Obama to make $85 million from BP disaster?
“Goldman Sachs wasn’t alone either in its astute “foreknowledge” of the collapse of BP’s stock value due to the Gulf disaster as BP’s own chief executive, Tony Hayward, sold about one-third of his shares weeks before this catastrophe began unfolding too.
But according to this FSB report the largest seller of BP stock in the weeks before this disaster occurred was the American investment company known as Vanguard who through two of their financial arms (Vanguard Windsor II Investor and Vanguard Windsor Investor) unloaded over 1.5 million shares of BP stock saving their investors hundreds of millions of dollars, chief among them President Obama.
For though little known by the American people, their President Obama holds all of his wealth in just two Vanguard funds, Vanguard 500 Index Fund where he has 3 accounts and the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund where he holds another 3 accounts, all six of which the FSB estimates will earn Obama nearly $8.5 million a year and which over 10 years will equal the staggering sum of $85 million.
The FSB further estimates in this report that through Obama’s 3 accounts in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund he stands to make another $100 million over the next 10 years as their largest stock holding is in the energy giant Exxon Mobil they believe will eventually acquire BP and all of their assets for what will be essentially a “rock bottom” price and which very predictably BP has hired Goldman Sachs to advise them on.
Chomsky on Haiti - June 8th 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friday, June 25, 2010
Is US-Isreal planning to blockade and attack Iran?
Chomsky thinks risk increasing - June 12th 2010
On June21st DEBKAfile reported:
US-led armada secretly drilled bombing Iranian targets, missile defense with Israel
AP reported June24th 2010:
The US Senate and House of Representatives approved the legislation -- which backers described as the toughest ever unilateral US sanctions against the Islamic republic -- by crushing 99-0 and 408-8 margins, respectively.
The new measures, piled atop new UN Security Council and European sanctions, aimed to choke off Iran's access to imports of refined petroleum products like gasoline and jet fuel and curb its access to the international banking system.
Summarized by Willyloman
On June21st DEBKAfile reported:
US-led armada secretly drilled bombing Iranian targets, missile defense with Israel
AP reported June24th 2010:
US Congress approves new Iran sanctions
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Congress sent President Barack Obama a sweeping package of tough new energy and financial sanctions on Iran, aiming to force Tehran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program.The US Senate and House of Representatives approved the legislation -- which backers described as the toughest ever unilateral US sanctions against the Islamic republic -- by crushing 99-0 and 408-8 margins, respectively.
The new measures, piled atop new UN Security Council and European sanctions, aimed to choke off Iran's access to imports of refined petroleum products like gasoline and jet fuel and curb its access to the international banking system.
Summarized by Willyloman
Senate Passes Refined Gasoline Sanction as U.S.S. Truman is Probably Carrying Israeli Warplanes to Attack Iran
Think of them and be afraid
Palestinian Children in the rural village of at-Tuwani speak of their encounters with violent Israeli Settlers in the South Hebron Hills of Occupied Palestine.
Polish Plane Crash
A plane carrying the Polish president, Lech Kaczynski, and many of the countrys top leaders crashed as it landed in a heavy fog in the morning of April 10, 2010, killing everyone on board. The leaders were arriving in Russia to commemorate a World War II anniversary.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were killed in plane crash, when his TU-154, carrying an official Polish delegation, crashed in Smolensk Region,
On board the plane were former Polish president-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski; the deputy speaker of Poland's parliament, Jerzy Szmajdzin'ski; the head of the president's chancellery, Wladyslaw Stasiak; and the head of the National Security Bureau, Aleksander Szczygo. The group was on their way to Smolensk to visit the Katyn memorial site, for Polish officers murdered during World War II.
Notable passengers:
Governmental:
1.Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland
2.Maria Kaczyńska, First Lady of Poland
3.Mariusz Handzlik, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
4.Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last President of the Polish government-in-exile
5.Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
6.Tomasz Merta, Deputy Minister of Culture
7.Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland
8.Władysław Stasiak, Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
9.Aleksander Szczygło, Head of the National Security Bureau
10.Paweł Wypych, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
Military:
1.Lieutenant General Andrzej Błasik, Commander of the Polish Air Force
2.Major General Tadeusz Buk, Commander of the Polish Land Forces
3.General Franciszek Gągor, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
4.Vice Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Commander of the Polish Navy
5.Stanislaw Komorowski, Deputy Minister of National Defence
6.Lieutenant General Bronislaw Kwiatkowski, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command
7.Major General Włodzimierz Potasiński, Commander of the Polish Special Forces
8.Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison
Senate:
1.Krystyna Bochenek, Deputy Speaker of the Senate
2.Janina Fetlińska
3.Stanisław Zając
Sejm:
1.Leszek Deptuła
2.Grzegorz Dolniak
3.Grażyna Gęsicka
4.Przemysław Gosiewski
5.Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
6.Sebastian Karpiniuk
7.Aleksandra Natalli-Świat
8.Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
9.Arkadiusz Rybicki
10.Jerzy Szmajdziński, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
11.Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
12.Zbigniew Wassermann
13.Wiesław Woda
14.Edward Wojtas
Religious:
1.Archbishop Miron Chodakowski, Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army
2.Tadeusz Płoski, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army
3.Ryszard Rumianek, Rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
4.Bronisław Gostomski, Reverend of St Andrew Bobola Polish Church in London
Others:
1.Joanna Agacka-Indecka, President of the Polish Bar Council
2.Janusz Kochanowski, Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights
3.Janusz Kurtyka, historian and President of the Institute of National Remembrance
4.Piotr Nurowski, President of the Polish Olympic Committee
5.Maciej Płażyński, President of the Polish Community Association, former Speaker of the Sejm
6.Andrzej Przewoźnik, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
7.Anna Walentynowicz, one of major activists of the free trade union Solidarity in the late 1970s and early 1980s
8.Janusz Zakrzeński, actor
Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his wife were killed in plane crash, when his TU-154, carrying an official Polish delegation, crashed in Smolensk Region,
On board the plane were former Polish president-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski; the deputy speaker of Poland's parliament, Jerzy Szmajdzin'ski; the head of the president's chancellery, Wladyslaw Stasiak; and the head of the National Security Bureau, Aleksander Szczygo. The group was on their way to Smolensk to visit the Katyn memorial site, for Polish officers murdered during World War II.
Notable passengers:
Governmental:
1.Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland
2.Maria Kaczyńska, First Lady of Poland
3.Mariusz Handzlik, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
4.Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last President of the Polish government-in-exile
5.Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
6.Tomasz Merta, Deputy Minister of Culture
7.Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland
8.Władysław Stasiak, Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
9.Aleksander Szczygło, Head of the National Security Bureau
10.Paweł Wypych, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
Military:
1.Lieutenant General Andrzej Błasik, Commander of the Polish Air Force
2.Major General Tadeusz Buk, Commander of the Polish Land Forces
3.General Franciszek Gągor, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces
4.Vice Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Commander of the Polish Navy
5.Stanislaw Komorowski, Deputy Minister of National Defence
6.Lieutenant General Bronislaw Kwiatkowski, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command
7.Major General Włodzimierz Potasiński, Commander of the Polish Special Forces
8.Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison
Senate:
1.Krystyna Bochenek, Deputy Speaker of the Senate
2.Janina Fetlińska
3.Stanisław Zając
Sejm:
1.Leszek Deptuła
2.Grzegorz Dolniak
3.Grażyna Gęsicka
4.Przemysław Gosiewski
5.Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
6.Sebastian Karpiniuk
7.Aleksandra Natalli-Świat
8.Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
9.Arkadiusz Rybicki
10.Jerzy Szmajdziński, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
11.Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
12.Zbigniew Wassermann
13.Wiesław Woda
14.Edward Wojtas
Religious:
1.Archbishop Miron Chodakowski, Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army
2.Tadeusz Płoski, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army
3.Ryszard Rumianek, Rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
4.Bronisław Gostomski, Reverend of St Andrew Bobola Polish Church in London
Others:
1.Joanna Agacka-Indecka, President of the Polish Bar Council
2.Janusz Kochanowski, Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights
3.Janusz Kurtyka, historian and President of the Institute of National Remembrance
4.Piotr Nurowski, President of the Polish Olympic Committee
5.Maciej Płażyński, President of the Polish Community Association, former Speaker of the Sejm
6.Andrzej Przewoźnik, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
7.Anna Walentynowicz, one of major activists of the free trade union Solidarity in the late 1970s and early 1980s
8.Janusz Zakrzeński, actor
Did Global Elite Kill Polish President Kaczynski? | Regime Change By Plane Crash
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Zionism
Over the last few weeks, since the Gaza massacre, I have been researching Israeli and US policy in the middle east to try and wrap my head around what happened and why. I have always known that Israeli state policy towards Palestinians has been worse than Nazi policy towards Jews, but to expand this policy towards citizens of thirty countries, MP's, noble laureates, journalists, was inexplicable to me at the time so I had to investigate their motivation.
Well, after several weeks of research, "The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion" to date, appears to be the only answer to what is really going on in the world today.
This is a problem.
On the one hand, many millions perhaps hundreds of millions have been aware of this publication for many years, but personally I had never even heard of it.
This publication has been "debunked" on wikipedia, however debunked because it is plagiarism. That doesn't make it any less true. As someone once said, "if it walks like a duck."
The problem with "The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion" (TPLEZ) is that it rings true. Almost everything in it
It means that the "New World Order" = TPLEZ
Everything I have seen and read matches up to TPLEZ doctrine
Joe Biden: I'm a Zionist
Child Tortured, His Privates electrified By Israeli Interrogators
Israeli Lies Revealed By Tzipi Livni
Well, after several weeks of research, "The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion" to date, appears to be the only answer to what is really going on in the world today.
This is a problem.
On the one hand, many millions perhaps hundreds of millions have been aware of this publication for many years, but personally I had never even heard of it.
This publication has been "debunked" on wikipedia, however debunked because it is plagiarism. That doesn't make it any less true. As someone once said, "if it walks like a duck."
The problem with "The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion" (TPLEZ) is that it rings true. Almost everything in it
It means that the "New World Order" = TPLEZ
Everything I have seen and read matches up to TPLEZ doctrine
Joe Biden: I'm a Zionist
Child Tortured, His Privates electrified By Israeli Interrogators
Israeli Lies Revealed By Tzipi Livni
"Democracy is the preferred system because it gives the political power to the mass media"
David Frum: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox"
BBC Paxman: "What's the difference between Zionism and Racism?"
Do Zionists control the U S Government?
Jimmy Carter: US Candidates MUST do as Israel says
Invisible Colonization - CNN memo to staff: "We refer to Gilo as 'a Jewish neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem'...We don't refer to it as a 'settlement'"
American Mass Media is controlled by Zionists
Jimmy Carter - Palestine: Peace not Apartheid
60 Minutes - The Truth in Palestine
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
the horror
Fascism Enters Through “Terror” Door
The question is not whether fascists have held power in the United States, but why they have not yet been able to rule as fascists. The question may soon become moot, as the U.S. Supreme Court acts to further “dismantle legal barriers to actual fascist rule”
“The national criminal justice system is now set to operate as a recognizably fascist political machine.”
America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town
What we are witnessing is the destructive behavior of a predatory class that sees its future in trillion-dollar derivative bets; commodification of every conceivable resource (food, water, air?) and manipulation of every commodity market; privatization of every possible state function (schools, safety nets); constant expansion of the “market” in the maintenance of empire; and the “primitive accumulation” of the spoils of war.
The question is not whether fascists have held power in the United States, but why they have not yet been able to rule as fascists. The question may soon become moot, as the U.S. Supreme Court acts to further “dismantle legal barriers to actual fascist rule”
“The national criminal justice system is now set to operate as a recognizably fascist political machine.”
America Can't Solve Crises Because It's a Company-Owned Town
What we are witnessing is the destructive behavior of a predatory class that sees its future in trillion-dollar derivative bets; commodification of every conceivable resource (food, water, air?) and manipulation of every commodity market; privatization of every possible state function (schools, safety nets); constant expansion of the “market” in the maintenance of empire; and the “primitive accumulation” of the spoils of war.
resistance in canada - from lesbian and gay community
Town hall on free speech at Toronto Pride
One for Toronto's queer history books
Pride Toronto reverses ban on "Israeli Apartheid"
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid wins battle against censorship
Pride Toronto censorship: All of our coverage in one place
Canada: Israel's new defender
Muted support for Palestine, funding cuts for Arab groups, now a ban on the phrase 'Israeli apartheid': what's going on in Canada?
Since the beginning of 2010, the federal government has systematically cut funding to Arab-Canadian organisations and to UN relief works in Gaza. In March, the Ontario provincial legislature issued a unanimous condemnation of Israeli Apartheid Week, while the federal government considered introducing a similar motion.
However, self-censorship reached new heights last month when Toronto's Pride Committee – which organises one of the world's largest gay pride celebrations – announced it would be banning use of the term "Israeli apartheid" at the festivities.
Pride week in Toronto is a loud and highly visible public event, with a long tradition of activists linking their own campaigns for sexual rights to other struggles for liberation and social justice; however, this year the organisers caved in to pressure from pro-Israel groups and Toronto city council.
The main effect of the decision is to bar one group in particular – Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) – who have marched in the parade since 2008.
The reason given is that the phrase "Israeli apartheid" violates Toronto's anti-discrimination policy. But when asked, neither Pride Toronto nor Giorgio Mammoliti – the Toronto city councillor mainly involved – could explain in detail what was discriminatory about describing Israel's privileging of its Jewish citizens over others as a form or racism and apartheid.
"It's absolutely bizarre the way they are trying to use the language around diversity and inclusiveness to exclude people," QuAIA activist Tim McCaskell told me. "It was so 1984."
More disgusting news and some brutal truth
IDF draws up new Gaza war doctrine
Ahead of a potential new conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the IDF has drawn up plans to evacuate entire Palestinian villages and refugee camps from areas of conflict in the event of an Israeli incursion, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
In America You can criticize God, but you can’t criticize Israel
Continued Ethnic Cleansing and Measures Aimed at Creating Jewish Majority in Occupied Jerusalem
Reports: IAF Landed at Saudi Base, US Troops near Iran Border
Israel did 9/11, ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD
Zionism 101 – The Complete Story
Accused Mossad assassination attempt on Erdogan
Revisiting George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2010
Israel blasts Castro for calling swastika 'new Israeli banner'
"The hatred felt by the state of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the one and a half million men, women and children of that country to the crematoria where millions of Jews of all ages were exterminated by the Nazis," the ex-Cuban leader said. "It would seem that the Fuehrer's [Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's] swastika is today Israel's banner," the 83-year-old Castro declaredWho says we can't criticize the state of Israel?
Closer to home, the aid organization Kairos had its funding cut off by the Harper government because of, the government alleges, its support for the boycott movement against Israel and its "anti-semitism". Kairos is a joint venture of thirteen Canadian churches and church organizations, including Catholic, Anglican, Christian Reformed, Evangelical Lutheran, Mennonite, Presbyterian, Society of Friends, and United Church.
The latest public figure to get the "anti-semitic" label is NDP MP for East Vancouver, Libby Davies. She has had this pinned on her because she expressed support for the international campaign to boycott and sanction Israel for its blockade of Gaza, as well as suggesting that Israel has been "occupying" the land since 1948.
Prime Minister Harper has since called for Davies to resign as deputy NDP leader and Liberal Bob Rae has accused her of "hostility and ignorance". Even some members of her own party, the NDP, have attacked her, with Thomas Mulcair NDP MP calling her comments "egregious" and out of step with her party.
It is quite interesting that, while the caucuses of the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP are very quick to jump on Davies, they have made no criticism of the killings by Israeli commandoes of the nine people on the ships attempting to break the blockade of Gaza by Israel.
It is also quite interesting that, as a 2007 BBC poll shows (see footnote 1), 52% of Canadians have a negative view towards Israel, while only 23% had a positive one. The question should be asked: Just who is out of step with who? Is it Libby Davies or is it the three federal parties in parliament who are out of step with the Canadian people?
Indeed, it is these same three federal political parties that have formed "The Canadian Parliamentary Committee to Combat Anti-semitism", the members of which are claiming that criticizing Israel is a "new form" of anti-semitism. Dylan Penner, founding member of Independent Jewish Voices, believes that the ultimate objective of this Parliamentary Committee is "to introduce legislation that would make it a crime to criticize Israel".
Canada’s Israel Lobby
Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism
“We, The Jewish People, Control America”
Israeli Spokesman Says We Control Stupid Americans
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
headlines
How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack
Leaked documents show PA undermined Turkey's push for UN flotilla probe
Israel and the aid convoy: How to make enemies
It's Official: There was No Humanitarian Aid on Mavi MarmaraTurkey, Israel, the U.S.
Neo-Conservatives Lead Charge Against Turkey
Turkish officials blow AIPAC claims out of the, uh, sea
Abbas to Obama: I'm against lifting the Gaza naval blockade
Castro says Israelis would like to send Palestinians to gas chambers
The Israeli Media’s Flotilla Fail
Haiti: Five Months After The Quake
Monday, June 21, 2010
links to save
Cultures of Resistance on Facebook
Dissident Voice
Ali Abunimah
Trying to effect change in Israel
Delegitimize Israel
Will Israel be brought to book?
FreeGaza Movement
Intifada-Palestine
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Culturesofresistance
Aloha Palestine
MaanNews
Voice of Palestine
Palestine-Info.co.uk
Haaretz
Journalists to Gaza
Gilad Atzmon
Zamon
israelpolitik
mondoweiss
MidEast Media Center
The Global Report
Alternet
Daviddegraw
Ampedstatus
John Pilger
Revolutionizing Awareness
theoildrum
ThinkProgress
Dissident Voice
Ali Abunimah
Trying to effect change in Israel
Delegitimize Israel
Will Israel be brought to book?
FreeGaza Movement
Intifada-Palestine
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Culturesofresistance
Aloha Palestine
MaanNews
Voice of Palestine
Palestine-Info.co.uk
Haaretz
Journalists to Gaza
Gilad Atzmon
Zamon
israelpolitik
mondoweiss
MidEast Media Center
The Global Report
Alternet
Daviddegraw
Ampedstatus
John Pilger
Revolutionizing Awareness
theoildrum
ThinkProgress
Sunday, June 20, 2010
US Corporate Media and Israel
The next time there is news about Israel killing activists, massacring children, bombing a refugee camp or perhaps obliterating an entire country, there is no need to pay attention to the facts. All you need to know is Israel, the eternal victim that says it will never feel secure, is just responding to some terrorist. And once the last ruthless animal is exterminated, there will be “peace.”
'How Has My Country So Terribly Lost Its Way?'
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