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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Globalists Highjack Olympic Games Killing Off Spirit and Its Future
Globalists Highjack Olympic Games Killing Off Spirit and Its FutureJuly 28, 2012 | Johnny Punish
Enjoy The Dying Olympic Games in London
In 1948, London saved the modern day Olympic games. It was 3 years after World War II ended and 12 years since an Olympic games were held after suspension due to the war. London, while in tatters after the blitzkrieg, rose to the occasion and held the “Austerity Games”; a major success which opened the door for the next 60 years of Olympic success.
Fast forward to 2012 and with a gluttonous budget of 17 billion, these London games are the exact opposite. They mark the beginning of the end of this era’s Olympic fest
First off, with a budget larger than the GDP of most of the countries who are participating is simply out of touch. Second, the only people who can afford to attend the games in person are the 1 percenters or those who work for the corporate sponsors. The locals who live in London have been shut out vis-a-vis ticket prices and unavailability of tickets because they were allocated to the corporate sponsors.
Nope, these are NOT the peoples games. This has become a love fest for the 1% who run the Monetary Economic System and deliver the show to global peasantry via the various pay for TV systems around the world. It’s just another delivery device used by the elite to re-enforce the failing economic system of consumerism and wage slave-ism whereby the elite can continue its control over the billions of us who are at their mercy.
Furthermore, it’s fitting, that these games are being held in the city that wins the award for modern day surveillance. Yep! Jolly Ole London has more big brother cameras and surveillance watching it’s people than another city on this planet. She is the poster child for the Bilderberg future being implemented as we watch this former glorious event.
Now, that’s not the say the athletes won’t be super duper. The young people there competing have the spirit to perform with most of them getting nothing but the experience to be among their peers.
Of course, for some, they are already millionaires or will shortly become so as they play into the system and sell their souls for rock n roll and the products that they will endorse to perpetuate the global consumption system.
All of this above will eventually collapse the system because it’s ultimately corrupted by the greed of the organizers and corporate backers.
On its own, it will collapse eventually as the global peoples reject this display of greed masking itself as sport.
But what will really kill this modern version the Olympics is evolution itself.
The whole idea of nationalism is already dead. It’s just that the elites have not formally announced its obituary.
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| 1948 Austerity Olympics in London save the modern day Olympics |
And it’s not just Romney, it’s all global politicians and corporate leaders. They are playing the global game while they keep us under control in the antiquated nationalist game where they can collect our taxes, wage slave us out, and farm us for their agendas.
While the peoples of the world continue to buy in to the separation politics that is nationalism, it works for the elite.
And so, today, in London, for archery, China won the first gold medal of these dying Olympic games. But really, it was not China that won. It was the athlete that won the medal. He earned it. Not the elites in China who are playing the global game.
And so, someday, soon, once the peoples recognize they’ve been playing an old game while leaders have been playing a completely different game, nationalism will die and so will this modern perversion of the games.
We will have a new Olympic games that celebrates the athlete directly. No country will win anything. There will only be us; the people. One Love! One People! All of us. The new Olympic spirit will be that all of us will pledge allegiance to every human on the planet; not to some arbitrary country drawn up by some corporate leader owners. Nope!
So enjoy these dying games…..and the sooner we get rid of this perversion, the better.
The Olympic Hunger Games: Brought to you by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, BP, Exxon, the Queen of England, and the Nathan Rothchilds who are playing golf around the world and laughing at us! Good riddance!
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Trans-Pacific Partnership: Agenda 21 Meets Global Corporate Takeover
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Agenda 21 Meets Global Corporate TakeoverJuly 28, 2012 | Susanne Posel
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “is a key trade initiative” that the Obama administration claims is “seeking to support jobs for American workers by boosting American exports to the dynamic Asia-Pacific region, promote manufacturing, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and at the same time, reflect in the agreement important values on key issues such as worker rights and the environment.”
However, the agenda of the TPP is a securitization of customs and border patrol services, telecommunications, corporate competition policy that directly effects immigration, corporate investments, and the addition of intellectual property rights with focus on copyright limitations.
The TPP, held in secret, is in actuality a multi-national trade agreement that seeks to extend intellectual property rights across the globe; creating an international enforcement scheme.
In a White House statement , Obama seeks to incorporate America with Canada and the other TPP countries in a “next-generation regional agreement that liberalizes trade and investment.” The press release explains that TPP will build upon “the commitments of NAFTA.”
The TPP defines intellectual property as:
• Copyright
• Trademarks
• Patents
• Geopolitical indicators
The leaked document drafted as the US TPP Intellectual Property Rights Chapter clearly states that negotiators for Obama are actively pushing for the adaptation of copyright measures that further restrict that is outlined in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and other similar international treaties.
There is an initiative to control global IP enforcement by the UN under signatory treaty wherein nations will be mandated to enact domestic laws that have been worded to reflect the provisions in the TPP agreement.
As in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), that places federal agencies in control of digital “locks” and enforcement of over=blown statutory damages on claims of copyright infringement; as well as restricting the US Congress from altering existing IP governances as changes in technology and innovation demands such elasticity.
The restrictive nature of the TPP is evidenced in such obligations as:
- Strict punishment over temporary use of copyrighted material without the holder’s authorization
- Import bans on “parallel goods” from foreign nations wherein copyright authorization is required
- Extend copyright terms beyond 70 years as agreed in the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of IP
- Enact laws that treat copyright violation and technological protection measures as separate offences regardless of proof that copyright infringement has occurred
- Classify copyright infringement as a criminal offense
- Complete adaptation of the DMCA Internet Intermediaries copyright safe harbor regime
This amicable request has fallen on deaf ears as the Obama administration continues to shroud the TPP talks in secrecy.
The propaganda in the public forum is that the TPP is a sort of Free Trade Act (FTA) which masks the massive profits that corporations stand to gain and the elimination of those currently employed as multi-national business is converted into a weapon of mass destruction .
Outsourcing, which was endorsed by NAFTA over a decade ago, would be enhanced under TPP, where manipulation of governments by mega-corporations could ensure profit margins increase exponentially.
Within TPP is an UN-like tribunal of attorneys that would govern legal disputes, enforce through international judgment complaints regarding governmental regulations and oversee adherence to corporate operations despite independent right of sovereign nations under international mandate.
Ron Kirkland, US Trade Representative for the Obama administration believes that public interest and national sovereignty must be cast to the wayside under global governance that is in line with multi-national corporate agendas that serve the global Elite.
Corporate control over natural resources through the use of international tribunals that will rule over environmental issues, land use, public health, and any and all laws or regulations foreign or domestic that apply. Those tribunals would be seated by private sector lawyers operating under the UN and World Bank (WB) demand for taxpayer compensation of domestic regulatory policies because corporations must be paid back for “expected future profits”.
In basic terms, with the aid of tribunal “courts” corporations can put pressure on governments to weaken their environmental policies at the whim of the multi-national company with the backing of international mandate.
This has happened already in various places around the world:
- Chevron used investor tribunals to invade Ecuador and commit toxic contamination of indigenous areas
- Renco Group Inc used investor-tribunals to pollute Peru with residue from smelter factories without having to clean up their mess
- Pacific Rim Mining Corp, while mining for gold, contaminated natural water sources with cyanide without punitive action against them by coercing governments to rewrite water policies
Fear Tactic Propaganda: DHS gears up for civil unrest prior to presidential elections
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July 28, 2012 | RT.com
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered masses of riot gear equipment to prepare for potential significant domestic riots at the Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention and next year’s presidential inauguration.
The DHS submitted a rushed solicitation to the Federal Business Opportunities site on Wednesday, which is a portal for Federal government procurement requisitions over $25,000. The request gave the potential suppliers only one day to submit their proposals and a 15-day delivery requirement to Alexandria, Virginia.
As the brief explains, “the objective of this effort is to procure riot gear to prepare for the 2012 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the 2013 Presidential Inauguration and other future similar activities.”
The total amount ordered is about 150 sets of riot helmets, thigh and groin protectors, hard-shell shin guards and other riot gear.
Specifically, DHS is looking to obtain:
- “147 riot helmets” with “adjustable tactical face shield with liquid seal”
- “147 sets of upper body and shoulder protection”
- “152 sets of thigh and groin protection”
- “147 hard-shell shin guards” with “substantial protection from flying debris, non-ballistic weapons, and blows to the leg” and “optimized protective design for severe riot control or tactical situations.”
- “156 forearm protectors”
- “147 pairs of tactical gloves”
The riot gear will be worn by Federal Protective Service agents who are tasked with protecting property, grounds and buildings owned by the federal government.
The urgency of the order can be explained by the fact that there is a growing anticipation that many demonstrators will travel to the Republican National Convention (RNC), scheduled for August 27-30 in Tampa Bay, Florida, and Democratic National Convention (DNC), planned for September 3-6 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The RNC itself, for example, will have free speech zones, which will serve as containment quarters for the protesters by not allowing them to leave the designated areas and cause trouble.
Another recent DHS move to gear up was back in March of this year, when it gave the defense contractor ATK a deal to provide the DHS with 450 million .40 caliber hollow-point ammunition over a five year period.
On top of that, the DHS has recently purchased a number of bullet-proof checkpoint booths and hired hundreds of new security guards to protect government buildings.
| Comment: Obviously, these terrorist have stolen everything and plan to continue to rape the country of every last thing we have. My suggestion is to buckle down as the green light has been given to destroy them and take back our country. It's been done before if you know your history. Although the photo above is the police in the UK, not America, they will be on their own when it happens for a while. At least this is what is stirring in the underground and it would be worthy, and terminations acceptable without surrender. The people of America deserve this, and the word is that this event will take place asap. There have been civil wars before, America is on tap for one right now. |
Friday, July 27, 2012
Breaking: Mass arrests as London police attack 'Critical Mass' cycle ride during Olympic ceremony (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
Breaking: Mass arrests as London police attack 'Critical Mass' cycle ride during Olympic ceremony (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
July 27, 2012 | Rt.com
Image from twitter.com @MetPoliceEvents
Video from YouTube user iggymontonero
London police have used pepper spray against “critical mass” cycle ride as the British capital holds the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Games. “Large number of people” arrested said a police tweet.
Critical Mass is a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month all around the world. Earlier there were been calls on the Internet to stage the London ride on July 27 as an anti-Olympics protest.
Scuffles occurred near the Olympic Stadium on the outskirts of the Olympic Park with participants saying they were being “kettled”. Some witnesses said police pushed the cyclists aside to get David Beckham through traffic.
A video uploaded to YouTube by a witness to the arrests showed police assaulting and pepper-spraying a disabled man on a tricycle.
"A number of people in breach of regulations imposed on a monthly cycling event have been arrested," a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.
Image from twitter.com @MetPoliceEvents
Image from twitter.com @indyrikki
July 27, 2012 | Rt.com
Image from twitter.com @MetPoliceEvents
Video from YouTube user iggymontonero
London police have used pepper spray against “critical mass” cycle ride as the British capital holds the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Games. “Large number of people” arrested said a police tweet.
Critical Mass is a cycling event typically held on the last Friday of every month all around the world. Earlier there were been calls on the Internet to stage the London ride on July 27 as an anti-Olympics protest.
Scuffles occurred near the Olympic Stadium on the outskirts of the Olympic Park with participants saying they were being “kettled”. Some witnesses said police pushed the cyclists aside to get David Beckham through traffic.
A video uploaded to YouTube by a witness to the arrests showed police assaulting and pepper-spraying a disabled man on a tricycle.
"A number of people in breach of regulations imposed on a monthly cycling event have been arrested," a spokesman for Scotland Yard said.
Image from twitter.com @MetPoliceEvents
Image from twitter.com @indyrikki
Vampire stars suck life from their neighbours
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| Artist's impression of a vampire star and its victim. Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada/S.E. de Mink |
July 27, 2012 | Phenomenica
An international team of astronomers has spotted a strange phenomena called as ‘vampire stars’, where a smaller companion star sucks matter off the surface of its larger neighbour using the very large telescope in Chile.
They looked at what are known as O-type stars, which have very high temperature, mass and brightness. These stars have short and violent lives and play a key role in the evolution of galaxies.
“These stars are absolute behemoths. They have 15 or more times the mass of our Sun and can be up to a million times brighter. These stars are so hot that they shine with a brilliant blue-white light and have surface temperatures over 30,000C,” the Daily Mail quoted Hugues Sana, from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, who is the lead author of the study, as saying.
The astronomers studied a sample of 71 O-type single stars and stars in pairs (binaries) in six nearby young star clusters in the Milky Way. Most of the observations in their study were obtained using ESO telescopes, including the VLT.
By analysing the light coming from these targets in greater detail than before, the team discovered that 75 per cent of all O-type stars exist inside binary systems, a higher proportion than previously thought, and the first precise determination of this number.
Mergers between stars, which the team estimates will be the ultimate fate of around 20-30 per cent of O-type stars, are violent events. But even the comparatively gentle scenario of vampire stars, which accounts for a further 40-50 per cent of cases, has profound effects on how these stars evolve.
Until now, astronomers mostly considered that closely-orbiting massive binary stars were the exception, something that was only needed to explain exotic phenomena such as X-ray binaries, double pulsars and black hole binaries.
The new study shows that to properly interpret the Universe, this simplification cannot be made: these heavyweight double stars are not just common, their lives are fundamentally different from those of single stars.
For instance, in the case of vampire stars, the smaller, lower-mass star is rejuvenated as it sucks the fresh hydrogen from its companion. Its mass will increase substantially and it will outlive its companion, surviving much longer than a single star of the same mass would.
The victim star, meanwhile, is stripped of its envelope before it has a chance to become a luminous red super giant.
Instead, its hot, blue core is exposed. As a result, the stellar population of a distant galaxy may appear to be much younger than it really is: both the rejuvenated vampire stars, and the diminished victim stars become hotter, and bluer in colour, mimicking the appearance of younger stars.
Knowing the true proportion of interacting high-mass binary stars is therefore crucial to correctly characterise these faraway galaxies. The only information astronomers have on distant galaxies is from the light that reaches our telescopes.
Without making assumptions about what is responsible for this light we cannot draw conclusions about the galaxy, such as how massive or how young it is.
According to Sana, this study shows that the frequent assumption that most stars are single can lead to the wrong conclusions.
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Syria: Washington’s Latest War Crime
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July 26, 2012 | Paul Craig Roberts
One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized by a princely class as in Saudi Arabia, now has no government and is in disarray with contending factions vying for power.
Just as no one knew who the Libyan “rebels” were, with elements of al Qaeda reportedly among them, no one knows who the Syrian “rebels” are, or indeed if they are even rebels (Antiwar.com). Some “rebels” appear to be bandit groups who seize the opportunity to loot and to rape and set themselves up as the governments of villages and towns. Others appear to be al Qaeda. (Antiwar.com)
The fact that the “rebels” are armed is an indication of interference from outside. There have been reports that Washington has ordered its Saudi and Bahrain puppet governments to supply the “rebels” with military weaponry. Some suspect that the explosion that killed the Syrian Defense Minister and the head of the government’s crisis operations was not the work of a suicide bomber but the work of a US drone or missile reminiscent of Washington’s failed attempts to murder Saddam Hussein. Regardless, Washington regarded the terror attack as a success, declaring that it showed the rebels were gaining “real momentum” and called on the Syrian government to respond to the attack by resigning. (reuters.com)
The following is from a leaked intelligence document describing a previous Western terrorist intervention in Syria just in case any reader is so naive as to think that “our government would never do that.”
“In order to facilitate the action of liberative (sic) forces, …a
special effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals.
…[to] be accomplished early in the course of the uprising and
intervention, …
Once a political decision has been reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main (sic) incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals. …Incidents should not be concentrated in Damascus …
Further: a “necessary degree of fear .. frontier incidents and (staged) border clashes”, would “provide a pretext for intervention… the CIA and SIS [MI6] should use … capabilities in both psychological and action fields to augment tension.” (Joint US-UK leaked Intelligence Document, London and Washington, 1957) (globalreasearch.ca)
Obama has not said why his government is so desperate to overthrow
the Syrian government. The current president was an eye doctor in London
who was brought back to Syria to replace his father, who had passed
away, as president of the country. Washington is reticent about its real
motives, which it masks with high-sounding humanitarian rhetoric, but
Washington’s motives are transparent.Once a political decision has been reached to proceed with internal disturbances in Syria, CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main (sic) incidents within Syria, working through contacts with individuals. …Incidents should not be concentrated in Damascus …
Further: a “necessary degree of fear .. frontier incidents and (staged) border clashes”, would “provide a pretext for intervention… the CIA and SIS [MI6] should use … capabilities in both psychological and action fields to augment tension.” (Joint US-UK leaked Intelligence Document, London and Washington, 1957) (globalreasearch.ca)
One motive is to get rid of the Russian naval base in Syria, thus depriving Russia of its only Mediterranean base.
A second motive is to eliminate Syria as a source of arms and support to Hizbullah in order that Israel can succeed in its attempts to occupy southern Lebanon and acquire its water resources. Hizbullah’s fighters have twice defeated the Israeli military’s attempts to invade and to occupy southern Lebanon.
A third motive is to destroy the unity of Syria with sectarian conflict, as Washington destroyed Libya and Iraq, and leave Syria to waring factions to dismember the country, thus removing another obstacle to Washington’s hegemony.
Syria, a secular Arab state, like Iraq was, is ruled by a political party composed of Alawis, more or less Shia Muslims. The Alawis comprise about 12% of the Syrian population and are regarded as heretics by the Sunni Muslims who comprise about 74% of the Syrian population. Thus the orchestrated “uprising” appeals to many Sunnis who see the opportunity to take over. (In Iraq it was a Sunni minority that ruled a Shia majority, and in Syria it is the opposite.)
The divisions among Arabs make Arabs vulnerable to Western interference and rule. The Sunni-Shia split makes it impossible for an Arab country to unite against an invader or for one Arab country to come to the aid of another. In 1990 the Shia Syrian government lined up with the US against the Sunni Iraq government in the First Iraq War. Neither Lawrence of Arabia, Nasser, nor Gaddafi succeeded in creating an Arab consciousness.
Washington’s cover for its violent overthrow of other governments is always moralistic verbiage. First the target is demonized, and then Washington’s naked aggression is described as “bringing freedom and democracy,” “overthrowing a brutal dictator,” “protecting women’s rights.” Any assortment of cant words and phrases seems to work.
Hillary Clinton has been especially strident in advocating the overthrow of the Syrian government. The silly woman even issued threats to Russia and China for daring to block Washington’s attempt to use a UN resolution as cover for invading Syria. Washington misrepresents the Syrian government’s resistance to being overthrown as a government conducting terror against its own people. But Washington had no condemnation for the terror attack, whether its own or that of a suicide bomber, that killed high-level Syrian government officials. Washington’s double standard prompted the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, to accuse Washington of having “a sinister position.”
Indeed, Washington does. But what is surprising about Washington’s sinister position after Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan? Undoubtedly, after Syria is overthrown, Washington will move on to Iran. Russia itself is already being surrounded by US missile bases, and the Russian government has a disloyal and traitorous political opposition financed by American money. China is confronting a rapid buildup of US air, naval, and troop bases in the Pacific. How long before China’s government has a disloyal opposition financed by Washington?
The hegemon is on the march, but what Syrian Sunnis see is a chance to overthrow the Alawite Shia. The Syrian Sunnis will ally with Washington despite the fact that Washington overthrew the Iraqi Sunnis. Few Arabs, it seems, mind being puppets of a foreign regime that hands out billions of dollars.
Washington loosely refers to Syrian President Assad as a “dictator” or “brutal dictator,” but obviously if Assad is a dictator he is not very effective in that role. Normally, dictators don’t permit an opposition to rise, much less arm itself. It would be more accurate to say that the ruling party is authoritarian, but the ruling party has introduced elements of democracy with the new constitution.
As Iraq has proved, Arab governments have to be authoritarian if their Sunni and Shia populations are not to be constantly engaged in civil war. Both Bush and Obama claim that Washington brought “freedom and democracy” to Iraq. However, the ongoing violence in Iraq is as intense or more intense than under the American occupation. Here are the reports for the last three days:
July 23: “A wave of bomb attacks and shootings in Baghdad and north
of the capital has killed at least 107 people. At least 216 were
wounded.”
July 24: “A second day of intensified attacks left at least 145 Iraqis killed and 379 more wounded.”
July 25: “Attacks continue across Iraq: 17 killed, 60 wounded.”
This is what Washington did for Iraq. Far from bringing “freedom and
democracy,” Washington brought endless mayhem and death. And this is
precisely what Washington is in the process of bringing to Syria.
July 24: “A second day of intensified attacks left at least 145 Iraqis killed and 379 more wounded.”
July 25: “Attacks continue across Iraq: 17 killed, 60 wounded.”
US gov. involved in program to break down the cohesive aspects of US society
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| Orchestrating Fear, Mind Control Psyops Monitored and Controlled by Spy Software |
July 24, 2012 | Gordon Duff
‘US government involved in program to break down the cohesive aspects of US society’
By Press TV and Gordon Duff
Gordon Duff the senior editor of Veterans Today recently wrote an article called: “Con Job: Mass Shootings and Pattern Recognition.”
In a phone interview with Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Tuesday, he expanded on his article and the recent shooting in Aurora, Colorado.
Duff said,
“This week in Aurora Colorado there was this shooting. A young man shot a number of people in a movie theater. The country is in a panic. People are looking at each other with suspicion. It isn’t because of this one shooting. It is because we’ve had shootings and bombings for twelve years.”Duff continued,
“The U.S. government uses software that does pattern recognition. It is patterned with algorithms. It examines news items. It looks for similar occurrences and it points fingers at particular causes.Duff concluded,
The earliest version of that software was ‘PROMIS’. The newer version is the highly secret ‘Planitir’. It’s capable of almost anything … fixing problems. What it’s not recognizing and what we are not being told is very simple.”
“We are seeing a pattern behavior that indicates that the U.S. government is involved in a program, clearly involved in a program to break down the cohesive aspects of U.S. society. To make people complacent, fearful, to feel separated, to feel dependent, to not question the government at all.
We are being socially engineered through acts of violence and pattern recognitions software should be proving to many people and many people have access to this, that these incidents and it’s not a few, I can go on for hours talking about them, there are so many of them and they have so many of the same characteristics that many of them, not all, but many are being perpetrated by our own government.”
Ignorance is Bliss: Overcrowding, budget cuts strain Illinois prisons
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July 27, 2012 | Marcus Day
Last Thursday, a near-riot broke out at a minimum-security prison in the Illinois Quad-Cities shortly after the facility lost both power and running water. When prisoners erupted in anger and refused to return to their cells, a tactical team was deployed, threatening prisoners with tear gas until they submitted. The prison was placed on full lockdown until Saturday evening.
Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) spokeswoman Stacey Solano told the Quad-City Times that repair crews accidentally severed a set of power lines Thursday night while attempting to fix a water main break at the East Moline Correctional Center (EMCC).
Gregg Johnson, a prison supply supervisor and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 46, which represents local prison employees, told the Moline Dispatch that the drawn-out heat wave and overcrowding have exacerbated tensions among prisoners. “Correctional officers told me they have never seen anything like it. All hell broke loose.”
According to Johnson, after the facility lost power, enraged prisoners began throwing tables and chairs against windows in the day room. When told to return to their cells, they began chanting, “Hell, no, we won’t go!”
As a minimum-security facility, EMCC predominantly holds individuals convicted of “white-collar,” petty, or drug-related offenses. Although the EMCC was designed to hold approximately 750 inmates, it currently holds nearly 1,300.
John Maki, executive director of the John Howard Association of Illinois (JHA), a prison reform advocacy group based in Chicago, said Illinois prisons are swiftly running out of bed space. According to JHA’s web site, the Illinois prison system is designed for 34,000 inmates but currently holds more than 48,000. In other words, Illinois prisons are presently at 140 percent of capacity. According to DOC projections, the prison population will exceed 49,000 by January.
The JHA website also notes that the Illinois inmate population has grown by nearly 4,000 over the last three years—an increase of almost 10 percent. However, in 1970, the prisoner population was under 7,000. Thus, over the course of 40 years, although the state population has only grown by 12 percent, the number of those behind bars has grown by nearly 700 percent.
In June, Illinois Democratic Governor Pat Quinn signed a budget which slashes spending for state services, including huge cuts to Medicaid ($1.6 billion), education funding ($200 million), and child welfare ($85 million). Among these were cuts of nearly $60 million for the already overcrowded prison system. In addition to the cuts, the budget plans for the closure of a supermaximum-security prison, a women’s prison, two juvenile detention centers, four halfway houses, and four mental health facilities.
In a statement on Gov. Quinn’s prison closure plan, the JHA noted that, “While every adult prison struggles with the state’s record high inmate population, medium and minimum-security prisons, which overwhelmingly incarcerate low-level offenders serving short sentences, face the most severely crowded conditions. All facilities face serious problems with understaffing and lack of resources, including mental health and drug abuse treatment and rehabilitative programming.”
However, for inmates at supermax prisons, such as the one slated to be closed in southern Illinois, the problem is not overcrowding, but, perhaps more barbarically, solitary confinement. In similar conditions to those in which Private Bradley Manning is kept, inmates condemned to solitary confinement are kept in isolation for 22 to 23 hours per day, are given just one hour for exercise, are kept under almost constant surveillance, and are almost totally prevented from coming into contact with other people (see “UN torture official denounces treatment of Bradley Manning”).
Numerous reports have shown that extended social isolation can cause permanent psychological deterioration. In October 2011 the UN Special Rapporteur on torture released a report stating that solitary confinement could be deemed equivalent to torture. The report estimated that the US has at least 20,000 to 25,000 prisoners kept in these inhumane conditions, many permanently.
The closure of Illinois’ supermax prison, however, will almost certainly not lead to the improvement of these prisoners’ conditions, as Gov. Quinn has proposed that they be transferred to supermax prisons out of state via a prisoner transfer program.
The ever-growing number of those facing the intolerable conditions of the repressive state apparatus is in no way a trend limited to Illinois. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 730 individuals per 100,000 behind bars. The US, with less than five percent of the world’s population, holds nearly one quarter of the world’s prisoners.
As of 2008, more than 1 in 100 American adults were in prison or jail. By comparison, Russia has the second highest incarceration rate in the world, at 577 per 100,000; China, whose human rights abuses are hypocritically denounced by the US government, has 120 per 100,000.
According to the International Centre for Prison Studies’ World Prison Brief, as of December 2010 the US had over 2,200,000 prisoners, more than any other country, and housed them in roughly 4,500 institutions.
Overcrowding is endemic. The report noted that state prisons averaged 115 percent of their nominal capacity, while federal prisons were at 135 percent. Illinois prison overcrowding tops both figures.
In addition to the prison population in America, 5 million more find themselves in some part of the American criminal justice system, either on probation or parole.
As the economic crisis worsens, states are preparing deeper cuts in their budgets, further exacerbating the sharp deterioration in the living conditions of the imprisoned.
| Comment: This is not surprising. I grew up in Southern Illinois and the best I can describe it would be to say it was pure racism as the anthem for life. This intense Satan worship had a great cloak upon it which required that all acknowledgement of worshiping Satan had to be revised with new words, the most famous one was "Jesus Loves you." This allowed the Satan worshippers to look the other way when a half million innocent Iraqi children were brutally murdered for the cause of Satan. Their Satan claims were extreme, they would even claim that killing people saved lives. Unfortunately, Florida is not much different. My mother demanded endlessly that I become a Satan worshiper but used different words called "being saved," which in effect disqualified all life except those who loved Satan more than anything else. |
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Roots of sexual objectification: How our brains see men as people and women as body parts
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© University of Nebraska-Lincoln
In a new study that examined our cognitive process in how we perceive men and women, participants saw a fully clothed person from head to knee. After a brief pause, they then saw two new images on their screen: One that was unmodified and contained the original image, the other a slightly modified version of the original image with a sexual body part changed. Participants then quickly indicated which of the two images they had previously seen. They made decisions about entire bodies in some trials and body parts in other trials. |
July 25, 2012 | Sott.net
Study finds that both genders process images of men, women differently.
When casting our eyes upon an object, our brains either perceive it in its entirety or as a collection of its parts. Consider, for instance, photo mosaics consisting of hundreds of tiny pictures that when arranged a certain way form a larger overall image: In fact, it takes two separate mental functions to see the mosaic from both perspectives.
A new study suggests that these two distinct cognitive processes also are in play with our basic physical perceptions of men and women -- and, importantly, provides clues as to why women are often the targets of sexual objectification.
The research, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, found in a series of experiments that participants processed images of men and women in very different ways. When presented with images of men, perceivers tended to rely more on "global" cognitive processing, the mental method in which a person is perceived as a whole. Meanwhile, images of women were more often the subject of "local" cognitive processing, or the objectifying perception of something as an assemblage of its various parts.
The study is the first to link such cognitive processes to objectification theory, said Sarah Gervais, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the study's lead author.
"Local processing underlies the way we think about objects: houses, cars and so on. But global processing should prevent us from that when it comes to people," Gervais said. "We don't break people down to their parts - except when it comes to women, which is really striking. Women were perceived in the same ways that objects are viewed."
In the study, participants were randomly presented with dozens of images of fully clothed, average-looking men and women. Each person was shown from head to knee, standing, with eyes focused on the camera.
After a brief pause, participants then saw two new images on their screen: One was unmodified and contained the original image, while the other was a slightly modified version of the original image that comprised a sexual body part. Participants then quickly indicated which of the two images they had previously seen.
The results were consistent: Women's sexual body parts were more easily recognized when presented in isolation than when they were presented in the context of their entire bodies. But men's sexual body parts were recognized better when presented in the context of their entire bodies than they were in isolation.
"We always hear that women are reduced to their sexual body parts; you hear about examples in the media all the time. This research takes it a step further and finds that this perception spills over to everyday women, too," Gervais said. "The subjects in the study's images were everyday, ordinary men and women ... the fact that people are looking at ordinary men and women and remembering women's body parts better than their entire bodies was very interesting."
Also notable is that the gender of participants doing the observing had no effect on the outcome. The participant pool was evenly divided between men and women, who processed each gender's bodies similarly: Regardless of their gender, perceivers saw men more "globally" and women more "locally."
"We can't just pin this on the men. Women are perceiving women this way, too," Gervais said. "It could be related to different motives. Men might be doing it because they're interested in potential mates, while women may do it as more of a comparison with themselves. But what we do know is that they're both doing it."
Would there be an antidote to a perceiver's basic cognitive processes that lead women to be reduced and objectified? Researchers said some of the study's results suggested so. When the experiment was adjusted to create a condition where it was easier for participants to employ "global" processing, the sexual body part recognition bias appeared to be alleviated. Women were more easily recognizable in the context of their whole bodies instead of their various sexual body parts.
Because the research presents the first direct evidence of the basic "global" vs. "local" framework, the authors said it could provide a theoretical path forward for more specific objectification work.
"Our findings suggest people fundamentally process women and men differently, but we are also showing that a very simple manipulation counteracts this effect, and perceivers can be prompted to see women globally, just as they do men," Gervais said. "Based on these findings, there are several new avenues to explore."
The Recipe for Cultural Fail: One Part Murder, Two Parts Rape
The Recipe for Cultural Fail: One Part Murder, Two Parts Rape
July 25, 2012 | Liam McGonagle
If recent events prove nothing else to the world, it's that Americans are effeminate b*tches. I refer, naturally, to the deluge of predictably worthless public reaction following the shootings in Aurora, Colorado.
Of course, I mean "effeminate" in a very specific way. Not in terms of having two X chromosomes or regularly shaving one's legs. More in a sort of "thinking-that-'Fifty-Shades-of-Grey'-is-something-other than-a-steaming-pile-of-dreck" way; a way that reinforces and insanely celebrates our culture of debility.
One persistent theory of gender relations is that females appear to be,
on average, more passive than males because evolutionary biological
pressures made them the default caregivers--therefore far more concerned
with maintaining a stable child rearing environment than males, who
were therefore free to pursue a more aggressively transactional approach
to their undertakings.
I buy that, to a degree. With the caveats of extreme individual variation around a statistical mean, and the awareness that current technological and demographic trends seem to mitigate against this being an immutable physically determinate characteristic. In fact, I'd say there's a good case to be made that the American impotence exhibited following the Aurora shootings is a clear symptom of the devaluation of of the transactional, male principle in contemporary culture.
Here's what I mean: following the death of those 12 people in Aurora, the airwaves were filled to bursting with panty-wetting, tear-filled sobs of helpless terror that would have embarrassed a North Korean anchorperson. The Romney and Obama campaigns both suspended activity after issuing suitably conventional statements of feigned piety, as good girls will, but there was no shortage of hacky partisans publishing one of the two ur-varieties of opportunistic polemical garbage:
1. The killer is a symptom of our out-of-control politics, being clearly a member of some dodgy right or left wing roup.
2. OMG! We have to stop this from EVER HAPPENING AGAIN!!! Which means either:
a.) Banning all sales of any item capable of causing a bruise anywhere near the order of magnitude
rendered by a Nerf(tm) football, or
b.) Subjecting anyone passing through the United States to an incredibly invasive series of psychological
and physical examinations, possibly on a secret and ongoing basis.
From the transactional, masculine point of view, all of this is clearly an unproductive waste of time.
Politically, this election will probably go down in history as the high point (or low point, depending upon your point of view) of American consensus. Never before has the American public had to endure such a farcically hopeless choice between two bland and barely distinguishable clones.
The key platform of the Republican candidate, whose drab monotone voice is a dead giveaway that his handler's pack him each night in a cardboard box filled with styrofoam peanuts, is repeal of the health care law that he pioneered. And the supposed theme of the Democratic candidate is the expiration of the millionaire tax cuts that he himself actively campaigned for, over the objections of his own caucus, who had veto-proof majorities in both houses when he signed them into law in 2010.
The fact that these two eunuchs are considered to be the most powerful politicians in the U.S. is a clear indication that America is not even trying politically.
And the obviously doomed prescription of preventative measures just reinforces the point. In case you hadn't noticed, Humanity has several millenia worth of laws outlawing murder on the books. Unsurprisingly, the deterrence value of these laws has proven mainly effective on the law abiding segments of the population.
As a matter of fact, there is a considerable body of evidence to the effect that Americans are, in an absolute sense, completely indifferent to murder and sociopathy. Just hours after the Aurora shootings, it was announced that an even larger number of people--14 immigrant workers--were killed on a Texas highway, and I guarantee you neither Romney nor Obama issued any statement about that.
Only a handful of commentators would have noted that Americans' poor diets and ordinary traffic obstacles are far more statistically dangerous than any firearm.
Also, to my knowledge, absolutely zero percent of them even bothered to ask the practical question of how injured survivors are going to PAY for their medical treatment. Didn't we just go through a near civil war about this very issue? If ever there was a viscerally engaging illustration of the non-discretionary character of health care, and the utter necessity for America to adopt universal single payer coverage, this was it. We may not be able to outlaw danger, but we certainly CAN do better in dealing with the aftermath.
Actually, we Americans love murder and mayhem when it happens in Afghanistan or the Palestinian territories--provided it serves to boost our perceived sense of control over politically volatile client states and gas prices.
So what's up with this circle jerk of totally empty gesturing? I say it's an example of the stereotypically female behavior of "talking to be heard" rather than "talking to be understood".
The stereotypically masculine analysis of the events in Aurora admits that they present us with two broad categories of problems:
1. Problems which can be reasonably be solved, such as providing cost effective health care.
2. Problems which will never be solved--such as eradicating existential evils, whatever that might mean, or preventing petty disagreements and all remotely possible physical dangers.
Proceeding from this analysis, a male would conclude by passing discussion on those items which can never be solved and focusing all of one's energies on practical remedies for those problems which can be solved. But what Americans have opted to do instead, is engage in an embarrassing b*tch fest about what a scary nasty world it is out there. This will definitely not give provide us with even the slightest bit of practical relief.
The unbalanced, mostly effeminate American isn't interested in solving problems. What this whinging accomplishes is nothing more than a "relationship tweak", merely acclimatising us to the incompetence and abuse from our supposed institutional "leaders" like the crocodile-tear shedding Willard Romney and Barry Obama. This is the actual point--avoiding meaningful confrontation and making Americans feign affectionate intimacy with their rapists.
July 25, 2012 | Liam McGonagle
If recent events prove nothing else to the world, it's that Americans are effeminate b*tches. I refer, naturally, to the deluge of predictably worthless public reaction following the shootings in Aurora, Colorado.
Of course, I mean "effeminate" in a very specific way. Not in terms of having two X chromosomes or regularly shaving one's legs. More in a sort of "thinking-that-'Fifty-Shades-of-Grey'-is-something-other than-a-steaming-pile-of-dreck" way; a way that reinforces and insanely celebrates our culture of debility.
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| James Holmes? |
I buy that, to a degree. With the caveats of extreme individual variation around a statistical mean, and the awareness that current technological and demographic trends seem to mitigate against this being an immutable physically determinate characteristic. In fact, I'd say there's a good case to be made that the American impotence exhibited following the Aurora shootings is a clear symptom of the devaluation of of the transactional, male principle in contemporary culture.
Here's what I mean: following the death of those 12 people in Aurora, the airwaves were filled to bursting with panty-wetting, tear-filled sobs of helpless terror that would have embarrassed a North Korean anchorperson. The Romney and Obama campaigns both suspended activity after issuing suitably conventional statements of feigned piety, as good girls will, but there was no shortage of hacky partisans publishing one of the two ur-varieties of opportunistic polemical garbage:
1. The killer is a symptom of our out-of-control politics, being clearly a member of some dodgy right or left wing roup.
2. OMG! We have to stop this from EVER HAPPENING AGAIN!!! Which means either:
a.) Banning all sales of any item capable of causing a bruise anywhere near the order of magnitude
rendered by a Nerf(tm) football, or
b.) Subjecting anyone passing through the United States to an incredibly invasive series of psychological
and physical examinations, possibly on a secret and ongoing basis.
From the transactional, masculine point of view, all of this is clearly an unproductive waste of time.
Politically, this election will probably go down in history as the high point (or low point, depending upon your point of view) of American consensus. Never before has the American public had to endure such a farcically hopeless choice between two bland and barely distinguishable clones.
The key platform of the Republican candidate, whose drab monotone voice is a dead giveaway that his handler's pack him each night in a cardboard box filled with styrofoam peanuts, is repeal of the health care law that he pioneered. And the supposed theme of the Democratic candidate is the expiration of the millionaire tax cuts that he himself actively campaigned for, over the objections of his own caucus, who had veto-proof majorities in both houses when he signed them into law in 2010.
The fact that these two eunuchs are considered to be the most powerful politicians in the U.S. is a clear indication that America is not even trying politically.
And the obviously doomed prescription of preventative measures just reinforces the point. In case you hadn't noticed, Humanity has several millenia worth of laws outlawing murder on the books. Unsurprisingly, the deterrence value of these laws has proven mainly effective on the law abiding segments of the population.
As a matter of fact, there is a considerable body of evidence to the effect that Americans are, in an absolute sense, completely indifferent to murder and sociopathy. Just hours after the Aurora shootings, it was announced that an even larger number of people--14 immigrant workers--were killed on a Texas highway, and I guarantee you neither Romney nor Obama issued any statement about that.
Only a handful of commentators would have noted that Americans' poor diets and ordinary traffic obstacles are far more statistically dangerous than any firearm.
Also, to my knowledge, absolutely zero percent of them even bothered to ask the practical question of how injured survivors are going to PAY for their medical treatment. Didn't we just go through a near civil war about this very issue? If ever there was a viscerally engaging illustration of the non-discretionary character of health care, and the utter necessity for America to adopt universal single payer coverage, this was it. We may not be able to outlaw danger, but we certainly CAN do better in dealing with the aftermath.
Actually, we Americans love murder and mayhem when it happens in Afghanistan or the Palestinian territories--provided it serves to boost our perceived sense of control over politically volatile client states and gas prices.
So what's up with this circle jerk of totally empty gesturing? I say it's an example of the stereotypically female behavior of "talking to be heard" rather than "talking to be understood".
The stereotypically masculine analysis of the events in Aurora admits that they present us with two broad categories of problems:
1. Problems which can be reasonably be solved, such as providing cost effective health care.
2. Problems which will never be solved--such as eradicating existential evils, whatever that might mean, or preventing petty disagreements and all remotely possible physical dangers.
Proceeding from this analysis, a male would conclude by passing discussion on those items which can never be solved and focusing all of one's energies on practical remedies for those problems which can be solved. But what Americans have opted to do instead, is engage in an embarrassing b*tch fest about what a scary nasty world it is out there. This will definitely not give provide us with even the slightest bit of practical relief.
The unbalanced, mostly effeminate American isn't interested in solving problems. What this whinging accomplishes is nothing more than a "relationship tweak", merely acclimatising us to the incompetence and abuse from our supposed institutional "leaders" like the crocodile-tear shedding Willard Romney and Barry Obama. This is the actual point--avoiding meaningful confrontation and making Americans feign affectionate intimacy with their rapists.
What its Like Living In Palestine: Terrorist Soldier Head Butts Children
Officer headbutts Palestinian youth, Hebron, 25.7.2012, full sequence
July 26, 2012 | btselem
Editor's note: This video has been age restricted at Youtube yet in America, children can watch endless and vicious garbage ALL DAY LONG on M$M. What this is really about is keeping you from seeing it. Here is the video and anyone of any age anywhere you can access this blog can watch it now.
July 26, 2012 | btselem
Editor's note: This video has been age restricted at Youtube yet in America, children can watch endless and vicious garbage ALL DAY LONG on M$M. What this is really about is keeping you from seeing it. Here is the video and anyone of any age anywhere you can access this blog can watch it now.
Confirmed: NYPD used excessive force on ‘Occupy’ protesters
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| NYPD officers arrest a woman after activists gained entrance to a private park owned by Trinity Church next to Duarte Square at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street in NY (AFP Photo / Michael Bocchieri) |
July 26, 2012 | RT.com
A group of legal experts have published a report which contains 130 cases that can be qualified as police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York.
Researchers at NYU and Fordham University have concluded that NYPD officers acted beyond their powers during their intense crackdown against Occupy protesters.
Findings from the eight-month study serve to validate months of claims that demonstrators were, in fact, mistreated by officers.
The study found that police used batons, scooters, horses, and metal barricades to inflict unnecessary force and intimidation on demonstrators.
But the barricades were not only used as barriers around encampments.
According to the report, officers threw one protester so hard that she became “semi-airborne” before falling unconscious. An officer then shoved a barricade into her chest.
In several instances, officers used pepper spray to disperse peaceful demonstrators.
One protester alleged the NYPD used pepper spray to prevent her from videotaping an arrest.
A citizen journalist quoted in the report remarked, “Physically attacking people with a chemical agent for no reason — when you have cops doing that, you don’t feel safe when you see cops.”
Sarah Knuckey, an NYU law professor and key author of the report, told The Guardian, "All the case studies we collected show the police are violating basic rights consistently and the level of impunity is shocking.”
NYPD officers organized late-night raids on peaceful encampments and made arbitrary arrests to peaceful protesters, bystanders, and journalists.
Findings show that reporters covering the protests experienced harassment from officers, including restrictions on access and arbitrary arrests.
An Occupy Wall Street protester is arrested after marching through downtown Manhattan, after New York City police removed the activists from Zuccotti Park in the early morning in NY (AFP Photo / Allison Joyce)
The report specifically mentioned that journalists were barred from covering the overnight eviction of protesters in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park last November.
“Our crews had a very difficult time moving around between 1am and 4am. Press passes seemed not to impress the cops on the scene,” said a journalist in the report.
The findings come after researchers reviewed hours of video footage, documents, and press reports, and conducted interviews with protesters and witnesses.
"Many interviewees cried while speaking about their interaction with the police – they still carried a sense of trauma," Knuckey said.
The report also found that there is now an ongoing effort to squash protests throughout the city, even when they are peaceful and pose no threat to the public.
It’s the first in a series of studies which will examine authorities’ handling of the Occupy movement in five cities across the US, including Boston and Oakland.
Authors concluded that police intimidation and force only served to escalate tensions between officers and protesters, while limiting the right to free speech and assembly.
Knuckey told Reuters she hoped the US Justice Department would consider investigating the NYPD’s conduct if the city refused to do so.
The authors of the report have now called for the creation of an independent inspector general to monitor the actions of the city’s police department.
They also suggest authorities should launch an investigation into the NYPD’s handling of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
The Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York 10 months ago, as a protest against corporate greed and corruption in the US.
The campaign quickly went global, sparking encampments and demonstrations in major cities across the world.
(AFP Photo / Monika Graff)
(AFP Photo / Allison Joyce)
(AFP Photo / Mario Tama)
Suspect 'Eyewitnesses' - From 9/11 to the Colorado Massacre
Suspect 'Eyewitnesses' - From 9/11 to the Colorado MassacreJuly 25, 2012 | Joe Quinn
By now most people reading this already know that there are a number of unanswered questions surrounding the Colorado theater shooting, so I just want to quickly point out a few things and maybe make a few connections along the way.
Apart from the fact that the DHS and the FBI released a memo in May this year to security and emergency services to be on the alert for a 'terrorist' attack at a movie theater; apart from the fact that on the same day as the Aurora massacre, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine was holding an identical drill 17 miles away that simulated a shooter in a movie theater; apart from the fact that the FBI is officially known to have set up 'terror attacks' that included creating the plan, providing the weapons and equipment, preparing the location of the attack and even driving the vehicles to pull it off; APART from all that, there is the also the problem of the eyewitnesses to the Colorado shooting who stated that the gunman (James Holmes) seemed to have an accomplice.
Here's what eyewitness, Corbin Dates, reported (start at minute 1.15):
The guy sounds pretty sincere and appears to be just reporting the facts, which were corroborated to some extent by the many other eyewitnesses who stated that the gunman came in through the emergency exit. Emergency exits in theaters are usually locked and can only be opened from the inside. It is possible of course that Holmes first came in to the theater without his weapons and opened the door himself, left it ajar, walked back out to his car and then came back in. Whether or not this was the case could perhaps be answered by an eyewitness like Corbin Dates. On the other hand, there is this guy, who also comes across as pretty sincere, who thinks that Holmes had someone with him because "the second can of tear gas didn't come from his [Holmes'] side."
Next up is another eyewitness to the Aurora shooting. There were, obviously, many eyewitnesses, but this guy is especially interesting because he makes a point of saying precisely the opposite of what Dates and others have said or suggested - that "there was only one guy [shooter]". In addition, the way that he says it, out of the blue with no prompting and prefacing it with "for the record", makes his comment seem out of place and forced, as if that was a point that he definitely wanted to make. Have a look (start at minute 2.30):
When I first heard him make that comment, I knew I had heard something similar, in a similar context, before. Then I remembered:
So there ya have it, 90 minutes after the towers were pulverised (literally), this alleged 'Fox News freelancer', 'Mark Walsh', somehow managed to get the official story down pat. That's pretty amazing for an ordinary guy in the street, not so much for a CIA agent who was part of the CIA's 9/11 crew. Just listen to his obviously scripted segment of "and then I witnessed both towers collapse, one first and then the second, mostly due to structural failure because the fire was just too intense", and tell me, does that sound false or WHAT? I mean, REALLY? Normal people don't talk like that about a major disaster. Normal people don't describe the mechanism of the disaster and define how it happened in the immediate aftermath. But Mr 'Walsh' doesn't sound like a crazy person, so what does that make him? A plant, no doubt.
Creating the official narrative
Speaking of 9/11.... for some reason or other, a few days ago, I happened across that famous picture of the alleged explosion of Flight 93 in Shanksville Pennsylvania, taken by local resident Val McClatchey. You've probably seen the picture before, but if not, this is the picture that was used, officially, by the US govt. as evidence that Flight 93 crashed in a specific location in Pennsylvania.
My memory must be working over time these days, because when I saw this picture again (after many years), I suddenly remembered I had seem similar images somewhere else before. And I had.
The above image is of an IED (a relatively small quantity explosives (like TNT for example). Such explosions have undoubtedly been seen many times by many people over the course of the 20th century in particular. For example, here's an image of a shell going off on Utah beach during WWII.
So what's the problem? Well, Flight 93 had at least 50% (and probably more like 75%) of it fuel left when it allegedly crashed. That's about 20,000 liters or 5,500 gallons of jet fuel. Jet fuel, like gasoline or kerosene or diesel, burns black. Here's what you'd see if you happened to witness an aircraft (and its fuel) bursting into flames:
I suppose the point has been made. If Flight 93 had crashed into that field, what you definitely would not have seen is that relatively small puff of dust in the alleged Flight 93 crash/explosion image.
I also suppose that if James Holmes was really a 'lone shooter' eyewitnesses would not be sharing information that strongly suggests he had accomplices and there would be no need for Holmes' handlers to plant actors in front of the cameras.
One year ago this week a similarly horrific mass shooting took place in Norway that gave a psychopathic right-wing nut the platform he sought to spout his deranged views. James Holmes' first court appearance was an altogether more muted affair:
I don't know if it's drugs, sleep deprivation or psychosis - or some combination of all three - but whatever this 24-year-old's role in the atrocity, he doesn't appear to be in any fit state to have planned and executed it alone.
More to the point, is the guy in the courtroom even James Holmes? I know drugs can do things to your eyes, but, really?
Maybe he had a nose job, and an 'Adam's apple job' (if such things exist), and it looks like he somehow change eye color, but I suppose that could be colored contacts.
Alexander Cockburn and the hypocrisy of ‘Non-Proliferation’
Alexander Cockburn and the hypocrisy of ‘Non-Proliferation’July 25, 2012 | Kevin Barrett
This essay was first published at Press TV
Alexander Cockburn, who founded the “Counterpunch” website, recently passed away after a long, unadvertised battle with cancer.
Cockburn was one of the all-time great journalistic truth-tellers. He was one of the few writers of our time who bears comparison with people like George Orwell and H.L. Mencken: his incisive wit, precisely chiseled sentences, and total commitment to the truth as he saw it put him in that league. He never understood the biggest story of the 21st century – the 9/11 inside job, with all of its implications -but his failure was not one of cowardice, but of “his trusting nature as the world went black” (Gordon Duff). Unlike most 9/11-deniers of the left, Cockburn was untainted by bad faith.
Ironically, it was Alexander Cockburn who first alerted me to evidence that 9/11 was a false-flag operation. In the fall of 2001, Cockburn published several references to Justin Raimondo’s research on the massive Israeli spy ring that facilitated the 9/11 operation. (Raimondo’s work on the subject was ended by a freak heart attack, which curtailed his 9/11 truth research, but not before his book The Terror Enigma was finished.)
One thing I learned from Alexander Cockburn was that simply telling the truth about certain subjects could come off as amusingly preposterous…and that this serio-comic, understated-hyperbolic style could awaken readers to the sorry reality that the truth was even more outrageous than the apparently preposterous assertion. (It was this technique, ripped off from Alex, that won me the “Most Obnoxious Thing on the Internet” award from Matt Taibbi and Rolling Stone magazine, when I called for the taxpayer-funded construction of the world’s biggest mosque on New York’s Ground Zero as atonement to Muslims for the 9/11 blood libel.)
One of Cockburn’s best uses of this technique was his call for every sovereign nation to be issued a few dozen nuclear weapons along with its flag and its seat at the United Nations. Though it sounded tongue-in-cheek, this proposal was actually dead serious. Cockburn, like top foreign affairs analyst Kenneth N. Waltz, author of “Why Iran Should Get the Bomb” (Foreign Affairs, July/August 2012) saw that nuclear balancing means stability, while asymmetrical nuclear capabilities make it more likely that the bombs will go off. Therefore, the whole idea of “nuclear non-proliferation” is absurd. If nuclear weapons are monopolized in a few hands, those hands will eventually cast the bombs at opponents who cannot retaliate; whereas if every country could credibly threaten to annihilate any prospective attacker, aggression would be impossible, and peace would reign.
The inescapable conclusion: Every peace-loving person should be working as hard as possible to make sure that nations like Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and others threatened with aggression should have a robust nuclear capacity. Every nation should have the ability to completely annihilate any prospective attacker.
And though this statement sounds crazy at first glance, anyone who considers it long and hard enough will conclude that it harbors a great, unspeakable truth.
Alexander Cockburn ripped through mealy-mouthed platitudes about “the urgency of non-proliferation” the way George Orwell ripped through earlier examples of double-speak. His call for every nation on earth to have enough WMD for mutually assured destruction to put war on the proverbial scrap-heap of history is especially relevant today.
For we are living in a hellish time: Neocon neo-Nazis have torn up the judgment of Nuremburg, which deemed aggression the supreme war crime, in order to wage aggressive war without end on the entire world. After demolishing the World Trade Center and extinguishing 3,000 lives, these unspeakable monsters have murdered more than two million human beings in their wars of aggression, and ruined the lives of tens of millions more. While reducing Iraq and Afghanistan to depleted-uranium-tainted wreckage, these avatars of pure evil have waged aggressive war on dozens of nations, both overtly and covertly: Slaughtering whole families in cowardly drone attacks, orchestrating false-flag bombings, murdering Iranian scientists, paying fanatics and mercenaries to cut people’s throats, and God only knows what else, the psychopaths of empire are running roughshod over the entire planet as they seek to establish a one-world empire under their dominion – a fate worse than death for the rest of humanity.
I don’t think Cockburn imagined that giving every country a few dozen guaranteed-deliverable nuclear weapons would be a permanent solution. Instead, it would be a stopgap measure that would keep the peace for a couple of generations until the habit of war, like the earlier habit of slavery, is finally broken.
This is precisely what the neocon psychopaths don’t want. They are not just addicted to war (like the US economy), they are philosophical defenders of war as the noblest expression of humanity’s essence. They hate the way nuclear weapons have made World War III impossible. As neocon flag-bearer Bill Kristol put it, “What’s the good of nuclear weapons if you can’t use them?” That’s why neocon strategists, led by Paul Wolfowitz, have spearheaded the development of “usable nuclear weapons” including the mini-hydrogen-weapons of the kind allegedly used by the Israelis in Beirut, Bali, and possibly the Twin Towers.
Today, the Zionist-dominated US empire is seeking to establish a near-monopoly of nuclear weapons, which would allow that empire to use these weapons at will. To prevent their use, as Alexander Cockburn saw, we must arm the prospective victims.
The first step toward the destruction of all nuclear weapons – a goal shared by all sane human beings – is the provision of a robust deterrent capability to all nations that are potential victims of imperial aggression. Today, that would be Syria and Iran. Tomorrow, who knows what countries will become targets of the Empire’s mad dogs.
For these reasons, as Alexander Cockburn saw only too clearly, we should work and pray for nuclear proliferation today, and complete and universal nuclear disarmament tomorrow.
Or – better yet – the immediate overthrow of the psychopathic empire, and complete and universal disarmament today.
Freedom is slavery, popular support is authoritarianism
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| The only 'authoritarians' Latin America has ever had are those put in power by the US. |
July 25, 2012 | Lizzie Phelan
A recent article by The Washington Post's Juan Forero entitled 'Latin America's new authoritarians' is just the latest example of how the imperialists' media machine is relentlessly engaged in media warfare against sovereign nations in the South, in order to fertilise the ground for new or increased economic and military aggression against them. Such psy-op campaigns also seek to influence events on the ground in target nations, in this case in Venezuela ahead of the October elections where all signs point to another resounding victory for current President Hugo Chávez FrÃas.
The article is part of the psychological wing of what Nicaraguan based website tortilla con sal terms the West's "War on Humanity" in order to convince the world of the moral superiority of the minority (the Western elite/imperialists) over the majority so as to minimise the threat of a mass organised effort to challenge that minority's increasingly doomed attempts to achieve total global hegemony.
Their morals, the minority argues through its vast propaganda network which bombard the majority, are superior because they are universal and therefore must be defended and achieved regardless of the cost, including that of the destruction of entire nations, let alone millions upon millions of lives, whose governments stand in the way, Libya being the most recent example.
Inconvenient facts like the unrivalled criminal record of the NATO powers/imperialists who claim moral superiority, must relentlessly be legitimised, through the imperialist's media (including The Washington Post) and entertainment industry portrayal of NATO crimes as acts of freedom, while acts of resistance and self-defence by their adversaries which undermine that claim to moral superiority and the total hegemony agenda, are presented as crimes against mankind.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Propaganda Alert: Michio Kaku: Aliens Exist (July 2012)
Michio Kaku: Aliens Exist (July 2012)
July 24, 2012 | UFOsAndAlienLife
Editor's note: The following video states that aliens exist. This is likely true. Then, the statement is made that the aliens are going to vaporize us or use us a food. This is laughable and does not consider a time frame. If a time frame is considered, the aliens could have vaporized us at any point in historical time. The idea that we would all of a sudden be eaten by aliens is ridiculous to say the least and is an excuse so that the real enemy, which is our government can build new advance weaponry for false-flags that will be used on your children. According to historical record, aliens have been visiting us since the beginning of our ability to think as the earth is plastered with their depictions and it seems that what actually occurred was an attempt to educate us.
July 24, 2012 | UFOsAndAlienLife
Editor's note: The following video states that aliens exist. This is likely true. Then, the statement is made that the aliens are going to vaporize us or use us a food. This is laughable and does not consider a time frame. If a time frame is considered, the aliens could have vaporized us at any point in historical time. The idea that we would all of a sudden be eaten by aliens is ridiculous to say the least and is an excuse so that the real enemy, which is our government can build new advance weaponry for false-flags that will be used on your children. According to historical record, aliens have been visiting us since the beginning of our ability to think as the earth is plastered with their depictions and it seems that what actually occurred was an attempt to educate us.
Protesters, police clash in Anaheim following fatal shootings
Protesters, police clash in Anaheim following fatal shootings
Jul 25, 2012 | PressTVGlobalNews
Jul 25, 2012 | PressTVGlobalNews
| Comment: For the most part, people are incapable of seeing what the real problems are. For example, people commit crimes because they have no jobs, they have no education system, they are forced into slavery, and the system is corrupt. Yet, these are never addressed, only the support of the system and the means to maintain it knowing that it will inevitably fail. Until the roots of the problems are addressed, such as creating laws that prevent corruption of the system, ensuring that all people have a right to education without cost, ensuring that all people have a right to food, shelter, etc., will any problems ever be solved. Instead, they will steadily increase and it seems this is what is preferred knowing that all life will cease. When the root problems are truly addressed, there would be no need to commit crimes and those who are unstable would be easily noticed and immediately helped by others. Instead of this, the police are busy buying more weapons in an attempt to thwart what they should already know is going to make their lives much worse. It is ignorance as a blooming flower and the end of all life. |
Mind vs. Body? Dualist Beliefs Linked with Less Concern for Healthy Behaviors
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July 24, 2012 | Sott.net
Many people, whether they know it or not, are philosophical dualists. That is, they believe that the brain and the mind are two separate entities. Despite the fact dualist beliefs are found in virtually all human cultures, surprisingly little is known about the impact of these beliefs on how we think and behave in everyday life.
But a new research article forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that espousing a dualist philosophy can have important real-life consequences.
Across five related studies, researchers Matthias Forstmann, Pascal Burgmer, and Thomas Mussweiler of the University of Cologne, Germany, found that people primed with dualist beliefs had more reckless attitudes toward health and exercise, and also preferred (and ate) a less healthy diet than those who were primed with physicalist beliefs.
Furthermore, they found that the relationship also worked in the other direction. People who were primed with unhealthy behaviors - such as pictures of unhealthy food - reported a stronger dualistic belief than participants who were primed with healthy behaviors.
Overall, the findings from the five studies provide converging evidence demonstrating that mind-body dualism has a noticeable impact on people's health-related attitudes and behaviors. Specifically, these findings suggest that dualistic beliefs decrease the likelihood of engaging in healthy behavior.
These findings support the researchers' original hypothesis that the more people perceive their minds and bodies to be distinct entities, the less likely they will be to engage in behaviors that protect their bodies. Bodies are ultimately viewed as a disposable vessel that helps the mind interact with the physical world.
Evidence of a bidirectional relationship further suggests that metaphysical beliefs, such as beliefs in mind-body dualism, may serve as cognitive tools for coping with threatening or harmful situations.
The fact that the simple priming procedures used in the studies had an immediate impact on health-related attitudes and behavior suggests that these procedures may eventually have profound implications for real-life problems. Interventions that reduce dualistic beliefs through priming could be one way to help promote healthier - or less self-damaging - behaviors in at-risk populations.
| Comment: This is seemingly important in the fact some people believe it is ok to kill you and will use the excuse that their bodies have a
right to live without considering that the mind and body cannot be separated unless you're already dead. Another way to say this is that I can carry a
deadly weapon because my body is more important than my mind. In other words, my body has a right to live over and above all considerations for all life, and my justification is because I assume I am not already dead. Also, it may be important to note that studying concepts of mind and body does not make you a dualist, rather, it is a methodology to understand how these institutions are formed and used against you. Again, at no time is it acceptable to kill, even if those who point weapons at you are already dead, and you perceive for some strange reason that you have a right to kill them twice. Here is as an example. Now, please understand that Mike Adams generally is a very good person, he has made a big difference in helping a lot of people, and for that we are all thankful. Recently however, and with the Batman false-flag operation, this has brought out his darker side in which he is being influenced by others who are of a particular racist group, and they have infiltrated him. The man shooting at the two younger boys has decided that these boys are not dead and he must kill them, but in doing so, he joins them in death. It may be said that defending oneself in this world is a matter of not letting fear rule over you and knowing that when you kill others you also die. Our excuses are that if police have deadly weapons then we must defend ourselves. However, there is no escape from this scenario, as more and more weapons associated with this dilemma are created especially for it. On the other hand, to remove all right to defend oneself is also a dilemma, when the solution is not considered, that being the destruction of all government and their weapons and replacing it with a parsimonious affair that allows all life to share what we have been given to steward. The lies of over population, etc. fill the air, minds and bodies are in battle. Instead of entangling ourselves with the system, we must stand together in mass against the system, such as in the Occupy movement. It would be much better to die today than to live as the walking dead. At least you get to keep your body as that of which you live. |
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