Order Out Of Chaos In Spain – Debt By Design [video]
Press For Truth
September 28, 2012
This week huge protests took place in Spain as the government has announced their proposed austerity cuts as a means of dealing with the current economic crisis. The international financiers are seeking a one world government and it can only be achieved through their motto of “order out of chaos”
Spain prepares more austerity, protesters battle police
Spain Protests Erupt as Bank Warns of ‘Deep Recession’
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Drone Warfare: The Brutal Reality [video included]
By A new study from Stanford University and New York University shows that the highly spoken of drone warfare, praised by both military and political officials, is pure fantasy:
In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer by enabling “targeted killing” of terrorists, with minimal downsides or collateral impacts.[1]
This narrative is false. (Stanford/NYU, Living Under Drones.)
U.S. drones have been killing countless innocent civilians in Pakistan and elsewhere. Those killings are rarely acknowledged by the U.S. government, if only to make tasteless jokes. We may recall President Obama making fun of the efficient killing machine two years ago:
“The Jonas Brothers are here; they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But boys, don’t get any ideas. I have two words for you, ‘predator drones.’ You will never see it coming.” (Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, May 1, 2010. Click on the link to view the video)
Reporting on the study, the The News International (Pakistan} wrote the following:
Just one in fifty victims of the CIA programme of “targeted” drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas are known militants, while between 2,562 and 3,325 people were killed in Pakistan between June 2004 and mid-September this year – of whom between 474 and 881 were civilians, including 176 children. (The News International (Pakistan), Pakistan. CIA Annihilation From The Air: Drone Warfare’s Invisible Dead, September 26, 2012.)
The Stanford/NYU study states further:
First, while civilian casualties are rarely acknowledged by the US government, there is significant evidence that US drone strikes have injured and killed civilians. In public statements, the US states that there have been “no” or “single digit” civilian casualties.”[2] It is difficult to obtain data on strike casualties because of US efforts to shield the drone program from democratic accountability, compounded by the obstacles to independent investigation of strikes in North Waziristan.
The report concludes that:
- US drone strike policies cause considerable and under-accounted-for harm to the daily lives of ordinary civilians, beyond death and physical injury.
- publicly available evidence that the strikes have made the US safer overall is ambiguous at best.
- current US targeted killings and drone strike practices undermine respect for the rule of law and international legal protections and may set dangerous precedents.
What we are dealing with is a process of “remote killing” of civilians.
We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of Global Research articles regarding drone warfare.
Living Under Drones, Global Research News, September 26, 2012
Pakistan. CIA Annihilation From The Air: Drone Warfare’s Invisible Dead, Stop NATO, September 26, 2012
GRTV: Living Under Drones: The Brutal Reality of “Targeted Killing”, GRTV, September 26, 2012
ACLU Sues CIA Over Drone Killings, Stephen Lendman, September 23, 2012
Spying on Americans: 64 Drone Bases on US Soil, Global Research, September 22, 2012
UN Human Rights Rapporteur Calls on US to End the CIA’s Drone War in Pakistan, Farooq Yousaf, September 19, 2012
Legal action over US Drone Strikes, Drone Wars UK, September 20, 2012
Mapping Drone Proliferation: UAVs in 76 Countries, Drone Wars UK, September 18, 2012
- Articles by: Julie Lévesque
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Pakistan. CIA Annihilation From The Air: Drone Warfare’s Invisible Dead
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A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF DRONE WARFARE: The 2012 Drone Wars Briefing
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DRONE WARFARE: US Military Releases Information on Drone Slaughter of Afghan “Non-combatants”
US military investigation damns drone operators
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Obama admits drone strikes in Pakistan as US drone strikes Yemen
For the first time, the United States has confirmed that it is undertaking drone strikes in Pakistan.
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A False Flag Attack Was Just Telegraphed – Are We Paying Attention? [video]
Conscious Life News
September 29, 2012
You REALLY should watch this. Max Igan and Ken O’Keefe’s provide analysis of Israel lobbyist Patrick Clawson’s suggestion that the U.S. use a false flag event as a means of initiating conflict with Iran. (Warning: O’Keefe swears on numerous occasions; he’s very passionate about preventing WWIII.)
Max Igan: “The thing that really blows me away is that they are just telling us about it – so blatantly. Look folks, the only way it is going to stop is if we do something about it. We have to pay attention to what’s going on. We’ve got to pay attention to what is being said to us. People just aren’t paying attention to what’s happening in the world.”
Plans to invade Iran have been in place since at least 2001 (see “Within Weeks After 9/11, Gen Wesley Clark Was Shown US Plan To Invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran“).
Moreover, a 2009 report published by the the Brookings Institute,titled “Which Path to Persia?”, details plans for the U.S. and Israel to dupe the world into an unnecessary war. The Brookings report states that the intention of US-Israeli policy toward Iran is to provoke a war they know Iran would neither want, nor benefit from. The goal is to create such a provocation without the world recognizing that it was indeed the West triggering hostilities:
“…it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.) ”
-Brookings Institution’s 2009 “Which Path to Persia?” report, pages 84-85.
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Tesla Motors Launches Revolutionary Supercharger Enabling Free Long Distance Travel
By JG Vibes
theintelhub.com
September 25, 2012
Today Tesla Motors unveiled its highly anticipated Supercharger network, which is said to make long distance travel in cars totally free thanks to the use of solar energy and electricity. So far the network is made up of six Supercharger stations stretching across California, as well as parts of Nevada and Arizona.
These stations will allow the Tesla Model S to recharge for free, and each charge is said to last for an extremely long distance. This is so groundbreaking because until now one of the major drawbacks to electric cars was their inability to travel long distances on a single charge.
The charging centers that have opened so far are just the first of many, the company plans to install Superchargers in high traffic corridors across the United States, enabling fast, purely electric travel from Vancouver to San Diego, Miami to Montreal and Los Angeles to New York, all by next year.
By 2015, Tesla Motors plans to create more than 100 charging stations across the United States, while also branching out into Europe and Asia.
The Supercharging stations will be twice as fast as any now in use and will be installed at highway rest stops.
The rooftop canopy at many of the charging stations will carry a solar array that will place more electricity onto the local power grid, over time, than the cars use. For an undisclosed price there will also be home charging stations that will make local driving more convenient.
Elon Musk, Tesla Motors co-founder and CEO said in a press release ”Tesla’s Supercharger network is a game changer for electric vehicles, providing long distance travel that has a level of convenience equivalent to gasoline cars for all practical purposes.
However, by making electric long distance travel at no cost, an impossibility for gasoline cars, Tesla is demonstrating just how fundamentally better electric transport can be. We are giving Model S the ability to drive almost anywhere for free on pure sunlight.”
It is only fitting for an achievement like this to come from an organization that took on the name of Tesla. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest inventors in history and had actually discovered methods of harnessing free energy during his lifetime.
Since many of Tesla’s inventions were not politically feasible they were never invested in and were never able to truly be realized.
Today’s political climate is just as treacherous and controlled as it was in Tesla’s day, and there are many people out there who are fighting to suppress this sort of energy, so the development of these charging sites will be a very interesting thing to watch.
Already there has been talk of financial problems for the company, and it was in the news this month that Morgan Stanley basically controls their stock rating.
That in itself is another ironic twist, because Morgan Stanley can trace its roots to J.P Morgan, the investor who pulled his funding on Tesla when he realized the financial and political implications of a world with free energy.
Morgan Stanley has been kind to Tesla Motors so far but we all know that history has a tendency to repeat itself so that is another thing to look out for.
J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.
He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com .
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Russia halts imports of Monsanto corn over cancer fears
CounterPsyOps
September 26, 2012
AFP Photo / Philippe Huguen
Russian authorities temporary suspended the import and sale of Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn after a French study suggested it may be linked to cancer.
The Russia’s consumer-rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor asked scientists at the country’s Institute of Nutrition to review the study. The watchdog has also contacted to European Commission’s Directorate General for Health & Consumers to explain the EU’s position on GM corn.
The report prepared by France’s University of Caen and published last week, claimed that rats fed over a two-year period with Monsanto’s genetically modified NK603 corn, developed more tumors and other pathologies than a test group fed with regular corn. The NK603, sold under the Roundup label, is genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate weed killer.
The company criticized the study, saying it “doesn’t meet minimum acceptable standards for this type of scientific research” and the data was incomplete.
Monsanto also said Russia’s ban will have little effect on its business as the country import small volumes of corn from the US. Besides that, the Russian government doesn’t permit farmers to plant GM crops. “Russia is a net exporter of grain, so the actual impact of their temporary suspension, if any, is likely to be small,” the spokesman said in a statement.
Meanwhile, France announced it will uphold the ban on genetically modified crops in the country. It has asked the national food-security agency Anses to examine the study of Monsanto’s corn. If other countries follow the examples of Russia and France it could be a severe blow to the major US biotech.
In California, activists are fighting to have GM products removed from the food supply. They are also pushing to pass Proposition 37, a law that would legally require genetically modified foods to be labeled as such. Monsanto is opposing the law and it has donated over $4.2 million to lobby against it. Over 2,000 farmers have petitioned the US government to more thoroughly investigate the impacts of the genetically modified corn crop from Monsanto.
Source: Russia Today
Canadian Premier Harper Skips UN General Assembly to Get Zionist Award
DavidIcke.com
September 29, 2012
[via PressTV]
‘Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has come under fire for skipping the 67th session of the UN General Assembly to attend a private ceremony where he received an award from a Jewish-sponsored organization.
Passing up the opportunity to address the General Assembly, Harper chose to receive the New York-based Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) award from former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Thursday.
The Canadian official seized the opportunity to level criticism at the UN and accused its members of using the world body as a “forum to single out Israel for criticism.” ‘
Health Canada to review GM corn study
by Sarah Schmidt, POSTMEDIA NEWS
MontrealGazette.com
September 20, 2012
OTTAWA–Health Canada said Thursday it will take action if its review of a new study that found Canadian-grown genetically modified corn is linked to elevated risks of cancer, organ damage and premature death in rats “demonstrate a risk” to Canadians.
The first-ever GM food safety study to test the entire life span of laboratory rats, newly published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, also found health impacts for rats exposed to Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, the widest selling herbicide in the world.
The French study, while challenged by some experts, is being taking seriously by the French government. On Thursday, it ordered an urgent review of the study assessing the safety of GM corn and said it will work for a Europe-wide ban of imports of the crop if the findings were found to be conclusive.
In Canada, where the GM corn is grown and used for animal feed and processed food ingredients, Health Canada said Thursday it would be premature to offer its assessment, saying departmental scientists are currently reviewing the findings.
“Should our review of this new study demonstrate a risk, Health Canada will take appropriate actions to protect the health and safety of Canadians,” the department added.
The study of Monsanto’s GM corn NK603, approved by Health Canada in 2001 and engineered to withstand sprayings of the company’s herbicide Roundup, found that rats fed the GM corn or Roundup developed tumours faster and died earlier than rats fed non-GM corn.
The study involving 100 female rats and 100 male rats were split into groups and fed different amounts of either GM corn, Roundup herbicide or both, over two years. There was also a control group, which was fed regular corn and plain water.
Up to 50 per cent of males fed GM corn or Roundup and 70 per cent of females died prematurely, compared with only 30 per cent and 20 per cent in the control group, the study found. And overall, rats fed GM corn or Roundup developed two to three times more tumours. Females developed fatal mammary tumours and pituitary disorders, while males suffered liver damage, developed kidney and skin tumours and problems with their digestive system, the study states.
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