Global Political Awakening

Anonymous continues the work of LulzSec, proving they actually didn't disband

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:37:00 PDT

M. Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

Regardless of what you think about the illegal immigration laws in Arizona, you must take notice of the fact that the group known as Lulz Security or LulzSec has targeted the state more heavily than any previous target. You might also notice that even though LulzSec allegedly disbanded several days ago, their attacks on government cyber-infrastructure has continued unabated.

Sure, now they are operating under the banner of Anonymous (the same group that they emerged out of), but their activities have not changed a bit. They have continued their "Operation Anti-Sec" unabated, despite the clear warnings that these attacks will be used to justify a draconian crackdown on the Internet freedoms we have all grown to enjoy.

You wouldn't be out of line to wonder what, if anything, this group of so-called "hacktivists" is trying to accomplish by giving the government perfect reasons to destroy our rights. The RIAA is already using the Anonymous/LulzSec attacks as a justification for the China-style PROTECT IP act. Literally no positive progress has been seen as a result of these breaches of government security, other than a few "lulz" for immature hackers who get their kicks from ruining the reputations of well-meaning cybersecurity professionals while giving corrupt Washington bureaucrats a laundry list of reasons to clamp-down on the Internet.

One thing that most people do not realize who are not involved in the IT industry, which includes myself, is that these breaches do not only serve as viable reasons to exert governmental control over the Internet. As you will learn if you watch the unreleased documentary Hackers Wanted (which, unfortunately, was removed from YouTube and is only now available via Torrent which I do not advocate in any way) these attacks also serve to humiliate and destroy the careers of those who are charged with securing these networks.

Knowing all of the negative consequences of these attacks, one would have to be an extremely childish individual to carry these breaches out just "for the lulz." Sure, maybe they are just imbecilic, immature, inutile teenagers who missed the excitement of egging houses with their friends on Halloween and thus have resorted to Internet vandalism.

However, as I have pointed out time and time again, these attacks serve the exact same purposes regardless of the intentions of the groups carrying them out. Even if they are just teenage cyberspace vandals, the fruits of their labors are identical to what a government-controlled or sponsored red team/red cell would work towards.

Since the mainstream media loves to deride this notion and point towards an alleged IRC log as irrefutable evidence, I have no problem accepting this conjecture and moving on, for argument's sake.

As I have repeated so many times since LulzSec's activity started making headlines in the mainstream corporate-controlled media, it really does not matter if they are actually involved with any government agencies. Thus, we can toss this to the side and continue to analyze recent events.

The mainstream media never fails to amaze me with their incredible ignorance, even with my expectations as low as they are. For instance, in a recent MSNBC article, Anonymous was described as, "a loose collective of hackers." That is nothing short of completely false.
Anonymous, as it is now, evolved out of the popular website 4Chan and the many other "Chan" sites which sprung up out of this popularity. Their activities were not relegated solely to hacking, and anyone with any memory whatsoever can verify this. The writer of the MSNBC piece, and their hilariously incompetent editorial staff must have missed the large-scale protests staged by Anonymous against the Church of Scientolgy. Of course these live protests have nothing to do with hacking, but I guess that distinction and the few minutes of research that would be required to elaborate on this fact are beyond the capabilities of MSNBC.

Not to heap all of the blame on this one mainstream publication, the Christian Science Monitor characterized them the exact same way.

Just as is the case in Libya, the corporate mainstream media acts as if this issue is cut-and-dried, when in reality it is far from it. Anonymous is not just a collective of hackers, and all of Libya does not want Qaddafi out of power. Just like Libya, the gigantic and hardly cohesive group known as Anonymous is not as easily characterized as the mainstream media would like you to believe.

The group, just like all groups throughout history, have had inner-conflicts, splits, and sects which work towards different ends. To call LulzSec and their Anonymous hacker allies representatives of the entirety of Anonymous is nothing short of ignorant. This is just like the conflation of militant Islamic extremism with Islam as a whole. This is also the exact same tactic used to lump every single person who questions the government and holds anti-government sentiments with criminals who just happen to dub themselves "sovereign citizens."

The most recent attack on government cyber-infrastructure at the hands of LulzSec/Anonymous has garnered nothing more than allegedly racist e-mails and more support for China-style Internet control.

So what is the point? I can't be sure, I'd like to hear your thoughts in the comments!

M. Ruppert is the Editor and Owner-Operator of the alternative news and analysis database End The Lie and has no affiliation with any NGO, political party, economic school, or other organization/cause. If you have questions, comments, or corrections feel free to contact him atadmin@EndtheLie.com

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Fox News Covers Agenda 21 Rewilding Program - I'm shocked!

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:56:00 PDT

India Offers Free Cars In Return For Sterilization

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:56:00 PDT

2011 Independence Day: Declare “emperor's no clothes” facts of US tyranny

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 05:26:00 PDT

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Carl Herman, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

America was declared when enough citizens recognized the gap between their promised Constitutional Rights and lying government rhetoric. This victory for freedom was only possible when enough Americans discerned and voiced the facts proving their government were lying sacks of spin; a declaration of the obvious “emperor has no clothes” reality.

Here are the damning facts of US government tyranny today. They dwarf the attacks on American liberties in 1776. Each is explained, documented, and proved; with the only missing element for victory being enough citizens’ recognition, voice, and patriotic action:

US Domestic Policy: We could have full-employment if government created money to be employer of last resort for US infrastructure investment. We could have a monetary system rather than a “debt system” that profits parasitic Wall Street banksters. We could save $100 to $300 billion every year with universal health care that removed “health care” insurance companies. Instead we have criminal fraud in economics that causes 20% real unemployment, tragic-comic debt and obscene bankster criminals, and declining health concurrent with increased fear. Read this for explanation, documentation, and irrefutable proof: Revolt: US could have full-employment, but chooses our misery, decay, death

US Foreign Policy: We could have peace while saving trillions of our dollars, save a million children’s lives every month from preventable poverty while decreasing birth rates for a tenth of the cost of wars, and genuinely embrace global cooperation. Instead we have Orwellian unlawful wars that profit government-complicit war businesses, create the conditions for a million children’s deaths from poverty every month (30,000 every day), and endure daily fear and race-baiting from “leadership.” Read these two for explanation, documentation, and irrefutable proof: Open proposal for US revolution: end unlawful wars, parasitic economics and 2-minute video: Best-selling Chief Economist explains criminal US foreign policy.

Lists of Grievances: The Declaration of Independence has an explanatory paragraph before listing the facts of their government’s abuse of promised rights:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

To prove this, let these facts be submitted to a candid world:
A world overwhelmed by Western hypocrisy - Paul Craig Roberts
10 Indications the United States is a Dictatorship - Activist Post
Common Sense for new American Revolution: revolt from US government by dicts - Carl Herman

For artistic expression of these facts, watch this 8-minute video from PuppetGov:

The facts prove that US government “leadership” of 2011 are vicious psychopaths who annually murder millions, cause misery to billions, and loot trillions of our dollars. They do so while waving OUR flag in our faces, banking that Americans are too stupid and weak to declare freedom from horrific abuse.

Who will you be, and what will you do to secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity?

How will you voice intellectual integrity and moral courage of the facts anyone can verify?

The world groans for your unique, powerful and beautiful self-expressions of virtue. How will you Declare Independence from US tyranny and for unalienable rights?

Carl Herman is a National Board Certified Teacher in economics, government, and history. His hobby is research, education, and lobbying for improved public policy. A principal project of his 30-years’ experience working with US “leadership” in government, economics and corporate media was to grow the citizen’s lobby, RESULTS, that led to two UN Summits (1990 World Summit for Children - the largest meeting of heads of state in world history - and the 1997 Microcredit Summit - topic of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize). Because US political leadership of both parties reneged on each and every public and private promise to end poverty, and US corporate media behaved as their political propagandists, Carl shifted his hobby to "follow the money." His conclusions are explained and documented in these two articles (academic/professional voice, and more passionate citizen voice):

Open proposal for US revolution: end unlawful wars, parasitic economics
Common Sense for new American Revolution: revolt from US government by dicts

He can be reached at Carl_Herman@post.harvard.edu

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Acts of Entrapment Ruled OK in The War on Terror

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:44:00 PDT

Activist Post

In a chilling sign of what is sure to become more widespread, three of the Newburgh 4 -- a group of Muslim ex-convicts and American citizens -- were sentenced to 25 years in prison even after it was exposed that the government manufactured the threat, and entrapped the men into their participation in a false terror plot.

Welcome to counterterrorism operations inside the United States.

The case against the Newburgh 4 actually began to fall apart back in the middle of 2010 after White Plains, NY federal judge Colleen McMahon excoriated prosecutors for covering up evidence that the plot to bomb a Bronx synagogue and a Jewish community center, as well as to shoot down military planes at Stewart International airport was a "plot" by an FBI agent to entrap the four men. She asked a rhetorical question:

Did the government locate some disaffected individuals, manufacture a phony terrorist plot that the individuals would (and could) never have dreamed up or carried out on their own, and then wrongfully induce them to participate in it? (Source)

No matter, in a supreme act of cowardice, she gave the most "lenient" sentence available to her without having the case overturned. The ruling is a clear indication that the failure of any one of these patsy-driven cases threatens to bring down the new system of using entrapment to further counterterrorism efforts in the United States.

This certainly wasn't the first time government agents have used patsies in order to assure a terrified public that disaster was averted yet again.
The very same agent involved in the Newburgh 4 incident, Robert Fuller, was also present in that of the Fort Dix 5 case, which was an egregious example of using paid informants, a de facto citizen spy, and the Patriot Act to issue trumped-up charges and finally gain a life + 30 years conviction for the five men.

Other high-profile cases of the FBI thwarting its own bombs include the Portland Patsy, Mohamed Osman Mahmoud, who was arrested in 2005 after trying to detonate an inert bomb supplied to him by the FBI, on the corner of Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue in front of a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland -- engineered for full effect to show the divide between peaceful Christians and war-like Muslims, no doubt.

Then there was the drugged-out patsy without a passport, Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was led onto a plane by a U.S. government agent for the Christmas 2009 underwear bomb attempt. It has since been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that this was a staged event which, again, just happened to include the Christmas subplot for maximum terror and conditioning. Now we have TSA tyranny and body scanners.

However, the whitewash here is that this is some type of war on Muslims. This is merely the window dressing that has been presented to America in order to set a "reasonable" precedent amid the global war on terror currently centered on the Middle East and Africa.

When Obama advisor, John Brennan, recently announced that the shadowy world of overseas black ops, psych warfare, and renewed domestic COINTELPRO tactics would be landing on America's doorstep, he was basically announcing a no-holds-barred policy that is permitted to work outside of the rule of law. The real mission is to use the threat of terror as a strategy to empower the police state apparatus.

There are countless examples of government-manufactured terror having been used to sway the public into believing that real terror exists, so that even more freedom-smashing measures will be permitted . . . all to protect freedom. For every justified case of entrapment, we find ourselves similarly entrapped into signing on to a war with only one end: the means by which the strongest document ever written to protect a nation from tyrants can be burned beyond recognition.

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Radiation in Our Food

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:38:00 PDT

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Chris Kilham
Fox News

Though the horrendous tsunami that hit Japan on March 12, 2011 seems like old news in the midst of today’s headlines, the crippled nuclear power plants at Fukishima Daichi continue to spew radiation into water, air and soil, with no end in sight.

Even as thousands of Japanese workers struggle to contain the ongoing nuclear disaster, low levels of radiation from those power plants have been detected in foods in the United States. Milk, fruits and vegetables show trace amounts of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daichi power plants, and the media appears to be paying scant attention, if any attention at all. It is as if the problem only involves Japan, not the vast Pacific Ocean, into which highly radioactive water has poured by the dozens of tons, and not into air currents and rainwater that carry radiation to U.S. soil and to the rest of the world. And while both Switzerland and Germany have come out against any further nuclear development, the U.S. the nuclear power industry continues as usual, with aging and crumbling power plants receiving extended operating licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as though it can’t happen here. But it is happening here, on your dinner plate.

Taking a page from the BP pubic relations handbook, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) and the Japanese government have downplayed the extent of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daichi, in which three of six nuclear reactors are in ongoing meltdown. According to Japanese nuclear engineer Naoto Sekimura, nuclear fuel rod meltdown at the damaged plants began only hours after the tsunami, and the situation has not been contained. There is still an ongoing threat of a total “China Syndrome” meltdown, and Japanese officials now say that the three damaged plants may possibly continue to emit uncontrolled radiation for another year.

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The Corrupt Corporate Incarceration Complex

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:47:00 PDT

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William Fisher
Truthout

Seventeen-year-old Hillary Transue did what lots of 17-year-olds do: Got into mischief. Hillary's mischief was composing a MySpace page poking fun at the assistant principal of the high school she attended in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Hillary was an honor student who'd never had any trouble with the law before. And her MySpace page stated clearly that the page was a joke. But despite all that, Hilary found herself charged with harassment. She stood before a judge and heard him sentence her to three months in a juvenile detention facility.

What she expected was perhaps a stern lecture. What she got was a perp walk - being led away in handcuffs as her stunned parents stood by helplessly. Hillary told The New York Times, "I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort of nightmare. All I wanted to know was how this could be fair and why the judge would do such a thing."

It wasn't until two years later that she found out why. In Scranton, Pennsylvania, two judges pleaded guilty to operating a kickback scheme involving juvenile offenders. The judges, Mark Ciavarella Jr. and Michael Conahan, took more than $2.6 million in kickbacks from a private prison company to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers. Since 2003, Ciaveralla had sentenced an estimated 5,000 juveniles. Conahan was accused of setting up the contracts. Many of the youngsters shipped off to the detention centers were first-time offenders.

PA Child Care is a juvenile detention center in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania. It was opened in February 2003. It has a sister company, Western PA Child Care, in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Treatment at both facilities is provided by Mid Atlantic Youth Services. Gregory Zappala took sole ownership of the company when he purchased co-owner Robert Powell's share in June 2008.

In July 2009, Powell pled guilty to failing to report a felony and being an accessory to tax evasion conspiracy in connection with $770,000 in kickbacks he paid to Ciavarella and Conahan in exchange for facilitating the development of his facilities.

The childcare facilities have also been criticized for their costs, which ranged as high as $315 per child per day. Butler County paid Western PA Child Care about $800,000 in payments between 2005 and 2008. Butler County did not renew Western PA Child Care's contract after an extension of the contract ran out at the end of 2008.

The juvenile detention center Hillary was sent to was a private, for-profit facility run by one of the more than 50 companies operating in the five billion dollar private prison industry.

These companies have names you've probably never heard of - like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO.

Ironically, it's the federal and state criminal justice systems that produce the private prisons phenomenon and create the opportunity for private operators to capitalize. What they are capitalizing on is America's obsession with handing out long prison sentences out of all proportion to the crimes committed.

Today, the United States has locked up more prisoners than any other country in the world - 2.3 million-plus people locked up in state and federal prisons and county jails. This has predictably resulted in a shortage of publicly owned prison beds - a shortage increasingly being filled by companies that charge so many dollars for each convict sent their way.

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US debt ceiling deadline still August 2: Treasury

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:45:00 PDT

The deadline for raising the US debt ceiling or risk a
default remains August 2, the US Treasury said
© AFP/Getty Images/File Chip Somodevilla

AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The deadline for raising the US debt ceiling or risk a default remains August 2, the US Treasury said Friday, after speculation that there might be more leeway for politicians to carve a deal.

"The Treasury Department continues to project that the United States will exhaust its borrowing authority under the debt limit on August 2, 2011," the Treasury said in a statement.

"Secretary (Timothy) Geithner urges Congress to avoid the catastrophic economic and market consequences of a default crisis by raising the statutory debt limit in a timely manner."

The US ran into the $14.29 trillion statutory legal limit on borrowing on May 16, but has since used spending and accounting adjustments, and higher-than-expected tax receipts, to continue operating without impact on government obligations.

But by August 2, the government will have to begin withholding payments -- to bond holders, to civil servants, retirees or government contractors -- if the ceiling is not raised by Congress.

Some economists had estimated that higher tax receipts might add a week or two to the deadline.

Republicans are refusing to raise the ceiling unless the White House agrees to sharp spending cuts while forgoing any tax increases to begin closing the government's huge budget deficit.

Geithner has warned that defaulting on bond payments would have a devastating effect, ironically forcing up government costs.

© AFP -- Published at Activist Post with license

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Economic Armageddon and You (Video)

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:43:00 PDT

The Economist Issues Warning

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:39:00 PDT

Thailand warned to keep hands off its own elections.

Tony Cartalucci, Conributing Writer
Activist Post

Bangkok, Thailand July 1, 2011 - While many may believe the Economist is a reputable news publication, it is in reality a clearinghouse for the global corporatacracy and their illegitimate agenda. The Economist itself admitted to consorting with the global-elite at various venues including the annual, illegal Bilderberg meeting. And while many may rush to their defense, claiming such consorting is innocuous, the constant litany of self-serving, agenda peddling articles it turns out suggests differently. No piece better exemplifies this than their latest article, "Hands off the result." Describing Thailand's upcoming July 3 elections, the Economist considers the country as good as in the hands of the foreign-backed opposition party, and instructs the current Thai government to "behave as a loyal opposition."

What the Economist conveniently omits is the fact that the opposition party in Thailand, Peua Thai, is led by convicted criminal, Dubai-based fugitive, and globalist-stooge Thaksin Shinawatra. While the Economist claims that Thaksin's sister, who is running in his place, "is running a slick and brilliant campaign," the reality is she is simply a place holder with the campaign slogan reduced literally to, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does."

Photo: While many try to suggest that Thailand's opposition, Peua Thai, is removed from Thaksin, his own sister is running the party in his place and their 2011 campaign slogan literally is, "Thaksin thinks, Peua Thai does." The Economist then suggests that the Thai government should keep its "hands off the results," and allow a convicted criminal, who is currently evading 2 years of jail time to simply seize back the nation through an obvious proxy party.Thaksin, for his part, has been in the service of the global corporatocracy since before his 2001-2006 premiership, when he served as an adviser for the Neo-Con lined Carlyle Group. During his time as Thailand's prime minister, he attempted to ramrod through a US-Thai free trade agreement without parliamentary approval. On the eve of the September 19, 2006 military coup that ousted Thaksin from power, he was literally reporting to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.

Since his ousting from power Thaksin has been represented by global elitists via their lobbying firms, including Kenneth Adelman of the Edelman PR firm (Freedom House, International Crisis Group, PNAC), James Baker of Baker Botts (CFR), Robert Blackwill of Barbour Griffith & Rogers (CFR), Kobre & Kim, and currently Robert Amsterdam of Amsterdam & Peroff (Chatham House). Meanwhile, his street mobs dubbed the "red shirts" have received rhetorical support by US-funded NGOs like Prachatai which received 1.5 million baht from the Neo-Con lined National Endowment for Democracy.

Prachatai in turn makes a career undermining the current Thai government by citing contrived metrics provided by corporate-serving international arbiters. These include Freedom House (who's Kenneth Adelman served as Thaksin's lobbyist), the Soros-funded Human Rights Watch, and fellow NED fund recipient Reporters Without Borders.

It is quite clear, upon examining the facts the Economist omitted, who the Western corporate-elite want to win the Thai July 3rd election. And while the Economist instructs Thailand to keep it's hands off its own election results, suggesting the Thai Army "stay firmly in its barracks" and allow a convicted criminal's overt proxy party to seize control of the country, it fails to provide any advice to Thaksin's Peua Thai party in the event it fails to take over Thailand's parliamentary system.

In fact, the Economist suggests that "if it [Peua Thai] handsomely beats the Democrats yet is kept from power by a blocking coalition or by the disqualification through the courts of some of its candidates, its supporters will feel, yet again, that they have been cheated. They may abandon hopes for change through the ballot box." Of course, in Thailand's parliamentary systems, it is perfectly legal to form coalitions in any manner parties agree on. It is also perfectly legal to prosecute and disqualify candidates guilty of overt vote buying. By abandoning hope for change through the ballot box, the Economist of course means tipping off a third consecutive year of murderous street riots. 2010's riots featured admitted militants fielded by Thaksin's proxy "red shirt" movement. 2011's will surely make 2010's violence pale in comparison.

What the Economist, in tandem with fellow Chatham House major corporate member Amsterdam & Peroff, are trying to accomplish is establishing a particular narrative to call the elections "stolen" and justify Thaksin's third attempt of topping Thailand in violence and chaos in the streets. In an instant replay of the foreign-funded destabilization in Tunisia and Egypt, the global elite and their treasonous proxy Thaksin Shinawatra are preparing to plunge the region into an "Asian Summer."

Tony Cartalucci's articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at
Land Destroyer Report.

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How to Arrest The Economy-Strangling EPA

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:33:00 PDT

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Cassandra Anderson
Morph City

The Supreme Court ruled on June 20, 2011 that the power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (primarily carbon) rests with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), saying that the EPA is better equipped to deal with the science of greenhouse gases (aka global warming, climate change and CO2). The Clean Air Act has been expanded and the EPA is in a power grab for jurisdiction over vehicle emissions and is now planning control over utilities.

EPA enforcement over utilities will cause the following problems:

• Skyrocketing heating (oil & gas) and electricity bills (click here to see Obama admit this)
• Job killing restrictions on energy production
• Blackouts caused by unreliable "green" energy (wind & solar)
• Import of energy causing dependency on other countries
• Increase in dangerous and expensive nuclear energy
• Energy regulations dictated by UN Agenda 21 Sustainable Development
• Cap-and-trade schemes and carbon credits will apply to ALL items that are produced, so there will be higher prices for EVERYTHING!

The key issues in EPA regulation of greenhouse gases are:

1. The EPA lacks Constitutional authority to regulate harmless carbon dioxide.
2. The global warming theory is wrong and based in corrupt science.
3. The UN directs global warming policies.

AGENDA 21
In order to understand this issue, one must comprehend Agenda 21, which is the action plan for the UN's Sustainable Development program- the blueprint for depopulation and total control.

Global warming phony science is generated out of the UK's Hadley Center in East Anglia, that houses the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is also the seat of the 'Climategate' scandal that thoroughly discredited their carbon lies and flawed science.

Agenda 21 Sustainable Development has infiltrated every level of government. Federal Policy is directly affected; President Clinton created the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) in 1993 and includes every federal agency, which states:

"The Council should not debate the science of global warming, but should instead focus on the implementation of national and local greenhouse gas reduction policies and activities, and adaptations in the U.S. economy and society that maximize environmental and social benefits, minimize economic impacts, and are consistent with U.S. international agreements."

As you can see, science and truth are immaterial, the objective is to implement these destructive laws.

SUPREME COURT RULING 2011
Connecticut v American Electric Power: Five states including Connecticut, Iowa, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont (New Jersey and Wisconsin dropped out) and several land trusts sued five major coal producing utilities in 2004. The land trusts include the Open Spaces Institute- a George Soros operation and the Audubon Society, a United Nations accredited non-governmental organization that is preoccupied with depopulation. The plaintiffs were the aggressors in this case trying to get the courts to force businesses to adopt UN policies.

If states can regulate and have the power of enforcement, why did they sue? Because they were trying to force their globalist ideas for control beyond their state lines.

Obama appeared to contradict himself by throwing his support behind the electric companies in this case, however, his motivation appears to be consolidating power under Executive control through the EPA, as opposed to the Judicial branch in individual court cases.

ALL of the states who participated in this lawsuit are signatories to treasonous international UN inspired treaties.

CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD (CARB)
Many of the "states" who participated in these lawsuits were actually the governors and their executive agencies acting on behalf of their own agenda, instead of representing the will of the People of the state.

The scandalous California Air Resources Board (CARB), an agency of the State's EPA, is the leader in forcing the UN Kyoto Treaty on Americans.

California is the most populous state with the most vehicles; when California wanted tighter emissions standards, they petitioned the EPA to regulate under the Clean Air Act. Because California had to ask permission from the EPA, this means that they don't have the authority. The regulations affect vehicle design and manufacturing on a national level.

CARB is vulnerable to lawsuits for the following reasons:

• CARB is unconstitutionally implementing the Kyoto Treaty in substance.

• CARB appears to be perpetrating fraud on the People.

• CARB is a private corporation that made a contract with the EPA, another private corporation, and is setting public policy without the consent of the People who will be subjected to the illegal contract.

SOLUTIONS
The proper role of government is to PROTECT the lives, liberty and property of the People. No more and no less.

• CONGRESS
Congress introduced a bill to limit the powers of the EPA, but this is a moot point because Obama would veto it. The proper course of action is to de-fund the EPA, as Congress has the power of the purse (don't hold your breath on this one).

• TEXAS V EPA
The EPA's 'Endangerment Finding' is the linchpin for the overreach; if CO2 is shown to be harmless, then the EPA will find it extraordinarily difficult to enact regulations.
Texas and 14 other states are currently suing the EPA for its endangerment finding, saying that the EPA has violated the Clean Air Act by failing to define and measure 'endangerment'. This is a good and necessary first step, but federal courts often rule in favor of the federal government.

The EPA is reliant on "cooperative federalism" which is when the federal government bribes state and local governments with federal taxpayer money or threatens to withhold federal taxpayer money in order to implement federal policies. The federal government employs cooperative federalism because they don't have the authority and means to implement their policies.

THE TENTH AMENDMENT
The Tenth Amendment is the answer to many of today's problems. It reads:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People."

Congress has been usurping States' power through the abuse of the Commerce Clause for far too long- it is high time to put an end to federal overreach- especially with regard to air! The States can ignore the federal government when it acts against the Constitution; with enough People supporting the States in this action, the federal government loses power.

In order for states to fully restore their power, leaders must be educated about Agenda 21 and the Tenth Amendment.

For more on Agenda 21 and environmental legislation, please be sure to visit Morph City

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Activist Convicted of Resisting Arrest Without Violence

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:24:00 PDT

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Activist Post

Orlando Cop Watch activist, John Kurtz, has been ordered jailed for 30 days with 1 year probation for resisting arrest without violence.

Kurtz's case came to public attention in January after he was arrested for filming a case of police brutality administered at the hands of officer Adam Gruler, well known for his questionable conduct and liberal use of tasers and verbal abuse. Kurtz was facing a possible 6-year prison sentence for his audacity to film a public servant attacking a member of the public even after the person was restrained with handcuffs.

Kurtz's video camera was confiscated after his arrest and mysteriously went missing, destroying a key piece of evidence for his own defense, as well as to document exactly what happened that day. The evidence, therefore, relied upon the words of police officers attached to the event.

Despite the conflicting testimony of these officers -- including the arresting officer Adam Gruler himself saying that John did not resist -- Kurtz was still convicted of resisting his illegal arrest.

The pattern of lawlessness is reaching a fever pitch, as there is now an overt war by police on photojournalists. The use of intimidation, overt brutality, and a permissive court system is now spiraling out of control. Kurtz's case is a clear violation of the 1st and 4th amendments, yet the conviction stands.

Similarly the charge of "resisting arrest" has become a mantra for officers, which is allowing for horrendous acts of police brutality, even of society's most vulnerable. YouTube is filled with examples of people lying face-down, cuffed, kneeled upon and pummeled as officers continue to shout "stop resisting!" This is done not only as a show of power, but it also reinforces the legal justification for their behavior and is intended to lead to convictions like those of John Kurtz. The result has a chilling effect on anti-police state activists, as well as photojournalists in general.

Please take action and call Judge Alan S. Apte, Orlando Police Department, and the Orange County Jail. Let them know that caging peaceful people will not be tolerated by the general public.

Circuit Judge Alan S. Apte
Address: 425 N Orange Ave, Courtroom 18A, Orlando, FL 32801
Office: 407-836-0535
Judicial Assistant: Hale
Hale’s Email Address: ctjajh2@ocnjcc.org

Chief Judge Belvin Perry
Address: 425 N Orange Ave, Courtroom 19D, Orlando, FL 32801
Office: 407-836-2008
Judicial Assistant: Gay

Orlando Police Department Headquarters
Address: 100 South Hughey Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801-2501
Non-Emergency Complaint Desk: 321-235-5300
Information Desk: 407-246-2470
Community Relations: 407-246-2461

Orange County Corrections Jail Facilities
Address: P.O. Box 4970, Orlando, FL 32802
Phone: 407-836-3400

Source for this article: Orlando Cop Watch

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Tear-Gassing Children: The Shame of Israel (Video)

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:26:00 PDT

Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring (Video)

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The Perfect (Radiation) Storm is Brewing

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:36:00 PDT

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Brandon Turbeville

Activist Post

Ever since March 11, 2011, when the Japanese earthquake rattled the Asian country, there have been increasing numbers of strange coincidences involving nuclear power plants, natural disasters, and mismanagement of facilities. I say strange coincidences, because it now appears that nuclear power plants fall into the same category as the recent earthquakes that seem to be increasing in frequency and proximity to highly populated areas, as well as tornadoes that seem to be doing the same.

As for the Japanese situation, after months of claims by both the Japanese and American “authorities,” as well as the mainstream media that the situation in Japan was not as serious as “conspiracy theorists” were making it out to be, the Japanese Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters has finally been forced to admit that at least three of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had, indeed, melted down.

Of course, these admissions came well after the mainstream media had long since stopped reporting on the Japanese crisis. But the fact that the Japanese reactors had melted down is not news to those of us who no longer follow the mainstream media. Indeed, most readers of the independent media were well aware of the nuclear meltdowns in what was virtually real time.

Yet the Japanese crisis is not the only nuclear emergency that has occurred since March. Nor is it the only one to be ignored by the corporate media.

Just a week after Fukushima, I wrote an article regarding a report by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that Canada’s Ontario Power Generation had released radioactive water into Lake Ontario via a leak in the Pickering A nuclear generating station. Like the Japanese, the Canadian government deemed this accident to be of little consequence, even though Lake Ontario is the main source of drinking water for millions of people. Ontario Power Generation (OPG) and the Canadian government even began using the term “demineralized” in place of “radioactive” when discussing the leak.

Fast forward to June and we now have three more nuclear power plants under threat from “natural” disasters. Ft. Calhoun, while receiving scant coverage by the mainstream media, is now surrounded by flood water from the Missouri river. The facility is a storage site for 20 years worth of nuclear waste material; specifically, spent fuel rods from different plants in the state as well at its own.

When asked about the safety concerns regarding the facility, Gary Gates, CEO of the Ft. Calhoun facility, said, “There is no water inside the plant. The reactor is covered with borated water. The spent fuel is covered with borated water, which we want it to be. That’s intentional. That’s where it should be. The floodwaters are outside Fort Calhoun, not inside.”

At this time, there is no concrete evidence that there has been a meltdown or radioactive leakage from the Ft. Calhoun plant. However, there are some suspicious occurrences at the facility. First, there was a fire in the switch room, but it is maintained that this fire was contained to the switch room and that it was not flood related. The fire did shut down the cooling pumps for about 90 minutes but the backup generators were quickly used to return power to the pumps.

Later, one of the berms holding back the flood waters mysteriously collapsed. Unfortunately, with the weather in Nebraska still wet and nasty, levees are still being breached and dams are still overflowing. Under these conditions, a damaged berm is something that Ft. Calhoun can ill afford.

Strangely, even though the “switch room fire” occurred on June 7th, the FAA had imposed a flight ban within a two mile radius of the nuclear plant. The FAA claims the flight ban is a result of the Missouri flooding; but, as Ricky Kreitner of the Business Insider points out, “[But] the FAA ban specifically lists the Forth Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant as the location for the flight plan.”

Omaha Public Power District (OPPD) spokesman Jeff Hanson stated that the flight ban is due to power lines and “security reasons that we can’t reveal.” Of course, the real reasons for the ban are unknown, but it is highly suspect that water and power lines on the ground have prompted a ban on traffic in the air.

Not only that, but the Red Cross shelter next to the Fort Calhoun facility has been closed, an odd thing to do in the event of an emergency. Particularly when the Red Cross is on location as a result of an emergency in the first place.

Regarding the Ft. Calhoun plant, Marvin Wolf, editor of Local Talk News writes:

The government is telling us not to panic. All is under control, just like in Japan. But here are a few troubling inconsistencies. One, the Red Cross shelter next to the Fort Calhoun plant has been closed. They claim it was due to “decreased need.” During a flood? Now there is a no-fly zone around the plant. Then there is the disturbing news that the spent fuel rod pool was so full that they store the surplus fuel rods in a dry storage area outside the safety of the pool. How long will that area stay dry and what happens if it gets wet? One reporter claims the dry storage bunker is now half-submerged. One of the intake structures is prone to flooding that could affect the water pumps. Non-functional water pumps? Does that sound familiar?

Wolf goes on to suggest that the Russians are claiming that there was a nuclear accident at the plant due to flooding and that the Obama administration has ordered a news blackout.

In addition to Ft. Calhoun, the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownsville, Nebraska is also under a state of alert. Much like the Ft. Calhoun station, the Cooper Nuclear Station is under threat of being flooded out. This comes just days after two tornadoes ripped through the area.

We are also watching as a raging fire threatens the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The fire apparently started on Saturday in the Santa Fe National Forest and is now bearing down on the town and the lab. Not only are nuclear weapons tested in the lab, but there are approximately 20,000 barrels of discarded plutonium-related nuclear waste at the facility. A fire of this level at this particular facility could unleash devastating amounts of radioactive pollution. Even a loss of power to the facility could trigger a full-fledged emergency.

Naturally, one hopes that the Japanese and Canadians manage to get control over their power plant malfunctions. One also hopes that the floods recede and the fire goes out.

Yet, amid these hopes, one also begins to wonder if all this is more than just coincidence. After all, the first tell-tale signs of treachery is an attempt to cover it up.

Consider the track record of the corporate media, government agencies, and private facility owners just over the last few months.

We know that after the earthquake in Japan and the subsequent damage at Fukushima, the Japanese government actively covered up the extent of the damage from the international community, the press, and the Japanese people. In fact, the media and foreign governments, particularly the United States, aided them in doing so. The US government even went so far as to discourage Americans from purchasing potassium iodide supplements to protect themselves from the radiation coming across the ocean.

We also know that the Canadian government has been even more successful in covering up the pollution in Lake Ontario.

So, given this reputation, one would be justified in taking anything their government says with a grain of salt.

However, it is also true that an attempt to cover up an accident, mistake, or incompetence does not necessarily mean that the individual or agency attempting the cover up actually caused the incident. Even if the cover up is of a monumental scale.

But it certainly doesn’t help. And the fact that in the last few months so many nuclear facilities have come under threat from so-called natural disasters is starting to look a bit funny. After all, much of the flooding at Ft. Calhoun was caused by the government itself, in an apparent attempt to protect reservoirs.

As Wolf writes, “Keep in mind that some flooding was deliberately caused by the Army releasing water from reservoirs to protect them from failing. This has flooded levees. The Army has in the past dynamited levees to direct the water elsewhere – like where poor people live and work – to protect where rich people live and work.”

But the real question is whether or not this done as a necessity, an afterthought, or for a more sinister purpose altogether. Considering the fact that many governments now possess HAARP and similar technology that is capable of creating earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes as well as the fact that these governments rarely have the best interest of their citizens at heart, the idea of intentional destruction of nuclear facilities is not so far-fetched. It would certainly contribute to population reduction if all of this radiation combined with the Fukushima fallout and spread across the US. It would also provide an emergency situation that some would use to justify an even bigger police state and perhaps forced relocation.

It’s also interesting to note that, in the new Super 8 movie, there is a scene in which the US government deliberately sets a forest fire in order to force citizens out of the town and into military evacuation centers. In the movie, it was for the purpose of hiding secret government research. Was this predictive programming or just yet another coincidence?

Let me be clear – I’m not saying “the government did Fukushima” or “the government flooded Nebraska or set the fires in New Mexico.” But I am saying I don’t put it past them. I am saying it’s entirely physically possible. And I am saying these recent events have become a bit too coincidental to be ignored. Considering the track record, I don’t think we can afford to be naive.

View nuclear expert Arnold Gunderson’s take on the Nebraska situation here:

Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Mullins, South Carolina. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from Francis Marion University where he earned the Pee Dee Electric Scholar’s Award as an undergraduate. He has had numerous articles published dealing with a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, and civil liberties. He also the author of Codex Alimentarius - The End of Health Freedom and 7 Real Conspiracies.

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Geithner might quit after debt deal: reports

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:24:00 PDT

Timothy Geithner might leave his job after deal on debt
© AFP/File Tim Sloan

AFP

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner might leave his job after the White House reaches a deal with Congress over raising the US debt ceiling, US media reported Thursday.

But Geithner fudged when asked about the reports, saying he would stick to the job "for the foreseeable future."

"I've only worked in public service. I live for this work, it's the only thing I've ever done, I believe in it," Geithner told former president Bill Clinton in a webcast Chicago seminar on jobs and the economy.

"We have a lot of challenges in the country. I'm going to be doing it for the foreseeable future," he said.

Geithner, one of the stalwarts of President Barack Obama's administration and a key architect of its policies during the economic crisis, has not reached a final decision on leaving, the agency said, citing unnamed sources familiar with the issue.

Geithner "has signaled to White House officials that he's considering leaving the administration," Bloomberg reported.

Other media made similar reports, but none had any more specific information.

They said resignation would only come if and when a deal on hiking the $14.29 trillion debt cap happens, according to the report.

Obama and Geithner have both warned Republican opponents in Congress to raise the limit before August 2 to avert a default on US debt that could rock both the domestic economy and the global financial system.

White House officials offered no immediate comment on the report.

Geithner's departure, if it happens, would follow the already-announced departure of top White House economic advisor Austan Goolsbee.

Goolsbee is scheduled to leave in August.

© AFP -- Published at Activist Post with license

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Next US defense chief will not gut military: Pentagon

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:21:00 PDT

Robert Gates' Armed Services Farewell Ceremony
© AFP/Getty Images Chip Somodevilla

AFP

Incoming US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is determined to avoid gutting the American military despite the prospect of difficult budget decisions looming, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.

"He (Panetta) believes that it is a false choice between fiscal responsibility and national security," spokesman Douglas Wilson told reporters.

Amid mounting fiscal pressure, the defense budget "will be an important item on his agenda," Wilson said.

"He will take that very seriously. He knows there are difficult decisions to be made," he said.

Panetta "has said publicly, and he will say again, that he intends that there will be no hollow force on his watch."

Panetta, 73, who is stepping down as head of the CIA, is due to take over Friday at 8:45 am (1245 GMT) from Robert Gates, who is retiring after more than four years on the job.

The new Pentagon chief takes the helm against the backdrop of mounting political calls to rein in government spending, including the country's massive defense budget.

The vast defense budget for 2010 stood at $663 billion, accounting for more than 40 percent of the world's military spending, and a growing number of lawmakers say the Pentagon can no longer be excluded from cutbacks.

As secretary, Panetta will also be focusing on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and "is committed to succeeding and achieving America's goals on his watch," said Wilson, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs.

Panetta planned to begin his tenure by holding meetings with the military "at all levels," from the top brass to mid-level officers, Wilson added.

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Uncle Sam Food History Exhibit Promotes Food Control

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:24:00 PDT

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Rady Ananda
Food Freedom

Oh, gag me with a bowl of propaganda. The National Archives is hosting an historical exhibit on government say in what we eat and grow and how to cook it: “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam: The Government’s Effect on the American Diet.” From the opening lines of thewebsite, you know our control freak “Uncle” has launched another major psyops campaign to convince us that Government Knows Best when it comes to food:

“We demand that our Government ensure that it is safe, cheap, and abundant. In response, Government has been a factor in the production, regulation, research, innovation, and economics of our food supply.”

Though painting Uncle Sam as Mrs. Doubtfire, when it comes to the results of government intrusion into the food supply, he’s more like Adolph Hitler. Over the last hundred years, we’ve seen climbing rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease and neurological disorders, thanks to Uncle Sam’s “regulation” of food additives and environmental pollutants. We’ve also seen the number of farms decline by 98%.

Kerry Trueman of Eating Liberally is only too happy to regurgitate the promotion of government control of food, pointing out when Uncle Sam actually provides a social safety net, to wit: the SNAP program, otherwise known as food stamps.

She fails to mention that 184 House Democrats (along with 217 Republicans) just voted to make deep cuts in US food assistance in the 2012 Agricultural Appropriations bill (HR 2112), which I summarized here, based on the analysis of several different experts, and my own stumbling thru the massive bill.

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The IMF joins Bernanke in threatening US legislators

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:00:00 PDT

The International Monetary Fund's Washington D.C. Headquarters

M. Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

The debt ceiling issue is irrefutably a “hot button” issue that has Washington seemingly irreparably divided over smallbudget cuts that have little to no effect on the massive deficit. To make matters worse for the clowns in Washington arguing over tens of billions of dollars with a public debt realistically in the neighborhood of $100 trillion, the private Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund are now stoking the fire.

As the men and women of Capitol Hill bicker, Bernanke makes comments like, ”History makes clear that failure to put our fiscal house in order will erode the vitality of our economy, reduce the standard of living in the United States, and increase the risk of economic and financial instability.” While the IMF says that we need to raise our debt ceiling ”expeditiously to avoid a severe shock to the economy and world financial markets.”

A note about the above linked AP article addressing the IMF’s concerns: there is a massive typo that seemed to elude one of the world’s largest news organization’s entire editorial staff. The debt ceiling is not $14.3 billion, it is $14.3 trillion. This is no minor mistake as a trillion is a hefty 1,000 billion.

The IMF clearly wants the United States toraise the debt ceiling immediately. They also suggest that we add a national sales tax or European style Value Added Tax or VAT. Among their other erudite suggestions is that we must keep dumping “stimulus” into the housing market, not cut spending “too much,” and keep artificially holding down interest rates.

Anyone with even a minor knowledge of recent geopolitical history knows that the IMF and the World Bank are some of the most untrustworthy organizations on Earth.

The private Federal Reserve “officials” have also cut their projections for economic growth this year while raising their projections for unemployment. Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, has reassured us that with a growth rate of 2.5% (which we are far below at this point) jobless rates will “gradually” decrease. The IMF has also cut their projections for growth in the United States’ economy, along with former Fed chair Alan Greenspan saying that a Greek default could cause a slide back in to a recession. Realistically, we have already slid back in to the recession if you look at the revised projections vs. the original overly optimistic projections coming from the IMF and the Fed.

Not to be left out, Obama has been leaning on Republican lawmakers to take action and sign us on to more debt without making any significant cuts to the out of control government spending. Hilariously, Obama actually had the gall to criticize Republicans for taking frequent recesses. This coming from a President who was filling out his NCAA brackets while the Fukushima disaster developed is painfully ironic. I must make it clear that I am not targeting Obama, almost every single politician and bureaucrat in Washington is all but totally useless.

We do not need to raise taxes or put austerity measures in place in order to save the United States, we need to gut the Pentagon’s mind-blowing budget and refuse to keep paying money to offshore banking cartels. We need to refuse to be beholden to private bankers and their debt creation schemes that have run America in to the ground. We need to repeal NAFTA and GATT, bring the jobs back to the United States, stop all forms of corporate welfare, especially off-shoring incentives, and give the power to issue currency back to the people. We need to repeal the PATRIOT Act, reinstate Glass-Steagall, and take back every cent that was stolen from us by criminals on Wall Street and within the country’s largest banks.

Only after we take care of the most essential factors can we even start to consider raising taxes or cutting crucial social programs that are desperately needed by the impoverished people of America.

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Getting Used to Life Without Food, Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:56:00 PDT

Wall Street, BP, Bio-Ethanol and the Death of Millions

Grain Storage Wikimedia Image

William Engdahl
Financial Sense

My late grandfather, a man of sturdy Norwegian-American farm stock, who later became a newspaper editor and political activist during the First World War, used to say, 'A man can get used to pretty much anything with time, except dying...and even that with some practice.' Well, as fate has it, it seems we, the vast majority of the human race, are about to test that adage in regard to the availability of our daily bread itself.

Food is one of those funny things it's hard to live without. We all tend to take it for granted that our local supermarket will continue to offer whatever we wish, in abundance, at affordable prices or nearly so. Yet living without adequate food is the growing prospect facing hundreds of millions, if not billions, of us over the coming years.

In a sense it's a genuine paradox. Our planet has everything we need to produce nutritious natural food to feed the entire world population many times over. This is the case, despite the ravages of industrialized agriculture over the past half century or more.

Then, how can it be that our world faces, according to some predictions, the prospect of a decade or more of famine on a global scale? The answer lies in the forces and interest groups that have decided to artificially create a scarcity of nutritious food. The problem has several important dimensions.

Eliminating Emergency Reserves

The ability to manipulate the price of essential foods worldwide at will -- almost irrespective of today’s physical supply and demand for grains -- is quite recent. It is also scarcely understood.

Up until the grain crisis of the mid-1970s there was no single "world price" for grain, the benchmark for the price of all foods and food products.

From the time of the earliest traces left by Sumerian civilization some two thousand years before Christ, in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in today's Iraq, almost every culture had the practice of storing a reserve stock of a grain harvest – right up to the most recent times. Wars, droughts and famines were the reason. When properly stored, grain can be safely stored over a period of about seven years, enabling reserve stocks in case of an emergency.

After the Second World War, Washington created a General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to serve as a wedge to push free trade among major industrial nations, especially the European Community. During initial negotiations, agriculture was deliberately kept off the table at the insistence of the Europeans, especially the French, who regarded political defense of Europe’s Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and European agriculture protections as non-negotiable.

Beginning in the 1980s with the political crusades of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the extremist free market views of Chicago's Milton Friedman became increasingly accepted by leading European power circles. Step-by-step the resistance to the Washington agriculture free trade agenda dissolved.

After more than seven years of intense horse-trading, lobbying and pressure, the European Union finally agreed in 1993 to the GATT Uruguay Round, requiring a major reduction of national agriculture protection. Central to the Uruguay Round deal was agreement on one major change: national grain reserves as a government responsibility were to be ended.

Under the new 1993 GATT agreement, formalized with the creation of a World Trade Organization to police the agreements with enforceable sanctions against violators, ‘free trade’ in agriculture products was for the first time an agreed priority of the world's major trading nations, a fateful decision to put it mildly.

Henceforth, grain reserves were to be managed by the ‘free market,’ by private companies, greatest among them the US Grain Cartel giants, the behemoths of American agribusiness. The grain companies argued that they would be able to fill any emergency gaps more efficiently and save governments the cost. That ill-advised decision would open the floodgates to unprecedented grain market shenanigans and manipulations.

ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), Continental Grain, Bunge and the primus inter pares, Cargill—the largest privately-held grain and agribusiness trading company in the world—emerged the great winners of the WTO process.

The outcome of the GATT agriculture talks was very much to the liking of the people at Cargill. That was no surprise to insiders. Former Cargill executive Dan Amstutz played the key role in drafting the agriculture trade section of the GATT Uruguay Round.1 In 1985 D. Gale Johnson of the University of Chicago, a colleague of Milton Friedman, co-authored a seminal report for David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission that was the blueprint for what they called "market-oriented" agricultural reform. It provided the framework for the US position in the coming GATT Uruguay Round negotiations. The Rockefeller group and its think tanks were the architects of ‘agricultural reform,’ as with so much in our post-1945 world.

The process of eliminating government grain reserves in major producing countries took time, but with the passage of the 1996 Farm Bill, the US had virtually eliminated its grain reserves. The EU followed soon after. Today, among major agriculture producing countries, only China and India still hold to a strategic security policy of nationally held grain reserves. 2

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Why the Rich Elite will Suffer When the SHTF

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:44:00 PDT

Gaye Levy, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

The rich elite will suffer if there is a collapse and rest of us working stiffs will be fine thank you very much. That is my belief anyway.

So why? Conventional wisdom and sense (if you want to call it that) tells us that those with fat bank accounts have it made: steady incomes, nice homes, luxury automobiles, and lots of help in the way of secretaries, personal chefs, housekeepers, gardeners, pool tenders and a myriad of other folks that make their day quite pleasant. In addition, they have all the latest and toys gadgets and when a new model comes out they are first in line to get it.

So initially, these fat cats will be just fine in the event of a global economic collapse. But wait? What will happen to their cushy life when money becomes devalued or even worthless? Well first of all, they will go through their pantries in a week or two – possibly a month – and then find that when they need basic supplies, the shelves at the grocery are empty. The gardener is long gone and they did not learn to grow their own food because all the digging and tending would ruin their manicure.

And then there is fear. Fear that their money is worthless, fear that the zombies will come in and steal their possessions, and perhaps the biggest fear of all, the fear that someone will shoot them dead for no reason other than unmitigated chaos within our cities and society in general.

This does not make a pretty picture.

So what about the preppers?

We already know how to make a decent meal out of rice, beans and home grown greens. We have extra water but we also know how to purify lake and stream water. We know how to get our hands dirty and how to barter our knowledge and skills that with someone who has a skill we lack. We also have medical supplies and weapons to defend ourselves. And equally important, we have walked around our neighborhoods and communities and established a “hi, how are you?” relationship with those around us so that they recognize us and we recognize them. In doing so we have built an extended family that will watch our backs – as we will watch theirs – if the SHTF.

We will have our wits about us because we have already survived the 21st century recession with self-reliance and the perseverance to protect ourselves and our families no matter what. We live the preparedness lifestyle now and are not willing to wait for some horrible event in the future before we begin to take care of ourselves.

Our baby steps, taken week after week, month after month, year after year, will have taught us the value of hard work, austerity and loyalty as well as compassion and heart. If the SHTF these qualities will help us stay on our feet and to hold our heads high. For although we may be in shock and we may suffer hardships, we will be able to survive and use our skills to help build a better society.

Please share this message with your families, your friends and your colleagues at work. Remind them that you too started with baby steps and that you still are not finished and may never be. Be generous with your knowledge and point them to the myriad of resources available to help them become educated in the preparedness lifestyle. And most of all, remind them to be prepared, not scared.

Enjoy your next adventure through common sense and thoughtful preparation! -- Gaye

Gaye Levy, the SurvivalWoman, grew up and attended school in the Greater Seattle area. After spending many years as an executive in the software industry, she started a specialized accounting practice offering contract CFO work to emerging high tech and service industries. She has now abandoned city life and moved to a serenely beautiful rural area on an island in NW Washington State. She lives and teaches the principles of a sustainable, self-reliant and stylish lifestyle through emergency preparation and disaster planning through her website at BackdoorSurvival.com. SurvivalWoman speaks her mind and delivers her message with optimism and grace, regardless of mayhem swirling around us.

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Geometric Lenses of Consciousness (Video)

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:37:00 PDT

Two more potential nuclear disasters in the United States

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:54:00 PDT

Los Alamos National Laboratory

M. Ruppert, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

On top of Fort Calhoun and the Cooper Nuclear Station, two more facilities housing nuclear materials are now at risk. Of course the mainstream media is all but totally silent on this issue as it is a bit worrisome for people to think about fourplants on the brink of potential nuclear disaster. Not to mention the worst industrial disaster of all time, Fukushima, that continues to spew radioactive particles into the air,groundwater, and ocean.

What should concern the people of America is not just that there is a possibility that there could be a nuclear disaster in the continental United States, but that we can expect the engineers and regulatory bodies to react as they did at Fukushima. This is a grim thought, because it has now become clear that, according to the Dean of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Dr. Iven Mareels, “Engineers likely understood [Fukushima] containment breached immediately.” You wouldn’t be out of line in wondering if the same exact tragic events might repeat themselves here in America.

The two new potential disasters include a massive wildfire in New Mexico roughly 2 miles from nuclear waste at Los Alamos as of Mid-day Tuesday and a failed cooling pump that caused the Salem Unit 2 nuclear facility to go into “hot shutdown.” I must emphasize, as of the writing of this article, these issues do not seem to be out of control or catastrophic.

However, these issues will assuredly be swept under the rug without consideration from the mainstream corporate media. Both of these incidents need to be covered, especially because the fire in New Mexico is, as of now, out of control. The situation at Salem 2 seems to be more stable with NJ.com reporting:

Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission resident inspectors assigned to the Salem site responded to Salem 2 and verified that the plant was stable and operator actions were consistent with procedures and that appropriate troubleshooting was being performed by PSEG Nuclear, according to NRC Spokesman Neil Sheehan.

I wish we could trust the NRC and assume that they are giving us the unadulterated truth but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case. There are also the serious questions raised by the mysterious pump failure that has yet to be explained.

The situation at Los Alamos is much more uncertain with CNN reporting nearly 10,000 evacuees(and York Daily Record reporting about 12,500) fleeing what is officially dubbed the Las Conchas fire, and InciWeb reporting more than 60,000 acres consumed and no containment (as of 4 hours before the writing of this article).

York Daily Record reports:

The fire has forced the evacuation of the entire city of Los Alamos, population 11,000, cast giant plumes of smoke over the region and raised fears among nuclear watchdogs that it will reach as many as 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium-contaminated waste.

'The concern is that these drums will get so hot that they’ll burst. That would put this toxic material into the plume. It’s a concern for everybody,' said Joni Arends, executive director of the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, an anti-nuclear group.

Arends’ organization also worried that the fire could stir up nuclear-contaminated soil on lab property where experiments were conducted years ago. Burrowing animals have brought that contamination to the surface, she said.

This should be a serious concern getting massive media attention, yet it is brushed off in the article with an assurance that they would spray some flame retardant foam on the barrels if the fire came close enough. The EPA and the New Mexico Environment Department along with Los Alamos laboratory officials are monitoring “at least 60 air monitors for radiation and other hazards.” I wonder if the EPA will be using their rigged RadNet meters to make sure the American people are safe.

Just like there was supposedly no real danger from the radiation of Fukushima, the mainstream media is already telling us there is nothing to worry about, even though the fires are not under control.CNN reports, “Charles McMillan, the laboratory’s director, said Tuesday that all was under control at the facility, regardless of a small fire that broke out Monday.” However, at one point the fire was as close as 50 feet away from the grounds.

At this point, there is no reason to run around like a chicken with its head cut off, but we should avoid forgetting these issues completely. The mainstream media will likely ignore these issues in favor of the next celebrity break-up or Washington sex scandal. Thankfully, we still have the alternative media to keep track of these issues, even if it ends up being nothing to worry about.

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US vows to support India's nuclear waiver

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:46:00 PDT

AFP

NEW DELHI - The United States will support India's continued exemption from global nuclear trade rules despite moves to tighten up restrictions, the US ambassador to India said on Thursday.

Last week the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which governs global nuclear trade, decided to tighten guidelines for transfers of sensitive uranium enrichment and reprocessing technology.

India, which has a electricity deficit, has an ambitious nuclear programme and won a special exemption in 2008 from NSG rules, which was negotiated by the United States.

Countries are normally required to have signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty -- which India has refused to do -- and open their reactors to international scrutiny before they can buy atomic technology and uranium.

"The White House and the Obama administration strongly and vehemently support the clean waiver for India," the outgoing US ambassador to India, Timothy Roemer, told reporters on Thursday.

India is concerned that the new NSG guidelines could restrict its access to foreign technology, which will be vital if it is to expand atomic power at its targeted rate.

India's fast-growing economy is heavily dependent on coal. Less than three percent of India's electricity comes from nuclear power, but it hopes to raise the figure to 25 percent by 2050.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday that France and Russia still intended to do business with India despite the move by the NSG, which includes the US, Russia, China, European Union countries and some others.

Companies from France, Russia, the US and Japan are competing for a slice of the $175 billion India plans to spend on nuclear reactors.

© AFP -- Published at Activist Post with license

The New Era of "All Natural" False Flag Disasters

noreply@blogger.com (GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING) — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:35:00 PDT

Disclosed nuclear power plants, with a seismic hazard overlay. (Image)

Zen Gardner
Before It's News

On 9/11 the premise for explaining the dramatic ritual that unfolded before the world was that steel structures can collapse into dust from jet fuel fires. Never before has a steel structure collapsed from any kind of fire nor has one since, yet that day 3 huge buildings dropped like rocks into their own footprints--one, building 7 that didn't come down till the afternoon, did it even without jet fuel.

No problem. Buildings fall from fire. We get it. And the whole world fell for it...or was forced to.

Enter the Nuclear Factor

Nuclear reactors have never before been destroyed or triggered into a mega crisis by floods. Now we have several incidents under way in Japan, with a threat to two more in Nebraska right on their heels. (We'll get to the fire.)

Easier to swallow now, isn't it? That's how you do it--set a spectacular precedent, then run with it.
BTW, you say the tsunami was an exception? Why was their back-up generator put in the basement?
Why are there so many questions surrounding faulty construction, strange equipment malfunctions and explosions at the reactors?

Yet the world believes it was "all natural"...despite the strangeness, non sequiturs and news blackout.

Open the Spigot

No go to explain why the US Army Corps of Engineers and all their resources deliberately flood massive areas near these Nebraska nuclear facilities, but don't have enough foresight to protect one simple compound housing a massive nuclear arsenal?...never mind the problems incurred at the Cooper reactor downriver in Iowa?

Oh, they put up a rubber berm balloon, but oops, there was an "accident".

And the world swallows it again. After all, floods trigger reactors, we get it.
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