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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Re: Central Bankers Want To Abolish Cash / U.K. I believe this is one of the most dishonest and incompetent regimes of modern times


 
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Subject: Central Bankers Want To Abolish Cash / U.K. I believe this is one of the most dishonest and incompetent regimes of modern times

U.K. I believe this is one of the most dishonest and incompetent regimes of modern times
 
Every day we open our newspaper, switch on the television news or trawl the internet, we learn of yet another monstrous but mistaken decision by Gordon Brown and his demoralised rabble of a government — and each decision is yet more proof of his extraordinary talent for preaching like a Presbyterian elder while acting like a dodgy hedge-fund manager.

After newspaper revelations about MPs' outrageous expense claims milking the taxpayer, Gordon Brown promised us that 'transparency' would henceforth be the watchword of public administration.

'Transparency'! As manifested by the official records of MPs' expense claims published this week, consisting of vast splodges of black ink — sometimes acres of it — blotting out everything that might reveal who was on the take, and how much they were taking, especially in regard to the 'flipping' of second homes to maximise a claim. Read complete article and see photos......

 
 
Scotland Yard moves in: Four MPs and a peer face criminal investigation for expenses fraud Revealed: Dozens of MPs profit from inflated council tax claims Tainted race to be Speaker: Five hopefuls give back cash they should not have had

 
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Financial Dictatorship Spreads To Europe
Regulatory powers in all nations to be handed over to newly formed EU bodies in conjunction with the European Central Bank

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, June 19, 2009

 

 

The European Union is set to mirror moves in the US to overhaul the economic regulatory oversight system, in a move that will see national regulators superceded by European supervisors.

"The proposals involve creating three pan-European watchdogs next year to ensure countries introduce new rules on supervision." Reports the London Telegraph.

"Under the proposals, there is to be a European Banking Authority in London, an Insurance Authority in Frankfurt, and a Securities Authority in Paris. All European leaders agreed today to their creation."

These three new bodies will have the authority to dictate and implement decisions on regulatory standards across the board in every member state.

Furthermore, the deal will see the creation of a European Systemic Risk Board, that would "monitor the build up of risks", issue recommendations for action and oversee their implementation.

The chairmanship of this new body will be elected by members of the general council of the European Central Bank.

This mirrors plans in the US to hand the private Federal Reserve powers to simply seize and take over any company it defines as a risk to the economy.

Of course, we shouldn't be surprised by the move given that, for the most part, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are run by the same private globalist banking corporations.

The London Telegraph's financial editor, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, explains how this move will see a massive amount of power shifted from national governments over to the EU, and effectively the European Central Bank.

"Britain cannot veto the proposals because EU single market laws are passed by qualified majority voting (QMV)." he writes.

"It would be a serious political matter if the EU proceeded against vehement objections from the British Government. Any outcome depends on whether Gordon Brown is willing to risk a showdown with Europe."

A senior French official has stated that the move to hand over vast swathes of power to the Federal Reserve in the US will spur European elites to do the same:

"If the Americans make strong commitments towards regulation and on derivatives and other sophisticated products, I believe they are going further than the Europeans. That will provide a boost to the most determined among the Europeans," the official said.

Once again, we are seeing nothing less than a green light for the complete and total takeover by a private banking cartel that will usurp the power of existing regulatory bodies, who are now being blamed for the financial crisis.


Given the beginning nightmares that such an idea would generate here; This is the
heart of FOLLY. To turn over the fluctuations of monetary value to bank-owned "credit cards"
especially after those same banks already screwed us for over $13 trillion on the 'Bank-corruptions problems' alone - THIS IS PURE MADNESS!
 
kirwan
 
----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 9:28 AM
Subject: Central Bankers Want To Abolish Cash

Central Bankers Want To Abolish Cash

Posted by Lew Rockwell on June 19, 2009 06:59 AM

Writes Kalim Kassam:

This is just plain loopy. Just when I thought monetary policy couldn't get any worse, The Times of London reports:

To fight deflation, abolish cash. Could Japan make reality of 'science fiction'?

With recovery elusive, a population doddering into old age and perhaps a decade of deflation in prospect, Japan may start mulling the most radical monetary policy of all — the abolition of cash.

Unorthodox, untried and, said one Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi strategist, "in the realms of economic science fiction", the recommendation has nevertheless begun floating around Tokyo's corridors of power and economists have described Japan as particularly suitable as a testing ground.

The search for more outré economic policies continues, despite the recent surge in the Nikkei 225 index.The market may be reflecting soaring Chinese investment, rising consumer confidence and other cheerful data but economists see few long-term beacons of hope for Japan.

Other extreme ideas mooted by the financial authorities include a tax on physical currency or introducing one to operate alongside the yen.

All three ideas are based on a theory concerning interest rates and the concept that a nominal rate of zero — as Japan has now lived with for much of the past decade — may be too high. In Japan's case, the theory would suggest that nominal rates of -4 per cent might be closer to what is required to rescue the economy from another deflationary spiral. Having agreed that this might be necessary, the next question is how it could be imposed.

Several MPs in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party believe the abolition of cash, though politically radioactive, might be technically feasible. Richard Jerram, a senior economist with Macquarie bank, told investors that "the proposal has become practical with the broad penetration of electronic money and credit cards in Japan".

He said that all the proposals were radical but worth consideration for Japan. Without physical cash, a central bank can set rates exactly where it likes, runs the argument. Mr Jerram said: "At the heart of the problem of achieving negative nominal interest rates is the idea that physical currency is an anonymous bearer bond with a nominal interest rate of zero." While a central bank can impose positive or negative rates on non-physical assets, transmitting those rates to physical currency is a huge challenge. By permanently removing cash from a system, he added, policymakers are robbed of the excuse that zero is the lowest that nominal rates can go as a deflation-fighting tool.

In theory, many Japanese could easily make the leap into a cashless world. The country has six main competing cashless payment systems, many of them embedded into mobile phones. Including Oyster-type cards issued by public transport companies, industry sources estimate that there are about 120 million cashless payment chips sitting in Japan's wallets and handbags, waiting to be swiped.

Nevertheless, the country remains a wholeheartedly cash-based consumer society. Currency in circulation is about 16 per cent of its GDP, compared with the levels of 2 to 3 per cent in most developed countries. Reducing that 16 per cent to zero would be a wrench but would come with considerable benefits, Mr Jerram said.

But just as Japan's cultural attachment to cash may prove hard to dislodge, some economists believe that the same may be true of deflation. The country's growing population of elderly people mainly hold cash or cash equivalents and, compared with its US and European counterparts, the Bank of Japan has come under virtually no political pressure to be more belligerent in its war on deflation. It is unlikely, added Mr Jerram, to brook anything as radical as abolishing cash.

 


Who Owns You?

Jim Kirwan

6-19-9

 

When I talk to people I get the feeling that they believe their lives belong to them and only to them; in part because as Americans they believe they are actually free people. Nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from this idea, that so many have no idea at all of what this country or their actual status in this place really is: People ought to know who is in charge of whether they live or die—shouldn't they?

 

Back in the stone-age when Americans were extremely naive there was a phrase that went something like this: 'America has a government of laws, not of men, where no man is above the law.' That, given the entirety of the twenty-first century, is something that is definitely no longer 'in vogue'.

 

America is a nation that unlike most other nations has chosen not to teach its people the real history of this country; because the true story is not a fit topic for polite discussion. For those interested, this video outlines the on-the-ground realities inside "Manifest Destiny" which set the tone for American Imperialism in this hemisphere; that has become the core for American international aggression around the world. (1)

 

Who we once were or might have been is behind us now. What we are now is what matters today; not just to us, but to the whole world that has been suffering beneath the colonial military-might of our Empirical aggressions, as never before. This has been directly due to the complicit actions of the totally corrupt Supreme Court and the cowardly Congress that have both colluded with the now criminal administrative branch to steal this nation from the people; the same people, that were supposedly the only reason for their existence as government officials in the first place.

 

Personal 'Risk' is a permanent part of every life; but what the New World Order is trying to do is to 'rig' the entire process of government at all levels; in order to eliminate any chance that anyone could ever again challenge whatever might pleasure the privatized world of the elites. This construct will never be able to stand for very long, we must end this now, along with the careers of all the key traitors at the top of this administration. Nature will not tolerate an out-of-balance world for long, and we're already living on borrowed time. 

 

The Congress of the United States surrendered early on to the takeover, when they gave-away their constitutional obligation to the idea of the 'Commander-in-Chief' as dictator over every aspect of the American government, instead of simply being what the office of Commander-in-Chief really is, which is strictly limited to absolute control over the US military.

Bush apparently decided that the title meant that he was 'Commander-in-Chief over all branches of this government, and possibly he even thought he might well be the 'Commander-in-Chief of the World' which would account for his total disregard for any international laws or borders on the planet.

 

So in 2002, when the Congress chose to abdicate its constitutional duties to 'Advise and Consent' on presidential appointments; they became fully fledged partners in crime together with the dictator who created "signing statements" as a permanent way to get around new laws that he chose to ignore (a practice that Obama has chosen to continue with—despite its illegality). What these acts have led to are what has created the runaway corruption of the government, on all levels. One of the by-products of these crimes will be the death of this nation that fails to conform to the dictates of the US Constitution upon which the Republic was supposedly-founded.  

Today, the Supreme Court re-confirmed that it is firmly inside the coup that seeks to end Constitutional protections under the 14th Amendment that promised equal protection for all Americans, under the Constitution of the United States : The Supreme Court is nothing more now than a rubber stamp for the totalitarian policies of the fascist police state that owns this country.  

"Supreme Court Denies Post-Conviction DNA Testing: Prisoners attempting to challenge their convictions have been dealt a major setback by the Supreme Court. In a 5-4 decision, the Court ruled Thursday that criminals do not have a constitutional right to DNA testing after their conviction. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts said it is up to the states and Congress to decide who has a right to testing that might prove innocence long after conviction. In the dissenting opinion, John Paul Stevens wrote, "There is no reason to deny access to the evidence and there are many reasons to provide it, not least of which is a fundamental concern in ensuring that justice has been done." The Innocence Project says DNA testing has exonerated 240 people nationwide, at least seventeen of whom had been sentenced to die."

Since 911, the public has begun to finally see that the crimes of that day are the product of the inside-job that it was; a massive-crime that was created to furnish cover for the takedown of this Republic. This act was designed and planned from the inside, in the name of 'fighting a false terrorism' that was initiated by Al Qaeda; a CIA created branch of the federal government in good standing on September 10, 2001, that was magically transformed on September 11, 2001, into 'this nation's worst nightmare.' Nine-Eleven was a criminal act against the people of the United States ; carried out by traitors within this government in collaboration with Israel and Britain .

This false-flag mass-murder was supposedly the reason for our presence, in Afghanistan (where we went to chase down Osama bin Laden): But the real reason we bombed Afghanistan back to the Stone Age was because of a Unocal pipeline that needed to pass through Afghanistan which was hostile to that effort. The attacks upon Afghanistan were planned and prepared for over a year before 911, which simply provided the excuse for our initial attacks on that country. The current president of that country, Ahmid Karzi, is a former official of Unocal, and everything that's happened since flows directly from the needs of the oil companies and their pipeline plans in the Middle-East. In the end this has not worked for us, especially for those that are cursed with having to pay for all of these crimes that have no-end-in-sight. (2)

What do we say to those who have lost loved ones on 911, or in the six years of these phony wars that continue to destroy so many lives; while our military machine-without-conscience, continues to slaughter millions of innocent people simply because the privatized global powers of the multi-national bankers and the munitions makers along with the oil companies are seeking ever greater record profits?

The administrations answer was to label everyone and anyone that actually could be seen to be doing anything real as "heroes," when the truth is and was that in America today there is no longer any standard of behavior for ordinary, much less for exemplary behavior. What happened to honor, to self-responsibility and to living the thoughts and words we use to describe the world we are forced to live in today?

The US , with Israel as its mouthpiece, is a rogue nation; a lawless but very public collection of criminals, that have become the greatest threat to peace in the world today. The fascinating thing is that this is truer now than it was under the treasons of Cheney-Bush; and still the public is not moved to question or resist this takeover of their lives and dreams, by this charade of creatures that have come to kill all of us that have rejected them!

We have reached the point in history where 'ideas' are no longer the stuff of knowledge or parts of the pathway that can lead humanity out of this dark-night-of-the-soul that we are racing to construct where once there was a country. No - we have allowed the Zionists and their New World Order to classify our thoughts and words into thought-crimes and possible prison-terms for any that maintain their right to think and speak freely in that marketplace of ideas that America once so proudly proclaimed, as an integral part of the heritage of the new nation. In Cheney-Bush-Obama's world it will soon become a crime to be a human being.

It matters very much "Who Owns Us" but if this farce continues unchecked; then we shall be thoroughly and completely reduced to the nothingness that we are embracing by our failure to commit to ending this nightmare, before it is too late.

kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net              

1) Nicaragua – A Nations Right to Survivehttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15435.htm

 

2) The American Empire is Bankrupt

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090614_the_american_empire_is_bankrupt/

 

Bankster Bailouts of 2008/09 Exceed Over 200 Years of Major Government Spending

http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2009/180609Bailouts.htm

 

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Bush finally attacks Obama 20 Jun 2009 George Bush has broken his vow of silence on President Barack Obama to attack him over the recession, health reform and Guantanamo in a speech to a business convention. Speaking in Erie, Pennsylvania, Mr Bush argued that health care should be left to private insurance companies... Mr Bush also took a swipe at Mr Obama's planned closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison.

The Senator's Scandal: Text of Doug Hampton's letter to Fox News 19 Jun 2009 Doug Hampton, the husband of Cynthia Hampton, who had an affair with Sen. John Ensign (R-Hypocrite-NV), explains in a letter to a Fox News Channel anchorwoman, Megyn Kelly, how the senator's affair with his wife has "completely ruined" the couple's lives. The letter is dated June 11, 2009.

On the Ensign Affair, Fox Dropped the Ball [Faux passes on huge story to protect another GOPervert] 19 Jun 2009 Fox News passed up allegations that Sen. John Ensign had an extramarital affair with his former campaign treasurer, even after receiving a letter from the woman's husband detailing the relationship. After the Nevada Republican acknowledged the affair Tuesday, a Fox producer failed to tell his bosses that he had the letter from Douglas D. Hampton, also a former top aide to the senator, and Fox never reported it.

US hospital staff 'covered up' death 20 Jun 2009 Staffers at a Brooklyn hospital falsified medical records and lied to authorities in an attempt to cover up the neglect of a patient who died on the waiting room floor, according to city investigators. The report by New York's Department of Investigation was released on Friday, exactly one year after the death of Esmin Green, a Jamaican immigrant.

Vienna Man Dies After Bid to Stop Verizon Van 19 Jun 2009 (Washington) A 79-year-old Vienna man who was fed up with his Verizon service died after trying to stop a technician's van from pulling out of his driveway. The man, identified by neighbors as William Cornelius, fell after grabbing the steering wheel of the van late Wednesday afternoon and died hours later at a hospital, police said.

Female grizzly and cub killed by train 09 Jun 2009 Another two of Alberta's grizzly bears have been killed. A mature female grizzly known as Bear #71 and one of her two cubs were hit and killed on the tracks operated by Canadian Pacific Railway on Saturday. The animals were being tracked by Parks Canada officials. Both the mother and her yearling male cub were struck and killed on the tracks about three kilometres east of Canmore.

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Previous lead stories: Iraqi Oil Minister accused of mother of all sell-outs --To public fury, the country is handing over control of its fields to foreign companies 18 Jun 2009 Furious protests threaten to undermine the Iraqi government's controversial plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to raise declining oil production and revenues. In less than two weeks, on 29 and 30 June, the Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussain Shahristani, will award service contracts to the world's largest oil companies to develop six of Iraq's largest oil-producing fields over 20 to 25 years... Iraqis are wary of the involvement of foreign oil companies in raising production in super giant fields like Kirkuk and Bai Hassan in the north and Rumaila, Zubair and West Qurna in the south. They suspect the 2003 US invasion was ultimately aimed at securing Western control of their oil wealth. The nationalisation of the Iraqi oil industry by Saddam Hussein in 1972 remains popular and the rebellion against the service contracts has been gathering pace all this week.

Ex-KBR Worker Convicted In Bribery, Fuel Conspiracy --KBR has received billions of dollars since 2001 [one of the key motives behind the 9/11 inside job] to be a major provider of food and shelter services to U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. 18 Jun 2009 A former employee of KBR Inc. has been convicted on federal charges in a bribery and fuel-diversion scheme at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. Raschad L. "Sean" Lewis was a former fuel-section employee assigned to Bagram, where KBR, a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary known as Kellogg Brown and Root, had a contract to provide support services to the U.S. Army. Lewis was found guilty Wednesday of conspiracy, false writing, bribery of a public official and false claims.

US Senate Committee approves $1.5 billion in Pakistan aid 17 Jun 2009 The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously passed the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act, (Kerry-Lugar Bill) authorising $1.5 billion annually to the key anti-terror ally for the next five years. The bipartisan measure will now have to pass the full chamber before the Senate and the House of Representative hold a conference to arrive at a reconciled version of the bill. The US House has already passed the bill. [See: Pentagon: Billions in U.S. terror aid to Pakistan diverted 06 Jun 2009; US Pledges Additional $200 Million in Aid to Pakistan 03 Jun 2009; Billions in U.S. Aid to Pakistan Wasted, Officials Assert 24 Dec 2007; US Senate approves Pakistan aid worth $785m 20 Dec 2007.]

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Information Clearing House Newsletter
News You Won't Find On CNN
June 19, 2009
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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other" Paul Valery quotes (French poet, essayist and critic, 1871-1945)

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"For in every city these two opposite parties [people vs aristocracy] are to be found, arising from the desire of the populace to avoid oppression of the great, and the desire of the great to command and oppress the people....For when the nobility see that they are unable to resist the people, they unite in exalting one of their number and creating him prince, so as to be able to carry out their own designs under the shadow of his authority." (Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. IX)

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"...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right." Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self Reliance - 1841 - From 'Essays", First series

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Transcript of Ayatollah Khamenei's Speech
By NiteOwl

If our young didn't have any hope, they wouldn't partake in the election , if they didn't feel freedom, they wouldn't vote. Faith in the system has been shown by the massive participation. The enemies target the belief and trust of people on that system. This trust is the biggest investment of the Islamic republic. They wanted to take it from us, They want it to shake our trust in this system.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22874.htm

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Ahmadinejad's Reelection a Victory for Neocons?

By Robert Stark

Ahmadinejad's recent victory over challenger Moussavi is sparking riots in Iran and is being used as an opportunity for Neocons and Israel's President Netanyahu and his Likud Party to demonize Iran and call for military action against Iran.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22863.htm

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'No Comment' Is Not an Option

By Paul Wolfowitz

Coming from America, silence is itself a comment -- a comment in support of those holding power and against those protesting the status quo.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22864.htm

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Iranian Elections: The 'Stolen Elections' Hoax

By James Petras

There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22868.htm

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The Waning Power of Truth

By Paul Craig Roberts

Until 1978 the US ruled Iran through the Shah. The US intends to again rule Iran through puppets. The only two remaining independent governments in the region are Iran and Syria. If the US doesn't first bankrupt itself, both countries will fall to US black ops destabilization.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22867.htm

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In case you missed it
To Rid the World of Bogeymen

By Stephen Gowans

Invoking a bogeyman is a very effective way for governments to induce their populations to fall into line; impending danger strikes a deep, primitive, and visceral chord.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22867.htm

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How Obama Will Outspend Reagan on Defense

The Pentagon Spigot is Wide Open

By Winslow T. Wheeler

If we add in the costs for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon budget for the current fiscal year - 2009 - exceeds any year since the end of World War II, including the spending peaks for the Korean and Vietnam wars.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22869.htm

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Gaza: Bombs, Missiles, Tanks And Bulldozers

By Jimmy Carter

Transcript of former US President Jimmy Carter's Address to the United Nations Relief Works Agency's Human Rights Graduation in Gaza, June 16, 2009.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22871.htm

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Why Aren't Jews Outraged by Israeli Occupation?

By Antony Loewenstein

I recently attended the Salute to Israel parade in New York ? picture 100,000 American Jews marching to celebrate the state, waving flags in praise of the IDF. It was a thoroughly depressing affair.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22870.htm

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CIA Declassifies Report on Israel's Nukes

By Walter Pincus

The 1960 report defends Israel's nuclear ambitions, offers guidance on handling today's nuclear-hopefuls.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22872.htm

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The Obama Financial Reforms

Road To Change Or Perdition?

By Danny Schechter

Stabilizing A Flawed System is Not The Same As Restructuring Or Remaking It .
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22873.htm

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25 Taliban , 2 soldiers, killed in Afghanistan:

Two US-led coalition soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Friday when a bomb struck their convoy, as authorities said at least 25 militants and a policeman died in various military operations.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6681865.html

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Roadside bomb kills 5 policemen in South Afghanistan:

Five policemen were killed as a bomb planted by rebels struck their van in Taliban former stronghold Kandahar on Thursday, an official said.
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/6681865.html

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3 NATO occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:

"Three International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service members were killed as a result of Improvised Explosive Device (IEC) strike today in southern Afghanistan," the press release added.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=216142

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Militants behead Afghan university student:

"The gruesome incident occurred at 11:00 a.m. local time when several unknown armed militants entered the compound while students were enjoying weekly holiday (Friday) in the garden of university and horribly beheaded Mushtaq Ahmad and took away another," Ahmad Shah a student of the university told Xinhua.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/19/content_11569607.htm

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Helping Afghan Refugees as US Bombs Continue to Fall:

Since 2001, the US Air Force has dropped nearly 31 million pounds (14,049 metric tons) of bombs on Afghanistan. The UN estimates that US airstrikes alone accounted for 64 percent of the 828 Afghan civilians killed last year.
http://snipurl.com/kh4ux

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Extrajudicial Killing?

2 Arabs, 3 Turkmen among 9 militants killed in US drone attack:

At least nine militants, including five foreigners were killed and several others injured when a US drone fired four missiles in Pakistan's restive Waziristan region, targeting the dreaded Taliban commander Malang Nazir.
http://snipurl.com/kh4x0

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2 soldiers killed in Pakistan's tribal area attack:

 At least two soldiers were killed and three others were injured Friday night in a Taliban attack in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajaur bordering Afghanistan, according to local TV reports.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/20/content_11570402.htm

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One killed, 17 injured in Pak blast:

One person was killed and 17 other were injured when a bomb went off in a bus stand in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Friday.
http://snipurl.com/kh51p

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Army offensive threatens Pakistan itself: Imran Khan:

"When the true horrors of the collateral damage are known ... the Taliban will have won" through new recruits, Khan said.
http://snipurl.com/kh536

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Ayatollah demands end to protests: Video and text: :

 He said political leaders would be blamed for any violence. Demonstrators calling for a new election earlier vowed to stage fresh protests on Saturday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8108661.stm

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'The competition was transparent':

Video
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8108704.stm

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Ruling Cleric Warns Iranian Protesters:

Opposition leaders, he said, will be "responsible for bloodshed and chaos" if they do not stop further rallies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/world/middleeast/20iran.html?_r=2&hp

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President Obama "Very Concerned" At Ayatollah's Comments:

President Obama said he is "very concerned" with the thrust of the statements made today by Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei supporting the country's disputed election results.
http://snipurl.com/kh58n

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Iran: A snub for the West :

Ahmajinedad wasn't the candidate of the establishment, but of the lower classes
http://www.antiimperialista.org/content/view/6177/50/

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In Israel, Mossad head talks about Iran election:

Head of Mossad Meir Dagan says that a Mousavi win in Iran's presidential election would have spelled bigger problems for Israel.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/98451.htm?sectionid=351020202

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Iran's Mousavi Not Planning Saturday Protest: Ally: --

Defeated Iranian presidential election candidate Mirhossein Mousavi is not calling on his supporters to stage new street protests on Saturday, an ally told Reuters on Friday.
http://snipurl.com/kh5bf

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Britain summons Iranian ambassador:

Britain's foreign ministry has summoned Iran's ambassador to a meeting after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, accused the UK government of being among the "most treacherous" of Western powers.
http://snipurl.com/kh5cq

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UN, Aid Agencies Call For End To Israel's Two-Year Blockade Of Gaza:

A group of nearly 40 United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today called for an end to Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has now been in force for two years and has left the population of 1.5 million almost totally dependent on international aid.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0906/S00262.htm

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US, Israel in plot to divide region: Nasrallah:

The leader of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, charged yesterday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent speech contained the seeds of an Israeli-US "scheme" being plotted against the Mideast region.
http://snipurl.com/kh5eo

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Israeli troops humiliate Palestinians - and put it on YouTube:

This clip, which has been viewed more than 2,800 times, shows the unknown Palestinian standing in a desert setting while a disembodied voice orders him in Hebrew to hit himself: "Yallah, start, do it hard!"
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094242.html

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Demonizing N. Korea:

Gates Orders Measures to Protect Hawaii From North Korea Missile:

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he has ordered the U.S. military to take defensive measures should North Korea attempt to fire a ballistic missile toward Hawaii.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aDfBurSIZ74Y

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Act of war?

US Military To Intercept N.Korean Ship:

The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
http://snipurl.com/kh5i3

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World Hunger Reaches the 1 Billion People Mark::

More than a billion people - a sixth of the world's population - are now hungry, a historic high due largely to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices, a U.N. agency said Friday.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7879289

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The United States is Committing Economic Suicide:

Foreign entities will very soon own everything of value in the U.S. and they will become the major (or only) source of employment for U.S. citizens.
http://www.economyincrisis.org/articles/show/3026

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Treasury to Auction $104 Billion In Debt Next Week, a Record:

The Treasury announced Thursday a record $104 billion worth of bond auctions for next week, part of its herculean efforts to finance a rescue of the world's largest economy.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31429270

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California Rating Placed On Downgrade Watch By Moody's:

California's chances of borrowing in capital markets grew slimmer Friday as Moody's Investors Service warned that it could downgrade the economically and fiscally beleaguered state's bond ratings.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090619-708789.html


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Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,331,578"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq 4,314
icasualties.org/oif/

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----- Original Message -----
From: KD Hedrick
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 7:42 PM

Home News Iran election turmoil financed by CIA

Iran election turmoil financed by CIA

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Tehran, Iran (TRN) -- The ongoing turmoil throughout Iran is a result of deliberate destabilization efforts conducted by the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Operating under an operation code named "Restore a Shah" the CIA has been quietly funneling tens of millions of dollars to activists throughout Iran in order to intentionally foment the tumultuous protests being seen in that country since their recent national election. 
   For more than two years, tens of millions of dollars in U.S. cash has been covertly smuggled into Iran by U.S. troops operating in Iraq.   Sources inside the Pentagon have told TRN that much of that cash was recovered from former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.  The source went on to say that the funds were never reported to U.S. civilian leaders in order that the CIA could make use of that cash as it deemed appropriate, without congressional oversight.
Iran has long been on the radar screen of U.S. Intelligence agencies after the Iranian Revolution toppled the former Shah of Iran who was useful to the U.S. 
 During that Revolution, Iranians laid siege to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, occupying it and holding Embassy staff hostage for 444 days.  One of the Iranian students who participated in that Embassy Siege was none other than Iran's current President,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 
 
In the photo at right, taken by the CIA outside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can be clearly seen holding onto a blindfolded American citizen who was a hostage from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
 Those hostages were physically abused, deprived of food and water, prevented form getting medical attention.  It was only after Ronald Reagan was elected U.S. President in 1980, that the Iranians  realized they had to let the hostages go.
Sources in the Reagan White House made known to reporters at the time that before his inauguration,  Reagan passed a message to Iran telling them that unless the American Hostages were freed before he was sworn-in as President, his first official act would be to order carpet bombing of Tehran by U.S. military strikes.
 Unlike former President Jimmy Carter who seemed paralyzed and unable to use force to free his own citizens, Reagan suffered no such fear.  Minutes prior to Reagan's inauguration, Iran released all the U.S. Hostages, bringing the crisis to an end. 
 
When US Intelligence agencies realized who the Iranian President was, and that he was personally one of the henchmen who held Americans captive in the late 1970's  it was decided to undertake any and every effort to destroy his Presidency.  But with no formal relations with Iran since the Embassy crisis, it was difficult for US Intelligence operatives to enter Iran and to establish contacts.
 During the second war with Iraq, many U.S. operatives were able to successfully cross into Iran and bring with them tons of U.S. cash.  That began laying the foundations for the present day turmoil in Iran.
 The goal of the CIA: Topple the Iranian government and install another government which will be more secular and friendly to the U.S.

 
 
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Nicaragua - A Nations Right To Survive
A Documentary Film By John Pilger

John Pilger's 1983 film about the small nation of Nicaragua and its right to survive investigates the corruption in Central America. In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the corrupt US-backed Somoza dictatorship. They based their reformist ideology on that of the English Co-operative Movement, but was to prove too 'radical' for the Reagan administration. Continue
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The Panama Deception

Video Documentary

This film shows how the U.S. attacked Panama and killed 3 or 4 thousand people in an invasion that the rest of the world was against. The Panama Deception uncovers the real reasons for this internationally condemned attack, presenting a view of the invasion which widely differs from that portrayed by the U.S. media and exposes how the U.S. government and the mainstream media suppressed information about this foreign policy disaster. Continue
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4078.htm

The Secret History of the American Empire

The Truth About Global Corruption

Video - John Perkins, author of Confessions of An Economic Hit Man.

Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world such as Venezuela, Tibet, Iraq, Israel, Vietnam and others and exposes the network of events in each of these countries that have contributed to the creation of the American Empire and international corruption in "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth About Global Corruption" Continue
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21000.htm




War Against the Poor: Low-Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith
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Graham

You may have noticed yesterday that Brasscheck TV servers were down for several hours.

We're not sure of the cause and are still trying to get to the bottom of it.

Until we can stabilize the situation, we're going to send you straight to YouTube today.

Interesting story today...

Remember New Orleans? Who can forget?

Thousands of people - mostly children, elderly, the handicapped, and those who stayed behind
to look after them - were stranded for a week exposed to the elements for a week without
food, water, or medical care.

The cause?

The failure of federal levels built and maintained at the cost of billions of US tax payer dollars.

The party responsible - the US Army Corps of  Engineers - did everything possible to shift blame
from itself including bribe an Engineering Society with $2 million in "awards" to write a technical review
favorable to itself. 

We just discovered another tactic they used.

While thousands were stranded without help and then for years after, Corps employees masquerading
as "citizens" posted hundreds of posts to news blog in New Orleans and elsewhere making personal
attacks on Corps critics and blaming the victims for being "stupid" enough to trust the levees and live
near them.

If you live in the US, your tax dollars paid for this operation.

The Times-Picayune which was aware of the real identity of the people making these
attacks permitted them to go on and is now helping shield the Corps by refusing to turn
over its Internet logs.

I guess this is what they call a "government-private sector partnership.
Hard to believe, but it's all documented

Details:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXFK8z9WXo&feature=player_embedded


 

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Graham

Back online...

We haven't gotten to the bottom of who or what took our server down on Thursday,
but he have added a layer of security that's presented it from happening again.

This experience has reminded me of how important it is to keep this channel open.

Thanks for you support and thanks for continuing to share Brasscheck TV videos.

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Today's video is particularly important.

Food related illnesses in the Uniited States DOUBLED between 1994 and 2001.

Did you know that?

Me neither.

Here's one of the contributing factors:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/647.html

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