WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
In
the face of harassment and intimidation, WikiLeaks is continuing its
efforts to expose US foreign policy around the world, releasing secret
diplomatic documents on a daily basis.
WikiLeaks exposes US cover-up of Georgian attack on South Ossetia
Leaked
State Department documents show the US embassy in Tbilisi issued
one-sided reports to bolster Georgian claims in the August 2008 war with
Russia.
Australia warns U.S. it may need to "deploy force" with China
CANBERRA
(Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd defended his
country's relations with China as "robust" on Monday after a WikiLeaks
report he advised the United States it may need to use force to contain
China if it failed to conform to global standards of behaviour.
WikiWitchhunt
Focusing
on the "threat" of WikiLeaks is far easier for politicians and the
media than dealing with the disclosure of U.S. complicity in war crimes.
The threat of dictatorship in Spain
"Today
the most urgent task in Spain, throughout Europe and internationally is
the building of an independent political movement of the working class,
in opposition to all the parties of the political establishment and the
trade unions. It is only on this basis that working people can wage a
political struggle to repel and defeat the international offensive being
waged by the financial aristocracy."
US could need third dose of quantitative easing, says Ben Bernanke
Ben
Bernanke Ben Bernanke said it was 'certainly possible' the US Federal
Reserve would embark on a further round of quantitative easing. America
may need a third dose of quantitative easing (QE) to avoid its economy
slumping back into recession, Ben Bernanke predicted last night.
WikiLeaks Exposes Israeli Mafia’s Growing Influence
Cable
reveals Mafia-government connection — But US media don’t care to dig
for the story. I love how the pundits are yawning over the latest
WikiLeaks revelations: oh, there’s nothing to see here, it’s all so
boring, no "smoking gun," so let’s just move right along. These people
are just plain lazy: they want "scoops" delivered to their front doors,
all neatly packaged and labeled as such. In short, they don’t want to
have to do any work, beyond the usual cut-and-paste. Which is why a lot
of the really juicy stuff coming out of WikiLeaks continues to elude
them.
Leaked Cable Reveals Obama Sent To “2012 ALICE Bunker” Due To Norway “Spiral”
What
can be inferred from this language, though, is that whatever occurred
over Norway on December 8th of last year caused such a state of alarm
within the US Military establishment they advised their President and
Secretary of Defense to take shelter in a previously unidentified
bunker. It is, also, curious to note that nearly immediately after this
“event” the American White House began what is described as a massive,
and secret, construction project that according to one US news source
has left visitors facing a “maze of fences”. Most ominous of all about
this cable is its reference to the year 2012, especially in its coupling
with a bunker intended for use by America’s top political and military
officials and in light of the many ancient prophecies associated with
it. Above all else, what this cable clearly shows, and undoubtedly the
hundreds of thousands more yet to be released, is that America’s
leadership class is failing to keep it citizens informed as to either
the true state of the World they live in, and the growing dangers they
will all soon face.
Global house price rises begin to slow
The
increase in house prices seen across the globe over the past 12 months
is dropping off, with the annual rate of inflation falling to 3.1% in
the last quarter, a survey says. Global house price rises begin to slow
European house price rises have been declining throughout 2010. The rise
in global house prices is slowing down, with average annual house price
growth around the world falling to 3.1% in the third quarter of the
year, down from 4.3% in the previous quarter, a survey shows.
12/05/10
Author claims we're in the grip of a mini ice age
AFTER
nearly two weeks of snow and sub zero temperatures rivaling those of
Siberia, the old joke about global warming being a good thing has had a
new lease of life. So what has happened to doom-laden predictions of the
world heating up as glaciers melt? Mike Kelly reports. A satellite
image of the UK taken during last year's harsh winter. FIRST the good
news. These bitter winters aren’t going to last forever. The bad news is
that they will go on for the next 30 years as we have entered a mini
ice age.
ADL SLAMS HELEN THOMAS AS ‘VULGAR ANTI-SEMITE’
Helen
Thomas doubled down on the controversial comments that led to the end
of her long career during a speech yesterday to an Arab-American group
in Dearborn, Mich., prompting a fierce condemnation by the
Anti-Defamation League. “I can call a president of the United States
anything in the book, but I can’t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only
roads in the West Bank,” Thomas said. “No Americans would tolerate that —
white-only roads.”
Students warned: Read WikiLeaks and you’re out of a government job
Students
warned: Read WikiLeaks and youre out of a government job. Graduate
students at US universities are being warned not to read or post links
to WikiLeaks documents, or they could be denied work with the US
government.
Privacy Is Passe, So Broadcast Yourself (to Big Brother)
"You
had to live – you did live, from habit that became instinct – in the
assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in
darkness, every movement scrutinized." -Winston Smith worries in George
Orwell's classic novel, "1984." All Winston yearns for is a place
outside of the all-seeing electronic eye of the Telescreen, a private
place that Big Brother's penetrating gaze can't reach.So Winston picks
up a journal on the black market, a "thoughtcrime" he knows will sign
his own death warrant. And yet, while Winston's varicose vein aches,
while panic overtakes him, he writes himself to death by the unshakable
urge to have a world to himself, to have words to himself, to have a
private place. Winston dies for this unreachable place, for his privacy.
Money rules in U.S. politics
A
bitter, losing fight against the power of money. Out of America: Tax
cuts for billionaires, and bankers with more clout than ever – nothing
has changed. The US is a land of extremes: climatic, economic and
ideological. But amid the turbulent craziness of American politics,
there is one constant: money rules. And never more so than in the
closing weeks of this sour and eminently forgettable year of 2010 – when
the recession never really went away, the Tea Party marched into
Washington, and the presidency of Barack Obama shrivelled before one's
eyes.
The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange
Julian
Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by
making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents
available on Wikileaks -- and, predictably, no one is grateful. Manning,
a former army intelligence analyst in Iraq, faces up to 52 years in
prison. He is currently being held in solitary confinement at a military
base in Quantico, Virginia, where he is not allowed to see his parents
or other outside visitors.
Tax Cut Lies: The Day The News Died
The
New York Times today jumped on board with a classic Frank Luntz "Big
Lie." Democrats in the House and Senate put forth a bill that would
reduce taxes on the first quarter-million, and then, when that failed,
the first million dollars of income for every single American.
WikiLeaks Cables are Dispatches from a Beleaguered America in Imperial Retreat
Envoys
provide devastating truths, but world can admire Washington's patient
mission to avert nuclear apocalypse. There's more to the WikiLeaks
dispatches than leaks. Look behind them, at the writers, and you see the
loyal rearguard of America: an imperial power in retreat. There was a
tradition in our Foreign Office that a retiring ambassador could blow
off steam. In a final, exuberant telegram to Whitehall, he could say
exactly what he thought of the country he was leaving, and of the folly
of the Foreign Office in ignoring his advice.The best telegrams were
treasured by young diplomats. But they began to leak into the press. And
a few years ago this privilege was suppressed.
4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the American Empire
The
demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far
more quickly than anyone imagines. A soft landing for America 40 years
from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global
superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If
Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American
Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends
suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over
except for the shouting.
Fed chair says economy struggling to be ‘self-sustaining’
Bernanke
ramps up defense of Fed's Treasury bond purchases by pointing to weak
economy. Fed chair says economy struggling to be self sustaining Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is stepping up his defense of the Fed's
$600 billion Treasury bond-purchase plan, saying the economy is still
struggling to become "self-sustaining" without government help.
The roof falls in on Ireland's Millionaires Row
In
2007 Shrewsbury Road in Dublin was the sixth most expensive street in
the world. Now, post-crash, homes have been abandoned and the tycoon
residents have run for the hills. There is a padlock on the gate of
Walford, the most expensive house in the priciest street in Ireland.
Graffiti adorn the conservatory windows, the lawn is overgrown and old
mattresses are piled up in the front room.
12/04/10
Fed report lifts lid on Great Bank Heist of 2008-2009
The
US Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday released documents on emergency
measures it took between 2007 and 2010, using taxpayer funds, to bail
out major financial firms in the US and around the world. The sums
involved are staggering. Fed bailout loans outstanding reached a high of
$3.3 trillion, but the cumulative amount of cash funneled by the US
central bank to banks, hedge funds and major industrial corporations
reached the tens of trillions of dollars.
As unemployment rate tops 9.8 percent 27 million hit by US jobs crisis
The
US unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in November, the highest in
seven months, and an indication that the economic slump that was
triggered by the September 2008 Wall Street crash has far from run its
course. November was the 19th consecutive month that more than 9 percent
of the labor force were out of work, the longest span since the federal
government began reporting such figures after World War II.
Spiralling out of Control: The Risk of a New Korean War
An
artillery duel between North and South Korean forces on November 23 has
set in motion a series of events which threaten to spiral out of
control. On November 22, South Korea began its annual military exercise,
involving including 70,000 troops, dozens of South Korean and U.S.
warships and some 500 aircraft. The following day, South Korean
artillery stationed on Yeonpyeong Island began a live ammunition drill,
firing shells into the surrounding sea.
Dershowitz: Zionist liar par exellence
Alan
Dershowitz, the American Zionist fanatic, is notorious for his brashly
racist views about just anything non-Jewish. For example, he is against
Muslim immigrants to Europe because their dietary habits don't suite his
taste. He wholeheartedly supports the rampant terror, criminality and
vandalism perpetrated by Judeo-Nazi thugs in the West Bank, otherwise
known as Jewish settlers, against helpless Palestinian farmers and
peasants.
Germany accuses US over 'missing' Afghan funds, US cables show
Berlin
claims that €50m contribution disappeared into US treasury coffers with
15% 'administrative fee' taken by army. The US military has been
charging its allies a 15% handling fee on hundreds of millions of
dollars being raised internationally to build up the Afghan army.
Germany has threatened to cancel contributions.
“GOD-TV” evangelical Christian channel funds Israeli ethnic cleansing
Neve
Gordon looks at how an evangelical Christian TV channel with a
viewership of nearly half a billion people, including 20 million in the
USA and 14 million in Britain, is funding a project to ethnically
cleanse Israel’s Bedouin citizens from their ancestral land.
PayPal freezes WikiLeaks account
PayPal
has frozen WikiLeaks' account in the latest action against the
whistleblower website, which has been posting leaked US embassy cables
online. The decision by the online payment site – which WikiLeaks had
used to raise funds for web hosting and other costs – has been announced
with a posting on PayPal's blog.
Creating a Country of the Rich, By the Rich, For the Rich The New American Oligarchy
There
is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington’s bloody
misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders.
It’s a war fought on the airwaves, on television and radio and over the
Internet, a war of words and images, of half-truth, innuendo, and
raging lies. I'm talking about a political war, pitting liberals against
conservatives, Democrats against Republicans. I'm talking about a
spending war, fueled by stealthy front groups and deep-pocketed
anonymous donors. It’s a war that's poised to topple what's left of
American democracy.
Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive
The
American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling
for Julian Assange's head. Jonah Goldberg, contributor to the National
Review, asks in his syndicated column, "Why wasn't Assange garroted in
his hotel room years ago?" Sarah Palin wants him hunted down and brought
to justice, saying: "He is an anti-American operative with blood on his
hands." Assange can survive these theatrical blusters. A tougher
question is how he will fare at the hands of the US government, which is
hopping mad. The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has announced that
the Justice Department and Pentagon are conducting "an active, ongoing
criminal investigation" into the latest Assange-facilitated leak under
Washington's Espionage Act. Asked how the US could prosecute Assange, a
non-US citizen, Holder said, "Let me be clear. This is not
saber-rattling," and vowed "to swiftly close the gaps in current US
legislation…"
Sirius Radio: The Refuge for Frothing Racist, Homophobic Right-Wingers Like Dr. Laura
Dr.
Laura left broadcast radio after screaming the n-word at a black woman.
She'll soon join a host of homophobic, sexist, racist right-wingers on
Sirius. Last August, after an illustrious, decades-long career calling
women whores, screaming about couples who "shack up," and attacking
gays, Dr. Laura Schlessinger had to quit her radio show after hurling
the n-word, 11 times, at an African-American caller. On Larry King Live
Schlessinger announced that she would not let her First Amendment right
to million-dollar paychecks and thousands of listeners be trampled by
critics calling her out as a racist.
12/03/10
Assange 'facing death threats'
WikiLeaks
founder takes part in question and answer session for UK newspaper as
pressure mounts over Swedish warrant. Assange has been keeping a low
profile since Sweden issued an international arrest warrant for him
[EPA] The founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has said that he
is taking precautions against death threats following the publication of
hundreds of leaked US diplomatic cables. Julian Assange, who is also
wanted for questioning by Swedish police over alleged sex offences, was
answering readers' question on the website of the UK's Guardian
newspaper on Friday, despite lying low since the documents began to
appear on the group's website on Sunday.
Banksters Seek To Block Ron Paul
Robert
Wenzel reports on the scheming of big banks and their Republican
leadership to stop Ron Paul from getting the monetary policy
subcommittee chairmanship.
WikiLeaks cables visualisation pulled after pressure from Joe Lieberman
US
Senator Joe Lieberman, Nov 19, 2009 Tableau Software withdrew its
visualisations of the cables following a request by Senator Joe
Lieberman. Photograph: Tim Sloan/AFP The company that provided
visualisations of the contents of the leaked US embassy cables has
admitted it removed them from the net at the request of Senator Joe
Lieberman, the chair of the Senate homeland committee who has made angry
denunciations of the leaks. The removal of the visualisation came as
the US Social Security Agency warned its workers that looking at the
leaked cables could constitute a criminal offence. In Zionist America the truth will not set the cattle free it will get them slaughtered.
Palin handlers bully CNN cameraman at book signing
Palin
handlers bully CNN cameraman at book signing. Sarah Palin's aides opted
to use a little bit of force to end an otherwise polite conversation
with a CNN news crew Thursday. The important point that you will
discover if you listen closely to this bit of news is that the American
people love and worship Sarah Palin. So what if she doesn't see the
Palestinian people as human beings and she wants war between North and
South Korea even though she doesn't know the difference between the two
countries. The American people don't care and will follow her like
lemmings, or sheep, right of a fascist cliff.
Arizona ‘death panel’? State Medicaid cuts poised to let some poor patients die
Gov
JanBrewerR Arizona1 Arizona death panel? State Medicaid cuts poised to
let some poor patients dieA law in Arizona that cuts Medicaid funding
for certain transplant operations is likely to bring about the deaths of
poor residents in need of such procedures.
Jamie Dimon: Becoming Too Big to Save - Creating Fiscal Disaster
Roger
Lowenstein profiles Jamie Dimon, head of JP Morgan Chase. The piece,
titled “Jamie Dimon: America’s Least-Hated Banker,” is generally
sympathetic, but in every significant detail it confirms that Mr. Dimon
is now – without question – our most dangerous banker. Mr. Dimon is not
dangerous because he is in any narrow sense incompetent. On the
contrary, Mr. Dimon is very good at getting what he wants. And now he
wants to run a bigger, more interconnected, and more global bank that –
if it were to fail – would cause great chaos around the world.
The cause of Ireland's crisis
The
European Union and International Monetary Fund are providing a
multibillion-dollar "rescue" of the Irish economy--on the condition that
the Irish working class pay the price through slashed social programs
and increased regressive taxes. The established political parties seem
prepared to push through these measures that will cut working-class
living standards, but there is building resistance from below. On
November 27, more than 100,000 people took to the streets of Dublin for
an inspiring demonstration against austerity.
Thomas stands by her remarks on Israel Reporter's talk during Dearborn visit angers Jewish groups
Helen
Thomas said Thursday that she stands by her comments about Israel she
made earlier this year that led to her resignation as a national
columnist. And she went further, saying that Zionists control U.S.
foreign policy and other institutions. The local Jewish community
condemned her remarks. In an interview, Thomas, 90, said that
criticizing Israel led to her resignation and ostracism in Washington.
"I can call a president of the United States anything in the book, but I
can't touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank,"
Thomas said. "No American would tolerate that -- white-only roads."
Lieberman Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation
Lieberman
Introduces Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation --Leaking such information in the
first place is already a crime, so the measure is aimed squarely at
publishers. By Kevin Poulsen 02 Dec 2010 Senator Joseph Lieberman
['R'-Sociopath] and other lawmakers on Thursday introduced legislation
that would make it a federal crime for anyone to publish the name of a
U.S. intelligence source, in a direct swipe at the secret-spilling
website WikiLeaks...
Why Amazon Caved, and What It Means for the Rest of Us
WAmazon
Web Services dropped WikiLeaks material from its servers on Tuesday, a
move that is widely assumed to be a direct response to pressure from the
Senate Homeland Security Committee. A statement from Amazon disputed
that, stating that they kicked WikiLeaks off for violating the terms of
service: “For example, our terms of service state that ‘you represent
and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the
content… that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy
and will not cause injury to any person or entity.’”
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