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I was woken up a 4:45am by one of my readers, Josh Smith. He was up much of the night and wandering around the George Washington campus in Washington, DC, when he saw a line of limos arriving for the WTO/G7/IMF meeting. The police immediately pounced on him and ordered him to leave the neighborhood. But he went across the street to take a photo for me for I was now on the phone.
I asked for a photo and as I was talking, the police rapidly approached Josh and ordered him to not take any pictures. I immediately advised him to tell them, he has a Constitutional right to take pictures. Not to mention, walk in the neighborhood. They then said, they would arrest him for jaywalking.
I told him, he was following police orders to IMMEDIATELY remove himself from the same side of the street leaving him little choice. And I advised him to tell them, he was talking to a reporter. So they backed off but then trailed after Josh as he was talking to me. His phone went dead so I don’t know what else is happening.
THIS IS CLASSIC POLICE STATE TACTICS. Slowly but surely, we are losing even the most basic civil rights. Civil rights are now associated with race laws. But civil rights are really our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. Which were once in this scrap of paper we supposedly have based our country’s governance on. Slowly but with full malice, all of our NATURAL RIGHTS are being stripped from us, one by one.
I have many more civil rights in the wake of the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964. I used it to sue for access to classes that were once only for boys, for example. I used it to sue universities over discrimination in dorm rules, athletic spending, etc. I also demonstrated against the Vietnam War and other things in the sixties and seventies.
Now, we are in a situation where citizens suddenly cannot watch the international ruling elites. Unlike Europe, we barely have tiny demonstrations and these are held far, far away from the rulers. Yet, even just one stray individual frightens them so much, they have to harass this person and threaten to arrest him. Perhaps, taser him just to make it clear, the right to torture is held by the State.
IMF Protests Start Small With 75-Person Rally – washingtonpost.com
About 75 people participated in a speakout organized by Global Justice Action, a Washington-based anti-capitalist group, at Edward R. Murrow Park, just across the street from the World Bank’s headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue NW. Speakers accused the IMF, the private organization that oversees global finance, of contributing to the worldwide economic meltdown and creating policy harmful to people in impoverished countries.
The weekend’s events, which are scheduled to include rallies and “confrontational street protests” as well as a larger rally Sunday, were planned to coincide with the IMF and World Bank spring meetings.
Finding news about this meeting is like pulling teeth of a very irritable dragon. In the underbelly of the internet news stream, there is chatter about this. I was, unfortunately, very busy since Wednesday dealing with my husband’s deterioration in his mental health so I didn’t scour the news enough to detect any news about this meeting.
This is due to our mainstream media’s major blackout of this news. They are covering it….ON THE BACK PAGES. With not the slightest hint of anything on their front pages. This is classic: news is not news if the news media hides it. And they know this perfectly well which is why they conspire to hide it in the first place! Duh! After using their internal service, I found mention of this story hidden on the NYT blog, of all places!!!
Early Word: Spring Rituals – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com
Traditional signs of spring in Washington always include the cherry blossoms (now faded), and the bursts of color from daffodil and tulip beds planted all around the district. But the season also carries other annual rituals, like the gathering of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank this weekend.
Oh, how unprofessional. Making it sound childish: those stupid, deluded people are at it again, protesting! HAHAHA. The NYT blogger snickers with derision. Arriving along with the finance officials and central bankers descending on the nation’s capital will be their annual companions — thousands of demonstrators. This year, in the face of an economic crisis expected to hit developing countries particularly hard, the protesting organizations seem a bit more together than in previous meet-ups.
Oh oh. The annoying protestors are getting more annoying! Well, yesterday, they were small in numbers and menaced by the cops so they are being snarked to death by the NYT team of Powerpuff girls who are the team of bloggers paid big bucks by the soon-to-be-bankrupt NYT.
At 11:30 one group, Global Justice Action, begins a 5-K “Run on the Banks.” The traveling demonstration snakes past several banks, down K Street and ends at the I.M.F. headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue.
All of which is far, far, far from where the IMF/WB/G7 gangstas are meeting, of course. All of this in plenty of time for the meeting of the G-7 (Group of Seven), and a news conference by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner at the National Press Club, followed by a meeting of the larger Group of 20.
This is how the NYT can cover its ass and claim, they are covering the news, while not really covering the news. Since they insist on being ‘bloggers’ instead of professionals, I want to know how they get their special passes to go to press conferences while I can’t get the same courtesy, just for example.
When I was last in DC doing real reporting, at the hearing, I was the only one taking copious notes. My report was better than all the mainstream media because I mentioned the GOP walkout in the middle of the Bank Bail Out hearings! They hide a lot of stuff due to lack of interest in what is really going on, etc.
Her books are banned here, and the blog she has kept since 2005 is currently blocked. Still, with foreign media banned from much of the Tibetan plateau, Ms. Woeser’s blog, “Invisible Tibet,” has become one of the few reliable news outlets for those able to circumvent what is cynically referred to as The Great Firewall.
Ms. Woeser has been kept especially busy by a run of politically delicate dates, including the 50th anniversary of the “liberation” of Lhasa by the Chinese Army, which upended the Tibetan aristocracy and sent the Dalai Lama into exile. This year Beijing christened March 28 a national holiday, Serf Liberation Day, but among many Tibetans it was a time for mourning.
This year’s commemoration was made all the more tense by a security lockdown that accompanied the first anniversary of the riots in Lhasa in which 19 people were killed, many of them Han Chinese migrants.
This story made FRONT PAGE NEWS in the NYT. Like Darfur, Tibet is a favorite pony for the ‘liberal media’ to ride into the sunset. The same paper that doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Jews murdering, torturing or stealing from the Palestinians, always has plenty of press room for the poor, oppressed people in these two particular places.
Even when there is no news, the Darfur/Tibet game goes on the front page with ‘human interest’ stories. The Powder Puff Girlz at the Times don’t have any interest in the stories I report because frankly, the people I report about are not humans of any interest and in the case of demonstrators against the New World Order or pesky Palestinians, are not even human at all.
The Tibetan/Chinese lady is very brave and quite interesting, of course. I am very happy she makes the news. The Times reports, her blog is blocked in China. But isn’t blocked in the US. She is obviously, still blogging. So am I. Will the Times, which knows perfectly well, my name and who I am, will they report about me? Will they talk about how Haley Barbour flew to NYC in 2000 and demanded they cease hosting my internal NYT blog that I ran back then? Eh? I hear crickets chirping!
The NYT and WP editors know perfectly well, where I am and they studiously ignore my present blog because I annoy them. So they want us to think, only Communist Chinese do censorship. Well, bully on them. They censor like crazy. They either run disinformation campaigns against people who are not on the script but report pesky things, or they ignore you and hope you go off and die.
Now, here is the Reuters report:
DIARY-G7, IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington | Currencies | Reuters
Finance ministers and central bankers from around the globe are in Washington this weekend for the semiannual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on Saturday and Sunday, April 25 and 26. Finance officials from the Group of Seven and the Group of 20 met on Friday. Click on [G7/G8] for stories on the meetings. Following is a schedule of the top events. All times listed are in Washington local time/GMT. Saturday, April 25 1000/1400 - International Monetary and Financial Committee, the IMF's steering committee, meets. 1100/1500 - African finance ministers hold news briefing. 1530/1930 - News briefing with IMFC chairman, Egyptian Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali, and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Sunday, April 26 0945/1345 - Joint IMF/World Bank Development Committee meets. 1230/1630 - Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega holds news conference. About 1530/1930 - News briefing with Development Committee chairman, Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens, World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn 1800/2200 - Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens holds news conference.
Thin news, eh? No mention of demonstrations. In Europe, we get to see full coverage of demonstrations. The IMF and WB barely dare to have meetings, now, thanks to extensive demonstrations that are increasingly suppressed quite violently. They deteriorate into riots, now. But here in the US, we are now already nearly totally trained to fear the police who won’t hesitate to kill us. So we obey the new, UNCONSTITUTIONAL requirements that all demonstrations must be held in pens that are far, far, far away from any ruling elite who do not wish to hear from us AT ALL.
At the White House, Lobbyists Complain of Restrictions | 44 | washingtonpost.com
Under rules announced by President Obama last month, lobbyists are banned from making phone calls to government agencies about specific stimulus projects and must put all such communications in writing. Lobbyists may speak to government officials about general policy issues, the rules say, but all communications will be logged and posted on a government-run website focused on the stimulus plan.
An unusual alliance of groups, including the American League of Lobbyists, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), complain that the restrictions are unfair and impinge on First Amendment rights to petition the government. Representatives of the groups held a meeting on the complaints Friday afternoon with Obama’s chief ethics adviser, Norm Eisen, who was one of the original co-founders of CREW.
OK: the ACLU and CREW are both up to snuff, trying to stop the suppression of ‘free speech’….on behalf of the lobbyists! Whoopee! But where is the REAL free speech issue? ON THE STREETS. If the ACLU and CREW were to try to have a meeting about THAT with anyone, two things would happen: the media won’t cover it at all. And no one would schedule a meeting with them, anyway!
DPS, US Marshals merge to track fugitives
The state police and federal marshals are merging their special units that track Arizona fugitives in a move to save money while dealing with the growing number of arrest warrants waiting to be served.
“Basically, it’s getting everyone in one room in one building working together instead of occasionally discussing cases of mutual interest. It’s a great force multiplier,” U.S. Marshal David Gonzales said.
The aggregation of acronyms brings together the state Department of Public Safety’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team, called VCAT, and the Arizona Wanted task force of the U.S. Marshals Service. The merger formalizes a relationship among agencies to share information and manpower to track the 60,000 wanted fugitives in the state.
The ongoing merger of civilian/state/local law and transport authorities and the US government continues unabated. It began during the anti-Vietnam war demonstration years and grew greater after the IMF/WTO riots and then along came 9/11 which was launched by bin Laden, a black ops CIA guy attached to the Bush clan.
Now, under the fascist aegis of Homeland Security, we see an increasingly Soviet-style state forming. The right wing is in a huge snit over the leaking of the HS report about right wing organizations. Napolitano rushed to sooth the veterans who were singled out as potential terrorists. But the Real Rulers fear US disgruntled military. They fear all of us but the military guys are trained killers and thus, objects of great fear if they are not kept on a very short leash or driven insane, to drink and to the gutter.
U.S., China to sign billions in business deals Monday | Reuters
U.S. and Chinese companies will sign more than 30 contracts on Monday worth billions of dollars to American businesses, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said on Friday.
Companies attending the signing ceremony include FedEx Corp (FDX.N), Dell Inc (DELL.O), Lenovo (0992.HK), and China Telecom (0728.HK), the business group said.
The signing ceremony will take place following an annual meeting of the U.S. China Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum, which is being co-hosted by the U.S. Chamber and the China Chamber of Commerce for Import Export of Machinery and Electronic Products.
Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming and Acting U.S. Undersecretary for International Trade Michelle O’Neill are scheduled to speak at the event, as well as senior executives from the four companies listed above.
Note that this news story provides NO INFORMATION on when this ceremony, which the Chinese want us to know about, will happen. We get to know every possible detail about news in Tibet! The demand for news from Tibet is very high, the demand for news about the US is very low.
This story, I put at the bottom because I wanted to show how everything ties together. Since the IMF/WB/G7 are meeting today WITH THE CHINESE, this is the undercurrent story that is causing lots of sweat and fear at today’s meeting that the US news will not cover and they won’t cover the story in Xinhua news, either.
Now, I try to avoid wild conspiracy thinking about everything. Hard to do, of course, since we are surrounded by people conspiring against us! But here is a CHINESE headline, the official Chinese news avoids talking about Tibet news but talks about other important things that are NOT talked about in US news. And….it is about gold markets!!!!
I keep saying, the Chinese like gold. I said some time ago, they are buying gold, that is, as European bankers sell their official gold stocks, China buys this. This isn’t like India which buys it for individuals using jewelry as gold stocks. No, this is the CENTRAL BANK buying it….in anticipation of reinstating the gold standard! So it makes ZERO news in the Tibet-obsessed US media. But news in China!
Gold futures in NY gain for 3rd day in a row_English_Xinhua
Gold prices in New York rose for the third day in a row as dollar fell and China revealed its gold holdings.
The dollar declined against the euro after a report indicated German business confidence improved from a 26-year low. The weaker dollar added strength to the gold market.
China said on Friday that it had raised its gold reserves by three-quarters since 2003 to 1,054 tons. Some analysts believed it reflects China’s efforts to diversify its world largest foreign exchange reserves.
Gold futures for June delivery climbed 7.50 dollars, or 0.8 percent, to 914.10 dollars an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The Chinese are definitely moving world gold markets. In the previous quarter, Western hedge funds were heavy into gold futures. But that is totally different from buying PHYSICAL gold. This is probably why there was a total disconnect between physical gold’s accessibility and its price. The physical gold vanished from the open market. While the gold futures sailed downwards, no one could get the real thing!
There was a lot of talk about conspiracies. Well, the US and Europe bank leaders who screwed up the entire planet’s finances are running this massive psychological operation that is out to convince everyone that gold is worthless and paper is golden. This has been in operation most of my life, since 1971, to be exact.
Now, as it is obvious that gold is worth a great deal, the psychowarfare has increased, not decreased. The howls that gold isn’t ever going to be the basis of currencies for trade like it was for 500+ years, like around 5,000 years, this is collapsing as it is now quite obvious that China is preparing, alongside Russia, to reinstate this ancient, honorable system!!!!
THIS IS BIG NEWS! You won’t see it in the US media, of course. We live in a land that is more suppressed than Tibet.
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great. so what you are saying is ossama bin laden … well you wrote:”….9/11 which was launched by bin Laden, a black ops CIA guy attached to the Bush clan.”
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is this so? surely not! this would be too implausible for me to even suspend my disbelief. like the rogue colonel Kurtz in “Apocalypse Now”?
YIKES….See how great DARPA is? Bush also didn’t want the bin Laden connections to himself to be revealed so the best thing was to have everyone believe someone mysterious blew up the buildings rather than Bush and Cheney playing footsie with the Bin Ladens! Good grief.
I know this is HARD AS HELL TO BELIEVE but the real trail here goes through Saudi Arabia and is connected with the assassination of King Faisal due to his successful oil boycott during the Israeli war back in the early seventies.
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Tracing these threads is hard, I know, I know. But why were the ONLY people in ALL OF AMERICA who were allowed to fly out of the country, at all… the ONLY planes allowed to fly ALL OVER AMERICA after 9/11, for several days, NO PLANES FLEW except THOSE WITH THE BIN LADENS.
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I was furious about this. But look at how this vital information was sucked out of view by hordes of people screaming about mythical bombs in the buildings? See how you are being USED????? Aw…HAHAHA. Yes, the true conspiracies here are mind boggling in ways the conspiracy theorists can’t even begin to imagine how they are outrageously manipulated.
And I know no one believes me whenever I talk about Shadowlands, inside the CIA. They prefer the fantasy stories. Even as we see REAL lurid stories come pouring out of the secret side of the CIA, people want to cling to the very hypothetical stories.
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See how this works? Instead of pursing the CIA and SHUTTING THE DAMN THING DOWN, the CIA will slip the leash and remain IN POWER. This is why it is a waste of time, worrying about things that have no proof when we have PURE PROOF RIGHT AT HAND.
We know the CIA kidnapped and tortured people and to protect themselves they had lawyers lie about our basic legal rights as humans. And the CIA’s masters are running about, frantically yelling that torturing people and declaring them non-human is GOOD because it makes us SAFE. This false story has to be fought and not in a fog of belief systems whereby we must believe all sorts of stories before talking about the OBVIOUS things that are PROVABLE and TRACEABLE. We have a weapon in our hands, already! And must move fast, to take down a criminal organization run since WWII.
Well, the King might had been a right honorable man, but it was Soviet power threatening to enter the fray against Israelis that really spooked them.
Makes you wonder who the good guys are eh?
My parents knew him, personally. I did not because I was not allowed near any of the SA royals [blonde/blue eyed female, etc]. There are no ‘good guys’ in this world. Not on the internet, not anywhere. BEWARE.
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We can see that there are people all over the place with agendas of all sorts. Don’t go down the many rabbit holes that have been dug all over the fields of Reality. The secret meetings held this morning, for example, in DC, will decide how to deal with the Chinese threats to return to a gold standard, for example. And no one at these meetings will talk to us about it.
Napolitano , she had the nerve to tell the CBC the well known lie that the 9/11 terrorists came from Canada. Bet that story never hit the US media. Pure facism , you’re right.
Own slightly numismatic coins, they sell for a few hundred over their gold content, they are not a threat to government power, and they exist in a FIXED and DIMINISHING supply!!! The real price of Gold is at least $3,000 per oz. You can buy slightly numismatic 1oz. gold coins encased and graded for $1,200. Please people, the only vestige of normalcy in this world is gold and silver as money. Digital credits, and counterfit paper just wont work anymore. The Chinese see the writing on the wall and they want out of dollars, US bonds, and FRAUD USA. They want honest weights and measures. They will get what the market demands.
If rulling elites don’t cut the crap, one may imagine that eventually, there will be no choice but to pick off supra-rich ruling elite civilians, like how a kid picks off birds and squirrels, with his first red ryder.
Interesting is the announcement by China that it is actively adding to its gold reserves via internal (i.e, in-country) bullion cquisitions. This is exactly what Jim Willie stated when I last talked to him this past fall; that China was secretly accumulating. I suspect that they have more than they admit but by publicly stating a 5000 ton goal they ready the market for the price stability and perhaps an increase that will accommodate their future acquisition.
The timing of this announcement is very interesting. Just last week China and India stated that they would be recipients of the proposed IMF gold sales and now, shortly following, this proclamation of intent. These actions have had the effect of forestalling a decrease in the gold price, which of course, these repeated IMF statements are designed precisely to do. China heretofore has supported the US dollar but this action appears to fly in the face of that policy, though I’m not sure of their intent now. Perhaps they are playing a complex game where they are accumulating gold but also managing the price and at the same time supporting the dollar. They could do this if they were able to induce (or force) the G7 and particularly the US to dump sufficient gold on the market to maintain a stable price range, while the Chinese continued to accumulate it. Another possible
intent would be to stabilize the price sufficiently to induce the Indian market to resume gold purchases, which they will not do while anticipating any future price declines. This would further buttress the gold price and possibly permit a permanent penetration of the
$1000 mark.
And this could also be the beginning of the endgame, as Jim has previously outlined, where China assumes a lead role in world financial affairs and eventually, the re-imposition of a gold standard. Damn, my head is aching with all these possibilities!
President Kennedy had it right; we should have smashed the CIA into a thousand pieces. We can see the “payoff” for the sick mindset prevalent at the CIA, especially at the top. We as a nation get complete sociopaths like George Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc. in positions of power. These guys are the unavoidable result of years and years of inbreeding. The mindset of these inbred incompetents is that they are the elite of the elites, the best of the best. The rules don’t apply to them. Look at Cheney. The man is obviously insane, but he can get on Fox Propaganda anytime he wants and rant about how waterboarding people keeps America safe. Incidentally, among REAL professionals in the intelligence field, the CIA is a COMPLETE laughingstock. The CIA was/is so riddled with Soviet spies the Russian spymasters stopped recruiting agents; had more than they could handle already. No, I don’t think that is just a story either. Witness how long Aldrich Ames could spy for the Soviets–undetected. The quality CIA folks quit and write books about their experiences.
The CIA was spy central. I knew that the top people there figured everyone was a spy, anyway. By the way, once, when my dad was bemoaning all this spy vs spy stuff, I said, ‘This KEEPS THE PEACE. If they know all our secrets, then they know everything and therefore, won’t jump the gun.’
The Federal Reserve announced yesterday that they are continuing their stupid program of bailing out all the insolvent banks that they deem “too big to fail” upon the conclusion of Tim Geithner’s idiotic “stress tests.” And of course, it will be charged to the Treaury’s tab which means we pay for it.
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http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/04/24/stress-tests-998.html
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No wonder the Chinese are buying gold! As you’ve said, Elaine and Ralph, they want the gold standard and out of US Debt, out of the greenback dollar, and out of US fraud!
lets face a simple fact… china knows that were not going to bomb them for being capatolists… and that saving wealth, and creating new opportunitys regardless of western international prowess will win the day… so the banks can go fuck themselves… im right behind china on this one… we need to act like grownups, there is no way i have been paying thru the nose for this leadership only to wake up one day and realize that they BET MY WEALTH that 10 yrs from now THEY WILL STILL BE ZILLIONAIRES ON PAPER… and thats it??? thats what runs the US economy… digits in welfare elites bank accounts that allow me to feed and clothe them??? IMHO gold is a safer bet, it creates better jobs, and it requires better accounting and monetary security… imean its a system that has to work or people will steal from you… as opposed to what we got, people need to steal from you to have a system
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go ahead and pray, let the capable lead
Paul S. is rite… i think cheney is completely insaine… im not saying that we didnt get inteligence… but its evil, it didnt win the war, and he is wrong… thats all there is… torture is a waste… oyeah they will give you something… but its near worthless in 24hrs so you need to torture like 60 people to get a decent picture of what people really think… and by then word is out and most organizations have a plan B if there worth thair salt… we need to leverage our forces to win our battles, and that means like 20x less cop-out that what we got goin’ on… imean america is not driving this war the elite protagonist order is, and that means we are playing into our enemys back pocket… and you dont need to torture anyone to see clearly we are being slowly out-moded by raw violence ‘see torture’… america is in a hard place, we should have secured a victory much much earlier… now we are in a situation where only the banks won… i think israel is juicing us good, and we let them so that we can save face for who??? the military? the global elites? policy wonks? israel eat shits and sleeps US pain… and i probably would get labeled a terrorist in bettern’ half the world for thinking it
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cheeny is a kookie
and iran… hell im a crazy religoid too so we should be nearly cool given time… israel scares me cuz its bad policy or bad policy… i think if iran is as crazy as everyone says its a snap
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its like israels been playin the victim card for 60 or better years over there… and everyone just doesnt get it… hell i dont get it… fucking poor israel
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60 years till what fat boy??? we win afghanistan, i have no idea what we are going to do with a jaundiced ally like israel on one hand and a sideways moving regional military engagement on the other
China Hammers G-20 with “New Diversification Strategy.”
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http://tinyurl.com/cf7rou
Everyone know the Bin Laden’s were allowed to fly out of the country on 9/11, including the demolition squad. That story does not have legs because most people assume Osama is a black sheep and it was his ‘innocent’ family members being allowed to leave. Trying to educate people to the workings of physics and demolition did not begin to get legs for quite some time following 9/11.
Why does this subject cause you to become emotional and irrational? The truth will set you free. All of it, not bits and pieces.
Joe, you don’t know how the CIA is run. This is NOT YOUR FAULT. You can’t know! The CIA is made up of humans who belong to families who have black sheep. I am a black sheep. I am very similar to Osama bin Laden in that I want the CIA to be ended, not extended. He, on the other hand, decided to be a violent revolutionary. I wanted to be a peaceful revolutionary.
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The CIA loves to keep things enfamila just like the Mafia so they tried using Osama because they knew him since he was a toddler. But he outwitted them. I know this is hard for outsiders to believe but it isn’t hard for me to believe. I spent many years, causing the CIA a certain degree of annoyance, being peaceful.
China May Require Disclosure of Software Code, Yomiuri Says
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“April 24 (Bloomberg) — China will require manufacturers of digital appliances to disclose software source code as early as next month, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, without saying where it obtained the information.”
http://tinyurl.com/djpzhf
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The original threat came up last September, maybe even sooner, but was not limited to Japan:
“The implications of this are bigger than you may think. On my recent trip to Korea to visit Samsung I was surprised to find out that a lot of consumer devices are physically identical. Samsung makes the same panels for its own televisions as it does under licence for Sony, for example, but the software that controls it is proprietary, and accounts for a lot of the picture quality. The code is far more sensitive than the hardware.”
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/09/24/china-no-source-code-no-sales/
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China may be overplaying its hand. Faced with a strengthening Yuan, mandated wage increases for Chinese workers, and this blatant attempt to obtain, free of charge, the work of foreign technology companies, then those companies may just hop back to Taiwan, Korea, or other S.E. Asian countries. Maybe even the good ol’ USA.
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Incidentally, the phrase, “a Chinese copy” (something pretty much identical, but of poor quality), was around when I was a kid, so maybe it’s a cultural thing. Maybe the Chinese just don’t consider intellectual property ownership a valid concept. Perhaps they view these things as being gods-given to all, the humans involved merely being conduits. Just musing.
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Tried to post this yesterday, but Safari keeps crashing. Using Firefox, so maybe that will work.
While the consensus among american writers is that the wily Chinese are looking to replace the $ with the yuan as the international currency, I am not assured of that. I suspect that American writers are seeing the Chinese as just americans with a different colouration.
It is foolish to attribute to your competitors the same beliefs and goals that you have. It is foolish to analyze the moves of an “opponent” as though it were you making those moves.
Companies will only “hop back” to a place where they can produce. There are no television production facilities in the USA, and no way to turnkey one in less than a decade. Too many laws, regulations, impediments in the way. The only factories that can get started in the USA today are ones that are really Company/State partnerships like they Hynduai factory mentioned in an earlier article. The State will remove the impediments and then the company will build.
Those chinese copies from the 50′s were from Taiwan. The USA didn’t trade much with mainland china until after Nixon’s visit.
All China has to do is lock the Korean and Japanese rivals out of their markets. Say, they move their factories. Then, they lose a HUGE market. See how that works? We could do this BUT OUR RULERS WON’T LET US.
So I am noodling around the web on this fine sunday morning, looking for stuff for my sunday sermonette and dishwashing bash and I come upon some stuff about Swine Flue. It would appear that Mexico city has been shut down. Somewhere north of 200 deaths so far from what appears to be an unexpected merging of swine flue virus, avian flu virus and some other virus. Amazingly resistant to all the current flu vaccines too. ( Horrid news for Donald Rumsfeld who owns a huge share in the maker of Tamilflu ).
Unlike the avian flu scare of the past 5 years which has so far not panned out to be anything but fearmongering, this little visitor appears to be the real deal. And Mexico city airport does 70,000 passengers a day. Of course it is necessary to feed the populace bull shit palliatives “the situation is under control”. Whenever a govt voice actor tells me the situation is under control, I know that all hell has broken loose and that the shit has already destroyed the fan. Mexico City is 20,000,000 population and it is shut down. Shut down means that any civilian or entrepreneurial activities are forbidden, state activities are of course accelerated and re-inforced.
According to a World Bank guesstimate in 2008, a flu pandemic could cut the world’s gnp by 5% and leave 70 million dead. Such optimists. And is it not just ironic as all get out that this epidemic appears to be centered not in evil china but in our bestest Nafta buddy Mexico. One wonders how many of the drug mules will be “accidentally” infected.
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Sorry, CK, I was speaking from a UK perspective. My recollection is that the Chinese copies were from the then-colony of Hong Kong. Still, whatever. You’re probably right.
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Elaine:
I am aware of your point, but I was really just trying to show the possibilities. We are moving into a time of greater conflict, IMO. My point is really that China appears to be making an aggressive series of moves, presumably because they think the time is ripe. This is perhaps merely an early “Check” in a game that is very far from “Checkmate”. Whether they could, in the medium term, outplay a determined Western response (sanctions, tariffs, etc.) in the face of a global economic downturn remains to be seen. There has been a tremendous shift of the Chinese population into the cities, with much of the countryside having been transformed in such a way that it will not be easy for the former peasant farmers to return. My guess is that they have had their industrial revolution and hence, city-centric society, too late; that an overpopulated and soon-to-be food- and oil-constrained world will necessitate a return to a more dispersed way of life. I suspect the Chinese political class is riding a tiger.
When the UK was the “Workshop of the World”, it had the advantage of enforcing its products on its militarily-dominated and expanding empire (even as its own workers were kept in relative poverty or driven to serving “Queen (Victoria) and Country”. China does not quite have that luxury. I do not under-estimate the Chinese, I hope, but I frequently think that you under-estimate the possibilities for a US/European/Japanese response.
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Anyway, Elaine, in one way you have certainly seen the future, and it lives on a mountain, well away from the soon-to-be turbulent city.
All the best
Chess players should probably not try to analyze successful GO strategies. What one person calls aggressive moves, another might see as purely defensive attempts to protect oneself from the probable debacle of your main creditors bankruptcy. One expects aggression against the WOGS and the Slavs from the US/GB/FRG group. Or at least one expected it when those nations were unicultural. Not so much now. MultiCulti rules. And MultiCulti makes it less easy to blame the WOGS for the bankerster’s folly.
So anyhow, did some more noodling around. This Swine Flu mix virus appears to be hitting all round the world. And to go with it, Swine Cholera has hit in S. Korea and USSR.
The virus appears to be people spread, 8 kids from NYC just back from a field trip to mexico appear to have it. The guy who greeted Obama when he arrived in Mexico has died from it. Bunch of individual cases in various US states, suspected cases in NZ, France and Spain. It also appears, at least in the Mexican version, that this flu does its best work against the strong and healthy. The old and the very young are so far not in play.
I agree with Elaine regarding the CIA and its inner workings. This demolition stuff is just a flaming rabbit set loose to distract everyone from focusing on the obvious criminality of our government.
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Instead of organizing resistance to a criminal enterprise or forcefully advocating for the impeachment of our leaders, demo experts spend countless hours debating what explosives were used, how much was needed, where it was placed, how did it work, and so on and so on. I guess a jumbojet filled to the gills with aviation fuel and the impact force of a missile is not good enough for them.
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Now we have swine flu speading like a wildfire right through the epicenter of the global financial collapse. CIA? WHO? DARPA? Coincidence? Maybe, but watch our leaders do nothing or make the situation even worse, and then let loose another flaming rabbit as they “exit stage left”.
One of the things I read, claims that this new flu has dna from three different strains of flu all nicely married into itself.
And I want sharks with lasers too, fricken lasers.
In unrelated news from months ago, the columbian cocaine growers have been doing gene replacement therapy fron resistant strains of the coco plant to allow their agricultural product to be resistant to the aerial spraying of the DEA. ( Basically spraying a modified RoundUp on broad swaths of inhabited territory ).
So it doesn’t have to be CIA or DARPA or CDC or NIH or Fort Dettrick anymore that can create these tiny beasties.
It is a shame that the close cohabitation of chickens and pigs that is DC has so far avoided this evolutionary push from the virus kingdom.
Viruses have been at war with ALL living things since around 300 million years ago!!!! Gads. And viruses are AMAZING. They can screw around with their DNA in all sorts of amazing ways! I used to lecture about viral evolution. ‘They are at war with all of us oxygen-based life forms! This is a real war and the viral kingdom has biological warfare methods we can’t even begin to replicate. Indeed, their chief weapon IS replication!’
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I have nothing but respect for Mother Nature and Evolution. They are, by the way one of the main controllers of the Cave of Wealth and DEATH.
Yes, bubba, that will be the general form of the second generation of the ‘American’ Revolution, which I put in scare quotes because this next revolution, fought for the same principles of freedom, equality and justice as the American Revolution was, will be fought globally.
And to my mind, the Rothchild clan is at the top of the list, since they are sort of the keystone of the whole wretched Ruling Elite mess.
This is why the returning veterans have been declared Enemies of the State: the State is owned and operated by the Ruling Elites, who are parasitic vermin, and must be removed from control if humanity has any hope of making true forward progress from here.
Viruses can snip DNA from nearly anything they wish. This is due to the fact that they are basically mobile DNA packet replication/delivery systems. Humans work very hard to gain the skills the viral horde gained long, long, long, LONG ago. Every habitable planet in the Universe probably have viruses which can be based on silica systems, for example. In the earliest evolutionary days, the viruses were the equivalent of army tanks or even better, Predator Assassin robots. All the unprotected DNA chains were ruthlessly attacked.
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And yes, the Hong Kong-type flues tend to hit certain age groups due to generational differentials: the older generation has antibodies from the previous flu epidemic and this is passed onto the smaller children but this protection fades by puberty. Thus, these epidemics are usually confined to the 16-30 year olds.
Elaine, I have no doubt what you say about Bin Laden and the CIA is true. It is irrelevent to my point. Your version of that days events is not exclusive to mine.
The point is that you need to stop blaming and attacking 911 truthers. It was not the demolition story that deflected real investigation. You are on the same side. i understand how darpa and disinformation works. Not as well as physics though.
Wrong. No one and I do mean NO ONE can even mention 9/11, bin Laden or NOTHING without a bunch of howling about bombs in the building and other funky things that are utterly at odds with everything known.
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I must be the last of the people online that still bothers talking about all this. The inability to mention anything at all is now so complete, we are reduced to talking about CIA torture without talking about the whole CIA involvement with the entire bin Laden clan and how Bush Sr ran the CIA at the same time my dad was intersecting with the communist Chinese and the Saudi royals.
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This is all one big wad of wax and it is very important to understand how these things slowly develop OUT OF EVERYONE’S CONTROL due to both mass historic forces as well as mischief from insiders like Osama who is very much an insider, not an outsider. Wiping him out of the 9/11 story is INSANITY.
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Seriously, also, it helps to apply logic to things. The people who are the conspirators who are trying to run the planet are often too logical and thus, easily manipulated by people like Bin Laden who loves using propaganda and other tools to get his own way.
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For example, he knew Bush couldn’t arrest him because then he would talk about Bush’s daddy’s connections to the CIA and to bin Laden’s crazy family! And this would blow everything up in the Bushes faces! This is why I knew Bush would never get bin Laden.
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There are so many funny things involved in this battle of wits and I would suggest, stepping back and relooking at things to see how they look from Osama’s point of view which is VERY cynical, for obvious reasons [like me, he used to spy on his family].
Osama was amusing himself so very much, when Bush was running for reelection, Osama released a video where he ENDORSED making Bush run things for 4 more years. He even cheerfully explained that this would utterly ruin the US finances which was fine with him since his goal is to bankrupt the US.
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I can imagine his howls of laughter when Bush and his gang used these tapes making fun of voting for Bush as the reason we should vote for Bush! The irony of all this was utterly over the heads of our media, of course.