This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression

War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts.

Video: MSNBC – Bush creating ’embryonic police state’

Vaccines Found to Cause Diabetes in Children

Two new studies showing that vaccines increase the risk of diabetes have been published in the Open Pediatric Medicine Journal.

Video: Hemp – The outlawed plant

Stagflation is Here, and It is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

U.S. wholesale prices in July 2008 grew at the fastest rate since 1981. The cost of materials has risen 9.8 percent in the last twelve months, according to government data.

Common Purpose – takeover of British Institutions by Stealth

Former British Navy Lt. Commander Brian Gerish exposes the subversive ‘charity’ known as Common Purpose. The organisation functions as a grooming agent that has infiltrated the heart of Britain and its infrastructure. Catering to young adults deemed as having high potential, businessmen and women, as well as politicians on the county and national levels, it instructs them in a way of thinking that is detrimental to the national sovereignty of the UK.

MSM: Labour is Malignant, not Incompetent

This article needs no introduction, as Simon Heffer of the Daily Telegraph hits the nail on the head. Squarely. It may be a little dated now, but it maintains its relevancy.

Excerpts:

The problem with accusing a government, or any institution or person, of incompetence is that it seems to excuse its motives.

When we say, as we should often feel the temptation to do, that the Labour administration that has governed us for the past 11 years is incompetent, we should be aware also that we are saying the following: that, but for its administrative and technical failings, it would have done well.

I do not believe this to be true. Despite the sheen of reason that Gordon Brown and, before him, Tony Blair and their chums have sought to put on all they do, this Government has had dark motives from the start.

When one applies the doctrine on non-incompetence more widely, one hears other echoes. We have lived beyond our means not because economic growth has not, or will not, live up to its earlier billing, but because Mr Brown’s priority was to create a client state of feather-bedded Labour voters.

Knowing it would harm economic stability, he set about printing money and borrowing excessively to put people on the public payroll, and to cushion hordes of the undeserving, Labour-voting poor with welfare benefits. This was not incompetent, however it might look: it was deliberate and stunning in its calculation.

The element of deliberation and deliberateness in what Labour has done makes an accusation of incompetence, or carelessness, seem wide of the mark. Things were meant to be this way.

Labour has pursued policies, be they social or economic, for ideological reasons: and when they fail, as so many have, it has not been because of slipshod administration. It is because that was how things were always going to work out.

Indeed, this government has succeeded in almost everything it has set out to do. Much like how if a theif burgles your entire house, it is a success for him, but a ‘failure’ for you.

The full article follows.

MSM: Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism

The use of the word ‘stealth’ here is highly subjective, seeing as the ‘stealthiness’ of this manoeuvering is inversely proportional to how aware you are of your surroundings.

For example, let’s say you were legally blind and deaf, and an entire moving team walked into your livingroom and erected tents and hammocks to house various foreign nationals. Let’s also say that they then popped open bottles of champagne and threw a raucous party late into the night, totally trashing your house.

In that instance, it might be ‘stealth’ to you, because you cannot see or hear. To anyone else though, it would not be stealth, it would actually be pretty blatant, and repugnantly outrageous. So let’s keep that in mind as we proceed to this article – which in my opinion is very well-written, and serves to briskly highlight Barack Obama’s agenda for the USA, and potentially the World.

Excerpt:

Of course, Obama is too smart to try to smuggle such hoary collectivist garbage through the front door. He’s disguising the wealth transfers as “investments” — “to make America more competitive,” he says, or “that give us a fighting chance,” whatever that means.

Among his proposed “investments”:

• “Universal,” “guaranteed” health care.

• “Free” college tuition.

• “Universal national service” (a la Havana).

• “Universal 401(k)s” (in which the government would match contributions made by “low- and moderate-income families”).

• “Free” job training (even for criminals).

• “Wage insurance” (to supplement dislocated union workers’ old income levels).

• “Free” child care and “universal” preschool.

• More subsidized public housing.

• A fatter earned income tax credit for “working poor.”

• And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.

His new New Deal also guarantees a “living wage,” with a $10 minimum wage indexed to inflation; and “fair trade” and “fair labor practices,” with breaks for “patriot employers” who cow-tow to unions, and sticks for “nonpatriot” companies that don’t.

That’s just for starters — first-term stuff.

The full article follows.

New from Tetrahedron Films: In Lies we Trust, The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism

This article was submitted by RiverRat.

A movie exposing the criminal conduct of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies and the cooperation they have received from the world’s intelligence agencies. Their financial ties, their lies, and who dies.

Trailer || Movie

Narrated by: Leonard George Horowitz(D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H., D.N.M, D.M.M.)
He has come full circle over the past 30 years beginning and triumphing in natural healing. A “World Leading Intellectual,” once christened “The King David of Natural Healing” for his award-winning books exposing the drug cartel’s medical mischief, he is now focused on a musical event that may change your life and heal the world of nearly everything that ails it.

Dr. Horowitz made this documentary in response to the CDC and FEMA preparedness videos to counter the massive propaganda that they contain. He attempts to set the record straight as to the origins of many of the threats that now face the world and what you can and should do to be prepared for them. It is a compelling and very well documented expose of our own covert ops programs and how they are funding the pharmaceutical companies in their ongoing genocidal war against Americans and the rest of the world. He tracks the money and the careers of the players involved, their political ties and how they continue to pop up all over the place leaving their finger prints on outbreaks around the globe. If you ever thought something just didn’t sound right about an outbreak with a ready made solution, either vaccines, cures, or plans, to what was supposed to be a totally new and surprising threat then this video will help shed some light on the black ops that are the true threat to us.

Read the official press release here.

MSM: “Free” Trade is ‘simply good’, claims known advocate of Global Welfare System

Bjørn Lomborg, and many like him, enjoy idly tossing around this term “Free Trade”, which when defined by them, tends to not really be Free in any sense of the word. Unless it’s in reference to “Free-Reign”, as in, ‘The Free Reign of the select group of leftist roundtable organisations and central bankers who weild near-absolute control over our economies with virtually no trouble at all, for the purpose of redistributing our wealth’.

Lomborg organised the Copenhagen Consensus in 2002, which seeks to establish priorities for advancing global welfare, while he was then director of the Danish Government’s Environmental Assessment Instuitute. The Copenhagen Consensus’ ideas are all seated atop a theory of Welfare Economics.

With that as background we now see Lomborg in The Times of Japan, arguing for his perception of Free Trade. It’s important that we note the convergence of ideas in his article, as well as his astounding conclusion:

Global fear about free trade leaves the planet at risk of missing out on the extraordinary benefits that it offers. Free trade is good not only for big corporations, or for job growth. It is simply good.

Isn’t it amazing how these organisations that deal in ‘Cost-Benefit Analysis’, so often morph into round-table groups that attempt to conduct the role of politics? Politics is about setting goals. Analysis is about choosing the paths to get to those goals. When the two become one and the same, this is what we get, pre-prescribed policies based on terms that have undergone so much semantic drift as to carry a completely different meaning from the words that actually frame them.

The full and totally shambolic article follows.

Russia seizes U.S. vehicles

Russian soldiers today held blindfolded Georgian servicemen at gunpoint and commandeered US Humvees in a dramatic sequence of events in Poti, a key Black Sea port.

Video: MSM – Your country is bankrupt thanks to mispending of money you don’t have

USA’s Comptroller General sounded the alarm ages ago. Now seems like an appropriate time to remind people of this problem, you know, what with how much the Global Recession will cost you, as well as how much war against Iran might cost, and how much it costs to prosecute the war in Iraq and Afghanistan daily. Oh, and how much it costs to run a crypto-socialist welfare state. Just a refresher:

What people need to understand, is that this is part of a larger plan to create a North American Union with a new form of Currency. But more on that later.

Study shows “Spiritual” effects of mushrooms last a year

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The “spiritual” effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

Pesticides Persist In Ground Water

Numerous studies over the past four decades have established that pesticides, which are typically applied at the land surface, can move downward through the unsaturated zone to reach the water table at detectable concentrations.