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Duh! Child Abuse cover-up by UK Government possible


AAP
Mon, 07 Jul 2014 03:56 UTC
Tebbit

Lord Tebbit
Former Conservative British cabinet minister Lord Tebbit says there "may well" have been a political cover-up over child abuse at Westminster in the 1980s.

Lord Tebbit, who served in a series of senior ministerial posts under Margaret Thatcher, says the instinct at the time was to protect "the system" and not delve too deeply into uncomfortable allegations.


Comment: Uncomfortable for whom, though? The perpetrators in public office!


His incendiary claim follows the admission by the Home Office that more than 100 files relating to historic organised child abuse over a period of 20 years have gone missing.

Appearing on BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Lord Tebbit said: "At that time I think most people would have thought that the establishment, the system, was to be protected and if a few things had gone wrong here and there that it was more important to protect the system than to delve too far into it.


Comment: This is psychopathic double speak, meaning we politicians need to be protected from our evil actions, can't have the sheeple finding out what we are doing!

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Dominoes

Talk of a North American Union

Jerome R. Corsi
WND
Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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NEW YORK - In recent weeks, both General David Petraeus and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have woven into public speeches the theme of combining the United States, Canada and Mexico into a single, North American Union.

"After America, there is North America," explained Petraeus, the former U.S. military commander and former head of the CIA, to a panel entitled "After America, What?" held at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty on June 18, 2014, hosted by the Center for Policy Studies in Great Britain.

In his presentation to the conference, Petraeus proclaimed the coming of the "North American decade," a vision he explained was founded on the idea of putting together the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico, some 20 years after the creation of North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

"In each of these economies there are four revolutions going on," Petraeus continued, naming the following: an energy revolution, in which the United States is leading the world in the production of natural gas and shale oil, combined with Canada's enormous resources in the Alberta tar sands and Mexico opening up the state-owned Pemex to international oil companies; an information and technology revolution led by Silicon Valley; a manufacturing revolution; and a life sciences revolution.
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France sees the light but gives obligatory assurance that push against petrodollar is not a "Fight against dollar imperialism" which it is

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 15:02 UTC
Petrodollar

Bye bye petrodollar!
To complete the French triple whammy offensive against the US Dollar this weekend (first, French central banker Noyer suggesting de-dollarisation; second, French oil major Total's CEO "seeing no reason for the Petrodollar"), French finance minister Michel Sapin says "now is the right time to bolster the use of the euro" adding, more ominously for the dollar, "we sell ourselves aircraft in dollars. Is that really necessary? I don't think so."

Careful to avoid upsetting his 'allies' across the pond, Sapin followed up with the slam-dunk diplomacy, "This is not a fight against dollar imperialism," except, of course - that's exactly what it is... just as it was over 40 years ago when the French challenged Nixon.

Nope - no anti-dollar-imperiliasm here at all...

Single whammy:
  • NOYER: BNP CASE WILL ENCOURAGE 'DIVERSIFICATION' FROM DOLLAR
Here is the full google translated segment:

Comment: See also:

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Bye bye petrodollar! French CEO of one of the world's largest energy majors "sees no reason for petrodollar"

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 14:50 UTC
French Total oil company
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The USA is fast running out of friends to support its 'exorbitant privelege'. Having alienated the Germans over NSA-eavesdropping, 'boomerang'd the Russians into de-dollarization, tariffed and quantitatively eased China into diversification, and finally 'punished' France into discussing the dollar's demise; it appears no lessor person than the CEO of Total (the world's 13th biggest oil producer and Europe's 2nd largest), believes "There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars." Clearly, based on Christophe de Margerie's comments, that we have passed peak Petrodollar.

As Reuters reports,
Oil major Total's chief executive said on Saturday the euro should have a bigger role in international trade although it was not possible to do without the U.S. dollar.

Christophe de Margerie was responding to questions about calls by French policymakers to find ways at EU level to bolster the use of the euro in international business following a record U.S. fine for BNP.
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"There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars," he said. He said the fact that oil prices are quoted in dollars per barrel did not mean that payments actually had to be made in that currency.
So even a major beneficiary of the status quo appears to see the end in sight for the Petrodollar.
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Behind the Headlines: 'Terrorist Rectal Bombs' Social and Climate Chaos: Has Our World Gone Mad?

Sott Editors
Sott.net
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 18:00 UTC
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On this week's SOTT Talk Radio show we took a closer look at the latest developments in the never-ending 'war on terror' and the origins of the latest 'Islamic terror' bogeymen - ISIS. We delved (figuratively of course) into a new twist on the 'knicker bomber': the 'intrarectal terrorist bomb threat' that has appeared, on cue, for summer holiday season and is promising to make airport transitions as invasive (literally) as possible for millions of holiday-makers (the paedophilic elite can barely contain their glee!).

We also looked at the latest "global warming" data, and analysed the spectacular mental gymnastics that 'climate scientists' have been engaging in to explain the inexplicable. Speaking of the 'weather', we discussed the recent record-breaking flooding on every continent; 'haildrifts' up to 3 feet high being ploughed off streets in Tokyo, Spain, Istanbul and Mexico; and tornadoes touching down in the very unlikely locales of Norway, Sweden, Greece and Algeria.

From the stark increase in African immigrants risking horrific conditions (and their lives) on 'salvation seeking' boat rides to Italy that heralds an 'immigration crisis' for Europe, to the ongoing pedophilia in 'high places' scandal in the UK, the latest on the situation in Ukraine and the hard data linking fracking to earthquakes in the USA, we discussed all this and more on this week's Sott Talk Radio show!

Running Time: 02:08:00

Download: MP3

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Masked mob vandalizes Vesti newspaper office in Kiev as junta continues targeting journalists


RT
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 08:32 UTC
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Vesti newspaper office in Kiev
A crowd of around 50 masked men with stones and flares has attacked and vandalized the office of Kiev's Vesti newspaper. The paper's security guard was beaten as the mob shattered the windows and filled the building with tear gas.

A large group of unidentified people wearing masks attacked the newspaper office on Saturday morning, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry has confirmed. The investigators classified the incident as an "act of hooliganism."

One of the first reports of the assault came from the publication's nightshift editor Grigory Grin.

"At first I heard several shots, most probably from an automatic weapon. Then stones and Molotov cocktails flew into the windows on the ground and first floors. After that tear gas was blown into the building, which very quickly filled the whole office - it's still difficult to breathe there. One of the security guards, who tried to oppose the bandits, was beaten," Grin wrote.

"Apparently their task was to quickly ransack [the office] and in the same timely manner escape, to avoid being detained by law enforcement," he said, adding that the attackers also tried to get inside the building.

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Gilad Atzmon: Israel's genocidal nature


Press TV
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:18 UTC
Press TV has conducted an interview with Gilad Atzmon, a political commentator, from London, about the violent reaction by the Israeli prime minister and Israeli settlers to the confirmed deaths of three missing Israeli settlers.

The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

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Pirates

New attacks in Kenyan coastal region by militant puppets leaves at least 29 dead

Mary Harper
BBC
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 10:52 UTC
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A number of people were injured in the two attacks
At least 29 people have been killed in two deadly shooting attacks in Kenya's coastal districts, the interior ministry has said.

Witnesses said heavily armed men raided a trading centre in the village of Hindi, in Lamu county, and a police station in Gamba, Tana River county, overnight on Saturday.

The Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab said it was behind the killings.

It has made past claims it conducted various other attacks in the region.

Deputy Prime Minister William Ruto, who is currently visiting the region, is on his way to Gamba.


Comment: Mr. Uhuru is of course on to something which his western friendly opposition downplay in order for the message of 'be afraid now we don't have a government with western terror fighting allies at our disposal', to run its course.

The local al-Qaida fraction of al-Shabaab is of course linked to western intelligence:

The MI6 - Al-Shabaab Connection

Kenya al-Shabaab attack 'was led by white man speaking fluent British English'

Nairobi Westgate Mall massacre 'mastermind' was given cash, weapons and training by CIA and MI6 - Also served as regional recruiter for 'War on Terror' fodder

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Is the truth behind the Libyan war coming out?

Eric Draitser
New Eastern Outlook
Sun, 22 Jun 2014 00:00 UTC
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More than three years after the US and its NATO allies unleashed an "intervention" and regime change in Libya, the US establishment admits they maybe have "got it wrong." Naturally, there were many of us who were demonized endlessly for speaking out against that war, and against all those politicians, analysts, and "activists" on the left and right, who championed the "humanitarianism" of waging war on Libya. We were attacked as "soft on dictators," "conspiracy theorists," and "anti-Americans." And yet, today it is our voices that still proclaim loudly the immorality and illegality of that war. Thankfully, it seems the establishment is beginning to hear us.

Comment: It also shows the degree to which Western power centers have gained widespread control over all large news media outlets and "humanitarian" NGOs.

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Eye 1

Meet XKeyscore - NSA program devoted to gathering 'nearly everything' on internet users

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:01 UTC
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Meet XKeyscore - "a computer network exploitation system", as described in an NSA presentation, devoted to gathering "nearly everything a user does on the internet." The German site Das Erste has exposed the shocking truth about the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "target" for surveillance. While the NSA claims to only "target" a small fraction of internet users, the perhaps unsurprising truth is very different. As Boing Boing concludes, one expert suggested that the NSA's intention here was to separate the sheep from the goats -- to split the entire population of the Internet into "people who have the technical know-how to be private" and "people who don't" and then capture all the communications from the first group.

As Das Erste describes it,
The NSA program XKeyscore is a collection and analysis tool and "a computer network exploitation system", as described in an NSA presentation. It is one of the agency's most ambitious programs devoted to gathering "nearly everything a user does on the internet." The source code contains several rules that enable agents using XKeyscore to surveil privacy-conscious internet users around the world. The rules published here are specifically directed at the infrastructure and the users of the Tor Network, the Tails operating system, and other privacy-related software.
And Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing summarizes,

In a shocking story on the German site Tagesschau (Google translate), Lena Kampf, Jacob Appelbaum and John Goetz report on the rules used by the NSA to decide who is a "target" for surveillance.
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