The Peoples Voice News, Dec 06, 2010

 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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