(see the "people-to-people" intiative "strategy and Tactics" above in the link at the top of this blog)
Strategy & Tactics for the "People-to-People" Initiative - A Beginning
by Vatic Master
I. Introduction
The People to People initiative was begun to unite the people of various countries together to stand against the few and to do so within their POWER as a United Force for Good for themselves, their cultures, religions, and nation states. We completed and approved a Mission statement that still has some kinks to work out, but essentially, it is done. Now comes the strategy and tactics to impliment that mission/goal of the group.
In dealing with this part of the agenda, it became clear early that this entire project will need to be taken on from many different levels. Any strategy has to begin with each of us within ourselves before we can change our world. The world we are inheriting is because we created it with manifesting ourselves into the reality/life in the condition we are each in. We need to change how we see and believe about our world, then we can bring the rest of the world with us. Once we "begin" work on our internal selves, then we can simultaneously begin adopting the actions and behavior we wish to see in our new world and begin to lead by example. Return to the values of integrity, caring, loving and helping our neighbor, leave fear and hate behind.
How do we do this? Well fortunately when we called for tactics and strategy, we were lucky enough to get responses from some who believed that "change first comes from within" and they provided those suggestions as a foundation for all other changes that will be derived from our own changes within. These suggestions can be applied by all of us through whatever religion, philosophy or beliefs we carry and simply need to be adopted by ourselves to our beliefs. That is easy to do since almost all beliefs with the exception of satanic or Molech beliefs, are geared toward the human spirit and its nurturing and wonderment.
II. Strategy 1: Change Our Map of Internal Reality
This strategy requires daily work, and maybe twice a day depending on your commitment to it. This will not only change our external world ultimately, but will change our personal lives as well. When you enter into any venture with your whole being, then it becomes critical that "wholeness" is grounded in the right energy.
This piece of strategy and tactics was given to us anonymously and thus I am passing it on to you in the same way. Please read and implement as a beginning and continue daily while we work on the other strategies and tactics that will be coming down the line. There is a part II to our internal work which will follow this first part. I deeply believe, when I read this, that this is and was the foundation for what lies ahead, it can only happen this way as a beginning "BY FOCUSING AND BECOMING THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE". .
III. Tactic and Practice:
A peaceful tactic to begin manifesting a new world is to visualize the world we would like to live in....doing this every day for five to fifteen minutes. As many of you are aware, this is a powerful "action" to take "together". Some suggestions to visualize are:
(Please post your additional suggestions so they may be shared with all who are willing to participate in this "action".).....
a. Peace. Love, Harmony, Joy, Goodwill, Prosperity and Abundance for ourselves, our families, our neighbors and finally, for all. Image that this has occurred already and meditate on how that would feel and enjoy the process of feeling that change already in place. Begin within you, then like a blanket bring in others in your family to the comfort, peace, love, and abundance that you have fully visualized for yourself. Once that is completed and you have it firmly visualized as a reality, then begin to "NOTICE" that others around you and their families also have this wonderment within their lives.
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul - United States House of Representatives against War on Iran - April 22, 2010
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/53522
Statement on Motion to Instruct Conferees on HR 2194, Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act - April 22, 2010
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul - United States House of Representatives
provided to Vatic by KALI YUGA REPORT 100424, Dick Chardet
April 24, 2010
Here is the summary of what Ron Paul said on the floor of the House of Representatives about attacking Iran, but first watch the video of his opposition to the war in Iraq and the funding and see the similarities he talks about..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7354M1QmGYQ&feature=player_embedded
Text of speech
April 23, 2010 "United States House of Representatives" -- Mr. Speaker I rise in opposition to this motion to instruct House conferees on HR 2194, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act, and I rise in strong opposition again to the underlying bill and to its Senate version as well. I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing.
We hear war advocates today on the Floor scare-mongering about reports that in one year Iran will have missiles that can hit the United States. Where have we heard this bombast before? Anyone remember the claims that Iraqi drones were going to fly over the United States and attack us? These “drones” ended up being pure propaganda – the UN chief weapons inspector concluded in 2004 that there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein had ever developed unpiloted drones for use on enemy targets. Of course by then the propagandists had gotten their war so the truth did not matter much.
We hear war advocates on the floor today arguing that we cannot afford to sit around and wait for Iran to detonate a nuclear weapon. Where have we heard this before? Anyone remember then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s oft-repeated quip about Iraq: that we cannot wait for the smoking gun to appear as a mushroom cloud.
We need to see all this for what it is: Propaganda to speed us to war against Iran for the benefit of special interests.
Let us remember a few important things. Iran, a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has never been found in violation of that treaty. Iran is not capable of enriching uranium to the necessary level to manufacture nuclear weapons. According to the entire US Intelligence Community, Iran is not currently working on a nuclear weapons program. These are facts, and to point them out does not make one a supporter or fan of the Iranian regime. Those pushing war on Iran will ignore or distort these facts to serve their agenda, though, so it is important and necessary to point them out.
Some of my well-intentioned colleagues may be tempted to vote for sanctions on Iran because they view this as a way to avoid war on Iran. I will ask them whether the sanctions on Iraq satisfied those pushing for war at that time. Or whether the application of ever-stronger sanctions in fact helped war advocates make their case for war on Iraq: as each round of new sanctions failed to “work” – to change the regime – war became the only remaining regime-change option.
This legislation, whether the House or Senate version, will lead us to war on Iran. The sanctions in this bill, and the blockade of Iran necessary to fully enforce them, are in themselves acts of war according to international law. A vote for sanctions on Iran is a vote for war against Iran. I urge my colleagues in the strongest terms to turn back from this unnecessary and counterproductive march to war.
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Statement on Motion to Instruct Conferees on HR 2194, Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act - April 22, 2010
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul - United States House of Representatives
provided to Vatic by KALI YUGA REPORT 100424, Dick Chardet
April 24, 2010
Here is the summary of what Ron Paul said on the floor of the House of Representatives about attacking Iran, but first watch the video of his opposition to the war in Iraq and the funding and see the similarities he talks about..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7354M1QmGYQ&feature=player_embedded
Text of speech
April 23, 2010 "United States House of Representatives" -- Mr. Speaker I rise in opposition to this motion to instruct House conferees on HR 2194, the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act, and I rise in strong opposition again to the underlying bill and to its Senate version as well. I object to this entire push for war on Iran, however it is disguised. Listening to the debate on the Floor on this motion and the underlying bill it feels as if we are back in 2002 all over again: the same falsehoods and distortions used to push the United States into a disastrous and unnecessary one trillion dollar war on Iraq are being trotted out again to lead us to what will likely be an even more disastrous and costly war on Iran. The parallels are astonishing.
We hear war advocates today on the Floor scare-mongering about reports that in one year Iran will have missiles that can hit the United States. Where have we heard this bombast before? Anyone remember the claims that Iraqi drones were going to fly over the United States and attack us? These “drones” ended up being pure propaganda – the UN chief weapons inspector concluded in 2004 that there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein had ever developed unpiloted drones for use on enemy targets. Of course by then the propagandists had gotten their war so the truth did not matter much.
We hear war advocates on the floor today arguing that we cannot afford to sit around and wait for Iran to detonate a nuclear weapon. Where have we heard this before? Anyone remember then-Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s oft-repeated quip about Iraq: that we cannot wait for the smoking gun to appear as a mushroom cloud.
We need to see all this for what it is: Propaganda to speed us to war against Iran for the benefit of special interests.
Let us remember a few important things. Iran, a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has never been found in violation of that treaty. Iran is not capable of enriching uranium to the necessary level to manufacture nuclear weapons. According to the entire US Intelligence Community, Iran is not currently working on a nuclear weapons program. These are facts, and to point them out does not make one a supporter or fan of the Iranian regime. Those pushing war on Iran will ignore or distort these facts to serve their agenda, though, so it is important and necessary to point them out.
Some of my well-intentioned colleagues may be tempted to vote for sanctions on Iran because they view this as a way to avoid war on Iran. I will ask them whether the sanctions on Iraq satisfied those pushing for war at that time. Or whether the application of ever-stronger sanctions in fact helped war advocates make their case for war on Iraq: as each round of new sanctions failed to “work” – to change the regime – war became the only remaining regime-change option.
This legislation, whether the House or Senate version, will lead us to war on Iran. The sanctions in this bill, and the blockade of Iran necessary to fully enforce them, are in themselves acts of war according to international law. A vote for sanctions on Iran is a vote for war against Iran. I urge my colleagues in the strongest terms to turn back from this unnecessary and counterproductive march to war.
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FEW AMERICANS ARE AWARE THAT FOX NEWS IS DIRECTLY TIED TO LIKUD EXTREMISTS IN ISRAEL
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/20/gordon-duff-fox-news-voice-of-israels-war-machine/
GORDON DUFF: FOX NEWS, VOICE OF ISRAEL’S WAR MACHINE
April 20, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff ·
FEW AMERICANS ARE AWARE THAT FOX NEWS IS DIRECTLY TIED TO LIKUD EXTREMISTS IN ISRAEL
ISRAEL’S PROPAGANDA MACHINE, WAGING WAR AGAINST ISRAELI’S “ALLIES”
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Veterens Today
In 1898, America went to war against Spain based only in misdirection by news organizations tied to the sugar industry. Cuba sunk into slavery and dictatorship, eventually becoming a 50 year enemy of America and the Philippine people immediately began a large scale national insurrection against American rule. “Waterboarding,” our current popular method of “non-torture torture” was invented during the Philippine insurrection to question “terror suspects.” Our history books report none of this, of course.
Newspapers learned that if real news didn’t serve the powerful financial interests that media owners have always been partnered with, they simply could invent their own news. Today’s stories about Iran’s nuclear ICBM threat against the United States, reported by Fox News, is outlandish, even as “yellow journalism” goes.
Frank Luther Mott (1941) defines yellow journalism as:
"scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudo-science, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips (which is now normal in the U.S.) dramatic sympathy with the “underdog” against the system."
Apply this to television and you get Fox News. Apply this to a nation, and you get the Israeli version of their own history and today’s world events.
JOURNALISM AND 9/11
GORDON DUFF: FOX NEWS, VOICE OF ISRAEL’S WAR MACHINE
April 20, 2010 posted by Gordon Duff ·
FEW AMERICANS ARE AWARE THAT FOX NEWS IS DIRECTLY TIED TO LIKUD EXTREMISTS IN ISRAEL
ISRAEL’S PROPAGANDA MACHINE, WAGING WAR AGAINST ISRAELI’S “ALLIES”
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Veterens Today
In 1898, America went to war against Spain based only in misdirection by news organizations tied to the sugar industry. Cuba sunk into slavery and dictatorship, eventually becoming a 50 year enemy of America and the Philippine people immediately began a large scale national insurrection against American rule. “Waterboarding,” our current popular method of “non-torture torture” was invented during the Philippine insurrection to question “terror suspects.” Our history books report none of this, of course.
Newspapers learned that if real news didn’t serve the powerful financial interests that media owners have always been partnered with, they simply could invent their own news. Today’s stories about Iran’s nuclear ICBM threat against the United States, reported by Fox News, is outlandish, even as “yellow journalism” goes.
Frank Luther Mott (1941) defines yellow journalism as:
"scare headlines in huge print, often of minor news lavish use of pictures, or imaginary drawings use of faked interviews, misleading headlines, pseudo-science, and a parade of false learning from so-called experts emphasis on full-color Sunday supplements, usually with comic strips (which is now normal in the U.S.) dramatic sympathy with the “underdog” against the system."
Apply this to television and you get Fox News. Apply this to a nation, and you get the Israeli version of their own history and today’s world events.
JOURNALISM AND 9/11
2010-04-23
ALERT: Polish President was alive after the crash and was shot.
Polish President was alive after the crash and was shot.
by Vatic Master
April 23, 2010
PLEASE SPREAD FAR AND WIDE SINCE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE HAS IDENTIFIED THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS ALIVE AFTER THE CRASH based on the video. I now understand why they killed the videogragher since the video was already out there, It did not make sense to me at the time, why they killed him, but the fact that the President can be heard was not yet made clear and the videographer being killed so quickly prevented that fact from coming out early on.
See article about the murder of the videographer and someone elses translation of the video which has been corrected by this translation that I trust implicitly since this person did not believe there was a murder until after he translated the video. He is also in a field that requires very precise and perfectionistic work, and thus this skill carries over to this translation as evidenced by his precise translation.
http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/04/alert-cameraman-filming-crash-of-polish.html
He does show a translation from someone saying it was the Polish President and he was alive and they shot him and someone says "Oh, my God, its the President". See below in the english translation.
Here is what I received from my trusted source....and his ties to Poland are still strong. I trust him and this translation since he is a very perfectionistic person in his field. Here is his response to me:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Below is a link to the main website of an old Polish association (society) which has been a thorn in the side of many Russian governments and of other Russian "patriots". They call themselves The Association of Siberics, or similar (as opposed to Siberians, who live in, or are from, Siberia). Their mission is to keep alive the memory of Russian offenses against Poland, to tend Polish graves associated with such offenses, and so on. Their website is in Polish only.
http://zwiazeksybirakow.strefa.pl/ (its important because it was mentioned twice in the video translation below)
Not all the victims were in Siberia, but the association seems to be happy to bring all the victims under its umbrella.
At least one person aboard the plane reportedly belonged to this order. However, the overall tone of the flight was de facto in support of this order's agenda, to broadcast the memory of past Russian mistreatment of Poland. We can assume this, because the official Katyn commemorative ceremony had already been held earlier, with due decorum, in the presence of the Prime Minister of Poland, the relatively moderate Mr. Tusk. So this flight appeared designed to rub the faces of Russian "patriots" in the mud an unnecessary second time, with a full planeload of "patriots" from Poland, the entourage of Mr. Kaczynski. This resembled a veritable planeload of honorary Siberics.
I have been told that, in the past, Poland has not been shy about dealing out some grief of its own in the direction of its fellow "People of the Word" to the east. Perhaps this time also, poking the bear with a sharp stick may not have been as innocent as it seems. If the plane lands you win, if it falls you also win. Either way, there are eager cameras at the ready. How does one think Poland has managed to survive in its little green vale of death since the dawn of the age? Bless the patriots, save us all from the "patriots" and grant us the way to tell them apart.
Below is a transcript, from the Web, of things possibly to be heard in the infamous original video. I did not make this transcript, but it does seem interesting. Some parts can be easily made out, especially the telling phrase, "Ni chuja Sybir" (nee-hooyah-sibeer). In Russian this phrase might be taken to mean something like "No quarter, Siberic," but using very rude wording. I have attempted a translation of the transcript below, adding one or two of my own clarifications as well, which are in curly {} brackets.
Hope this sincere spin is credible. Good reading. (based on video clock as a tracking for the sounds and translation that you can verify yourself. The actual polish and russian words are also listed below the english translation so you can match them by the time on the video showing.)
ENGLISH TRANSLATION (Polish and Russian below this one) (Note time at :53 seconds where they mention the President's voice which means he is alive at that point)
00:12 One can hear in Polish in an assertive tone, "Calm down."
00:16 {In Polish,} "Look him in the eyes."
00:21 Once again, but this time in a more pleading tone, {in Polish,} "Calm down."
00:23 The sound of a pistol being loaded.
00:23 An empty {dull?} whack, as if an impact (the shot of a pistol with a silencer) and afterwards likely, "ow."
00:27 {In Polish,} "Ma'am, do/do not......(later unintelligible)........the Kaczynskis/of the Kaczynskis."
00:29 In Polish, "You're going" (That was a sign to turn on the signal, a siren, and mute the shots. Then in Russian through a radio, "Zyob," because immediately the sound of the siren is heard.) {Possibly "Zyob" might sound like a garbled or colloquial form of "It's done" or "It's happening." Could the siren merely be a passing train? If so, perhaps they knew when it was due to come.}
00:31 Something unclearly in Russian, "Come on."
00:47 In Russian, "Give it over here, skank." {A "playful" rhyming phrase, possibly spoken teasingly to a helper with a gun, or possibly spoken insultingly to one or more intended victims.}
00:50 {In Russian,} "Be beating down {killing} over here."
00:51 In Polish, "God, my God." {Or, "God mine, God."}
00:53 Now may God forgive me for this, but it's the President's voice {in Polish,} "What's this??" (Someone laughed.) {I suppose one would have to electronically analyze the recording to verify whose voice this is. In any case, it is likely an intended victim.}
00:53 {In Russian,} "Shoot."
00:55 The loading of a weapon can be heard.
00:57 A shot.
01:00 The author of the film {in Russian}, "No quarter, Siberic." {Rude wording in a Russian accent. Possibly sincere, but more likely only for the benefit of the nearby official seen a little later in the film guarding against closer approach to the action.}
01:06 A shot.
01:07 Laughter.
01:13 {In Polish,} "I will give it to you, you pricks fu {fu.....pricks}..........." (break in the sound, a shot is heard)
01:22 A shot
01:23 A grandfather {old man,} {in Russian,} "And where are you coming in here........ {snooping} around?" {Probably not said by some old man, but rather by the nearby official, mentioned above at 01:00. He might naturally have muttered this to the author of the film as the author passed by him.}
01:23 The author of the film, "No quarter, myself." {This is a blatant misquotation. The author of the film can clearly be heard to say "No quarter, Siberic," like he said the first time. Again, he probably only repeated it for the benefit of the official he just passed.}
ACTUAL POLISH & RUSSIAN TRANSLATION
00:12 słychac po polsku stanowczym tonem"uspokój sie" ;
00:16 "patrz mu w oczy"
00:21 jeden jeszcze raz tym razem bardzie proszacym tonem "uspokój sie"
00:23 odgłos przeładowywanego pistoletu
00:23 pusty trzask jakby uderzenie(strzał pistoletu z tłumikiem) i potem chyba "ała";
00:27 "Niech pani"....(dalej nie zrozumiale)...koncówka "Kaczyńskich"
00:29 po polsku"idziesz(to znak by sygnał puscili "syrene"i zagłuszyli strzały,potem po rosyjsku przez krótkofalówke "zjob" bo zaraz rozlega sie dzwiek syreny!!)
00:31 cos niewyraznie po rosyjsku "chodjat"
00:47 po rosyjsku "dawaj tuda paskuda" ;
00:50 "ubijaj tuda"
00:51 po polsku :"Boże mój Boże"
00:53 TERAZ NIECH BÓG MI TO WYBACZY ALE TO GŁOS PREZYDENTA " co jest???"- ( ktoś zaśmiał sie)
00:53 streljaj" ;
00:55 przeładowanie broni słychac
00:57 strzał ;
01:00 autor filmu "ni chuja sybir"*
01:06 strzał ;
01:07 smiechy;
01:13 "ja wam dam wy chuje je***...(urywa sie,słychac strzał)!"
01:22 strzał
01:23 dziadek "a gdie wchodisz tu... kola"
01:23 autor filmu "ni huja siebie"*
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by Vatic Master
April 23, 2010
PLEASE SPREAD FAR AND WIDE SINCE THIS IS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE HAS IDENTIFIED THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS ALIVE AFTER THE CRASH based on the video. I now understand why they killed the videogragher since the video was already out there, It did not make sense to me at the time, why they killed him, but the fact that the President can be heard was not yet made clear and the videographer being killed so quickly prevented that fact from coming out early on.
See article about the murder of the videographer and someone elses translation of the video which has been corrected by this translation that I trust implicitly since this person did not believe there was a murder until after he translated the video. He is also in a field that requires very precise and perfectionistic work, and thus this skill carries over to this translation as evidenced by his precise translation.
http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/04/alert-cameraman-filming-crash-of-polish.html
He does show a translation from someone saying it was the Polish President and he was alive and they shot him and someone says "Oh, my God, its the President". See below in the english translation.
Here is what I received from my trusted source....and his ties to Poland are still strong. I trust him and this translation since he is a very perfectionistic person in his field. Here is his response to me:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Below is a link to the main website of an old Polish association (society) which has been a thorn in the side of many Russian governments and of other Russian "patriots". They call themselves The Association of Siberics, or similar (as opposed to Siberians, who live in, or are from, Siberia). Their mission is to keep alive the memory of Russian offenses against Poland, to tend Polish graves associated with such offenses, and so on. Their website is in Polish only.
http://zwiazeksybirakow.strefa.pl/ (its important because it was mentioned twice in the video translation below)
Not all the victims were in Siberia, but the association seems to be happy to bring all the victims under its umbrella.
At least one person aboard the plane reportedly belonged to this order. However, the overall tone of the flight was de facto in support of this order's agenda, to broadcast the memory of past Russian mistreatment of Poland. We can assume this, because the official Katyn commemorative ceremony had already been held earlier, with due decorum, in the presence of the Prime Minister of Poland, the relatively moderate Mr. Tusk. So this flight appeared designed to rub the faces of Russian "patriots" in the mud an unnecessary second time, with a full planeload of "patriots" from Poland, the entourage of Mr. Kaczynski. This resembled a veritable planeload of honorary Siberics.
I have been told that, in the past, Poland has not been shy about dealing out some grief of its own in the direction of its fellow "People of the Word" to the east. Perhaps this time also, poking the bear with a sharp stick may not have been as innocent as it seems. If the plane lands you win, if it falls you also win. Either way, there are eager cameras at the ready. How does one think Poland has managed to survive in its little green vale of death since the dawn of the age? Bless the patriots, save us all from the "patriots" and grant us the way to tell them apart.
Below is a transcript, from the Web, of things possibly to be heard in the infamous original video. I did not make this transcript, but it does seem interesting. Some parts can be easily made out, especially the telling phrase, "Ni chuja Sybir" (nee-hooyah-sibeer). In Russian this phrase might be taken to mean something like "No quarter, Siberic," but using very rude wording. I have attempted a translation of the transcript below, adding one or two of my own clarifications as well, which are in curly {} brackets.
Hope this sincere spin is credible. Good reading. (based on video clock as a tracking for the sounds and translation that you can verify yourself. The actual polish and russian words are also listed below the english translation so you can match them by the time on the video showing.)
ENGLISH TRANSLATION (Polish and Russian below this one) (Note time at :53 seconds where they mention the President's voice which means he is alive at that point)
00:12 One can hear in Polish in an assertive tone, "Calm down."
00:16 {In Polish,} "Look him in the eyes."
00:21 Once again, but this time in a more pleading tone, {in Polish,} "Calm down."
00:23 The sound of a pistol being loaded.
00:23 An empty {dull?} whack, as if an impact (the shot of a pistol with a silencer) and afterwards likely, "ow."
00:27 {In Polish,} "Ma'am, do/do not......(later unintelligible)........the Kaczynskis/of the Kaczynskis."
00:29 In Polish, "You're going" (That was a sign to turn on the signal, a siren, and mute the shots. Then in Russian through a radio, "Zyob," because immediately the sound of the siren is heard.) {Possibly "Zyob" might sound like a garbled or colloquial form of "It's done" or "It's happening." Could the siren merely be a passing train? If so, perhaps they knew when it was due to come.}
00:31 Something unclearly in Russian, "Come on."
00:47 In Russian, "Give it over here, skank." {A "playful" rhyming phrase, possibly spoken teasingly to a helper with a gun, or possibly spoken insultingly to one or more intended victims.}
00:50 {In Russian,} "Be beating down {killing} over here."
00:51 In Polish, "God, my God." {Or, "God mine, God."}
00:53 Now may God forgive me for this, but it's the President's voice {in Polish,} "What's this??" (Someone laughed.) {I suppose one would have to electronically analyze the recording to verify whose voice this is. In any case, it is likely an intended victim.}
00:53 {In Russian,} "Shoot."
00:55 The loading of a weapon can be heard.
00:57 A shot.
01:00 The author of the film {in Russian}, "No quarter, Siberic." {Rude wording in a Russian accent. Possibly sincere, but more likely only for the benefit of the nearby official seen a little later in the film guarding against closer approach to the action.}
01:06 A shot.
01:07 Laughter.
01:13 {In Polish,} "I will give it to you, you pricks fu {fu.....pricks}..........." (break in the sound, a shot is heard)
01:22 A shot
01:23 A grandfather {old man,} {in Russian,} "And where are you coming in here........ {snooping} around?" {Probably not said by some old man, but rather by the nearby official, mentioned above at 01:00. He might naturally have muttered this to the author of the film as the author passed by him.}
01:23 The author of the film, "No quarter, myself." {This is a blatant misquotation. The author of the film can clearly be heard to say "No quarter, Siberic," like he said the first time. Again, he probably only repeated it for the benefit of the official he just passed.}
ACTUAL POLISH & RUSSIAN TRANSLATION
00:12 słychac po polsku stanowczym tonem"uspokój sie" ;
00:16 "patrz mu w oczy"
00:21 jeden jeszcze raz tym razem bardzie proszacym tonem "uspokój sie"
00:23 odgłos przeładowywanego pistoletu
00:23 pusty trzask jakby uderzenie(strzał pistoletu z tłumikiem) i potem chyba "ała";
00:27 "Niech pani"....(dalej nie zrozumiale)...koncówka "Kaczyńskich"
00:29 po polsku"idziesz(to znak by sygnał puscili "syrene"i zagłuszyli strzały,potem po rosyjsku przez krótkofalówke "zjob" bo zaraz rozlega sie dzwiek syreny!!)
00:31 cos niewyraznie po rosyjsku "chodjat"
00:47 po rosyjsku "dawaj tuda paskuda" ;
00:50 "ubijaj tuda"
00:51 po polsku :"Boże mój Boże"
00:53 TERAZ NIECH BÓG MI TO WYBACZY ALE TO GŁOS PREZYDENTA " co jest???"- ( ktoś zaśmiał sie)
00:53 streljaj" ;
00:55 przeładowanie broni słychac
00:57 strzał ;
01:00 autor filmu "ni chuja sybir"*
01:06 strzał ;
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"The CIA Hit List": Muslim Men to be Murdered as "Threats to the US"
Vatic Note: Similar to the Patriot Act, it was never for muslim terrorists, it was alway for Americans. It never mattered your faith or religion. They were murdering many from other countries without batting an eyelash, so what is the difference? He was an American and that was the problem. The big canard they had to get around was the brutal act of killing an American with the "due process" amendment standing in their way. They did it and we didn't even squeal, why? Because we believe them that its only for muslims??? I don't believe them, its a set up just like Bush set everything up (Patriot Act) for Obama to bring it down. This would be the final Hitlarian act against our citizens (gestapo gardens) . What surprised me is that Global Research doesn't see that? Either I am brilliant or they are deflecting us from that fact with this article focusing on one person who is muslim rather than on the very broad implications of this decision by Obama. The article does talk about previous murders in other countries but not a word about the 89 dead microbiologists since 9-11, the politicos that have been killed, like Carnahan, Wellstone, JFK Jr.who was going to run for Hillary's senate seat and of course Mossad couldn't have that now could they? So, why are these not mentioned when all those deaths were severely under a major cloud and no one in governemnt would investigate them? What about Cheneys death squad that was never dismantled consisting of CIA and Mossad operatives. Are they operating today under Rahm Emmanual, the IDF officer Chief of STaff? Did Obama's act now clear them of any responsibility for any of these more recent deaths of reporters like Webb, or the others I mentioned? This is a perversion that seriously needs to be addressed.
Against the Killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi
By J. B. Gerald
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18795
Global Research, April 22, 2010
"You delight in laying down laws
Yet you delight more in breaking them", Khalil Gibran
First
"The CIA Hit List" is a media term for selected Muslim men to be murdered as threats to the United States. As President, Bush used the phrase for his list of "terrorist" suspects when the policy was first made public mid-December 2002. Names on the “hit list” surface, then recede so it is hard to be sure who is current. (1)
The Bush announcement, aware of prohibitions against assassinations in the executive orders of former presidents, designated the suspects as "enemy combatants" to avoid a direct confrontation with the laws of war (LOW) aka laws of armed conflicts (LOAC), which are binding on the U.S.(2). Media reports of Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, in testimony to the House Intelligence Committee February 3, 2010, make no mention of "enemy combatants" when he reserves the right to include American citizens as targets for murder.(3) Then on April 6, 2010 a spokesman for the intelligence community announced that Anwar al-Aulaqi, a Muslim cleric and American citizen is added to the CIA hit list.(4) The imam is known for his statements of faith on the internet. Because he is an American citizen Presidential approval was required for the death command. But more importantly, al-Aulaqi is a civilian.
To quote the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,(5) signed and ratified by the U.S. and now part of the Laws of War,(6)
"In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force at the time of the commission of the crime and not contrary to the provisions of the present Covenant and to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This penalty can only be carried out pursuant to a final judgement rendered by a competent court.
"When deprivation of life constitutes the crime of genocide, it is understood that nothing in this article shall authorize any State Party to the present Covenant to derogate in any way from any obligation assumed under the provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." (ICCR, Part III Article 6, #2, & 3).
Against the Killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi
By J. B. Gerald
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18795
Global Research, April 22, 2010
"You delight in laying down laws
Yet you delight more in breaking them", Khalil Gibran
First
"The CIA Hit List" is a media term for selected Muslim men to be murdered as threats to the United States. As President, Bush used the phrase for his list of "terrorist" suspects when the policy was first made public mid-December 2002. Names on the “hit list” surface, then recede so it is hard to be sure who is current. (1)
The Bush announcement, aware of prohibitions against assassinations in the executive orders of former presidents, designated the suspects as "enemy combatants" to avoid a direct confrontation with the laws of war (LOW) aka laws of armed conflicts (LOAC), which are binding on the U.S.(2). Media reports of Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, in testimony to the House Intelligence Committee February 3, 2010, make no mention of "enemy combatants" when he reserves the right to include American citizens as targets for murder.(3) Then on April 6, 2010 a spokesman for the intelligence community announced that Anwar al-Aulaqi, a Muslim cleric and American citizen is added to the CIA hit list.(4) The imam is known for his statements of faith on the internet. Because he is an American citizen Presidential approval was required for the death command. But more importantly, al-Aulaqi is a civilian.
To quote the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,(5) signed and ratified by the U.S. and now part of the Laws of War,(6)
"In countries which have not abolished the death penalty, sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force at the time of the commission of the crime and not contrary to the provisions of the present Covenant and to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This penalty can only be carried out pursuant to a final judgement rendered by a competent court.
"When deprivation of life constitutes the crime of genocide, it is understood that nothing in this article shall authorize any State Party to the present Covenant to derogate in any way from any obligation assumed under the provisions of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide." (ICCR, Part III Article 6, #2, & 3).
Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan
Vatic Note: What this means in reality, is, these "for pay" mercenaries will be loyal to whoever pays them, and in this case an Israeli rather than the US gov. Given our past history with Israel and all the bogus terrorist attacks against us, I find it either naive or dangerous for Obama to have allowed this privatizing of our military. If that is the case then domestic Militia should be valid and acceptable since there is more evidence of loyalty to America and its interests than there is for private mercenaries. Just another something we should be paying more attention than we do.
http://rebelreports.com/post/538740461/firm-run-by-ex-israeli-special-forces-soldier-wants-us
Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan
As the Obama Administration continues the military privatization agenda, a CIA-connected firm and an Israeli-run company named Instinctive Shooting International are looking to cash in
By Jeremy Scahill
The Obama administration has continued the Bush-era reliance on private contractors to sustain the US occupation of Iraq and the US operations in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, Obama has surpassed Bush’s reliance on contractors with current contractor levels surpassing 100,000 Defense Department contractors deployed. In Iraq, Obama has maintained the long-standing ratio of one contractor to every US soldier.
General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan/Pakistan, said recently that he believes the US has “created in ourselves a dependency on contractors that is greater than it ought to be.” He added: “I think it doesn’t save money. I actually think it would be better to reduce the number of contractors involved, increase the number of military if necessary.”
Despite such proclamations, the pattern of dependence on contractors is continuing unabated—and not just within the Department of Defense.
This week the US State Department posted a solicitation for armed private security contractors to deploy in “critical or higher than critical threat areas” globally under its Worldwide Protective Services program. Among the firms that have held these contracts are Blackwater, DynCorp (VN: the slave sex and labor pimps), Triple Canopy and Armor Group. ArmorGroup was exposed last year by whistleblowers for a range of misconduct at the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Among the actions revealed by the Project on Government Oversight were hazing rituals involving nudity and heavy drinking that at times included personnel urinating on each other. The whistleblowers alleged that ArmorGroup personnel created a general atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Last December, following POGO’s revelations, the State Department said it was phasing out ArmorGroup.
http://rebelreports.com/post/538740461/firm-run-by-ex-israeli-special-forces-soldier-wants-us
Firm Run by Ex-Israeli Special Forces Soldier Wants US Security Contracts in Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan
As the Obama Administration continues the military privatization agenda, a CIA-connected firm and an Israeli-run company named Instinctive Shooting International are looking to cash in
By Jeremy Scahill
The Obama administration has continued the Bush-era reliance on private contractors to sustain the US occupation of Iraq and the US operations in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, Obama has surpassed Bush’s reliance on contractors with current contractor levels surpassing 100,000 Defense Department contractors deployed. In Iraq, Obama has maintained the long-standing ratio of one contractor to every US soldier.
General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander in Afghanistan/Pakistan, said recently that he believes the US has “created in ourselves a dependency on contractors that is greater than it ought to be.” He added: “I think it doesn’t save money. I actually think it would be better to reduce the number of contractors involved, increase the number of military if necessary.”
Despite such proclamations, the pattern of dependence on contractors is continuing unabated—and not just within the Department of Defense.
This week the US State Department posted a solicitation for armed private security contractors to deploy in “critical or higher than critical threat areas” globally under its Worldwide Protective Services program. Among the firms that have held these contracts are Blackwater, DynCorp (VN: the slave sex and labor pimps), Triple Canopy and Armor Group. ArmorGroup was exposed last year by whistleblowers for a range of misconduct at the US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Among the actions revealed by the Project on Government Oversight were hazing rituals involving nudity and heavy drinking that at times included personnel urinating on each other. The whistleblowers alleged that ArmorGroup personnel created a general atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Last December, following POGO’s revelations, the State Department said it was phasing out ArmorGroup.
Blagojevich Motion: Redacted Material Claims Obama Pushed Valerie Jarrett For Senate, Took Money From Tony Rezko
Vatic Note: Rod best avoid traveling by small plane for awhile. Its amazing how desensitized we are becoming to all this corruption. Its an everyday occurance now. No big deal.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/22/blagojevich-motion-redact_n_548387.html
Blagojevich Motion: Redacted Material Claims Obama Pushed Valerie Jarrett For Senate, Took Money From Tony Rezko
Huffington Post - Article provided to Vatic by Carolyn Rose Goyda, Missouri
Will Guzzardi First Posted: 04-22-10 02:39 PM
As a part of the ongoing circus that is Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial,defense attorneys for the indicted former governor of Illinois moved to subpoena President Barack Obama on Thursday to testify in his defense.
Many portions of the document were redacted, but HuffPost Chicago has extracted the redacted portions of the document and reconstructed the full subpoena.
One bombshell accusation included in a blacked-out portion of the document: that the Obama campaign accepted "a large sum of cash" from convicted felon and government witness Tony Rezko.
The document also alleges that President Obama suggested Valerie Jarrett get his old seat, and that he contacted labor union officials about lobbying the Governor's office on her behalf.
If true, this could contradict the President's statement that he was "confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat." Depending on the meaning of the word "deals."
The Blagojevich trial centers on charges that the ex-governor attempted to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barack Obama. While, in statements like the one above, Obama has distanced himself from the scandal, the Blagojevich motion suggests he was somewhat involved in choosing his replacement.From the document (Senate Candidate B here is Valerie Jarrett):
[An unnamed labor union president] spoke to labor union official on November 3, 2008 who received a phone message from Obama that evening. After labor union official listened to the message labor union official told labor union president "I'm the one". Labor union president took that to mean that labor union official was to be the one to deliver the message on behalf of Obama that Senate Candidate B was his pick.
[O]n November, 4 2008, Senate Candidate B spoke with labor union official about the Senate seat. Labor union official said he spoke to Obama. Labor union official said he was going to meet with Blagojevich and said "he was going to push Blagojevich hard on this.
Rahm Emanuel also appears in the document, accused of guiding Blagojevich's Chief of Staff John Harris regarding possible choices for the Senate seat.
A word on the cast of characters: Senate Candidate A is Jesse Jackson, Jr., a Chicago congressman. Senate Candidate D is Emil Jones, former President of the Illinois Senate and a powerful figure in state politics who propelled young Barack Obama's political career. Senate Candidate E is Cheryle Jackson, former president of the Chicago Urban League who finished 3rd in the 2010 primary for the same Senate seat.
From the document:
President's Chief of Staff told the FBI that "he could not say where but somewhere it was communicated to him that" Senate Candidate A was a suggested candidate viewed as one of the four "right" candidates "by the Obama transition team."
...On December 8, 2008, John Harris' secretary's call log noted President's Chief of Staff called at 10:47 am and wrote "needs to talk to you asap" (Harris 302, February 20, 2009). President's Chief of Staff told the FBI that he had a conversation discussing the Senate seat with Obama on December 7, 2008 in Obama's car. President's Chief of Staff told the FBI "Obama expressed concern about Senate Candidate D being appointed as Senator. ... [President's Chief of Staff] thought he suggested Senate Candidate E.
Finally, the redacted portions of the subpoena allege that Tony Rezko funneled large amounts of cash to the Obama campaign. The document claims to quote a letter tendered by the government in a private hearing, which allegedly reads:
[Rezko] engaged in election law violations by personally contributing a large sum of cash to the campaign of a public official who is not Rod Blagojevich. ... Further, the public official denies being aware of cash contributions to his campaign by Rezko or others and denies having conversations with Rezko related to cash contributions. ... Rezko has also stated in interviews with the government that he believed he transmitted a quid pro quo offer from a lobbyist to the public official ... but that the public official rejected the offer.
A footnote to this allegation reads: "The defense has a good faith belief that this public official is Barack Obama," and cites this Chicago Sun-Times article, suggesting that it coincides with elements of Rezko's claims.
Rezko, a Chicago real estate developer, was convicted of sixteen counts of fraud and corruption relating to a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme. The case involved Rezko using his influence with Blagojevich, to whom he'd donated hundreds of thousands of dollars, to demand kickbacks from businesses with state contracts.
The Blagojevich trial is set to begin June 3.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/22/blagojevich-motion-redact_n_548387.html
Blagojevich Motion: Redacted Material Claims Obama Pushed Valerie Jarrett For Senate, Took Money From Tony Rezko
Huffington Post - Article provided to Vatic by Carolyn Rose Goyda, Missouri
Will Guzzardi First Posted: 04-22-10 02:39 PM
As a part of the ongoing circus that is Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial,defense attorneys for the indicted former governor of Illinois moved to subpoena President Barack Obama on Thursday to testify in his defense.
Many portions of the document were redacted, but HuffPost Chicago has extracted the redacted portions of the document and reconstructed the full subpoena.
One bombshell accusation included in a blacked-out portion of the document: that the Obama campaign accepted "a large sum of cash" from convicted felon and government witness Tony Rezko.
The document also alleges that President Obama suggested Valerie Jarrett get his old seat, and that he contacted labor union officials about lobbying the Governor's office on her behalf.
If true, this could contradict the President's statement that he was "confident that no representatives of mine would have any part of any deals related to this seat." Depending on the meaning of the word "deals."
The Blagojevich trial centers on charges that the ex-governor attempted to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barack Obama. While, in statements like the one above, Obama has distanced himself from the scandal, the Blagojevich motion suggests he was somewhat involved in choosing his replacement.From the document (Senate Candidate B here is Valerie Jarrett):
[An unnamed labor union president] spoke to labor union official on November 3, 2008 who received a phone message from Obama that evening. After labor union official listened to the message labor union official told labor union president "I'm the one". Labor union president took that to mean that labor union official was to be the one to deliver the message on behalf of Obama that Senate Candidate B was his pick.
[O]n November, 4 2008, Senate Candidate B spoke with labor union official about the Senate seat. Labor union official said he spoke to Obama. Labor union official said he was going to meet with Blagojevich and said "he was going to push Blagojevich hard on this.
Rahm Emanuel also appears in the document, accused of guiding Blagojevich's Chief of Staff John Harris regarding possible choices for the Senate seat.
A word on the cast of characters: Senate Candidate A is Jesse Jackson, Jr., a Chicago congressman. Senate Candidate D is Emil Jones, former President of the Illinois Senate and a powerful figure in state politics who propelled young Barack Obama's political career. Senate Candidate E is Cheryle Jackson, former president of the Chicago Urban League who finished 3rd in the 2010 primary for the same Senate seat.
From the document:
President's Chief of Staff told the FBI that "he could not say where but somewhere it was communicated to him that" Senate Candidate A was a suggested candidate viewed as one of the four "right" candidates "by the Obama transition team."
...On December 8, 2008, John Harris' secretary's call log noted President's Chief of Staff called at 10:47 am and wrote "needs to talk to you asap" (Harris 302, February 20, 2009). President's Chief of Staff told the FBI that he had a conversation discussing the Senate seat with Obama on December 7, 2008 in Obama's car. President's Chief of Staff told the FBI "Obama expressed concern about Senate Candidate D being appointed as Senator. ... [President's Chief of Staff] thought he suggested Senate Candidate E.
Finally, the redacted portions of the subpoena allege that Tony Rezko funneled large amounts of cash to the Obama campaign. The document claims to quote a letter tendered by the government in a private hearing, which allegedly reads:
[Rezko] engaged in election law violations by personally contributing a large sum of cash to the campaign of a public official who is not Rod Blagojevich. ... Further, the public official denies being aware of cash contributions to his campaign by Rezko or others and denies having conversations with Rezko related to cash contributions. ... Rezko has also stated in interviews with the government that he believed he transmitted a quid pro quo offer from a lobbyist to the public official ... but that the public official rejected the offer.
A footnote to this allegation reads: "The defense has a good faith belief that this public official is Barack Obama," and cites this Chicago Sun-Times article, suggesting that it coincides with elements of Rezko's claims.
Rezko, a Chicago real estate developer, was convicted of sixteen counts of fraud and corruption relating to a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme. The case involved Rezko using his influence with Blagojevich, to whom he'd donated hundreds of thousands of dollars, to demand kickbacks from businesses with state contracts.
The Blagojevich trial is set to begin June 3.
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2010-04-22
"Lehman’s failure is a story in large part of fraud"
Vatic Note: At least someone in the regulatory dept has some semblance of integrity. Read his testimony, but Remember, Lehman Brothers is England and Rothschild. So, I doubt congress will do anything about it given who controls those key committees. Also remember, the FBI was investigating Lehman Bros, Bernanke, and Paulson for criminal fraud they committed the night before they declared insolvency by taking $385 million dollars in funds overnight without telling the German bank that they were declaring insolvency the next day. That is criminal fraud and they kept the money and put the debt into the bailout. The FBI was investigating that at the time and said so to the press, when Bush/Paulson quashed the investigation. UNLESS ITS CRIMINAL then its just a cover up and right now because of the elections everyone is saying what we want to hear but nobody is truly doing anything. Unless some of these big whigs end up in jail for real, don't believe a stinking word any of them says. Only vote for candidates supported by either Ron Paul on the right or Dennis Kucinich or Cynthia McKinney on the left, otherwise, vote independant or third party or we will get more of the same or worse since then there are two years left to finish us off for good and forever.
Title: "Lehman’s failure is a story in large part of fraud"
Black's Knockout Testimony
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25284.htm
By Mike Whitney
April 21, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --
On Tuesday, Former regulator William Black appeared before the House Committee on Financial Services and beat the living-tar out of Lehman CEO Dick Fuld for 8 full minutes. It was a moment of sheer, unalloyed pleasure that will be savored for a long time to come.
"Lehman’s failure is a story in large part of fraud," Black roared. "Lehman was the leading purveyor of liars’ loans in the world. For most of this decade, studies of liars’ loans show incidence of fraud of 90%. ... If you want to know why we have a global crisis, in large part it is before you."
When the camera shifted to Fuld, he looked confused. "Why is this bearded man saying these terrible things about me. I am a Wall Street banker," he mused. "Don't they know that I create jobs and allocate capital to enterprising entrepreneurs?"
Black again: "Let’s start with the repos. We have known since the Enron in 2001 that this is a common scam, in which every major bank that was approached by Enron agreed to help them deceive creditors and investors by doing these kind of transactions.....And so what happened? There was a proposal in 2004 to stop it. And the regulatory heads...killed it."
By now, Fuld was fidgeting in his chair; tugging at his collar and looking over his shoulder to see if the exits were still where he remembered them to be. "Repos, repos, repos," he thought angrily. "All these people think about is repos. We provided a service; liquidity for the markets, capital for new businesses. We make the system work. That's enough, isn't it? Who is this irritating fellow? I haven't seen him at the club, have I?" Fuld wondered if Black wore sandals and belonged to a food co-op.
Black again: "We have known for decades that these are frauds. We have known for a decade how to stop them. All of the major regulatory agencies were complicit in that statement, in destroying it. We have a self-fulfilling policy of regulatory failure because of the leadership in this era.
Title: "Lehman’s failure is a story in large part of fraud"
Black's Knockout Testimony
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25284.htm
By Mike Whitney
April 21, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --
On Tuesday, Former regulator William Black appeared before the House Committee on Financial Services and beat the living-tar out of Lehman CEO Dick Fuld for 8 full minutes. It was a moment of sheer, unalloyed pleasure that will be savored for a long time to come.
"Lehman’s failure is a story in large part of fraud," Black roared. "Lehman was the leading purveyor of liars’ loans in the world. For most of this decade, studies of liars’ loans show incidence of fraud of 90%. ... If you want to know why we have a global crisis, in large part it is before you."
When the camera shifted to Fuld, he looked confused. "Why is this bearded man saying these terrible things about me. I am a Wall Street banker," he mused. "Don't they know that I create jobs and allocate capital to enterprising entrepreneurs?"
Black again: "Let’s start with the repos. We have known since the Enron in 2001 that this is a common scam, in which every major bank that was approached by Enron agreed to help them deceive creditors and investors by doing these kind of transactions.....And so what happened? There was a proposal in 2004 to stop it. And the regulatory heads...killed it."
By now, Fuld was fidgeting in his chair; tugging at his collar and looking over his shoulder to see if the exits were still where he remembered them to be. "Repos, repos, repos," he thought angrily. "All these people think about is repos. We provided a service; liquidity for the markets, capital for new businesses. We make the system work. That's enough, isn't it? Who is this irritating fellow? I haven't seen him at the club, have I?" Fuld wondered if Black wore sandals and belonged to a food co-op.
Black again: "We have known for decades that these are frauds. We have known for a decade how to stop them. All of the major regulatory agencies were complicit in that statement, in destroying it. We have a self-fulfilling policy of regulatory failure because of the leadership in this era.
President Obama: Al Qaeda Is Seeking a Nuke -- and They Will Use It
Vatic Note: FALSE FLAG ALERT? UPDATE: 4/23/10 Based on comments section below, I just reconfirmed that the missing nukes in ND were 6 and only 5 arrived in Lousiana and nothing has been mentioned since that any one has found that 6th nuke. No press screaming for an explanation or accounting for that 6th nuke. So keep that in mind while comtemplatng this false flag alert. Its important.
Lets hope this exposure stops the event from happening as it did back in Sept 2007. Cheney had to cancel his infamous war games then. We stopped it because we blew the socks off when the leak occurred by someone who loaded those nukes. We then verified that El Al airlines had cancelled all flights out of NY on Friday which never happens, and reinstated the flights when Cheney cancelled his war games. I personally called the airline because of the 9-11 warnings that Israeli citizens got working in the twin towers before the highjacking even occurred, so I took a chance and called and sure enough they were cancelled out of NY for Friday the 14th of Sept, 2007.
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After reading the post just before this one, its beginning to look a lot like reality doesn't it? Remember this statement by Obama on the evening of Obama's nuclear summit to reduce nukes, or at least that was what the press said the summit was about and yet after saying he was going to go for reduction, he orders nuke war games??? FEMA has scheduled nuclear war games for May, canceled the april ones in Nevada; and Europe as we speak is holding nuke war games in the "sky" and I suspect that has to do with missles and targeting. Those run through April 22, so the timing was suppose to coincide with ours. Yet, we had a Volcano which took care of the airspace problem for conducting those games through the 22nd. Now we all know this is exactly like 9-11 when we got warnings and then SURPRISE, SURPRISE, war games to go along with the warnings, OH, AND WE STILL HAVE ONE MISSING NUKE that Cheney forgot to return to ND, from the 5 missing nukes back in Sept 2007? THEY RECOVERED ALL BUT ONE. Oh, and all involved on that base in following those military orders to illegally load those nukes, are now dead. So, listen up, if this happens and they do another false flag, then its time, and I think deep down we all know it, to stop these perverts once and for all since that will be about the 6th false flag killing of Americans by our allies in about 30 years. We also proved on here that OKC was done by our gov and their foreign occupying handlers. So, people will simply have to make a serious decision. Keep living with this or stop it. Simple.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/04/president-obama-al-qaeda-is-seeking-a-nuke-to-kill-innocents.html
President Obama: Al Qaeda (CIA) Is Seeking a Nuke -- and They Will Use It
April 11, 2010 8:15 PM
On the eve of his Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama issued a dire warning: terrorist groups are trying to obtain nuclear weapons -- and they will use it. (VN: Yes, CIA/Mossad funded and controlled Al Qaeda)
“We know that organizations like al Qaeda (VN: CIA Funded AQ) are in the process of trying to secure a nuclear weapon (VN: the one Cheney kept from the 5 missing from North Dakota) -- a weapon of mass destruction that they have no compunction at using, (VN: CIA/Mossad use WMD all the time, HAARP comes to mind, ask Haiti)" the president said.
Appearing alongside President Zuma of South Africa before a bilateral meeting, Mr. Obama said that "if there was ever a detonation in New York City, or London, or Johannesburg, the ramifications economically, politically, and from a security perspective would be devastating.” (VN: Sounds like a satanists wet dream, nuking children, very brave people, yes?)
Leaders from almost 50 nations are attending the two-day summit (VN: Except Israel), aimed at shoring up efforts to obtain loose nuclear materials throughout the world so they don’t fall into the hands of terrorists or rogue nations (VN: Too late, Israel already has them). The summit is the third event in the last week in which President Obama is trying to demonstrate a commitment to denuclearization. Last week he issued a new policy on nuclear deterrence and signed a disarmament treaty with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.
South Africa is the only nation in the world that once had a nuclear weapons program and subsequently dismantled the weapons. "South Africa has special standing in being a moral leader on this issue," President Obama said. (VN: Well at least he can spell "moral")
-jpt
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Lets hope this exposure stops the event from happening as it did back in Sept 2007. Cheney had to cancel his infamous war games then. We stopped it because we blew the socks off when the leak occurred by someone who loaded those nukes. We then verified that El Al airlines had cancelled all flights out of NY on Friday which never happens, and reinstated the flights when Cheney cancelled his war games. I personally called the airline because of the 9-11 warnings that Israeli citizens got working in the twin towers before the highjacking even occurred, so I took a chance and called and sure enough they were cancelled out of NY for Friday the 14th of Sept, 2007.
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After reading the post just before this one, its beginning to look a lot like reality doesn't it? Remember this statement by Obama on the evening of Obama's nuclear summit to reduce nukes, or at least that was what the press said the summit was about and yet after saying he was going to go for reduction, he orders nuke war games??? FEMA has scheduled nuclear war games for May, canceled the april ones in Nevada; and Europe as we speak is holding nuke war games in the "sky" and I suspect that has to do with missles and targeting. Those run through April 22, so the timing was suppose to coincide with ours. Yet, we had a Volcano which took care of the airspace problem for conducting those games through the 22nd. Now we all know this is exactly like 9-11 when we got warnings and then SURPRISE, SURPRISE, war games to go along with the warnings, OH, AND WE STILL HAVE ONE MISSING NUKE that Cheney forgot to return to ND, from the 5 missing nukes back in Sept 2007? THEY RECOVERED ALL BUT ONE. Oh, and all involved on that base in following those military orders to illegally load those nukes, are now dead. So, listen up, if this happens and they do another false flag, then its time, and I think deep down we all know it, to stop these perverts once and for all since that will be about the 6th false flag killing of Americans by our allies in about 30 years. We also proved on here that OKC was done by our gov and their foreign occupying handlers. So, people will simply have to make a serious decision. Keep living with this or stop it. Simple.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/04/president-obama-al-qaeda-is-seeking-a-nuke-to-kill-innocents.html
President Obama: Al Qaeda (CIA) Is Seeking a Nuke -- and They Will Use It
April 11, 2010 8:15 PM
On the eve of his Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama issued a dire warning: terrorist groups are trying to obtain nuclear weapons -- and they will use it. (VN: Yes, CIA/Mossad funded and controlled Al Qaeda)
“We know that organizations like al Qaeda (VN: CIA Funded AQ) are in the process of trying to secure a nuclear weapon (VN: the one Cheney kept from the 5 missing from North Dakota) -- a weapon of mass destruction that they have no compunction at using, (VN: CIA/Mossad use WMD all the time, HAARP comes to mind, ask Haiti)" the president said.
Appearing alongside President Zuma of South Africa before a bilateral meeting, Mr. Obama said that "if there was ever a detonation in New York City, or London, or Johannesburg, the ramifications economically, politically, and from a security perspective would be devastating.” (VN: Sounds like a satanists wet dream, nuking children, very brave people, yes?)
Leaders from almost 50 nations are attending the two-day summit (VN: Except Israel), aimed at shoring up efforts to obtain loose nuclear materials throughout the world so they don’t fall into the hands of terrorists or rogue nations (VN: Too late, Israel already has them). The summit is the third event in the last week in which President Obama is trying to demonstrate a commitment to denuclearization. Last week he issued a new policy on nuclear deterrence and signed a disarmament treaty with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.
South Africa is the only nation in the world that once had a nuclear weapons program and subsequently dismantled the weapons. "South Africa has special standing in being a moral leader on this issue," President Obama said. (VN: Well at least he can spell "moral")
-jpt
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The Nuclear Threat from Israeli Submarines (The Samson Option)
Vatic Note: Now here is something we had not thought about and we should have because its far more likely to occur than any other attack against us, given our history of that occurring against us with that nation except for a false flag, but then isn't Israel usually involved in all of those so far, along with our treasonous leaders???? Please note Alex's comments first and keep them in mind as you view these videos and read this commentary from Carol Moore on Israeli's use of blackmail and threats with their rogue nation nuclear weapons. If there is something we all need to fear, ITS ISRAEL, not Afghanistan, not Iraq, not Pakistan, not Iran and certainly not AMERICAN PATRIOTS, in fact that may end up being our saving grace. Its ISRAEL and until today, I had no idea just how serious that possility is to drag us into that war with Iran that they want so very badly and what they are willing to do to us if they do not succeed in Iran. NOW WE KNOW WHAT THEY DID WITH ALL THAT MILITARY MONEY WE SENT THEM AS FOREIGN AID. Think we better stop it while we are ahead of the game??? (Thanks Alex).
The Nuclear Threat from Israeli Submarines (The Samson Option)
Please read these comments first by courtesy of Alex James in an email to his distribution list 4/22/2010
" Question: Is any country using their subs to "shadow" Israeli submarines? I would say no as the Israeli's are blatantly infiltrated into the Pentagon.
The "20 minutes" of crossing nuclear missiles as seen on the old movie "War Games" is sadly out of date. Israeli subs most likely are lying of the east and west coasts of the United States and most likely closer than the 12 mile limit. There will be no Air Raid sirens. If it goes badly for Israel when they hit Iran...........you may well join the Israeli's in the afterlife. They do not want anyone to survive if they do not."
He then provided this very enlightening video and write up which exposes the extent of their nuclear capability and intention. Please watch the first video as its important, the second if your so inclined since its more historical than contemporary. Keep in mind Israel has already proven its willingness to kill Americans for their own political purposes, so this is not out of the realm of possibility. We are truly beginning to realize who our true enemy may very well be, and its not the muslims or the nations that seat them. Pass this around as far and wide as you can, its important to expose this underbelly to the light of day.
http://www.submarines.dotan.net/
The 2010 International Submariners Convention will take place in Haifa, Israel
between the 23rd-27th May 2010
Israeli Nuke subs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNQZpuCx36Q&feature=player_embedded
2nd video: Israeli's first Nuke sub museum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WIJzht-18&feature=player_embedded
These videos Sponsored by :
Zahal, IDF, Israel military store
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Now for some excellent analysis by Carol Moore on the possibility of an attack against America or any nation by Israel.
http://www.carolmoore.net/nuclearwar/israelithreats.html
Return to "Is World Nuclear War Inevitable?" at CarolMoore.Net
ISRAELI NUCLEAR THREATS AND BLACKMAIL
The Samson Option Still Threatens the World
by Carol Moore, December 2009 verson
(Please LINK only; do not mirror. Content changes frequently.)The phrase the “Samson Option” is used to describe Israel’s strategy of massive nuclear retaliation against “enemy” nations should its existence as a Jewish state be jeopardized through military attack. Israeli leaders created the term in the mid-1960s, inspired by the Biblical figure Samson, who destroyed a Philistine temple, killing himself and thousands of Philistine enemies.[1][2]
Israel refuses to admit officially that it has nuclear weapons - a policy known as “nuclear ambiguity” or "nuclear opacity."[3] This despite government officials inferring repeatedly - and occasionally admitting - the fact. And despite Israeli nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu making public smuggled photographs of nuclear weapons and production equipment in the 1980s.[4] Israel now may have as many as 400 atomic and hydrogen nuclear weapons,[5][6] as well as the ability to launch them via long range missiles, submarines and aircraft.[7] It can use them in a second strike even if its military is devastated.
Originally a strategy of last resort retaliation - even if it means Israel’s annihilation - it has developed into being a nuclear bullying strategy to further Israel’s territorial goals through threats and blackmail. Israel has bullied not only Arab and Muslim nations, but the United States and Russia with its Samson Option threats. Mordechai Vanunu has alleged that Israel uses for purposes of blackmail its ability to "bombard any city all over the world, and not only those in Europe but also those in the United States."[8]
Official policy and threats
During the 1960s Israel concentrated on conventional military superiority to defend lands confiscated in the 1948 and 1967 wars - and to convince Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories that they could not break free of it. However, in 1973's Yom Kippur War Israel was almost overwhelmed by Arab forces. Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert, ordering 13 atomic bombs be prepared for missiles and aircraft. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Simha Dinitz threatened “very serious conclusions" if there was not an immediate airlift of supplies.[9] This forced U.S. President Richard Nixon to make emergency airlifts of state of the art military supplies to Israel.[10][11]
Fearing intervention by the Soviet Union, U.S. forces went on Defense Condition (DEFCON) III alert status[12], something which could have led to full scale nuclear war in case of misinterpretation of signals or hardware or software failures. Additionally, as Seymour Hersh documents in detail in his book The Samson Option, from 1973 these weapons have been used to discourage the Soviet Union - now Russia - from intervening militarily on behalf of Arab nations.[13] Obviously an Israeli nuclear attack on Russia by the United States’ great ally Israel would result in Russia sending thousands of nuclear weapons towards the U.S. and the U.S. responding in kind.
Not surprisingly, no nation state has attempted to attack Israel since 1973. A former Israeli official justified Israel’s threats. “You Americans screwed us” in not supporting Israel in its 1956 war with Egypt. “We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next time we’ll take all of you with us.”[14] General Moshe Dayan, a leading promoter of Israel’s nuclear program[15], has been quoted as saying “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”[16] Amos Rubin, an economic adviser to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said "If left to its own Israel will have no choice but to fall back on a riskier defense which will endanger itself and the world at large... To enable Israel to abstain from dependence on nuclear arms calls for $2 to 3 billion per year in U.S. aid."[17]
In 1977, after a right-wing coalition under Menachen Begin took power, the Israelis began to use the Samson Option not just to deter attack but to allow Israel to “redraw the political map of the Middle East” by expanding hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers into the West Bank and Gaza.[18] Then-Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon said things like "We are much more important than (Americans) think. We can take the middle east with us whenever we go"[19] and "Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches."[20] He proclaimed his - and many Likud Party members' - goals of transforming Jordan into a Palestinian state and “transferring” all Palestinian refugees there.[21][22] A practice known worldwide as "ethnic cleansing."
To dissuade the Soviet Union from interfering with its plans, Prime Minister Begin immediately “gave orders to target more Soviet cities” for potential nuclear attack. Its American spy Jonathan Pollard was caught stealing such nuclear targeting information from the U.S. military in 1985.[23]
During the next 25 years Israel became more militarily adventurous, bombing Iraq’s under-construction Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, invading Lebanon to destroy Palestinian refugee camps in 1982 and to fight Hezbollah in 2006, massively bombing civilian targets in the West Bank Jenin refugee camp in 2002 and thoughout Gaza in 2008-2009. There are conflicting reports about whether Israel went on nuclear alert and armed missiles with nuclear weapons during the 1991 Gulf War after Iraq shot conventionally armed scud missiles into it.[24][25]
In 2002, while the United States was building for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened that if Israel was attacked “Israel will react. Is it clear?”[26] Israeli defense analyst Zeev Schiff explained: “Israel could respond with a nuclear retaliation that would eradicate Iraq as a country.” It is believed President Bush gave Sharon the green-light to attack Baghdad in retaliation, including with nuclear weapons, but only if attacks came before the American military invasion.[27]
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has admitted that nuclear weapons are used by Israel for “compellent purposes” - i.e., forcing others to accept Israeli political demands.[28] In 1998 Peres was quoted as saying, "We have built a nuclear option, not in order to have a Hiroshima, but to have an Oslo," referring to imposing a settlement on the Palestinians.[29]
In her book Israel’s Sacred Terrorism Livia Rokach documented how Israelis have used religion to justify paramilitary and state terrorism to create and maintain a Jewish State.[30] Two other Israeli retaliation strategies are the popularized phrase “Wrath of God,” the alleged Israeli assassination of those it held responsible for the 1972 killings of Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics[31], and the “Dahiya doctrine” of destruction of civilian areas to punish Palestinians for supporting their leaders.[32]
Israeli Israel Shahak wrote in 1997: "Israel clearly prepares itself to seek overtly a hegemony over the entire Middle East...without hesitating to use for the purpose all means available, including nuclear ones."[33] Zeev Schiff opined in 1998 that "Off-the-cuff Israeli nuclear threats have become a problem."[34] In 2003 David Hirst noted that “The threatening of wild, irrational violence, in response to political pressure, has been an Israeli impulse from the very earliest days” and called Israel a candidate for “the role of 'nuclear-crazy' state.”[35] Noam Chomsky said of the Samson Option “the craziness of the state is not because the people are insane. Once you pick a policy of choosing expansion over security, that's what you end up getting stuck with.”[36] Efraim Karsh calls the Samson Option the “rationality of pretended irrationality,” but warns that seeming too irrational could encourage other nations to attack Israel in their own defense.[37]
Samson Option Supporters
Two Israel supporters are frequently quoted for their explicit support of the Samson Option. Martin Van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has been quoted as saying: "Most European capitals are targets for our air force....We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under."[38]
In 2002 the Los Angeles Times, published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter in which he wrote: "What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away--unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans--have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?"[39]
Two influential Israel supporters advocate more active use of the Samson Option threat. Louis René Beres, a professor of Political Science at Purdue University and an Ariel Sharon advisor, recommends Israel use the Samson Option threat to support conventional preemptive attacks against enemy nuclear and non-nuclear assets, discouraging conventional retaliation.[40] Jerome Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D. in political science and author of two books encouraging Israel to use nuclear weapons[41], writes that “Israel's Samson Option” could be “a preemptive strike against Iran.”[42]
The Israelis also are egged on in its nuclear threats by "Christian Zionists" like Hal Lindsay who believe Israel must expand its control of territory to its Biblical borders in order to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ.[43] Some suspect that former President George W. Bush holds such beliefs,[44] especially after his November 2007 statement "If you want to see World War Three, you know, a way to do that is to attack Israel with a nuclear weapon."[45]
Israeli Threats Against Iran
Israel’s threats to use nuclear weapons, including preemptively, have increased greatly since the revelation in 2002 that Iran was building uranium enrichment facilities. That year Prime Minister Ariel Sharon demanded that the international community target Iran as soon as it was finished dealing with Iraq.[46]
Unlike Israel, Iran has accepted supervision of its nuclear program under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Iran claims its program is only for production of nuclear power as oil becomes more scarce and expensive, and not for nuclear weapons. However, Israel opposes any challenge to its nuclear hegemony since not only would it be less able to use its nuclear threat to keep confiscated lands, but fear of Iran actually might cause citizens to leave Israel and investment to dry up.[47][48] Israel also must worry about other “enemy” Arab nations which already are seeking or soon may seek nuclear energy.[49]
In 2004 Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that Israel would consider "all options" to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons.[50] Rumors and warnings of an impending Israeli attack on Iran’s facilities, including possibly with nuclear weapons, have circulated repeatedly since that time.[51][52]
Meanwhile, Israel still considers Russia a target because of its technical assistance to Iran’s nuclear program and its continued arms sales to Iran and other “enemy” nations.[53] [54][55] In 2007 Israeli officials warned Russia: "We hope they understand that this is a threat that could come back to them as well."[56]
In 2005 George Bush admitted that the U.S. would support an Israeli attack on Iran.[57] Soon after his election President Barak Obama seemed to accept the inevitability of an Iranian nuclear bomb.[58] However, in early 2009 Likud Party hawk Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu already had threatened that Israel would attack Iran to stop its nuclear program if Obama did not do so.[59] Considering Iran’s threats to retaliate, this easily could lead to a “Samson Option” scenario.[60][61] After May[62] and September meetings with Netanyahu in 2009, Obama threatened Iran with attack if it did not “come clean about” and curb its nuclear program.[63][64] This statement came a day after Netanyahus’ speech to the United Nations where he invoked the memory of Auschwitz and family members slain by Nazis.[65] Obama also has suffered constant pressure to take a more belligerent stand against Iran from neoconservatives and the “Israel lobby.”[66][67][68][69]
Too few peace or political activists, left or right, are willing to challenge Israel’s Samson Option threats or even to make a nuclear free Middle East a central demand.[70] Until military and political leaders, as well as activists, are willing to change U.S. policy of defacto support for Israel’s Samson Option the whole world remains a potential victim of this horrific strategy.
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Note: If you see some resemblance to the wikipedia article on the Samson Option, I also worked on that and contributed many of the same facts from many of the same sources.
Also, my comments on the “Samson Option” were quoted in the New York Sun, September 2005.
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To see the extensive footnotes to Ms Moores article visit the link above.
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The Nuclear Threat from Israeli Submarines (The Samson Option)
Please read these comments first by courtesy of Alex James in an email to his distribution list 4/22/2010
" Question: Is any country using their subs to "shadow" Israeli submarines? I would say no as the Israeli's are blatantly infiltrated into the Pentagon.
The "20 minutes" of crossing nuclear missiles as seen on the old movie "War Games" is sadly out of date. Israeli subs most likely are lying of the east and west coasts of the United States and most likely closer than the 12 mile limit. There will be no Air Raid sirens. If it goes badly for Israel when they hit Iran...........you may well join the Israeli's in the afterlife. They do not want anyone to survive if they do not."
He then provided this very enlightening video and write up which exposes the extent of their nuclear capability and intention. Please watch the first video as its important, the second if your so inclined since its more historical than contemporary. Keep in mind Israel has already proven its willingness to kill Americans for their own political purposes, so this is not out of the realm of possibility. We are truly beginning to realize who our true enemy may very well be, and its not the muslims or the nations that seat them. Pass this around as far and wide as you can, its important to expose this underbelly to the light of day.
http://www.submarines.dotan.net/
The 2010 International Submariners Convention will take place in Haifa, Israel
between the 23rd-27th May 2010
Israeli Nuke subs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNQZpuCx36Q&feature=player_embedded
2nd video: Israeli's first Nuke sub museum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2WIJzht-18&feature=player_embedded
These videos Sponsored by :
Zahal, IDF, Israel military store
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now for some excellent analysis by Carol Moore on the possibility of an attack against America or any nation by Israel.
http://www.carolmoore.net/nuclearwar/israelithreats.html
Return to "Is World Nuclear War Inevitable?" at CarolMoore.Net
ISRAELI NUCLEAR THREATS AND BLACKMAIL
The Samson Option Still Threatens the World
by Carol Moore, December 2009 verson
(Please LINK only; do not mirror. Content changes frequently.)The phrase the “Samson Option” is used to describe Israel’s strategy of massive nuclear retaliation against “enemy” nations should its existence as a Jewish state be jeopardized through military attack. Israeli leaders created the term in the mid-1960s, inspired by the Biblical figure Samson, who destroyed a Philistine temple, killing himself and thousands of Philistine enemies.[1][2]
Israel refuses to admit officially that it has nuclear weapons - a policy known as “nuclear ambiguity” or "nuclear opacity."[3] This despite government officials inferring repeatedly - and occasionally admitting - the fact. And despite Israeli nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu making public smuggled photographs of nuclear weapons and production equipment in the 1980s.[4] Israel now may have as many as 400 atomic and hydrogen nuclear weapons,[5][6] as well as the ability to launch them via long range missiles, submarines and aircraft.[7] It can use them in a second strike even if its military is devastated.
Originally a strategy of last resort retaliation - even if it means Israel’s annihilation - it has developed into being a nuclear bullying strategy to further Israel’s territorial goals through threats and blackmail. Israel has bullied not only Arab and Muslim nations, but the United States and Russia with its Samson Option threats. Mordechai Vanunu has alleged that Israel uses for purposes of blackmail its ability to "bombard any city all over the world, and not only those in Europe but also those in the United States."[8]
Official policy and threats
During the 1960s Israel concentrated on conventional military superiority to defend lands confiscated in the 1948 and 1967 wars - and to convince Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories that they could not break free of it. However, in 1973's Yom Kippur War Israel was almost overwhelmed by Arab forces. Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized a nuclear alert, ordering 13 atomic bombs be prepared for missiles and aircraft. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Simha Dinitz threatened “very serious conclusions" if there was not an immediate airlift of supplies.[9] This forced U.S. President Richard Nixon to make emergency airlifts of state of the art military supplies to Israel.[10][11]
Fearing intervention by the Soviet Union, U.S. forces went on Defense Condition (DEFCON) III alert status[12], something which could have led to full scale nuclear war in case of misinterpretation of signals or hardware or software failures. Additionally, as Seymour Hersh documents in detail in his book The Samson Option, from 1973 these weapons have been used to discourage the Soviet Union - now Russia - from intervening militarily on behalf of Arab nations.[13] Obviously an Israeli nuclear attack on Russia by the United States’ great ally Israel would result in Russia sending thousands of nuclear weapons towards the U.S. and the U.S. responding in kind.
Not surprisingly, no nation state has attempted to attack Israel since 1973. A former Israeli official justified Israel’s threats. “You Americans screwed us” in not supporting Israel in its 1956 war with Egypt. “We can still remember the smell of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Next time we’ll take all of you with us.”[14] General Moshe Dayan, a leading promoter of Israel’s nuclear program[15], has been quoted as saying “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.”[16] Amos Rubin, an economic adviser to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said "If left to its own Israel will have no choice but to fall back on a riskier defense which will endanger itself and the world at large... To enable Israel to abstain from dependence on nuclear arms calls for $2 to 3 billion per year in U.S. aid."[17]
In 1977, after a right-wing coalition under Menachen Begin took power, the Israelis began to use the Samson Option not just to deter attack but to allow Israel to “redraw the political map of the Middle East” by expanding hundreds of thousands of Israeli settlers into the West Bank and Gaza.[18] Then-Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon said things like "We are much more important than (Americans) think. We can take the middle east with us whenever we go"[19] and "Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches."[20] He proclaimed his - and many Likud Party members' - goals of transforming Jordan into a Palestinian state and “transferring” all Palestinian refugees there.[21][22] A practice known worldwide as "ethnic cleansing."
To dissuade the Soviet Union from interfering with its plans, Prime Minister Begin immediately “gave orders to target more Soviet cities” for potential nuclear attack. Its American spy Jonathan Pollard was caught stealing such nuclear targeting information from the U.S. military in 1985.[23]
During the next 25 years Israel became more militarily adventurous, bombing Iraq’s under-construction Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, invading Lebanon to destroy Palestinian refugee camps in 1982 and to fight Hezbollah in 2006, massively bombing civilian targets in the West Bank Jenin refugee camp in 2002 and thoughout Gaza in 2008-2009. There are conflicting reports about whether Israel went on nuclear alert and armed missiles with nuclear weapons during the 1991 Gulf War after Iraq shot conventionally armed scud missiles into it.[24][25]
In 2002, while the United States was building for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon threatened that if Israel was attacked “Israel will react. Is it clear?”[26] Israeli defense analyst Zeev Schiff explained: “Israel could respond with a nuclear retaliation that would eradicate Iraq as a country.” It is believed President Bush gave Sharon the green-light to attack Baghdad in retaliation, including with nuclear weapons, but only if attacks came before the American military invasion.[27]
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has admitted that nuclear weapons are used by Israel for “compellent purposes” - i.e., forcing others to accept Israeli political demands.[28] In 1998 Peres was quoted as saying, "We have built a nuclear option, not in order to have a Hiroshima, but to have an Oslo," referring to imposing a settlement on the Palestinians.[29]
In her book Israel’s Sacred Terrorism Livia Rokach documented how Israelis have used religion to justify paramilitary and state terrorism to create and maintain a Jewish State.[30] Two other Israeli retaliation strategies are the popularized phrase “Wrath of God,” the alleged Israeli assassination of those it held responsible for the 1972 killings of Israeli athletes during the Munich Olympics[31], and the “Dahiya doctrine” of destruction of civilian areas to punish Palestinians for supporting their leaders.[32]
Israeli Israel Shahak wrote in 1997: "Israel clearly prepares itself to seek overtly a hegemony over the entire Middle East...without hesitating to use for the purpose all means available, including nuclear ones."[33] Zeev Schiff opined in 1998 that "Off-the-cuff Israeli nuclear threats have become a problem."[34] In 2003 David Hirst noted that “The threatening of wild, irrational violence, in response to political pressure, has been an Israeli impulse from the very earliest days” and called Israel a candidate for “the role of 'nuclear-crazy' state.”[35] Noam Chomsky said of the Samson Option “the craziness of the state is not because the people are insane. Once you pick a policy of choosing expansion over security, that's what you end up getting stuck with.”[36] Efraim Karsh calls the Samson Option the “rationality of pretended irrationality,” but warns that seeming too irrational could encourage other nations to attack Israel in their own defense.[37]
Samson Option Supporters
Two Israel supporters are frequently quoted for their explicit support of the Samson Option. Martin Van Creveld, a professor of military history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has been quoted as saying: "Most European capitals are targets for our air force....We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under."[38]
In 2002 the Los Angeles Times, published an opinion piece by Louisiana State University professor David Perlmutter in which he wrote: "What would serve the Jew-hating world better in repayment for thousands of years of massacres but a Nuclear Winter. Or invite all those tut-tutting European statesmen and peace activists to join us in the ovens? For the first time in history, a people facing extermination while the world either cackles or looks away--unlike the Armenians, Tibetans, World War II European Jews or Rwandans--have the power to destroy the world. The ultimate justice?"[39]
Two influential Israel supporters advocate more active use of the Samson Option threat. Louis René Beres, a professor of Political Science at Purdue University and an Ariel Sharon advisor, recommends Israel use the Samson Option threat to support conventional preemptive attacks against enemy nuclear and non-nuclear assets, discouraging conventional retaliation.[40] Jerome Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D. in political science and author of two books encouraging Israel to use nuclear weapons[41], writes that “Israel's Samson Option” could be “a preemptive strike against Iran.”[42]
The Israelis also are egged on in its nuclear threats by "Christian Zionists" like Hal Lindsay who believe Israel must expand its control of territory to its Biblical borders in order to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ.[43] Some suspect that former President George W. Bush holds such beliefs,[44] especially after his November 2007 statement "If you want to see World War Three, you know, a way to do that is to attack Israel with a nuclear weapon."[45]
Israeli Threats Against Iran
Israel’s threats to use nuclear weapons, including preemptively, have increased greatly since the revelation in 2002 that Iran was building uranium enrichment facilities. That year Prime Minister Ariel Sharon demanded that the international community target Iran as soon as it was finished dealing with Iraq.[46]
Unlike Israel, Iran has accepted supervision of its nuclear program under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Iran claims its program is only for production of nuclear power as oil becomes more scarce and expensive, and not for nuclear weapons. However, Israel opposes any challenge to its nuclear hegemony since not only would it be less able to use its nuclear threat to keep confiscated lands, but fear of Iran actually might cause citizens to leave Israel and investment to dry up.[47][48] Israel also must worry about other “enemy” Arab nations which already are seeking or soon may seek nuclear energy.[49]
In 2004 Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that Israel would consider "all options" to prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons.[50] Rumors and warnings of an impending Israeli attack on Iran’s facilities, including possibly with nuclear weapons, have circulated repeatedly since that time.[51][52]
Meanwhile, Israel still considers Russia a target because of its technical assistance to Iran’s nuclear program and its continued arms sales to Iran and other “enemy” nations.[53] [54][55] In 2007 Israeli officials warned Russia: "We hope they understand that this is a threat that could come back to them as well."[56]
In 2005 George Bush admitted that the U.S. would support an Israeli attack on Iran.[57] Soon after his election President Barak Obama seemed to accept the inevitability of an Iranian nuclear bomb.[58] However, in early 2009 Likud Party hawk Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israeli Prime Minister. Netanyahu already had threatened that Israel would attack Iran to stop its nuclear program if Obama did not do so.[59] Considering Iran’s threats to retaliate, this easily could lead to a “Samson Option” scenario.[60][61] After May[62] and September meetings with Netanyahu in 2009, Obama threatened Iran with attack if it did not “come clean about” and curb its nuclear program.[63][64] This statement came a day after Netanyahus’ speech to the United Nations where he invoked the memory of Auschwitz and family members slain by Nazis.[65] Obama also has suffered constant pressure to take a more belligerent stand against Iran from neoconservatives and the “Israel lobby.”[66][67][68][69]
Too few peace or political activists, left or right, are willing to challenge Israel’s Samson Option threats or even to make a nuclear free Middle East a central demand.[70] Until military and political leaders, as well as activists, are willing to change U.S. policy of defacto support for Israel’s Samson Option the whole world remains a potential victim of this horrific strategy.
* * *
Note: If you see some resemblance to the wikipedia article on the Samson Option, I also worked on that and contributed many of the same facts from many of the same sources.
Also, my comments on the “Samson Option” were quoted in the New York Sun, September 2005.
* * *
To see the extensive footnotes to Ms Moores article visit the link above.
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER PUBLISHES PATRIOT HIT LIST
Vatic Note: THIS IS EXACTLY THE SOURCE OF ALL OUR PROBLEMS.... THE SPLC and their banker minions. Remember when they tried to call American Indians, racists?? I couldn't believe it. What a stretch that was. If there are enemy combatants, they are it... and traitors on this soil for even doing this. I dont' care if its left or right they pick, THESE ARE FREE AMERICANS WITH THE RIGHT TO THEIR OPINIONS, SPEECH AND ASSOCIATIONS. This is not the first time that the SPLC has tried to get Americans to hate and kill one another. Its simply not working, even the left has caught on. They made the mistake of lying to the 2 left publications (Daily Kos, and Raw story) that found out they were lies and had to apologize to specific people on the right and retract the entire story, so now , no one is listening to them and are beginning to believe they truly do work for mossad. Which I understand they do. The right and left are finally uniting on this issue. The only ones left who aren't are the minor group of neocons lead by their paid hacks for the neocons and same with the neolibs. There is only one party, the neocon party, with a left and right wing, called the repubs and dems. The number of neocon grassroots, is reducing daily as people around the world wake up. Notice almost everyone you talk to knows something is wrong and its not a right left issue. Its an "us" and "them" issue, its class warfare at its biggest and most aggressive, the only difference is we have not been fighting back, but that is about to end. If we are to go after anyone, its them and their neocon destroyers of nations. Talk about hate, read this quote from an ex prime minister of Israel.....this is exactly how they see us and why they blithely kill Americans when deemed beneficial, like 9-11 and the USS Liberty and USS Cole. We are cattle and expendable.
"Our race is the Master Race. We Jews are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattlce at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." - Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister to New Statesman magazine on June 25, 1982
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin583.htm
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER PUBLISHES PATRIOT HIT LIST
By Chuck Baldwin
April 21, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
In a report on its web site dated April 2010, entitled "Meet The Patriots," the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) profiled "36 individuals at the heart of the resurgent [patriot] movement." (In reading the list, I counted only 35 "patriots" and 5 "enablers" for a total of 40. I'm not really sure how the SPLC came up with "36." Perhaps their ability to count is commensurate with their ability to appreciate patriotism and liberty.) The SPLC (founded by Morris Dees) sees itself as America's guardian against "right wing militias" and loves to label conservatives and libertarians that it doesn't like as "extremists." The SPLC is one of the most ultra-liberal organizations in the country and should be dismissed as a group of paranoid leftists, not worthy of thought or mention.
The sad truth is, however, our federal government has chosen to exalt the SPLC to the position of being its "go to" source for information regarding "potential domestic terrorists" and similar characterizations. As a result, the information and reports disseminated by SPLC wind up in police reports and bulletins all over the United States. As an example, the SPLC had its fingerprints all over the infamous MIAC report. One could even question whether the SPLC is merely a front organization for Big Brother.
Therefore, it is highly likely that the report negatively profiling 40 American patriots will find its way into Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fusion centers and be distributed to police agencies all across the country. So, should the 40 people who find themselves targeted by SPLC expect some kind of government/police attention? Are we really that close to Nazi-style persecution in America? If the SPLC has its way, the answer seems to be a definite yes.
I remind readers that in the book, Nazi Justiz: Law of the Holocaust (page 3), there were five steps to Hitler's plans for the destruction of European Jews. Step 1: Identification/registration of the targeted group as a public menace. Step 2: Ostracism of the targeted persons. Step 3: property confiscation. Step 4: Concentration of members into geographical locations. Step 5: Annihilation. In this latest report, SPLC seems quite willing to accomplish steps 1 and 2. (VN: which means step 5 isn't that far behind)
I think its time to do a good ole fashion Iceland and kick the mossad agents out without further adieu)
Here are the 40 names that are targeted in the SPLC report (and guess who is listed at the very top? Yours truly):
"Our race is the Master Race. We Jews are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattlce at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." - Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister to New Statesman magazine on June 25, 1982
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin583.htm
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER PUBLISHES PATRIOT HIT LIST
By Chuck Baldwin
April 21, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
In a report on its web site dated April 2010, entitled "Meet The Patriots," the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) profiled "36 individuals at the heart of the resurgent [patriot] movement." (In reading the list, I counted only 35 "patriots" and 5 "enablers" for a total of 40. I'm not really sure how the SPLC came up with "36." Perhaps their ability to count is commensurate with their ability to appreciate patriotism and liberty.) The SPLC (founded by Morris Dees) sees itself as America's guardian against "right wing militias" and loves to label conservatives and libertarians that it doesn't like as "extremists." The SPLC is one of the most ultra-liberal organizations in the country and should be dismissed as a group of paranoid leftists, not worthy of thought or mention.
The sad truth is, however, our federal government has chosen to exalt the SPLC to the position of being its "go to" source for information regarding "potential domestic terrorists" and similar characterizations. As a result, the information and reports disseminated by SPLC wind up in police reports and bulletins all over the United States. As an example, the SPLC had its fingerprints all over the infamous MIAC report. One could even question whether the SPLC is merely a front organization for Big Brother.
Therefore, it is highly likely that the report negatively profiling 40 American patriots will find its way into Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fusion centers and be distributed to police agencies all across the country. So, should the 40 people who find themselves targeted by SPLC expect some kind of government/police attention? Are we really that close to Nazi-style persecution in America? If the SPLC has its way, the answer seems to be a definite yes.
I remind readers that in the book, Nazi Justiz: Law of the Holocaust (page 3), there were five steps to Hitler's plans for the destruction of European Jews. Step 1: Identification/registration of the targeted group as a public menace. Step 2: Ostracism of the targeted persons. Step 3: property confiscation. Step 4: Concentration of members into geographical locations. Step 5: Annihilation. In this latest report, SPLC seems quite willing to accomplish steps 1 and 2. (VN: which means step 5 isn't that far behind)
I think its time to do a good ole fashion Iceland and kick the mossad agents out without further adieu)
Here are the 40 names that are targeted in the SPLC report (and guess who is listed at the very top? Yours truly):
2010-04-21
ALERT: Cameraman filming the crash of Polish President is Assassinated
ONCE AGAIN, I ASK YOU TO GET THIS OUT TO YOUR LISTS, THE CAMERAMAN HAS BEEN MURDERED. Please read below.
Vatic Note: Wow, this just keeps getting more and more bizarre. There are now two videos, the one you first saw on vatic project when this all broke, and below it is done again only this time its being shown below with english subtitles of the voices both in the background and the camera man. The camera man was killed on the 15th and immediately afterward, the original video was replaced and if it wasn't downloaded then its gone. A new movie was put up to replace it which basically eliminates all that was seen in the first movie. Fortunately New World Order Report downloaded the first video and still has it up so here is the presentation from New World Order Report. The first stills are showing stills of part of the video and circling what was in the first video, which are humans, one man jumping out of the plane, and a pilot waving his arm. So check those out first and then play the first video again that they have translated so you can tell what the people in the background are saying that you can barely hear and the man near the camera man and then the camera man himself. Its a bit confusing but if you stick with it, it becomes clear what you are seeing and what happens after the shots. .
All of this changed with a new video with those items blocked or grayed/hazed out. This is unbelievable. So blatant.
http://www.newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/3255/Russian-forums-website-The-guy-who-filmed-the-shots-fired-at-the-POLISH-PLANE-CRASH-WAS-ASSASSINATED.aspx
Russian forums website: "The guy who filmed the shots fired at the POLISH PLANE CRASH WAS ASSASSINATED"
Russian Forums Link
Translation:
" Author of the video seen by everyone by now has been stabbed near Kijow on 4.15 and transported in critical condition to the hospital in Kijow. On 4.16 three unidentified individuals unplugged him from life support system and stabbed him 3 more times. Andrij was pronounced dead that afternoon. Russian government claims it was a coincidence. "
A new movie has been released with some English translation see below!
Quote from Video:"Some people say this is the pilot, I don't know."
Below is another still from the first video. Study these two, then when you play the first video below you will see it again. Its difficult and I had to play it twice to see it the second time and especially when they shoot this guy and he goes down. Fortunately they rewind and replay so you can see better the second time around.
This is the first movie below.....he highlights what you see and gives english subtitles to it to see what was being said or what we are seeing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxIFh3NkEvM&feature=player_embedded
This, below, is the second movie where all the people either shot or wounded are no longer in the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxIFh3NkEvM&feature=player_embedded
Then check out this site for the comments by a Polish MP.
From The Big Wobble 13/04:'Russia engineered air crash that killed President Kaczynski,' claims Polish MP
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Vatic Note: Wow, this just keeps getting more and more bizarre. There are now two videos, the one you first saw on vatic project when this all broke, and below it is done again only this time its being shown below with english subtitles of the voices both in the background and the camera man. The camera man was killed on the 15th and immediately afterward, the original video was replaced and if it wasn't downloaded then its gone. A new movie was put up to replace it which basically eliminates all that was seen in the first movie. Fortunately New World Order Report downloaded the first video and still has it up so here is the presentation from New World Order Report. The first stills are showing stills of part of the video and circling what was in the first video, which are humans, one man jumping out of the plane, and a pilot waving his arm. So check those out first and then play the first video again that they have translated so you can tell what the people in the background are saying that you can barely hear and the man near the camera man and then the camera man himself. Its a bit confusing but if you stick with it, it becomes clear what you are seeing and what happens after the shots. .
All of this changed with a new video with those items blocked or grayed/hazed out. This is unbelievable. So blatant.
http://www.newworldorderreport.com/News/tabid/266/ID/3255/Russian-forums-website-The-guy-who-filmed-the-shots-fired-at-the-POLISH-PLANE-CRASH-WAS-ASSASSINATED.aspx
Russian forums website: "The guy who filmed the shots fired at the POLISH PLANE CRASH WAS ASSASSINATED"
Russian Forums Link
Translation:
" Author of the video seen by everyone by now has been stabbed near Kijow on 4.15 and transported in critical condition to the hospital in Kijow. On 4.16 three unidentified individuals unplugged him from life support system and stabbed him 3 more times. Andrij was pronounced dead that afternoon. Russian government claims it was a coincidence. "
A new movie has been released with some English translation see below!
Quote from Video:"Some people say this is the pilot, I don't know."
Below is another still from the first video. Study these two, then when you play the first video below you will see it again. Its difficult and I had to play it twice to see it the second time and especially when they shoot this guy and he goes down. Fortunately they rewind and replay so you can see better the second time around.
This is the first movie below.....he highlights what you see and gives english subtitles to it to see what was being said or what we are seeing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxIFh3NkEvM&feature=player_embedded
This, below, is the second movie where all the people either shot or wounded are no longer in the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxIFh3NkEvM&feature=player_embedded
Then check out this site for the comments by a Polish MP.
From The Big Wobble 13/04:'Russia engineered air crash that killed President Kaczynski,' claims Polish MP
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Massachusetts moving money out of 3 big banks to protest credit card rates
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/14/AR2010041404863_pf.html
Massachusetts moving money out of 3 big banks to protest credit card rates
By Ylan Q. Mui
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 15, 2010; A18
Massachusetts officials on Wednesday announced plans to move millions of dollars in state investments out of some of the nation's biggest banks to protest credit card interest rates.
State Treasurer Timothy Cahill said the state has removed Bank of America, Citi and Wells Fargo from a list of institutions approved for new state investments. Massachusetts, which is the only state to make such a move, is also beginning to divest $243 million in funds held at those banks, though the process could take up to six months.
"We want to bring some fairness into the issue," said Cahill, who is running for governor. "I don't think what we're asking is . . . out of line."
The announcement -- made at a raucous rally on Capitol Hill organized by the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, a network of religious and citizen advocacy groups -- is part of a wave of consumer backlash over the banking industry's role in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Congress has enacted sweeping credit card reforms that limit how and when issuers can raise rates and is in the midst of debating the creation of an agency dedicated to protecting consumer rights.
That has reignited advocacy groups that support creating a national usury law after a 1978 Supreme Court decision found that interest rate caps could apply only to state-chartered lenders. As a result, many banks moved their headquarters to states with looser usury laws, such as Delaware, allowing them to bypass limits set in other states.
Massachusetts moving money out of 3 big banks to protest credit card rates
By Ylan Q. Mui
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 15, 2010; A18
Massachusetts officials on Wednesday announced plans to move millions of dollars in state investments out of some of the nation's biggest banks to protest credit card interest rates.
State Treasurer Timothy Cahill said the state has removed Bank of America, Citi and Wells Fargo from a list of institutions approved for new state investments. Massachusetts, which is the only state to make such a move, is also beginning to divest $243 million in funds held at those banks, though the process could take up to six months.
"We want to bring some fairness into the issue," said Cahill, who is running for governor. "I don't think what we're asking is . . . out of line."
The announcement -- made at a raucous rally on Capitol Hill organized by the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, a network of religious and citizen advocacy groups -- is part of a wave of consumer backlash over the banking industry's role in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Congress has enacted sweeping credit card reforms that limit how and when issuers can raise rates and is in the midst of debating the creation of an agency dedicated to protecting consumer rights.
That has reignited advocacy groups that support creating a national usury law after a 1978 Supreme Court decision found that interest rate caps could apply only to state-chartered lenders. As a result, many banks moved their headquarters to states with looser usury laws, such as Delaware, allowing them to bypass limits set in other states.
Obama Said Now Pushing Sneaky Wall Street Bailout
Vatic Note: Perpetual bailout, better than slavery, no pesky workers to put up with, rather just tax them and their progeny into oblivion. This is unbelievable ..... I believe one of the tactics I got was to have everyone push all state and local entities into withdrawing all investments and liquid assets from the big banking houses and put them into citizen owned credit unions. That will be going up on the board soon along with others. But at least keep that in mind here and now. Begin working on it locally.
Title: Obama Said Now Pushing Sneaky Wall Street Bailout
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/04/obama-said-now-pushing-sneaky-wall-street-bailout/
By: The European Union Times
Date: 20 Apr 2010 02:01 PM PDT
More Bailouts...
Fresh off his successful (for now) effort to ram through an unpopular healthcare “reform” law, President Barack Obama is now fighting for legislation on Capitol Hill that would set up a permanent fund to bail out companies in the financial sector.
Of course, that’s not how his team is spinning things. On the White House Blog, Jen Psaki claims that “under the Senate bill, the taxpayers will never be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s irresponsibility.” But that’s simply not true.
“If you liked the bailouts in 2008, you’ll love the Dodd bill,” Sen. David Vitter (R.-La.) tells HUMAN EVENTS. “Congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration want to create a permanent bailout mechanism all while spouting their rhetoric of getting tough on Wall Street, but if you look at who is already lining up to support their ‘reform’ measure it’s a who’s who of the big banks that have already received the taxpayer bailout the first time.”
Vitter is right to note that Wall Street supports this measure. Why? Because big investment houses realize they’ll get bailed out and would have less reason to worry about risky behavior.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D.-Conn.) crafted the Senate version of so-called “Financial Reform” with the support of the President. The procedure used to date resembles the non-transparent and secretive tactics used to pass ObamaCare. The Senate Banking
Committee marked up the bill in 22 minutes, with no amendments offered and no debate allowed. Now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama are trying to rush the bill to the floor before the American people have a chance to understand that it contains a hidden, permanent bailout fund.
Title: Obama Said Now Pushing Sneaky Wall Street Bailout
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/04/obama-said-now-pushing-sneaky-wall-street-bailout/
By: The European Union Times
Date: 20 Apr 2010 02:01 PM PDT
More Bailouts...
Fresh off his successful (for now) effort to ram through an unpopular healthcare “reform” law, President Barack Obama is now fighting for legislation on Capitol Hill that would set up a permanent fund to bail out companies in the financial sector.
Of course, that’s not how his team is spinning things. On the White House Blog, Jen Psaki claims that “under the Senate bill, the taxpayers will never be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s irresponsibility.” But that’s simply not true.
“If you liked the bailouts in 2008, you’ll love the Dodd bill,” Sen. David Vitter (R.-La.) tells HUMAN EVENTS. “Congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration want to create a permanent bailout mechanism all while spouting their rhetoric of getting tough on Wall Street, but if you look at who is already lining up to support their ‘reform’ measure it’s a who’s who of the big banks that have already received the taxpayer bailout the first time.”
Vitter is right to note that Wall Street supports this measure. Why? Because big investment houses realize they’ll get bailed out and would have less reason to worry about risky behavior.
Sen. Chris Dodd (D.-Conn.) crafted the Senate version of so-called “Financial Reform” with the support of the President. The procedure used to date resembles the non-transparent and secretive tactics used to pass ObamaCare. The Senate Banking
Committee marked up the bill in 22 minutes, with no amendments offered and no debate allowed. Now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama are trying to rush the bill to the floor before the American people have a chance to understand that it contains a hidden, permanent bailout fund.
How Satanists Say "We're Sorry" (Update)
Vatic Note: Evidence is clear that all is not what it seemed in this affair and the video seals it since it shows no bodies, strewn clothing, seats from the plan, blood, nothing to show this was a crash with people involved. Also the gun shots and the comment of the guard there taking his camera. But it could be Russian for the reasons stated below, or it could be anything. Remember Poland reniged on the United States placing those missles on their soil that were aimed at Russia, and given who runs our government, it would not surprise me if they were mad about that reniging. Also it could be the Russians as stated below, but it could also be the bankers since Poland was resisting the EU currency shifts. We probably will never know, but this piece does given us much more to think about. The Polish people are not the kind to be messed with either. Like France they can get mad enough to pull out a guillotine for someone.
How Satanists Say "We're Sorry" (Update)
April 15, 2010
Coup d'Etat in Poland?
http://www.henrymakow.com/katyn_ii_-_how_satanists_say_w_1.html
From our Polish Correspondent:
Yesterday, this video appeared on youtube. This is really shocking. You can hear 4 shots there, at the end, there are Polish words - "Change of Plans."
The cameraman is swearing and scared, before shooting you can here in Russian - "dawaj gnata" - which is "give me the gun." Maybe you know Russian. It's on the website of one of Polish TV channels. It says that army specialists are going to examine that. People are shocked; the situation is getting serious; some people are manipulated and rioting in the streets against burying the President in King's Castle in Cracow. It's awful, it's clear manipulation. Very suspicious and quick changes in the army, lots of hidden bad things happening.
(left, Empty seats where Polish leadership would have commemorated the victims of the Katyn Massacre.)
In April 1940, the Soviet NKVD massacred the cream of Poland's nationalist and Christian intelligentsia in the Katyn Forest and elsewhere. They were slaughtered because they wouldn't agree to join the Communists in fronting a future occupation of Poland.
Seventy years later, on April 10, 2010, the heirs of the NKVD, who still run Russia, probably finished the job. They probably engineered a plane crash which killed the Polish President, the heads of the army and navy, the secret service and much of the patriotic wing of the Polish government. Thus they neatly eliminated one more obstacle to Satanic world government which is descending on the planet like a dreaded darkness.
This is how Satanists say, "We're sorry!" By repeating the outrage, again and again, until they are finally stopped.
The grounds for suspicion are numerous.
1. The plane was Russian and had recently been "refurbished" in Russia.
One blogger, a pilot, wrote, "Circumstances, however, point to a major accident or intentional blocking of the control system. Such a blockade may be intentionally installed so that it launched at a release from the chassis or flaps on the line immediately before landing."
2. As in the Pentagon attack, where there was no wreckage, there were no bodies to be found. Here is the YouTube. If the plane was at tree height, there would have been survivors. There would have been bodies. There would been luggage. As with the 9-11 passengers, it is possible the occupants were taken off the plane somewhere else, held or murdered. On Saturday, Russian authorities said all bodies had been found. On Monday the story had changed.
A Polish observer wrote: "Given the unlikelihood of Poland's top political and military leaders flying on the same plan, the execution or kidnapping of some of them in Poland cannot be ruled out. To explain their deaths to the general public, their names could have been added to the passenger list. According to media, only 14 bodies could be identified in Moscow with the rest being too badly burned."
A Polish friend wrote to me:"There is no sign of even one body or blood, the Polish cameraman thought that the plane was empty and when he was walking and recording it, he just noticed in shock that the plane was Polish but still didn't know it was President's plane.
"The plane was very low, at the level of trees but they could recognize only 14 bodies, the rest was shattered into pieces or burnt and needed DNA testing.
"They never called any ambulances, no doctors, only one fire engine and immediately they stated that nobody survived.In this video there is nobody searching for bodies, nobody looking if any people needed help, just fire engine and quite quickly coffins were sent. They said first that all the bodies were found and then next day, that only 14 could be recognized and they were still searching for bodies. There is lie after lie. Most of the people on the plane were the president's supporters and belonged to his party, being in strong opposition to prime minister who wasn't there.The cameraman was caught and pushed away from the place, he said later on TV that there was no chance there could be over 80 bodies ( which was cut off later from TV interview), he hasn't seen even one."
3. The entourage was supposed to travel by train. Suddenly the plans were changed and the generals were induced to join the group.
4. Eye witnesses heard explosions. A bomb? Another said the fog appeared just before the landing and quickly dispersed afterward. The Russians claimed the pilot didn't speak Russian which turned out to be a lie. The New York Times peddled the story that the President made the pilot land against his better judgment. This is the same New York Times that hid Stalin's mass murders from the American people.
My Polish friend writes: "Others say clearly about hearing the noise like from a bomb exploding and then silence.Besides, if there are awful conditions the plane is not allowed to land and the airport is closed for landing.
"It seems, that they were just normally trying to land with no worries and problems and suddenly something happened with the plane that lead all of them to death.
"The most valuable, christian and patriotic head of Poland has been wiped out with one blow, now the way is free, nobody will interrupt big brother any more."
I don't know how the Satanists pulled off 9-11 but I know the official story is not true. The same applies here. Accidents like this don't happen by accident. In one stroke, the globalist Masons, who are behind Putin as well as Obama, removed a thorn in their side.
Yes the Poles are in Afghanistan, but they had been steering an independent course on the Euro and the EU, and they rejected the swine flu vaccine and hysteria.
By virtue of its Catholic heritage, Poland is one of the last bastions of civilization in Europe. This will make the struggle of the Polish people, and all those resisting satanic and globalist enslavement, all the more difficult.
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How Satanists Say "We're Sorry" (Update)
April 15, 2010
Coup d'Etat in Poland?
http://www.henrymakow.com/katyn_ii_-_how_satanists_say_w_1.html
From our Polish Correspondent:
Yesterday, this video appeared on youtube. This is really shocking. You can hear 4 shots there, at the end, there are Polish words - "Change of Plans."
The cameraman is swearing and scared, before shooting you can here in Russian - "dawaj gnata" - which is "give me the gun." Maybe you know Russian. It's on the website of one of Polish TV channels. It says that army specialists are going to examine that. People are shocked; the situation is getting serious; some people are manipulated and rioting in the streets against burying the President in King's Castle in Cracow. It's awful, it's clear manipulation. Very suspicious and quick changes in the army, lots of hidden bad things happening.
(left, Empty seats where Polish leadership would have commemorated the victims of the Katyn Massacre.)
In April 1940, the Soviet NKVD massacred the cream of Poland's nationalist and Christian intelligentsia in the Katyn Forest and elsewhere. They were slaughtered because they wouldn't agree to join the Communists in fronting a future occupation of Poland.
Seventy years later, on April 10, 2010, the heirs of the NKVD, who still run Russia, probably finished the job. They probably engineered a plane crash which killed the Polish President, the heads of the army and navy, the secret service and much of the patriotic wing of the Polish government. Thus they neatly eliminated one more obstacle to Satanic world government which is descending on the planet like a dreaded darkness.
This is how Satanists say, "We're sorry!" By repeating the outrage, again and again, until they are finally stopped.
The grounds for suspicion are numerous.
1. The plane was Russian and had recently been "refurbished" in Russia.
One blogger, a pilot, wrote, "Circumstances, however, point to a major accident or intentional blocking of the control system. Such a blockade may be intentionally installed so that it launched at a release from the chassis or flaps on the line immediately before landing."
2. As in the Pentagon attack, where there was no wreckage, there were no bodies to be found. Here is the YouTube. If the plane was at tree height, there would have been survivors. There would have been bodies. There would been luggage. As with the 9-11 passengers, it is possible the occupants were taken off the plane somewhere else, held or murdered. On Saturday, Russian authorities said all bodies had been found. On Monday the story had changed.
A Polish observer wrote: "Given the unlikelihood of Poland's top political and military leaders flying on the same plan, the execution or kidnapping of some of them in Poland cannot be ruled out. To explain their deaths to the general public, their names could have been added to the passenger list. According to media, only 14 bodies could be identified in Moscow with the rest being too badly burned."
A Polish friend wrote to me:"There is no sign of even one body or blood, the Polish cameraman thought that the plane was empty and when he was walking and recording it, he just noticed in shock that the plane was Polish but still didn't know it was President's plane.
"The plane was very low, at the level of trees but they could recognize only 14 bodies, the rest was shattered into pieces or burnt and needed DNA testing.
"They never called any ambulances, no doctors, only one fire engine and immediately they stated that nobody survived.In this video there is nobody searching for bodies, nobody looking if any people needed help, just fire engine and quite quickly coffins were sent. They said first that all the bodies were found and then next day, that only 14 could be recognized and they were still searching for bodies. There is lie after lie. Most of the people on the plane were the president's supporters and belonged to his party, being in strong opposition to prime minister who wasn't there.The cameraman was caught and pushed away from the place, he said later on TV that there was no chance there could be over 80 bodies ( which was cut off later from TV interview), he hasn't seen even one."
3. The entourage was supposed to travel by train. Suddenly the plans were changed and the generals were induced to join the group.
4. Eye witnesses heard explosions. A bomb? Another said the fog appeared just before the landing and quickly dispersed afterward. The Russians claimed the pilot didn't speak Russian which turned out to be a lie. The New York Times peddled the story that the President made the pilot land against his better judgment. This is the same New York Times that hid Stalin's mass murders from the American people.
My Polish friend writes: "Others say clearly about hearing the noise like from a bomb exploding and then silence.Besides, if there are awful conditions the plane is not allowed to land and the airport is closed for landing.
"It seems, that they were just normally trying to land with no worries and problems and suddenly something happened with the plane that lead all of them to death.
"The most valuable, christian and patriotic head of Poland has been wiped out with one blow, now the way is free, nobody will interrupt big brother any more."
I don't know how the Satanists pulled off 9-11 but I know the official story is not true. The same applies here. Accidents like this don't happen by accident. In one stroke, the globalist Masons, who are behind Putin as well as Obama, removed a thorn in their side.
Yes the Poles are in Afghanistan, but they had been steering an independent course on the Euro and the EU, and they rejected the swine flu vaccine and hysteria.
By virtue of its Catholic heritage, Poland is one of the last bastions of civilization in Europe. This will make the struggle of the Polish people, and all those resisting satanic and globalist enslavement, all the more difficult.
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Russia Reports Over 2 Million Dead In US As Mysterious Die-Off Accelerates
Vatic Note: Remember, even the chickens won't eat the corn that is from GMO seeds. That is pretty amazing since they have such tiny brains compared to their body size and we have such large ones. Who would have thought......... yet we ingest not only the by-products of that corn , but the corn itself.
Russia Reports Over 2 Million Dead In US As Mysterious Die-Off Accelerates
Posted By Europe On 17/04/2010 @ 11:50 pm European Union Times
American Police State
A most chilling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Science for Prime Minister Putin states that a “mysterious die-off” in the United States has claimed over 2,000,000 lives since 2008 and is “more than likely” linked to a “crossover” plant disease linked to genetically modified grains and foods.
According to these reports this mysterious, and as yet unidentified, lung disease responsible for this mass die-off began during the spring of 2008 in the US agricultural State of Iowa where (very ironically) at least 36 people http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343508,00.html attending a Lung Association event at the Governors mansion were stricken.
Important to note about Iowa is that it is one of the largest corn producing regions http://www.agriculture.state.ia.us/quickFacts.asp in the World harvesting over 2 billon bushels of this valuable grain farmed on nearly 32 million acres of its farmland, over 99% http://uwstudentweb.uwyo.edu/L/LPETER11/Factsheet%20Genetically%20Modified%20Crops%20in%20the%20United%20States.htm of which are genetically modified varieties made by the US agricultural giant Monsanto http://www.monsanto.com/ and idententifeid by their trade names of Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603.
Not reported to the American people about these genetically modified corn varieties made by Monsanto was the study released http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html by the International Journal of Biological Sciences warning that they were linked to organ damage. Monsanto quickly responded to this study, stating that the research was “based on faulty analytical methods and reasoning and do not call into question the safety findings for these products.”
Russian scientists in these reports, however, call Monsanto’s claim of their genetically modified Mon 863 corn as being safe for human or animal consumption “totally without validation”, a finding supported by the French biomolecular engineering commission, the Commission du Génie Biomoléculaire (CGB) who stated in their report, “with the present data it cannot be concluded that GM corn MON 863 is a safe product.”
Further supporting the findings of Russian scientists was Greenpeace International, who in their report titled “MON 863: A chronicle of systematic deception” warned that the campaign to unearth and evaluate data about this most dangerous of genetically modified grains demonstrates, beyond all doubt, that MON863 is unfit for consumption.
Russia Reports Over 2 Million Dead In US As Mysterious Die-Off Accelerates
Posted By Europe On 17/04/2010 @ 11:50 pm European Union Times
American Police State
A most chilling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Science for Prime Minister Putin states that a “mysterious die-off” in the United States has claimed over 2,000,000 lives since 2008 and is “more than likely” linked to a “crossover” plant disease linked to genetically modified grains and foods.
According to these reports this mysterious, and as yet unidentified, lung disease responsible for this mass die-off began during the spring of 2008 in the US agricultural State of Iowa where (very ironically) at least 36 people http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343508,00.html attending a Lung Association event at the Governors mansion were stricken.
Important to note about Iowa is that it is one of the largest corn producing regions http://www.agriculture.state.ia.us/quickFacts.asp in the World harvesting over 2 billon bushels of this valuable grain farmed on nearly 32 million acres of its farmland, over 99% http://uwstudentweb.uwyo.edu/L/LPETER11/Factsheet%20Genetically%20Modified%20Crops%20in%20the%20United%20States.htm of which are genetically modified varieties made by the US agricultural giant Monsanto http://www.monsanto.com/ and idententifeid by their trade names of Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603.
Not reported to the American people about these genetically modified corn varieties made by Monsanto was the study released http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html by the International Journal of Biological Sciences warning that they were linked to organ damage. Monsanto quickly responded to this study, stating that the research was “based on faulty analytical methods and reasoning and do not call into question the safety findings for these products.”
Russian scientists in these reports, however, call Monsanto’s claim of their genetically modified Mon 863 corn as being safe for human or animal consumption “totally without validation”, a finding supported by the French biomolecular engineering commission, the Commission du Génie Biomoléculaire (CGB) who stated in their report, “with the present data it cannot be concluded that GM corn MON 863 is a safe product.”
Further supporting the findings of Russian scientists was Greenpeace International, who in their report titled “MON 863: A chronicle of systematic deception” warned that the campaign to unearth and evaluate data about this most dangerous of genetically modified grains demonstrates, beyond all doubt, that MON863 is unfit for consumption.
2010-04-20
Obama administration subpoenaed in Fort Hood probe
Obama administration subpoenaed in Fort Hood probe
Thomas Ferraro, Reuters Newservice
WASHINGTON, US
Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:26pm EDT
(Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers subpoenaed the Obama administration on Monday for information sought in a congressional probe of last year's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 soldiers dead and an Army psychiatrist charged with murder.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, an independent, and Susan Collins, the panel's top Republican, took the action after the departments of Justice and Defense failed to provide the materials by Monday's deadline.
The two senators have been trying for months to obtain documents and be provided access to witnesses that they say are critical to their investigation of the shooting spree at Fort Hood in November that ended with 13 soldiers killed and dozens wounded.
An Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, has been charged by the military with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. The case drew heavy criticism after it became known Hasan had been in contact with an anti-American Muslim figure sympathetic to al Qaeda.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, who heads the Justice Department, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Lieberman and Collins wrote: "It is impossible for us to avoid reaching the conclusion that the departments simply do not want to cooperate with our investigation."
"It is with great disappointment and reluctance that we have directed service of subpoenas to you which demand disclosure of the requested information by Monday, April 26, 2010," they added.
The Justice and Defense departments sent a letter last week to Lieberman and Collins saying that turning over the information could compromise the case against Hasan.
On Monday, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters, "We will obviously be reviewing it (the subpoenas) and determining the department's next steps."
"We will continue to cooperate with the committee in every way with that caveat, that single caveat, that whatever we provide does not impact on our ability to prosecute," Whitman said.
If the two departments stand firm and refuse to provide the requested information, they could end up facing a contempt of Congress citation and a court fight.
This could all provide an unwanted distraction for a White House already under election-year pressure on a number of fronts, including pressure to cut unemployment.
Additional reporting by Adam Entous and Jeremy Pelofsky)
(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
U.S.
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Thomas Ferraro, Reuters Newservice
WASHINGTON, US
Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:26pm EDT
(Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers subpoenaed the Obama administration on Monday for information sought in a congressional probe of last year's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 soldiers dead and an Army psychiatrist charged with murder.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, an independent, and Susan Collins, the panel's top Republican, took the action after the departments of Justice and Defense failed to provide the materials by Monday's deadline.
The two senators have been trying for months to obtain documents and be provided access to witnesses that they say are critical to their investigation of the shooting spree at Fort Hood in November that ended with 13 soldiers killed and dozens wounded.
An Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, has been charged by the military with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. The case drew heavy criticism after it became known Hasan had been in contact with an anti-American Muslim figure sympathetic to al Qaeda.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, who heads the Justice Department, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Lieberman and Collins wrote: "It is impossible for us to avoid reaching the conclusion that the departments simply do not want to cooperate with our investigation."
"It is with great disappointment and reluctance that we have directed service of subpoenas to you which demand disclosure of the requested information by Monday, April 26, 2010," they added.
The Justice and Defense departments sent a letter last week to Lieberman and Collins saying that turning over the information could compromise the case against Hasan.
On Monday, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters, "We will obviously be reviewing it (the subpoenas) and determining the department's next steps."
"We will continue to cooperate with the committee in every way with that caveat, that single caveat, that whatever we provide does not impact on our ability to prosecute," Whitman said.
If the two departments stand firm and refuse to provide the requested information, they could end up facing a contempt of Congress citation and a court fight.
This could all provide an unwanted distraction for a White House already under election-year pressure on a number of fronts, including pressure to cut unemployment.
Additional reporting by Adam Entous and Jeremy Pelofsky)
(Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
U.S.
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US Farmers Oppose ‘Big Ag’ in Anti-Trust Hearing
Title: US Farmers Oppose ‘Big Ag’ in Anti-Trust Hearing
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/US_farmers_oppose_big_ag.php
By: Institute of Science ISIS,
Date: April 7, 2010
Will farmers get justice at last from years of victimisation from big agribusiness peddling genetically engineered crops? Dr. Eva Novotny
A fully illustrated and referenced version of this paper is posted on ISIS members’ website and can be downloaded here
After years of suffering what amounts to “corporate feudalism” at the hands of agbiotech giants like Monsanto, farmers are now fighting back as the US government launches an unprecedented anti-trust enquiry. A major grievance is that the required seed licence forces farmers to relinquish their right to plant, harvest and sell their own seeds (see [1] Monsanto versus Farmers, SiS 26).
Government launches anti-trust hearing as monopoly tightens grip on farmers
The US government is concerned about the lack of competition against large corporations. So, for the first time in history, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Justice have joined forces to organise a series of workshops from March to December 2010, to be held in different parts of the country, that aims to [2] “explore competition issues affecting the agricultural sector in the 21st century and the appropriate role for antitrust and regulatory enforcement in that industry.”
The first all-day hearing, held in Ankeny, Iowa, 12 March, was attended by about 500 people, including farmers from several states, ranchers, company representatives, local people and, notably, representatives from Monsanto, the company with near monopoly on seeds of maize and soybean. In the US, these seeds are mostly genetically engineered (GE) (see [3] GM Crops Increase Herbicide Use in the United States, SiS 45).
Monsanto’s dominance in the seed industry (Figure 1) illustrates the breakneck speed of corporate concentration in the sector. Monsanto now controls 60 percent of the corn seed market, 62 percent of the soybean market, 95 percent of the transgenic cotton seed market and is rapidly consolidating control of the vegetable, sugar beet and wheat markets [4]. Monsanto’s GE soybean and corn cover 92 percent and 85 percent respectively of total US acreage for those two crops.
Figure 1 Anatomy of seed monopoly
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/US_farmers_oppose_big_ag.php
By: Institute of Science ISIS,
Date: April 7, 2010
Will farmers get justice at last from years of victimisation from big agribusiness peddling genetically engineered crops? Dr. Eva Novotny
A fully illustrated and referenced version of this paper is posted on ISIS members’ website and can be downloaded here
After years of suffering what amounts to “corporate feudalism” at the hands of agbiotech giants like Monsanto, farmers are now fighting back as the US government launches an unprecedented anti-trust enquiry. A major grievance is that the required seed licence forces farmers to relinquish their right to plant, harvest and sell their own seeds (see [1] Monsanto versus Farmers, SiS 26).
Government launches anti-trust hearing as monopoly tightens grip on farmers
The US government is concerned about the lack of competition against large corporations. So, for the first time in history, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Justice have joined forces to organise a series of workshops from March to December 2010, to be held in different parts of the country, that aims to [2] “explore competition issues affecting the agricultural sector in the 21st century and the appropriate role for antitrust and regulatory enforcement in that industry.”
The first all-day hearing, held in Ankeny, Iowa, 12 March, was attended by about 500 people, including farmers from several states, ranchers, company representatives, local people and, notably, representatives from Monsanto, the company with near monopoly on seeds of maize and soybean. In the US, these seeds are mostly genetically engineered (GE) (see [3] GM Crops Increase Herbicide Use in the United States, SiS 45).
Monsanto’s dominance in the seed industry (Figure 1) illustrates the breakneck speed of corporate concentration in the sector. Monsanto now controls 60 percent of the corn seed market, 62 percent of the soybean market, 95 percent of the transgenic cotton seed market and is rapidly consolidating control of the vegetable, sugar beet and wheat markets [4]. Monsanto’s GE soybean and corn cover 92 percent and 85 percent respectively of total US acreage for those two crops.
Figure 1 Anatomy of seed monopoly