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Captured By The Debt Spider

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2009

Ellen Brown

Introduction from The Web of Debt

President Andrew Jackson called the banking cartel a “hydra-headed monster eating the flesh of the common man.” New York Mayor John Hylan, writing in the 1920s, called it a “giant octopus” that “seizes in its long and powerful tentacles our executive officers, our legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection.” The debt spider has devoured farms, homes and whole countries that have become trapped in its web. In a February 2005 article called “The Death of Banking,” financial commentator Hans Schicht wrote:

The fact that the Banker is allowed to extend credit several times his own capital base and that the Banking Cartels, the Central Banks, are licensed to issue fresh paper money in exchange for treasury paper, [has] provided them with free lunch for eternity. . . . Through a network of anonymous financial spider webbing only a handful of global King Bankers own and control it all. . . . Everybody, people, enterprise, State and foreign countries, all have become slaves chained to the Banker’s credit ropes.1

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Public health implications of wireless technologies

Posted by seumasach on March 23, 2009

Cindy Sage and David O. Carpenter

Science Direct

Click on above link to view entire study

Abstract

Global exposures to emerging wireless technologies from applications including mobile phones, cordless phones, DECT phones, WI-FI, WLAN, WiMAX, wireless internet, baby monitors, and others may present serious public health consequences. Evidence supporting a public health risk is documented in the BioInitiative Report. New, biologically based public exposure standards for chronic exposure to low-intensity exposures are warranted. Existing safety standards are obsolete because they are based solely on thermal effects from acute exposures. The rapidly expanding development of new wireless technologies and the long latency for the development of such serious diseases as brain cancers means that failure to take immediate action to reduce risks may result in an epidemic of potentially fatal diseases in the future. Regardless of whether or not the associations are causal, the strengths of the associations are sufficiently strong that in the opinion of the authors, taking action to reduce exposures is imperative, especially for the fetus and children. Such action is fully compatible with the precautionary principle, as enunciated by the Rio Declaration, the European Constitution Principle on Health (Section 3.1) and the European Union Treaties Article 174.

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Preparing for Civil Unrest in America-Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

 

Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research

18th March, 2009

The Economic and Social Crisis

The financial meltdown has unleashed a latent and emergent social crisis across the United States. 

What is at stake is the fraudulent confiscation of lifelong savings and pension funds, the appropriation of tax revenues to finance the trillion dollar “bank bailouts”, which ultimately serve to line the pockets of the richest people in America.   

This economic crisis is in large part the result of financial manipulation and outright fraud to the detriment of entire populations, leading to a renewed wave of corporate bankruptcies, mass unemployment and poverty. 

The criminalization of the global financial system, characterized by a “Shadow Banking” network has resulted in the centralization of bank power and an unprecedented concentration of private wealth. 

Obama’s “economic stimulus” package and budget proposals contribute to a further process of concentration and centralization of bank power, the cumulative effects of which will eventually resul in large scale corporate, bankruptcies, a new wave of foreclosures not to mention fiscal collapse and the downfall of State social programs. (For further details see Michel Chossudovsky, America’s Fiscal Collapse, Global Research, March 2, 2009). 

The cumulative decline of real economic activity backlashes on employment and wages, which in turn leads to a collapse in purchaisng power. The proposed “solution” under the Obama administration contributes to exacerbating rather than alleviating social inequalities and the process of wealth concentration.

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Brain cancer linked to youngsters using cellphones

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

Montreal Gazette

16th March, 2009

OTTAWA — An international group of scientists is calling on Canada and other countries to bring in tougher safety standards for cellphone use after a Swedish team found a fivefold elevated risk of malignant brain tumours in children who begin using mobile phones before the age of 20.

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NATO attack on Serbia: 1999- 2009 ” there is no humanitarian war “

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

Zivadin Jovanovic, last minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia, interviewed in Belgrade by Vanessa Stojilkovic & Zoran Jevric for InvestigAction http://www.michelcollon.info

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The Big Takeover

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

This incomparable article tells us pretty well exactly what this crisis is about; not just money, not just fraud, but the direct seizure of power by a financier clique. Unhappily for them they are now emerging into the light of day away from the dark recesses of power in which they thrived and pulled the strings behind the scenes. Oligarchy is having to seize the direct reins of power and formally ratify itself- just look at the composition of the Obama administration. Such a development, however, will prove fatal and can only hasten their end.

The global economic crisis isn’t about money – it’s about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution

Matt Taibbi

Rolling Stone

19th March, 2009

It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. It happened when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was forced to admit that he was once again going to have to stuff billions of taxpayer dollars into a dying insurance giant called AIG, itself a profound symbol of our national decline — a corporation that got rich insuring the concrete and steel of American industry in the country’s heyday, only to destroy itself chasing phantom fortunes at the Wall Street card tables, like a dissolute nobleman gambling away the family estate in the waning days of the British Empire.

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Justice Secretary Jack Straw to be Accused on Torture in Parliamentary Inquiry

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

Craig Murray’s Blog

19th March, 2009

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has agreed to hear my evidence on torture on Tuesday 28 April at 1.45pm. Many thanks to everyone who helped lobby for this.

I am delighted, as I have been trying for over four years to lay the truth about British torture policy before Parliament. I will testify that as British Ambassador I was told there is a very definite policy to accept intelligence from torture abroad, and that the policy was instituted and approved by Jack Straw when Foreign Secretary. I will tell them that as Ambassador I protested formally three times in writing to Jack Straw, and that the Foreign Office told me in reply to my protests that this was perfectly legal.

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The Malthusian question

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

Malthus’s arguments were part of the inspiration for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, and they have validity in the natural world. On the savannah, in the rainforests, and across the tundra, animal populations explode when times are good, and crash when food reserves are exhausted. Is homo sapiens an exception?

A typical piece of feebled- minded insinuation and mendacity from the conscience of the British nation. No one disputes that population falls when there is insufficient food to maintain it. What Malthus argued is that rising population automatically, necessarily leads to food shortage and can only be overcome by decreasing population. Are we going to starve because there are 6 billion of us  or because of soil depletion, bio-fuels production, ruination of farmers, land left uncultivated, massive empty latifundia and disappearance of pollinators? With this shit hitting the editorials of the  liberal press there can be no doubt that the war on humanity has begun in earnest.

See also;

Influence of Malthus and Darwin on the European Elite

Guardian

21st March, 2009

Spring, the season of fertility, began yesterday, yet it is warnings of scarcity that are notably abundant. John Beddington, the government’s chief scientific adviser, warned this week of a “perfect storm”, with food, water and energy all dangerously depleted by 2030, thanks topopulation growth and rising prosperity. Next week the Optimum Population Trust will hold a conference at the Royal Statistical Society, arguing that the planet has room for 5 billion people at the most, and that the United Kingdom should be home to no more than about 18 million.

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40,000 people affected by brain tumours are missing from the UK’s official statistics each year.

Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2009

 

This should come as no surprise given the known link between mobile phone use and brain tumours.

Community News Wire

18th March, 2009

A national charity has today released figures that show more than 40,000 people affected by brain tumours are missing from the UK’s official statistics each year.

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Phone masts: : a new judgement and a ministerial crisis in France

Posted by seumasach on March 21, 2009

 

 

Relay antennas: a new judgement and a 

ministerial crisis in France  

Next-up 

19th March, 2009

 

 

 

In the face of widespread protest and numerous lawsuits there 

is now a ministerial crisis in the country.  

Apparently in the last few days the unconfirmed number of 135 

lawsuits have been launched! In an effort to clarify the 

situation, Next-up Organisation is putting out a countrywide 

appeal in order to find out the exact number of lawsuits in 

progress or about to be introduced.  

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Wall Street’s and the City’s Attempt to Destabilize the EU Banking System and the Euro

Posted by seumasach on March 18, 2009

Growing Transatlantic Tensions on the Eve of the G20 Summit
17th March, 2009

According to LEAP/E2020, there are only two options left for the G20 leaders who gather next April 2nd in London: either they rebuild a new international monetary system, creating the conditions for a new global system that involves all the main global players, and reducing the crisis to a maximum of 3 to 5 years; or they strive to prolong the current system, thrusting the world into a decade long tragic crisis starting at the end of 2009.

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