11 January 2010 | Machine Wrench | Max
While some have criticized this documentary for being too dramatic, others, like myself, believe Jesse Ventura has done the right thing by using the sort of format that most Americans and Europeans are used to watching. At the same time he provides lots of valuable information and names, but keeps it short and to the point.
AMERICA: Second Massive Wave Of Mortgage Defaults
Brasscheck TV – Now the real “fun” begins. In a boxing match, a good referee will take a boxer out who’s been hit so hard, he’s staggering. Why?
The potential damage from follow up blows to someone already in a weakened state is exponentially higher than from the first one. Unfortunately for the credit market, there’s no referee to call a time out.
BRITAIN: Food Costs Soar As Big Freeze Deepens
Guardian UK – Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an increase in food prices as plunging temperatures leave farmers unable to harvest vegetables and hauliers struggle to distribute fresh produce.
MIDDLE EAST: Israeli General Denies Iran Is Nuclear Threat
Times Online – A general who was once in charge of Israel’s nuclear weapons has claimed that Iran is a “very, very, very long way from building a nuclear capability”.
TERRORISM: UK Paid Afghan Warlord $2m To Find Osama
BBC News – The UK paid $2m (£1.3m) for the services of an Afghan warlord in an operation against Osama Bin Laden in 2001, it has been alleged.
BBC Two’s Conspiracy Files heard claims from a US special forces commander that both the Americans and British paid substantial sums to Afghan warlords.
ENVIRONMENT: Inside China’s Secret Toxic Unobtainium Mine
Mail Online – Last week it was reported that China – which has a global monopoly on the production of rare-earth metals – is now threatening to cut off vital supplies to the West. A shortage would jeopardise the manufacturing and development of green technologies such as wind turbines and low-energy lightbulbs. RICHARD JONES is the first Western journalist to visit the rare-earth mines in Inner Mongolia to discover why China is unwilling to give up its precious elements…
ENVIRONMENT: Who will pay for Amazon’s ‘Chernobyl’?
The Independent – A film released this week in Britain recounts the 16-year battle by Ecuadorians for damages against Chevron for oil pollution.
It’s barely eight in the morning and already the dusty oil town of Lago Agrio, on the fringes of the Ecuadorian Amazon, is sweltering. Its name means “sour lake” in Spanish, after the hometown of Texan oil company Texaco – a fitting name for an area of once-pristine rainforest that has been decimated in the pursuit of oil. So severe is the environmental damage here that experts have called it an “Amazon Chernobyl”.
EUROPE: Britain Ruled By 26 Illegal Brussels Sprouts
Telegraph – The EU’s Commissioners are still occupying their posts illegally, says Christopher Booker. So we are not to have a new Government until February 26. Furthermore, until that time all but one member of that Government is occupying their position illegally.
Of course, I am here referring not to the silly little joustings between Messrs Brown and Cameron, as they fight for the right to run our provincial government here in Britain. Our real government, in that it now makes most of our laws, resides in Brussels, and on January 1, following the coming into force of the European Constitution (aka the Lisbon Treaty), we were due to get a new set of European Commissioners. But with the exception of its president, José Manuel Barroso, none of the appointees can take up their posts until hearings have been completed in the European Parliament.
HEALTH UK: Fury at Vaccine Scandal
HEALTH UK: Fury at Vaccine Scandal
Express – Hundreds of public sector workers who claim their lives have been wrecked by vaccines say the Government has abandoned them.
Up to 200 doctors, nurses, firefighters, prison officers, police officers, forensic scientists and binmen say they have developed serious physical and mental health problems after injections essential for their work over the past 10 years. All have given up their jobs and some are now 60 per cent disabled.
TERRORISM: UK Troops ‘Executed Iraqi Grandmother’
The Independent – Allegations that a 62-year-old Iraqi grandmother was tortured and executed by British soldiers after her family home was raided three years ago are being investigated by the Royal Military Police.
The Army’s involvement in the death and abuse of Sabiha Khudur Talib is one of the most serious charges to be made against Britain during its six-year occupation of southern Iraq.
EUROPE: Angry Iceland defies the world
Telegraph – Iceland’s president has blocked a Bill to pay Britain and Holland up to £3.4bn for Icesave depositors, acknowledging that popular feeling in the island nation is too strong to proceed without a referendum.
The move reopens a bitter dispute and greatly complicates Iceland’s loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund. It has already led to a fresh downgrade to BB+ by Fitch Ratings, which called the decision “a significant setback to Iceland’s efforts to restore normal financial relations with the rest of the world.”
03 January 2010 | Machine Wrench | Max
“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US…” — Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
HEALTH: Grow-your-own to replace false teeth
The Guardian – The British institution of dentures sitting in a glass of water beside the bed could be rendered obsolete by scientists who are confident that people will soon be able to replace lost teeth by growing new ones. Instead of false teeth, a small ball of cells capable of growing into a new tooth will be implanted where the missing one used to be.
The procedure needs only a local anaesthetic and the new tooth should be fully formed within a few months of the cells being implanted.
AFGHANISTAN: Jordanian Among Dead in Attack on CIA Base
Kawther Salaam – According to the CIA, a suicide attack last Wednesday at a base in eastern Afghanistan killed seven members of the US Central Intelligence Agency and wounded six others. CIA director Leon Panetta (a jew) stated that seven members of the CIA were killed last in an attack during last Wednesday 30 Dec. 2009 in Afghanistan. The American President, his family and their dog sent condolences to the families of the dead.
What Mr. Panetta did not mention was that among the dead was also a Jordanian CIA employee, Captain “Al-Sherif” Ali bin Zeid bin Shaker. In the same fashion, the Jordanian government also avoided to mention this in public, or even to confirm the presence of Jordanian troops in Afghanistan, because of the obvious embarrassment this would cause to the Jordanian regime. How shameful this incident is to the jordanian regime can be seen in the scant mention in the media of the death of this “holy” man (al-sherif means holy in Arabic).
HEALTH: Mistletoe Cures Woman’s Cancer
Mail Online UK – A cancer sufferer has told how mistletoe saved her life after she shunned conventional treatments. Joan van Holsteijn put her faith in the healing properties of the plant, which is more commonly associated with Yuletide romance. She turned down potentially life-saving chemotherapy and instead had injections of mistletoe.
Amazingly, it has worked wonders: the tumours in her leg are now gone and she’s well on the road to recovery.
TERRORISM: CIA, MOSSAD and RAW Involvement in False Flag Event
RENSE – The Christmas Day attempt by the Nigerian son of a prominent Nigerian banker and business tycoon connected closely to top Nigerian leaders to detonate a chemical improvised explosive device aboard Delta Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam Schiphol to Detroit was a false flag operation carried out by the intelligence tripartite grouping of the CIA, Mossad, and India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), according to WMR’s Asian intelligence sources who closely monitor the activities of the three agencies in India and Southeast Asia.
TERRORISM: Israeli ICTS Connection To Pollard and Schiphol Airport
RENSE – “ICTS is also linked with Israeli espionage against the United States. An ICTS board member, retired Major General Amos Lapidot, served as commander of the Israeli Air Force and authorized Israeli Air Force Colonel Aviem Sella, operating under official cover at the Israeli Consulate General in New York, and Rafael Eitan, head of LAKAM, an Israeli military technical intelligence gatherer, to accept U.S. Navy intelligence official Jonathan Pollard’s offer to spy for Israel.”
SCIENCE: What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us?
DISCOVER – The Boskops had big eyes, child-like faces, and an average intelligence of around 150, making them geniuses among Homo sapiens.
In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch. The location was Boskop, a small town about 200 miles inland from the east coast of South Africa.
BRITAIN: Could Be Coldest Winter of the Century
Telegraph UK – Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned.
They predicted no let up in the freezing snap until at least mid-January, with snow, ice and severe frosts dominating.
And the likelihood is that the second half of the month will be even colder.
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