Saturday, 11 December 2010 08:56
'There were the infamous Gestapo, Stazi and Red Guard. They all sought and maintained civilian armies of snitches to help their rogue governments maintain absolute power. These government thugs wanted any information they could use against the victims they selectively targeted.
Today we have the Department of Homeland Security that is quickly stepping into this role in the United States. They are massively expanding their authority, reach and budget to smash dissent, and any resistance to government repression and violation of our Civil Rights.
If you have not noticed, our government has suspended the Fourth Amendment in the name of anti-terrorism. If you haven’t noticed, It’s our own government that has become the terrorist.'
Read more: Homeland Security Recruiting Neighborhood Busybodies as Informants
Saturday, 11 December 2010 08:50
'Scientists have shown they can change people's moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses.
They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality. And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they impaired volunteers' notion of right and wrong. The small Massachusetts Institute of Technology study appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.'
Saturday, 11 December 2010 08:32
'The formation of the British army’s Force Reconnaissance Regiment was announced by Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon on April 5th 2004, as part of the UK army’s ‘Special Forces.’ It would focus, Hoon explained, on ‘combating terrorism’. That was one month before the BBC’s Panorama program, which scripted the first outline of what London would suffer a year later on 7/7.
The FRR would go ‘deep undercover’ for its reconnaissance, behind ‘enemy’ lines. On April 6, 2005, the FRR came into existence, a mere three months before 7/7. It appears as a secretive organisation above the law, with a license to kill – and with bomb making skills. Its insignia shows a sword being shoved up through a helmeted head.
Let’s take a closer look, at the little that has come out. Our main areas of concern are:
•The assassination of Jean Charles de Menezes
•The gunning down of two young men as ‘terrorists’ at Canary Wharf at 10.30 am on July 7th
•The fabrication of bomb equipment in Basra
•The startling rescue of FRR agents once captured in Basra.'
Read more: The British Army’s Forward Reconnaissance Regiment Go Through The Looking-Glass?
Saturday, 11 December 2010 08:22
'In the US Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan as a "war of perception . . . conducted continuously using the news media". What really matters is not so much the day-to-day battles against the Taliban as the way the adventure is sold in America where "the media directly influence the attitude of key audiences". Reading this, I was reminded of the Venezuelan general who led a coup against the democratic government in 2002. "We had a secret weapon," he boasted. "We had the media, especially TV. You got to have the media."
Never has so much official energy been expended in ensuring journalists collude with the makers of rapacious wars which, say the media-friendly generals, are now "perpetual". In echoing the west's more verbose warlords, such as the waterboarding former US vice-president Dick Cheney, who predicated "50 years of war", they plan a state of permanent conflict wholly dependent on keeping at bay an enemy whose name they dare not speak: the public.'
Read more: Why Are Wars Not Being Reported Honestly? by John Pilger
Saturday, 11 December 2010 08:16
'The refusal to make public the report into the catastrophic failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland tells us a great deal about the arrogance and hopeless judgment of the City's financial regulator.
While the Financial Services Authority (FSA) often takes a hammer to deal with minor miscreants, it is using kid gloves when it comes to dealing with the scandalous behaviour of bosses who brought down Britain's biggest financial group and which led to taxpayers being exposed to potential losses of £250billion.
The regulator's egregious claim that the report into the bank's collapse is too technical and incomplete to be published is frankly preposterous. The truth is that the FSA is morally bound to let taxpayers know what went wrong and why, for example, its own staff spent £228,000 on Christmas parties at the height of the most damaging financial crisis for a century and why they are still paid exorbitant salaries.'
Saturday, 11 December 2010 08:10
'What we did not know is that London is, according to these contracts, required to provide the IOC and the ‘Olympic Family’ (including the Committee members, staff and officials) with 40,000 hotel-room bookings for the entire duration of the Games.
This includes 1,800 four and five-star hotel rooms for the IOC elite. Six Park Lane hotels have been booked out for the duration of the Games, including the Dorchester, the Grosvenor and the Hilton.
The 40,000-room booking does not, of course, include accommodation for the competitors themselves — they are having an Olympic Village built for them at a cost to taxpayer of £325 million.
Nor is any accommodation being reserved for spectators. On the evidence of the documents, visitors to the Games will probably find that any hotel within a 50-mile radius of London is already fully booked by the third assistant director of the Togolese handball federation and his extensive support staff.'
Read more: The Secret Dirty Deal Struck to Secure the 2012 Olympics
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