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Iraq: Protest Organizers Beaten, Detained
Saturday, 04 June 2011 06:50
‘Iraqi authorities have detained, interrogated, and beaten several protest organizers in Baghdad in recent days, Human Rights Watch said today. Iraqi authorities should stop the attacks and charge or release those being held, Human Rights Watch said.
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a protest organizer, Isma’il Abdullah, was abducted, stabbed, and beaten on May 27, 2011. The Kurdistan government should make sure its promised investigation of the episode is thorough, fair, and transparent, and leads to the prosecution of those responsible, Human Rights Watch said.
“Authorities in Baghdad and in Iraqi-Kurdistan are keeping their citizens from demonstrating peacefully,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Iraq needs to make sure that security forces and pro-government gangs stop targeting protest organizers, activists, and journalists.”‘
War Zones: As The Economy Dies, Murders, Shootings, Robberies And Looting Erupt All Over America
Saturday, 04 June 2011 07:05
‘As the U.S. economy falls apart and millions of Americans descend into despair we are seeing some really shocking things start to happen all over America. The mainstream media keeps telling us that crime is under control, but they are also the ones that keep telling us that we are in the midst of an “economic recovery”. Unfortunately, the truth is that the economy is slowly dying.
Today, an all-time record 44 million Americans are on food stamps. That number is 18 million higher than it was just four years ago. When people can’t get jobs and when people feel deprived they get desperate. The incidents that you are about to see and read about below are very disturbing. Many American communities are rapidly turning into war zones. Sadly, it is mostly young people that are involved in the crimes and the violence that are now sweeping America.’
Study Shows that ‘More Than Half’ of Measles Outbreak Cases Had Been Vaccinated
Saturday, 04 June 2011 07:52
‘According to the Irish independent this week, the Health Service Executive in Ireland is warning of a measles outbreak whereby the blame is laid on visits to Europe by children. They claim that 1 in 5 cases, that they ‘had visited Europe or been in contact with someone who had traveled here from the continent in the weeks before they fell ill.’
They go on to state that apparently 42 cases were reported in Ireland this year. Of these, 8 were too young for ‘vaccination’ with ‘almost half’ of the remainder of cases, ‘almost’ half of 34, in children who were ‘unvaccinated’ with the MMR ‘vaccine’.
Doesn’t something in these figures not strike you as a little unusual?
Read more: Study Shows that ‘More Than Half’ of Measles Outbreak Cases Had Been Vaccinated
Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone
Saturday, 04 June 2011 08:00
‘Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day.
First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according to a Miami Herald interview with the videographer. Then they ordered the man and his girlfriend out the car and threw them down to the ground, yelling “you want to be fucking paparazzi?”’
Read more: Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone
Chossudovsky: US, NATO Clearly Going into Ground War
Congressional Research Service Confirms Big Banks Borrowed Cash For Next To Nothing, Then Lent It Back to the Federal Government at Much Higher Rates
‘Trading, of course, is supposed to be a risky business: You win some, you lose some. That’s how traders justify their gargantuan bonuses–their jobs are so risky that they deserve to be paid millions for protecting their firms’ precious capital. (Of course, the only thing that happens if traders fail to protect that capital is that taxpayers bail out the bank and the traders are paid huge “retention” bonuses to prevent them from leaving to trade somewhere else, but that’s a different story).
But these days, trading isn’t risky at all. In fact, it’s safer than walking down the street. Why?
Because the US government is lending money to the big banks at near-zero interest rates. And the banks are then turning around and lending that money back to the US government at 3%-4% interest rates, making 3%+ on the spread. What’s more, the banks are leveraging this trade, borrowing at least $10 for every $1 of equity capital they have, to increase the size of their bets. Which means the banks can turn relatively small amounts of equity into huge profits–by borrowing from the taxpayer and then lending back to the taxpayer.’
Bipartisan Congress Rebuffs Obama on Libya Mission
Saturday, 04 June 2011 08:29
‘Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional chain of authority by committing U.S. troops to the international military mission in Libya.’
Read more: Bipartisan Congress Rebuffs Obama on Libya Mission
UK – Insane Mass TB Vaccinations For Babies
Saturday, 04 June 2011 08:56
‘Thousands of babies could be vaccinated against tuberculosis amid concern over soaring rates of infection.
The number of cases has risen by 50 per cent in the past decade and NHS officials fear it is becoming out of control. Doctors and managers of health trusts in London – which has the highest infection rates in Britain – are drawing up plans to vaccinate all babies within six weeks of birth.
No ‘Conspiracy Theory’: Wikileaks Cable Confirms North American Union Agenda
Saturday, 04 June 2011 09:05
‘A newly leaked U.S. diplomatic cable originally written over six years ago confirms that the agenda to merge the United States, Canada and Mexico into an integrated North American Union has been ongoing for years, debunking claims made consistently by the corporate media and establishment talking heads that the NAU is a baseless “conspiracy theory”.
“The cable, released through the WikiLeaks website and apparently written Jan. 28, 2005, discusses some of the obstacles surrounding the merger of the economies of Canada, the United States and Mexico in a fashion similar to the European Union,” reports the National Post.’
Read more: No ‘Conspiracy Theory’: Wikileaks Cable Confirms North American Union Agenda
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