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UK Confirms Killing Afghan Civilians
Wednesday, 06 July 2011 07:19

“On 25 March, a UK Reaper was tasked to engage and destroy two pickup trucks,” the defense ministry said on Wednesday. “Sadly, four Afghan civilians were also killed and a further two Afghan civilians were injured,” AFP quoted the ministry as saying.’
Database Boasts It Will Track Web Behaviour Of Everyone In UK
By Stephen Foley in New York
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
A British advertising company claims to have built the world’s largest database of individuals’ internet behaviour, which it says will track “almost 100 per cent” of the UK population.
The announcement plunges WPP straight into the middle of the privacy debate surrounding online marketing. The company said it was pooling data from many of the world’s major websites, networks of online advertisers and even sources following what people are buying in high street stores.
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FTSE 100-listed WPP, founded and run by the British businessman Sir Martin Sorrell, is one of the most powerful well-connected advertising companies in the world, and its clients include some of the most famous global brands. Many, though not yet named, are providing WPP with data about visitors to their websites as part of the company’s new database venture, called Xaxis.
“The internet is an advertising-supported medium, and much of the web is free because advertisers want to put messages in front of people,” said Brian Lesser, chief executive of Xaxis. “We are supporting the broader internet economy by improving the targeting of ads, while also playing by the strictest privacy rules.”
It has built individual profiles of 500 million internet users across the world, covering, it says, almost 100 per cent of the people online in the countries in which it operates, including the UK, US, Australia and eight others.
Privacy campaigners warned against the concentration of so much data about individuals, even though WPP insisted the information had been “anonymised”.
“Knowing the pattern of websites you go to makes it very easy to identify you,” said John Buckman, chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). “The greatest problem with data gathering is not from the people gathering it, but where it goes afterwards. When the cat is out the bag, you can’t put it back in. The safest protection for data is to never have it in the first place. The principle should be for the minimum amount of data to be captured wherever possible.”
The EFF and other groups have become more concerned with the collection of people’s web habits since the wave of hacker attacks on corporations, including Sony and Citibank in the past month. Privacy concerns are also dogging internet giants such as Google and Facebook, who store information on hundreds of millions of their users.
New market research and technology businesses have sprung up to marry old-fashioned data such as people’s addresses and demographic information with their online buying habits. WPP will buy web-tracking services from these businesses, as well as collecting its own online-only data.
The company is promising advertisers “an unprecedented level of precision” and “zero waste”, so that only people likely to be interested in their products will see adverts. But Mr Lesser added that WPP could be trusted not to try to unscramble the data and match it to individuals. “Who the person is is not really important to us,” he said. “We will never get to the point that we know so much that we know who the person is.”
The advertising industry is trying to hold off privacy legislation in Europe and the US, where the authorities are considering new laws either to ban secret tracking of web users or at least to ensure there are easy ways to opt out. The latest browsers have “do not track” modes, and the ad industry has its own voluntary code, including a blue icon for users to click to give them more control over data collected about them.
The companies that know who you are, where you live and what you like
The latest skirmish involving privacy on the world’s dominant social network is about its use of facial recognition software, which suggests your name to friends if they upload pictures which include you. Yes: Facebook knows what you look like, as well as where you live, who your friends are, and what you had for lunch yesterday – because you, or people you know, have freely shared the information.
Using this data, the site is already selling adverts targeted specifically at you, and is also making money selling access to you and your friends to other websites. Although it is possible for each user to adjust their personal privacy settings, many complain that this process is ludicrously complicated.
The original Big Brother of the internet and gatekeeper for two-thirds of the world’s search queries, Google keeps note of what you are tapping, and personalises some of its search results and the adjacent ads based on what it knows about you and your habits. If you are a Gmail customer or have signed up to other services, it knows even more and tailors its service still further.
When Google bought the large online advertising company DoubleClick, it hoped to link data from users’ search results in order to tailor adverts on websites all over the internet – but regulatory scrutiny led it to decide against the plan.
Acxiom
The US firm has one of the largest databases used by the junk mail industry to target individual households. As the internet era dawned it saw the value in linking this “offline” information with online data, which it buys from e-commerce firms, anonymises and sells to online advertisers. It boasts that “unlike traditional consumer segmentation systems, [it’s database] is built and applied at the consumer household level, not at a postcode or block group.”
London Police Arrest 30 Protesters
Friday, 01 July 2011 08:18

‘According to media reports, the current peaceful strike across Britain is just moving to a harsh condition, as the police have begun clashing with anti-government protesters.
The Metropolitan police are once more exercising their kettling tactics to halt the industrial action, which was strongly condemned by Prime Minister David Cameron and other MPs, the Daily Telegraph reported. Hundreds of police forces are reportedly using the kettling tactics to break up the groups of protesters in Whitehall.
The protesters said that they were having a peaceful demonstration expressing their opposition to the crippling cuts imposed by the Tory-led government.’
Revealed: British Government’s Plan to Play Down Fukushima
Friday, 01 July 2011 10:22

‘British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known.
Internal emails seen by the Guardian show how the business and energy departments worked closely behind the scenes with the multinational companies EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse to try to ensure the accident did not derail their plans for a new generation of nuclear stations in the UK.
“This has the potential to set the nuclear industry back globally,” wrote one official at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), whose name has been redacted. “We need to ensure the anti-nuclear chaps and chapesses do not gain ground on this. We need to occupy the territory and hold it. We really need to show the safety of nuclear”.’
Read more: Revealed: British Government’s Plan to Play Down Fukushima
The truth about World war II
Did this man want war? Or did he simply want the freedom to be and independent, true leader of his own country? While being unable to do so because of the grip the International bankers had upon his nation. Again and again, I come across evidence that Hitler never wanted war and that WE did! And while we massacre innocents today in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere, it seems, from his words, we did the same then also. It REALLY makes you wonder!
Hitler’s Freedom
from Debt Slavery
It is always difficult to have a discussion on the topic of WWII Germany and Hitler, without having emotions run high. And understandably so.
History is written by the victors” — Winston Churchill
An interesting perspective on World War II, and the players involved. Many people take joy in saying Wall Street and Jewish bankers “financed Hitler.” There is plenty of documented evidence that Wall Street and Jewish bankers did indeed help finance Hitler at first, partly because it allowed the bankers to get rich (as I will describe below) and partly in order to control Stalin. However, when Germany broke free from the bankers, the bankers declared a world war against Germany.
When we look at all the facts, the charge that “Jews financed Hitler” becomes irrelevant. Los Angeles Attorney Ellen Brown discusses this topic in her book Web of Debt.
When Hitler came to power, Germany was hopelessly broke. The Treaty of Versailles had imposed crushing reparations on the German people, demanding that Germans repay every nation’s costs of the war. These costs totaled three times the value of all the property in Germany.
Private currency speculators caused the German mark to plummet, precipitating one of the worst runaway inflations in modern times. A wheelbarrow full of 100 billion-mark banknotes could not buy a loaf of bread. The national treasury was empty. Countless homes and farms were lost to speculators and to private banks. Germans lived in hovels.
They were starving.
Nothing like this had ever happened before — the total destruction of the national currency, plus the wiping out of people’s savings and businesses. On top of this came a global depression. Germany had no choice but to succumb to debt slavery under international bankers until 1933, when the National Socialists came to power. At that point the German government thwarted the international banking cartels by issuing its own money. World Jewry responded by declaring a global boycott against Germany.
Hitler began a national credit program by devising a plan of public works that included flood control, repair of public buildings and private residences, and construction of new roads, bridges, canals, and port facilities. All these were paid for with money that no longer came from the private international bankers.
The projected cost of these various programs was fixed at one billion units of the national currency. To pay for this, the German government (not the international bankers) issued bills of exchange, called Labor Treasury Certificates. In this way the National Socialists put millions of people to work, and paid them with Treasury certificates. Under the National Socialists, Germany’s money wasn’t backed by gold (which was owned by the international bankers). It was essentially a receipt for labor and materials delivered to the government.
Hitler said, “For every mark issued, we require the equivalent of a mark’s worth of work done, or goods produced.”
The government paid workers in certificates. Workers spent those certificates on other goods and services, thus creating more jobs for more people. In this way the German people climbed out of the crushing debt imposed on them by the international bankers. Within two years, the unemployment problem had been solved, and Germany was back on its feet. It had a solid, stable currency, with no debt and no inflation, at a time when millions of people in the United States and other Western countries (controlled by international bankers) were still out of work.
Within five years, Germany went from being the poorest nation in Europe to becoming the richest. Germany even managed to restore foreign trade, despite the international bankers’ denial of credit and despite the global boycott by Jewish-owned industries. Germany succeeded in this by exchanging equipment and commodities directly with other countries, using a barter system that cut the bankers out of the picture. Germany flourished, since barter eliminates national debt and trade deficits. (Venezuela does the same thing today when it trades oil for commodities plus medical help, and so on. Hence the bankers are trying to squeeze Venezuela.)
Germany’s economic freedom was short-lived; but it left several monuments, including the famous Autobahn, the world’s first extensive superhighway.
Hjalmar Schacht, a Rothschild agent who was temporarily head of the German central bank, summed it up thus. An American banker had commented, “Dr. Schacht, you should come to America. We have lots of money, and that’s real banking.” Schacht replied, “You should come to Berlin. We don’t have money. That’s real banking.” (Schacht, the Rothschild agent, actually supported the private international bankers against Germany, and was rewarded by having all charges against him dropped at the Nuremberg trials.)
This economic freedom made Hitler extremely popular with the German people. Germany was rescued from English economic theory, which says that all currency must be borrowed against the gold owned by a private and secretive banking cartel — such as the Federal Reserve, or the Central Bank of Europe — rather than issued by the government for the benefit of the people.
Canadian researcher Dr. Henry Makow (who is Jewish himself) has admitted that the main reason why the bankers arranged for a world war against Germany was that Hitler sidestepped the bankers by creating his own money, thereby freeing the German people.
Worse, this freedom and prosperity threatened to spread to other nations. Hitler had to be stopped!
Makow quotes from the 1938 interrogation of C. G. Rakovsky, one of the [Jewish] founders of Soviet Bolshevism and a Trotsky intimate. Rakovsky was tried in show trials in the USSR under Stalin. According to Rakovsky, Hitler was at first funded by the international bankers, through the bankers’ agent Hjalmar Schacht. The bankers financed Hitler in order to control Stalin, who had usurped power from their agent Trotsky. Then Hitler became an even bigger threat than Stalin when Hitler started printing his own money. (Stalin came to power in 1922, which was eleven years before Hitler came to power.)
Rakovsky said:
“Hitler took over the privilege of manufacturing money, and not only physical moneys, but also financial ones. He took over the machinery of forgery and put it to work for the benefit of the people. Can you possibly imagine what would have come if this had infected a number of other states?” (Henry Makow, “Hitler Did Not Want War,” March 21, 2004).
Economist Henry C. K. Liu writes of Germany’s remarkable transformation:
“The Nazis came to power in 1933 when the German economy was in total collapse, with ruinous war-reparation obligations and zero prospects for foreign investment or credit. Through an independent monetary policy of sovereign credit and a full- employment public- works program, the Third Reich was able to turn a bankrupt Germany, stripped of overseas colonies, into the strongest economy in Europe within four years, even before armament spending began.” (Henry C. K. Liu, “Nazism and the German Economic Miracle,” Asia Times (May 24, 2005).
In Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People (1984), Sheldon Emry commented:
“Germany issued debt-free and interest-free money from 1935 on, which accounts for Germany’s startling rise from the depression to a world power in five years. The German government financed its entire operations from 1935 to 1945 without gold, and without debt. It took the entire Capitalist and Communist world to destroy the German revolution, and bring Europe back under the heel of the bankers.”
These facts do not appear in any textbooks today. What does appear is the disastrous runaway inflation suffered in 1923 by the Weimar Republic, which governed Germany from 1919 to 1933. Today’s textbooks use this inflation to twist truth into its opposite. They cite the radical devaluation of the German mark as an example of what goes wrong when governments print their own money, rather than borrow it from private cartels.
In reality, the Weimar financial crisis began with the impossible reparations payments imposed at the Treaty of Versailles. Hjalmar Schacht [who was never a Nazi Party member either, and now it appears clear why that was the case] — the Rothschild agent who was currency commissioner for the Republic — opposed letting the German government print its own money.
“The Treaty of Versailles is a model of ingenious measures for the economic destruction of Germany. Germany could not find any way of holding its head above the water, other than by the inflationary expedient of printing bank notes.”
Schacht echoes the textbook lie that Weimar inflation was caused when the German government printed its own money. However, in his 1967 book The Magic of Money, Schacht let the cat out of the bag by revealing that it was the PRIVATELY-OWNED Reich Bank, not the German government, that was pumping new currency into the economy. Thus, the PRIVATE BANK caused the Weimar hyper-inflation.
Like the US Federal Reserve, the Reich Bank was overseen by appointed government officials, but was operated for private gain. What drove the wartime inflation into hyperinflation was speculation by foreign investors, who sold the mark short, betting on its decreasing value. In the manipulative device known as the short sale, speculators borrow something they don’t own, sell it, and then “cover” by buying it back at the lower price. Speculation in the German mark was made possible because the PRIVATELY-OWNED Reich Bank (not yet under Nazi control) made massive amounts of currency available for borrowing. This currency, like US currency today, was created with accounting entries on the bank’s books. Then the funny-money was lent at compound interest. When the Reich Bank could not keep up with the voracious demand for marks, other private banks were allowed to create marks out of nothing, and to lend them at interest. The result was runaway debt and inflation.
Thus, according to Schacht himself, the German government did not cause the Weimar hyperinflation. On the contrary, the government (under the National Socialists) got hyperinflation under control.
The National Socialists put the Reich Bank under strict government regulation, and took prompt corrective measures to eliminate foreign speculation. One of those measures was to eliminate easy access to funny-money loans from private banks. Then Hitler got Germany back on its feet by having the public government issue Treasury Certificates. Schacht , the Rothschild agent, disapproved of this government fiat money, and wound up getting fired as head of the Reich Bank when he refused to issue it. He did nonetheless acknowledge in his later memoirs that allowing the government to issue the money it needed did not produce the price inflation predicted by classical economic theory, which says that currency must be borrowed from private cartels.
What causes hyper-inflation is uncontrolled speculation. When speculation is coupled with debt (owed to private banking cartels) the result is disaster.
On the other hand, when a government issues currency in carefully measured ways, it causes supply and demand to increase together, leaving prices unaffected. Hence there is no inflation, no debt, no unemployment, and no need for income taxes.
Naturally this terrifies the bankers, since it eliminates their powers. It also terrifies the internationalists, since their control of banking allows them to buy the media, the government, and everything else.