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US envoy in Chinese-made ammunition cover up
A US ambassador helped conceal illegal Chinese origins of ammunition that a Pentagon contractor bought to supply Afghan security forces, Congressional investigators have learned, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Complete article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080624/wl_asia_afp/usafgh...
The law of capitalism shines as bright as ever. A US ambassador helped conceal illegal Chinese origins of ammunition that a Pentagon contractor bought to supply Afghan security force... more -
John Yoo's Ongoing Falsehoods in Service of Limitless Government Power -Glenn...
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri -- the computer science graduate student at Bradley University, in the U.S. on a student visa -- was arrested at his home in Peoria, Illinois where he lived with his wife and five children, charged with credit card fraud, only to then have his trial canceled at the last minute by George Bush, who declared him an "enemy combatant" and ordered him into military custody, where he remained for years with no charges.
Complete article at http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/17/yoo/
How long?...Not long! Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri -- the computer science graduate student at Bradley University, in the U.S. on a student visa -- was arreste... more -
$187 Billion OFF Budget Supplemental Bill to Avoid Budgetary Rules
The latest spending spree soon to be voted on by Congress. Another loan by the US Government from the Federal Reserve (which is a private corporation) that will continue to push the value of the US dollar even lower.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog/ The latest spending spree soon to be voted on by Congress. Another loan by the US Government from the Federal Reserve (which is a pri... more -
Biofuels Phuk People Up
Biofuels may help reduce humanity's carbon footprint, but the social footprint is substantial.
"These workers should have a break, a place to eat and access to a proper restroom," Marcus Vinicius Goncalves, a government labor cop in suit and tie, declared in the midst of a snarl of felled stalks and bedraggled cane cutters here. "This is degrading treatment."
More than 300,000 farmworkers are seasonal cane cutters in Brazil, the government says. By most accounts, their work and living conditions range from basic to deplorable to outright servitude.
"Brazil has a great climate, great land and technology, but a lot of the competitive edge for biofuels is due to worker exploitation -- from slave work to underpayment," said Leonardo Sakamoto, a political scientist who runs a nonprofit labor watchdog group in Sao Paulo.
In the last four years, said a lawyer from the Public Ministry, which acts as the Sao Paulo state district attorney, at least 18 cane cutters have died of dehydration, heart attacks or other ailments linked to exhaustion in this region, where the forests long ago gave way to agriculture.
That does not include an unknown number of others who died in accidents, said the lawyer, Luis Henrique Rafael, part of a two-attorney team from the Public Ministry's office that recently toured the area to investigate abuses of the labor code.
"They died from excess work," Rafael said. "Even prisoners have a better life. These men's only form of leisure is cachaca," he added, referring to the liquor distilled from sugar cane...[click the article to read more] Biofuels may help reduce humanity's carbon footprint, but the social footprint is substantial. ... more -
Myanmar says US aid can't be trusted
There are so many valid reasons to be this suspicious of U.S. intentions. How many lives will be lost over this distrust?
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The capitalist conspiracy in ya face
Think conspiracies don't work??? They do indeed. It was a conspiracy that directed Brutus against Caesar in the Roman senate on the Ides of March. It was a conspiracy that plotted the betrayal of Westpoint by Benedict Arnold during the Revolution. It was a conspiracy that led John Wilkes Booth to the assassination of President Lincoln on Good Friday, 1865... John F. Kennedy, himself the victim of a conspiracy assassination WARNED us about it:
"...There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation, if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger, that an announced need for increased security, will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment...we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversions instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military diplomatic intelligence economic scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. It mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed..." --President John F. Kennedy
There is an OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED conspiracy that seeks world control through capitalist agendas (Monsanto, Microsoft, IBM, Blackwater, Haliburton etc), and most Americans are just flatly ignorant and/or (equally unbecoming) pridefully stupid about it:
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." --Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802), 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)
"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments
by controlling the money and its issuance."--James Madison, the 4th President of the United States (1809-1817)
Consider also President Andrew Jackson's scathing evaluation of central banking:
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out... If people only understood the rank injustice of the money and banking system, there would be a revolution by morning." ….
Andrew Jackson publicly pledging to defeat international monopolist bankers to their face in his speech. Jackson vanquished a global cartel in its plans for a privately owned “U.S.” central bank. A public murder attempt on Andrew Jackson failed shortly thereafter by a double misfire of the assassin’s pistols. Think conspiracies don't work??? They do indeed. It was a conspiracy that directed Brutus against Caesar in the Roman senate on... more -
Presidential candidates united on Darfur
The three major U.S. presidential candidates issued a rare joint statement on Wednesday condemning atrocities against civilians in Sudan and demanding an end to the violence.
"After more than five years of genocide, the Sudanese government and its proxies continue to commit atrocities against civilians in Darfur," said the statement signed by Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain.
"This is unacceptable to the American people and to the world community," the candidates said, adding that it was clear the Sudanese government was behind the violence.
They made clear that tough policies against the violence in Darfur would continue when the next president is seated in the White House in January, whichever of the three wins takes office in January.
"It would be a huge mistake for the Khartoum regime to think that it will benefit by running out the clock on the Bush administration," the candidates said. "If peace and security for the people of Sudan are not in place when one of us is inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009, we pledge that the next administration will pursue these goals with unstinting resolve." The three major U.S. presidential candidates issued a rare joint statement on Wednesday condemning atrocities against civilians in Sud... more -
Is Obama a CFR Puppet???
The Council on Foreign Relations is one of the major conduits between government
and business leaders in the US. The CFR is guaranteeing power by
owning all the horses in the race that is the 2008 election...
Obama enjoys a
popular image as a liberal democrat, and his harsh criticism of the
Iraq war has earned him support from a population united in it's
discontent with the current government. To a select crowd of
Americans, Obama preaches against the handling of the Iraq war. To
other more private groups, Obama advocates military strikes on new
middle eastern countries. Obama has aligned himself with several
lobbying firms and nongovernmental organizations who seek further US
militarization of the world. In several speeches and essays, Obama
makes his foreign policy goals clear – and he is not anti-war. Is
Obama intentionally sending a deceptive message to his constituency?...
Barack Obama has
captivated voters from all parties with his refreshing new style of
rhetoric. He has the voting record to back his criticism of the Iraq
war. But like his CFR colleagues, he vows to continue the pursuit of
a shadowy enemy under the vague threat of “terrorism” - a policy
that has cost citizens their personal liberties, trillions in debt
and untold lives. The war on terror has been crafted to spend the
US into bankruptcy and setup a domestic police state. Money
continues to be being printed out of thin air by the private
run-for-profit Federal Reserve, while China remains leveraged with
over $1 trillion in US dollar holdings. In the middle east, the
CFR's blank check for U.S. military operations will deplete U.S.
resources while inciting sectarian strife and anti-U.S. sentiment,
ignoring the history of blowback as documented by the CIA. Obama and
other CFR candidates affiliation with the organization is not
promoted on their websites or in any press releases because the
organization has centralized political power and financial capital to
set policy the public would otherwise oppose. The career
politicians in the CFR know corporate sponsorship is frowned upon by
voters. The Council is one of the major conduits between government
and business leaders in the US. The CFR is guaranteeing power by
owning all the horses in the race that is the 2008 election. Obama
is captivating unlike most of his competition, undoubtedly
intelligent enough to understand his political niche. Another CFR
US president guarantees more of the same costly foreign policy that
protects corporate interests and isolates the US. Like his
colleagues, Barack Obama's stated foreign policy intentions foment
the long term militarization and balkanization of the middle east
while resources will continue to be spent in deficit to finance an
illegal foreign policy. Only when the control of the CFR is fully
exposed will the voters have a real democratic choice...
Surprisingly, many
of its own members admit the CFR goal is to subvert the democratic
process. CFR member and Judge Advocate General of the US Navy
Admiral Chester Ward writes “The main purpose of the (CFR) is
promoting the disarmament of US sovereignty and national dependence
and submergence into and all powerful, one world government.”.
This high ranking military officer went on to explain their
procedures for influencing policy, claiming: “Once the ruling
members of the CFR shadow government have decided that the US
government should adopt a particular policy, the very substantial
research facilities of the CFR are put to work to develop arguments,
intellectual and emotional, to support the new policy and to confound
and discredit, intellectually and politically, any opposition... The Council on Foreign Relations is one of the major conduits between government ... more -
White House denies story about attacking Iran
The White House on Tuesday denied a published report in Israel that said President Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term in January.
A story in the Jerusalem Post quoted a "senior official" there as saying that Bush plans to attack Iran in the coming months. The story says the unidentified official claimed that a "senior member" of Bush's traveling entourage made the statement about attacking Iran in a closed meeting. Bush was in Israel last week.
The article also says the unnamed Bush official said that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney "were of the opinion that military action were called for."
But White House press secretary Dana Perino wrote in a statement, ""An article in today's Jerusalem Post about the president's position on Iran that quotes unnamed sources — quoting unnamed sources — is not worth the paper it's written on."
"Let me respond by reaffirming the policy of the administration: We, along with our international allies who want peace in the Middle East, remain opposed to Iran's ambitions to obtain a nuclear weapon," Perino said. "To that end, we are working to bring tough diplomatic and economic pressure on the Iranians to get them to change their behavior and to halt their uranium enrichment program."
Perino said the "president of the United States should never take options off the table, but our preference and our actions for dealing with this matter remain through peaceful diplomatic means. Nothing has changed in that regard."
Credit: Yahoo News The White House on Tuesday denied a published report in Israel that said President Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his t... more -
Pakistan, an example of failed U.S. foreign policy
Johnathan Schell on Pakistan and the nuclear bomb (part 1 - I'll post part 2 as soon as it is available).
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Noam Chomsky On U.S. Policy Towards Iran
Noam Chomsky concisely explains the history of U.S. versus Iran over the past half-century, and points out the obvious, showing the U.S. leaders for the utter hypocrites they really are. Noam Chomsky concisely explains the history of U.S. versus Iran over the past half-century, and points out the obvious, showing the U.... more
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Noam Chomsky on the Democratic presidential race and Iran
"The Democratic Party is somewhere in between the administration and overwhelming world opinion. I mean, the world is just appalled at the thought that the United States might invade Iran, attack Iran. Now, even in the region, you know, where the countries don't like Iran at allTurkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan hostile to Iran in many waysbut, nevertheless, the population in the region, which has been polled, prefers Iran to have nuclear weapons than to having any war, even though they definitely don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons."
Noam Chomsky also points out the great difference between Kucinich (and Gravel) and the other Democratic candidates - all the more reason to vote for Kucinich. "The Democratic Party is somewhere in between the administration and overwhelming world opinion. I mean, the world is just appall... more
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