Ten Reasons Why Gold is Not Yet a Bubble

By Louis Golino

Many people say gold is a bubble about to burst, but is that really the case? One of the problems with identifying bubbles is that one is not certain one exists until it has already begun to burst. I do not think that is the case with gold today, at least not yet.

1.) The average American is selling gold, not buying, because they need the money and believe the mainstream press, which keeps telling them prices will collapse soon because they are too high. In the late 1970's there were huge lines winding around coin and jewelry shops as everyone rushed to get in on gold. Today if you go to those establishments and wish to sell, you had better plan on being there a while because so many people want to cash in on high prices. Not nearly as many people are buying, at least at the retail level, in the U.S.

People at cocktail parties may be talking about gold's meteoric rise, as Dennis Gartman, a longtime commodity trader and author of the Gartman Letter said recently, but they are mainly doing just that -- talking about it. If you ask people if they actually own gold, relatively few people outside of the very wealthy and people outside of America in fact do.

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"Fair" Taxation

by Becky Akers

Pretend you're at church for Morning Worship, or attending a crowded lecture, or watching Hollywood's latest with a few hundred other fans. Suddenly, a SWAT team breaks down the door, submachine guns at the ready. Amid screams, their commander shouts, "Listen up! We're gonna kill 10% of you -- but the mayor was very clear that we gotta be fair about it. So, how ya wanna do this? Should we draw names out of a hat? Go through and shoot every tenth person? Maybe we oughta just work our way down from oldest and sickest until we get to 10%. Or ya want us to take volunteers first? I'm open to suggestions."

Yep, this is insane. Ditto if the mayor merely commanded the SWATters to rape rather than murder 10% of the audience. There is no "fair" way to commit such heinous crimes.

Why then do we insist there's a "fair" way to steal -- or, in the State's euphemism, to tax? Whatever we call it, taking money from people against their will violates both the Eighth Commandment and the Golden Rule. And it's always, everywhere a crime -- unless committed on the government's behalf. Our Rulers speciously exempt their employer, benefactor and god from its own rules.

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On War, Obama Has Been Worse Than Bush

by Anthony Gregory
[This is a transcript of a lecture given at the Austrian Scholars Conference, March 7, 2011]

The real critique of the wars certainly goes beyond the numbers. It is good, however, to look at the figures. Most people in the country know that Obama hasn't exactly ended the wars. I'm sure people say, Yeah, but Obama is ending the wars.

This claim is not obviously 100 percent false in every respect, perhaps. And so we need to be careful when we get into the details.

So, during the run-up to the ascension of Obama to the throne, he was critical of the Iraq war. He said things like This war's lasted longer than World War I, II, the Civil War; 4,000 Americans have died (and of course Americans are the only people that matter in the war). More than 60,000 have been injured; we spent trillions of dollars; we're less safe.

These were very sound critiques of the Iraq war. A lot of us made these kinds of utilitarian critiques. They're almost utilitarian anyway. I don't think they are the most important reasons to oppose the Iraq war, but they are important reasons; they are sufficient reasons on their own, certainly. And Obama did sound better on the Iraq war than Bush or McCain.

At the same time ? and this is forgotten ? he always was worse on Afghanistan. The Democrats, from Kerry to Obama, were always worse on Afghanistan. Obama's position paper said he's been calling for more troops and resources for the war in Afghanistan for years; he would divert resources from Iraq to Afghanistan. To his everlasting shame, he has not broken this promise.

Another point I want to make is on Iraq. He wasn't antiwar; he was always slippery on this war. I want to just relay a couple of interesting points.

In 2004, the position of the Democrats was always We shouldn't have gone in; now we're in, we're going to have to get out one day, but it sure isn't responsible to talk about getting out now, because we need to be responsible; we need to fix the country, and then we'll get out.

In '04, in the Chicago Tribune, Obama said, "There's not much of a difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush's position at this stage."

Throughout the years, he voted for war funding once he was senator, and he defended his votes. Presumably it would be wrong to defund an immoral war. And in 2008, Obama hailed the Iraq surge ? a controversial policy harshly criticized by many Democrats the year before ? going so far as to tell Bill O'Reilly that the surge "succeeded beyond our wildest dreams."

In December of '08, when he was the lame-duck president, Bush signed the Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi leadership, which set the timetable for withdrawal. It was almost precisely the timetable for withdrawal that Obama had proposed, within a couple months.

So the official US policy, by the time Obama took office, was that the United States would withdraw the troops from the cities by June of 2009; and by the end of this year, 2011, the troops would leave Iraq entirely. That was the policy when Obama took power. He did not expedite that.

To his credit, he hasn't put all his political capital into stopping it, although even there I would qualify my statements.

Boots on the Ground

In Iraq, at the height of the surge, which worked beyond our wildest dreams, there were 170,000 US troops in Iraq, and now there are fewer than 50,000. Which, by the way, is about the number that Rumsfeld and those clowns said that we would need for the war. So, now that the war is kind of wrapping up, we're at the level that they thought we'd need to invade and conquer and occupy and win.

In Afghanistan, meanwhile, Obama has fulfilled his promises, unfortunately. Before 2006, except for a blip in July, there were about 10 to 20,000 troops. And then by the time Bush left office, unfortunately he ramped it up to 33,000 troops. By mid-2010, there were almost three times as many ? 91,000 troops. Throughout 2009, Obama has almost tripled the presence in Afghanistan.

Obama's first defense secretary, Robert Gates, who by the way was Bush's defense secretary too, floated the idea the United States might have to stay beyond 2011. And some Democrats on the Armed Services Committee have said, Yeah, we can't just withdraw. (I suppose you can't just go into a country and bomb it and stay there for only eight years ? that would be reckless.)

Figure 1. US Military Fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq, Per Year

Source: Calculated from data gathered at icasualties.org.

The total number of troops fighting wars under Obama has been higher than it was under Bush except at the end of Bush's term. At the first half of the Bush administration, which is when there were people in the streets shouting, "Bush is a war criminal" ? when the Left was correct about something ? there were fewer troops.

There were more US fatalities in Iraq under Bush, although the total number of US fatalities in 2009 and 2010 was higher than it was in 2003, and higher than it was in 2008, the last Bush year.

Let's say we had a third Bush term. If he was planning to withdraw gradually from Iraq and leave Afghanistan alone, I think the trajectory would have been much better than it is today, where Iraq is about where I think it would have been, and Afghanistan is much worse.

Obama also boosted private contractors by about a quarter in both Iraq and Afghanistan. As of January 2011 ? of course, this is government data and you'd be surprised how much they don't know what they are talking about ? there are 87,000 contractors in Afghanistan; 71,000 in Iraq.

There were more civilian contractors (including foreigners) that died in the first half of 2010 than there were soldiers. And some people are pointing out that shifting some of the burden to contractors obscures what is going on.

Costly Wars

Obama always said that we are spending way too much; we're going to go line by line in the budget. And one of the only good promises he made was to save money on Iraq. That's how he was planning to support everyone from cradle to grave. It doesn't really add up that way, but at least he wanted to cut spending on something big.

And he did cut the spending in Iraq. But the spending has gone up enormously in Afghanistan. Even adjusted for inflation, we see that, other than Bush's last two years with the surge, total spending was lower for most of the Bush term on the two wars.

Figure 2. Estimated War Funding by Operation FY2001?FY2011 (in billions of dollars, adjusted for inflation in constant 2011 dollars, as of Feb 2011)

* Calculated using FY02 metrics. Note: CPI years and budget fiscal years might be off by a few months, but this chart is still illustrative of trends with inflation. Source: Amy Belasco, ?The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11,? Congressional Research Service, March 29, 2011, p. 3. Consumer Price Index inflation calculated using the Bureau of Labor Statistics's Inflation Calculator, available online.

Obama criticized Bush for financing wars off budget. In his first year Obama had a big supplemental-funding bill ? another broken promise.

The Afghanistan war has expanded out of control, and the war makes no sense. The government says there are 100 Al-Qaeda members in Afghanistan, and so the troop levels are higher, more people are dying and they want to stamp out the opium trade. They can't even stop people from buying crack four blocks from the White House, not that they should try. This is the most ridiculous war. It's even a more ridiculous war than the Iraq war in terms of the idea behind it.

Meanwhile, Obama is drone-attacking Pakistan. He's expanded this war greatly. One or 2 million Pakistani refugees have had to leave the Swat Valley. It's one of the greatest refugee crises since Rwanda. Obama's bombed Yemen; he's bombed Somalia; he even threatened Eritrea, this tiny little country near Ethiopia, with invasion.

In a normal country, when your government says it might invade another country, people have a clue, but we're at war so much with so many countries no one even knows any of this stuff.

And on Iran, Obama continues to be belligerent when he caught Iran "red-handed" with that Qom nuclear facility. Iran reported that they had this facility that they hadn't really started working on yet, according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, in which the National Intelligence Estimate, the administration, and the International Atomic Energy Agency all say Iran's basically following the law.

Civil Liberties

Warrantless surveillance has continued, and it's been normalized. The TSA outrages have gotten worse. Now the Left thinks that you're crazy if you oppose the police state, and the Right is finally realizing the federal government shouldn't get to touch us like this.

Detention without charge has continued. Habeas corpus is gutted. Obama was supposed to close Guantanamo within a year; now it looks as if they are never going to close it. And even at their best they'll say we'll have a "Guantanamo Lite" within the United States.

Even when they said they would try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civil court, the administration's position was We'll try him, and we'll convict him, and if we don't convict him we'll still detain him. So of course the American Right goes crazy because how dare he be soft on terrorism.

Renditioning, this outsourcing of people to be tortured, has continued, at least on some level. In 2009, they renditioned a guy who wasn't even accused of terrorism. He was accused of knowing about supposed fraud related to defense contracting.

So they tied him to a chair; they deprived him of sleep; they told him his family was in danger, that he'll never see them again ? all the horrible stuff that happened under Bush, but he was basically a white-collar criminal at worst.

The drone attacks are through the roof; there's robot killing. Bradley Manning, the likely whistleblower with WikiLeaks, has been detained. And Obama used to say his administration would protect whistleblowers. I guess he meant protect them with steel cages.

We have the same basic trajectory on war, on spending, on civil liberties, on foreign policy; the Defense Department is as bloated as ever. People forget that both parties are the same on pretty much everything, and foreign policy maybe more than anything else.

For the full research, including a discussion of the Libya war, see the policy report, "What Price War?: Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Costs of Conflict."
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Anthony Gregory lives in Oakland, California. He is research editor at the Independent Institute. See his website for more articles and personal information. Send him mail. See Anthony Gregory's article archives.

This article is based on a talk delivered at the Austrian Scholars Conference, March 7, 2011. The research culminated in the Independent Institute policy paper, "What Price War?: Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Costs of Conflict." Thank you to Jennifer Lewis for providing the transcript.

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U.S. Government Loaning $500M for Solar Power Projects -- In India

By Terence P. Jeffrey

The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent agency of the federal government, says that it has $500 million in loans in the ?pipeline? to fund new solar energy projects?in India.

The $500 million in new loans will come on top of $75 million in financing that the Export-Import Bank has already provided this year for solar power projects in India.

?In fiscal year 2011 to date, the Bank has approved financing totaling approximately $75 million for four solar projects in India,? the bank said in a July 18 press release. ?The Bank also has about $500 million of India solar projects in the pipeline that will generate an estimated 315 MW of solar power.?

While in India last month, Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg, an Obama appointee, announced two of the new solar projects the U.S.-government bank will be financing.

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Lemonade Protester Gets Assaulted, Then Threatened With Wiretapping Charges

by Carlos Miller

This video has it all. A cocky lemonade protester with a camera. A pushy pseudo-bureaucrat thinking he owns the street. And a bumbling cop who creates his own laws.

It starts when activist Garret Ean sat on a public sidewalk during a farmer?s market in Concord, New Hampshire to sell lemonade during Saturday?s Lemonade Liberation Day.

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so glad he made the cop behave.... without the camera he would have been tasered or worse!

Love this guy..... where are the rest of you?

Robespierre.... where ARE YOU?

It is good to see the youth taking a stand and defending their rights! Laws are merely opinions that are forced on us. There are really only a few crimes that need be prosecuted...murder being the most obvious. Shutting down lemonade stands is only the tip of a very large and frightening iceberg. What we need is some way to protect ourselves from the police, and video taping is definitely a step in the right direction. By the way...why is it so hard to get video from the thousands of cameras around the various cities when police actions are called into question? They could have that video in 5 minutes if it is to prosecute a civilian, but it always seems unavailable when it could prosecute some thug cop. Just sayin'...

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But America IS A Police State

by Steven Greenhut

Six Fullerton cops, responding to a phone call alleging that someone in the downtown area might be breaking into cars, approached a 130-pound homeless man named Kelly Thomas, grabbed his backpack and, according to eyewitnesses, began Tasering him and beating him into a pulp. He died a few days later at a local hospital.

According to eyewitnesses, Thomas, although schizophrenic, did nothing to warrant arrest, let alone a savage beating. He was a local fixture around the bar scene, a gentle figure who bummed cigarettes and slept in the park. Videos made by bystanders showed pure aggression on the part of the cops, while locals expressed horror and Thomas cried out for his dad as he was being beaten.

In my column about this apparent act of police thuggery, I quoted Jim Ewert, general counsel of the California Newspaper Publishers Association, who calls California a "secret police state." Some readers no doubt find this description to be too much for their tender sensibilities. So I want to recount some of the ways the authorities have behaved during and after the incident, and then ask this question: Does this typical behavior better reflect the policies of a free society or a police state?

1. Officers responded to a nonviolent call with overwhelming violent force.

2. Police confiscated the video camera of a bystander who was standing nearby taping the ongoing incident, thereby limiting the ability of the public to see what actually took place and obliterating the freedom of the person doing the taping.

3. The offending officers were allowed to review the official videotape recorded on a bus-depot camera before filing their police reports. This allowed them to get their stories straight before going on the record. Here we see a horrendous double standard ? the rules for the authorities are different than the rules for the subjects.

4. The district attorney?s office has refused to release the official video, arguing that it would taint a jury.

5. The DA has been busy downplaying the incident in the local media, arguing, for instance, that the police had no intent to kill, as if anyone really thought they had premeditated a murder. DA?s rarely if ever file charges against police officers for police brutality. I?ve dealt with this particular DA in the past during other use of force issues and he always is quick to exonerate any police misbehavior in such cases. The DA doesn?t seem concerned that his statements would taint a jury.

6. The law is written in such a way that even if the DA were serious about cracking down on police brutality, he would be hard-pressed to do so. An officer is allowed to use deadly force if he believes that his life were in danger, and of course such officers always claim that their lives were in danger, no matter the facts involved in the case.

7. The police department has released disinformation to suggest that Thomas got what was coming to him. The Fullerton PD spokesman released a report claiming that the officers had suffered broken bones in the scuffle, which was not true. The department released a menacing photograph of Thomas that does not actually appear to be Thomas, according to those who know him.

8. It took the department 30 days to put these thugs on administrative leave ? i.e., paid vacation. The department refuses to release the name of the killers. State law makes it illegal for the city to release any information about the accused killers and their previous misbehavior.

9. The six Fullerton PD officers refuse to be interviewed by the DA. Unwilling to deal with the tough questions, the police chief went out on medical leave ? the precursor to a tax-funded disability retirement. Try going on paid medical leave if you were too stressed after the police were questioning you!

10. After dozens and then hundreds of local residents showed up downtown to calmly and peacefully protest the killing and the cover up, city officials described them as a lynch mob and as terrorists. So officials act like a true mob and like true terrorists and are coddled by officials, but when the public gets upset and acts in a calm and appropriate and All American manner, they are depicted that way.

11. One councilman, a former police chief who hired the Fullerton cops in question, said on national television that the police did not necessarily kill Thomas. He said that the facial injuries ? i.e., his face was beaten so severely it was not recognizable as Thomas ? do not mean that the police caused serious harm to Thomas. He said the public shouldn?t jump to conclusions about what killed Thomas. Thomas was walking around and healthy, six cops beat and Tasered him and then he dies. But according to officials, that doesn?t mean that the cops had anything to do with the death. What would the police have said had a gang beaten up a cop who later died?

12. The local civil rights activists, who are paid by local cities and police departments to fight hate crimes and stand up for the downtrodden, are calling for more training of the police, more taxpayer-funded Kumbaya sessions and for more "outside" investigations handled by people with a history of whitewashing police abuse.

13. Some in the local mainstream media have been making excuses for the cops and making fun of the local blog that has done all the legwork on this story.

14. The state attorney general, who could be called in to investigate the killing, is being advised by one of the most thuggish police union officials I?ve ever encountered. She is trying to earn more police support as she potentially seeks higher office.

15. Police officials and unions are of course circling the wagons and claiming that we cannot judge the split-second decisions made by officers in the heat of the moment, even though six large armed police were up against one tiny unarmed man and it was the police who started the altercation ? one that lasted much longer than a few split seconds.

16. The police union hired an attorney to send a threatening letter to a blogger who had been covering the incident, knowing full well that most bloggers don?t have the wherewithal to fight these threatened SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) suits.

17. FYI, Fullerton police have been subject to various scandals involving officers ? ranging from theft to drug use to sexual misbehavior in a squad car and official sources have offered a variety of excuses, mostly related to the stresses of the job. There?s a clear pattern of special treatment for officers compared to the treatment received by the public.

The only difference in Fullerton from the many other instances of police thuggery I have covered in California is that the public doesn?t seem to be buying the excuses and seems genuinely mad at what has happened.

But a recent story in Sacramento reports on how Elk Grove police fired an assault rifle at point-blank range at a handcuffed man in the back of a patrol car. The district attorney, of course, found that the officer feared for his life and did nothing wrong.

And reports this week show that BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) officials shut down all cellular service after believing that people angry at the police killing of a man on July 3 would be using their cell phones to organize a protest. Perish the thought that anyone be allowed to hold a non-violent protest on BART property.

This is the same BART where an officer, Johannes Mehserle, shot to death an unarmed and prostrate man named Oscar Grant in the back. Mehserle received a two-year slap-on-the-wrist sentence for involuntary manslaughter and has been treated as a martyr by police unions angered that a DA would dare prosecute a killer cop. This was the first time in California history that a cop was prosecuted for murder for an on-duty killing, in case any readers think that this prosecution undermines my point.

Meanwhile, police are increasingly arresting onlookers who videotape police doing such things. Without the videotape Mehserle would be on the job and there would be no angry Fullerton residents protesting. No wonder the cops are grabbing our cameras.

Efforts in the Legislature to open up police records go absolutely nowhere as union-loving Democrats and law-and-order Republicans unite to do the police bidding. The courts continue to rule in favor of police secrecy, as this case involving cell phones and this one involving disciplinary records reveal. City council members not only fear the political power of local police unions, but retired police officers frequently win posts on the City Council.

Since 9/11, the public generally sides with the cops, especially in Republican areas such as Orange County.

Police can use deadly force at will. They can confiscate cameras and keep their own official videos away from public view. They can intimidate and harass writers. They can count on their departments to cover up for them. They know the "outside" investigators, mostly their colleagues and allies in the law enforcement community, will do the same for them. They can count on the media and the public to excuse them.

Yet some people blush at the term Police State.
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Steven Greenhut (send him mail) is editor-in-chief of CalWatchdog.com, author of Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives And Bankrupting The Nation!, and a columnist for The Orange County Register.

Copyright ? 2011 Steven Greenhut

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Anarchy in the UK?

By Anthony Gregory

All political labels are limited in their usefulness, and confusion abounds regarding most of them. When a certain political persuasion is being criminalized, it is particularly important to examine the principles involved.

If anarchy means chaos, disorder, lawlessness, reckless disregard for person and property, then the London vandals who set private buildings on fire and the hooligans who jumped on police misconduct as an excuse to loot in the service of their worldly desires were indeed practitioners of anarchy. One could conceivably argue that the word means absence of archy--meaning absence of rule of any kind, including the rule of law, which would render the word a proper label to affix to lawlessness and a philosophy that favors social chaos.

But the word has another definition, which means something distinctly different. It can also mean the absence of rule as in government. And here we have to ask, what is government? Again, we arrive at two possible answers, at least. Government can simply mean lawful order, organization, social hierarchy. Or it can refer to the political institution known as the state--the organization that lays claim to a monopoly on legal violence. Many who have regarded themselves anarchists are opposed not so much to social order or even law and its enforcement, but to the state, arguing that in fact the state as an institution inevitably acts outside the natural law in order to maintain its coercive monopoly.

Most of the London looters probably do not qualify as this kind of anarchist, a serious philosophical tradition that includes Josiah Warren, Henry David Thoreau, Leo Tolstoy, William Lloyd Garrison, Lysander Spooner, Albert J. Nock, Karl Hess, Murray Rothbard and many others. This is the approximate heritage of lawful anarchy that is explored and defended in the Independent Institute book Anarchy in the Law.

In London, the characterization of the looters and violent rioters as ?anarchists? carries very dangerous implications. This can be seen in the fact that the British police, about a week before the riots began, issued a warning for citizens to be on the lookout for and report anarchist behavior. What makes this especially disconcerting is the definition the British officials used for anarchism:

[N]ext to an image of the anarchist emblem, the City of Westminster police's "counter terrorist focus desk" called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers stating: "Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police."

As Brian Martinez pointed out, ?This wouldn't be so worrisome, had the police characterized anarchism in the uninformed and sensationalist fashion still common in mainstream media: that of radically leftist vandals intent on dismantling not just the state but the capitalist infrastructure that in their view props it up.? Violent thugs, in other words; the kind who show up at G-20 summits to smash windows and set fires.?

Instead, the British government was defining anarchism in a purely philosophical manner, declaring that it was the mere belief that the state is ?undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful? and so ?promotes a stateless society.? Yet when the protests erupted, the media jumped on the bandwagon of calling the violent looters ?anarchists,? making no distinction between believers in a peaceful philosophy of anti-statism and those who engage in wanton destruction of private property.

This conflation of anti-statism and violent thuggery is hardly new. House Republican leader John Boehner described some of the Tea Party attendees as ?anarchists who want to kill all of us in public office.? In 2003, the FBI was involved in heavy surveillance of anti-Iraq war protesters--people who were principally opposing the lawless violence being unleashed in the Middle East by Washington, a reminder that the bad kind of ?anarchy? is often a result of government planning--with one FBI official quoted as saying, ?it's obvious that there are individuals capable of violence at these [antiwar] events. We know that there are anarchists? trying to sabotage and commit acts of violence.?

This should send chills down the spine of civil libertarians all across the spectrum, since the United States has a poor record on the rights of so-called anarchists. In the aftermath of World War I, the feds rounded up and deported hundreds of such people to Communist Russia. Many of them indeed had some confused views on society and economics, to be sure, and some were hardly model citizens, but few were any sort of violent threat and none of them should have been damned to live under Bolshevik tyranny for their political views.

Many ?anarchists? who call for the disillusion of the state want to replace it with a social organization that wouldn?t work. Many do not understand the necessity of the market and other traditional social institutions. But even these ?left-anarchists? are not usually violent people. The looting done in London was mostly apolitical--it was a bunch of young folks, raised in a socially degenerate world destroyed by statism, particularly welfare statism, acting in their self-interest to seize whatever they wanted. The police responded in a violent way that hardly helped in the main. Gun control had long made it difficult for Britons to protect themselves. In the end, it was largely the people, including demonized immigrant populations, defending themselves and their communities from the violence, who were the big heroes--much as in the L.A. riots in 1992, when storeowners brandishing personal firearms maintained order in areas the police dared not enter.

As for the London inhabitants who actually identify as anarchists, their political and economic views are not my cup of tea. But despite what I view as their confusion about many issues, they tended not to favor the looting and violence. Even before the riots, they were targeted by the UK police for their opposition to the state, but they should not be lumped in with the welfare-state hooligans destroying private property. In a press release one anarchist group made it clear:

[A]s revolutionaries, we cannot condone attacks on working people, on the innocent. Burning out shops with homes above them, people?s transport to work, muggings and the like are an attack on our own and should be resisted as strongly as any other measure from government ?austerity? politics, to price-gouging landlords, to bosses intent on stealing our labour. Tonight and for as long as it takes, people should band together to defend themselves when such violence threatens homes and communities.

Britain has long been ahead of the United States when it comes to thought crime. Even before the London riots, their police were ominously going after people for their political views. Let?s hope the social chaos resulting from years of flawed government policies--in both social welfare and policing the streets--does not result in depredations on the civil liberties of anyone, particularly those whose only crime is opposing the existence of the very institutions that have failed to keep order and social peace.

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How Government Decides Who Is Qualified

By Anthony Gregory

An Air Force sergeant has been discharged for being a vocal ?birther,? someone denying that the president was born in the United States. Meanwhile, three ATF agents involved in ?Operation Fast and Furious,? a highly controversial plan to permit illegal gun sales that end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, have new jobs at ATF headquarters.

Now perhaps the sergeant should have lost his post--and for those who resent not being allowed to quit the military, maybe this exemption should be made more universal--yet I?m struck by the implied lesson here: Conduct that questions the legitimacy of the head of the U.S. government, however fallacious and misguided, will get you fired; conduct that violates the law and arms alleged warlords said to be great threats to civil peace does not necessarily preclude a promotion in your future.

The modern examples of this in U.S. government are too numerous to list. Hayek?s insight that ?the worst rise to the top? would seem to have an application not just in electoral politics, but all throughout the bureaucracy, including the state?s enforcement apparatuses.

A look at Obama?s appointments to high office would seem to confirm our suspicions that what would pass as poor job performance throughout the rest of the economy does not necessarily mean poor future job prospects in the government sector.

This does not mean, however, that government has no standards. Pointing out that official estimates for war costs are probably greatly understated can easily get you canned. Blowing the whistle on government atrocities will lose you your job and more. Simply standing up against established wisdom is a great risk, everywhere from public academia to the military, the federal executive branch down to the local police.

But arming dangerous criminals? There might be a raise in your future. Helping an illegal weapons trade coverup? You?ll be called back to a high-level counter-terrorism gig. Were you involved in multiple shady foreign policy operations, including an entire secret and illegal war in Cambodia? You?re just the kind of guy we need to investigate 9/11! Interfere with humanitarian aid to detainees in Iraq? Expect to be asked to run America?s biggest war. Shame the country and enrage its enemies with the most callous thing said in recent memory about governmental killing of innocent children? You?ll soon be made Secretary of State. Failed in predicting or dealing with the financial crisis? Expect to be reappointed. Shot a helpless woman in the head while she stood in the kitchen holding her infant? We expect to see you at the next major federal raid, as well.

Government accountability is practically an oxymoron, and this is not hyperbole. Because the state is a unique social institution--a monopoly on legal violence--it cannot be held liable for its actions in the same way as are individuals and private institutions. The only remedy is a vigilant public. And so where?s the outrage?

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Cops increasingly under siege after homeless death

By GILLIAN FLACCUS, GREG RISLING - Associated Press

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) ? Until last month, the most pressing issues in this quiet Southern California suburb were whether to build homes on rolling hills north of the city, how best to preserve a historic movie theater and a downtown bar scene that got a little too popular for its own good.

Now, the historic city that's home to five colleges and a vibrant nightlife is the target of international outrage after a mentally ill homeless man died following a violent fight with six police officers that was captured on camera. In the video, 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, who suffered from schizophrenia, can be heard crying out for his father over the zapping sound of a stun gun.

The incident last month has ensnared Fullerton in an ever-widening array of state and federal investigations, resignations and rowdy protests ? and things promise to get worse for the city before they get better. The acting police chief last week ordered an internal investigation into an unrelated, but volatile confrontation last year after reviewing cell phone footage that appears to contradict sworn testimony given by police officers in court.

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17-yr-old student arrested and jailed for wearing skirt to school

DOUGLAS, GA - A senior at Coffee County High school is on a ten day suspension and facing criminal charges for disrupting school. His offense, he wore a skirt to school. [...]

"School is supposed to be a safe place where you can express yourself and not be worried about discrimination or anything like that," says Bivens.

He says last Thursday he sat in a jail cell for wearing a girl's outfit to school.

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The FBI vs. Antiwar.com

Secret documents reveal government spy-and-smear campaign
by Justin Raimondo

It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and it was my day off. Sitting in my rather neglected garden, as the late afternoon light sparkled golden on the tops of the plum trees, I put down my book ? the 1995 edition of The Year?s Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois ? with more than a little annoyance. I was smack dab in the middle of a short story, ?Asylum,? by Katharine Kerr, a tale about a future military coup in the US, written from the point of view of a particularly earnest liberal with faintly radical leanings. The main character is a woman writer who is abroad when the generals take over, and is marked as an enemy of the state on account of her book, Christian Fascism: Its Roots and Rise. Her San Francisco office is raided and her files carted away. She gets a call from a friend before the coup plotters cut off all communications with the outside world: ?It?s seven days in May ? stay where you are!? She stays, but is tortured by the prospect of her daughter being in harm?s way: when communications with America are finally restored, she wrestles with the question of whether to pick up the phone and make a call that might endanger her daughter. After all, what if the Christian Fascists are listening?

The phone kept ringing. I picked it up with annoyance: it was our webmaster, Eric Garris, telling me about this ? FBI documents recovered through the Freedom of Information Act that detail surveillance of Antiwar.com, the staff, and specifically yours truly.

A word about the authenticity of the documents and their provenance: they were posted on a public website, Scribd.com: their form, including the extensive redactions, the acronymic bureaucratese, and the lunk-headed cluelessness which dominates the FBI?s corporate culture, so to speak, combine to verify their authenticity.

As to the content of these documents, one word describes them: bizarre.

According to a memo stamped ?Secret,? marked as ?routine,? and dated April 30, 2004, we apparently drew the attention of the feds when we posted a copy of a ?terrorist suspect list? [.pdf] which had been supplied by the US government to various corporate and governmental agencies, both here and abroad. These documents ? including one posted on the web site of an Italian banking association ? contained the names of those on a ?watch list,? the product of an FBI operation dubbed ?Operation Lookout.? The memo acknowledges the list ?was posted on the internet? in ?different versions,? but says the FBI ?assessment was conducted on the findings discovered on www.antiwar.com.?

...Continued

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Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Fed's Secret Loans

By Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz

Citigroup Inc. (C) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC) were the reigning champions of finance in 2006 as home prices peaked, leading the 10 biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms to their best year ever with $104 billion of profits.

By 2008, the housing market?s collapse forced those companies to take more than six times as much, $669 billion, in emergency loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The loans dwarfed the $160 billion in public bailouts the top 10 got from the U.S. Treasury, yet until now the full amounts have remained secret.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke?s unprecedented effort to keep the economy from plunging into depression included lending banks and other companies as much as $1.2 trillion of public money, about the same amount U.S. homeowners currently owe on 6.5 million delinquent and foreclosed mortgages. The largest borrower, Morgan Stanley (MS), got as much as $107.3 billion, while Citigroup took $99.5 billion and Bank of America $91.4 billion, according to a Bloomberg News compilation of data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, months of litigation and an act of Congress.

?These are all whopping numbers,? said Robert Litan, a former Justice Department official who in the 1990s served on a commission probing the causes of the savings and loan crisis. ?You?re talking about the aristocracy of American finance going down the tubes without the federal money.?

Peak Balance

The balance was more than 25 times the Fed?s pre-crisis lending peak of $46 billion on Sept. 12, 2001, the day after terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon. Denominated in $1 bills, the $1.2 trillion would fill 539 Olympic-size swimming pools.

The Fed has said it had ?no credit losses? on any of the emergency programs, and a report by Federal Reserve Bank of New York staffers in February said the central bank netted $13 billion in interest and fee income from the programs from August 2007 through December 2009.

?We designed our broad-based emergency programs to both effectively stem the crisis and minimize the financial risks to the U.S. taxpayer,? said James Clouse, deputy director of the Fed?s division of monetary affairs in Washington. ?Nearly all of our emergency-lending programs have been closed. We have incurred no losses and expect no losses.?

While the 18-month U.S. recession that ended in June 2009 after a 5.1 percent contraction in gross domestic product was nowhere near the four-year, 27 percent decline between August 1929 and March 1933, banks and the economy remain stressed.

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Arrested for Selling Lemonade, Activist Meg McLain Tells Her Story

Lemonade "Terrorism"
by Meg McLain

On August 20th, 2011 at 12:31pm on the Capitol lawn in Washington DC,?Kathryn Dill,?William Duffield, and I were arrested for selling 10cent cups of lemonade. ?The events leading up to our arrest, along with our capture and kidnapping were beautifully documented by several activists who came armed with cameras (see high quality video below); therefore, I feel no need to cover those details. ?However, once we were taken away, there were no more cameras to share our experience.

First, we were placed in a cage in the back of a van and taken to the police station. ?Upon arriving, police took Will inside, leaving Kathryn and I in the?sweltering?cage. ?The men in blue guarding our cage continually taunted us; making jokes and expressing their enjoyment of "locking us away for the weekend", and how our arrests were "marvelous". ?When it was my turn to enter booking, I was taken to a room where I was photographed, forced to remove my jewelry and shoes, then cuffed to a bar while an officer rubbed every part of my body, including my breasts and vagina. ?I was then led down the hall to a small room where I would spend the next 4 hours chained to the wall.

Officer Weatherbee was assigned to my room. ?He began a standard line of questioning, failing to read me my rights in advance. ?I was continually told I would be caged if I failed to give them every detail they requested, which included the names, phone numbers, addresses, ages, etc... of my friends and family. ?I constantly asked "Who was the victim of my supposed crime?", to which they continually answered, "society". ?When I pointed out that the majority of the crowd had been supportive of our cause, and that 'society' was not a person whom I could confront in a court (therefore eliminating my right to face my accuser); I was laughed at and taunted. ?I was also told that my friends would be arrested should they attempt to protest our capture at the police station. ?One officer smirked, "I can do this [booking prisoners] all day. ?Arrest as many as you want."

After a couple of hours, a man in jeans and a blue shirt came into my room with a notepad and paper. ?While I don't remember the name of his job title (Capitol Criminal Investigator or something like that), he basically explained that he investigated organizations that the government believed to be potential terrorist, and the "Lemonade Liberation" had become their newest big threat. ?Although friendly and very light hearted, he seemed?aggravated?with the lack of information I was giving him. ?He wanted to know who the leaders of the organization were [none]; where we held our meetings [we never had any]; where we are based out of [everywhere]; what other plans we had [none]; and a whole line of ridiculous questions that were geared towards finding dangerous, violent, angry people. ?That's not us. ?After several hours of friendly, yet inappropriate questioning, I finally asked, "Where is your line in the sand? ?At what point do you say, 'No. That goes too far, and I'm not willing to do that to peaceful people'? ?Because if you don't know where that line is, you're gonna blindly cross it one day, and regret it for the rest of your life." ?It was at that point he fell silent, then left without saying another word.

Eventually I was able to call my mom from one of the officer's cell phones (because their landlines were all busy), and she was able to contact Nathan Cox, who was able to bring my ID and the names, addresses, and phone numbers the police were?demanding they get before releasing me. ?I was taken to a room where all my tattoos were photographed, and multiple versions of my fingerprints were scanned; after which, I was promptly returned to my room and re-chained to the wall. ?Finally I was taken down a hallway, forced to put an ink thumb print on a stack of paper work, handed my copy, then given back my property, and told I was free to go.

It wasn't until after we were out that we heard about all the support that had poured in for us immediately after our arrest. ?We discovered there had been a massive call flood to the police station, which we realized had been the direct reason our captors became more and more friendly as our detention progressed. ?I also discovered that the police had attempted to discourage Kathryn and Will with lies like, "Those people with the cameras were just using you for their own agenda" or "they didn't give you a Lemonade Liberation tshirt (some shirts a few of us had made for the event), because they are not your friends." ?Luckily these tactics failed; however, I found it encouraging that they didn't even attempt this with me. ?I knew better, and the cops were aware of that.

Our charges were:
Vending without a permitUnlawful conductFailure to obeyWe have all been scheduled to appear in court on October 4th, and we are hoping that people will come out and show their support; be it for us, our cause, or the children who wish to create their own lemonade stand without being harassed or threatened by men with guns. ?Details about this event can be found?here.

While being arrested is not something I enjoy, I am honored I had the opportunity to participate in such a beautiful demonstration of innocence and peace; and shine light on how it is under attack by the very people sworn to protect it. ?But the real heroes of the day were those who ignored the threats of arrest and made their way around the police to purchase a cup of lemonade. ?To see a child shrug at a cops threat, then defiantly disobey it... it was inspirational, and gave me hope for the inevitable positive change that will come from all this.

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"A Wolf In Sheep"

"The interesting thing about today is that I had intended to write this piece on Warren Buffett all week. It was just really fortuitous timing that this Bank of America news came out today. Gosh where to start. First of all, this $5 billion preferred investment by Uncle Warren in preferred stock is extremely bearish for the market, the economy and the financial system. This is not an investment, it is political-economic strategy. It tell us so many things that we probably already suspected. It tells us that Bank of America did indeed need capital. Even worse they probably need so much that they went to Uncle Warren for five big ones so that people would just look the other way and gain ?confidence.? This is how out to lunch these guys are. They don?t understand that the root of the lack of confidence is that the people see a country devolving into a Banana Republic led by greedy oligarchs and politicians stealing everything in sight as the ship sinks....This is 1789 France folks as I have said many times before. Second, the fact that TPTB are resorting to Uncle Warren for everything now may mean the Fed is out of the game. No one has confidence in the Fed to come save the day so they need the next thing. That next thing is Uncle Warren. Unfortunately it?s not working and it is not going to work. You can see it in the market today. People are waking up. They are starting to see through the matrix. Buffett is a fraud and a shill. If you follow him it will be right over a cliff."

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Meg McLain Tells Fox News About Her Arrest for Selling Lemonade

by TalleyTV

This morning Free Keene blogger Meg McLain was on Fox News, along with Robert Fernandez, to discuss yesterday?s successful Lemonade Freedom Day. Despite being a nationwide event, it appears that there were only three arrests made on Lemonade Freedom Day and all were in Washington, DC. Everywhere else in the country, including Keene, cops used their discretion and ignored the open agorism taking place. Here?s Meg and Robert on Fox and Friends this morning.

Meg wasn?t given much time to discuss the abuse she faced at the hands of the U.S. Capitol Police Department but she did post the unfortunate details to her new blog, MegMclain.com.

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THANK GOD THERE ARE STILL A FEW GOOD PEOPLE IN UNIFORM THAT CAN THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

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Tensions Escalate As Egypt Deploys Thousands Of Troops In Sinai

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Egypt has deployed thousands of troops in the Sinai to tighten security as tensions escalate with Israel following Tel Aviv’s killing of several Egyptian border guards.

The deployment of the troops in Sinai would have violated the 1979 peace treaty between Tel Aviv and Cairo, which stated that Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula would be a demilitarized zone, but Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak agreed to let Egypt station helicopters, armored vehicles, and thousands of troops in the Sinai desert, the Economist reported.

The Israeli military killed five Egyptian security personnel on the Rafah border crossing on August 18, which triggered massive protests outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo.

Protesters have called for an end to the country’s peace accord with Israel and the expulsion of Tel Aviv’s ambassador to Egypt.

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Libyan War: Bloodbath In Tripoli As Gadhafi Loyalists Are Massacred

Libyan Civil War

There are a multitude of aspects to what’s going on right now in Libya, Tripoli in particular things I don’t know well enough – but one aspect is emerging and grabs my attention – a side-effect of the near-total liberation of the capitol is literally blood flowing in the streets. At least one journalist has captured some of the horror of it as armed butchers from one side or another massacre fighters and civilians alike in growing numbers all across the city. (thanks to Brian Souter for tipping me off to this story)

We seem to have little video of this just yet – can anyone recommend anything they see? Is youtube allowing them to be seen or not? Etc. Eventually, there may come some better understanding of what’s happening, but for now, what I run across or have dropped to me on the Tripoli massacres of late August, probably September, and fall of 2011.

So far I have one rather stark, and detailed, article by Hadeel al-Shalchi, AP, Aug 26:
Fight ‘the rats,’ Gadhafi urges as rebels push on
(Associated Press writer Rami al-Shaheibi in Benghazi and Donna Bryson in Cairo contributed to this report.)

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The streets where rebel fighters bombarded snipers loyal to Moammar Gadhafi were strewn with bullet-ridden corpses from both sides Thursday. Streams of blood ran down the gutters and turned sewers red.

By sundown the rebels appeared to have won the battle for the Abu Salim neighborhood, next to Gadhafi’s captured Tripoli compound [...] Outside his Bab al-Aziziya compound, which rebels captured Tuesday, there was another grim scene — one that suggested mass, execution-style killings of civilians.

About two dozen bodies — some with their hands bound by plastic ties and with bullet wounds to the head — lay scattered on grassy lots in an area where Gadhafi sympathizers had camped out for months.

The identities of the dead were unclear, but they were in all likelihood activists who had set up an impromptu tent city in solidarity with Gadhafi in defiance of the NATO bombing campaign.

Five or six bodies were in a tent erected on a roundabout that had served as a field clinic. One of the dead still had an IV in his arm, and another body was completely charred, its legs missing. The body of a doctor, in his green hospital gown, was found dumped in the canal.

There is a photo that runs with the story showing some of these victims laid across the grass. Mr. al-Shalchi writes that “it was unclear who was responsible for the killings.” It used to be clear to most that the exterminator col. Gaddafi was responsible for all such things. But after the rebels have been caught slaughtering their captives time and again, with greater frequency in this final push to the capitol, the credibility isn’t there.

Even in this extreme situation, where Gaddafi is again calling for a slaughter of “rats,” and some are taking him up on it – it doesn’t look good when hands-bound people in civilian clothes, and apparently Gaddafi supporters – wind up strewn across neighborhoods the rebels just took.

The “Freedom Fighters” will say – and is saying – the regime planted their own victims – those who “wanted to defect,” perhaps – in the rebels’ paths just to frame them. That it would work so well is not to the rebels’ credit. The story also mentions that “on Thursday they announced that their leadership was moving into the capital.” Wow, Mr. Abdel Jalil will be so giddy. It was just days ago that he predicted the fight for Tripoli would be “a bloodbath,” one he hoped to celebrate, at the scene of the crime, by the feast of Eid (August 30 this year).

More snapshots of freedom:

The [Abu Salim] neighborhood, where battles have raged for days, is thought to be the last major stronghold of regime brigades in Tripoli, though there has also been ongoing fighting around the airport. Many of the pro-Gadhafi forces in Abu Salim are believed to have fled his Bab al-Aziziya compound after rebels captured it Tuesday, and the neighborhood is among the few places in Tripoli where pro-Gadhafi graffiti has not been painted over.

Rebel fighters moved methodically through the neighborhood — some on foot, wearing shorts and carrying machine guns, and others in long lines of pickup trucks with weapons mounted on the back. They fired anti-aircraft guns and rockets, trying to clear buildings of Gadhafi defenders.

Some of the bodies in the streets were on fire. The rebels covered their own with blankets and left the bullet-riddled bodies of their foes exposed.

Civilians were in some of the buildings and caught up in the crossfire.
A mother ran out of one the buildings under siege, screaming: “My son needs first aid.” Behind her, the building’s glass windows were shattered and black smoked poured out of a burning apartment.

In Abu Salim, the hours-long barrage ended at sunset. Rebel fighters went door to door through largely deserted apartment buildings, occasionally dragging out suspected regime loyalists.

Some were dark-skinned men wearing cut-off camouflage and T-shirts. Their hands were tied behind their backs before they were driven away. The rebels have long claimed Gadhafi had been hiring mercenaries from sub-Saharan Africa to bolster his army.

And finally, “Rebels say one of their key targets now is Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte,” where stiff tribal resistance – that is, loyalist civilians, just as armed and civilian as the rebels but without an air force, are expected to put up a stiff fight. “I am appealing to the areas not yet liberated to join the revolution,” an official told reporters in Benghazi. “There is no excuse for them not to join.”

And, judging by the way things have gone in Misrata, Tawergha, Brega, Qawalish, Qawalish again, most of the Nafusah, az Zawiyah, Sabratha, etc., and now finally Tripoli, there’s plenty at risk, as well as no damn excuse, for those people of Libya to refuse to surrender to this popular revolution

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Babs Tucker Releases Statement From Inside Holloway Prison

Brian Haw

Parliament Square Peace Campaign Day 3736: AUGUST 25TH 2011

On Thursday 11th August, I was remanded to prison because they refused me access to a duty solicitor, the necessary disclosures and my own paperwork.

On Friday 12th August, I was ‘sentenced’ after they continued to deny me access to a duty solicitor, the necessary disclosures and my paperwork. Hence the reason for ‘Judge’ Evans descending to the court cells with his scribes.

A barrister from Birnberg Peirce Solicitors turned up for reasons unknown on the Friday, to confirm they were not acting for me!  They have also failed to hand over the necessary disclosures.

Such is an institutionally corrupt system.

The guy from Birnberg Peirce muttered something about their ‘good reputation’.  Clearly they are entirely ok with being responsible for their ‘clients’ being called ‘criminals’, however the ‘problem’ is clearly the consistent nature of our campaigning for an effective system of J.U.S.T.I.C.E. that actually protected the people….. EVERYWHERE.

If a ‘lawyer’ came on board doing justice, that would actually help to bring about the necessary change.

And all the ‘lawyers’ we have come across are just doing ‘cab off the rank’ misrepresentation, serving HM Government, end of.  They just want to keep their heads down and hang out with their clique. It becomes self evident that it is not a system of justice when your own ‘lawyers’ don’t want you to tell the truth.

This latest car crash style of justice only reinforces to me how important it is what we do. And it is only the ‘do-ing’  which can bring about change.  Look at how many people who write about what is going on.  But unless something is then done, to me what was written is meaningless.

I am using my time ‘inside’ productively and constructively.  I am in a cell on the top floor with four other women.  I am by a window looking out over a courtyard garden. There are quite a few women in Holloway who have been imprisoned because of the riots.

These are historical times we live in.

It is eye opening to think that if you are a ‘protester’ in Libya, the UN and UK have no problem with / will give you a machine gun, rocket launcher, arrange arial bombing so that people can, in their own words, “take matters into their own hands”.

I still think Brian showed everyone the best way of doing things.  I miss him heaps and remember his final words “Babs, our work is not yet finished”.

Much love, Babs xxxx

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Human Rights Abused, As 62% Arrested Over The British Riots Are Now In Prison

Press TV

Around 62% of those arrested over involvement in Britain’s recent unrest have been imprisoned while only 10% of them allegedly have committed serious offences.

The rest of the arrested people who have not committed any serious offences are to be kept behind bars for an unknown period of time. Human rights organizations have announced that the British government has decided to keep all arrested people in custody until trial.

The British Police have ordered Britain’s courts to refuse to bail the arrested even after they have been charged. The arrested people are to stay behind bars for a longer time as the British government has taken such an “iron fist” approach.

However, as the arrested people’s solicitors have asserted, 62% of the arrested have been imprisoned while they have not been arraigned. What has caused great concern among human rights activists is that only 10% of these people have been charged with serious offences and the rest can be released either on bail or without having to pay bail.

Nonetheless, the British government has refused to free them. Moreover, the British Police have supported the government’s “iron fist” policy describing it as an initiative that would prevent the spread of unrest across Britain in the future.

Meanwhile, the coalition government’s officials have clashed over taking such strict approaches toward the protesters. Former Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, rejected the British Prime Minister David Cameron’s remarks that what he called “twisting and misrepresenting of human rights” have led to the unprecedented unrest across Britain.

Campbell warned Cameron against any measures that would question Britain’s commitment to human rights issues. He asserted that tackling Britain’s unrest should not pave the way for Cameron’s interference in the principles of the Human Rights Act, which preserves the European Convention of Human Rights in British law.

These conflicts and concerns come as human rights organizations have stated that keeping those arrested over the recent unrest behind bars for an unknown period of time without arraigning them constitutes an example of human rights violation as they have called on the government to inform the arrested of their charges and rights.

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9/11 Heroes Not Welcome at Ground Zero

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First Responders– including police, fire fighters, EMTs and others– have been barred from attending the ceremony commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Instead, warmongering politicos including President Obama and former President George W. Bush will grandstand at Ground Zero, trampling upon the memory of those who lost their life while stifling the living heroes who have increasingly questioned the official story, the lack of care for those who got sick and other travesties.

Instead, responders enrolled in health care programs are screened through terrorism databases, literally adding insult to injury. What’s more, such databases are increasingly used by Homeland Security to control access to jobs, benefits and more.

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Norwegian Police Conducted An Identical Drill, Only Hours Before Anders Behring Breivik Launched His Deadly Attack

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reports today police sources have confirmed that hours before Anders Behring Breivik launched his deadly attack at a political summer camp on Utøya island on July 22, police had conducted a drill for a “practically identical scenario.”

“Sources within the top level management of the police in Oslo have confirmed to Aftenposten that the drill finished at 15:00 that same Friday,” the newspaper reports. “All of the officers from the anti-terror unit that later took part at the bombsite at the government buildings and went out to Utøya to apprehend Anders Behring Breivik had been training on the exact same scenario earlier the same day and in the days preceding,” writes Andreas Bakke Foss.

The bomb attributed to Breivik went off only 26 minutes after the anti-terror drill finished, according to officials.

Norwegian police characterize the “very similar” drill and its chronological proximity to the “practically identical scenario” as a coincidence.

Such “coincidences” are now routine during terror events. On September 11, 2001, the Air Force conducted the Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Guardian, Northern Vigilance exercises.

NORAD had trained for a scenario simulating a crash into a building (military officials insisted the buildings involved in the exercise were not the WTC or the Pentagon, although the actual buildings remain classified). The secretive National Reconnaissance Office also held a plane crash scenario on September 11, 2001.

On July 7, 2005,Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, a private firm on contract to the London Metropolitan Police, organized a bombing scenario that coincided with the 7/7 London bombings. “At half past nine this morning we were actually running an exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck standing up right now,” Power told the BBC.

On July 24, Webster Tarpley noted that the Norwegian terror attack provides a “telltale critical sign of a false flag operation is the holding of drills or exercises – allegedly for counterterrorism purposes – by the police or the military at the same time as the terror attack, or shortly before the real terror attack begins.”

Tarpley continues:

Once the drill has occurred, the capabilities, hardware, etc., which it has created can remain in place to be mobilized at the desired moment. The secret is that the legally sanctioned drill has been used to conduit or bootleg the actual butchery through a government bureaucracy whose resources are required to run the terror but in which there are many officials who cannot be allowed to know what is happening.

The Norwegian police have underscored the probability that the bombing of government buildings in Oslo and the meticulous slaughter at a summer camp were false flag events.

It is unlikely the corporate media in the United States will report on the suspiciously timed exercises in Norway.

It is even less likely they will draw the conclusion the events represent a false flag event engineered to keep the bogus war on manufactured terror alive and add hysteria to the pell mell rush to construct a global surveillance and police state grid.

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Voilent Riots, Wild Markets & Human Anger, Have We All Gone Mad? Or Are The Space Storms To Blame?

Rosalba O’Brien
Reuters

Rollercoaster financial markets and the worst riots Britain has seen in decades have made it quite a week for a time of year that is usually so dead the newspapers are filled with “silly season” tales of amusing pet antics.

Everyone is pointing fingers — at blundering politicians, hooded thugs, disaffected youths, bumbling police and greedy bankers — but could the cause for all the madness really be the star at the centre of our solar system?

There isn’t a lot of evidence pointing to little green men involving themselves in Earthly affairs, but the sun has been throwing bursts of highly charged particles into space in a phenomenon known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs.

Three large CMEs prompted U.S. government scientists to warn of solar storms that can cause power blackouts and the aurora borealis, or northern lights, caused by disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere, have been spotted as far south as England and Colorado, NASA said. “Earth’s magnetic field is still reverberating from a CME strike on August 5th that sparked one of the strongest geomagnetic storms in years”, website SpaceWeather said.

Some academics have claimed that such geomagnetic storms can affect humans, altering moods and leading people into negative behaviour through effects on their biochemistry. Some studies have found evidence that hospital admissions for depression rise during geomagnetic storms and that incidents of suicide increase.

A 2003 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta found that such storms could affect the stock market, as traders were more likely to make pessimistic choices. “Unusually high levels of geomagnetic activity have a negative, statistically and economically significant effect on the following week’s stock returns for all US stock market indices,” the authors found in their report.

It could of course be mere coincidence that this has been a rollercoaster week on the markets, and that Britain was rocked by a wave of ferocious rioting and looting.

But market watchers may take comfort from the fact that the space weather forecast for Friday has gone quiet again.

They shouldn’t be too complacent though. The solar cycle is on an upswing due to peak in 2013 and there are likely to be more geomagnetic storms heading Earth’s way in the months to come.

(Editing by Paul Casciato)

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'UFO' incidents at US nuclear missile facilities

How concerned should we be about incidents involving "UFOs" at nuclear weapons bases, including incidents in which nuclear missiles were disabled, incidents in which a live launch sequence was started, in the US, Russia, Britain, and elsewhere?

Patrick McDonough, USAF Nuclear Missile Site Geodetic Surveyor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmpaM0PqyI#t=19m20s

Charles Halt, USAF Colonel
(Deputy Base Commander at the Rendlesham Forest nuclear weapons facility in Britain)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmpaM0PqyI#t=9m25s

Bruce Fenstermacher, Combat Crew Commander, USAF Captain
(FE Warren AF Base, 400 SMS, 1974-76)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmpaM0PqyI#t=26m30s

Robert Jamison, USAF Nuclear Missile Targetting Officer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmpaM0PqyI#t=0m2s

Capt. Robert Salas, USAF / Pentagon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmpaM0PqyI#t=32m58s

US Press Association Conference, Q&A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmpaM0PqyI#t=43m04s

It may be worth noting that, if the origin of these objects is extraterrestrial, the circumstances demonstrate a profound understanding and intimate knowledge of mankind and our technology.

FURTHER READING

Did UFO cause power failure at nuclear missile base? Missile technicians claim sightings coincided with October outage
- 50 nuclear weapons lost touch with control centre
- Blackout lasted almost an hour says Air Force
- President Obama told of power supply interruption
(Daily Mail / CNN)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012406/UFO-cause-power-failure-Wyoming-nuclear-missile-base-say-technicians.html

"The Insider" mailing list article, 06 August 2011.

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