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Best of the Web: Will We Ever Stop the Killings?

Sherwood Ross
Australia.to
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:42 EST

Every time the young stick-up man tugged at my companion's purse with his left hand, she would pull back, causing the muzzle of the pistol he held in his right hand to swing back and forth. Its line of fire each time was directed across my chest and if he accidentally or deliberately squeezed the trigger this piece might never have been written.

"Give him your purse!" I insisted, meaning that hanging on to it wasn't worth our lives. Still, she refused and the tug-of-war in the parking lot of my apartment building continued.

"Here!" I said to the gunman, pitching my wallet to him, "take this!" He caught the wallet, turned and fled across a wide, deserted ballpark. Even in the darkness, we could follow him running for a long way, silhouetted in the lights of the U.S. Capitol, lit up at night ahead of him like a giant white cake.

A few days later I received a call from a Maryland department store inquiring if I had sent a young man to buy a TV set on my credit card. A store detective arrested the youth and I dutifully showed up in court on the day of the trial only to learn he had skipped.

Colin Coyle
The Sunday Times
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:58 EST

It wasn't quite The Day After Tomorrow but it's closer than we thought. An analysis of mud from Lough Monreagh, a lake in Co Clare, has revealed that Europe was struck by a sudden mini ice age 12,800 years ago, suggesting the kind of rapid climate change previously seen only in Hollywood disaster movies.

It was believed that the "Big Freeze" took about a decade to set in. Based on an analysis of Greenland's ice cores, scientists have estimated that the Younger Dryas, as the event is also named, occurred gradually.

However, after analysing mud deposits from Lough Monreagh, William Patterson of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, has found that the freeze took only months to take hold.

Using a very precise robotic scalpel, Patterson and his colleagues shaved 0.5mm layers from the lake bed, each representing up to three months of sediment. Carbon isotopes in the samples recorded changes to biological activity in the lake, while oxygen isotopes revealed temperature and rainfall patterns.

The tiny mud deposits showed for the first time that temperatures in Ireland dropped suddenly in the space of several months at the time of the Big Freeze.

Comment: We can add this to the growing body of data pointing to the very real prospect of a sudden onset ice age:

Fire and Ice: The Day After Tomorow

Carl Herman
Examiner.com
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:29 EST

"At first blush, a man is not capable of reporting truth; he must be drenched and saturated with it first." - Henry David Thoreau, I to Myself.

As I've previously written, the interest payment on the national debt is now ~$450 billion every year, there is no plan to ever repay the debt (we only pay the interest), and our monetary system only and always creates money as debt: condemning us to perpetually increasing debt for ourselves and our posterity.

This debt-based monetary system was institutionalized through the Robber-Baron Federal Reserve in 1913. It takes the money-creation power of the US and transfers it to banks, that then create money as debt and lend it to us. Because the government gave away this power, they have to borrow their own money. The solution, as advocated by many of the America's brightest historical minds, is to merely transfer the money-creation power back to the people. The idea is supported among US third parties, and growing factions among the Republican and Democratic parties. The most well-known current journalists/advocates on this topic that I know of are Ellen Brown, Bill Still, Paul Grignon, and Stepen Zarlenga.

What this policy change means is to transfer power to the peoples' representatives, government, which will require a concurrent (and unimaginable) transformation of transparency and accountability. As we know, when our government and so-called mainstream media lie about policy of such magnitude as military invasions that kill millions, you can count on their lies with trillions of dollars. A political strategy of state-level, rather than national, might be a better starting place (and here).

Best of the Web: Morality vs. Material Interests

Paul Craig Roberts
Information Clearing House
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:52 EST

Myths of Our Time

It is conventional wisdom that it was the draft that ended the Vietnam war. According to this explanation, cowardly college students subject to the draft and their unpatriotic families, forced an end to the war. This is Karl Marx's explanation. Material interests, not empty morality, are said to have brought the war to an end.

That fact that in those days the US still had an independent media of sorts that sometimes framed the war in moral terms is ignored. Are we sure, for example, that the film of the naked little girl running in terror down the road burning with napalm was ineffectual in arousing moral opposition to the war? Are we certain that it wasn't an aroused moral conscience that brought about the end of the war but was college students' fears for their lives and limbs?

If we ascribe ending the war to material interests, it makes ending the war look as unworthy as the war itself.

Best of the Web: Beliefs: The Power Behind Unending Warfare

Jeff Gates
Veterans Today
Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:43 EST

In unconventional warfare, manipulated beliefs are used to displace inconvenient facts. When waging war by way of deception, false beliefs are an oft-deployed weapon. Recall Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda? Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories?

Iraqi meetings in Prague with Al Qaeda? Iraqi purchases of yellowcake uranium from Niger? All these claims were reported as true. All were later proven false or, worse, fabricated. Yet all were widely believed. Only the yellowcake uranium was conceded as bogus before the invasion of Iraq. As the U.S. crafted its response to the provocation of a mass murder on U.S. soil, those widely shared beliefs shaped a consensus to wage war on a nation that had no hand in it.

A similar deception - traceable to the same source - is now working to expand this war to Iran. Based on fast-emerging events, the next conflict could include Pakistan.

The modern battlefield has shifted. Ground warfare is now secondary. Likewise air strikes, combat troops, naval support and even covert operations. Those physical operations are all downstream of information operations. Manipulated beliefs come first. Psyops precede bombs and bullets. Hardware ranks a distant third.

First and foremost are the consensus shapers and thought manipulators who target perceptions and opinions until a critical mass of agreement is reached. Then comes war. Those skilled at such duplicity induced coalition troops to war in Iraq. Knowledge was their target. Manipulate thought and all else was downstream.

Monica Villamizar
Al Jazeera
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:04 EST

As its troops continue to face lengthy and mutiple tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States is looking at new ways to attract potential army recruits.

The US military says the economic downturn and rising unemployment are sending more and more young people into their recruiting offices.

Dahr Jamail
Truthout.org
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:28 EST

The military operates through indoctrination. Soldiers are programmed to develop a mindset that resists any acknowledgment of injury and sickness, be it physical or psychological. As a consequence, tens of thousands of soldiers continue to serve, even being deployed to combat zones like Iraq and/or Afghanistan, despite persistent injuries. According to military records, over 43,000 troops classified as "nondeployable for medical reasons" have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan nevertheless.

The recent atrocity at Fort Hood is an example of this. Maj. Nidal Hasan had worked as a counselor at Walter Reed, hearing countless stories of bloodshed, horror and death from dismembered veterans from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. While he had not yet served in Iraq or Afghanistan, the major was overloaded with secondary trauma, coupled with ongoing harassment about his being a Muslim. This, along with other factors, contributed towards Hasan falling into a desperation so deep he was willing to slaughter fellow soldiers, and is indicative of fissures running deep into the crumbling edifice upon which the US military stands.

Carl Herman
The Examiner
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:28 EST

Gerald Celente is one of the world's best trend forecasters. In the following 4-part radio interview, Celente blasts current political and economic "leadership" as beholden to large corporate and financial interests. As I've documented, professionals who work with economics are using unprecedented harsh language in attempt to get Americans' attention to the loss of trillions of our collective dollars. His comments include (paraphrased):

"Too big to fail" banks are anathema to real capitalism.

US economy is like a ruthless mafia ripping-off the American public. The US is being looted.

US economy is no longer capitalism, it's oligarchies and fascism.

We are witnessing the greatest heist in American history, and the banks are doing it.

I don't like getting raped. I don't like my money going to Goldman Sachs."

Do you have eyes to see and a mind to understand? These crimes are an affront to my intelligence.

Bankers are money junkies lying to get their money fix. We have a criminal gang of money junkies dealing scams to get money from us. They never have enough. And for what? For gambling.

This is no different from the French Revolution.

The money junkies are in for a shock. The second American Revolution has begun.

They are not my political leaders; they are political hacks. We are going back to royalty and serfs.

This country doesn't have a clue what's going on, their minds have been deadened looking at presidential reality shows and bowing to political demagogues. What people have to do more than ever is think for themselves.

And reform is not on the way. Senator Bird's "reform" bill is nothing but empty rhetoric. My favorite economic analyst, Washington's Blog, gives a great overview. One helpful context to consider is the American economy is suffering from parasites.

Mark Glenn
The Ugly Truth
Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:34 EST

What? What?? Whaaaaat?!?!?!

No, this can't be. According to an article appearing in one of Israel's biggest mainstream news outlets - Haaretz - Israeli Military Intelligence is AT THIS VERY MOMENT trying to "figure out" what went wrong in 1954 with something known as the "Lavon Affair", described by the news outlet as a "sabotage operation" by Israel in "bombing theaters, post offices and U.S. and British institutions, and making it seem as though Egypt was behind the bombings".

Ohhhh, this simply can't be, or as the character Vizzini infamously said over and over again in that adorable movie the Princess Bride - "INCONCEIVABLE". Israel - the apple of God's eye - deliberately bomb American buildings with the intention of blaming it on her Arab enemies in order to achieve a desired political outcome? Deliberately put innocent civilian life in jeopardy with an overt act of state terrorism?

She would NEVER do something like this, and especially not to her bestest buddy in da whole-wide woyld, America. After all, the Jews are God's chosen people, and something like this would be a sin and they - the Jewish people - don't sin.

In a word - INCONCEIVABLE.

Best of the Web: Video: Robert F Kennedy Jr. on Vaccine Cover-Up

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Youtube
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:00 EST

Part 1

Comment: Kennedy wrote an article for Rolling Stone back in 2005 in which he laid out the details of the cover-up of the Simpson Wood Conference, a CDC sponsored meeting which was held in private, though it was tax-payer funded. The damage control machinery went into full swing to try to discredit the article and Kennedy. However, the facts were hard to dispute, especially after a FOIA act revealed the transcript of the meeting in which members were shocked to discover a link between Thimerosal and neurological disorders, including autism. The CDC then funded a study to cover up the link and sold off the VAERS data to private industry in order to conceal the evidence.

Vaccines biggest proponent, Dr. Paul Offit, who was also a CDC adviser, took home a fortune of at least $29 million as part of a $182 million sale by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia royalty interest to Merck for his development of the Rotateq vaccine.

As Dr. Wakefield, who found a connection between the MMR vaccination and autism, has said:

"I was accused of going beyond the science when I suggested that parents should have single jabs until the MMR had been properly assessed for risk.

"I had assessed the data and the safety study relied upon by the Department of Health and it was derisory. It was no way as good as the research into the single jabs.

"Bernadine Healy, the former head of the US National Institute for Health, admitted they had altered evidence on the epidemiological studies conducted by the US Government to suit the official line. She admitted the evidence both the US and UK relies on is useless.

"The UK Government has a big dirty secret that it doesn't want the public to know. . . . they agreed to under write any compensation claims for the MMR. This is why they can't and won't let their position fail.

"It was inevitable I was going to be dragged in front of the GMC because I dared to question big business. They always come after those who don't toe their line."

Healy went on to say that, in the words of the CBS reporter "There is a completely expressed concern that they don't want to pursue a hypothesis because that hypothesis could be damaging to the public health community at large by scaring people." This explains why every industry and government funded research into the vaccine-autism link is fatally flawed, because they refuse to compare a completely unvaccinated population to a vaccinated one.

The lengths the vaccine industry will go to push the absurdity of vaccination, knowing its dangers, is truly breathtaking. It has been shown that simply taking Vitamin D supplements and getting enough sun exposure can ward off most cancers and prevent the flu.

But the real reasons vaccinations are being pushed, beyond money and profits, may be more nefarious. As part of the published depopulation programs it is necessary to have a compliant public willing to submit, against their own interests, to the policies of the governing elite. According to National Security Study Memorandum 200 of December 10, 1974 and authored by the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger in which a population control program was laid out, "In these sensitive relations, however, it is important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of coercion." Tainted vaccines whose poisons linger in the body possibly for decades before health problems emerge - or are triggered - are just one method for population control and reduction.

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"The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty" Adlai E. Stevenson

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"This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths." Simon Heffer in The Daily Mail, 7 June 2000

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"A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press, must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the right of the people to know.": Murray I. Gurfein

One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to steadily convince them with propaganda that they're still free. N.A. Scott