Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived

Oatmeal published a piece on Tesla

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

The Soros Summit

Free Beacon exclusive: Inside the secret Miami meeting of George Soros’s liberal conspiracy

http://freebeacon.com/the-soros-summit/

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Argentina sends bill to takeover control of YPF from Spain’s Repsol

 

Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner sent to Congress a draft bill to expropriate Spain’s Repsol’s holdings of YPF oil and gas company. The announcement was made on Monday at the Government House during a sudden meeting with officials, political leaders, unionists and businessmen.

The draft bill contemplates the expropriation of YPF, Argentina’s biggest company, with the Argentine State holding 51% stake of the 57.43% that Spanish Repsol controls since 1999.

Out of the 51% expropriated, the Executive Power will own 51% which equals to 29.3% of the company’s stake, while Argentina’s 23 provinces plus the Buenos Aires City will own 49% of the 51% expropriated to Repsol, thus owning 28.14% of the company.

Spanish Repsol will so far preserve 6.43% of the company, while 17.09% will remain for trade at Buenos Aires, New York and Madrid stock exchanges. Likewise, the Petersen Group -own by the Ezkenazi family-(and good friends of the Kirchner family) will keep its current 25.46% stake in the company.

The announcement came as the first activity of the President after her arrival from the 6th Summit of the Americas held in Cartagena de Indias in Colombia, where she skipped the closing meeting after reprimanding Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos for not having included Argentina’s sovereignty claim over Falklands/Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands in the summit’s agenda.

President Cristina Fernández argued that the decision to expropriate the majority of shares held by Spanish Repsol came after “witnessing how 17 years after the [1992] privatization of YPF, Argentina became, for the first time, a net importer of oil and gas with a total deficit of over 3 billion dollars.“

Moreover, the Head of State explained that ”in 2011 the oil and gas imports showed a year-on-year increase of 150% having spent over 9 billion dollars, which was almost as much as last year’s trade surplus.”

“We don’t promote nationalizations, but we focus on recovering our resources”, insisted the Argentine president.

Escorted by Vice President Amado Boudou, Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina, and Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, the Argentine President emphasized that “Energy and hydrocarbons are vital for any country in this world, and we can not afford to let them being managed by private companies.”

The president then went on to list countries that currently hold a control of the energy industry.

“The United Arab Emirates control 100% of their oil and gas industry, same with China, Iran, Venezuela, Uruguay, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Malaysia and Egypt among many others. Colombia holds 90% stake, Russia’s Gazprom holds 50% stake, Brazil’s Petrobras 51%. So this is not something we came up with one day and all of the sudden.

Likewise, Cristina Fernandez replied to Spain’s Economy Minister that earlier on Monday indicated that in case of nationalizing Repsol-YPF, Argentina will be definitely sinking in the waters of populism, and remarked that “We do not choose a nationalizing model, but we promote a model focused on recovering the sovereignty of the country’s resources.”

The takeover follows more than two months of government pressure on YPF as Argentine fuel imports surged. The country sought to block YPF dividends and also backed provincial governments’ decisions to revoke 15 oil field licenses.

The government of Cristina Fernandez nationalized the private pensions’ fund holdings of 24 billion dollars and airline Aerolineas Argentinas SA since taking office in 2007.

YPF Amerian depositary receipts tumbled 11% to 19.50 dollars before being halted at 1:30 p.m. in New York. Earlier, they plunged as much as 21%.

YPF output accounted for about 34% of Argentina’s production in 2011, according to energy secretariat data. The company is also the country’s largest fuel retailer and refiner, with about 50% of refining capacity.

Energy demand grew over the past decade as Argentina recovered from a financial crisis that included a record 95 billion dollars default in 2001.

South America’s second-largest economy expanded an average 7.8% since 2003, including 8.9% growth last year.

As economic growth spurred demand for fuel, oil output declined. Since 1999, the year Spain’s Repsol acquired controlling interest in YPF production dropped 32% to 33.2 million cubic meters last year, according to data compiled by the Buenos Aires-based Argentine Oil and Gas Institute.

http://en.mercopress.com/2012/04/16/argentina-sends-bill-to-takeover-control-of-ypf-from-spain-s-repsol

Angelina Jolie insults rape victims: In the Land of Blood and Honey

Jolie’s debut anti-Serb after all

Angelina Jolie could hardly have chosen a more difficult subject for her directorial debut. “In the Land of Blood and Honey” focuses on violence against women in the recent and bloody war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-95).

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(…) Our organization grew out of a grassroots movement that arose in reaction to an omission of Serb victims of the Jasenovac death camp in a Spanish TV program: http://antisrbizam.com/en/rtve-apology/7-prevod/4

Following our first success, we have made it our mission to monitor Anti-Serb hate speech and media bias.

The recent premieres of ”In the Land of Blood and Honey” gave us a long awaited opportunity to analyze it in order to ascertain the truth of allegations of anti-Serb slant.

Using content analysis, we counted the characters appearing in scenes depicting violence and categorized them based on a number of criteria including gender (male, female), role (civilian, soldier), ethical valence (victim, perpetrator), and ethnicity (Muslim, Serb, Croat). We then compared the observed frequencies with available official statistics.

The complete analysis including written and verbal references to violence and additional criteria will follow shortly. However, the preliminary results are sufficiently conclusive:

1. All war criminals are Serbs.
2. None of the civilian victims are Serbs.
3. All civilian victims are Muslims.

      

(…) There is a significant discrepancy between our findings and the facts.

In reality, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a civil war not between two, but three constituent peoples: Muslims (or Bosniaks), Serbs and Croats. All three fought each other, all committed atrocities, including systematic abuse of women, and all fell victim to such atrocities.

Serb women were systematically raped by Muslim and Croat perpetrators in prison camps in Sarajevo, Odžak, Konjic, Kladanj, Dretelj, Bosanski Brod, Visoko, Čelebići, Tarčin, Mostar, and Tuzla, to mention but the most notorious locations.

The regional premiere of ”In the Land of Blood and Honey” was held in the Zetra Centre – one of many Sarajevo camps in which Serb women were detained and raped.

The statistical breakdown of victim numbers and their ethnic background is available only as an estimate. The Sarajevo-based Research and Documentation Center estimated that the Bosnian War resulted in approximately 100,000 victims, 66% of whom were Muslims, 26% Serbs and 8% Croats. The same Center has condemned the claim of 20,000 victims of rape as a “complete exaggeration” and manipulation. In comparison, Jolie asserts that “as many as 50,000 Bosnian women were raped”.

Other reliable research reports a total of 30,700 Serb victims, of which c. 8,500 only in Sarajevo.

Ignoring Serb victims would in itself represent an act of discrimination and disrespect. But Jolie makes this worse by doing nothing to exempt Serb victims from generalized blame, or suggest culpability of the Muslim perpetrators.

According to Jolie, the film was meant to honor the victims of the war. However, it has achieved exactly the opposite – it has discriminated, omitted, vilified and disempowered victims on ethnic grounds.

(…) In the memorable closing scene, the Serb character Daniel repeats: “I’m a war criminal”. He voices a consensus: Serbs are criminals.

This movie clearly shows how deep and dangerous Anti-Serb prejudice is, when it can turn a women’s rights activist into an accomplice in demeaning rape victims.

Fighting this prejudice is a necessary precondition for reconciliation of the Balkan nations, which can be built only on the truth.

Read more: http://antisrbizam.com/en/jolie-s-debut/19-anti-serb-after-all

Michael Savage: Was Breitbart assassinated?

http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/andrew-breitbart-death-review-coroner.html

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger and journalist, died suddenly on Thursday morning, according to his website Big Journalism. He was 43.

Breitbart came to be well-known for his work with the Drudge Report (he also played an early role with The Huffington Post), and would go on to found the Big Journalism, Big Hollywood and Breitbart.com websites. He was also an author, columnist and ubiquitous commentator in the media. Breitbart was an outspoken critic of the mainstream media. He is well-known for revealing the texting scandal that led to the resignation of Congressman Anthony Weiner.

…becoming the first U.S. financial company to be casualty of the European debt crisis…

 

The Jon Corzine-led MF Global has filed for bankruptcy after reportedly making bets on European debt for some of the most troubled countries, becoming the first U.S. financial company to be casualty of the European debt crisis. Corzine was formerly the Goldman Sachs chairman and Governor of New Jersey. 

Corzine and his firm wagered $6.3 billion on sovereign European debt in a high-stakes bid to increase profits — an effort apparently approved by the company’s board of directors.

Investigators are now looking at whether the firm diverted money from clients’ accounts to help cover that wager.

The former governor has never been reluctant to put his money on the line. After he was forced out of Goldman Sachs, he spent $62 million of his own cash on his successful senate race in 2000, and another $69 million out of pocket on his two campaigns for governor, in 2005 and in 2009. He buttressed his political support by donated roughly $7 million to Democratic organizations from 1999 to 2009.

And according to fundraising reports released by the Obama campaign, Corzine continues to bring in money for the Democrats, helping raise more than $500,000 for the President’s re-election bid.

Jon Corzine, former Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey and former Governor of the state, had been the CEO of the Wall Street firm until Friday. 2 days before, on Wednesday, it was reported that Corzine had lost over 600 million dollars in investors’ money betting on European debt. By Thursday that figure was correctly set at 1.5 billion.

On Friday Corzine resigned.

In the aftermath of the fiasco, MF Global is now the subject of an investigation. Regulators suspect there was ‘insider trading.’

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/11/corzines_high-stakes_gamble_at.html

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/obama-s-democrat-cronies-steal-1-5-billion-on-wall-st#ixzz1eOKHfj2A

SOULFOOD Serbia

 

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Los Indignados

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“Nobody expected the  ”Spanishrevolutio”

The 2011 Spanish protests, also referred to as the 15-M Movement, the Indignants movement or the Spanish revolution

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Take The Square was born from the demonstration on May 15, 2011 in Madrid. The demonstration called from the association Democracia Real Ya (Real Democracy Now), was the prelude of a new movement that was about to emerge. Once the demonstration was finished, some of those attending decided spontaneously and independently of the organizers, that a demonstration was not enough, so they decided to camp in the main square of Madrid (Puerta del Sol), thus starting a new project in the history of mankind.

The #15M

The idea of camping in the square 1) as a way of demonstrating against a dominant and oppressive system, lead by a political class working for banks and big corporations and 2) as a way to promote new initiatives of political, social, economical, artistic and cultural organization, generated the concept of “Take the Square”, original and essential sign of the #15M movement. That concept was created in the camp of Madrid (AcampadaSol) and then exported to the rest of the cities of Spain and the world.

You can read a summary about the #15M in the following link:

http://takethesquare.net/2011/07/15/how-to-cook-a-pacific-revolution/

http://takethesquare.net/

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

http://tomalaplaza.net/ 

http://www.democraciarealya.es/

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Vuk Perišić: О Manifestu Pokreta 15. oktobar 

Ocena ustavnosti Zakona o političkim strankama 

IGOR IVANOVIĆ: LEVIČARSKI OPTIMIZAM 

MILJAN PREMOVIĆ: ZAŠTO NEĆU IZAĆI NA IZBORE

Watch out, it’s the Angry Serbian!

Homemade Serbian Borat

In a weekly videolog on his YouTube channel, a guy calling himself Angry Serbian embodies every possible cliche about Balkan dudes: he’s big, muscled up, wears gold chains and Oakley sunglasses, listens to hip hop and talks street wisdom nonsense mixed up with militant nationalist rants, wrapped up in a heavy Eastern-European accent.

http://bturn.com/2522/watch-out-angry-serbian

Colombian Soccer Player Reportedly Detained in Saudi Arabia Over Jesus Tattoo

 

A soccer player from Colombia reportedly was detained in Saudi Arabia for walking through a mall wearing a sleeveless shirt that revealed his religious tattoos, including one of Jesus.

Juan Pablo Pino, 24, a member of Saudi Arabia’s Al Nasr soccer club, was taken into custody in Riyadh on Friday by Saudi moral police after mall customers complained about the tattoos.

Last year, Romanian soccer player Mirel Radoi of the Al Hilal team drew criticism when he kissed the tattoo of a cross he has on his arm after scoring a goal, the Catholic News Agency reports.

The conservative Muslim country also has faced international condemnation recently for its law banning women from driving. Last month, Saudi King Abdullah, facing global pressure, revoked the sentence of a Saudi woman ordered to receive 10 lashes for driving.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/10/11/colombian-soccer-player-arrested-in-saudi-arabia-over-jesus-tattoo/#ixzz1acAj2bgR

Marina Abramović: “Measuring the Magic of Mutual Gaze”

 

 

 

One of the world’s greatest performance artists Marina Abramović talked to RT about her new exhibition which studies the ambiguity of the human soul with the help of up-to-date neuroscience.

Watch RT’s interview with Marina Abramović

http://rt.com/news/prime-time/performance-magic-mutual-gaze-333/ 

“For the first time in history, Russian and American scientists are working together, not against each other,” Abramović told RT. “This is also about interaction between artists and scientists who normally never interact. I believe we will see more of it in the 21st century. We need to find some point of contact where we will be able to explain rationally some phenomena based on intuition, perception, or charismatic state of being.”

 

The theology of icons

 

The Department of Theology and Orthodox Christian Studies program is hosting a noted Serbian artist and professor of the history and theory of art this semester on a Fulbright scholarship.

Davor Džalto, Ph.D., studies contemporary art and how it relates to the theory of personhood in Orthodox Christianity. Additionally, he analyzes the semiotics of medieval religious iconography and contemporary images and how they influence people’s perceptions of reality.

While Džalto is at Fordham, he will collaborate with Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D., associate professor of theology and co-founding director of the Orthodox Christian Studies program.

“The theology department and Orthodox Christian Studies program will be enriched by the presence of an international scholar who is working to relate the Christian tradition to contemporary thought,” Papanikolaou said.

“We will benefit by hearing about his work and having conversations with him,” he said. “Hosting Dr. Džalto will facilitate our mission to foster an ongoing dialogue between the Catholic and the Orthodox Christians traditions.”

In addition, Džalto will spend time at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., and the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. He will travel outside New York to give lectures in Chicago and at Indiana University and the University of Oklahoma.

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In addition to studying at Fordham, Davor Džalto, Ph.D., will lecture in Chicago, Indiana and Oklahoma. Photo by Marie-Christine Fritsch

His current research compares some contemporary theories of image—developed by Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Žižek—to the theology of icons in Orthodox Christianity.

“There are many interesting points that can be mutually related in both of these conceptualizations of images,” said Džalto, whose work is influenced mainly by Nikolai Berdyaev and John Zizioulas.

“The theology of icons was developed during the iconoclastic controversy—in the eight and ninth centuries,” he said. “At that time, a very specific theory of image was formulated, which determined the place of icons in the liturgy as well as their meaning in respect to history and eschatology.

“One of the very fundamental properties of icons is that they represent not ordinary portraits, but ‘eschatological portraits’ of human people. This way, icons change the way we perceive reality and its significance,” he said.

Džalto pointed out that, in a certain sense, images grew to be more important than actual objects.

“In the ninth century, Patriarch Nicephorus claimed that if we remove images, then the whole world disappears,” he explained. “The same idea is evident in contemporary theories of image; in Žižek’s words, ‘Images are the reality,’ so if they are removed, there is nothing left.”

According to Džalto, this means that “images must be there to preserve, in some sense, the meaning of the world.”

“It’s remarkable to me how—after so many centuries—we have come again to the point where we think of images as things that are, in some sense, reality—that we can’t approach the reality without images,” he said.

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 15,100 students in its four undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre at Heythrop College in the United Kingdom.

http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/eNewsroom/topstories_2200.asp

Petition for the respect of Serbian victims

When investigating Ustasha crimes, the leading news program of  Spanish television RTVE has completely omitted Serbian victims, even in the enumeration of those killed in Jasenovac concentration camp: “partisans, oppositionists, Jews and Gypsies.”

After a number of individual requests for correction, it is time to send a joint one:

In connection with the omission of Serbian victims in enumeration of those killed in Jasenovac concentration camp in the reportage “The killing of Vicente Perez”, aired on September 9, 2011, in the dual capacity of spectators and descendants of the victims, we demand that RTVE issue a public correction and apology.
Con motivo de la omisión de las victimas serbias al nombrar los exterminados en el campo de concentración Jasenovac en el reportaje “El asesinato de Vicente Pérez”, emitido el 17 de septiembre de 2011, en la doble calidad de espectadores y de descendientes de las víctimas, pedimos a RTVE una rectificación y una disculpa públicas.

Add your signature via the online petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/zasto-zaboravljate-srpske-zrtve

Demonstrate that we have matured as a community to confront antiserbism, who knows no bounds for the last two decades, especially in the media.

The request with all our signatures will be forwarded to the television, and the outcome will be posted on the Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/stranica

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Informe Semanal : http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/informe-semanal/informe-semanal-asesino-croata-se-conocia-apodo-carnicero/1200167/?s1=noticias&s2=informe-semanal&s3=&s4=

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The left’s ‘Tea Party’?

Rich Lowry

In the Occupy Wall Street movement, the left thinks it might have found its own Tea Party.

MoveOn.org and some unions have embraced the protesters. The left-wing Campaign for America’s Future is featuring them at its conference devoted to reinvigorating progressivism. Liberal pundits have celebrated them — New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof compares them, astonishingly, to Egypt’s demonstrators.

This is either a sign of desperation to find anyone on the left still energized after three years of Hope and Change, or of a lack of standards, or both. The left’s Tea Party is a juvenile rabble, a woolly-headed horde that has been laboring to come up with one concrete demand on the basis of its — in the words of one sympathetic writer — “horizontal, autonomous, leaderless, modified- consensus-based system with roots in anarchist thought.”

(…) Occupy Wall Street is toxic and pathetic, the perfect distillation of an American left in extremis.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_left_tea_party_z1MIZQclQjL5vWkCR2yzgO#ixzz1ZrpZe7tZ

Billionaire financier, hedge fund kingpin and unabashed globalist George Soros has come out publicly and supported the amorphous Occupy Wall Street movement.

http://www.infowars.com/soros-to-ows-i-feel-your-pain/

The Third Industrial Revolution

Excerpted from Jeremy Rifkin’s The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World, Palgrave Macmillan 2011.

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Energy regimes shape the nature of civilizations… how they are organized, how the fruits of commerce and trade are distributed, how political power is exercised, and how social relations are conducted. The locus of control over energy production and distribution is beginning to tilt from giant fossil fuel based centralized energy companies to millions of small producers, who are generating their own renewable energies in their dwellings and trading surpluses in info-energy commons.

Distributed Capitalism

The new era will bring with it a reorganization of power relationships across every level of society. While the fossil fuel-based First and Second Industrial Revolutions scaled vertically and favored centralized, top-down organizational structures operating in markets, the Third Industrial Revolution is organized nodally, scales laterally, and favors distributed and collaborative business practices that work most effectively in networks. The “democratization of energy” has profound implications for how we orchestrate the entirety of human life in the coming century. We are entering the era of “Distributed Capitalism.”

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeremy-rifkin/the-third-industrial-revo_b_981168.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=092811&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief

IMF may need billions in extra funding

 

Christine Lagarde has signalled that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have to tap its members – including Britain – for billions of pounds of extra funding to stem the European debt crisis. 

 The head of the IMF has warned that its $384bn (£248bn) war chest designed as an emergency bail-out fund is inadequate to deliver the scale of the support required by troubled states.

In a document distributed to the IMF steering committee at the weekend, Ms Lagarde said: “The fund’s credibility, and hence effectiveness, rests on its perceived capacity to cope with worst-casescenarios. Our lending capacity of almost $400bn looks comfortable today, but pales in comparison with the potential financing needs of vulnerable countries and crisis bystanders.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8788223/Christine-Lagarde-IMF-may-need-billions-in-extra-funding.html

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WikiЊуз ЗидStreet

 

 

 

My opinion of Serbia

 

Tridesetpetogodišnji Amerikanac Čarls Keter upustio se pre nekog vremena u raspravu sa članovima Fejsbuk grupe „Mrzim Ameriku“. Tada nije ni slutio da će preko te grupe steći brojne prijatelje među građanima Srbije i sada je postao pravi srbofil. Postavio je video zapise na sajtu „Jutjub“ u kojima hvali Srbiju, a na kraju je prešao Atlantik i već tri meseca živi i radi u Zrenjaninu.

http://www.danas.rs/danasrs/drustvo/terazije/zavoleo_srbiju_preko_grupe_mrzim_ameriku.14.html?news_id=224513

WikiЊуз ЗидStreet

Top executives from a bankrupt California solar energy company (Solyndra) pleaded the Fifth Amendment more than a dozen times Friday in a congressional hearing that went nowhere but gave members the opportunity to pose dozens of questions about the loss of a half billion dollars in government loans.

Silence from the two executives will not stop committee leaders from pursuing their investigation into the $528 million loan Solyndra received from the Energy Department in 2009. Committee leaders said the Obama administration may have violated the law when it restructured Solyndra‘s loan in February in such a way that private investors moved ahead of taxpayers for repayment in case of default.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/23/solyndra-execs-plead-fifth-at-congressional-hearing-more-than-dozen-times/#ixzz1YuuXfEBo

President Barack Obama will raise money in early October with a Missouri businessman whose company benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state.

Missouri Republican Party executive director Lloyd Smith compared the situation to the Solyndra affair, in which the Obama administration reportedly rushed federal support to a green-energy firm that subsequently collapsed.

“At a time when Barack Obama is under fire for steering hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funds to a failed company linked to a major campaign donor, it is stunning that he would come to Missouri and raise money with another recipient of stimulus cash,” Smith said in a statement to POLITICO. “Sadly, Missourians have come to expect this kind of pay-to-play from the Obama administration. November 2012 can’t come soon enough.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64276.html#ixzz1YuzEe7Bh

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Local media in New York reports that a large number of Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested this afternoon near Union Square in Lower Manhattan.

“Protesters wielding signs that demanded ‘End the Fed’ and other anti-Wall St slogans marched up Fifth Avenue near Union Square on Saturday, drawing a significant police presence and snarling traffic in the neighborhood”

Read more and video:

http://www.infowars.com/breaking-cops-arrest-large-number-of-occupy-wall-street-protesters/

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Kosovo: independent, but a basket case

The economy is dead, corruption is rampant, and Serbia remains hostile

by Richard Warnica

on Wednesday, September 21, 2011

(…) Dobbins, an expert on Western intervention, counts Kosovo as a success. Despite occasional flare-ups, the area is mostly peaceful. But in other ways—most ways, really—Kosovo remains a basket case. The local economy produces “nothing,” says Engjellushe Morina, the executive director of the Kosovar Stability Initiative. The agricultural sector remains stillborn; the nation’s only real export is scrap metal. Official unemployment sits above 40 per cent and most families rely on remittances sent from family abroad to stay afloat. Kosovo also has Europe’s youngest population and the education system has neither the capacity nor the personnel to adequately train them. Those who do go to university rarely find decent work when they finish.

Politically, the situation is, if anything, worse. Kosovars consistently rank their country among the most corrupt in Europe. The political class is dominated by holdovers from the pre-war period, many with alleged ties to criminal groups. The prime minister, Hashim Thaci, was accused late last year of being involved in organ theft during the war in 1999. (He denies the charge.) Other senior officials have been indicted for alleged war crimes committed during the conflict. Just this month a former cabinet minister in Thaci’s government was charged with executing two Serbs during the war. “I’m so cynical about the whole thing,” says Robert Austin, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and a long-time Kosovo watcher. The nation-building process in Kosovo, he believes, “has been totally botched. We’ve never come up with a method, in any of these places, to actually get the people in power that should be in power.”

Read more: 

http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/21/independent-but-a-basket-case/

Globalisators

Nigel Farage: Greece Under Full Globalist Dictatorship

The Muslim “Overtaking” of France

 

Marco Tosatti

Rome

In France there are more Islamic mosques being built, and more frequently, than Catholic churches, and there are more practicing Muslims than practicing Catholics in the country. 

Nearly 150 new mosques are currently being built in France, home to the largest Islamic community in Europe.

The total number of mosques in France has already doubled to exceed 2,000 in the last ten years, according to a research entitled: “Building mosques: the government of Islam in France and Holland.” The best known French Islamic leader, Dalil Boubakeur, Rector of Great Mosque of Paris recently suggested that the total number of mosques should double, to 4,000, to meet the growing demand.

Instead, the Catholic Church in France has only twenty new churches built in the last ten years, and formally closed more than 60 churches, many of which could become mosques, according to research conducted by the French Catholic daily La Croix.

(…) Muslims in France are asking the Catholic Church for permission to use its empty churches as a tool to solve the traffic problems caused by thousands of Muslims who pray in the street.

(…) The interior minister Claude Guéant told the Muslims of Paris, on August 8, that instead of praying in the streets they can use a disused army barracks. “Praying in the streets is not something acceptable, it must cease.”

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/world-news/detail/articolo/islam-cristianesimo-christianity-cristianismo-francia-france-7523/

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Нови народни договор и грађанска држава

Children of Heaven

Зашто Ал Каида и талибани не воле породицу Гадафи?

Мултикултурализам није готов

Припрема се напад на Француску

Nostradamus

Kaligula

Неолиберали и талибани

Polemika unutar levice (ateista) oko islamofobije

Iran: Sukob između muslimana i Iranaca

Hidžab, marama kao politika

Повратак у будућност

Bilo jednom u Francuskoj

NATO-backed Kosovo government murders Serbs to steal their organs

Norwegian victims to be rehabilitated at Turkey hotels

Open Society & al-Qaeda & Kosovo i Metohija

Always Look On The Bright Side of Life

What is the Vatican hiding?

Children of Heaven

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Children of Heaven ( Iran ) 

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A masterpiece of the Iranian director Majid Majidi. Wonderful story of two children. It is in Farsi with English subtitles.

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Part I

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Children of Heaven ( Iran ) – Part II

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http://video.google.com/ videoplay?docid= 2085360636693346701#docid= 1568263933309969077

 

When The Yellow Lemon Blooms

Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?

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By Matt Taibbi

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Rolling Stone

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August 17

(…) That, it now appears, is exactly how the Securities and Exchange Commission has been treating the Wall Street criminals who cratered the global economy a few years back. For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently came forward to Congress, the agency has been systematically destroying records of its preliminary investigations once they are closed. By whitewashing the files of some of the nation’s worst financial criminals, the SEC has kept an entire generation of federal investigators in the dark about past inquiries into insider trading, fraud and market manipulation against companies like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and AIG. With a few strokes of the keyboard, the evidence gathered during thousands of investigations – “18,000 … including Madoff,” as one high-ranking SEC official put it during a panicked meeting about the destruction – has apparently disappeared forever into the wormhole of history.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817 

CrossTalk: Antiwar.RIP

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Antiwar.com: Law and Disorder

 

Antiwar.com: Law and Disorder

 

by Nebojsa Malic, July 30, 2011

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On July 26, heavily armed Albanian “special police” attempted to take over two checkpoints on the former administrative border between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia. The two posts are located in a sliver of territory in the north of the province, where local Serbs successfully opposed the Albanian takeover in 1999; as a result, Serbs still live there in relative security, while the few that have survived a decade of pogroms in the rest of Kosovo live in ghettos surrounded by barbed wire and NATO tanks.

The “government” of KLA boss Hashim Thaci, now calling himself Prime Minister, is determined to assert authority over the entire province, brazenly accusing the Serbs in the north of smuggling and organized crime. In mid-July, Thaci tried to ban trade with Serbia, seeking to pressure Belgrade into recognizing the customs stamps of the “Republic of Kosovo.” Taking over the checkpoints would enable the Albanians to enforce the ban in the Serb-inhabited north.

At first, everything went according to plan: Belgrade was mewling about international law and pleading to KFOR, EULEX and the UN (which fell on deaf ears), while the habitually hapless Tadic swore Serbia “would not fight” but only negotiate. He did so from Prague, where the Empire was honoring his sycophancy with an award. Meanwhile, the Serbian military was preoccupied with a NATO exercise in western Ukraine, presumably aimed at protecting, uh, something from someone - but not Serbia, in any case.

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Could it be that the Empire is still devoted to the project referenced by the late Rep. Lantos, to impress “jihadists of all color and hue” by supporting “another Muslim state” in Europe? If so, it is working out so well…

Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/malic/2011/07/29/law-and-disorder-2/  

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This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism and is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, “greens,” and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism. Our initial project was to fight against intervention in the Balkans under the Clinton presidency. We applied the same principles to Clinton’s campaigns in Haiti and Kosovo and bombings of Sudan and Afghanistan. Our politics are libertarian: our opposition to war is rooted in Randolph Bourne’s concept that “War is the health of the State.” With every war, America has made a “great leap” into statism, and as Bourne emphasized, “it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution [the State].” At its core, that nature includes an ever increasing threat to individual liberty and the centralization of political power.

Antiwar.com is one project of our parent foundation, the Randolph Bourne Institute. It is a program that provides a sounding board of interest to all who are concerned about U.S. foreign policy and its implications.

Read more: http://antiwar.com/who.php

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Dana Loesch, “The Conservative Alternative“

Jon Stewart Destroys Media For Ignoring Ron Paul

Dana Loesch, ”The Conservative Alternative”

Dana Loesch is the Editor-in-Chief of Big Journalism and hosts her own daily radio show, The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative on KFTK 97.1 FM Talk. A former award-winning newspaper columnist, Dana began blogging in 2001 and was named one of the top 16 most powerful mothers online by Neilsen. Dana appears regularly on Fox News, CNN, CBS, and ABC and was the first and only female guest host for the popular Michael Savage, who called her his “Mental Match.” She speaks regularly on the subject of activism and netroots, serves as co-founder of the St. Louis Tea Party, and is credited with having helped take Dede Scozzafava out of NY23. She and her husband, Chris, live in St. Louis with their two young sons.

Dana Loesch Exposes Attempts to Paint Bachmann as Fringe Candidate:

http://www.breitbart.tv/big-journalisms-loesch-exposes-attempts-to-paint-bachmann-as-fringe-candidate/

Norwegian victims to be rehabilitated at Turkey hotels

 

The relatives of those who were killed in last month’s deadly twin attacks in Norway will be rehabilitated at hotels in Turkey’s popular tourist destination of Antalya, the Turkey media reported on Wednesday. A bomb that exploded on July 22 in the heart of Oslo was followed by a horrific shooting spree on an island hosting a youth retreat for the prime minister’s center-left party.

Oya Demirel, a member of the Scandinavian Life Center (SLC) which operates in coordination with the Norwegian government, said a group of 35 experts from the ministry will travel to Antalya in September to examine the region. “The Norwegian Health Ministry decided that those who were affected by the massacre need rehabilitation. Groups of elderly Norwegians between 65 and 85 who are in need of nursing care and health services were already being sent to Antalya hotels to receive care. We expect that the number of Norwegians sent to Antalya will be 9,000 this year,” she said.

http://www.norwaynews.com/en/~view.php?72IjlL235092VT448ee8No488aCQ6Zc84dbT64d58c7lHAb764p6xde453XKRI08

Gold Hits New Record After Chavez Announces Plan To Pull Reserves From US, European Banks

 

 

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Hugo Chavez’s announcement last night that he was to nationalize the country’s gold mining industry undoubtedly has had an impact on today’s trading.

Chavez likened the people that control the gold industry to “the mafia,” stating, “We can’t keep allowing them to take it away,” as he made public plans to withdraw $11B in gold reserves from U.S. and European banks, including 99 tonnes held with the Bank of England and other reserves held by J.P. Morgan Chase, Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered, France’s BNP Paribas and Canada’s Bank of Nova Scotia.

Of the country’s 365.8 tonnes of gold, 211 tonnes is believed to be held abroad.

“At the time of these disturbances, it’s preferable to recover our assets, in this case the gold, and have it here in the vaults,” Venezuelan Central Bank president Nelson Merentes said, adding that it would be re-invested in more stable economies like China, Russia and Brazil.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/gold-hits-new-record-after-chavez-announces-plan-to-pull-reserves-from-us-european-banks.html

Jon Stewart Destroys Media For Ignoring Ron Paul

 

Revolutionpac.com
Aug 16, 2011

Stewart reviewed the Sunday morning talk show talking points, and found that, universally, Bachmann, Romney, and Perry were considered the “top tier.” “You’re not forgetting anyone?” Stewart asked, referring to Rep. Paul, who had come in second.

Rep. Paul managed to be ignored over Rick Santorum– “he lost to the guy who lost so bad he dropped out of the race”– and Jon Huntsman, who got 69 votes. “If all of Jon Huntsman’s supporters met at the Ames, Iowa Quiznos, the fire marshal would say, ‘yeah, that’s fine, here are some more seats.’”

Stewart found it bewildering that Rep. Paul had become “the 13th floor of a hotel,” culminating with a clip of a CNN anchor requesting a reporter leave out the Ron Paul reporting if they found any juicy Sarah Palin stuff– saying, in Stewart’s words, “I mean, f*ck that guy, right?”

VIDEO:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/

http://www.prisonplanet.com/jon-stewart-destroys-media.html

 Jon Stewart exposes media censorship of Ron Paul 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUXBz6AGJFM

 

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Vote for Ron Paul 2012

Infowars: Reuters Edits Iowa Poll Reality According to Globalist Agenda

Triple-A Idiots – Bankers Launch Next Leg Of Planned Economic Collapse

NATO-backed Kosovo government murders Serbs to steal their organs

Savage and the fall of the U.K.

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Аbout  Ron Paul

http://www.ronpaul2012.com/ 

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Savage and the fall of the U.K.

 

 Joseph Farah

 

It’s been more than two years since Britain banned entry to American talk-radio phenom Michael Savage, along with a short list of terrorists, neo-Nazis murderers and other vile scum.

It was in May 2009 that the British government released a list of 16 persona non grata – banned so as to protect the country from provocateurs of violence.

Today we should ask London how that deal is working out for them.

I don’t wish to make light of the tragedy of the rioting, looting and mayhem raging across the country, initiated by home-grown hooligans spoon-fed a diet of state socialism and mindless political correctness of the kind Savage is such an artful critic.

Incredibly, that ban on Savage is still in place – like a vexing stain on Britain’s proud history of dialogue debate and free expression.

The motivations behind Britain’s unprovoked and unprecedented attack on an American political and cultural commentator are by now well understood. Ever so careful not to slight Muslims by disproportionately banning real terrorists from the country, Britain added Savage to the list of dangerous ne’er-do-wells to provide cover for its otherwise perfectly reasonable actions to defend the country. However, in the process, they smeared – and continue to smear – a brilliant pundit and best-selling author, law-abiding and non-violent American celebrity citizen.

Now that Britain is aflame – and Savage is nowhere in sight as a provocateur – I thought it might be a good time to revisit this shameful episode in British politics.

Banning an insightful, inspiring, entertaining and, yes, provocative American radio talk-show host from its shores did not protect Britain from the kind of violence it was attempting to prevent two years ago. That’s for sure.

With marauding youths burning and pillaging and killing innocent people throughout the country night after night, I suspect a review of Britain’s homeland security policies with respect to Savage is a low priority at the moment.

It would seem apparent, however, that Britain has made less-than-perfect choices about whom to allow into the country and whom to keep out.

Let me put it another way: Britain is worse off today for not having voices like Michael Savage’s present. He’s a witty sage of the airwaves – somebody you might think Britain would be inviting as an honored guest in a free and open society, especially one known for sometimes outrageous but brilliant satire.

Put another way, America is much better off for the artistry of Michael Savage. The only threat Savage poses to a free society is that he might actually expose its concealed dark underbelly of secrets, its abuses, its contradictions, its injustices.

No one has ever been killed as a result of a broadcast by Michael Savage, though I know many people who have been enlightened.

No one has ever been maimed as a result of a best-selling book by Michael Savage, though I know many people who have been entertained.

No one has ever suffered property damage as a result of attending a lecture or performance by Michael Savage, though I know many have been intellectually challenged.

All this is to say Britain has made some colossal mistakes in social policy that are self-evident from the images and videos and reporting we’re all seeing. The misguided decision to ban a harmless troubadour of the right, a gifted soldier of passion and truth, needs to be remembered at a time like this.

I can only hope, once Britain resolves its current social crisis, the political class apologizes to Savage and opens its doors to a cherished and celebrated voice that could actually help address the root problems afflicting the country right now.

Read more: Savage and the fall of the U.K. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=333649#ixzz1V7pAmVbM

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Michael Savage proves KOSOVO is SERBIA!

Infowars: Reuters Edits Iowa Poll Reality According to Globalist Agenda

NIGEL FARAGE CALLS FOR THE UK ARMY TO BACK UP THE UK POLICE FORCE – Alex Jones: Globalist Launch UK Race Wars Using Zombie/Braindead Youth

 

Infowars: Reuters Edits Iowa Poll Reality According to Globalist Agenda

 

Alex talks about the fact Ron Paul is the Republican presidential front-runner despite an all-out effort by the political establishment and the corporate media to marginalize and ignore him.

Alex also talks about Rick Perry’s entrance into the race over the weekend and Perry’s effort to portray himself as a conservative Christian Tea Party leader when in fact he is a one-world globalist and former Al Gore campaign manager.

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Or how Reuters slit its legitimacy’s wrists.

Tony Cartalucci
Prisonplanet.com
Aug 15, 2011

Often cited as a reliable, reputable news source, Reuters is in actuality nothing more than another den of duplicity bought and paid for by the corporate financiers ruling/ruining Western civilization. Their latest article titled, “Bachmann and Perry – a beautiful 2012 rivalry” sidelines reality according to the globalist script so soundly you can almost hear the noses of Reuters editors’ growing. The GOP Iowa debate saw Ron Paul annihilate the competition with counts showing him as far as three times further ahead of the next runner-up Newt Gingrich. However, the final tally of the Iowa straw poll saw establishment footstool Michele Bachmann eke out Ron Paul by a mere 152 votes. Despite the closeness of the race and the immense political ramifications of a candidate labeled by the corporate media as part of “fringe politics” finishing neck-to-neck with the insincere Bachmann, Reuters decided to write about Rick Perry’s insignificant, meaningless, though establishment approved, entry into the GOP 2012 race instead. Not a single mention of Ron Paul was made.

Image: Thomson Rueters, while masquerading as a reputable news agency, in reality maintains an incestuous relationship with globalist corporate-financier interests which it shares memberships with upon the Council on Foreign Relations and the Chatham House. Reuters’ biased reporting indicates impropriety regarding the immense conflict of interest its membership in these elitist think-tanks engender.

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Reuters does however mention second place runner up, in the 2007 straw poll that is, Mike Huckabee, as well as Mitt Romney who finished seventh this year in Iowa. Ron Paul is suspiciously edited out of the entire story, despite being a front-runner with 4,671 votes compared to Rick Perry’s back-chaseing 718 votes. If a reader was foolishly depending on Reuters for complete coverage of what took place in Iowa, they might not even know Ron Paul existed – and that is exactly the point.

Rick Perry, who recently and very much farcically claimed America “cannot afford four more years of this rudderless leadership,” already has the frothing madmen currently engineering Obama’s multiple wars behind the scenes, lining up behind him for indeed, four more years of what Perry calls “rudderless leadership.” Foreign Policy recently reported that warmongering Neo-Con scum including Douglas Feith, William Luti, Andrew McCarthy, Charles Stimson, and Daniel Fata, with the help of certified warmonger and corporate fascist Donald Rumsfeld, had been introduced to Rick Perry to help him “brush up” on foreign policy. Also meeting with Perry was Dan Blumenthal of the Neo-Con, Fortune 500-funded AEI, Peter Brookes of the Fortune 500-funded Heritage Foundation (page 35), and Zalmay Khalizad, a fellow Neo-Con warmonger, PNAC signatory, and a member of the extraterritorial meddling National Endowment for Democracy’s board of directors, to help Perry define his “hawk internationalist” foreign policy stance.

By “hawk internationalist,” Foreign Policy indicates that it means, “embracing American exceptionalism and the unique role we must play in confronting the many threats we face.” In actual terms it means embracing more wars, more meddling abroad, more corporate fascist agendas to expand their financial, military, and economic hegemony worldwide ramrodded through at the expense of American sovereignty, treasure, and blood. In all, Perry is a handpicked star candidate for the global elite for whom Reuters really writes for, which is why despite reality, Bachmann and Perry make “a beautiful 2012 rivalry.”

While it would be folly to take one poorly written article clearly biased and detached from reality to malign an entire news organization, Reuters has recently been making quite a case against itself. It has produced the now exposed, disgraced journalist Andrew Marshall who claims to have now quit the news agency to write his own meaningless commentary about equally meaningless US State Department commentary allegedly contained within Wikileaks. To top it all off – he has suspiciously decided to myopically obsess over Wikileaks cables only pertaining to attacking the Thai government and Thai institutions operating beyond globalist control and funding, in tandem with hired globalist lawyer Robert Amsterdam.

Reuters has also joined in on the concerted use of weasel words and citing witness accounts to help sell the war in Libya as well as promote Western intervention in Syria.

Readers will also be interested to know that Thomson Reuters is a corporate member of the globalist Fortune 500 lined Chatham House think tank and the Council on Foreign Relationssignifying a grotesquely overt conflict of interest between their reporting and their defending of a corporate establishment they are incestuously involved with. With this in mind, it is no surprise that they are pushing Perry and Bachmann, two candidates who regardless of which wins, will allow the unraveling of America at the hands of the corporate-financiers of Wall Street and London to continue or perhaps even accelerate unchallenged.

To rework Rick Perry’s cartoonish soundbite into something more palatable, America cannot afford another day of duplicity from the illegitimate, overtly compromised mainstream media and the megalomaniacs that use them to push their psychopathic agenda. Don’t let the slick logos and million-dollar studios fool you, Thompson Reuters with their overt hackery, has slit the wrists of their own legitimacy with their latest article. Expect Reuters to continue bleeding its legitimacy dry, and expect it to be joined by others as reality continues to clash with an ever tenuous globalist narrative unraveling before the world’s eyes.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/reuters-edits-iowa-poll-reality-according-to-globalist-agenda.html

Infowars: Why is George Soros selling gold and buying farmland?

 

Mike Adams
Natural News
Aug 15, 2011

Food prices are skyrocketing all across the globe, and there’s no end in sight. The United Nations says food inflation is currently at 30% a year, and the fast-eroding value of the dollar is causing food prices to appear even higher (in contrast to a weakening currency). As the dollar drops in value due to runaway money printing at the Federal Reserve, the cost to import foods from other nations looks to double in just the next two years — and possibly every two years thereafter.

That’s probably why investors around the globe are flocking to farmland as the new growth industry. “Investors are pouring into farmland in the U.S. and parts of Europe, Latin America and Africa as global food prices soar,” reports Bloomberg magazine (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-…). “A fund controlled by George Soros, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, owns 23.4 percent of South American farmland venture Adecoagro SA.”

Jim Rogers is also quoted in the same story, saying, “I have frequently told people that one of the best investments in the world will be farmland.”

That’s because demand for food is accelerating even as radical climate changes, a loss of fossil water supplies, and the failure of genetically engineered crops is actually reducing food yields around the globe. Ceres Partners, which invests in farmland, has produced astonishing 16 percent annual returns since its launch in 2008. And this is during a depressed economy when most other industries are showing losses.

Why growing and storing your own food can be a goldmine

All this means we can count on three things happening in the years ahead:

Prediction #1) Food supplies will become more scarce.

Prediction #2) Food prices will double over the next 2-3 years, and then probably double again in another 2-3 years.

Prediction #3) When food prices are 400% of today’s levels, backyard farming or gardening pays off big in terms of real dollar savings.

In other words, as food prices skyrocket, it becomes increasingly more financially viable to grow your own food (or store it now while prices are low). I’m listing some resources below where you can learn more about growing your own food or storing high-density superfoods right now, but in the mean time, I’d like you to start considering the idea of starting your own garden in the spring.

You can’t grow gold. You can’t print your own currency (unless you’re the Fed). But you CAN grow something more valuable than gold and money: Food!

Lessons from post World War II Taiwan and why food is more valuable than gold

I lived in Taiwan for two years, and I’ve had the opportunity to talk with people there who lived through the post World War II recovery. During the war, of course, Taiwan was occupied by the imperialist Japanese empire, and Taiwan existed in a state of military occupation (with perpetual martial law).

After the war ended and the Japanese left, Taiwan bootstrapped its own government into power under Chiang Kai-shek. The old Taiwan currency was immediately printed in large quantities by the Taiwan government leading to a runaway inflation scenario for what is now called the “old Taiwan dollar.” Very quickly, however, the government launched a new currency called the New Taiwan dollar (NT$). By 1949, the old Taiwan dollar was being exchanged for the New Taiwan dollar (NT$) at a ratio of 40,000 to 1. (Yep. You had $40,000 and now it’s worth a buck…).

During those years after WWII, if you wanted to rent an apartment, buy a house or find a place to live, cash was worthless and even GOLD wasn’t considered very useful. The only thing that represented real wealth was FOOD. If you had food, you could trade it for anything: an automobile, a home, tools, clothing or even land. If you didn’t have food, you were bankrupt; regardless of how much cash or gold you had.

A chicken that could lay eggs was worth more than an ounce of gold!

You can’t eat gold, folks. And you can’t eat silver. Everybody has to eat to stay alive, and that means everybody needs a constant stream of food just to keep breathing. That’s why investing in food makes so much sense.

And by “investing in food,” I mean any or all of the following:

• Investing in storable food that you can save on the shelf and keep for future use or barter.

• Investing in your own gardening skills so that you have the know-how to produce food when needed.

• Investing in non-hybrid garden seeds so that you have the genetic blueprints to grow food that can propagate itself generation after generation.

• Investing in farmland — especially farmland with water — that offers the fertility and climate to produce food.

• Investing in educational courses that teach you how to create food through a variety of methods: Wildcrafting, gardening, sprouting and so on.

Free resources

We have many FREE resources available on NaturalNews.com and NaturalNews.TV that help teach you how to grow your own food. Check out the following for starters:

Articles:

Grow It Yourself: Save Money, Help Earth, and Improve Your Quality of Life
http://www.naturalnews.com/025699_f…

Green gardening secrets: How to eliminate bugs and pests without using poison
http://www.naturalnews.com/032276_g…

Food Forests – Design modern solutions from ancient traditions
http://www.naturalnews.com/033002_f…

How to grow your own pharmaceuticals (plant-based medicines)
http://www.naturalnews.com/009458_p…

Videos:

Growing Organic Tomatoes
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=36940…

See the entire channel of The Raw Food Muscleat:
http://naturalnews.tv/Browse.asp?me…

Edible Forest Gardening – Garden Mound
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=FA6B4…

See the entire channel of Living Libationsat:
http://naturalnews.tv/Browse.asp?me…

Sustainable agriculture: Interview with Farmer Brad
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=E5E67…

Other resources (courses and products)

Here at NaturalNews, we’ve also been working diligently on producing educational materials that teach important principles of food storage and food production. Here are some of the resources we have available right now:

•Storable Organics is a line of storable ancient grains and superfoods that we created so that we could have long-term storable nutrition for our own families and friends. These foods include quinoa, chia seeds, chlorella tablets, brown rice, spelt, Himalayan sea salt, Boku Superfood and many other items:www.StorableOrganics.com

The good news is that for the next week, many of these items are ON SALE at 44% off. Click here to check out this huge food preparedness sale at the NaturalNews Store.

•“Be Prepared, Not Scared — Food Security” by the Health Ranger and Robert Scott Bell. It’s a nine-hour audio course with bonus videos and special reports that teach you a wealth of information about food storage, home gardening, food preserving, bartering, seeds and a whole lot more.

Click here for instant access to this course.

• “Backyard Food Production” by Marjorie Wildcraft. This 110-minute video course (and 60+ downloadable resource documents) teaches you an innovative, compact system for backyard food production that uses barely 1500 square feet to provide about half the food requirements for a family of four. Incredible information! Proven through years of actual practice on a family farm, this system minimizes outside inputs and provides proteins, vegetables nutrients, healthy fats and a lot more.

Click here to watch the preview video or to access the entire course.

Food skills are about to become essential for survival

No matter what you do, remember to stay informed about growing your own food. It’s something that’s hugely rewarding right now and about to become hugely profitable in the years ahead as food prices continues to skyrocket.

Remember, folks: You can’t eat gold. So make sure food storage and production becomes part of your overall preparedness strategy, too. Yes, gold and silver are extremely useful and I recommend them, too… but don’t forget to feed yourself. You can starve to death in a house built out of solid gold if you forget to cover food production!

http://www.prisonplanet.com/why-is-george-soros-selling-gold-and-buying-farmland.html

NIGEL FARAGE CALLS FOR THE UK ARMY TO BACK UP THE UK POLICE FORCE – Alex Jones: Globalist Launch UK Race Wars Using Zombie/Braindead Youth

UKIP’s Nigel Farage calls for the Army to be used alongside police in keeping a lid on riots

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• Wow…An englishman with balls, that was last seen between 1941-45 i believe

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• If you are a libertarian, why not go for the libertarian solution? Obviously, the governmental police is totally inapt to deal with the crimes. What we need is:

  1. privatize the streets to residents, so that they are in charge of security

  2. allow full gun ownership so that the residents have all means to defend their property

  I believe this is more effectively and politically less dangerous than using the army for security.

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  Triple-A Idiots – Bankers Launch Next Leg Of Planned Economic Collapse

Anonymous Operation Destroy Facebook

The hacktivist group Anonymous has issued a YouTube video in English, Spanish and German announcing plans to destroy the world’s biggest social network, Facebook.

The hackers offer anyone concerned with the spread of personal information on the web to join the cause and “kill Facebook for the sake of your own privacy” in the action that “will go down in history,” setting the date for November 5, 2011.

“Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from around the world,” the video statement, recorded in a typical digitally-altered voice says.

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Search & Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google Inc

Triple-A Idiots – Bankers Launch Next Leg Of Planned Economic Collapse

Triple-A Idiots

Robert Kuttner 

Co-founder and co-editor, The American Prospect 

You have to hand it to Standard and Poor’s. Forget their two-trillion dollar math error. The whole idea that these clowns are evaluating the creditworthiness of the United States is just loony. 

For starters, these are the same people who brought us the crisis, by blessing junk sub-prime loans as AAA securities. And they did so because they were paid as consultants by the same financial scoundrels who created the securities. 

The executives of the credit rating companies — not “agencies,” for these are private, profit-making, essentially unregulated companies, not public entities — belong in prison. 

They managed to slither out of serious regulation under the Dodd-Frank Act. Their sketchy business models go merrily on, pretty much as before, as if the sub-prime scandal never happened. Rules for the minimal regulation provided by Dodd-Frank have yet to be written.

(…) So exactly what esoteric insight does Standard and Poors add that the markets don’t already know? It beats me.

Their enterprise is so scientific that the three major credit rating companies can’t even agree on a rating for theU.S.They should take up astrology.

This sorry tale is part of the larger corruption of private regulation of the world’s financial markets. Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal are under assault today in part because large hedge funds are gambling, using essentially unregulated credit default swaps, often “naked” swaps backed by no reserves, betting that these nations will default… 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/triplea-idiots_b_920655.html

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Bankers Launch Next Leg Of Planned Economic Collapse

The next leg of the planned economic collapse has now been launched with the stock market once again plunging as the Federal Reserve prepares to launch QE3, and it’s all part of the transfer of wealth from America to the offshore elite that we have been warning about for years.

As we highlighted over two years ago, shortly before Barack Obama declared the recession to be over and the stock market was artificially inflated once more, we warned that the next phase of the financial pillaging would bring about a “sucker’s rally,” with investors believing the hype about a non-existent “recovery” and ploughing all their money back into the system, only to see the rug pulled out from under their feet for a second time.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bankers-launch-next-leg-of-planned-economic-collapse.html 

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Italy probing rating agencies

ROME–  Italian prosecutors are investigating two leading credit rating agencies after consumer groups complained about turbulence on financial markets, officials said Thursday.

Recent reports and rating decisions issued by Moody’s and Standard & Poors amount to a “failure” of judgment regarding Italy’s government finances, prosecutor Carlo Maria Capristo told Italian broadcaster Sky TG24 TV.

The ratings agencies “have lost all credibility,” Elio Lannutti, head of the Adusbef consumer group told Sky TV.

Standard & Poors said the accusations were unfounded.

“S&P considers the allegations being investigated are without any merit. We will vigorously defend our actions, our reputation and that of our analysts,” said a statement from the ratings agency.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/08/04/general-financial-administration-eu-italy-financial-crisis_8601090.html

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More Violence In London And Now Birmingham 

http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16045926 

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Rally Rage: ‘Israeli Tahrir’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y9j3u4tpp8Y

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Pollster: Americans Are “Pre-Revolutionary” 

Amidst riots in central Europe that have now spread to London and a debt downgrade that threatens to plunge the United States into a double-dip recession, Americans’ lack of confidence in their leadership is so crippled that they are now “pre-revolutionary,” according to pollster Pat Caddell. 

A new Rasmussen poll shows that just 17 per cent of Americans believe that the U.S. government has the consent of the governed, an all time low. This dovetails with a record low for Congress’ approval rating, which stands at a paltry 6 per cent, while 46 per cent of Americans think most members of Congress are corrupt, with just 29% believing otherwise. 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/pollster-americans-are-pre-revolutionary.html 

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China is demanding “international supervision over the U.S. dollar” and says they are looking at the option of creating a new single global currency to replace the dollar altogether. With no where else to put all of that money China will be forced to invest it into a one world currency. 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/china-calls-for-international-oversight-of-the-us-dollar-suggests-single-global-currency-replace-it.html 

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The Economic Recovery is an Illusion

октобар 20, 2009

by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Global Research, October 3, 2009

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When just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society

Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas

ScienceDaily (July 26, 2011) — Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.

“When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer.

“Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.”

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The findings were published in the July 22, 2011, early online edition of the journal Physical Review E in an article titled “Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities.”

An important aspect of the finding is that the percent of committed opinion holders required to shift majority opinion does not change significantly regardless of the type of network in which the opinion holders are working. In other words, the percentage of committed opinion holders required to influence a society remains at approximately 10 percent, regardless of how or where that opinion starts and spreads in the society.

To reach their conclusion, the scientists developed computer models of various types of social networks. One of the networks had each person connect to every other person in the network. The second model included certain individuals who were connected to a large number of people, making them opinion hubs or leaders. The final model gave every person in the model roughly the same number of connections. The initial state of each of the models was a sea of traditional-view holders. Each of these individuals held a view, but were also, importantly, open minded to other views.

Once the networks were built, the scientists then “sprinkled” in some true believers throughout each of the networks. These people were completely set in their views and unflappable in modifying those beliefs. As those true believers began to converse with those who held the traditional belief system, the tides gradually and then very abruptly began to shift.

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The research is part of a much larger body of work taking place under SCNARC at Rensselaer. The center joins researchers from a broad spectrum of fields — including sociology, physics, computer science, and engineering — in exploring social cognitive networks. The center studies the fundamentals of network structures and how those structures are altered by technology. The goal of the center is to develop a deeper understanding of networks and a firm scientific basis for the newly arising field of network science. More information on the launch of SCNARC can be found at http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcen…tappvar=page(1)

Szymanski, Sreenivasan, and Korniss were joined in the research by Professor of Mathematics Chjan Lim, and graduate students Jierui Xie (first author) and Weituo Zhang.

Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas 

http://theforbiddentruth.net/13268-scientists-ideas-accepted-10-population-rapidly-become-majority-opinion.html

 

Ethnic cleansing of Serbs from Croatia, August 1995

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On 4^th August 1995 Croatian army during Operation Storm brutally expelled 250,000 Serbs from their centuries-old homes. It was the biggest ethnic cleansing since the Second World War.

Operation Storm is, officially by the UN court in The Hague, clearly characterized as a crime against humanity. Essentially speaking, the Storm is a continuation of the philosophy NDH (Croatian fascist state during the Second World War), which was publicly proclaimed in a phrase “to kill a third of the Serbs, expel a third, and the rest convert to Catholicism” (more about Independent state of Croatia can be found on www.jasenovac.eu ).

Despite all these facts, today’s Croatia, which calls itself democratic and anti-fascist, celebrates the exodus of a quarter million people as the greatest national holiday! The entire national leadership, from President Ivo Josipovic to Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor participate in celebrations of the Croatian Operation Storm. As part of these celebrations, in front of tens of thousands of people one of the most popular Croatian singers holds the concerts in which he glorifies brutal killing of Serbian civilians, women and children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK6Hvtifkrw&feature=related ). In their songs they are proudly calling themselves “BUTCHERS”.

Stop this evil while you still can! Europe cannot allow the entry of Croatia into the EU while the leaders of Croatia do not publicly distance from these monstrous crimes and until they do not forbid the celebration of genocidal Operation Storm! Stop the mockery of the victims of this heavy genocide! Stop the neo-fascism in the heart of the Europe.

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NATO-backed Kosovo government murders Serbs to steal their organs

NATO-backed Kosovo government murders Serbs to steal their organs

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Michael Savage proves KOSOVO is SERBIA!

Kosovo’s PM ‘head of organ ring’

Open Society & al-Qaeda & Kosovo i Metohija

 

The Island – Russian movie – Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4eOwnQZhSw 

Somewhere in Nothern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives a very unusual man. His fellow-monks are confused by his bizarre conduct. Those who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. However, he considers himself unworthy because of a sin he committed in his youth.

”Srpski film” – Šok koridor – A Serbian Film – Trailer

A Serbian Film – Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_SIDOVFBTQ

 

 A Serbian Film (Serbian: Српски филм / Srpski film) is a 2010 Serbian horror film set in Serbia.

 

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Teror političke korektnosti

Broj 606, Datum objave: 30.07.2011.

Piše: Nenad Jovanović

Gost nedavno završenog Fantastic Zagreb Film Festivala bio je i Aleksandar Aca Radivojević, dramaturg i koscenarist “Srpskog filma” i “Čarlstona za Ognjenku” te dobar poznavalac situacije u kojoj se danas nalazi srpski film.

Kad ste sa Srđanom Spasojevićem krenuli u poduhvat zvan “Srpski film”, priču o porno glumcu koji pristaje na igru s đavlom kako bi svojoj porodici osigurao egzistenciju, da li ste očekivali toliko kontroverzi, zabrana i sugestija za kraćenje? 

- “Srpski film” još je uvek aktualan u svetu i postigao je nezapamćen uspeh što se tiče domaćeg filma. Ne znam kad je poslednji put jedan srpski film išao u neki američki bioskop, pa makar i u cenzurisanoj verziji. Mislim da je napravio popriličan odjek u svetu, što još uvek ne jenjava. (…) Ne mogu da verujem da to može da se desi u takozvanoj slobodnoj Evropi, u kojoj caruju takav fašizam političke korektnosti i diktat dobrog ukusa, koji zaštitu nekakvih vrednosti provode kao što se provodi zabrana pušenja. Ali raduje me da smo i pored svih skandala uspeli sve to da srušimo.

Ja sam “Srpski film” shvatio i kao dekameron nasilja i seksualnih izopačenja. Da li je od prizora u filmu još strašnija činjenica da su svi ti slučajevi zabilježeni u crnim kronikama? 

- Svakako. Iako se skoro svakodnevno događaju kojekakve strahote koje smo prikazali u filmu, društvo želi da zaštiti narod od, po njihovom mišljenju, negativnih uticaja, kako bi mogao da živi svoje male nesrećne živote sa što manje uznemiravanja.

ceo intervju

http://www.novossti.com/2011/07/teror-politicke-korektnosti/ 

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Šok Koridor (insert iz emisije) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhP_gYgaW48 

Šok Koridor – Low Budget filmovi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IgMFw4FUW4&feature=related  

Always Look On The Bright Side of Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

Life of Brian

Michael Savage proves KOSOVO is SERBIA!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5y6m7_michael-savage-proves-kosovo-is-ser_news

 The Truth About Kosovo and Metohija (KOSMET) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_WwgaOfbg

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Dr. Michael Savage is a multimedia icon in the conservative movement, heard by 10 million listeners a week on “The Michael Savage Show,” and syndicated across the U.S. in over 300 markets. He is also the author of 25 books, including four New York Times bestsellers. In 2007, his media presence and profile earned him the coveted “Freedom of Speech Award” from Talkers Magazine.

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Kosovo’s PM ‘head of organ ring’

Kosovo’s Mafia: How the US and allies ignore allegations of organized crime at the highest levels of a new democracy

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America’s Veterans: The Serbian People Are Heroes!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5CXope9ncI&feature=related

Alex Jones vs. Glenn Beck

March 4, 2011

Talk-radio host Alex Jones established himself as a giant in America’s conspiracy subculture. The godfather of the 9/11 Truth Movement, Jones is the most popular chronicler of what he believes is a New World Order plot to enslave the global population.

Until recently, he was a lonely and little-known voice in the short wave and Internet radio wilderness. But as his audience has grown, other talk show hosts have taken notice — and cues. Among his most ardent imitators is Glenn Beck, whom Jones has accused of stealing his ideas, guests, and research. Last week, Jones posted a video clip on his site, InfoWars, offering evidence of this theft.

“He rips me off and spins the information, often injecting lies into the truth,” says Jones.

So, is Alex Jones really the invisible senior writer of Beck’s TV and radio shows? If the below is any indication, the answer is “Yes.”

1. “Inside-Job” Terror

Alex Jones was the first 9/11 Truther. Two months before the attacks took place, in July of 2001, Jones warned that the U.S. government was planning to blow up the World Trade Center and blame Osama bin Laden.

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Scorecard: Rip-off and redirection. Beck takes a page from Jones in discussing state-sponsored terror, but twists it for use against Democrats — ignoring Jones’ more radical theory that both parties are historically capable of heinous acts against their own people. 

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4. Fabian Socialists, Eugenics and George Bernard Shaw
Alex Jones and his guests have long covered the history of eugenics, including the role of George Bernard Shaw, the playwright and unabashed eugenicist. Alex’s 2007 documentary film Endgame takes an in-depth look at Shaw, who has been discussed on-air many times, including here. In January, 2010, Glenn Beck’s documentary The Revolutionary Holocaust included the exact same clips of Shaw as those discussed or shown on The Alex Jones Show. Later, Beck would revisit the subject to link eugenics and Fabian Socialists to the London School of Economics and his favorite new target, George Soros.

Scorecard: Classic example of Beck stealing material from Jones and stripping it of context so as to better attack Beck’s progressive straw-men — in this case George Soros and other usual suspects found on Beck’s chalk board. 

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6. Google Boycott & Google’s Ties to U.S. Government
Alex Jones has been calling out Google as a front and ally to the NSA and other U.S.- backed intelligence since at least 2006, when he had expert Robert Steele on to discuss Google’s founding and funding. Lately, in an offshoot of his theory regarding tumult in the Mideast, Beck has begun to blast Google’s ties to the government, as well as alleged leftist ties to the revolution. But he has not condemned systematic, universal spying and cataloguing of data by Google. This quickly drew Jones’ ire.

Scorecard: Once again, Beck seems to be taking a critique from Jones and reverse engineering it as a weapon to attack the left, ignoring its more sweeping condemnation of Google or its activities under both Republican and Democratic administrations. 

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/glenn-becks-shtick-alex-jones-got-there-first-20110304 

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The Fall of the House of Murdoch

Deadly terror attack in Norwegian capital – At least 91 Students killed at Utoya

http://www.norwaynews.com/en/~view.php?72Vaa54LPb482ax285Clg844PM388bPU76GHl353KcN8

Ansar al-Jihad’s Abu Sulayman al-Nasir allegedly posted a message claiming responsibility for the Oslo attacks on the Arabic-language jihadist forum Shamikh. According to a partial translation by terrorism expert Will McCants of Jihadica, al-Nasir claims the attacks were in retribution for the occupation of Afghanistan by foreign troops and unnamed insults to the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

At least 30 people are feared dead after a gunman opened fired at a summer youth camp outside of Oslo. About 600 people, most of them teenagers, were attending an event at the camp, which was reportedly sponsored by Norway’s Labor Party. The shooting occurred just hours after a bomb explosion ravaged a key government building in central Oslo, killing at least seven. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who was unharmed by the Oslo blast, had been scheduled to visit the camp on Friday.

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Police believe Anders Behring Breivik are responsible for the bomb at the ministries, and the terrible tragedy of Utøya.

He is, after the Aftenposten.no experience, member of the Masonic Order.

http://www.aftenbladet.no/incoming/Tre-rogalendinger-savnet-fem-skadet-p-Utya-2840174.html

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Open Society & al-Qaeda & Kosovo i Metohija

Srebrenica – “A town betrayed“, Ola Flyum, Oslo, Norway

Bin Ladin’s Balkan Hosts — A Missed Opportunity

Kosovo’s Mafia: How the US and allies ignore allegations of organized crime at the highest levels of a new democracy

The forgotten Orthodox Christians of Bosnia and Kosovo

Lee Jay Walker

Global Security News 

http://global-security-news.com/2011/05/09/the-forgotten-orthodox-christians-of-bosnia-and-kosovo/

The Fall of the House of Murdoch

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Jonathan Schell is a Fellow at The Nation Institute and is a visiting fellow at Yale University. He is the author of The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.

NEW YORK – During the four decades since the Watergate affair engulfed US President Richard Nixon, politicians have repeatedly ignored the scandal’s main lesson: the cover-up is worse than the crime. Like Nixon, they have paid a higher price for concealing their misdeeds than they would have for the misdeeds alone.

Now, for once, comes a scandal that breaks that rule: the United Kingdom’s phone-hacking affair, which has shaken British politics to its foundations. Over the past decade, the tabloid newspaper The News of the World, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, targeted 4,000 people’s voicemail. The list includes not only royalty, celebrities, and other VIPs, but also the families of servicemen killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and those of victims of the July 2005 terrorist attack in London.

It all unraveled when The Guardian reported that the tabloid had hacked into the voicemail of missing 13-year-old Milly Dowler, apparently in the hope of obtaining some private expressions of family members’ grief or desperation that it could splash on its front page. When the girl’s murdered body was found six months later, the family and the police thought she might still be alive, because The News of the World’s operatives were deleting messages when her phone’s mailbox became full. (According to Scotland Yard, Murdoch hacks reportedly bribed mid-level police officers to supply information as well.)

In the extensive annals of eavesdropping, all of this is something new. Not even Stalin wiretapped the dead.

A cover-up ensued. James Murdoch, Rupert’s son and Chairman and Chief Executive of News Corporation’s European and Asian operations, authorized a secret payment of £1 million ($1.6 million) to buy the silence of hacking victims. Millions of in-house emails reportedly have been destroyed. Still, it seems safe to say that the peculiarly repellant inhumanity of the original deeds will remain more shocking than the details of this or any other cover-up.

Even so, the political consequences of the phone-hacking scandal will depend on far more than the outcome of the official investigations now underway in Britain. Above all, the scandal’s impact will depend on how governments and citizens assess what News Corporation really is.

The Murdochs call News Corporation a journalistic enterprise. In fact, it is, first, an entertainment company, with the bulk of its revenue coming from its film and television holdings. Second, and more importantly, it is a propaganda machine for right-wing causes and political figures.

This is News Corporation’s main face in the US, in the form of Fox News, whose hallmark has been relentless propagation of right-wing ideology. Whereas political propaganda had once been the domain of governments and political parties, Fox News is formally independent of both – though it overwhelmingly serves the interests of America’s Republican Party.

In Britain, News Corporation has been creating a sort of state unto itself by corrupting the police, assuming police powers of surveillance, and intimidating politicians into looking the other way. In the US, it has behaved similarly, using corporate media power to breathe life into a stand-alone political organization, the Tea Party.

All of this is far removed from what a journalistic organization is supposed to do. Journalism’s essential role in a democracy is to enable people to fulfill their roles as citizens by providing information about government, other powerful institutions, civil movements, international events, and so on. But News Corporation replaces such journalism with titillation and gossip, as it did when it took over the 168-year-old News of the World and turned it into a tabloid in 1984, and with partisan campaigns, as it did when it created Fox News in 1996.

Not surprisingly, at Fox News, as at many other News Corporation outlets, editorial independence is sacrificed to iron-fisted centralized control. News and commentary are mingled in an uninterrupted stream of political campaigning. Ideology trumps factuality. And major Republican figures, including possible contenders for the party’s presidential nomination, are hired as “commentators.” Indeed, its specific genius has been to turn propaganda into a popular and financial success.

Given The News of the World’s profitability, no one should be surprised if the Murdochs have been replicating their sunken British flagship’s reprehensible behavior elsewhere. But, whatever else is revealed, the UK phone-hacking scandal is of a piece with the Murdochs’ transformation of news into propaganda: both reflect an assault on democracy’s essential walls of separation between media, the state, and political parties. The Murdochs are fusing these entities into a single unaccountable power that, as we see in Britain today, lacks any restraint or scruple.

That effort should compel us to confront an uncomfortable reality underlying both the British phone-hacking scandal, with its penumbra of appalling cruelty and wanton corruption, and Fox News, America’s most popular news channel: too many people want what the News Corporation has been offering. And what too many people want can be dangerous to a civilized, law-based society.

To glimpse just how dangerous, consider Italy, where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s MediaSet conglomerate has seduced broad swathes of the electorate since the 1980’s with a Murdoch-like combination of insipid variety shows and partisan political theater. When Italy’s postwar party system collapsed in the early 1990’s, Berlusconi was able to establish his own political party, win power, and, over the course of three governments, bend laws and government institutions to serve his business and personal interests.

The News Corporation seems determined to take Britain and the US down a similar path. But now, at least in Britain, the political class is in revolt. Prime Minister David Cameron – who previously cultivated close ties with News Corporation leaders, even employing as his press secretary The News of the World’s former editor, who was recently arrested for his role in the scandal – called the phone hacking “disgusting.” Meanwhile, Labour leaders, who had also sought the Murdochs’ favor, have vowed to block News Corporation’s bid for full ownership of Britain’s largest pay-television broadcaster. Whether the rebellion will jump across the Atlantic remains to be seen.

Jonathan Schell

www.project-syndicate.org

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Open Society & al-Qaeda & Kosovo i Metohija

Tea Party movement

Kosovo’s PM ‘head of organ ring’

The Life and Death of Marina Abramović

Ana Popović – Blues For M

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