US Politics

It’s fishy as hell.



Paul Sanford, a prominent Aptos, California, attorney, who accused Karl Rove (Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, wikipedia here) of treason in the Plame outing case (more here), took a leap from the Embassy Suites Hotel in Monterey Bay on Christmas Eve. Police describe it as “probable” suicide, even though it appears Sanford was not depressed.



“Friends and associates expressed disbelief at the news of Sanford’s death and that it was ruled a suicide, saying Sanford seemed happy and had made many plans for this week and in coming months. Business associate and friend Shawn Mills said he and Sanford recently decided to open a shared law office to serve Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, something Sanford was looking forward to doing,” reports the Monterey Herald. “Mills said he had spoken to Sanford’s wife, Paula, and that she also was in shock. He said Sanford, a father of two, was a devoted family man.” Sanford “would never have intentionally put his family through that trauma. Something’s not right, it doesn’t make sense.” More here

Crossing Climate Thresholds

A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major" reason for the event.
The Ayles Ice Shelf — 41 square miles of it — broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic.


"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years," Vincent said. "We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead."

More on CBS

Desert Rock Stand

The Navajo people involved in this protest have produced a short video explaining their position. Please take a few minutes to view this video.






On December 12th, 2006 community members in Burnham, New Mexico established a blockade to prevent preliminary work for the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant. More info: www.desert-rock-blog.com

In Jesus name....

One of least disgusting clips on LiveLeak.com

Woman crushed by leaping dolphin

A NEW Zealand woman is in critical condition in hospital after being crushed by a dolphin that leapt on to her boat, media reported today.



The 27-year-old woman had been watching from the bow of the small boat cruising among the marine mammals off the North Island's Coromandel Peninsula on Tuesday when the bottlenose dolphin landed on her, the New Zealand Herald said. She suffered serious head injuries and was flown to hospital in Auckland. The dolphin also smashed the boat's windscreen and bow rails before jumping back into the ocean, witnesses told the Herald.


Coast guard official Steve Taylor said the dolphin probably got over-excited and jumped on to the boat, although he had never heard of such an incident before. (source)


The USA is turning these animals in soldiers anyway: "Two bottlenose dolphins deployed from the transport ship Ponce are among an unspecified number of the marine mammals sent from San Diego by the Navy to the region this week to safeguard allied vessels from mines and other dangers, the Navy said.


They may soon be joined by California sea lions trained to locate and snare enemy divers who are then reeled in by U.S. forces. A "platoon" of sea lions has been in Bahrain for two months and could see action soon, a Navy spokesman said." (source)

Who killed the (man who made the) water-powered car?

This video is regarding an inventor named Stanley Meyers who died in 1998 of a mysterious case of food poisoning (most likely a murder). He claims he was offered 1 billion by the Arabs to just sit on the technology, to which he refused; so a planned murder of this man would seem likely. These technologies are the biggest threat there is to the Petrochemical industry and as a result are all suppressed. There have been many people to come forth with these types of inventions. To my knowledge either the inventor is bought out or mysteriously dies without exception. See Equinox - it runs on water


Water Car Inventor Murdered - Google Video


Notice of Death of Stanley Meyer

Ford is Dead

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The Real President of the USA

In this part of a TV documentary, Dick Cheney is exposed as what he really is: A liar - and the man who is REALLY in charge of running the USA.












While the American news media finally discovered that Dick Cheney might not be the nicest person in the world, we would like to remind you that we have been warning people about this man since earlier. Cheney and his PNAC warriors have taken control of US foreign policy, intelligence services and military so that they can proceed with their agenda. His fingerprints are all over the events of 9/11 and the motive for this was so nicely stated by his organization when they described how a “new Pearl Harbor” would the only way anyone would support such an agenda. (http://cheney.tvnewslies.org)




See Wikipedia for some background

Buddha Boy

Buddha Boy sat under a tree for more than six months. His followers say he has been meditating without food or water and is immune to fire and snake bites.
But nine months ago he suddenly was gone. Now he has reappeared.

Read more at BBC


There are always unfaithfull cynics... read this: "holy or hoax"

Fox hunt

More than 200 hunts are due to meet in the UK - nearly two years after hunting with hounds was outlawed in England and Wales, Countryside groups say.
Under the ban, dogs can still be used to follow a scent - and foxes can be killed by a bird of prey or shot.
More



"I am just about to go out with dozens of other families to watch and cheer on the local hunt as they meet this morning"

Anthony Jeffrey, UK




More about this cruel tradition on all-creatures.org

Girl's fingers cut off for plucking spinach

New Delhi: A hungry 10-year-old girl from India's lowest Hindu caste had all the fingers of her right hand chopped off by an upper-caste landowner for taking a few spinach leaves from his field, the Hindustan Times reported yesterday.


The attack took place in a village in Bhagalpur district last week in impoverished Bihar state in the east where caste prejudice against Dalits - formerly called "untouchables" - is widespread and sometimes results in violence against them. Police in Bhagalpur said they would soon arrest the upper-caste landowner who used a sickle to wound the girl whose name was given as "Khushboo". More here



More about Dalits (or untouchables) here or at Wikipedia.

Wishes

Judge gives ExxonMobil a break on Valdez pay out

The San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said in its ruling that it sliced the penalty almost in half.




The punitive damage ruling -- originally $5 billion in 1994 -- has been the subject of a decade-long legal battle between the oil giant and 32,000 fishermen, Alaska natives and property owners who were awarded the damages for the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. REUTERS




Also see this very interesting site about how ExxonMobil funds the climate change sceptiks: http://www.exxonsecrets.org

The US War On Toddlerism

A very good piece by Steve Watson on http://infowars.net:


"Nothing emphasizes the decline of America into an authoritarian police state more than the treatment of children as possible enemies, deviants or criminals. A few cases, involving very young children, have caught our attention this month that indicate in the current climate any sniff of power is corrupting absolutely those who believe they have it."



Read it, it is unbelievable, he's got a whole list of arrested toddlers...




"Meanwhile, schools like Lee Middle School in Wyoming, Michigan conduct drills where police officers burst in and point guns at children's heads, all without informing the students or the school beforehand. "Some parents," the AP reported, "were upset."

Dead of another Dictator

His Excellency Saparmurat Niyazov "Turkmenbashi", President of Turkmenistan, Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers" and "Leader of all Ethnic Turkmens" is dead.



“At about 1:10 a.m., Saparmurat Niyazov’s heart stopped beating. President of Turkmenistan died at the age of 67”, says the official report broadcast via all media. According to non-official sources, “the cause of the death could be the diabetes”.



Security Council of Turkmenistan has already convened plenary sitting. The key issues of the discussion were the country’s stability and maintenance of discipline. More here




See this on the HuffingtonPost: "Death of a Dictator"





See http://www.turkmenbashi.org/ and more on this Turkmenbashi page or Wikipedia

The Battle to Save the Internet in the US

www.savetheinternet.com

Bayer and Aids

Got to take an Asprine... Don't know when this aired... But hey, they got to make a profit...

At least 80 die when Migrant boat capsizes

A fishing boat crowded with more than 100 African migrants capsized at least twice while sailing to Spain's Canary Islands, spilling passengers and leaving scores dead as survivors drifted for about 10 days without food or water, officials said Monday.



Thousands of illegal migrants have reached the Canary Islands this year -- many leaving from coastal African countries such as Senegal and Mauritania. Hundreds have died this year in their attempts to navigate rough seas in their open, outboard-powered craft. More here




According to the following press review at leat 5.742 people have died since 1988 along the european frontiers. Among them 1.844 were missing in the sea
In the Mediterranean sea, and through the Atlantic Ocean towards Spain, 4.560 migrants died. In the Sicily channel 1.883 people died along the routes from Libya and Tunisia to Malta and Italy, including 1.099 missing; 1.615 people died sailing from Mauritania, Morocco and Algeria towards Spain, through the Gibraltar strait or off Canary islands, including 358 missing. Then 449 people died in the Egean sea, between Turkey and Greece, including 208 missing and 474 people died in the Adriatic sea, between Albania, Montenegro and Italy, including 136 missing. More at Fortress Europe

"I want that Camera"

Freedom of Press in the US.
The filmmaker, Flux Rostrum, was filming the interaction between protestors and police outside the Mexican Consulate in late October at a demonstration protesting the murder of journalist Brad Will, who was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers' strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. His murderers are believed to be local officials.








Flux was not arrested, nor did he receive a receipt for seized property. Without any warning, he was jumped by two police officers, one of whom is an NYPD captain, and knocked down onto the asphalt of 39th Street. A police officer then snatched the camera out of Flux's hands. As Flux attempted to protect himself and his equipment from being trampled and beaten, the cop with the camera conferred with another officer and scurried back into the building to hide the camera.

Whole story here.

Oklahoma City Secrets

A video that shows Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh at a U.S. military base that specializes in explosives and demolition training over a year after he supposedly left the army puts the official story of the April 19 1995 federal building bombing under serious doubt and mandates a re-opening of an investigation into the terror attack that killed 168 people.




The video was released by Bill Bean, a film producer who has suffered intense surveillance and harassment since taking the footage, and is the subject of a February 2007 Hustler Magazine feature story. More of this on Black Listed News



Various other analysts have suggested that the government was involved in a conspiracy behind the bombing, or that the government even planned the attack in order to justify persecuting right-wing organizations in a manner similar to Nazi prosecution of legislators after the Reichstag fire. Soon after the bombing an analysis by Brigadier General Benton K. Partin (Ret.) concluded that "the damage at the Murrah Federal Building is not the result of the truck bomb itself, but rather due to other factors such as locally placed charges within the building itself". Partin's report, released in the weeks following the bombing, was based on assumptions the bomb was fueled with diesel fuel, but did not account for the greater explosive strength of nitromethane in an improvised explosive device. See Wikipedia for background







McVeigh is seen at 0:45 into the clip

Israel vs Palestine

The U.S. gives $15,139,178 per day to the Israeli government and military and $232,290 per day to Palestinian NGO’s.



More of these comparissons here

Holiday Greetings

Russian Car

This Russian car came to Insurance Company. All sorts of insurance - that’s what is written on the sign.
From this lovely website, http://englishrussia.com

John the Revelator

Ukranian Famine now Genocide

BERLIN, March. 29th , 1933- Russia today is in the grip of a famine which is proving as disastrous as the catastrophe of 1921 when millions died, reported Gareth Jones, Foreign Affairs secretary to former Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain, who arrived in Berlin this morning en route to London after a long walking tour through the Ukraine and other districts in the Soviet Union.
More reports by Gareth Jones here.
More about Gareth Jones here

More about BLACK FAMINE IN UKRAINE here

Ukrainian parliament recognizes Soviet-era famine as genocide