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July 9, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: News and Politics
Letter Sparks Investigation of Baxter Vaccine by New Zealand Minister of Health
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 by: Barbara Minton, Natural Health Editor
(NaturalNews) The New Zealand Minister of Health, Hon Tony Ryall, has asked the Ministry of Health officials to urgently advise him on issues raised about a "swine flu" vaccine produced by Baxter International Inc. This follows his receipt of a letter raising concerns about whether vaccines produced by Baxter for "swine flu" can be trusted. In an open letter to all members of the New Zealand House of Parliament, Penny Bright, Media Spokesperson for Water Pressure Group, a judicially recognized Public Watchdog for Metrowater, water and Auckland regional governance matters, raises a series of questions and concerns about the safety of the vaccine. She demands to know whether Baxter products are currently being used in New Zealandfor the "swine flu", "bird flu" or any other type of flu. Bright highlights the fact that Baxter is currently facing criminal charges for producing contaminated "bird flu" vaccine that date back to February of this year when it became known that the company had sent out 72 kilos of live "bird flu" virus supplied by the World Health Organization in the winter of 2009 to 16 laboratories in four countries. These charges were filed by journalist Jane Burgermeister of Austria and were exclusively reported by Natural News http://www.naturalnews.com/026503_p...Burmeister's allegations claim that clear evidence exists that the pharmaceutical company and international government agencies actively conspired in producing, developing, manufacturing and distributing biological agents classified as the most deadly bioweapons on earth in order to trigger a pandemic and cause mass death. Last December, the Austrian branch of Baxter sent a batch of ordinary human H3N2 flu, altered so it could not replicate, to Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, also in Austria. In February, a lab in the Czech Republic working for Avir alerted Baxter that, unexpectedly, ferrets inoculated with a sample from the shipment had died. It was discovered that the sample contained live H5N1, which was to be used by Baxter to make vaccine. Baxter claims the two mixed by error, and called the incident a simple "accident". According to an article appearing in The Times of India on March 6, Markus Reinhard of Baxter said no one was infected because the H3N2 was handled at a high level of containment. But world renowned virologist Ab Osterhause of Erasmus University in the Netherlands has stated emphatically that great lengths must be taken to make sure this kind of thing does not happen again. In May, Osterhaus told participants at Europe's largest conference on infectious diseases that the outbreak of influenza A H1N1 is without question the most important event of the past 40 years in human influenza. He stressed that the current H1N1 threat is serious. Accidental release of the mixture of live H5N1 and H3N2 virus subtypes could have resulted in extremely dire consequences. Although H5N1 does not easily infect people, H3N2 does. Anyone exposed to a mixture of the two strains and simultaneously infected with both could serve as a human incubator for a hybrid virus able to transmit easily to other people and their communities. This is the outcome feared by many scientists in the U.S. for the fall flu season, and the stated reason for the push to get everyone vaccinated, even if by force. In her open letter, Bright asks members of the New Zealand Parliament to consider whether they would consent to being injected with a "swine flu" vaccine produced by Baxter while it is under investigation for charges it produced contaminated "bird flu" vaccine. She asks Parliament members if they would consent to having their own children and grandchildren vaccinated with Baxter's product which is slated to appear on the market this month. She also asks them to consider a situation in which their consent to vaccination or lack thereof was overridden under emergency legislation arising from the New Zealand Epidemic Preparedness Act 2006, and to consider their response to mandatory or forced vaccination. Under the Epidemic Preparedness Act 2006, broad powers are granted to the Medical Officer of Health in response to the threat or emergence of a new epidemic. These powers include the ability to require a person to undergo a medical examination (section 70(1)(e)); require persons, places, buildings, ships, vehicles, aircraft, animals, or things to be isolated, quarantined, or disinfected (section 70(1)(f)); require people to remain in quarantine until they have been medically examined and found to be free from infectious disease, and until they have undergone any prescribed preventive treatment (section 70(1)(h); close any premise (section 70(1)(la) or all premises within a certain area (section 70(1)(m)(i)-(ii); forbid people to congregate in outdoor places of amusement or recreations, whether public or private (section 70(1)(m)(iii)-(iv); and take possession of personal property including land, buildings, vehicles, medicines, and other things, and for purposes including the accommodation or treatment of patients, disposal of bodies, transportation of patients, medical personnel, medicine etcetera (section 71(1)). These powers are automatically engaged when an epidemic notice is issued, much like the set up in the U.S. which allows for similar powers to automatically come into effect with the declaration of Pandemic Level 6. A Pandemic Level 6 alert was declared on June, 11th. The powers of the Medical Officer of Health include ordering the removal of any person to a hospital for isolation if he or she has reason to believe or suspect that the person, whether suffering from an infectious disease or not, is likely to cause the spread of any infectious disease (section 79). For additional information: http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.htmlhttp://www.naturalnews.com/026503_pandemic_swine_flu_bioterrorism.htmlhttp://www.chenpalmer.com/WhatsNew/LatestArticles/tabid/85/ctl/ViewPressRelease/mid/435/PressReleaseID/27/ReturnTab/79/Default.aspx
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July 9, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: News and Politics
Why The Fed is Depreciating the Currency
In its June 29, 2009 issue, Business Week ran an article, by Peter Coy, entitled "Why the Fed Isn't Igniting Inflation." This perfectly illustrates how the paper aristocracy lies to the American people, the purpose being to steal their (meaning your) wealth. Today I want to point out the lies and the doubletalk involved in this article and why it is absolute crucial (for your own well being) that you understand what is going on.
Before we get into the nitty-gritty, there are two things which are absolutely crucial for you to understand. First, almost everyone in the world wants wealth. There is an expression to this effect: "I've been rich, and I've been poor. And rich is better." There were a few hermits in the Middle Ages and a few hobos from time to time. But the vast majority of human beings on planet Earth want wealth.
So far, so good. Second, some of these people want wealth but do not want to do work to produce it. They want to take from the other people around them (meaning you). Most of these people are common thieves, and we deal with them by creating a police force and putting them in jail. However, a small group of these thieves have figured out a better angle. You can understand this technique by studying the medieval aristocracy.
They had seized all of the arable land in Europe by the sword, and they enserfed the average guy to work the land, produce food for him and other goods. In those days, if you didn't like your boss (the land lord), it was against the law to quit your job. If your boss' son wanted to rape your daughter, there were no police or courts to stop him. And he had an armed gang of thugs to beat you up (with a session of torture thrown in for good measure).
Yes, things were bad. But here is the problem. The common people outnumbered the aristocrats by 100 to 1. I don't care if the aristocrats had weapons and armed thugs. Why couldn't the common person simply rise up and overthrow these aristocrats by sheer force of numbers? Ultimately they did, and there were a series of revolutions (of which the American Revolution is an example). But my point is that they didn't for a long, long time. The people of Europe went over a thousand years working as serfs (in incredible poverty and misery) for their feudal lords. Even the use of the word "lord" to describe these people shows the imbalance because this is the same word we use for God. These people were looked upon as little gods, and all they were were thieves. This leaves us with two questions.
Since the people were ultimately able to overthrow the medieval aristocrat, how come they went on for a thousand years working as serfs? And when they did successfully rebel, how did they do it?
This brings us to the third crucial point. The way that the successful thieves got away with their robbery was via a class of intellectuals. This is an incredible story, and it proves that the pen is mightier than the sword.
Take as an example the peasant's revolt of 1381, the first well-known case of the people's attempt to win their freedom. On one fine day, the King of England looked out and saw 60,000 angry peasants, armed and knocking at the gates of London. The gates of the city were thrown open to them by 40,000 Londoners, and an army of 100,000 angry people faced the king (who had been caught by surprise and had no army). They were demanding the abolition of serfdom (meaning the right to quit their jobs).
Caught off guard, the king lied to the people and pretended to grant their demand. Then when they had dispersed, the king raised an army, reneged on his promises and crushed the peasant opposition. The peasants were defeated, but their movement (called Lollardry) went underground. There it simmered for a century-and-a-half and finally emerged victorious in the early 1500s, where it is known as the Protestant Reformation.
The reason the aristocrats were successful from about 400 AD to about 1400 AD was that a class of intellectuals, in the form of the priests of the Catholic Church, preached on the side of the aristocrats. They told the peasant that God wanted him to meekly turn the other cheek and submit to outrageous injustices. For saying this, the priests were given a privileged position by the aristocrats (vow of poverty be damned). The feudal lord simply passed on to them a small portion of the wealth that he stole from the peasants.
This system started to collapse, as noted, with the Protestant Reformation. The new Protestant ministers were a different class of intellectuals. They were on the side of the people. They preached freedom and defiance of the aristocracy. By the mid-1600s, half the people of Britain (the more dedicated Protestants) were for freedom, and half the people (the Catholics and their sympathizers) were for the king. There was then a war (the English Civil War, 1642-46) in which the people (led by the Protestants) rose up and fought for democracy. Our own American Revolution of 1776 was based on this war, and the slogan "no taxation without representation" comes from this period in English history. The democrats won the war, chopped off the king's head and tried to set up a democracy in England. Unfortunately, they had no understanding of politics. Although their intentions were good, they fell to quarreling among themselves, and this democracy collapsed in 1660. However, they did not give up heart. There was a second revolution in 1688 (the Glorious Revolution). The king was thrown out, and England became a democracy for good.
Now let us apply these principles to our own day. Again we are faced with a group of thieves who want to steal our wealth. Again these thieves are especially dangerous because they have a group of intellectuals on their side. However, today the intellectuals are not priests; they are Keynesian economists. And the way they steal our wealth is not by enserfing us to the land; it is by the counterfeiting of money. The most important event, the event determining the character of the world in which we live, was the enactment of the Emergency Banking Bill of 1933, on March 9, 1933 by the Democratic Congress on the first day of the Administration of F.D.R. This took the country off the gold standard and created a new money (the legal tender Federal Reserve note) which was issued by a group of (private and government) bankers. Since that time there has been a steady creation of money and a steady decline in the value of money. Today's dollar is worth about 6¢ (using official figures, which are suspect).
Ludwig von Mises pointed out that, when money is created, the people who get it first benefit. The people who get it last lose. The privilege to create money is a form of stealing. Because the United States Constitution (via the 10th amendment) prohibits paper money, the Emergency Banking Bill of 1933 is null and void, and the entire paper money system is illegal. Our government is now only a democracy in name.
In fact, we have returned to the Middle Ages whereby an aristocratic class steals our wealth. Instead of the medieval aristocracy we have the paper aristocracy.
Right now the combination of presidents Bush and Obama have just created a trillion new paper dollars, a 70% increase over the money supply of last May ($1.3 trillion). Trillion dollar deficits are planned as far as the eye can see. These deficits will be monetized. There is no deficit of any size in the history of the United States, or any other democracy (in name) which has not been monetized. The idea that government finances its deficits by borrowing from the people is a lie, pure and simple. All deficits (except very small ones) are financed by the printing of money. If the U.S. prints a trillion dollars for each of the next 3 years, then the money supply will increase from $1.3 trillion to $5.3 trillion, and this will lead to a 4-fold multiple of prices. Pretty it will not be.
This is the point of the Peter Coy article in Business Week. He is one of the class of new intellectuals who act as apologists for the paper aristocracy and help them to steal our wealth. His job is to lie to the average American (that's you).
With the money supply about to multiply by a factor of 4 times, there is one way to protect yourself. You must place your wealth in real assets. The best asset for this purpose is gold, as has been proven for the past 2 millennia. It is not exactly rocket science to see that, with the nation's money supply about to quadruple, one has to move one's assets into gold.
We have not been reduced to the level of the medieval serf. We still have a considerable amount of freedom. There is a world-wide functioning gold market. There are gold coin shops in every city of any size. Anybody can see that, as the currency depreciates, prices expressed in that currency have to go up. But prices expressed in a gold currency have remained the same for two-and-a-half thousand years. (U.S. statistics, by the way, prove that, while the United States was on a gold standard, from 1788 to 1933, the Wholesale Price Index was unchanged over the period, that is, from 1793-1933 the WPI came out exactly the same.)
So it is Peter Coy's job to serve the paper aristocracy by convincing us not to buy gold. He even admits the enormous expansion of the money supply: "The nation's monetary base - consisting of bills and coins in circulation plus banks' deposits at the Fed - has climbed 114% over the past year through May." (Peter Coy, "Why the Fed Isn't Igniting Inflation," Business Week, 6-29-09, p. 20.) First a little background here. Every time in economic history that there has been a significant increase in the supply of money there has been a corresponding decline in the value of the money. (By the way, the use of "inflation," meaning a rise in goods, rather than "depreciation," meaning a fall in money was an early example of intellectuals twisting language to confuse us. There is nothing wrong with goods that causes prices to rise.
It is always an increase in money.) There is a perfect correlation here. Every time they have printed money prices have gone up.There is not a single exception. Every real economist has studied the money fluctuations of American history. Here is the record.
During the gold standard period (1788-1933), it was not a perfect gold standard. There were 3 interruptions. The Government used paper money (from the banks) to finance the War of 1812. The banks of the Middle Atlantic states and the South created money and lent it to the Federal Government. New England was anti-war, and its banks did not create money. Daniel Webster notes that Washington D.C. bank notes had dropped to 75% of their nominal value (meaning that prices in D.C. had risen by 33%). Prices in New England did not rise. After the war ended, a hard money faction (led by Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren) came to power, abolished the central bank and put the gold standard on a firmer footing.
During the Civil War, Lincoln financed the war by issuing greenbacks. The money supply doubled, and so did the price level. After the war, the greenbacks were retired, and the price level subsided. By 1879, prices were back to their 1860 level and the gold standard had been restored.
And finally in WWI, the money supply also doubled, and prices doubled also. Cigars went from 5¢ to 10¢, leading to the famous Republican policy of "a good 5¢ cigar." To implement this policy, the Republicans reduced the money supply and brought prices back down. By 1933, the WPI was back to its 1914 level (which by the way was the same as its 1793 level).
Mr. Coy's argument is as follows: "the inflationary effects of the new money are being fully offset, or more than offset, by the far-reaching and long-lasting impact of household debt repayments. "Americans have abruptly switched to working down the debts." [Peter Coy, Ibid.]
So I went to the current Fed website and checked the statistics on the rate at which Americans are paying down their debts. Household debt repayments are not going up. They are going down. Americans are not paying off their debts more rapidly. They are paying their debts more slowly.
In general, there has been a small contraction in outstanding loans since mid-2008, but this is normal in every "recession" and does not approach the degree of monetization by the Fed. Normal Fed expansion overwhelms this minor contraction at every turning point, and the result is an increase in prices. However, the current Fed monetization is gigantic. The monetary base is up by over 100% from a year ago, and I estimate the money supply proper as up 70%. This will result in a massive rise in prices - far, far beyond what this country has ever seen.
You have to protect yourself. Peter Coy is trying to lull you to sleep so that his bosses can steal your wealth. They benefit from the Fed easing. For them to benefit, the average guy must lose. There are times when one can protect one's self by going long stocks. (I was a stock bug in 1982.) But this is not one of those times. We are in the (upswing of the) commodity pendulum. Commodities are going to be the beneficiary of the Fed's monetization. And gold is the most user friendly commodity there is.
© 2009 Howard S. Katz
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Howard S. Katz is author of the One Handed Economist, a financial newsletter with timely market advice that integrates technical analysis with insights about Austrian economics and analysis of Federal Reserve Bank policy.
http://www.dollardaze.org/blog/?post_id=00662
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July 9, 2009 - Thursday
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aqNgdKrLVc
Be sure to watch ALL 4 parts of this video.
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July 9, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: News and Politics
Another Fox to Guard Henhouse? Former Monsanto VP May Be Named To Head FDA Safety Working Group
By Susie Madrak Tuesday Jul 07, 2009 7:00pm
Sometimes I'm just rendered speechless, and this is one of those times. Natasha Chart via Sustainable Food at Change.org: As Jill Richardson writes at LaVidaLocavore at the link above, Taylor thinks the FDA wastes too much time on food safety inspections at meat packing plants. Further, he believes that one of their main problems is that they have to slow down their line speed too much. Everyone who's read anything about the horrendous working conditions at US meatpacking plants knows that incomplete kills before slaughter and worker injuries increase dramatically when line speeds increase. So yes, Mike Taylor is the person we have to thank for putting pus from mastitis-infected cows into the milk supply, and exposing milk-drinking Americans by the millions to greater cancer risks. This guy is heading up a food safety working group. I'm just swimming in the changeiness.
Kids, if you care about your food, you know what to do:
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Also see the FDA announcement:
FDA NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: July 7, 2009
Media Inquiries: George Strait, 301-796-4829; george.strait@fda.hhs.gov
Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA
Noted Food Safety Expert Michael R. Taylor Named Advisor to FDA Commissioner
Michael R. Taylor, J.D., a nationally recognized food safety expert and research professor at George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services, will return to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to serve as senior advisor to the commissioner.
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEve..nts/Newsroom/PressAnnounce..ments/ucm170842.htm
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July 9, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: News and Politics
Cyber False Flag?? Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies, including some that are responsible for fighting cyber crime, The Associated Press has learned.
Here we go with the "cyber security" marketing campaign...no doubt this was an engineered false flag cyber attack in order to set up a catalyst for Senator Rockefeller's "Cybersecurity Act" which puts all internet control under federal authority. One proposed provision gives the President unfettered authority to shut down Internet traffic in an emergency and disconnect critical infrastructure systems on national security grounds.
Furthermore, the bill contains a particularly dangerous provision that could cripple privacy and security in one fell swoop:
The Secretary of Commerce— shall have access to all relevant data concerning (critical infrastructure) networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access…
See: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/cybersecurity-act
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July 6, 2009 - Monday
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlDjDAFW1Ck
Very important video to watch.
Swine Flu, Vaccination & You. Barbara Loe Fisher, President National Vaccine Information Center. June 17, 2009
More information at NVIV.org - The National Vaccine Information Center and http://vaclib.org.
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July 4, 2009 - Saturday
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Category: News and Politics
On this Independence Day while most people are thinking of BBQ's and fireworks, I am asking you to think about what your personal freedom means to you. This an excellent assay, except the part about being a proud "Democracy". This nation was founded as a Constitutional REPUBLIC and NOT a democracy, but it was changed to a representative democracy under FDR leaving the power with politicians instead of the people.
A timely essay to forward and share with folks of all walks: This American Revolution
Thoughts on What’s Really American or UnAmerican! by Jesse Hardin
canyonfamily@gmail.com Whether you love the spirit of it or hate its martial airs, the 4th of July is one of the most meaningful of holidays, commemorating as it does a time when an empowered populous chose freedom and regional self determination over the rules and benefits of the British empire, when mostly good and brave hearted people opted to be outlaws rather than kowtow to what they saw as intrusive and unjust regulation from afar. 1776 was a time of revolutionary ideas, personal courage and individual liberty, a true high mark that we have slipped further away from every decade since. This country was founded in the spirit of acting on one’s personal conscience. Belief in oneself, taking care of the family, love of the land, loyalty to one’s place. Personal initiative, willing risk, daring adventure, and attempting the seemingly impossible. Regionalism, self sufficiency and home rule. While I am distinctly a Libertarian not a nationalist, I must point out to every proud flag-waver that it is characteristically American and wholly patriotic to question, provoke and resist authority. To stand out from the crowd, dare to look or act different from the prevailing trend or fads. To listen and respond to the needs of our hearts. To heed not rules and orders so much as what we instinctively know to be right and wrong. To choose freedom and opportunity over “security” and regulation. To mouth off and make waves. To prefer disorganized, ineffectual and contending political interests over uni-body, uni-voice, all powerful, uncontested government. To do whatever the hell we want, so long as it does not harm or impinge upon the freedoms of others. To be compassionate but firm, peaceful by nature but fierce when defending what matters, deeply loving yet impressively strong. And while I get sick and tired of hearing people, groups and ideas conveniently labeled “UnAmerican” all the time, I must say that if anything it is UnAmerican to conform, blend in or lay-back. To acquiesce, surrender, or compromise our core personal beliefs. To give up our dreams in order to make life easier for us, or change who we really are in order to be accepted by anybody or anything. To believe everything we read or automatically assume the media or government know best. To buckle under pressure, be blindly obedient or bow to vested authorities when when we know they have it wrong. While we are a proud democracy, it is nonetheless patently UnAmerican for us to assume the opinions of the majority are necessarily correct, or that “going with the flow” is always the best way to go. And while we honor the rule of law, we must still choose doing right even it means being labeled outlaws. When Thomas Jefferson spoke about the need for a new revolution every generation, he was not talking about revolutionary technological leaps, “revolutionary legislation,” a “revolutionary new administration” or “revolutionary new prices.” He was pointing to no less than the periodic overturning of established political interests, preventing the solidification of power in the hands of any special interest group, making sure that national or global interests never run roughshod over local communities and concerns, ensuring that conscience and not finance be the primary determining factor in deciding the direction this country goes. He saw the benefits of fractious discourse and stalled regulation, disagreement and dissension. And he was also aware of the danger of monolithic systems as well as elite amalgams such as the largest international corporations have become. By Thomas’ measure, we are several generations late in doing the work of revolution: reconfiguring, re-evolving, reinventing, recreating, and making real again. He knew this was not a matter of shifting trends so much as becoming new and honest over and over again, through the sacrifices and efforts of wild eyed patriots as we have always been called, and even if it means the shedding our American blood. Resistance and rethinking are not simply tales of history that we wax nostalgic about, it is our patriotic calling. While enjoying the festivities of July 4th, let us hear in the explosions of fireworks the thunder that awakens, and recognize in the colorful displays the infinite possibilities that await. (share as you will… and always act on your conscience)
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July 3, 2009 - Friday
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Category: News and Politics
A message from Cynthia McKinney from a cell block in Israel
Click here to listen Click here if above is busy
  Re: The Reported Illegal Seizure of the 21 Humanitarian Activists on Board The Spirit of Humanity
Below is an account of the seizing of the ship reported by
the Green Party of The United States:
The Free Gaza's 'Spirit of Humanity' was delivering medical and other supplies following Obama's call for relief to war torn Gaza; the boat was in international waters. Green Party leaders are calling on the White House and US State Department to intervene and demand the immediate release of 21 human rights activists, including former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney and Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire, who were taken prisoner by the Israeli navy after gunboats surrounded and seized the Free Gaza Movement relief boat 'Spirit of Humanity' on Monday.
"This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip," said Cynthia McKinney, the Green Party's 2008 candidate for President of the United States. "President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that's exactly what we tried to do. We're asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey."
Read Cynthia McKinney's latest statement here: http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/hope-fleet-news/970-call-off-your-attack-dogs-cynthia-mckinney
Ms. McKinney had earlier sent appeals to President Obama and the State Department for assurances of protection for the relief mission. The Spirit of Humanity was sailing in international waters when it was seized. Greens stressed that the relief boat represents no threat to Israel and must be allowed to continue its voyage to Gaza.
For more information and updates, see the Free Gaza Movement web site (http://www.freegaza.org), including the latest release on the seizure of the relief boat (http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/hope-fleet-news/976-israel-attacks-justice-boat-kidnaps-human-rights-workers-confiscates-medicine-toys-and-olive-trees).
For communications and updates from Cynthia McKinney, visit her Green Party page (http://www.gp.org/cynthia/index.php) and blog (http://dignity.ning.com). 
The Spirit of Humanity was carrying medical supplies, cement, olive trees, and children's toys to Gaza after the Israeli invasion in December and January damaged or destroyed 50,000 homes, 800 industrial properties and 200 schools damaged or destroyed, 39 mosques, and two churches. The supplies were confiscated by the Israeli navy.
The Green Party of the United States condemned the invasion and massacre of Palestinians and has endorsed the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel until the Israeli government guarantees full human rights, including political rights and democracy, for all Palestinians and non-Jewish Israelis.
Click here for a report on the incident in Al-Jazeerah.
Below are the words of Mr. Pinkney:
The Israeli government, through its military (in this instance the Israeli Navy), had absolutely no right or need to board and kidnap former U.S. Congresswoman (and former Green Party U.S. Presidential candidate) Cynthia McKinney and the other international humanitarian activists on board the small humanitarian boat, the Spirit of Humanity. Apparently the Israeli Government is determined to continue to arrogantly flaunt and disregard international law and just plain human decency.
Yet again, the Israeli apartheid Zionists and the Israeli Government have demonstrated how truly despicable and utterly hypocritical, they truly are. These kinds of actions clearly indicate that the Israeli Government does not seek to legitimately defend Israel, but rather to provoke attacks and stifle & sabotage opportunities for peace with justice.
I join with many millions of persons around the world who are in legitimate and growing outrage at these constant and latest Israeli actions.
BlackCommentator.comEditorial Board Member, Larry Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression, etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS NewsHour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.
For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book).
Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.
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July 3, 2009 - Friday
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Category: News and Politics
WAS AMERICA SOLD? By Nancy Levant
July 3, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
In 1992, George H.W. Bush signed Executive Order 12803, which gave D.C. the authority to sell America’s infrastructure. They called this authority “Infrastructure Privatization.” E.O. 12803 tells us this power cleared the way for the “disposition or transfer of an infrastructure “asset” such as by sale or by long-term lease from a State or local government to a private party.”
E.O. 12803 also lists examples of America’s saleable and/or lease-able infrastructure:
• Roads
• Tunnels
• Bridges
• Electricity supply facilities
• Mass transit
• Rail transportation
• Airports
• Ports
• Waterways
• Recycling/wastewater treatment facilities
• Solid waste disposal facilities
• Hospitals
• Prisons
• Schools
• Housing
E.O. 12803 tells us that this list represents infrastructure “examples.” Let us, therefore, assume that this is not the complete list of America’s saleable infrastructure.
However, this list is a stunning confession.
Notice that all items listed in 12803 are the very same infrastructure items listed in all Martial Law Executive Orders (see here). Martial Law kicks in to power during declared states of emergency and with the single signature of the president. Strangely (and ignorantly), we currently have multiple declared states of emergency:
• Act of March 9, 1933, a declared state of emergency at the request of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. This state of emergency was never lifted.
• Global pandemic - Level 6
• Mortgage/housing crisis
• Banking/lending crisis
• Automobile industry crisis
• Insurance industry crisis
• Healthcare crisis
• Southwestern border crisis
• Black market drug crisis
• National education crisis
• Nature/global warming crisis
• Jobs/unemployment crisis
• On-going weather and forest fire crises
• Extreme and unread congressional legislation crisis due to on-going crises
What are the odds of complete and total social and “natural” crisis in every single facet of our lives and all at the same time? I will tell you how it was accomplished with simple math:
Federal Reserve System + Politicians + Tell-A-Vision = Assembly Line Crises. It is called the Hegelian Dialectic Show.
Everything in the country, including the current planet-sized medical emergency, is in crisis. So enters Martial Law.
Think of our president’s promises to “change” the country and to fix the economy (which the Federal Reserve and Congress destroyed) by rebuilding America’s infrastructure, including “21st Century schools” and by greening-up our living standards and conditions (International Code Council, Carbon Credits, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, etc.) - minus, of course, privately owned land and homes (Agenda 21). In the last six months, consider the massive growth of the Federal Government, the national debt, and the powers of the Federal Reserve Central Banking System - all with stated intentions of fixing the economy that they single-handedly destroyed - and fixing it with “infrastructure” projects.
As Martial Law militarily guards all of E.O. 12803’s infrastructure as listed in the Order, and with homeland paramilitary armies holding practice drills with foreign armies, local law enforcement, and emergency responders all across the nation (and with a big drill planned July 27th through July 31st in FEMA Region 6),
And with all public schools, private schools, and universities forced to have “lock-down policies” and to be forced-used as quarantine holding tanks, and with all Americans having been repeatedly told to prepare for an emergency (meaning an emergency that will bring Martial Law into the full light of day, which the “drills“ have clearly done),
AND the very same infrastructures listed in Executive Order 12803 are also listed in all Martial Law Executive Orders, and all these infrastructures having been for sale, lease-able, or having been sold during the last 17 years- including our children’s schools, our hospitals, and our homes - I suggest to you that you are witnessing Central Banking Debt Magic at its finest moment. Wouldn’t you love to know how much money has been made by selling our nation to the highest bidders?
Let us review:
1. The country’s infrastructure has been for sale for 17 years. Roads, tunnels, bridges, electricity supply facilities, mass transit, rail transportation, airports, ports, waterways, water supply facilities, recycling/wastewater facilities, solid waste facilities, prisons, hospitals, schools, and housing -- this being of “examples” of saleable infrastructure and not the entire list of saleable items according to E.O. 12803--so the question begs: What exactly has been sold to “private parties in our nation? We would like to see the complete list. We know that many highway systems have been sold to foreign countries, but what of the other listed items? Have they been sold as well?
If so, who owns them, and more to the question, which D.C. department sold them and for how much? Did the Federal Reserve and Congress sell our nation? Where is the paperwork? Did they repay any of America’s debt that they purposefully created with their pyramid fiat money lending schemes? And why are they still raising our taxes if America is no longer America but belongs to foreign nations or “private parties?” Since the Federal Reserve is a “private” corporation, did the Fed buy any of America’s infrastructure “assets?”
As American “housing” is on 12803’s list, and since D.C. recently took over the mortgage industry, has the housing market been sold and/or leased to a “private party” like a foreign nation or the Federal Reserve Corporation? Are the American people tenants to unknown parties? Are American children occupying foreign-owned schools, and are our loved ones lying in foreign hospitals that are clearly chock-full of foreign doctors? Equally, who, exactly, is financing the building of 21st Century schools and classrooms complete with foreign curricula? The questions beg: who are the foreigners....the foreigners or the American people?
More to the point, who is dissolving, partitioning, and/or divvying up our nation? Is it Obama? Geithner? Bernacke? Bushes? Clintons? FDR? Wilson? American morons?
It would seem that we are preparing for the Big Transfer - the transfer of our nation to and beneath a new authority or several new authorities. It now makes a great deal of sense why foreign troops have been cross-training with our new paramilitary systems, and yes, there are foreign troops on American soil, which I fear may not be American soil at all. Equally, multiculturalism suddenly makes a great deal of sense. I believe we can call it “behavior modification” so that we the stupid people will behave and be obedient under the new rules of new and foreign leaders.
I ask you, has our nation been sold out from under us, and without our knowledge? Could there be any other possible explanation for selling the most critical components of our country, while at the same time creating new, multicultural and cross-trained armies; permanently bankrupting the nation and selling its debt to foreign countries, and having Martial Law orders written specifically to protect the sold “assets” of our nation--including our schools and homes? Are America’s new owners to be protected by new Martial Law armies, cross-trained with foreign armies, while our “traditional” military is spread all over the planet - except here with its nation’s people? Are we being transferred to new ownership as we speak?
Consider:
Washington D.C. debts were sold to foreign nations.
• Washington D.C. = politicians
• Debts = Federal Reserve Central (Fiat) Banking
• Sold = Wall Street
Is it not realistic to think that big league politicians, bankers, and CEOs are loyal to no nation when they were massively enriched by internationalized banking, internationalized trade, absurd and illegal taxation, and by interest rates forced upon the people of this nation, while at the same time selling our nation to other central banks around the world and “private parties” - and for personal profit? Truth is, they sold the infrastructure first, and then they sold we the people as tax generators and life-long human resources to their global banking and business partners in crime.
What is the crime, you ask? The Federal Reserve, which is a piece of a global banking cartel, and their politicians and CEO partners who made counterfeiting and Ponzi/pyramid schemes legalized theft on continental scales. Your country is 1) not your country and, 2) not what you thought it was for at least 100 years. You are going to have to seek God’s grace to be relieved from the bitterness of that truth. Today, we don’t know under whose authority we live, but Washington, D.C. and the Federal Reserve do know.
Big, big changes are on the horizon. All I can tell you is to remember that freedom, granted to all by God, is first and foremost a state of mind. Pray for guidance. Prepare yourselves because Obama spoke the truth. It is all about “infrastructure.” The promised change has arrived. The question is this: who owns America? Who have the American people been committed to serving and beneath what form of government?
We can pretty much assume that Asia owns a very large chunk of America, as does Great Britain, India, Middle Eastern countries, and perhaps Mexico and Canada, as well. We can also assume that Martial Law armies will be guarding all the sold “assets” during what could be an extraordinary and massively tyrannical transfer of power. The love of money is the root of all evil. No truer words were ever spoken.
Please join Darren Weeks and myself on the Republic Broadcasting Network’s Govern America radio program every Saturday morning, 8:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M., Eastern Standard Time. Happy Inter-dependence Day. Please join us. Click here to listen live.
© 2009 Nancy Levant - All Rights Reserve
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July 3, 2009 - Friday
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Category: News and Politics
EMERGENCY ALERT - Stop the NEW Real ID - S.1261 - The PASS Act http://RestoreTheRepublic.com http://StopRealIDCoalition.com Dear friends and fellow American, I have an EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT for you Today that requires your immediate and direct attention. This ALERT is regarding the MORPHING of REAL ID in to the PASS ACT. The REAL ID as you may or may not know was the failed law that snuck through congress in May of 2005 that would require all Americans to Carry a standardized FEDERAL ID card with an embedded trackable chip. NOW please contact your senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs IMMEDIATELY to STOP THE PASS ACT - S.1261 Special interests groups are trying to force Democrats, Independents and Republicans to support this legislation. States have been and are working to ensure drivers licenses are secure documents and have document integrity. The federal government, in spite of the states, wants to set international standards that are not needed. The federal government wants control of your state drivers license. The federal government is bribing states to go along with its plans. We spoke with Mark Lerner about the emerging PASS Act a few weeks ago. Our freedom and our rights are not for sale! Some governors want to take the bribe money. The senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will be considering the legislation very soon. The PASS Act does not repeal the Real ID Act. It does repeal provisions of the Real ID Act; those provisions that are included in Title II of the Real ID Act 2005. The Real ID Act is still intact and is federal law. The PASS Act contains many of the most egregious aspects of the Real ID Act; including the requirement for a digital facial image/photograph that will be mandated to be internationally facial recognition compatible. There is not a federal law that prohibits the simultaneous use of CCTV/surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology in real time. The PASS Act will do nothing to provide a higher level of National security. Under the provisions of the PASS Act the documents used to obtain a drivers license are not authenticated. These documents are called breeder documents. Although requirements for new databases and the linking of databases are not part of the PASS Act the fact remains through aamva.net and NLETS states can still have information contained in their state Department of Motor Vehicles made available to both federal and international law enforcement agencies without a court order. Two international agencies (AAMVA and the ICAO, an agency of the United Nations) were involved in U.S. policy and law - the Real ID Act 2005 and the newly proposed PASS Act. DHS has called AAMVA the hub and backbone of the Real ID Act. On AAMVAs own web-site it proclaims it is an international organization that serves law enforcement and motor vehicle administrators. Both the Real ID Act and the PASS Act result in Americans being enrolled into a single global biometric identification system that links a persons body to their ability to buy and sell.
WE ARE ASKING EVERY AMERICAN TO CALL EACH OF THE SENATORS in the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee AND SAY:
We are opposed to the Real ID Act and the PASS Act
We are opposed to being enrolled into a biometric identification system
We do not want our social security numbers in state DMV databases
We do not want RFID chips in our drivers licenses
We are opposed to the federal government intervening in the issuance of state drivers licensesTAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW AND CONTACT call these numbers:Senator Lieberman (202) 224-4041 Chairman Senator Collins (202) 224-2523 Senator Akaka (202) 224-6361 Senator Bennet (202) 224-5852 Senator Burris (202) 224-2854 Senator Carper (202) 224-2441 Senator Coburn (202) 224-5754 Senator Ensign (202) 224-6244 Senator Graham (202) 224-5972 Senator Landrieu (202) 224-5824 Senator Levin (202) 224-6221 Senator McCain (202) 224-2235 Senator McCaskill (202) 224-6154 Senator Pryor (202) 224-2353 Senator Tester (202) 224-2644 Senator Voinovich (202) 224-3353 The First, Fourth and Tenth Amendments are under attack. The Second Amendment will follow. This is not a partisan issue. All Americans must take action now. 16 calls per American, 16 minutes (one minute per call) for a Lifetime of Freedom. This Alert has been provided by the STOP REAL ID COALITON and Restore the Republic. Please forward this ALERT to all you know, embed it on your favorite blogs and forums, and take action now to preserve freedom in America! I am Gary Franchi, and remember I am not here to make you a follower I am here to make you a leader among the people. Goodnight, and God bless America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kE8xDMokpM
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