Illuminati Hand Signals

And now we have Obama who is doing the sign.

The socialization of America -- and the zombification of American business -- has begun under the Bush Regime. And it will continue under the Obama Regime.
Be prepared for the price tag.
The move to bail out the nation's banks and brokerage firms will soon expand to include a bailout of insurance firms, like AIG, and certain heavy industry firms and probably the auto makers like GM.
Why? Because the Bush-Cheney Regime was compelled to do so to prevent economic collapse.
The incoming Obama-Biden Regime will continue to expand this program because it is politically popular with the Democratic Left.  More Here.

Norway Students Vote to Restrict Coca-Cola

Students at the University of Oslo have voted overwhelmingly to restrict the dominant presence of Coca-Cola products on campus, and introduce ethical alternatives to Coca-Cola on campus.

In a resolution passed yesterday at the University of Oslo Welfare Council (Velferdstinget I Oslo), the student body will now seek to restrict significantly the size of Coca-Cola’s contract, offer alternative beverages that are ethical and fair trade as well as adopt more stringent criteria for ensuring that companies that do business with the University of Oslo have strong environmental and ethical records. The student body will also inform Coca-Cola of their decision to restrict Coca-Cola, citing the company’s practices in India.  RINF.COM (image from deviantART)

Free the Atenco 13!

"As economies crumble around the globe, states are becoming increasingly repressive, especially against those who are its political opponents and resisters. This isn't a regional observation, but a global one. That tendency is seen in the prosecution and unjust sentencing of men and women from Atenco, Mexico."

 

For more, visit the Atenco 13 website. Watch the video about The Atenco 13, "Romper el Cerco" (Breaking the Siege), viewable in parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Also watch Manu Chao's visit to Atenco. 

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G-20: Shaping a new world order

The role of the United States as the world's economic leader will be tested this weekend when 20 significant world leaders meet in Washington to address the global financial crisis.

Some European leaders are hailing the summit as the next Bretton Woods - a reference to the historic talks in the latter days of WWII that, in effect, made the dollar the world's dominant currency and laid the foundation for the economic order of the past 60 years.  CNN Money

G20 To Begin Implementation Of Global Financial Dictatorship

Sarkozy calls for end to dollar’s world reserve status as powerbrokers meet to finalize building blocks of new world economic order.

“I am leaving tomorrow for Washington to explain that the dollar cannot claim to be the only currency in the world…, that what was true in 1945 can no longer be true today,” Sarkozy stated yesterday.

Economy Minister Christine Lagarde echoed the call and suggested that the Euro could replace the dollar, but that the changeover would have to be gradual so as to reduce volatility. prisonplanet.com

Hoax NY Times newspaper declares end of Iraq war

A group of pranksters handed out more than 1.2 million fake New York Times newspapers mainly in New York City and Los Angeles on Wednesday with a front page story declaring "Iraq War Ends."

The elaborate 14-page edition, dated July 4, 2009, is said to be the work of a group called the Yes Men, whose previous hoaxes include masquerading as World Trade Organization officials announcing they were disbanding the body.

"It is fake and we are looking into it," said New York Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis.

A statement sent from a Web site set up for the fake edition, www.nytimes-se.com, said creating the newspaper took six months and that it was printed at six different presses and then given to thousands of volunteers to distribute.

"We've got to make sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do," Bertha Suttner, identified as one of the newspaper's writers, said in the statement. "After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start imagining heaven."

Reuters and www.nytimes-se.com

Obama aide in 'anti-Arab' row

Rahm Emanuel, US president-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, has apologised to an Arab-American group for comments made by his father that disparaged Arabs.

Benjamin Emanuel was reported as telling an Israeli newspaper about his son last week: "Obviously, he will influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he?

"What is he, an Arab? He's not going to clean the floors of the White House."

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee had sent a letter to Emanuel calling on him to distance himself from his father's remarks.  Al Jazeera

At U.N., Bush Says Faith Leads to 'Common Values'

Employing unusually vivid religious imagery for the secular United Nations, President Bush on Thursday praised the "transformative and uplifting power of faith" and said religious belief "leads us to common values."

Addressing a two-day interfaith conference that has prompted mixed reactions from other leaders, Bush said religious belief "changed my life" and "sustained me through the challenges and joys of my presidency." He also suggested faith can transform relations between nations and cultures.

"One of my core beliefs is that there is an almighty God, and that every man, woman and child on the face of this Earth bears his image," Bush said. ". . . I know many of the leaders gathered in this assembly have been influenced by faith as well. We may profess different creeds and worship in different places, but our faith leads us to common values."  Washingtonpost.com (image is from Phawker)

India Terror Arrests Shock Nation Ahead of Elections

Having suffered a dozen lethal terror attacks this year, Indians have almost stopped reacting to terror incidents with shock and horror. But recent news of the arrest of 10 people linked with two relatively small terror attacks earlier this year has created a national furor, and is likely to skew political parties' calculations ahead of next year's general elections.

The arrests by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Maharashtra police have shocked India for two reasons. The nine accused are all Hindu right-wingers, confirming, for the first time, suspicions raised by political and security analysts that the Hindu extremist fringe has been organizing for terror attacks. Second, among the accused are a serving lieutenant colonel and a retired major of the army, an institution so far considered impervious to communal elements. (Click here to read about recent bomb blasts in North East India.)

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The Cloud Mystery

This is a short preview from the documentary "The Cloud Mystery". It is a fascinating look into what determines the climate on earth! - there is also more info on www.thecloudmystery.com

US court allows use of navy sonar

The US supreme court has ruled the US navy can conduct sonar training exercises off southern California without restrictions, in a blow to environmentalists.

The court on Wednesday threw out a federal judge's injunction requiring the navy to take precautions during submarine-hunting exercises in order to prevent injury to whales and other marine mammals.

John Roberts, the court's chief justice, said that public interest favoured a well-equipped US navy and that an inadequately trained submarine force "jeopardises the safety of the fleet".

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and other environmental groups had successfully sued the navy in federal courts earlier this year on grounds of possible damage and injury to the region's dolphins, whales and sea lions, along with more than 30 other species of marine mammals in the area.  Al Jazeera

Obama administration to ratchet up hunt for bin Laden

President-elect Barack Obama wants to renew the U.S. commitment to finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, according to his national security advisers.

The Obama team believes the Bush administration has downplayed the importance of catching the FBI's most-wanted terrorist because it has not been able to find him.

"We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority," Obama said during the presidential debate on October 7.

But tracking down bin Laden won't be easy.

Osama bin Laden in the 2004 video (l) and the 2007 video (r) (AFP)

Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer, told CNN he's talked to "a dozen CIA guys who've been on the hunt for him, and half of them told me they assumed he was dead, the other half said they assumed he was alive, but the key word here is assume. They don't know."  CNN.com

Mystery of lost US Nuclear Bomb

The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found.

On 21 January 1968, one of the missions went wrong.

The high explosives surrounding the four nuclear weapons had detonated but without setting off the actual nuclear devices, which had not been armed by the crew. The Pentagon maintained that all four weapons had been "destroyed".

The documents make clear that within weeks of the incident, investigators piecing together the fragments realised that only three of the weapons could be accounted for. By April, a decision had been taken to send a Star III submarine to the base to look for the lost bomb, which had the serial number 78252.

But the real purpose of this search was deliberately hidden from Danish officials. One document from July reads: "Fact that this operation includes search for object or missing weapon part is to be treated as confidential NOFORN", the last word meaning not to be disclosed to any foreign country.

"It would be very difficult for anyone else to recover classified pieces if we couldn't find them." The view was that no-one else would be able covertly to acquire the sensitive pieces and that the radioactive material would dissolve in such a large body of water, making it harmless.

Other officials who have seen classified files on the accident confirmed the abandonment of a weapon.

BBC NEWS

Centuries of British freedoms being ‘broken’ by security state

In a wide-ranging speech the British outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald appeared to condemn a series of key Government policies, attacking terrorism proposals - including 42 day detention - identity card plans and the “paraphernalia of paranoia”.

Instead, he said, the Government should insist that “our rights are priceless” and that: “The best way to face down those threats is to strengthen our institutions rather than to degrade them.”

The intervention will be seen as a significant setback to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith who last week saw her plans to lock up terror suspects for 42 days before being charged thrown out by the House of Lords.

It is also a blow to Miss Smith’s plans for a super-database to record the details of millions of people’s online presence, including emails, SMS messages and Facebook profiles as well as the controversial identity card programme.

Sir Ken chose to issue his tough warning about the perils of the “Big Brother” state in his final speech as DPP, days before he leaves his post at the end of this month.

He warned that MPs should “take very great care to imagine the world we are creating before we build it. We might end up living with something we can’t bear”.

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Mormon Church Conducting Posthumous Baptism of Jews Killed in Nazi Concentration Camps

Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.

Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to their massive genealogical database to make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy, a rite that has been a common Mormon practice for more than a century.

But Ernest Michel, honorary chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, said that is not enough. At a news conference in New York City on Monday, he said the church also must "implement a mechanism to undo what you have done."

"Baptism of a Jewish Holocaust victim and then merely removing that name from the database is just not acceptable," said Michel, whose parents died at Auschwitz. He spoke on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews.  FOXNews.com

Burmese blogger jailed for 20 years

A prominent blogger in Burma has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison after a court found him guilty of creating public alarm and possessing a banned video.

Nay Phone Latt, who was arrested following massive anti-government protests last year, is to serve his sentence in Yangon's Insein prison (pictured above), an opposition spokesman said on Tuesday.

He was sentenced on Monday along with with Saw Wai, a poet who was accused of penning a secret anti-government message in one of his works.

He was not represented by his lawyer during his trial, Aye Than, his mother, said.

"My son is a computer expert and he has not violated any criminal law ... it is very unfair," she said, adding that she was not allowed to attend the trial.

His lawyer began serving a four-month prison sentence for contempt of court last Friday.  Al Jazeera

Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries

The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials. These military raids, typically carried out by Special Operations forces, were authorized by a classified order that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed in the spring of 2004 with the approval of President Bush, the officials said. The secret order gave the military new authority to attack the Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world, and a more sweeping mandate to conduct operations in countries not at war with the United States.
Some of the military missions have been conducted in close coordination with the C.I.A., according to senior American officials, who said that in others, like the Special Operations raid in Syria on Oct. 26 of this year, the military commandos acted in support of C.I.A.-directed operations.  NYTimes.com

Police Arrest Man For Wearing McCain T-Shirt While Obama Supporters Applaud

 

At 3 minutes and 20 seconds in you can see a man on a public street, full with Obama celebrators, wearing a McCain t-shirt whom the police want to arrest for doing so. Although McCain represents the continuation of more corrupt wars the man still has the right to wear a McCain t-shit and to walk around streets the same as everybody else. After the man informs the police that in a free country free speech is a right and how it’s protected by the U.S. Constitution the police shove him then arrest him, handcuffing and driving away with him in their police car. Another frightening aspect of the video are the crowds, whom in a cult like frenzy of chanting become ecstatic when the man is arrested and start clapping and cheering.

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Chinese activists tell UN of state torture

Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a coalition of lawyers, academics and activists from round the country, has grown in the shadows of state suppression in the last two years.

Its survival is a token of the courage of its members, who have been harassed, imprisoned and beaten as they taken up difficult cases and attempt to promote legal reform.

"Twenty years after China ratified the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 1988, all are routinely practiced by government personnel," said the submission. It was just one of a number being put before a two-day hearing by the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva.

The human rights group said: "Except for some progress in the promulgation of legislation and administrative documents, China has made no clear and discernible improvement in prohibiting the use of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment."

It went on to give detailed case studies of abuses including beatings, forced labour, detention in psychiatric hospitals and forced abortions.

Among the causes taken up by lawyers and others who are associated with the group are those of petitioners complaining to the government about forced eviction from their homes and land to make way for development.

Many of these have been detained in so-called "black jails" - hostels used as illegal detention centres in Beijing for those who stage anti-government protests, while officials and police from their homes provinces arrive to return them home. Telegraph

UK's Brown: Now is the time to build global society

The international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity to create a truly global society, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown will say in a keynote foreign policy speech on Monday.

In his annual speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, Brown -- who has spearheaded calls for the reform of international financial institutions -- will say Britain, the United States and Europe are key to forging a new world order.

"The alliance between Britain and the U.S. -- and more broadly between Europe and the U.S. -- can and must provide leadership, not in order to make the rules ourselves, but to lead the global effort to build a stronger and more just international order," an excerpt from the speech says.

"...And if we learn from our experience of turning unity of purpose into unity of action, we can together seize this moment of change in our world to create a truly global society."  Reuters

Fight in Jerusalem's holiest church

Fighting erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Christ's crucifixion.

Two monks from each side were detained as dozens of worshippers traded kicks and punches at the shrine, said police. Trouble flared as Armenians prepared to mark the annual Feast of the Cross.

 

Shocked pilgrims looked on as decorations and tapestries were toppled during Sunday's clash. Dressed in the vestments of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian denominations, rival monks threw punches and anything they could lay their hands on.

The Greeks blamed the Armenians for not recognising their rights inside the holy site, while the Armenians said the Greeks had violated one of their traditional ceremonies.

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Obama Kids: Sing for Change (Pyongyang Remix)

Ancient Structures on the Moon

When it comes to Apollo missions, rumours have abounded for years about what the astronauts are reported to have witnessed. In Timothy Good's Above Top Secret, it is reported that former NASA Chief of Communications Systems Maurice Chatelain says that Neil Armstrong viewed two UFOs resting on the rim of a crater. "The encounter was common knowledge in NASA, but nobody has talked about it until now," Chatelain stated. Soviet scientists confirmed the incident. Dr. Vladmimir Azahzha, a physicist and mathe-matics professor, has stated, "Neil Armstrong relayed the message to Mission Control that two large mysterious objects were watching them after having landed near the moon module. But his message was never heard by the public - because NASA censored it."  United Eufope Society

More on The Unknown Moon and in the RUSSIAN MAINSTREAM MEDIA and much more on Biblioteca Pleyades

Is there an "Alien Base" on the Moon? More and more people are coming forward with stories that might prove this is true. Rumours say that there is an Alien Moon Base on the far side of the moon, the side we never see from Earth. More here.

The Soviet Union used to own some photo materials proving the presence of such activity on the Moon. And, although it wasn’t identified what kind of activity it was, thousands of photo- and video materials from the Apollo's and the Clementine space station showed many parts on the lunar surface where this activity and its traces were perfectly evident. Pravda.ru

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