Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows

The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all.

Wednesday’s hearing described a secretive group deploying billions of dollars to favored banks, operating with little oversight by the public or elected officials.

We’re talking about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, whose role as the most influential part of the federal-reserve system — apart from the matter of AIG’s bailout — deserves further congressional scrutiny.

The New York Fed is in the hot seat for its decision in November 2008 to buy out, for about $30 billion, insurance contracts AIG sold on toxic debt securities to banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank AG, among others. That decision, critics say, amounted to a back-door bailout for the banks, which received 100 cents on the dollar for contracts that would have been worth far less had AIG been allowed to fail.

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Jeanette Fitzsimons and 911. Thank you for your courage.

Dear Jeanette,

We only spoke once and we e-mailed a couple of times. But we did so about one of the subjects closest to my heart.

We communicated over the many unexplained occurrences on 9/11. The day that changed the world and it became clear that like me you had many unanswered questions about that day. In fact you had the courage to put your name under an international petition of politicians who want a new and independent investigation into the events of that day.

In fact you’ll be happy to know that Richard Gage AIA whom you met when he was in Wellington in October last year now has 1020 and counting registered Architects and Engineers supporting his petition for a new and independent investigation.

Now that you have announced you departure from NZ politics you will at first I know want to spend time with your family and on your farm were you like me have wwoofers who help you to build a sustainable environment.

But and this is a big but I hope that with your sense of justice and integrity you will eventually come out of retirement and help us to bring 9/11 to a bigger audience because when in 1.5 years the 10th anniversary of that horrific event will be remembered by all of those who lost loved ones on that day we need to remind everyone we can reach that millions of people died or had to flee or were wounded in the aftermath and that we still very much live with the results of that day.

You like all of us who are courageous enough to ask the questions are very much needed to keep that event in the forefront of our consciousness so that when the time comes to confront the criminals who did this we will be strong and with many.

Thank you so much for your service to this country and have a good time out there in Coromandel and read up on all the books you never had time to read (I recommend the series of David Ray Griffin for the most comprehensive information you will ever hope to find on 911) and I hope to meet you in the future as a private and concerned citizen coming  in our struggle  for justice for those who lost their lives in the attacks and for those who died and lost loved ones in the aftermath.

The kindest and most respectful regards

Travellerev

The Corporate states of America

Friday 22th of January 2010 will be a date that will be haunting the US and by extension the rest of the “Democratic” Western world. it was the day 5 Judges of the US supreme court decided that not only is a corporation a “person” it is a person above the law, subject to no God, no moral code but one with unlimited power over our live. Well, perhaps not here in New Zealand just yet but the US people are now subject to the unlimited funding by corporations National and International for their political candidates.

You can watch Amy Goodman interviewing constitutional law professor, Jamin Raskin on why this is a very bad idea here and just in case you missed it watch this excellent documentary about the Psychopathy of Corporations

Five members of the Supreme Court declared that a “corporation” is a person, not a “regular person” but one above all natural laws, subject to no God, no moral code but one with unlimited power over our lives, a power awarded by judges who seem themselves as grand inquisitors in an  meant to hunt down all hertics who fail to serve their god, the god of money.

Their ruling has made it legal for foreign controlled corporations to flush unlimited money into our bloated political system to further corrupt something none of us trust and most of us fear.  The “corporation/person” that the 5 judges, the “neocon” purists, have turned the United States over to isn’t even American.  Our corporations, especially since our economic meltdown are owned by China, Russia and the oil sheiks along with a few foreign banks.  They don’t vote, pay taxes, fight in wars, need dental care, breathe air, drive cars or send children to school.  Anyone who thinks these things are people is insane.  Anyone who would sell our government to them is a criminal and belongs in prison.  There is nothing in the Constitution that makes this “gang of five” bribe sucking clowns above the law.  There is nothing in the Constitution that even mentions corporations much less gives them status equal to or greater than the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government.

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I wonder why this did not warrant even a small piece in our main stream media or perhaps we need not wonder. It might be that they’d rather have us not know.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/22/call-for-immediate-arrest-of-5-supreme-court-justices-for-treason/

Los Angeles Jews For Peace Rally

No words are needed here.

Ooh oops, Sorry for the morose sticky

Just checked my blog to find my morose New years post still stick to the top. Sorry.

Haiti from a different perspective

It is commonly known that Black people “loot” and White people “find“ so hey, to send 20.000 US troops to Haiti is just precaution isn’t it?

Aid piling up at UN’s ‘cold beer’ compound as red tape keeps aid from desperate Haitians – while UN staff have wi-fi and a bar

It is a tale of two cities. One has ice-cold beers, internet access, thousands of men and billions of dollars’ worth of  gleaming machinery, together with piles of food, blankets, generators and other aid relief from around the globe.

This is the heavily fortified US-controlled Port-au-Prince airport and neighbouring United Nations compound.

The other is the devastated city of Port-au-Prince, where the stench of death fills the air and starving people are in utter despair, still in need of the basic necessities of food, water, shelter and medical care.

Never, in more than 20 years of covering disasters, has the void between the might and power of the Westernised world and the penniless and pitiful people they have been mobilised to ‘save’ been so glaringly obvious to me.

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A Haiti Disaster Relief Scenario Was Envisaged by the US Military One Day Before the Earthquake

In an eerie parallel with the events of 9/11 which also had FEMA descent on New York the day before the attacks  US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) was preparing for an emergency operation exercise.

A Haiti disaster relief scenario had been envisaged at the headquarters of US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) in Miami one day prior to the earthquake.

The holding of pre-disaster simulations pertained to the impacts of a hurricane in Haiti. They were held on January 11. (Bob Brewin,  Defense launches online system to coordinate Haiti relief efforts (1/15/10) — GovExec.com, complete text of article is contained in Annex)

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), which is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense (DoD), was involved in organizing these scenarios on behalf of US Southern Command.(SOUTHCOM).

Defined as a “Combat Support Agency”, DISA has a mandate to provide IT and telecommunications, systems, logistics services in support of the US military. (See DISA website: Defense Information Systems Agency).

On the day prior to the earthquake, “on Monday [January 11, 2010], Jean Demay, DISA’s technical manager for the agency’s Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, happened to be at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami preparing for a test of the system in a scenario that involved providing relief to Haiti in the wake of a hurricane.” (Bob Brewin, op cit, emphasis added)

The Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project (TISC) is a communications-information tool which  “links non-government organizations with the United States [government and military] and other nations for tracking, coordinating and organizing relief efforts”.(Government IT Scrambles To Help Haiti, TECHWEB January 15, 2010).

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Day of judgement? £250,000 ring of steel for Tony Blair’s grilling

Will Tony Blair the Greedy finally be exposed for what he is: an unmitigated war criminal who lied his country to war with Iraq knowing full well he was? I hope so but to be honest I won’t hold my breath.

Taxpayers face a £250,000 security bill to protect Tony Blair from attack at the Iraq Inquiry.

Intelligence officers have picked up ‘domestic chatter’ suggesting his appearance warrants a high state of alert.

Thousands of anti-war protesters are expected to form a gauntlet of hate for the former Prime Minister on Friday as he attempts to justify Britain’s involvement in the controversial conflict.

He is also a target for Muslim extremists raging at his decision to invade Iraq.

Mr Blair’s six-hour appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry is being described as his ‘Judgment Day’ for sending British forces to topple Saddam Hussein, which cost the lives of 179 troops.

Demonstrators will be met by police road blocks, exclusion zones, armed officers and rooftop surveillance teams. The operation will cost at least £150,000 and could reach £250,000 depending on the number of protesters.

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Osama is back?!!

Isn’t that just typical. If you don’t know how the man would look after 10 years of hiding you just make up a photo looking sufficiently “evil Arab” to scare the shit out of everybody. Rest assured the hapless NZ press will use the photo supplied and the NZ public will swallow the umpteenth bite of crap.

Now you see him now you don't

Too bad the guy whose mug they used recognised himself and is threatening to sue. Ooh Oops.

Any way even thought they can’t confirm the voice is really his this is what’s doing the rounds in the MSM. Osama send the kid with a bomb in his knickers to the States via a Yemeni spiritual leader. Blah, blah, blah.

Willy Apiata has had intensive media training? The MSM’s propaganda machine is in full swing

Let me make one thing clear: I don’t doubt Willy Apiata’s personal courage and integrity. The man has shown his metal when he dragged out a wounded man while on fire and as such he has my respect. I would probably have shat myself.

But as you know I have predicted that with the first man down we would go in full swing for King and Country mode.

It seems however that the powers that be have decided not to wait for that to happen and why would they with brave men such as Willy Apiata at hand to do their bidding?

What’s more the pressure is on with the disturbing facts about the Crusade nature of the conquests coming out. It turns out Willy and his fellow heroes target their prey with “Jesus” guns and the rest of the world is shocked by it’s implications.

The war in Afghanistan is lost and countries are starting to pull out because their populations are starting to wake up to the fraud that is the the US Empire.

And most of all the world is beginning to see how wretchedly unjust the military interventions of the Empire are and want to get out of it’s many illegal enterprises.

So what better than to exploit all those local heroes. If you have dead soldiers you make their homecoming into a giant propaganda event, if you have angry Muslims you give them ample space so you can pit one against each other, if you have no heroes or worse it turns out that you went to war without a proper mandate rendering the whole bloody enterprise illegal you plaster your front pages with news about another tragic event and organise a marathon donation event in which even the war crime prime minister and the most anti Muslim warmongering thug take a seat.

Shit, you can even make your murdering scheming spooks look like heroes if you frame it well enough

Another good one is to revive the Nemesis against whom all of us are supposed to fight and if you can’t get him in the bod you just get his son to tell us some stories about how bad and crazy a father he was.

And in New Zealand you plaster impressive photo’s of our own home grown Rambo on the front pages.

You don’t just plaster him all over the front pages you train him first of course. it appears it only cost you $ 35.000 to get you local hero to deal “professionally” with the press. Good thing they did that before he “accidentally” got caught doing his heroes duty eh?

Apiata our own homegrown Rambo

I mean doesn’t he look superb with his waving manes, hot gear and piercing eyes. Hell, with a bit of luck you can even get rid of all those other Maori warriors who are now biting your ass over your land grabs when they see how volunteering in the white man’s army can get you a heroes welcome with lot’s of Mana.

And wahey, you might even get to do your little indigenous thing in front of the white man’s Kingi to be: King Billy or is that Willy.

And if it all goes pear shaped because, like Pat Tillman, Willy wakes up to the truth you can rely on Blackwater/Xe to take him out and then you have a Hero’s body to bring home.

SAS troops: Were they or weren’t they involved in the battle around Kabul

Yesterday John Key told us that SAS troops were not involved in the battle that raged for several hours around Kabul after the US made the presence of the SAS troops known. This was however contradicted with photo’s of the troops after they had been allegedly involved. So what is it and why the secrecy?

The Crusades revisited and why we should get the hell out of Afghanistan

A couple of days ago a curious news item appeared. It turns out that for years the US arms industry has sold arms and parts with codes identifying them taken out of the new Testament. Now that in and of itself should  of course be reason enough if you didn’t already do that for other reasons to ask why the hell we are fighting in Muslim Countries in the first place.

If the illegality of the mass murder in Iraq and Afghanistan did not repel you then surely codes such as JN8:12 which means John 8:12, on gun sights and in the bible reads, “Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” should make you want to puke and get the hell out of those countries we are currently polluting with D.U., Tungsten, and other heavy metals and chemicals while shooting their citizens with guns “blessed” with bible quotes in code. 

But no, while the codes are deemed “inappropriate” and they would be removed (how?) the real big issue: why we are involved in a war so clearly based on religious fanaticism and lies will continue and the NZ SAS will be kept there to shoot tribal warriors trying to liberate their country and protect their families in the name of God and King Willy the Balding.

For shame!

In the mean time Tiger Woods is trying to get over his sex addiction. Another one of those things good Christians should not indulge in.

Mike Moore to be NZ’s next Ambassador to US

Oh bliss, a former head of the WTO, member of the trilateral commission, Deputy minister of Finances under PM Lange when they signed the Kiwi populations right to decide over their own currency  and Bilderberger who just published a book called “saving Globalism” is going to be the new Ambassador to the US for New Zealand.

His mandate? Negotiating for the US to join the Trans Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership.

Three strikes policy announced

Oh goody, now all we need is to privatise the prisons and somebody will have a nice little earner.

Repeat violent offenders will not be eligible for parole after their third offence, the Government has this afternoon announced.

Prime Minister John Key told reporters that an agreement with the ACT Party had been reached and the policy would be incorporated in to legislation due in parliament in March.

The three strikes policy has been the subject of controversy with some campaigners worried offenders could be locked up for long periods over minor offences.

Mr Key today said the altered policy would incorporate “significant aspects of ACT’s three strikes policy.”

An offender would receive a standard sentence and warning for their first serious offence. The second offence would usually lead to a jail term with no parole and a further warning. On conviction for a third serious offence, the offender would receive the maximum penalty in prison for that offence with no parole.

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NZ troops at scene of Kabul attack

Here we go. While all the eyes of the world were directed at Haiti the war in Afghanistan took a turn for worst. Freedom fighters are attacking Kabul and sending in suicide bombers. And guess who were there. Yep, in one New Zealand soldiers.

It’s just a matter of time before the first body bag is coming back and we will go in full for King and Country  mode. Good thing we just had his offspring here to woe the girls “rock star” style. I’m sure they won’t mind when we send their boyfriends into the Afghan quagmire, it’s for William the Balding after all (thank you Sanctuary, hilarious).

New Zealand SAS soldiers were reportedly the only Western forces at the scene of an attack which killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 70 in the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, yesterday.

A team of militants launched the assault in Pashtunistan Square, an area that holds the Ministry of Justice, the Central Bank and the palace of President Hamid Karzai, about 9.30am local time, with two men detonating suicide bombs.

Afghan officials said three soldiers and two civilians – including a child – were killed, and at least 71 people were wounded. Seven militants died in the attack, five were gunned down and two killed themselves.

A small group of commandos from New Zealand were the only Western soldiers on the scene, the New York Times reported.

The New Zealand Defence Force is refusing to confirm or deny whether the SAS were involved in the fighting.

Major Kristian Dunne said the military did not comment on SAS operations.

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No Mister! you cannot share my pain!

When I grew up I heard about the Tomtom Macout, the hideously cruel machete wielding secret police of Papa Doc and later of Baby Doc. The US supported despots of Haiti. I heard about the callous murders and torture of these thugs and the fear the instilled in the local population. I was young and at the time not very interested in a little Island in the Caribbean.

I did not even pick up on the CIA orchestrated hijacking of the democratically elected president Aristide and his wife and the invasion of American Marines who once again returned Haiti to the dark ages of de facto slavery and colonial rape and pillage of their resources.

The financial “assistance” disappearing for 80% into the pockets of the ruling elite and now after decennia of cruel colonial rule and extreme poverty caused by the “Free trade” plunder and destruction of their agriculture and rainforest Haiti is once again in the public eye. I dare say we should be ashamed of our ignorance and our convenient blindness to what the western world has done to the people of Haiti.

Let’s start by calling on the WB, IMF and other assorted banking parasites to cancel the debt of these people immediately. It is after all only  $ 890 million. Peanuts compared to the billions the US gave to the bankers to save their asses.

In the mean time this is how they feel about our assistance:

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If you shared my pain you would not continue to make me suffer, to torture me, to deny me my dignity and my rights, especially my rights to self-determination and self-expression.

Six years ago you sent your Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to perform an action illegal under the laws of your country, my country and of the international community of nations.

One of the survivors of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.

// One of the survivors of Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti. 1/1

It was an act so outrageous, so bestially vile and wicked that your journalists and news agencies, your diplomats and politicians to this day cannot bring themselves to truthfully describe or own up to the crime that was committed when US Ambassador James Foley, a career diplomat, arrived at the house of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with a bunch of CIA thugs and US Marines to kidnap the president of Haiti and his wife.

The Aristides were stowed aboard a CIA plane normally used for ‘renditions’ of suspected terrorists to the worldwide US gulag of dungeons and torture chambers.

The plane, on which the Aristides are listed as “cargo”, flew to Antigua – an hour away – and remained on the ground in Antigua while Colin Powell’s State Department and the CIA tried to blackmail and bribe various African countries to accept (“give asylum to”) the kidnapped president and his wife.

The Central African Republic – one of George W Bush’s ‘Dark Corners of the World’ – agreed for an undisclosed sum, to give the Aristides temporary asylum.

Before any credible plot can be designed and paid for – for the disappearance of the Aristides – they are rescued by friends, flown to temporary asylum in Jamaica where the Government cravenly yielded to the blackmail of Condoleezza Rice to deny them the permanent asylum to which they were entitled and which most Jamaicans had hoped for.

Meanwhile, in Haiti, the US Marines protected an undisciplined ragbag of rapists and murderers to allow them entry to the capital. The Marines chased the medical students out of the new Medical School established by Aristide with Cuban help and teachers. The Marines bivouac in the school, going out on nightly raids, trailed by fleets of ambulances with body bags, hunting down Fanmi Lavalas activists described as ‘chimeres’ – terrorists.

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Right in the crown jewels, says it all really.

The original title of the article was: Right in the crown jewels. It referred to a Rugby ball kicked into the royal groin. That and the fact that the press had to provide placards to bystanders about how New Zealand loves the scion of the UK royal family says it all really. New Zealand is not very interested in the King to be.

Now before I get irate telephone calls from people who since I’m Dutch think I should not comment on the validity of the British Royal family and their spoiled offspring let me declare that I hold no truck with any Royal family. Not the English nor the Dutch. They are, to me, remnants of an age that for all intends and purposes should be abolished. What’s more these families which are presented to us as mere figureheads and painted as powerless are in fact still very much in control via their vast holdings and little elite clubs.

So good for the young man for kicking the ball into the royal groin and good for NZ for not going for the hype that was the press exercise for Prince Billy and let’s go for the Republic I say.

Architects and Engineers have reached the 1000

The Architects and Engineers site for a new and independent investigation into the events of 911 has reached a major goal post. It has signed up it’s 1000th member for the petition for a new and independent investigation into the events of 911.

That is to say its 1000th professional Architect or Engineer. A big achievement for Richard Gage who visited New Zealand about six weeks ago to present his case for hundreds of people curious about what really happened on that day.

So a big Congrats for Richard who works tirelessly to spread his research around the globe.

Among the subscribers to his petition are such names as former NASA Engineering Executive and AE911Truth active member Dwain Deets, New Zealand Engineer Kris Van Der Merwe and Jan Utzon, son of the architect who designed the Sidney Opera house and himself a practising Architect

Really hard to stay away from blogging

Some of you may have caught on that I have not posted since the first of January and the reason for that is that I really wanted a break after a truly horrible personal year and enjoy some real life activities but boy, is it hard to stay away from my blogs.

So what can I say; I’m back. Holiday over and onto the ever more scary news that is emerging from around the world.

From earthquakes to body scanners, compulsive drug testing to Prince William telling us he wants to serve us, to children being killed in Afghanistan and an investigation in Holland judging the invasion of Iraq and more over the Dutch involvement in the illegal invasion being illegal and much much more.

MP George Galloway on You Tube about Gaza

Why is a blatant Genocide not on the front page of our MSM?

War criminal Hilary Clinton comes to New Zealand

US Secretary of foreign affairs and war criminal/mongerer Hilary Clinton will visit New Zealand next week. I wonder how many poor suckers will be sacrificed to stay on Americas good side and be send of to Yemen, the next hell hole created by Obama’s warmongering lot.

Update: But then the threat of annihilation was maybe enough.

Here a new declaration: War is illegal.

Blackwater/Xe agent amongst CIA agents killed in suicide attack

It turns out that amongst the eight CIA agents killed last week in a suicide attack by one of their regular informants was a civilian mercenary employed by Blackwater/Xe.

Jeremy Wise, the former Navy SEAL killed in a suicide bomber’s attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan last week, was working for Xe, the Moyock, N.C.-based security company previously known as Blackwater.

Wise’s Xe affiliation is disclosed in an obituary published in today’s Virginian-Pilot.

Wise was one of eight people killed in the Dec. 30 blast in Khost province. News reports Tuesday identified the suicide bomber as a Jordanian double agent and said seven of the victims were CIA-affiliated. The eighth was a Jordanian military officer.

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Murder attempt on the high seas and where are the Palestinian tennis players indeed

I had the honour of meeting both Andy Gill skipper Pete and Sea Sheppard leader Paul Watson some time ago.

Pete when he sailed the then called Earthrace around the North Island and I was privileged to be present with the blessing of the vessel in Raglan harbour and to have a climb (it was all very claustrophobic) around inside.

And Paul when he visited Raglan and made his powerful presentation for a ban on whaling in the old School in Raglan.

I have been following their efforts to save the planet and fight against big money and greed since then and when they teamed up I was so proud to have met them. I felt part of what they are trying to achieve and to be honest I’m not surprised the Whalers rammed the Andy Gill.

The ship was an Icon already and would have been even more so if it was allowed to interfere with their gruesome work. What makes it so sad though is that I am equally unsurprised at the way the NZ government has chosen to “not” react. Rather than stand by its own citizens no matter what their ideas they knee jerked into stating that if you protest you can expect to be murdered by the people you protest or arrested of course in the case of those brave souls protesting the shameful admittance of Israeli tennis star to a New Zealand tennis event.

In the mindset of the ruling white middle aged Pakeha elite it is OK to commit mass murder and eco-crimes and protesting those crimes is not.

Are Geronimo’s skull and bones being auctioned off by the Skull and Bones society?

The family of the famous Apache “insurgent) Geronimo is after the Skull and Bones society to get the Skull and Bones from their famous ancestor back and lo and behold all of a sudden They want to get rid of a Skull and Bones set which served apparently as a voting box in the society which boast such members as poppy and son Bush.

Grisly trophies from Yale University’s mysterious Skull and Bones society, whose members include former president George W. Bush, are to go on auction in New York this month.

The human skull and two large bones are estimated to sell for between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars on January 22 at Christie’s.

The auction house said the human remains were used as a ballot box by the secret society. The skull includes a specially cut lid in the top — apparently for ballots — and one of the bones is inscribed “THOR.”

The auction lot also comes with a black book listing names of Skull and Bones members back in 1831-1877.

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33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know…

When you tell people you have some serious questions about the events of 9/11 more often than not the most important argument for denying the fact that there are many unanswered questions about what really happened that day is the fact that they seem to think that there could not have been a group other than the 19 hijackers who could have organised the events because…. that would have taken to many people in the know and someone would have talked. So here are some of the most glaring conspiracies which succeeded and were denied by the perpetrators and their patsies until the evidence was so massive there was no point in denying these conspiracies anymore.

By Jonathan Elinoff, New World Order Report

Most people can’t resist getting the details on the latest conspiracy theories, no matter how far-fetched they may seem. At the same time, many people quickly denounce any conspiracy theory as untrue … and sometimes as unpatriotic or just plain ridiculous.   Lets not forget all of the thousands of conspiracies out of Wall Street like Bernie Madoff and many others to commit fraud and extortion, among many crimes of conspiracy.  USA Today reports that over 75% of personal ads in the paper and on craigslist are married couples posing as single for a one night affair.  When someone knocks on your door to sell you a set of knives or phone cards, anything for that matter, do they have a profit motive?  What is conspiracy other than just a scary way of saying “alternative agenda”?  When 2 friends go to a bar and begin to plan their wingman approach on 2 girls they see at the bar, how often are they planning on lying to those girls?  “I own a small business and am in town for a short while.  Oh yeah, you look beautiful.”

Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy. However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning.  To conspire means “to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end.”  The term “conspiracy theory” is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at stealing power, money, or freedom, from “the people”.

To many, conspiracy theories are just human nature.  Not all people in this world are honest, hard working and forthcoming about their intentions.  Certainly we can all agree on this.  So how did the term “conspiracy theory” get grouped in with fiction, fantasy and folklore?  Maybe that’s a conspiracy, just kidding.  Or am I?

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So what happened while I was on holiday 4: No more privacy online in New Zealand

He you out there blogging about political issues, I sure hope you don’t have a tiny wee penchant for anything embarrassing like euh, weird but otherwise happy sex between two consenting adults and you find inspiration online for new and kinky games my friend, because now we have the tools to shut you up.

New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced giving police and Security Intelligence Service  officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone’s online life.

The measures are the largest expansion of police and SIS surveillance capabilities for decades, and mean that all mobile calls and texts, email, internet surfing and online shopping, chatting and social networking can be monitored anywhere in New Zealand.

In preparation, technicians have been installing specialist spying devices and software inside all telephone exchanges, internet companies and even fibre-optic data networks between cities and towns, providing police and spy agencies with the capability to monitor almost all communications.

Police and SIS must still obtain an interception warrant naming a person or place they want to monitor but, compared to the phone taps of the past, a single warrant now covers phone, email and all internet activity.

It can even monitor a person’s location by detecting their mobile phone; all of this occurring almost instantaneously.

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So what happened while I was a way on holiday 3: Are you ready to get naked… to fight terrorism?

In the aftermath of us finding out that we should not have attacked Afghanistan but Yemen as the spiritual leader of the 9/11 hijackers wasn’t Osama bin Laden but a Yemeni cleric called Anwar al-Awlaki and it was he who send a young Nigerian to explode a plane over Detroit making it perfectly OK for the West to bomb another entire Nation back to the stone age in the near future we are told that in order to fight “Terrorism” we now have to expose our bodies to X-rays strong enough to penetrate our clothes and our sensitivities by allowing total strangers to inspect our naked bodies for unidentified objects.

It turns out that this won’t stop anybody who wants to bring explosives on board of a plane but it will obviously keep us embarrassed and afraid while travelling by air.

Holland, Nigeria , the UK, Germany, Italy and the US to name but a few are all installing the X-ray body scanners so our naked bodies can be probed and inspected from a distance by total strangers in the fight against them dirty terrorists.

I feel saver already. Oh did I mention that Chertoff, he of Homeland Security Secretarial fame, has been giving many interviews in the last couple of months touting the importance of X-ray body frying scanners and that oh oops he stands to make a mint out of the sales of these things?

So what happened while I was a way on holiday 2: Our new Osama bin Laden is called Anwar al-Awlaki

Oh Oops, Yemen is the true home of Al-Qaeda and yes it has oil too.

Not that you would know from our mainstream media but the last few months they bombed the shit out of Yemen. Who? Saudi Arabia and the US of course. Why? Well according to the Telegraph Yemen is actually the real and true home of al-Qaeda and we know this in hind sight because?

Well it seems that the “true” spiritual leader of al-Qaeda Anwar al-Awlaki now miraculously exposed as being truly based in Yemen send a Nigerian kid, the son of a wealthy banker no less with 80 grams of high tech. exposives hidden under his genitals and no passport to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas day. Confused?

Weren’t we told that Afghanistan was the home of al-Qaeda like Euuh, 9 years ago when another spiritual leader send 19 Saudi hijackers to attack the Twin Towers and the Pentagon?

And while we’re at it weren’t we told that we had to fight them over there so we didn’t have to fight them on the streets of America and if we were real friends of the US we had to send troops to help them and after that didn’t we have to fight Saddam Hussein  because he had weapons of mass destruction and could flatten the UK in thirty minutes or so?

Oh wait a minute, Yemen is chocker block with oil now why am I not surprised.

So what happened while I was a way on holiday 1: Blackwater gets a free pass on murder

While I tried to have a couple of days of rest by avoiding people and staying somewhat intoxicated (not advisable by the way) earth shattering events happened.

One of them was the fact that a case against Blackwater’s murderous thugs was dumped by the judge. Now that may not seem like much to you but that case was only one of the many legal battles the company formally known as Blackwater  but renamed Xe is involved in.

If this is a trend than the boss of Blackwater Eric Prince will be in charge of the biggest most secretive private army while on the payroll of the CIA with a get out of jail card free of charge for the thugs he hires to do his dirty work.

Just think of that.