It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -Samuel Adams  Saturday Morning - January 16, 2010 | |
 I remember those Saturdays when the news just stopped on Friday night and resumed when a work week began the next Monday. This morning I just told myself 'stop' and send out this news update ... there is too much incoming news (that holds a potential effect on our lives). The news concerning freedoms that Americans have taken for granted being flushed down the toilet discloses the highway our nation is traveling upon. If you haven't figured out the agenda of the globalist - getting their greedy hands on resources of nations - you have been being entertained too much by the corporate-government media. You and I are just either valuable or not valuable resources of a nation in the eyes of the Elite ... and the value of individual Americans has been down graded in contrast to the upcoming middle class of Asia. The retirement accounts of Americans is next in line to be pumped by the government into the accounts of globalist banksters. The function of our nation is to continue ongoing wars across the globe - destabilizing governments so that those countries resources and strategic geographic position can be held by the Western elite. The only problem is that Asia woke up to what the Western banksters were doing. America is no longer seen as a 'good guy' by the majority upon the globe as after WWII. Wars, drugs, porn ... what does our nation export other than that and Wall Streets casino financial paper? Taking America back from the globalists? Is it too late? | |
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801) | |
LA TIMES: AID STARTS FLOWING TO DESPERATE HAITI QUAKE VICTIMS  WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Some 4,200 U.S. military personnel have arrived in Haiti for earthquake relief efforts with 6,300 more scheduled to arrive this weekend, officials said. U.N. appeals for $562M to help Haiti “Bush Was Responsible for Destroying Haitian Democracy”–Randall Robinson on Obama Tapping Bush to Co-Chair US Relief Efforts We speak with TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson, author of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President. On President Obama tapping former President Bill Clinton and former President George W Bush to co-chair US relief efforts in Haiti, Robinson says, “Bush was responsible for destroying Haitian democracy…Clinton has largely sponsored a program of economic development that supports the idea of sweatshops… but that is not what we should focus on now. We should focus on saving lives.”  'Some 40,000 bodies had been buried in mass graves.' Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, violence breaks out --Quake could be one of the 10 deadliest in history 15 Jan 2010 As many as 200,000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and three-quarters of the capital, Port-au-Prince, will need to be rebuilt, authorities in the Caribbean country said on Friday. "We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies. We anticipate there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number," Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime told Reuters. Some 40,000 bodies had been buried in mass graves, Secretary of State for Public Safety Aramick Louis said.
Haiti earthquake: corpses used as roadblocks as anger grows 15 Jan 2010 Angry Haitians have used corpses of the dead to set up roadblocks in Port-au-Prince to protest at the delay in emergency aid reaching the country after a devastating earthquake. Shaul Schwarz, a photographer for TIME magazine, said he saw at least two downtown roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks. "They are starting to block the roads with bodies, it's getting ugly out there, people are fed up with getting no help," he said.
US military moves in troops, ships to aid quake-hit Haiti 14 Jan 2010 The first contingent of thousands of US troops headed to Haiti Thursday as the military mobilized an array of ships, planes and helicopters to provide emergency aid after a massive earthquake. A company of about 100 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division were expected in quake-hit Haiti by the evening, with the remainder of their 3,500-strong brigade due to arrive by Sunday, Pentagon officials said. "They will provide humanitarian assistance and relief and security as required," army spokesman Gary Tallman told AFP.
Cuba increases aid to Haiti 14 Jan 2010 On Wednesday morning, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno RodrÃguez Parrilla received his counterpart from the Republic of Suriname, Lygia Louise Irene Kraag-Keteldijk, who is on an official visit to our country. As part of official talks between the two ministers, RodrÃguez gave a detailed explanation of the situation of Cuban cooperation workers in the Republic of Haiti. In that context, he clarified that there are currently "403 Cuban cooperative personnel, 334 of whom are working in the heath sector as doctors and paramedics," in the devastated country.
Obama team grants special status to Haitian nationals in U.S. 15 Jan 2010 The Obama administration is allowing Haitian nationals who were in the United States at the time of Tuesday's earthquake to over-stay their visa for the next 18 months. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stated: 'This is a disaster of historic proportions and this designation will allow eligible Haitian nationals in the United States to continue living and working in our country for the next 18 months...' GEO-ENGINEERING NEWS Geo-Engineering is the artificial modification of Earth's climate systems.
The two most quickly advancing Geo-Engineering philosophies are carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM). White House Science Czar John Holdren favors 'geo-engineering' in order to manipulate the climate. WND.com - In addition to opening up CIA resources, and despite Democrats in the Senate backing away from supporting Obama efforts to pass cap-and-trade legislation, the administration has maintained a commitment to expensive and even radical efforts to "save the planet" from global climate change. Geo-engineering Conference in March to discuss blocking sun due to 'global warming'  Geo-engineering Summit for Climate Scientists meeting in March in California IF YOU THINK CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT ABOUT THE MONEY...no matter if its real or not, its all about the money.. READ THIS: MAJOR INVESTOR GROUPS URGE TOUGHER ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE  | |
FEMA Drowns Millions of Homeowners in Flood Insurance Premiums
INSIDE WASHINGTON: Secret Senate digs proliferate
Rightly or wrongly, hideaways carry the image of unseemly privilege paid for by taxpayers. They have famously been used for business beyond the legislative sort, spaces "highly coveted by the powerful, and particularly by the playful," Bobby Baker, an aide to Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, wrote in his book, "Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator."
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Gerald Celente: Financial mafia controlling US and Wall Street
U.S. economy hit by perfect storm
January 15th, 2010 Wall Street Casino Gambling continuing with American's bailout money
JPMorgan Chase books $3.3 billion profit
15 Jan 2010 JPMorgan Chase showed it was close to making a full recovery from last year's crisis after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly profits of $3.3 billion Friday. The New York City-based banking giant also revealed that compensation expenses climbed 18% during the year to $26.9 billion, much of which is expected to doled out in the form of bonuses.
Banks Set for Record Pay
5th cougar succumbs to plague found in Grand Teton National Park
Budapest, Hungary
The fifth cougar to succumb to the plague in recent years was found at the southern end of Grand Teton National Park in recent days. The female cat was known in the area of Jackson, Wyoming for wandering around the region. The 6 year old cat found by biologists was tagged with a global positioning system collar. The plague is naturally occurring in the area. Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis. It is found in animals throughout the world, most commonly rats but other rodents like ground squirrels, prairie dogs, chipmunks, rabbits and voles. Fleas typically serve as the vector of plague. People can also get infected through direct contact with an infected animal, through inhalation and in the case of pneumonic plague, person to person.
U.S. NOW A TRASH DUMP FOR FOREIGN NUCLEAR WASTE NEWS
GOOGLE - CHINA If the word GOOGLE does not immediately bring up the reality of this corporation functioning for not only globalist business interests - such as the gigantic porn industry, but also for the military-government-banking complex in gathering information about each individual in the populous - you need to increase your knowledge base regarding this 'search engine'. This is very similar to also perceiving that the NSA was working with Microsoft in the development of your Windows operating system - if you think ANYTHING you do on your computer is 'private' ... that is just what they want you to falsely believe. I would like to point out once again that Google sits on the Corporate Board of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) along with banksters such as Goldman Sachs, J P Morgan Chase, etc. Notable current Council on Foreign Relations CFR members
A VERY quick search of some CFR News Articles to provide insight into this 'think tank': 1. CFR Recording Suggests Creating False Scarcity To Drive Up Demand ...
Don't Be Evil vs. Serve the People: Is Google Just a Benign Version of China? Posted: January 15, 2010 07:12 PM "There's an interesting dynamic between Google and China," Jaron Lanier, the Internet philosopher and author of the new book You Are Not a Gadget, said last night after a talk at the 92nd Street Y. "The Chinese Communist Party would like to be the central place where everybody has to move through to move communication. The reason the Communist Party wants to do that is both for power purposes but also to control what is said. They want to control reality traditionally. Obviously this is a bad program and we'd like them not to succeed in that. "But on the other hand... Google also wants to be the single node through which everybody has to connect. Their purpose is to sell advertising. But in a sense the style of power they want does have some overlap with what the Chinese want. And so they're in a unique position of wanting to compete in a somewhat similar way." Google - China 'battle' - raises questions about the relations between China and the U.S.  US to rebuke Chinese government over Google incidentWashington Post The United States will issue an official protest to the Chinese government over a major espionage attack targeting Google's computer ... Inappropriate to play up Google China's withdrawal threat Liu Si BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Discussions included China's web environment, the China-U.S. trade relationship, and others. But it's inappropriate to play up the issue, or turn it into a political one. Google's corporate development and chief legal officer, David Drummond, posted a statement Tuesday on the company's official blog, saying it was "reviewing the feasibility of our business operations in China." According to the statement, the disputes with the Chinese government on Internet regulation and major cyber attacks on his company allegedly originated from China have forced Google to consider exiting. For overseas businesses, including Google, they should respect laws and regulations as well as relevant policies of their host countries, which is a standard international practice for multinational companies. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday at a regular press conference that "China welcomes international Internet companies to conduct business within the country according to law." The world Internet giant has been blamed by the Chinese government for showing too many links to pornographic contents in its search results and thus breaking the Chinese law. Currently, Google is also handling a case with Chinese writers over online books copyright disputes. According to a list provided by Google at the end of 2009, its on-line library involves some 80,000 categories of Chinese books, 10 percent of which were works of 2,600 members of the Chinese Writers Association. On the other hand, cyber attacks are a commonplace issue across the globe even if countries have been making every effort to combat hackers. "China's law prohibits cyber crimes including hacker attacks," Jiang said.
On Tuesday, China's largest Internet search engine Baidu, which is also Google's major rival in the Chinese market, suffered an hacker attack that paralyzed its website for more than three hours. Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer has said that "There are attacks every day ...We're attacked every day from all parts of the world and I think everybody else is too. We didn't see anything out of the ordinary." So it's far-fetched to blame China as a scapegoat for cyber attacks just because Google said something about that. ...Baidu, Google Rival in China, Financed by Americans Friday, January 15, 2010If Google does pull out of China, it will yield its 36% market share to rival Baidu, a Chinese Internet portal and search service that’s not as “home grown” as Beijing claims. Baidu got to where it is today, controlling 58% of the Chinese Net search world, thanks to investments from American banks and venture capitalists. U.S.-based venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson and IDG Technology Attack Code Used to Hack Google Now PublicPC World The dangerous Internet Explorer attack code used in last month's attack on Google's corporate networks is now public. ... Yahoo Was Also Target in Hacker AttackWall Street Journal Yahoo Inc. was among the companies targeted in the recent cyber attacks that hit Google Inc. and other companies, ... |
CHINESE DIPLOMATIC SNUB OF UN SANCTION MEETING ABOUT IRAN
| JAPAN - U.S. RELATIONS NEWS Involvement in U.S. ongoing International Conflicts Japan ends refueling mission for US forces Japan's Democratic party-led government in an unprecedented decision has ended its nearly a decade-long refueling mission of the US-led forces in Afghanistan. Incoming reports say Defense Minister Tishimi Kitazawar ordered all naval ships and their hundreds of personnel to return home after nine years of helping supply oil to vessels used by foreign forces that are engaged in a controversial war in landlocked Afghanistan. The U.S. has in recent times pushed for more Japanese involvement in international conflicts, so the move to end the Afghan mission is likely to irk Tokyo's ally ... |
DRONES (unmanned aerial vehicles ): THE CHEAP WEAPON OF CHOICE BY THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-BANKING COMPLEX
Clerics threaten to declare holy war if foreign troops land on Yemeni soil
The Iraq Payoff at Last: Halliburton and Others Line Up for Oil Contracts Friday, January 15, 2010Firms lining up for work include four from Houston, Texas—Halliburton, Baker Hughes, Weatherford International and Schlumberger—plus KBR, Bechtel, Parsons, Fluor and Foster Wheeler. Four of these companies—Halliburton, KBR, Bechtel and Parsons—have been criticized by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction for their previous work in Iraq. Complaints have ranged from overcharging by hundreds of millions of dollars to doing shoddy work to falling behind schedule on projects. Given the problems Iraq’s government has had with corruption and accountability, observers wonder how well its money will be spent on work promised by some American businesses. Joost R. Hiltermann, deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa with the International Crisis Group, told The New York Times that Iraq is desperate for more oil revenues. “But the government has little capacity to monitor the many companies that will be involved in rehabilitating its ailing oil industry, or indeed its own operations,” Hiltermann said. “This is a recipe for massive corruption, but for Iraqi policy makers the cost will be worth it, given the expected massive returns.” -Noel Brinkerhoff U.S. Companies Join Race on Iraqi Oil Bonanza (by Timothy Williams, New York Times) The Battle for Iraq’s Oil Contracts (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov) Bomb strike on Joint U.S.-Iraqi Compound  |
Swine flu was as elusive as WMD. The real threat is mad scientist syndrome
| POLICE STATE USA NEWS Police Arrest Bystanders Who Use Phones to Video Arrests of Others  All the Reich MovesJanuary 15th, 2010William N. Grigg We will not recognize [American Fascism] as it rises. It will wear no black shirts here. It will probably have no marching songs. It will rise out of a congealing of a group of elements that exist here and that are the essential components of Fascism…. It will be at first decorous, humane, glowing with homely American sentiment. But a dictatorship cannot remain benevolent. To continue, it must become ruthless. When this stage is reached we shall see that appeal by radio, movies, and government-controlled newspapers to all the worst instincts and emotions of our people. The rough, the violent, the lawless men will come to the surface and into power. This is the terrifying prospect as we move along our present course. –  Secession and State Governors: An Open Letter Encouraging Self-Interest January 15th, 2010 by Russell D. Longcore This article is a letter to the governors of the fifty states of the United States of America. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: You are members of one of the most elite groups of Americans that exists. You are State Governors. There are only fifty members in your “club.” Senators have twice as many members in their group, and they are just a Quisling deliberative body. There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, and they are held in lower esteem than used-car salesmen. You are the Chief Executive Officers of states whose Gross Domestic Products rival some of the largest nations on earth. Click to read article: http://www.lewrockwell.com/kreca/kreca3.1.1.html | |
FinancialSense.com | Our Revolting Elites
by J. R. Nyquist
FinancialSense.com
In 1995 Christopher Lasch came out with The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. The introduction was titled “The Democratic Malaise” and included chapters like “Does Democracy Deserve to Survive?” and “The Lost Art of Argument.” The threat to our civilization, said Lasch, does not come from the masses. The threat comes from the elite. The masses have proved to be conservative. Against the most successful institutions and folkways in history, against the greatest civilization ever to arise, the elite revolted; and in the course of this revolt, wrote Lasch, “they betray the venomous hatred that lies not far beneath the smiling face of upper-middle-class benevolence.”
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| Lincoln Nebraska Live Traffic Cams 'Cornhusker kickback' is toast Sen. Ben Nelson on Friday formally asked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to remove the Nebraska Medicaid funding advantage from the health care reform bill: Ben Nelson requests removal of Medicaid exemption
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| Plum Island Animal Research Lab Potential target for terrorists because of its stock of vaccines and diseases, such as African swine fever U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility The National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is a proposed U.S. government-run research facility that will replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York. The proposed facility will be operated under the authority of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The facility, which is not yet built, will be located in Manhattan, Kansas. The 520,000 square-foot facility is scheduled to begin construction in 2010, become operational by 2014, and employ up to 300 people. The new facility will research "high-consequence biological threats involving human, zoonotic (i.e., transmitted from animals to humans), and foreign animal diseases."[1] Included among the diseases to be studied at the research lab are: Foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever, African swine fever and contagious bovinepleuropneumonia. The facility will include Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) and Biosafety Level 4 laboratories. Human Body washes on shore of Plum Island |
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  Costa Rica's Turrialba Volcano remains active The Turrialba volcano has not stopped spewing gas and ash, experts of the Red Sismológica de la Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) confirmed on Friday while ...  RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service Budapest, Hungary Current active volcanoes
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On this date in history: In 1777, Vermont declares independence from New York. In 1883, the U.S. Congress passed a bill creating the civil service. In 1919, the United States went legally "dry" as prohibition of alcoholic beverages took effect under the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment was repealed in 1933. In 1925, Leon Trotsky was dismissed as chairman of the Russian Revolution Military Council. In 1942, screen star Carole Lombard, her mother and 20 other people were killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas. Lombard was the wife of actor Clark Gable. In 1944, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower arrived in London to assume command of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. In 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan called for "peaceful competition" with Moscow. He authorized research and development on space-age weapons capable of destroying incoming nuclear missiles, the program known as "Star Wars." In 1986, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Libya would train, arm and protect Arab guerrillas for Palestinian "suicide and terrorist missions," his first explicit endorsement of terrorism. In 1987, China's No. 2 leader, Hu Yaobang, 71, was forced to resign as Communist Party chief for failing to curb student demonstrations for more democracy. In 1990, Moscow rushed 11,000 troops to Azerbaijan and Armenia to reinforce soldiers trying to quell ethnic violence. In 1991, the Persian Gulf War began with the allied bombing of Baghdad. In 1993, Windsor Castle was reopened two months after a fire swept through the British landmark. In 1994, at a Geneva news conference with U.S. President Bill Clinton, Syrian President Hafez Assad indicated a willingness to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel. In 1997, a bomb exploded at an Atlanta building housing an abortion clinic. An hour later, after investigators and others had come to the scene, a second bomb went off, injuring six people. In 1998, investigators for special counsel Kenneth Starr questioned former White House intern Monica Lewinsky about allegations that she had an affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton. In 2000, British drug maker Glaxo Wellcome agreed to buy SmithKline Beecham for $76 billion, creating the world's largest pharmaceutical company. In 2001, President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was shot to death, reportedly by one of his bodyguards, who was killed by other bodyguards. In 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush said his re-election was a ratification of what he did in Iraq and there was no reason to hold any administration official accountable. In 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's president. She is the first female elected head of state in Africa. Also in 2006, International Atomic Energy Agency officials said Iran's newly restarted nuclear program could enable the country to have nuclear weapons within three years. And, a suicide attack at a Kandahar wrestling match killed 22 civilians, reportedly the highest toll so far in the Afghan conflict. In 2007, a U.N. report said about 34,000 Iraqis died violent deaths due to fighting and terrorist attacks in Iraq during 2006. In 2008, officials in Islamabad put the death toll at 47 in the attack on a northwestern Pakistani military outpost by about 200 Taliban militants. Also in 2008, Republican Bobby Jindal took over as the governor of Louisiana. He was the first Indian-American elected to that office in the United States. At 36, he also was the nation's youngest governor. And, a report says the United States' roads, bridges, dams and sewer systems are in such major disrepair that fixing infrastructure could cost $1.6 trillion. In 2009, U.S. officials said new evidence indicated Iran was trying to skirt sanctions and acquire tungsten copper and specialized aluminum and titanium sheets that can be used in missile production. |
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