Israel hopes to colonize parts of Iraq as ‘Greater Israel’

On that day, God made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river the Euphrates. The land of the Kenites, Kenizites, Kadmonites; the Chitties, Perizites, Refaim; the Emorites, Canaanites, Gigashites and Yevusites.” – Genesis 15:18-21

Is this why the US is bombing Iraq to smithereens without any consideration to the Iraqis? it is most certainly what Mama and Papa Livni (parents of the minister of foreign affairs minister of Israel Tsipi Livni) believed in. Yep, the parents of the same woman who is at peace with killing over three hundred  innocent Palestinian children.

Israeli expansionists, their intentions to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical “Greater Israel.”

Israel reportedly has plans to relocate thousands of Kurdish Jews from Israel, including expatriates from Kurdish Iran, to the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Nineveh under the guise of religious pilgrimages to ancient Jewish religious shrines. According to Kurdish sources, the Israelis are secretly working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to carry out the integration of Kurdish and other Jews into areas of Iraq under control of the KRG.

Kurdish, Iraqi Sunni Muslims, and Turkmen have noted that Kurdish Israelis began to buy land in Iraqi Kurdistan, after the U.S. invasion in 2003, that is considered historical Jewish “property.”

The Israelis are particularly interested in the shrine of the Jewish prophet Nahum in al Qush, the prophet Jonah in Mosul, and the tomb of the prophet Daniel in Kirkuk. Israelis are also trying to claim Jewish “properties” outside of the Kurdish region, including the shrine of Ezekiel in the village of al-Kifl in Babel Province near Najaf and the tomb of Ezra in al-Uzayr in Misan Province, near Basra, both in southern Iraq’s Shi’a-dominated territory. Israeli expansionists consider these shrines and tombs as much a part of “Greater Israel” as Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they call “Judea and Samaria.”

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Israeli Envoy: Attack on Gaza a ‘Preintroduction’ to Attack on Iran

After ordering a cameraman to turn off his camera, Israeli Ambassador to Australia Yuval Rotem engaged in a very frank discussion about the recent Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, calling it “a preintroduction” to an attack on Iran that Israel apparently expects within the year.

Before the camera was turned off, Ambassador Rotem said “the best thing to do is to have a very open dialogue if there are no reporters or journalists here,” adding “I am far more reserved in the way I am saying my things (on camera).” Unbeknownst to him however Sarah Cummings, a reporter for Australia’s Seven News service, was actually in attendance at the meeting after having been “accidentally” invited.

Israel has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran, and while its officials have repeatedly attempted to tie the Iranian government to its war on the Gaza Strip this is the first time one of their officials has publicly (if inadvertently so) suggested that the attack on the strip was a warm-up to its long talked about attack on Iran.

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Israel Plans More Gaza Strikes

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz cites top “decision-makers” as saying the attacks against Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip would continue in spite of the continuing efforts by the international community to negotiate a ceasefire. One source is quoted as saying the attacks were meant to show Hamas that strikes would not go unanswered.

But as Israel continues to ratchet up what it is calling retaliatory attacks, Hamas’ own response has been extremely muted. While Israel’s attacks on Hamas have caused numerous casualties (mostly civilians), Hamas hasn’t caused even property damage in Israel.

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Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement

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the use of private lands to establish or expand them. The painstakingly amassed data was labeled political dynamite.

The defense establishment, led by Defense Minister Ehud Barak, steadfastly refused to publicize the figures, arguing, for one thing, that publication could endanger state security or harm Israel’s foreign relations. Someone who is liable to be particularly interested in the data collected by Spiegel is George Mitchell, President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the Middle East, who came to Israel this week for his first visit since his appointment. It was Mitchell who authored the 2001 report that led to the formulation of the road map, which established a parallel between halting terror and halting construction in the settlements.

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The official database, the most comprehensive one of its kind ever compiled in Israel about the territories, was recently obtained by Haaretz. Here, for the first time, information the state has been hiding for years is revealed. An analysis of the data reveals that, in the vast majority of the settlements – about 75 percent – construction, sometimes on a large scale, has been carried out without the appropriate permits or contrary to the permits that were issued. The database also shows that, in more than 30 settlements, extensive construction of buildings and infrastructure (roads, schools, synagogues, yeshivas and even police
stations) has been carried out on private lands belonging to Palestinian West Bank residents.

Click here to view the secret Defense Ministry database on illegal construction in the territories. It should be noted that the information is given in Hebrew

The data, it should be stressed, do not refer only to the illegal outposts (information about which was included in the well-known report authored by attorney Talia Sasson and published in March 2005), but to the very heart of the settlement enterprise. Among them are veteran ideological settlements like Alon Shvut (established in 1970 and currently home to 3,291 residents, including Rabbi Yoel Bin Nun); Ofra (established in 1975, home to 2,708 residents, including
former Yesha Council spokesman Yehoshua Mor Yosef and media personalities Uri Elitzur and Hagai Segal); and Beit El (established in 1977, population 5,308, including Hagai Ben-Artzi, brother of Sara Netanyahu). Also included are large settlements founded primarily for economic motives, such as the city of Modi’in Illit (established in 1990 and now home to 36,282 people), or Givat Ze’ev outside Jerusalem (founded in 1983, population 11,139), and smaller settlements such as Nokdim near Herodion (established in 1982, population 851, including MK Avigdor Lieberman).

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Dow and S&P Suffer Worst January in History

The Dow and the S&P both had their worst January in history.

This month has been the worst January for the Dow since 1896, and for the S&P since 1928.

As both Bloomberg and Market Watch point out, the performance of the stock indices in January tends to forecast stock performance during the rest of the year.

So 2009 may be a very bumpy ride.

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U.S. Economy May Keep Sliding After Shrinking Most Since 1982

The problem with trying to warn people about the disaster pending is that when it happens you’re sort of at a loss of what to put on your blog. I mean now that every other blog worth their business is calling for and to the financial crisis denial it sort of gets boring, doesn’t it.

Oh more financial disaster? Try telling us something we don’t know. But here you have it kids, we’re going down.

By Timothy R. Homan

Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy is likely to keep deteriorating in early 2009 after shrinking last quarter by the most since 1982, as consumers and businesses retrench.

The 3.8 percent annual pace of contraction in the fourth quarter was less than forecast, with a buildup of unsold goods cushioning the blow. Excluding inventories, the decline was 5.1 percent, the Commerce Department said yesterday in Washington.

Job cuts announced this month by companies from Starbucks Corp. and Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack to Eastman Kodak Co. mean there’ll be little respite in the first half of this year, economists said. The Obama administration used the figures to reinforce its call for Congress to pass a stimulus package in excess of $800 billion to arrest the economy’s decline.

“The recession is going to last through most of 2009, and we’ll be lucky to have growth back at zero by the end of the year,” Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard University economics professor, said in a Bloomberg Television interview from Davos, Switzerland, yesterday. Economic growth “will be pretty tepid for a long time.”

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Time for a new world order: PM

KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of “social capitalism” in which government intervention and regulation feature heavily.

In an essay to be published next week, the Prime Minister is scathing of the neo-liberals who began refashioning the market system in the 1970s, and ultimately brought about the global financial crisis.

“The time has come, off the back of the current crisis, to proclaim that the great neo-liberal experiment of the past 30 years has failed, that the emperor has no clothes,” he writes of those who placed their faith in the corrective powers of the market.

“Neo-liberalism and the free-market fundamentalism it has produced has been revealed as little more than personal greed dressed up as an economic philosophy. And, ironically, it now falls to social democracy to prevent liberal capitalism from cannibalising itself.”

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Backdoor draft: Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce

So what do you do when you have millions upon millions of unemployed and you want a global empire on the cheap? You train them to be the armies flunkies. Cleaning, cooking and other menial slave jobs while your other cheap cannon fodder, the young males that could overthrow your regime, kill and get killed while you get richer and richer and richer over their backs. Perfect. And when things get hairy I’m sure you can stick a gun in their hands and have them kill some more of the locals. It should only be a couple of years to get the worlds population back to a sustainable level. He, that’s two birds with one stone! Awesome.

Obama’s promise of a civilian security force is set in motion

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, Jan 30th, 2009

The Defense Department has established a “civilian expeditionary workforce” that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions.

The move is seen by some as an initial step towards fulfilling President Obama’s promise to form a civilian national security force as powerful as the U.S. military.

The intent of the program “is to maximize the use of the civilian workforce to allow military personnel to be fully utilized for operational requirements,” according to a Defense Department report.

The program was officially implemented one week ago, on the 23rd January, when Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England signed Defense Department Directive 1404.10 (PDF), which provides a summation of the duties the workforce will undertake.

The directive, which is effective immediately, states that civilian employees of the DoD will be asked to sign agreements stating that they will deploy in support of military missions for up to two years if needed.

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The American Economy is Not Coming Back

President Barack Obama and his economic team are being careful to couch all their talk about economic stimulus programs and bank bailout programs in warnings that the economic downturn is serious and that it will take considerable time to bounce back.

I’m reminded of an experience I had with Chinese medicine when I was living in Shanghai back in 1992. I had come down with a nasty case of the flu while teaching journalism at Fudan University on a Fulbright Scholar program. A Chinese colleague suggested I go to the university clinic. When I told him there wasn’t much point since doctors couldn’t do much for the flu besides recommend fluids and bed rest, he said, “That’s Western doctors. You could go to the Chinese medicine doctors at the clinic. They can help you.”  I figured, what the hell, and we went.  The doctor inquired into the lurid details of my illness—how my bowel movements looked, the color of the mucus in my nose, etc.  He didn’t really examine me physically. Then he prescribed an incredible number of pills and teas and sent me home with a huge bag of stuff, and instructions on the regimen for taking them through the course of each day.  I followed the directions dutifully, and my colleague came by each day to check on my progress.  By the fifth day, when I was still running a fever and feeling terrible, I told him I didn’t think the Chinese medicine was working.  He replied confidently, “Chinese medicine takes a long time to work.”

I laughed at this.  “Sure,” I said. “But the flu only lasts a week or so, and now, when I get better, you’ll say it was the Chinese medicine, right?”

He smiled and agreed. “Yes. You are right.”

Obviously the Obama administration recognizes that it needs to keep the finger of blame for the current economic collapse squarely pointed at the Bush administration, which is certainly fair in large part (though the Clinton deregulation of the banking industry played a major part in the financial crisis and its enthusiastic promotion of globalization began the massive shift of jobs overseas that has left the nation’s productive capacity hollowed out). But it also seems to recognize that it cannot tell the bitter truth, which is that our national economy will never “bounce back” to where it was in 2007.

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Carter Tells Paper Bush Exploited 9/11

Ok this was in 2004 and given that he has now spoken out as a supporter of a new investigation into the events of 911 it pays to remember his former stance.

LONDON – President Bush has exploited the Sept. 11 attacks, and a timorous American press has not held him to account, former President Jimmy Carter said in an interview published Monday.

Carter was asked by the Guardian newspaper why he failed to win re-election in 1980 against Ronald Reagan after Iranian radicals held U.S. citizens hostage for 444 days, while Bush may win re-election despite misgivings over the Iraq war.

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Jimmy Carter supports a new investigation into 911

Paris Hilton thinks Gordon Ramsay is British PM

We are in the biggest economic meltdown this planet has ever seen and this gets airtime. I rest my case about the MSM. I can’t wait for the Guillotines to come back out again.

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton believes TV chef Gordon Ramsay is the British Prime Minister.

The hotel heiress made the embarrassing statement while in England to promote her new reality TV show Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend.

After explaining she is desperate to find a UK pal because she “loves Britain” and “London is her favourite city in the world”, the 27-year-old socialite was asked who the Prime Minister of the country was.

Rather than replying ‘Gordon Brown’, Paris said: “It’s Gordon& Gordon Ramsay?”

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Is Europe in pre revolution mode?

“If need be we will stay here until Easter. If need be, our tractors will grow roots,” said one farmer. “We are bankrupt. We’ve got nothing to lose.” (Protesting Greek farmers.)

“It’s not up to workers to pay for the bankers,” read one banner. “The bosses caused the crisis, let them pay for it!” said another, while a third declared: “Hands off our public services!” (French strikers)

While the average Kiwi expects our bankster Prime Minister to bring home the bacon or at least return the economy back to profit instead of pending doom and a farmer friend of mine actually agreed with John Key that it is us the workers who should pay for the banks irresponsible and wilful destruction of our economy instead of the banks themselves, let’s have a look at what’s happening in Europe eh?

The old countries, where we have been the victim of crazy, greedy elites before and where people don’t, unlike like the Kiwi’s, take this shit lying down.

This is what is happening in Greece and no it’s no longer the young unemployed and students. It’s the farmers. They are bankrupted by the collapsing commodity prices and they are pissed. What you reckon? Should we tell them that the prices they are getting for their produce have nothing to do with the value of their goods but everything with the speculation of a few greedy banksters?

And this is happening in France. More than a million people taking to the streets. That spells big trouble for Sarkozy.In France the workers reckon that the Banksters can take care of themselves and that it’s the workers that need protection and we all know what happened the last time the French reckoned that the king and his money men could take care of themselves. It didn’t end well for the king and his financiers. In fact it ended bloody bad for them and there is millions more working French than there are rich people. I would be getting a tad worried if I was a Rothschild living in my castle on the Loire river.

And I didn’t even mention England, Ireland, Spain, Iceland, Germany, the Baltic states, Bulgaria and other countries where people are waking up to the biggest heist in history, perpetrated by the financial elite.

Yep, I reckon the ruling elite of Europe has a little problem and the only country in the Universe where we still believe a bankster, our own “Hawaii” John (thank you for that one the Standard), can save our collective ass is this here our little New Zealand.

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“Off with their heads” and “man the barricades” the cries of the famed “sans culottes” rang out and sent shivers down the spines of the doomed Bourbon dynasty way back then. These poor yet determined revolutionary men fighting for a semblance of social justice and disparagingly referred to as “without knee breaches” by the ruling royals and aristocracy seem to reverberate in today’s urban European settings.

220 years after the French revolution, scenes somewhat reminiscent of the almost long forgotten revolts, are again visible on the streets of Paris. They appear to be   pre revolutionary in their scope and political impact. The fall out from all this maybe like a horror film come true for those at the top.

Unions of all sorts have mobilised in protest of what is perceived as anti social  government policy of President Nicolas Sarkozy, or a final assault on what remains of the welfare state, decimated by decades of rampant and reckless ultra liberalism which has since run amok. This has paralyzed the country by widespread strike action. From rail to air, transport has been virtually halted. Public employees and their union members fearing for the security of their jobs and anticipated state imposed reforms in the public sector have made many in French angst ridden.

Is Europe in all out revolt or this a dress rehearsal for the real thing?

On Thursday in Spain, echoing the current social unrest in France, unions have taken the cue from their French counterparts and announced upcoming mass protests to denounce huge lay offs and egregious abuses in the name of personal gain and profit in the world’s banking sector  on both a national and global banking scale. Spain now holds the ignominious title of having the highest unemployment rate (unemployment is over 4 million in 2009 so far) in all of Europe. An unflattering distinction which it had not held since its pre EU membership days.

The country is experiencing massive layoffs in the construction industry, mainly due to an American style bursting of a speculative property bubble, related to over inflated housing prices and unbridled development. The scale of the anticipated protest may not be a big as those in France but social tensions are apparently as high or at the boiling point and about to blow over.

A Greek tragedy in the making

The  upheaval in France and Spain follows weeks of social disturbance in other parts of Europe this month, including the Baltic States, Bulgaria and overall Greece where  very violent protest headed by so called “anarchists” and other “leftist” or what official might refer to as “riff raff” took place. A new wave of protests has begun this week. The violent protests seem to be sparked but decades of neo liberal policies imposed from above coupled by the sudden drastic and devastating socially downturn in many EU member state economics. There are now, news reports coming out of Greece of “arsonists” and “anarchists” attacking foreign car dealerships.

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A little food for thought: Fed Reserve Fails to Reflate the US Banking System

Rumours and I mean Wall street journal rumours, you know amongst people in the know have it that the banks will need be accommodated with anywhere between 1 to 2 trillion dollars more to help them out of their predicament and guess who John Key thinks should be paying those trillions. In one dear people you guessed it. Its you; the real wealth producers, the workers, the farmers, the suckers in other words. This is what he said in his maiden speech at the APEC meeting:

So now the party is over and the taxpayers of the world are left to underwrite – in one form or another – the liabilities and obligations of banks and, by extension, their hedge-fund clientele.

And while you are pondering the voters who where stupid enough to vote John key the slippery in and the fact that our bankster Prime minister thinks it’s perfectly OK to have us pay for his and his fellow banking mates excesses while he sits on a cool $ 50 million why don’t you watch this little video just to give it all some perspective.

Israeli troops killed Gaza children carrying white flag, witnesses say

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Sony profits fall 95 percent

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — Sony blamed the global economic slowdown, increased competition and an appreciating yen for a 95 percent drop in third-quarter profits, as the company announced its results Thursday.

Customers check Sony’s Bravia brand LCD TVs at an electronics shop in Tokyo, Japan.

Profits for the quarter, which ended December 31, fell from nearly 200 billion yen ($2.2 billion) in 2007 to about 10 billion yen ($110 million) in 2008.

Across the company, sales were down 25 percent, but electronics and games sales were especially hard hit.

Sales of games, including the company’s popular PlayStation series, fell 32 percent over the year. Sales of electronics decreased by nearly 30 percent.

The appreciation of the yen also cut into profits.

A stronger yen makes Japanese products more expensive or forces companies to lower their profit margins to keep prices the same.

Last week, Sony warned that it will close out the fiscal year, which ends March 31, with an operating loss of 260 billion yen ($2.9 billion), its first in 14 years.

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Enter the fray and take part in the infowar

Alex Jones

With Gordon Campbell finally pointing out what was glaringly obvious to all but the most uninformed of Kiwi’s: There is no difference between our MSM and the PR spinners that shape our public opinion, it is perhaps time for you to find out how far we have come from the reality that surrounds us, a reality which will be shaping our lives whether we believe it is real or not.

You see that is the problem with reality; it has a way of barging in on us when we least expect it and whether we are ready for it or not.

Fonterra told it’s members last year, mainly through the MSM, that they were going to have it good for the next ten years while the economic reality had set in unavoidable a year before this was announced in the collapse of the fianacial world and it was pointing a radical 180° the other way. No good times but dismally and radically bad times.

The MSM told us it was time for  change and voila we have John Key and his merry band of reactionary angry white guys with the odd “Pansy” thrown in doing absolutely nothing other that what they’ve always done when in power; Rip of the Maori and plunder the country.

So what is a curious person to do? Well, first of all it pays to be fearless. be a hero and throw off those blinkers and open yourself up to information which after all the soothing, “everything will be alright and growth is our birthright” will sound shrill and angry and above all almost unbelievable.

You will recoil at first because it sounds like the “Conspiracy theory” the big nono our MSM has been trying to sell us. The big “you can not go there” because if you do will call you “Crazy” and a “Conspiracy nut”. In fact it will take quite a while before your revulsion will abate. Let me give you some hints about the fallacies which will be exposed:

Obama will no longer be the great saviour.

We might have been wrong about those devilish Palestinians or all other Muslims for that matter.

In fact we might have been wrong about our entire financial system.

You might find that the reality is the following: Our leaders, our elites are waging a war. They are waging war on us. The mainstream media, owned by only a handful of very rich guys very much connected to the military industrial complex have waged war on us for a very long time.

They have been spinning us a world in which economic growth was forever.

They told us that we ruled the world and we were always right.

They gave us a world in which we were entitled to more and more and more and in which the Paris Hilton’s and her ilk where presented as something to aspire to.

They gave us Football heroes, gansta rap and inanity and news that has no baring on the reality of this planet and on the true nature of our ruling elite.

We are engaged, whether we like it or not, in an information war.
Who are we going to believe: Them or our lying eyes?

It is with this in mind ladies and gentlemen that I give you Prison Planet.

Alex Jones is abrasive, obnoxious and your typical American red neck in a great many ways but he manages to bring together the likes of Ron Paul (Republican Presidential Candidate) Kuchinich (Democratic Presidential Candidate) Cynthia Mc Kinney (Green Party Presidential Candidate) and artists such as Martin Sheen, Willy Nelson, Paris and Economic guru’s such as Gerald Calente, Nobel price winner Stiglitz, G.Edward Griffin and many, many other outspoken Economic professionals and political activists on subjects ranging from the Global Economic collapse, the Federal Reserve and our global central bank system, the pending US police state, the reality of 911 and to tell you the truth they make a hell of lot more sense than the soothing crappola the MSM is spouting.

Make sure to listen to his streaming radio show. It’s free and you might learn something.

Alert: Concentration camps in the USA established in military centres

Ok, I said I would not publish anything today after my previous posts but I though you might want to know about this.

On Jan. 24, 2006 KBR announced the fact that they had won the contract to build 400 emergency camps for FEMA. I suggest you Google the term and see them for yourself. They don’t look like emergency centers but like the Concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

On January 22, 2009 Almost three years to the day a new bill was presented: Bill H.R. 645: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations.

In other words the 111th CONGRESS, on it’s 1st Session has introduced a bill to establish Emergency centres in Military centres. 2 Days after Obama took the oath and promised change to the US population Congress is preparing for popular uprisings and Chaos.

Remember the civilian camps looked like concentration camps.

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HR 645 IH

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 645

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 22, 2009

Mr. HASTINGS of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘National Emergency Centers Establishment Act’.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY CENTERS.

(a) In General- In accordance with the requirements of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish not fewer than 6 national emergency centers on military installations.

(b) Purpose of National Emergency Centers- The purpose of a national emergency center shall be to use existing infrastructure–

(1) to provide temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster;

(2) to provide centralized locations for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination of Federal, State, and local first responders;

(3) to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations; and

(4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AS NATIONAL EMERGENCY CENTERS.

(a) In General- Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall designate not fewer than 6 military installations as sites for the establishment of national emergency centers.

(b) Minimum Requirements- A site designated as a national emergency center shall be–

(1) capable of meeting for an extended period of time the housing, health, transportation, education, public works, humanitarian and other transition needs of a large number of individuals affected by an emergency or major disaster;

(2) environmentally safe and shall not pose a health risk to individuals who may use the center;

(3) capable of being scaled up or down to accommodate major disaster preparedness and response drills, operations, and procedures;

(4) capable of housing existing permanent structures necessary to meet training and first responders coordination requirements during nondisaster periods;

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Govt rejects calls to alter internet law

Ok one more. This means that only the ones the ruling elite deems damaging will be closed down. There is no independent body who will investigate complaints. And if you think that those telecom and other ISP who now do their bit complaining are not complicit think again. They are happily complicit in the spying on citizens crap in the US and that means everywhere so be prepared to find sites such as this shut down very fast. We’re all on the list as it where.

Calls to repeal a law that could mean Kiwi internet users have their connections cut if they are accused of breaching copyright have been knocked back by the Government.

The new “guilt by accusation” law would result in internet service providers (ISPs) being forced to take on the role of gatekeeper by blocking online access to anyone accused of flouting copyright laws and illegally downloading films and music.

Telecom, Vodafone and TelstraClear have spoken out against the law, joining calls by Internet NZ for the Government to repeal section 92A of the Copyright Act, due to come in on February 28.

The law says ISPs must disconnect internet service to anyone “repeatedly accused” of accessing copyrighted material online.

Communications and Information Technology Minister Steven Joyce acknowledged concerns about the law’s implementation, but stopped short of saying it would be reviewed.

“We will keep a close eye on how the new law works in practice. We are prepared to look at further changes if they prove necessary.”

Internet NZ executive director Keith Davidson said ISPs would play the role of “judge, jury and executioner”, and the law would negate the assumption that users were innocent until proven guilty.

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Section 92: Censure and End game. No more alternative news. Are you ready?

Today I won’t be posting anything other than this and that is not because there is nothing else to post. Next month this could be all you’re seeing here. The law which will come in effect on the 28th of February will enable any news outlet you quote or any organisation who does not like your blog because of it’s political content to close you down if you  so much as copy a paragraph of their content under the so called section 92 part of our new internet laws. the assumption of innocent until proven guilty will be gone and there will be no redress for those closed down. The ISP’s will be the Judge, Jury and Executioner and all it takes is a little phone call from say the Pentagon or the another little spy goon squat to shut you up. Our National government under the leadership of our Banking piece of scum can’t wait for that to come into effect and trust me it will be endgame for blogs such as mine giving you another edge on the MSM propaganda machine.

This is not about the down loads of illegal software or video’s ladies and gentlemen. This is about snippets of newspaper articles and other material that might give us information other than what the MSM’s propaganda machine wants us to know.

So here goes:

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53 New heading and new sections 92A to 92E inserted

• The following heading and sections are inserted after section 92:

  “Internet service provider liability

  “92A Internet service provider must have policy for terminating accounts of repeat infringers

  • “(1) An Internet service provider must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the account with that Internet service provider of a repeat infringer.

    “(2) In subsection (1), repeat infringer means a person who repeatedly infringes the copyright in a work by using 1 or more of the Internet services of the Internet service provider to do a restricted act without the consent of the copyright owner.

  “92B Internet service provider liability if user infringes copyright

  • “(1) This section applies if a person (A) infringes the copyright in a work by using 1 or more of the Internet services of an Internet service provider to do a restricted act without the consent of the copyright owner.

    “(2) Merely because A uses the Internet services of the Internet service provider in infringing the copyright, the Internet service provider, without more,—

    • “(a) does not infringe the copyright in the work:

    • “(b) must not be taken to have authorised A’s infringement of copyright in the work:

    • “(c) subject to subsection (3), must not be subject to any civil remedy or criminal sanction.

    “(3) However, nothing in this section limits the right of the copyright owner to injunctive relief in relation to A’s infringement or any infringement by the Internet service provider.

    “(4) In subsections (1) and (2), Internet services means the services referred to in the definition of Internet service provider in section 2(1).

  “92C Internet service provider liability for storing infringing material

  • “(1) This section applies if—

    • “(a) an Internet service provider stores material provided by a user of the service; and

    • “(b) the material infringes copyright in a work (other than as a result of any modification by the Internet service provider).

    “(2) The Internet service provider does not infringe copyright in the work by storing the material unless—

    • “(a) the Internet service provider—

      • “(i) knows or has reason to believe that the material infringes copyright in the work; and

      • “(ii) does not, as soon as possible after becoming aware of the infringing material, delete the material or prevent access to it; or

    • “(b) the user of the service who provided the material is acting on behalf of, or at the direction of, the Internet service provider.

    “(3) A court, in determining whether, for the purposes of subsection (2), an Internet service provider knows or has reason to believe that material infringes copyright in a work, must take account of all relevant matters, including whether the Internet service provider has received a notice of infringement in relation to the infringement.

    “(4) An Internet service provider who deletes a user’s material or prevents access to it because the Internet service provider knows or has reason to believe that it infringes copyright in a work must, as soon as possible, give notice to the user that the material has been deleted or access to it prevented.

    “(5) Nothing in this section limits the right of the copyright owner to injunctive relief in relation to a user’s infringement or any infringement by the Internet service provider.

  “92D Requirements for notice of infringement

  • A notice referred to in section 92C(3) must—

    • “(a) contain the information prescribed by regulations made under this Act; and

    • “(b) be signed by the copyright owner or the copyright owner’s duly authorised agent.

  “92E Internet service provider does not infringe copyright by caching infringing material

  • “(1) An Internet service provider does not infringe copyright in a work by caching material if the Internet service provider—

    • “(a) does not modify the material; and

    • “(b) complies with any conditions imposed by the copyright owner of the material for access to that material; and

    • “(c) does not interfere with the lawful use of technology to obtain data on the use of the material; and

    • “(d) updates the material in accordance with reasonable industry practice.

    “(2) However, an Internet service provider does infringe copyright in a work by caching material if the Internet service provider does not delete the material or prevent access to it by users as soon as possible after the Internet service provider became aware that—

    • “(a) the material has been deleted from its original source; or

    • “(b) access to the material at its original source has been prevented; or

    • “(c) a court has ordered that the material be deleted from its original source or that access to the material at its original source be prevented.

    “(3) Nothing in this section limits the right of the copyright owner to injunctive relief in relation to a user’s infringement or any infringement by the Internet service provider.

    “(4) In this section,—

    “cache means the storage of material by an Internet service provider that is—

    • “(a) controlled through an automated process; and

    • “(b) temporary; and

    • “(c) for the sole purpose of enabling the Internet service provider to transmit the material more efficiently to other users of the service on their request

    “original source means the source from which the Internet service provider copied the material that is cached.”

‘RESCUED’ CITI BUYING $50M JET

Justin case your wondering what Banks do with taxpayers money after they have been bailed out from their outrageous gambling practices. Wonder no more. They buy planes give themselves huge bonusses and do up their offices for millions at the time. Just for your information; John Key was one of only four upon invitation only advisors to the Federal Reserve of New York from November 1999 until March 2001. he represented Merrill Lynch. The other banks Citigroup, Lehman bros and UBS Wahrburg. yep all of those banks are belly up.

Beleaguered Citigroup is upgrading its mile-high club with a brand-new $50 million corporate jet – only this time, it’s the taxpayers who are getting screwed.

Even though the bank’s stock is as cheap as a gallon of gas and it’s burning through a $45 billion taxpayer-funded rescue, the airhead execs pushed through the purchase of a new Dassault Falcon 7X, according to a source familiar with the deal.

The French-made luxury jet seats up to 12 in a plush interior with leather seats, sofas and a customisable entertainment center, according to Dassault’s sales literature. It can cruise 5,950 miles before refueling and has a top speed of 559 mph.

There are just nine of these top-of-the-line models in the United States, with Dassault’s European factory churning out three to four 7Xs a month.

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The Financial crisis in 13 pics

Just have a look at this series of Photos. ANd that is only the beginning.

Revealed: Labour lords change laws for cash

LABOUR peers are prepared to accept fees of up to £120,000 a year to amend laws in the House of Lords on behalf of business clients, a Sunday Times investigation has found.

Four peers — including two former ministers — offered to help undercover reporters posing as lobbyists obtain an amendment in return for cash.

Two of the peers were secretly recorded telling the reporters they had previously secured changes to bills going through parliament to help their clients.

Lord Truscott, the former energy minister, said he had helped to ensure the Energy Bill was favourable to a client selling “smart” electricity meters. Lord Taylor of Blackburn claimed he had changed the law to help his client Experian, the credit check company.

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Iceland’s senior minister resigns as government becomes first global political casualty of the credit crunch

Iceland’s Minister of Commerce Bjorgvin Sigurdsson has resigned, two days after the prime minister announced his own departure due to pressures from the island nation’s economic collapse.

Mr Sigurdsson, a member of Iceland’s junior Social Democrat coalition party, made the announcment at a news conference this morning.

‘I have decided to do this to take responsibility,’ he said.

Prime Minister Geir Haarde shocked the country on Friday when he said he would not seek re-election and called for a general election on May 9.

Crunch victims: Bjorgvin Sigurdsson (left) has joined Prime Minister Geir Haarde, and resigned in response to the economic crisis and increasing dissent

The government of Iceland became the first in the world to be effectively brought down by the credit crunch.

It came after several nights of rioting over the financial crisis.

A poll would not normally be held until 2011.

Mr Haarde also revealed that he had been diagnosed with a malignant tumour of the oesophagus and would not seek re-election.

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Brown: Economic Crisis Represents Birth Pangs Of “New Global Order”

In a speech, he will urge countries to avoid “muddling through as pessimists” and “make the necessary adjustment to a better future and setting the new rules for this new global order”, according to his office.

Official data confirmed Friday that Britain is in recession. Days earlier, the government unveiled a new package of measures to help the flow of credit in the economy, but Brown has argued global action is needed for a quick recovery.

He will warn Monday that the crisis has given the world a choice: “We could allow this crisis to start a retreat from globalisation.

“As some want, we could close our markets — for capital, financial services, trade and for labour — and therefore reduce the risks of globalisation.

“But that would reduce global growth, deny us the benefits of global trade and confine millions to global poverty.

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The rise and fall of Wall Street’s John Thain

A dirty, but revealing affair

By Tom Eley
24 January 2009

John Thain, the CEO of brokerage house Merrill Lynch, who guided his firm’s absorption by Bank of America, was fired yesterday by BOA head Ken Lewis after it was learned that Merrill had brought $15.31 billion in fourth quarter losses onto the bank’s balance sheet. Bank of America stock has lost 83 percent of its value since the Merrill acquisition was announced on September 21, and analysts believe that the banking giant is, for all intents and purposes, insolvent.

Merrill was one of the five major brokerage firms that only a year ago were considered pillars of the US financial system—the others being Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley. Since then, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers have gone into liquidation, while Morgan Stanley—like Merrill—was absorbed by a large bank—Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group of Japan.

Thain was widely celebrated for shepherding Merrill’s sale to BOA. But the honeymoon did not last long when it became known that Thain had “failed to tell the bank about mounting losses at Merrill late last year,” according to Marketwatch. Merrill’s exposure to toxic debt has thrown into doubt BOA’s own survival. It is widely assumed that Lewis sacrificed Thain in order to mollify stockholder anger—and save his own position, at least for the moment.

For now, BOA carries on only due to taxpayer handouts to the tune of $45 billion through TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) and billions more from the Federal Reserve. The US government has also committed itself to sharing losses on as much as $118 billion of BOA toxic assets. The bank will need tens of billions more to survive, analysts say.

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Soaring closures raise fears of ghost town shopping centres across UK

A sharp rise in the number of stores being shut by distressed retail groups is fuelling fears that chunks of Britain’s high streets and shopping centres will be left as ghost towns by the deepening recession, which was officially confirmed yesterday.

Concern mounted that a rising tide of premises being closed will bring desolation to large tracts of shopping centres after new figures underlined the extent of the trend.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting group, said that Britain was at risk of developing a phenomenon of “grey malls”, mirroring the retail wastelands of closed premises springing up across the United States.

“In recent years we’ve had coffee shops, mobile phone shops and charity shops filling the voids. Apart from pound shops, what’s the next thing that’s going to fill them?” Barry Gilbertson, a corporate restructuring expert at the accounting group, asked.

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Obama airstrikes kill 22 in Pakistan

PAKISTAN received an early warning of what the era of “smart power” under President Barack Obama will look like after two remote-controlled US airstrikes killed 22 people at suspected terrorist hideouts in the border area of Waziristan.

There will be no let-up in the military pressure on terrorist groups, US officials warned, as Obama prepares to launch a surge of 30,000 troops in neighbouring Afghanistan. It is part of a “tough love” policy combining a military crack-down with diplomatic initiatives.

The Pakistani government, which received a visit from General David Petraeus, the chief of US Central Command, on the day of Obama’s inauguration, has been warned that it must step up its efforts against militants if it is to continue to receive substantial military aid from America.

The airstrikes were authorised under a covert programme approved by Obama, according to a senior US official. It was a dramatic signal in the president’s first week of office that there will be no respite in the hunt for Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders.

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The Economic Pearl Harbor

On January 18, 2009, the Associated Press reported that in an interview aired on “Dateline NBC” the Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Warren Buffett said that the “US is engaged in an economic Pearl Harbor.”

A shiver ran down my spine!

There was hardly any comment by any of our national dailies or the leading financial dailies.

Obviously, what Warren Buffett said is open to several interpretations. Whatever it may be, it cannot be good.

Why?

If the United States is engaged in an economic Pearl Harbor, it follows that there must be an enemy. Who is this enemy?

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, it gave President Roosevelt the pretext to enter World War II, at a time when the nation was against going to war. It was a day of infamy and American blood must be avenged. The rest, as they say is history – but a distorted one at that. It is now widely held that President Roosevelt had received advance warnings about the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. But the intelligence never reached the US Fleet and the ensuing anger and outrage compelled what was once a reluctant public to join the British induced war against Germany.

But recently, this reference to Pearl Harbor by the neo-cons gave rise to the Global War of Terror in 2001 which postponed the day of financial reckoning by seven years, when President George Bush pumped over US$3 trillion into the war economy.

Recall what the neo-con think tank, Project for the New American Century foretold: “the process of transforming the US into tomorrow’s dominant force was likely to be a long one, in the absence of some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor.”

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Mystery Prison Buses in the Desert

On a recent visit to Tucson, Arizona, where I was invited to give a presentation on monetary reform, I was disturbed by a story of strange goings on in the desert. A little over a year ago, it seems, a new industrial facility sprang up on the edge of town. It was in a remote industrial zone and appeared to be a bus depot. The new enterprise was surrounded by an imposing security fence and bore no outward signs identifying its services. However, it soon became apparent that the compound was in the business of outfitting a fleet of prison buses. Thirty or so secondhand city buses were being reconfigured with prison bars in the windows and a coat of fresh paint bearing the “Wackenhut G4S” logo on the side.

The new Wackenhut operation is shrouded in mystery. It has been running its fleet of empty prison buses night and day, apparently logging miles on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contract. Multiple buses can be seen driving all over town and even on remote desert back roads. Oddly, except for the driver and one escort guard seated in front, these buses are always empty.

Wackenhut Services was founded by George Wackenhut in 1954 to provide prison guard services to state and federal governments. Wackenhut Services is now owned by the Danish corporation G4S.

Observers originally thought that the purpose of the new Wackenhut operation was to outfit prison buses to be distributed in other parts of the country. But it soon became apparent that none of the buses was leaving the Tucson depot. Recently, a passerby observed what appeared to be a training operation there. In what seemed to be strange activity for 10:30 PM on a Saturday night, the depot yard was fully illuminated, the entire fleet of buses was up and running, and drivers and guards were scrambling around the yard. The question is, what were they training for?

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