ during the Olympics, but instead silenced and locked up peaceful rights defenders.”
The UK's ancient woodland is being lost at a rate faster than the Amazon
Ancient woodland in Britain is being felled at a rate even faster than the Amazon rainforest, according to new research today. It shows that almost half of all woods in the UK that are more than 400 years old have been lost in the past 80 years and more than 600 ancient woods are now threatened by new roads, electricity pylons, housing, and airport expansion.
The report from the Woodland Trust comes as the government prepares to sign a compulsory purchase order to buy several acres of Two Mile Wood outside Weymouth to build a bypass. This remnant of ancient forest, known for its association with Thomas Hardy, is one of Britain's finest bluebell woods and is full of old beech, oak and hornbeam trees.
"Ancient woodland, designated as over 400 years old in England, is the UK's equivalent of rainforest. It is irreplaceable," said Ed Pomfret, campaigns director of the trust. "It's our most valuable space for wildlife, and home to rare and threatened species. Once these woods have gone, they will never come back. They are historical treasure troves."
23 Oct 2008
Interpol Details Plans For Global Biometric Facial Scan Database
Global security authorities are to push for a huge biometric facial scan database of international travellers so they can cross-check everyone against a database of terror suspects, international criminals and fugitives.
Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, is planning to expand its role into the mass screening of passengers moving around the world by creating a face recognition database to catch wanted suspects, reports the London Guardian.
The database will hold the records of every citizen who has ever travelled in and out of the virtually every country in the world, representing intelligence agency style bulk interception of information and sounding alarm bells for civil liberties groups.
Two months ago we reported on the moves underway to phase out passport control officers at airports and replace them with biometric face scanning cameras. The automated face recognition gates match passengers to a digital image stored on a microchip in the new e-passports.
Interpol wants a facial database to be linked into this technology and used in conjunction with its already existing fingerprint and DNA databases, according to Mark Branchflower, head of Interpol's fingerprint unit.
Naomi Wolf and The End of America
Naomi Wolf (born 12 November, 1962) is an American author, political consultant, and public intellectual. With the publication of The Beauty Myth, she became a leading spokesperson of what was later described as the third-wave of the feminist movement (Wikipedia).
See also Critical Thinkers : Naomi Wolf Resources for a lot of information and links about her.
Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody.
They were not figuring these things out as they went along. If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective. It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps.
As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration.
See these steps at guardian.co.uk (April 24 2007)
Albright: 'Statement Of Fact' Terrorists Will Attack After Obama Wins
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who believes killing a half million Iraqi kids was worth it, seems to agree with Joe Biden and Colin Powell that something will happen within the first six months or so of an Obama administration.
See the video from CNN:
Albright, like Biden and Powell, is an insider minion, so she may know something is up. It is rather suspect that all these voices are saying basically the same thing: Obama will be “tested,” either by an al-CIA-duh attack, a war or confrontation in the Middle East — read, Iran — or Russia.
22 Oct 2008
French president Nicolas Sarkozy to sue over voodoo doll
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to sue a publishing company unless it withdraws a Sarkozy doll that comes with a "voodoo manual" instructing readers to plant pins in it.
The doll is emblazoned with some of Sarkozy's most famous quotes such as "Get lost you pathetic arsehole" - his words to a bystander who refused to shake his hand at a farm show last year.
Readers are encouraged to plant pins in the quotes.
"Nicolas Sarkozy has instructed me to remind you that, whatever his status and fame, he has exclusive and absolute rights over his own image," the president's lawyer, Thierry Herzog, wrote to publishers K&B in a letter published by newspaper Le Monde.
Hard Times Have Tent Cities Rising Across the USA
A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.
Then others appeared — people who had lost their jobs to the ailing economy, or newcomers who had moved to Reno for work and discovered no one was hiring.
Within weeks, more than 150 people were living in tents big and small, barely a foot apart in a patch of dirt slated to be a parking lot for a campus of shelters Reno is building for its homeless population. Like many other cities, Reno has found itself with a "tent city" — an encampment of people who had nowhere else to go.
From Seattle to Athens, Ga., homeless advocacy groups and city agencies are reporting the most visible rise in homeless encampments in a generation.
Nearly 61 percent of local and state homeless coalitions say they've experienced a rise in homelessness since the foreclosure crisis began in 2007, according to a report by the National Coalition for the Homeless. The group says the problem has worsened since the report's release in April, with foreclosures mounting, gas and food prices rising and the job market tightening.
21 Oct 2008
Chaos at Turkey coup plot trial
The trial of 86 people accused of conspiring to overthrow Turkey's government has been adjourned until October 23 after chaotic scenes at the first hearing.
Within minutes of opening on Monday, lawyers and defendants complained that they could not hear in the overcrowded courtroom at a prison complex in Silivri, near Istanbul.
Judge Koksal Sengun asked spectators to vacate the room and, following an adjournment, proceedings started again in the afternoon.
Those on trial include a retired general, the leader of a small leftist and nationalist party, a newspaper editor, a best-selling author and a former university dean.
They are accused of being part of a nationalist network called Ergenekon - which takes its name from a legendary valley in central Asia believed to be the ancestral homeland of Turks - or of plotting an armed uprising.
20 Oct 2008
RAF pilot says he was ordered to shoot down UFO over Norwich
RAF controllers told US pilot Milton Torres to “lock on” and launch all 24 of his rockets over the city.
But as he came within seconds of firing at the alien intruder — “the size of an aircraft carrier” on his radar — it vanished at 10,000mph.
The amazing close encounter is revealed in secret Ministry of Defence X-Files which are declassified today.
Milton said: “It was some kind of alien snooping over England. I guess we’ll never know what it was.”
The incident happened in 1957 when Milton was a 26-year-old US Air Force lieutenant based at RAF Manston in Kent.
Iran busts 'spy pigeons' near nuclear site
Security forces in Natanz have arrested two suspected "spy pigeons" near Iran's controversial uranium enrichment facility, the reformist Etemad Melli newspaper reported on Monday.
One of the pigeons was caught near a rose water production plant in the city of Kashan in Isfahan province, the report cited an unnamed informed source as saying, adding that some metal rings and invisible strings were attached to the bird.
This World War I vintage (1918) picture came off the Signal Corps wall around 1945 when Art Block was given the picture. It depicts cameras attached to birds before flying over enemy lines.
"Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings," the source was quoted as saying of the second pigeon.
The source gave no further description of the pigeons, neither their current status nor what their fate will be.
Natanz is home to Iran's heavily-bunkered underground uranium enrichment plant, which is not far from Kashan.
‘Government Sachs’
This summer, when the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., sought help navigating the Wall Street meltdown, he turned to his old firm, Goldman Sachs, snagging a handful of former bankers and other experts in corporate restructurings.
Robert Rubin, right, an ex-Goldman co-chairman and a Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, promoted Timothy F. Geithner at Treasury. Mr. Geithner now leads the New York Fed.
In September, after the government bailed out the American International Group, the faltering insurance giant, for $85 billion, Mr. Paulson helped select a director from Goldman’s own board to lead A.I.G.
And earlier this month, when Mr. Paulson needed someone to oversee the government’s proposed $700 billion bailout fund, he again recruited someone with a Goldman pedigree, giving the post to a 35-year-old former investment banker who, before coming to the Treasury Department, had little background in housing finance.
Indeed, Goldman’s presence in the department and around the federal response to the financial crisis is so ubiquitous that other bankers and competitors have given the star-studded firm a new nickname: Government Sachs.
much more on NYTimes.com
19 Oct 2008
The Fascist New World of Financial Order begins
The worlds elite businessmen, bankers and corrupted leaders are preparing to implement a long time goal, as European leaders call for an urgent overhaul of the world's financial architecture, and a Global currency.
The Washington Post reports, that leaders in Europe, including French President and current E.U. rotating President, Nicolas Sarkozy, have called for a "globally coordinated regulation of the financial industry", to "re-found the capitalist system".
In 1944, members from 44 allied nations convened at a resort in Bretten Woods, New Hampshire, U.S, and established the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and what we now know as the "Bretten Woods system" of international monetary management. They also formulated the idea of "lowering trade barriers and easing the movement of money across borders." This is also when the United States currency became the "reserve currency" for industrialized nations that signed on.
The U.S. Federal Reserve, a private bank which has the power to print money from nothing, and the central banking system, were also created as a "solution" to an economic crisis.
Sarkozy, who will meet with Bush in Washington on Saturday to lay the groundwork for a conference with the "Group of Eight" industrialized countries, believes the financial system, developed after World War II, needs to be revamped.
Ex-Beijing official gets death sentence
A former Beijing vice mayor in charge of overseeing Olympic construction projects has been given a death sentence for corruption, a court clerk and his lawyer said Sunday.
The Intermediate People's Court in Hengshui, a city outside Beijing, ordered the death sentence Saturday after finding Liu Zhihua guilty of taking bribes, said a court clerk who would only give his surname, Ma.
The government squelched all reporting on Liu's prosecution in the months leading up to the August Olympic Games to avoid tarnishing its image on the global stage.
Officials said Liu's misdeeds had nothing to do with Olympic projects, but his dismissal put a cloud over preparations for the games and prompted authorities to ratchet up anti-corruption efforts. CNN.com and The Case of Liu Zhihua
18 Oct 2008
A 'cheeky little devil' leads rights fight in Zimbabwe
Jenni Williams, Zimbabwe's hell-raising practitioner of nonviolent civil disobedience, was hauled from a Bulawayo jail cell during one of her 33 arrests for leading street protests against President Robert Mugabe's rule.
In a tiny office, she accused the baton-wielding police of assaulting her.
When the two officers in the room tauntingly told her she was a liar, she turned around, dropped her pants and showed them the bruises on her backside, recalled her lawyer, Perpetua Dube, who was watching.
"You can't bare your bottom to me!" one of the officers shouted, threatening to charge her with indecent exposure.
Williams - a spitfire rebel with an appreciation of the absurd - subsequently described herself in an e-mail to friends as sitting on the softest cushions she could find and "giggling in between wincing in pain."
Jenni Williams — women's rights activist, Zimbabwe New Internationalist, Jan-Feb, 2005, by Busani Bafana
17 Oct 2008
John McCain calls JFK’s assassination an “intervention”
From the final presidential debate of the campaign. Terrifying during the debate was the moment when John McCain was comparing himself and Obama to Goldwater and Jack Kennedy when he described JFK’s assassination as something like this: “the intervention…” (eyes open wide, eyebrows high, grabs nose) “…err tragedy in Dallas…”
Top Wall Street bankers to receive $70bn pay deals
Financial workers at Wall Street's top banks are to receive pay deals worth more than $70bn (£40.4bn), a substantial proportion of which is expected to be paid in bonuses, for their work so far this year - despite plunging the global financial system into its worst crisis since the 1929 stock market crash, the Guardian has learned.
Staff at six banks including Goldman Sachs and Citigroup will pick up the payouts despite being the beneficiaries of a $700bn bail-out from the US government that has already prompted widespread criticism. The government cash has been poured in on the condition that excessive executive pay will be curbed.
Pay plans for bankers have been disclosed in recent corporate statements. Pressure on the US firms to review preparations for annual bonuses increased today when Germany's Deutsche Bank said many of its leading traders would join chief executive Josef Ackermann in waiving millions of euro in annual payouts.
The Van Duyn Bloodline
It has been theorized by others that at the top of the Illuminati are unknown superiors, so this should not scare anyone that I don’t have all the details, and that the family is unknown. On the other hand it is very hard to hide people who wield immense power. So far, I have dealt with families that were definitely within the top 13 Illuminati families. If the Van Duyn family is part of the top 13, it may represent the ‘Dutch-Flemish-Belgium segment of the Illuminati, just as the Astors & Rothschild's came from Germany, the Dupont's from France, the Li’s from China, and the Kennedy’s from Ireland. Actually, the entire 13 top families are related in various ways and their heritages go back to the ancient nobility of Europe, to the tribe of Dan, and to the Khazars. Many of these top families feel they are descendents of the House of David. One researcher has even told me that the royal house of Japan is blood relation to the thirteenth top Illuminati family. (Truth is often stranger than fiction, but this sounds truly incredible.)
The Van Duyn Bloodline – More by Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler
Gazan Fishermen Used As Target Practice By The Israeli Navy
Since the end of August, fishermen from Gaza - frequent targets of the Israeli navy - have been accompanied out to sea by members of the NGO International Solidarity Movement. On 5 October, the pro-Palestinian activists filmed the boats getting fired at with machine guns and water cannons. More about this here..
Calls For New Global Financial Order Increase
Calls for a new financial world order have increased with EU leaders poised to meet US officials this weekend to demand a "Bretton Woods II" reform of global institutions.
EU leaders have agreed to back British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's call to use the financial crisis as an opportunity to swiftly overhaul and radically enhance the regulatory power of global institutions.
The Prime Minister wants dozens of world leaders to meet for a major one-off summit where they would rewrite the rules of international finance encompassing "very large and very radical changes".
The original Bretton Woods agreement in 1944, spurred by the depression of the 1930s and the second world war, created the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and laid down common standards for markets around the world. Now with the current financial crisis EU leaders see another opportunity to enhance global regulations on sovereign economies.
Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, backed Brown's call, saying it was time to "rethink the world's financial system and prevent any repetition" of the current crisis.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy made his own call for a "new Bretton Woods" earlier this month, arguing that the time has come to replace the "Anglo-Saxon" model of "unrestrained markets".
Officials in Brussels indicated last night that a "Bretton Woods II" summit could take place in New York as early as next month, reports the Financial Times.
In addition, Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack has also called for a new global body to oversee the financial crisis, warning that it is like nothing he's ever seen before.