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zeitgeist movie, part II - addendum
posted online today october 3rd http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
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Blueprint For Global Enslavement: The New World Order is Here
Alex Jones' brand new documentary Endgame charts the history of the elite blueprint for social domination and control, outlining the ultimate plans that those who consider themselves the anointed have for our planet.
The first section of the film documents the rise of the banking cartels, who since 1800 have funded both sides of almost every war. Endgame charts the usurpation of the British economy by the Rothchild family who went on to bankroll all factions during the first world war providing armaments companies through banks in France, Austria, Germany and England.
Endgame then documents the fallout of the great war and the attempts to form a controlling League of Nations, which was ultimately blocked by Congress. Such frustration on the part of the elite led to the rise of two factions, fascists and Fabian socialists. Endgame documents how bankers again funded both sides during WW2 which ultimately led to the creation of the UN and the beginning of the movement to implement three power blocs via incremental globalism.
The second section of the film covers the Bilderberg group and Alex's documentation of the elite group at the 2006 meeting in Ottawa. It covers Alex's detention on the Canadian border at the behest of Bilderberg insiders themselves. Alex and his crew describe how they were interrogated for nearly twelve hours before finally being allowed entry into the country.
Featuring extensive interviews with Jim Tucker and Daniel Estulin, veteran reporters who have been covering the meetings for 27 and 15 years respectively, Alex reveals how it is an offence for any member of the federal or state government to meet with foreign power brokers without the express authority of the president or Congress.
Endgame then shifts focus to the impending movement towards a North American Union, presenting reports and documentation relating to the efforts toward regional harmonization between the US Mexico and Canada at the secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summits, which refer to an "evolution by stealth" agenda.
--------------more at the link, or just watch the whole movie here, for free! Alex Jones' brand new documentary Endgame charts the history of the elite blueprint for social domination and control, outlining ... more -
Malaria battle given $3bn boost
World leaders and philanthropistshave pledged nearly $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight malaria at a summit in New York.
The meeting, at the UN, is looking at ways of meeting the Millennium Development Goals - targets on reducing global poverty by the year 2015.
Donors hope the money will be enough to eradicate malaria by that time.
The money includes $1.1bn (£598m) from the World Bank and $1.6bn (£870m) from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.The British government and private organisations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have promised the rest.
Malaria still kills more than a million people each year, according to the World Health Organization.
The funding, will be used to support rapid implementation of the first ever Global Malaria Action Plan (Gmap).
Long-term effort
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in a statement that the extra money would help "sharply reduce the numbers of malaria-related deaths and illness" in the next three years.
According to Gmap's projections, more than 4.2 million lives can be saved between 2008 and 2015, if its plan is put into action, and the foundation can be laid for a longer-term effort to eradicate the disease.
The BBC's Heather Alexander says leaders are focusing on eradicating malaria to counter criticisms that the millennium targets will not be met. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined the presidents of Rwanda and Tanzania as well as the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reassure the world that their goal is achievable.
Alongside the offers of money came reassurance from African leaders that efforts are working.
President Paul Kagame, of Rwanda, said malaria deaths have fallen by more than 60% in his country.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is to provide $168.7m (£91m) to fund a Malaria Vaccine Initiative for research on a new generation of anti-malaria vaccines.
Microsoft founder Mr Gates said: "We need innovation, new drugs, and the most dramatic thing we need is vaccine.
"If we build on this momentum, we can save million of lives and chart a long-term course for eradication of this disease."
Britain's Department for International Development pledged £40m ($73.5m) to support the Affordable Medicines Facility for Malaria.
It also pledged to increase its malaria research funding to at least £5m ($9.1m) a year by 2010 and supply 20 million of the 125 million bed nets still needed in affected areas. World leaders and philanthropistshave pledged nearly $3bn (£1.6bn) to fight malaria at a summit in New York. ... more -
USA is NOT bankrupt
The American public is NOT bankrupt! It is the the fiat system that has gone bankrupt. There is a huge difference.
But what the beneficiaries of the fiat system are trying to do is exchange all their worthless debt (US Dollar, stocks, bad mortgages, etc.) for the American public's labor (or promise to pay). That is why this bailout is so important to stop. It is basically a huge swindle. They want our labor and our tangible property and businesses, and they are going to swap their failed paper for it.
We are an extremely prosperous nation. Even today. We have tremendous resources, a great labor force, incredible businesses. Don't give them away to international interests who created a fiat financial system. And don't let them convince you that we are bankrupt.
Let their fiat system go down the toilet where it belongs.....then the American public can start anew with a sound money system that preserves the publics' wealth. The American public is NOT bankrupt! It is the the fiat system that has gone bankrupt. There is a huge difference. ... more -
Economic Collapse in Argentina
Eerily similar to what we are going through now
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World Bank draws criticism for Chad/Cameroon pipeline withdrawal
The World Bank has been attacked for withdrawing from the Chad, Cameroon pipeline project. A coalition of human rights and environmental Non-Governmental Organisations have accused it of bad faith by its recent withdrawal from the 4 billion dollars oil pipeline project that runs from Chad to Cameroon.
The coalition is made up of U.S.-based Environmental Defense Fund, the Chadian Association for Human Rights (ATPDH) and two Cameroon civil society groups, the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) and Network to Fight against Hunger (RELUFA).
"The project's outcome is disastrous. In the name of fighting poverty, it has rather contributed to impoverishing Chad's people and adding a new member to the petro-dictators' club,” a statement issued by the coalition said.
The World Bank last week announced its withdrawal from the pipeline project, one of its biggest investments in Africa. It accused the Chadian president of failing to comply with agreed commitments to set aside a chunk of its oil revenues for local communities, health and education.
However, Chad played down the bank’s pullout, saying its oil output was unaffected and that non-oil cooperation would continue. "The bank withdraws from this project without too much loss," the rights coalition said in its criticism, noting that Chad this month prepaid to the lender the outstanding balance of $65.7 million under the $140 million loan deal.
The coalition noted that the quality of life of the people of Chad and Cameroon, living along the length of the 1,000 km (620-mile) pipeline on its route to the Atlantic coast, had worsened. “Only the quality of life of Chadian president, Idriss Deby, and of the consortium led by Exxon Mobil has improved,” it said.
It should be noted that the pipeline started pumping crude oil from landlocked Chad in 2003, carries 170,000 barrels per day and continues to operate despite the World Bank pullout.
Source:
Solomon Tembang Mforgham,
AfricaNews
Limbe, Cameroon The World Bank has been attacked for withdrawing from the Chad, Cameroon pipeline project. A coalition of human rights and environment... more -
9/11--the end of an era in the global justice movement
Few people knew that on 9/11 DC was to play host to one of the most impressive press conferences of all time... uniting organized labor, activists and even anarchists in their stand for global justice.
That event never happened, and the movement for justice and effort to transform the World Bank, IMF and WTO changed radically on that day....
my 9/11 story is that story..... Few people knew that on 9/11 DC was to play host to one of the most impressive press conferences of all time... uniting organized labo... more -
World poverty 'more widespread' than thought
"The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought.
It has revised its previous estimate and now says that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, based on a new poverty line of $1.25 per day.
This is substantially more than its earlier estimate of 985 million people living in poverty in 2004.
The Bank has also revised upwards the number it said were poor in 1981, from 1.5 billion to 1.9 billion.
The new estimates suggest that poverty is both more persistent, and has fallen less sharply, than previously thought.
However, given the increase in world population, the poverty rate has still fallen from 50% to 25% over the past 25 years.
"This is pretty grim analysis coming from the World Bank," said Elizabeth Stuart, senior policy advisor at Oxfam.
"The urgency to act has never been greater, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where half the population of the continent lives in extreme poverty, a figure that hasn't changed for over 25 years."
Regional differences
The new figures confirm that Africa has been the least successful region of the world in reducing poverty.
Hungry mother in Africa
The poor need growth - but it must be distributed more equitably
The number of poor people in Africa doubled between 1981 and 2005 from 200 million to 380 million, and the depth of poverty is greater as well, with the average poor person living on just 70 cents per day.
The poverty rate is unchanged at 50% since 1981. " "The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. ... more -
World Bank counts more people as poor
A new World Bank report suggests that many more people are poorer than previously thought. The number is thought to be close to 1.4 billion, up from 1 billion.
The report doesn't necessarily suggest that the world is getting poorer, just that their are more accurate statistics. A new World Bank report suggests that many more people are poorer than previously thought. The number is thought to be close to 1.4 bi... more -
Food, fuel, water crises converging
A specter is haunting the cities and villages of most developing nations, warns a senior official of a World Bank-affiliated organization.
"It's the specter of a food, fuel and water crisis," says Lars Thunell, executive vice president of the Washington-based International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank group.
"I believe we are at a tipping point," he said, because the scarcity of water poses a threat to the food supply just when the agricultural sector is stepping up production in response to riots over food prices, growing hunger, and rising malnutrition.
Speaking at the conclusion of the weeklong Stockholm International Water Conference Friday, Thunell said the growing demand for water is outpacing supply.
The world's current population of over 6 billion is expected to rise to about 9 billion by 2050, with more than 60 percent living in mega cities.
"Since water consumption goes up where there is development and improved lifestyles, we can expect even greater demands on fresh water," Thunell said.
The most water-intensive sector, agriculture, is expanding and industrialization and energy production are further driving demand, he added.
The conference, which was attended by over 2,400 water experts and government officials, ended with an ominous warning: that water and sanitation are not far behind the food, energy, and climate crises.
Summing up the weeklong proceedings, the Stockholm International Water Institute said that slow progress on sanitation will cause the world to badly fail to achieve the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). At the same time, weak policy, poor management, increasing waste, and exploding water demands will push the planet towards the tipping point of a global water crisis.
According to UN estimates a little less than 1 billion people worldwide still don't have access to clean drinking water while over 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation.
The MDGs aim at a 50-percent reduction both in the number of people without drinking water and without basic sanitation. The deadline has been set at 2015. But most of the world's poorer nations are likely to miss the deadline.
Colin Chartres, director general of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) said the causes of water scarcity are essentially identical to those of the food crisis.
"There are serious and extremely worrying factors that indicate that water supplies are close to exhaustion in some countries," he said.
He pointed out that current estimates indicate the world will not have enough water to feed itself in 40 years time, "by when the current food crisis may turn into a perpetual crisis."
Chartres said he and his water science colleagues have raised a warning flag that significant investments in both research and development and water infrastructure development are needed, "if dire consequences are to be avoided."
IFC's Thunell said providing clean water and sanitation services are not only business opportunities but also opportunities to improve lives. He said investors see an opportunity in the $450-billion global water sector, where stocks are performing strongly worldwide. A specter is haunting the cities and villages of most developing nations, warns a senior official of a World Bank-affiliated organizat... more -
The Doha dilemma
Wouldn't a dual solution be appropriate? I think that co-operation seems necessary.
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Don't believe the GMO apologists
Avarice and greed in the name of exploiting a food crisis brought on not by food shortages, but high prices of oil and feed and political corruption propagated by the very governments and agencies like the World Bank that are now pushing GM foods that are untested. Notice a pattern here?
From the article:
Arguments about genetic modification, often wrongly characterised as science versus irrational nature-worshippers, have lost none of their passion. On one side are those who yearn for simple, high-tech solutions to complex problems. Against GM, there are ecological realities and scientific evidence. There is overwhelming evidence that farming took a wrong turn after the last war, with widespread use of artificial nitrogen fertilisers and sprays.
In Britain, we lost up to 95 per cent of our ancient woodlands, flower meadows, hedges and wildlife and saw massive losses of farms and farm workers' jobs. Farming became more oil-dependent. Our food lost vitamins, taste and diversity and our diet became unhealthy.
As the environmental and human cost of industrial farming became harder to deny, along came a new miracle cure ; genetic engineering. Twenty years ago, GM promised unbelievable wonders ; fruit that would never freeze, crops needing no fertiliser or sprays and food with vitamins and medicines engineered in. All food would soon be GM. Geneticists would engineer anything we wanted, taking a gene from a fish here, a pig there, adding a bacteria gene and maybe a bit of a virus.
The greatest coup by the GM companies, and their greatest scientific fraud, was to ensure no GM food had to be tested for safety. In America, they established the concept of "substantial equivalence" which means that if a GM crop looks like its non-GM equivalent and grows like it, then it is it no safety testing is needed before people eat it. GM maize could have added virus and antibiotic resistance genes, and a gene that makes it express an insecticide in every leaf, stem and root but to the US government it looks and grows like maize, so it is safe to eat.
GM crops face mounting scientific evidence of uncertainty, risk and danger. But now, because of rising food prices, the GM industry's claim that GM is needed to feed the world is suddenly newsworthy again. However, a key reason for soaring food prices higher oil costs leading to higher fertiliser prices also presents a massive threat to GM crops. All current and planned GM crops depend on artificial, oil-based fertiliser to grow, and all need to be treated with pesticides to survive.
In 2006, the pro-GM US Department of Agriculture observed that "currently available GM crops do not increase yield potential" a point already made by a 2004 UN Food and Agriculture Organisation report which acknowledged that "GM crops can have reduced yields". The recently published UN IAASTD report, the work of more than 400 international scientists, about the future of global food production under the challenges of climate change and population pressure, concluded that GM crops do not have much to offer.
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GM foods: 'un'natural selection. Avarice and greed in the name of exploiting a food crisis brought on not by food shortages, but high prices of oil and feed and politi... more -
Congo launches review of logging contracts
*Africa's Deforestation Twice the World's Rate*
http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/37370
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo, home to the world's second largest tropical forest, launched a review of all timber contracts on Wednesday in an effort to clean up a business rife with corruption and to recoup millions of dollars in lost taxes.
THE WORDL BANK SPONSERED initiative will look at 156 deals. Most were signed during a 1998-2003 war and subsequent interim government accused of awarding numerous dubious logging and mining contracts
In 2002, with the country partially under the control of rebels, the Democratic Republic of Congo issued a five-year moratorium on new logging contracts as part of efforts to stem rampant deforestation aggravated by the conflict.
The measure went largely unheeded and companies continued to sign new deals.
Logging and land clearance for farming are eating away the Congo Basin, home to more than a quarter of the world's tropical forest, at the rate of more than 800,000 hectares a year.
Many contracts are expected to be cancelled outright by a review panel made up of government officials and independent experts.
"What I'm hoping for is fewer concessions. What I'm hoping for is more revenues for the state. What I'm hoping for is better management of the forestry sector," Environment Minister Jose Endundu told reporters on Wednesday.
Endundu said last month he wanted to reduce land attributed to logging companies to 15 million hectares from 20 million.
Amongst the biggest timber firms operating in Congo are Siforco, which is a subsidiary of Germany's Danzer Group, and Portuguese-owned Sodefor, a unit of holding company NST.
Together with a third company, Safbois, they account for more than 66 percent of the timber exported from Congo, researchers say.
PROFIT LAUNDERING
Conservation campaigner Greenpeace accused the Danzer Group on Wednesday of employing a system of price fixing and off-shore accounts to avoid paying taxes on timber harvested from Congo and neighboring Republic of Congo.
Greenpeace said the losses to both countries in tax revenues between 2000 and 2006 could top $12 million -- or around 50 times the annual operating budget of Democratic Republic of Congo's Environment Ministry.
"(Congo) is one of the poorest places on the planet and that companies like Danzer Group are looking for ways to avoid paying taxes is simply outrageous," Michelle Medeiros, Greenpeace International Africa Forest Coordinator, said in Zurich.
Responding to the charges, Danzer said the Greenpeace allegations were "totally without foundation".
"They are an absurd, populist gimmick designed to cloud the current public discussion surrounding tax evasion in a misleading Greenpeace report," it said in a statement. *Africa's Deforestation Twice the World's Rate* http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/37370 ... more -
Weapons of Mass Intolerance at DNC
Oh, they're getting ready alright... it looks to me like cops and media are going to be waiting... just waiting for someone to do ANYTHING that justifies the use of force and disinformation. See for yourself how they edit this report. The b-roll footage used is from the Seattle 1999 WTO protests. Oh, they're getting ready alright... it looks to me like cops and media are going to be waiting... just waiting for someone to do... more
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The politics of rice
Inside USA travels to Haiti to look at how the stories of politics, rice and the US are deeply interwoven.
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Premiere - Battle in Seattle poster
The official key art was released today for Battle in Seattle. Battle in Seattle premieres in Seattle, New York and San Fransisco in September.
What do you think of the poster? The official key art was released today for Battle in Seattle. Battle in Seattle premieres in Seattle, New York and San Fransisco in ... more -
Vandana Shiva - Exclusive Footage - WTO's Intellectual Property Rights Agreem...
Sturt Townsend interviews Vandana Shiva for the new 1999 WTO protest resource page.
http://www.youtube.com/user/whocontrolstheworld
Vandan Shiva discusses the inception and ramifications of the WTO's Intellectual Property Rights Agreement. Sturt Townsend interviews Vandana Shiva for the new 1999 WTO protest resource page. ... more -
Vandana Shiva - Exclusive Footage - Her Experience in Seattle at the 1999 WTO Prot...
Stuart Townsend interviews Vandana Shiva for the 1999 WTO protest resource page.
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Vandana Shiva discusses the highlights of her involvement in the 1999 WTO protest. Stuart Townsend interviews Vandana Shiva for the 1999 WTO protest resource page. http://www.youtube.com/user/whocontrolstheworld ... more -
Maude Barlow - Exclusive Footage - Can Trade and Protectionism Co-exist?
Stuart Townsend has interviewed Maude Barlow for the 1999 WTO protest resource page.
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Maude Barlow discuses the possibility that trade and the protection of local resources could successfully exist together. Stuart Townsend has interviewed Maude Barlow for the 1999 WTO protest resource page. ... more -
Victor Menotti - Exclusive Footage - Police Targeting "Leaders"
Stuart Townsend interviews Victor Menotti for the 1999 WTO protest resource page.
http://www.youtube.com/user/whocontrolstheworld
Victor Menotti and Mike Dolan tell the story of what happened to Victor during the protest.
Footage Source: Trade-Off Stuart Townsend interviews Victor Menotti for the 1999 WTO protest resource page. http://www.youtube.com/user/whocontrolstheworld ... more
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