Climate Bible Gets 21 “F”s on Report Card

Source: No Frakking Consensus

21 of 44 chapters in the United Nations’ Nobel-winning climate bible earned an F on areport card we are releasing today. Forty citizen auditors from 12 countries examined 18,531 sources cited in the report – finding 5,587 to be not peer-reviewed.

Contrary to statements by the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the celebrated 2007 report does not rely solely on research published in reputable scientific journals. It also cites press releases, newspaper and magazineclippings, working papers, student theses, discussion papers, and literature published by green advocacy groups. Such material is often called “grey literature.”

We’ve been told this report is the gold standard. We’ve been told it’s 100 percent peer-reviewed science. But thousands of sources cited by this report have not come within a mile of a scientific journal.

Based on the grading system used in US schools, 21 chapters in the IPCC report receive an F (they cite peer-reviewed sources less than 60% of the time), 4 chapters get a D, and 6 get a C. There are also 5 Bs and 8 As.

In November, IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri disparaged non-peer-reviewed research in an interview with the Times of India (see the end of the article):

IPCC studies only peer-review science. Let someone publish the data in a decent credible publication. I am sure IPCC would then accept it, otherwise we can just throw it into the dustbin.

READ THE CITIZEN AUDIT REPORT HERE

AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa

The Legacy of the Berlin Conference of 1884

by Itai Muchena
Global Research, April 14, 2010
The Herald (Zimbabwe) - 2010-04-07

The hodgepodge of geometric boundaries that today divide Africa into 50 plus irregular nations under Eurocentric subjugation all started in Berlin, Germany on November 15, 1884.

The infamous Berlin Conference still remains Africa's greatest undoing in more ways than one, where colonial powers superimposed their domains on the African continent and tore apart the social, political and economic fabric that held the continent together.

By the time independence returned to Africa between 1956 and 1994, the African realm had acquired a colonial legacy of political fragmentation that could neither be eliminated nor made to operate wholly independent from the former colonial masters.

Some Africans had been too much battered, some bruised, some undignified and others brainwashed so much that up to today, Africa is battling to remain united due to continued and uncalled for interference, at every opportunity, by the imperialist hawks.

Today, the same Germany -- the womb that gave birth to colonialism -- is unashamedly hosting and developing AFRICOM, the United States of America superior military command formed to superintend on America's milking of African resources, at the expense of not only Africa but other fair dealing countries of the world.

There is no doubt that Germany is seeking re-colonisation of Africa, this time, creating space for its big brother, the United States of America.

The giant military project is not only an affront to African democracy but an insult to African humanism as it seeks to reverse all the gains brought about by independence -- from sovereignty to control of natural resources and self governance.

Africa will not forget that in 1884 at the request of Portugal, German chancellor Otto Von Bismarck called together the major western powers of the world to negotiate questions and end confusion over the control of Africa. Africa itself was not invited because Europe believed Africans had no meaningful contribution to make towards shaping their own destiny.

Bismarck saw an opportunity to expand Germany's sphere of influence over Africa and desired to pitch Germany's rivals to struggle with one another for territorial integrity. Today, current Chancellor Angela Mickel is playing exactly the same role, pitching America against other economic powers in a battle to control Africa's strategic natural resources.

Before the Berlin Conference 80 percent of Africa and its natural resources had remained under traditional and local leadership but thereafter the new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa. Concurrently, Africa's wealth -- as pronounced by its vast human and natural resource base -- was appropriated by the colonisers.

As a result, the new countries lacked and still lack rhyme or reason and divide coherent groups of people and merged together disparate groups that really did not get along.

All in all, 14 countries were represented: Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), Turkey, and the United States of America.

France, Germany, Great Britain, and Portugal were the major players in the conference, controlling most of colonial Africa at the time.

At the Berlin Conference the European colonial powers scrambled to gain control over the interior of the continent. The conference lasted until February 26, 1885 -- a three-month period where colonial powers haggled over geometric boundaries in the interior of the continent, disregarding the cultural and linguistic boundaries already established by the indigenous African populace.

By 1914, the conference participants had fully divided Africa among themselves into 50 countries.

Great Britain targeted a Cape-to-Cairo collection of colonies and almost succeeded through its control of Egypt, Sudan (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), Uganda, Kenya (British East Africa), South Africa, and Zambia (Southern Rhodesia), Malawi (Nyasaland), Zimbabwe (Northern Rhodesia), and Botswana. They also controlled Nigeria and Ghana (Gold Coast).

France took much of western Africa, from Mauritania to Chad (French West Africa) and Gabon and the Republic of Congo (French Equatorial Africa).

Belgium and King Leopold II controlled the Democratic Republic of Congo (Belgian Congo) while Portugal took Mozambique in the east and Angola in the west.

Italy took Somalia (Italian Somaliland) and a portion of Ethiopia while Germany took Namibia (German Southwest Africa) and Tanzania (German East Africa). Spain claimed the smallest territory -- Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni).

Today, Africa has stood firm against the hosting of AFRICOM and the same Germany has offered an alternative and will host AFRICOM until 2012, when it is envisaged the US would have found a suitable base in Africa.

Sadc in particular and the African Union in general, have said no to this project but the Americans are not resting on their laurels. They are still working out ways of penetrating African governments in order to get a strategic African country to host AFRICOM.

The truth, however, remains that once Africa allows the hosting of AFRICOM, it will have subcontracted all its powers to AFRICOM, to USA and its exploitative military ventures.

After a review of numerous potential locations for the establishment of AFRICOM headquarters, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has elected to keep the new command in Stuttgart, Germany at least for now, Pentagon officials say.

"Secretary of Defence Gates decided to delay a decision on the permanent location of US Africa Command headquarters until early 2012," said Defence Department spokeswoman Lt. Colonel Elizabeth Hibner, last week.

Until then, AFRICOM'S headquarters will remain in Stuttgart, "the decision has been delayed until US Africa Command has more experience in working with partner nation militaries and thus a better understanding of its long-term operational requirements," wrote Hibner.

After fierce resistance from Africa, which should continue through experienced leaders like President Mugabe, Hosni Mubarak, Omar al-Bashir, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and new but progressive thinking ones like Jacob Zuma, Bingu waMutharika and Rupiyah Banda, AFRICOM seems to have hit a brick wall on finding an African host.

"We certainly looked at a number of alternatives," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in a news release. "But at the end of the day, it was determined that for now, and into the foreseeable future, the best location was for it to remain in its current headquarters."

In Stuttgart, AFRICOM officials say the focus now is on building up the new command.

Though it was officially activated on October 1, there has been a steady stream of speculation worldwide about where AFRICOM would eventually set up its headquarters. Potential sites have ranged from Charleston, SC, to Morocco and Monrovia, to other locations in Europe such at Rota, Spain.
"It's become a phenomenon that the discussion of AFRICOM always hinges on where it's going. Where we're going is here (Stuttgart). What's important for us is to build the command," said Vince Crawley, AFRICOM spokesman. "Looking for office space stateside is something that is well-intended, but something way down the road."
But whether the Pentagon's latest statement on AFRICOM will quell the speculation remains to be seen. For instance, despite repeated statements that the initial plan to place AFRICOM headquarters in Africa was shelved, reports routinely crop up asserting otherwise. The most recent case occurred a couple weeks ago with Moroccan media outlets reporting that a deal was struck for AFRICOM to locate its headquarters in the port city of Tantan.

It will be folly for Africa to think that AFRICOM commanders have rested their case on finding a compliant African country to host them because keeping the new command in Stuttgart will allow it to gain greater operational experience and foster relationships with both African and European partners.

Once AFRICOM moves to African soil, Africa is doomed and finished. It will have to religiously follow the American exploitation gospel and the founding fathers of the African revolution will turn and wince in their graves from anger and disappointment.

Itai Muchena is reading politics at Ohio State University, US.

12 Reasons Why Millions Of Americans Are Incredibly Angry About The State Of The U.S. Economy

The Economic Collapse
April 14, 2010

We have reached a very interesting turning point in American history. More than at any other point in modern times, Americans are deeply angry about the state of the economy. In fact, it is no stretch to say that millions of U.S. citizens are hopping mad about the economic situation. Most of them don't know exactly what is wrong, and even fewer of them have any idea about how to go about fixing things, but they do know one thing. They know that they are mad. As Americans, we were raised with the belief that our overwhelmingly powerful economic machine would always provide good jobs and prosperity for all of us as long as we worked hard. But we have come to learn that is not true. We have come to learn that our politicians and our leaders have squandered the great inheritance that our forefathers left for us. We have come to learn that the financial future of our nation is beyond bleak. We have come to learn that our government has piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world. Now the foolish decisions of the past several decades are catching up with us. The U.S. economy is experiencing structural failure, and the American people are angry. They want answers. They want someone to fix things. They want things to go back to the way they used to be.

But that isn't going to happen. Once the American people truly start realizing that, the anger that will erupt will dwarf what we are seeing now.

Not that they are aren't already incredibly steamed. The following are 12 reasons why many Americans are absolutely furious about the state of the U.S. economy....

#1) There simply are not enough jobs for everyone. The number of unemployed Americans per job opening has started to increase again, hitting 5.5 in February. Even many of those who are able to get some work find themselves only able to obtain part-time employment. Gallup's underemployment measure hit 20.0% on March 15th. This was up from 19.7% two weeks earlier and 19.5% at the start of the year.

#2) More Americans than ever find themselves having to rely on the U.S. government just to survive. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, about 39.4 million Americans, a new all-time record, received food stamps in January. This was up 22% from a year earlier. In fact, the number of Americans on food stamps has hit all-time records for 14 consecutive months.

#3) Foreclosures continue to set records across the United States. RealtyTrac, the California-based authority on property trends and valuations, projects that there will be 4.5 million home foreclosures before the end of this year. If you figure 4 people per household, that is another 18 million people that will be forced out of their homes.

#4) As unemployment and foreclosures continue to soar, "tent slums" have started popping up all over the United States. Is this why our founding fathers fought and died? So we could all live in "tent slums" as the big fat cats on Wall Street roll around in their bailout cash?

#5) But even with all of these economic problems, the price of food is going up. Rising demand and reduced supply drove supermarket prices for 16 basic foods up 6.2% in the first quarter of 2010.

#6) Due to the exploding government debt, the American people are going to be confronted with some tough choices. According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the United States will soon have to make difficult choices between higher taxes and reduced social spending. Either alternative will slow down the U.S. economy.

#7) Meanwhile, corruption in the financial system is running rampant. The CEOs of bailed-out regional banks are actually getting big raises. The guy who helped bring down AIG is going to get off scott-free and will be able to keep the millions in profits that he made in the process.

#8) But the biggest fraud is being committed by the boys at the top of the food chain. A whistle blower has come forward with "smoking gun" evidence of price manipulation by major financial institutions in the precious metals markets. The scope of this fraud is in the trillions of dollars. The American people can't stomach much more of this type of thing.

#9) Almost all financial experts agree that the era of super cheap money is over and that interest rates are about to rise significantly. This is going to make it much more expensive for most Americans to borrow money to buy a home, to buy a car, to buy things with their credit cards or to borrow money for education. Those who already have adjustable loans are going to find a much larger portion of their income going to pay interest. Needless to say, this is going to cause the U.S. economy to experience a significant slowdown.

#10) One of the biggest things that the American people are upset about is the "health care reform" bill that was just rammed down their throats. It turns out that "health care reform" is actually going to be the biggest tax increase in American history. Not only that, but because of taxes and mandates imposed upon health insurance companies by the legislation, health insurance premiums are also about to increase substantially. So where will the average American family get the money to pay for these increases?

#11) In addition, the new health care law that was supposed to give all of us much better health care is actually going to force the cancellation of at least 60 doctor-owned hospitals that were scheduled to be opened according to the executive director of Physician Hospitals of America. Why? Well, it turns out that the new law singles out physician-owned hospitals, making new physician-owned projects ineligible to receive payments for Medicare and Medicaid patients.

#12) The reality is that Americans are increasingly becoming disenchanted with the lack of leadership in both political parties. Approval ratings for leaders in both parties are extremely low, and anger at politicians is at an all-time high. The Tea Party movement is just one symptom of the seething anger many Americans are feeling. While many Americans are gathering together at large protest rallies to demonstrate against the policies of the government, others are expressing their displeasure on blogs and websites. There has never been a moment in modern times when Americans have been so disenchanted with their political leadership.

This anger is not going to go away. It could be soothed a bit if the U.S. economy was fully fixed and things went back to the way they used to be. But as noted previously, that just is not going to happen. Harder times are ahead. Americans are going to get angrier and angrier.

But there is not much that can be done to prevent that anger. The politicians who are in office when things really hit the fan are going to take the brunt of the anger, but it won't be their fault. The truth is that this economic collapse has been building for decades. The American people are just not going to understand that the financial system cannot be fixed overnight.

Dark times are coming. It is not going to be pretty. There is going to be a lot of anger and a lot of hate. But all of these economic problems could be seen well ahead of time and there have been those who have been screaming and yelling about them for decades.

But very few people wanted to listen.

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[MUST READ] The Grandma Of All Conspiracy Stories

This article is a must for any respectable conspiracy nut. It puts all the major conspiracies (Illuminati, jews, jesuits, Rothschilds, ...) in connection at their origins. Fascinating read.

Quote:

This is worth repeating: Frankfurt was the birthplace of both the Illuminati and the Rothschild empire. When Jacob Frank entered the city, the alliance between the two had already begun. Weishaupt provided the conspiratorial resources of the Jesuit Order, while the Rothschilds contributed the money. What was missing was a means to spread the agenda of the Illuminati and that the Frankists added with their network of agents throughout the Christian and Islamic worlds.

Instead of thinking of it as Illuminati, think Sabbatean. The elements that ties things together include 1) secrecy and lying about identities, 2) an occult, mystical philosophy guided by the Talmud, the Cabala, and the Zohar, 3) the desire for revenge, control and power, and 4) the use of sacrifices, holocausts and scapegoats.... Read all

UK's discriminatory criminalization of dissent

In case you missed the news that UK became a freaking fascist police state:

"We are very angry, very afraid, very sad, very upset. My wife, she is depressed. When she sees police in the street she's very frightened. They destroyed our life," says Badi Tebani.

In January 2009, Tebani's teenage son Yahia was one of tens of thousands of people who joined demonstrations in London against the Israeli bombing of Gaza. At one of those demonstrations Yahia and many others were "kettled" - surrounded by a police cordon and slowly let out in return for giving their names and addresses and for being filmed.

That was the last Yahia knew of it until the following April, when the family home was raided by 20 to 30 police at 5am. The front door was forced open and Badi Tebani and his family were ordered to lie on the floor. His four sons were all handcuffed. Three police officers knelt on the back of Hamza, 23. He was sleeping in shorts, but they refused to let him put on any clothes, even though they'd opened the windows, letting in the cold. Computers, mobile phones and clothes were all taken and the family car was broken into. Badi and Hamza described how police played games on the boys' iPhones and made themselves coffee in the kitchen... Read all

Bilderberg: Raise Taxes, Cut Services in U.S. and Europe

You can bet that this recipe will be be followed by many gov'ts worldwide. Only hope is Revolution...

"The Bilderberg Group will meet in Sitges Spain on June 3-6 in efforts to advance their agenda for a new global economic system, they will agree to prolong the recession until 2011. The Bilderberg will discuss plans to level the world so that European and American standards of living will drop and become even with 3rd world countries so we’re all poor together under their World Government Dictatorship." (no joke.)

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bilderbe...nd-europe.html

THERE IS NO US TREASURY! The US Treasury office is actually located in Puerto Rico and is not a US agency

Fantastic conspiracy fact of today (this may contribute to explain the awful current state of affairs):

by: Marti Oakley (c)Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved

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THERE IS NO US TREASURY! The US Treasury office is actually located in Puerto Rico and is not a US agency.

Looking in 27 CFR 250.11 again for the definition of “Secretary” as found in all the above. The defining term for “Secretary” is, “The Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico.” That man is, not Timothy Geithner.

Who does timothy Geithner work for ?

“The Chief Financial Officer of the government, the Secretary serves as Chairman Pro Tempore of the President’s Economic Policy Council, Chairman of the Boards and Managing Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, and as U.S. Governor (note: they do not refer to him as the US secretary or as his position being that of a cabinet secretary to the president) of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.”

The identity of the Secretary is not found in title 26 U.S.C. The only reference to the identity of the Secretary of the Treasury is in 27 C.F.R. at section 250.11 (definitions) which specifically states: The defining term for secretary is: “Secretary means Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico”.

Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, and every treasury secretary since 1913 are appointed but not as cabinet members. The Secretary of the Treasury is as a corporate “governor” of what is known as “The Fund” or “The Bank” and several other international organizations. The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury is not sworn in and speaks no oath of loyalty or defense of the United States. The obligation of this secretary (governor) is to the International Monetary Fund, and World Bank. All employees of the IMF governor are paid by the Fund directly, or out of funds supplied to the Governor of the Fund specifically for that purpose. The IMF governor is not paid by the US government as he/she is not employed by that government.

The so-called treasury secretary is actually a governor of the IMF/ World Bank. He is appointed to a term of five years during which time he must expatriate himself as a US citizen to be sworn in as the legal representative of the Fund, and acting liaison between the Fund and the federal government. His first and only fiduciary duty is to protect the Fund at all costs. Continue Reading »

CIA PUT ROZA INTO POWER? OIL, HEROIN, AIR BASES AND BANKERS IN KYRGYZSTAN

A must read from Aangirfan:

CIA PUT ROZA INTO POWER? OIL, HEROIN, AIR BASES AND BANKERS IN KYRGYZSTAN: "CIA 'asset' Roza Otunbayeva.

People Power is usually organised by the CIA.

Reportedly, in Kyrzygstan, the CIA toppled President Akayev in 2005, and President Bakiyev in 2010.

In 2009 the Kyrgyz government of Kurmanbek Bakiyev announced that it was evicting US forces.

It changed its mind when the USA offered it $60 million to reverse its decision. (AARAN AARDVARK'S GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS - A Blink in the Eye ...)

But the CIA may have lost trust in Bakiyev.

It is possible that the CIA used people power to topple Bakiyev in April 2010, and put Roza Otunbayeva into power.



On 13 April 2010, Kyrgyzstan's interim leader, Roza Otunbayeva, told The Associated Press that her government will extend the lease allowing the U.S. to use the Manas air base after the current one-year deal expires in July 2010. (US: troops flights through Kyrgyzstan )

'With Roza Otunbayeva ... there is reason to believe that Washington will not be dissatisfied with the overthrow of her former 'tulip' partner Bakiyev.' (At the Geopolitical Crossroads of China and Russia: Kyrgyzstan And The Battle For Central Asia - by Rick Rozoff )

According to Der Spiegel, after the 2005 change of government: Roza Otunbayeva 'pledged allegiance to a small group of partners and sponsors of the Kyrgyz revolution, to 'our American friends' at Freedom House...'

Kyrgyzstan by globevisions



The trouble in Afghanistan and in Kyrgyzstan has a lot to do with heroin, oil and 'military bases which can be used against Russia and China and Iran'.

In February 2010, Iran captured Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the Moslem 'terrorist group', Jundallah.

Rigi confessed that the USA promised him military aid and funding for a war against Iran.

Rigi said of the Americans: 'They told me that in Kyrgyzstan they have a base called Manas near Bishkek, and that a high-ranking person was coming to meet me...' (RIGI SAYS USA OFFERED AID FOR ATTACKS ON IRAN.)

Perhaps the main reson for having a US base in Kyrgyzstan, is to control China and Russia. (The geopolitics behind the phoney US war in Afghanistan [Voltaire])

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sees Kyrgyzstan as part of Russia's sphere of influence.



Medvedev says the turmoil in Kyrkyzstan could result in a civil war and produce a 'second Afghanistan.' (Top U.S. envoy in Kyrgyzstan for talks after revolt)

Allegedly, certain Jewish folks in Kyrgyzstan have had a lot of influence.

Recent comments in Kyrgyzstan: 'The Jews are Kaput. ... The Jews are already gone.'



'Dirty Jews ... have no place in Kyrgyzstan.' (Kyrgyz protester: “The Jews are Kaput”)

Image from: www.soschildrensvillages.kyrgyzstan. The charity began working in Kyrgyzstan in 1999 when a community was opened in the capital Bishkek.



twelfthbough.blogspot/ says: watch it spread



According to Twelthbough:



MGN is a powerful Kyrgyzstan conglomerate.



MGN stands for Maksim, Gurevich, Nadel.



In other words, the Kyrgyzstan president's son, Gurevich the Kyrgyz Jewish banker, and Nadel the Russian Jewish oligarch.



Italian media reported on March 9 that a judge in Rome had issued an arrest warrant for Gurevich, who is accused of embezzling some $2.7 billion from divisions of Telecom Italia and the Fastweb telecom company between 2003 and 2006.



There are allegations including laundering money through fictitious companies set up in the UK, Switzerland, Panama and Luxembourg. (Excellent article at Russian Mafia.)



One of the people named in the warrant is Gennaro Mokbel.



Allegedly Mokbel used his contacts in the Calabrian mafia to elect his friend to the senate.



Mokbel has alleged relations to right-wing extremists including terrorists.



From November 1-3, 2009, the richest Jews in the world gathered in the luxurious palace of Silvio Berlusconi, as his personal guests.

Kyrgyzstan has oil, gas and heroin.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), founded in 2001 by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, is the Russian-Chinese equivalent of NATO.



Reportedly, in 2005, the USA helped topple Kyrgyzstan's president Akayev.

Akayev was replaced by Kurmanbek Bakiyev who was then 'toppled' in April 2010.



John Laughland, in the Guardian April 1, 2005, wrote about US-backed coups in the former USSR and the mythology of people power.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1449869,00.html



Former President Askar Akayev of Kyrgyzstan has attacked:



1. The 'prevailing influence' of the US in the 'anti-constitutional coup' which overthrew him.



2. Those who are stirring up trouble in the drug-ridden Ferghana Valley.



3. The criminal 'third force', linked to the drug mafia, which is struggling to gain power.



The term 'third force' was used to describe covert operatives shoring up apartheid in South Africa. It may also remind people of US-backed coups in Central America and former soviet republics.



Michael Kozak, former US ambassador to Belarus, boasted that he was doing in Belarus exactly what he had been doing in Nicaragua: 'supporting democracy'.



In Kyrgyzstan, US ambassador Stephen Young, denied government claims that the US had interfered in Kyrgyzstan's internal affairs.



Kyrgyzstan is the largest recipient of US aid in central Asia and it is filled with 'American-sponsored NGOs'.

In previous years it invited in the US military.



Freedom House, chaired by former CIA director James Woolsey, was a major sponsor of the orange revolution in Ukraine.



Freedom House set up a printing press in Kyrgyzstan in November 2003, which prints 60 opposition journals. The US also supports opposition radio and TV.



In Kyrgyzstan a key element in regime change was played by members of the Kyrgyz security services, 'whose loyalty is easily bought'.



The US has strategic interests in Kyrgyzstan.



Freedom House is reportedly friendly with the Islamist fundamentalist movement Hizb ut-Tahrir.

This worries the Chinese who have Muslim unrest in their western provinces.



Akayev was seen as being a friend of the US. But he was toppled when 'things went wrong'.



John Laughland is a trustee of http://www.oscewatch.org/ and an associate of http://www.sandersresearch.com/

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NEO-CON CIA AGENT TO TAKE OVER POLAND?



JEWISH DELEGATION CANCELED JOURNEY ON POLISH PRESIDENT'S PLANE.

Related: Russia to provide $50m in financial aid to Kyrgyzstan

RIA Novosti, Apr 14 2010

Russia will give Kyrgyzstan a $20m grant and a $30m concessional loan to help stabilize the economic situation in the ex-Soviet republic after recent riots, Finance Minister Kudrin said on Wednesday. Large-scale anti-government protests swept Kyrgyzstan from Apr 6-7, claiming the lives of 82 people and leading to the overthrow of Pres Bakiyev. The self-declared interim government urgently needs funds and fuel to normalize conditions in the impoverished Central Asian republic. PM Putin said:

We presume that the situation will normalize. But considering the complexity of the situation, we can increase our aid if necessary. I have instructed the government to prepare corresponding resolutions to provide assistance to Kyrgyzstan by the end of this week. According to the interim government, Kyrgyzstan’s coffers are empty because the previous leadership embezzled all the country’s funds. This, of course, is not an issue for us to judge. But considering that we have always had special relations with the Kyrgyz people, we will support our friends in Kyrgyzstan at this undoubtedly difficult time for them.

Deputy PM Sechin said Russia could send up to 25,000 metric tons of petroleum products to Kyrgyzstan to help it with its spring sowing campaign.

More: The Truth Behind The Recent Unrest in Kyrgyzstan

Leaked U.S. Document Calls For “Global Regime” To Tackle Climate Change

Says critics must be disarmed, all elements of Copenhagen Accord must be operationalised
Steve Watson

A confidential U.S. government document obtained by the London Guardian highlights the ongoing agenda to create a structure of global governance in the name of combating climate change.

“Titled Strategic communications objectives and dated 11 March 2010, it outlines the key messages that the Obama administration wants to convey to its critics and to the world media in the run-up to the vital UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico in November.” The Guardian reports.

The newspaper says that the document (full text below) was “accidentally left on a European hotel computer” before it was passed to their editors.

The number one item on the itinerary is to “Reinforce the perception that the US is constructively engaged in UN negotiations in an effort to produce a global regime to combat climate change.” (my emphasis)

The news comes on the back of revelations that rich countries have threatened to cut vital aid to developing nations if they do not back the deal agreed at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen last year.

Elsewhere, the leaked document pinpoints the need to continue “driving the climate change story” in the mainstream media, but also identifies the need to “disarm” critics and to bypass traditional media outlets to do so, focusing more on “new media”.

The document also highlights a need to “Create a clear understanding of the CA’s [Copenhagen accord's] standing and the importance of operationalising ALL elements.”

Although the final Copenhagen agreement was largely dismissed as a failure by both the mainstream media and climate skeptics, it established the framework for a global government which will control climate finances via taxes on CO2 emissions.

The latest leaked U.S. document calls for operationalising the elements of that framework.

The final text of the accord (PDF) states that funds obtained from climate financing will be controlled by a "governance structure," and that a "High Level Panel" will be appointed to decide where the money will come from. In effect, this means that a UN-controlled structure of global governance will override the sovereignty of nation states in collecting and doling out funds obtained under the justification of climate change.

The agreement also gives the green light for carbon trading markets, which as we have documented are all owned by climate kingpins like Maurice Strong and Al Gore, to be more heavily financed and expanded.

Leaked UN documents uncovered in February also highlighted the need to establish a global governance structure in the name of combating climate change by 2012.

“Moving towards a green economy would also provide an opportunity to re-examine national and global governance structures and consider whether such structures allow the international community to respond to current and future environmental and development challenges and to capitalize on emerging opportunities,” the leaked white paper stated.

The paper outlined that the imposition of such "global governance structures" will be achieved with the help of "vast wealth transfers" from richer countries (in the form of carbon taxes levied on citizens) to poorer nations, amounting to no less than $45 trillion dollars.

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, has not been shy in proclaiming the unfolding agenda for a global governance structure to override national parliaments on the issue of climate change.

In an October New York Times editorial entitled "We Can Do It," Ki-moon wrote that efforts to impose restrictions on CO2 emissions “Must include an equitable global governance structure.”

He re-iterated those sentiments in December following the Copenhagen summit, telling the LA Times “We will establish a global governance structure to monitor and manage the implementation of this.”

Last year at a forum in Oxford, England, Al Gore also called for global governance in order to implement global agreements on climate change.

Globalists are persistent and they will continue hammering away until they get what they want, not because the environment is on the verge of collapse, but because their agenda for world government is stalling as more people find out the true agenda behind the global warming scam.

Meanwhile, anyone who suggests global governance is on the agenda is derided as a conspiracy theorist, despite such open announcements of this very intention.

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Text of the leaked document:

Strategic communications objectives

1) Reinforce the perception that the US is constructively engaged in UN negotiations in an effort to produce a global regime to combat climate change. This includes support for a symmetrical and legally binding treaty.

2) Manage expectations for Cancun -- Without owning the message, advance the narrative that while a symmetrical legally binding treaty in Mexico is unlikely, solid progress can be made on the six or so main elements.

3) Create a clear understanding of the CA’s standing and the importance of operationalising ALL elements.

4) Build and maintain outside support for the administration’s commitment to meeting the climate and clean energy challenge despite an increasingly difficult political environment to pass legislation.

5) Deepen support and understanding from the developing world that advanced developing countries must be part of any meaningful solution to climate change including taking responsibilities under a legally binding treaty.

Media outreach

"¢ Continue to conduct interviews with print, TV and radio outlets driving the climate change story.

"¢ Increase use of off-the-record conversations.

"¢ Strengthen presence in international media markets during trips abroad. Focus efforts on radio and television markets.

"¢ Take greater advantage of new media opportunities such as podcasts to advance US position in the field bypassing traditional media outlets.

"¢ Consider a series of policy speeches/public forums during trips abroad to make our case directly to the developing world.

Key outreach efforts

"¢ Comprehensive and early outreach to policy makers, key stakeholders and validators is critical to broadening support for our positions in the coming year.

"¢ Prior to the 9-11 April meeting in Bonn it would be good for Todd to meet with leading NGOs. This should come in the form of 1:1s and small group sessions.

"¢ Larger group sessions, similar to the one held at CAP prior to Copenhagen, will be useful down the line, but more intimate meetings in the spring are essential to building the foundation of support. Or at the very least, disarming some of the harsher critics.

Torture: What Goes Around, Comes Around

USAns can be tortured by brown thirdworldist ppl too.

Enjoy the irony:

American Journalist Beaten and Tortured by Indian Police

APRIL 14, 2010 in ASIA / PACIFIC

A report on ‘widespread and systemic’ police torture in India was published today, focusing on the case of US journalist Joel Elliott. Mr. Elliott claims that Indian police beat him severely while he was in their custody. Read more

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- Col. Wilkerson, who served in the US military for 31 years and was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from August 2002 until January 2005, stated that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld all knew — and didn’t care — that "the vast majority of Guantánamo detainees were innocent."... Read all

"They Killed the Wounded and Drove Over Their Bodies"

Anyone who still has the stomach to "support the troops" is an accomplice of these monsters:

April 13, 2010

“They Killed the Wounded and Drove Over Their Bodies”: Iraqis Speak About
WikiLeaks Video,

But Who Is Listening?

By now we’ve heard plenty of people’s opinions on the now famous WikiLeaks
video showing the U.S. military killing 12 Iraqi civilians — from Defense
Secretary Robert Gates to Stephen Colbert to Josh Stieber, a former soldier
turned conscientious objector who would have been on the mission over
Baghdad that day. But missing from the discussion have been the voices of
Iraqis themselves, those who witnessed the slaughter, and especially those
whose loved ones were killed.

Fortunately, this week and last, Democracy Now! broadcast some of these
voices loudly and clearly, providing a much needed dose of reality amid so
much talk of “rules of engagement” or WikiLeaks’s political “bias.” On
Monday, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez played clips from an interview with
Ahlam Abdelhussain, whose husband, Saleh Mutashar, died trying to rescue one
of the two Reuters newsman hit by the blasts while his two children were
injured. “My husband did nothing wrong,” she says, now a widow.

“How do I feel? What can I say? Why was he shot with his children in the
car? They did nothing wrong. He was helping a journalist. What was his
crime? What was the crime of our children who are left with no father and no
support.”

Saleh’s nephew, Anwar, said:

He was carrying wounded people during the American attacks. He was trying to
help. They believe that someone who was carrying a gun will take his
children along with him? Unbelievable. What can we do? God take revenge from
the Americans. They destroyed us and destroyed our nations. What is the
future of those children? They are orphans.
Today, Robert Gates continued to defend the actions depicted in the
WikiLeaks video, telling reporters on a military aircraft, “You’re looking
at a situation through a soda straw and you have no context or perspective.”
Perspective? How’s this for “perspective”:
“We used to live in a rented house,” says Ahlam Abdelhussain. Her husband
“worked as a construction worker.”

We didn’t have any other income. After his death, I was left with nothing.
My children were wounded. We were devastated. My father-in-law took us to
live with him. Life became very difficult. My children are still suffering
from their wounds. My daughter still suffers from pain in her head and her
stomach. My son is still in pain after his surgery. We don’t have a pension
or any other income to rely on, so my father-in-law took us to live with
him.

And if it’s more “context” you need, consider this report by independent
journalists Rick Rowley and David Enders, who were on the scene the day
after the massacre:

RICK ROWLEY: We came to the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad one day after a U.S.
attack helicopter strike that killed twelve Iraqis, including a journalist
and a driver working with Reuters. The U.S. military claimed that they were
under attack from rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire and that all
of the dead, except for the two Reuters employees, were insurgents. But
local residents showed us the remains of a burnt-out van spattered with
blood and told us a different story.

WITNESS 1: [translated] The helicopter came yesterday from there and hovered
around. Then it came right here where a group of people were standing. They
didn’t have any weapons or arms of any sort. This area doesn’t have armed
insurgents. They destroyed the place and shot at people, and they didn’t let
anyone help the wounded.

WITNESS 2: [translated] I swear to God it was helicopters that attacked us.
These people are all witnesses. They attacked us twice, not once.

RICK ROWLEY: Another resident went on to describe what happened to the man
who tried to help the wounded.

WITNESS 3: [translated] The driver went to carry the injured, who had been
shot in front of his eyes. While he was going to pick them up, the pilot of
the helicopter kept flying above, watching the scene. They started firing at
the wounded and the dead. The driver and the two children were also there.
The helicopter continued shooting until none of the bodies were moving.

RICK ROWLEY: We asked the crowd of people what might have prompted the
attack, and they said that when the journalist arrived, residents quickly
gathered around him.

WITNESS 2: [translated] The group of civilians had gathered here because
people need cooking oil and gas. They wanted to demonstrate in front of the
media and show that they need things like oil, gas, water and electricity.
The situation here is dramatically deteriorating. The journalists were
walking around, and then the Americans started shooting. They started
shooting randomly and targeted peaceful civilians from the neighborhood.

WITNESS 3: [translated] There were children in the car. Were they carrying
weapons? There were two children.

WITNESS 2: [translated] Do we help the wounded or kill them? They killed all
the wounded and drove over their bodies. Everyone witnessed it. And the
journalist was among those who was injured, and the armored vehicle drove
over his body.

WITNESS 3: [translated] The U.S. forces, who call themselves “friendly”
forces, were telling us on speakers that they were here to protect and help
us. We heard those words very clearly. But what we saw was the opposite of
that. We demand the American Congress and President Bush supervise their
soldiers’ actions in Iraq.

Secretary Gates — and anyone else who defends the videotaped aerial murder
of Iraqi civilians as somehow justified — should listen to these voices
before they open their mouths again.

Liliana Segura is a staff writer and editor of AlterNet's Rights and
Liberties and World Special Coverage.

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Chris Floyd - April 13, 2010 -

...Not that I believe Bush and his gang of gilded thugs are innocent; they are not. They are sadistic murderers at the outer reaches of depravity. But neither are they aberrations of the system that has produced them. Rather, they are its quintessence, its exemplars, its inheritors and continuers -- and they have, in turn, bequeathed the core value of violent domination to their successors, who have freely and eagerly embraced it.

If the Bush gang stands trial, then the entire system must be put on trial; otherwise, their prosecution would be nothing but a show trial, a scapegoating designed to perpetuate the system while appearing to cauterize and cleanse it of a limited, aberrant evil, as Arthur Silber has argued in his powerful series, "Against Prosecution." Thus the evils inevitably and inescapably produced by a system of violent domination would go on and on, gaining new strength from the reinvigoration of the national myth that has justified so much horror for so long: "See? We got rid of the bad apples; everything is fine now, the system is good now, we're exceptional again, the hill is shining once more." And the righteous bombs of humanitarian liberation would keep falling on the bodies of innocent people....

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