Make Changes or Face Another Fiscal Crisis

Nevada's Economic Misery May Be America's Future
So many homes in Las Vegas have been foreclosed upon that banks rarely bother to hang a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn anymore. Instead, visitors identify bank-owned properties by the brown grass and the 8.5 x 11-inch sheet of paper taped to the front door or the garage

Is Las Vegas Going Under?

It's hard to find a home bought before 2009 that isn't underwater and very few landlords, when running credit checks, look for foreclosures or short-sales on a tenant's record. Otherwise, a manager couldn't fill a building.

Nevada has a greater concentration of economic misery than any other state. The state's unemployment rate, which in June edged up to 14.2 percent, has risen faster during the past year than it has anywhere else, and nearly six percent of all homes across the state's desert landscape received a foreclosure filing in the first six months of the year.

Foreclosure Crisis: Bad to Worse

Pimco's Kashkari Discusses U.S. Entitlement Programs

10 Happiest Places In The World

Paul Craig Roberts

When Globalism Runs Its Course ...

The Year America Dissolved

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

George Carlin

He tried



Tax the Poor To Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich



Banksters are Coming for Your Retirement Next
As we near the End Game, the banksters and their government accomplices are coming for the last of your wealth -- your retirement money.  Recent headlines about the IMF “pressing the U.S.“ to reduce its debt is the first sign of things to come.  They have already methodically gutted the assets of most public pension funds by knowingly investing those funds in toxic junk. 

"the whole world is a battlefield, even the U.S."

Disturbing

John Pilger
"The massacre of peace activists in international waters on 31 May was "spun" to the Israeli public for the better part of the week, preparing them for yet more murder by their government, with the unarmed flotilla of humanitarians described as terrorists or dupes of terrorists."

"Behind the Pentagon’s façade of honourable motives for invading other countries lies a history of promoting violence and covering up atrocities with wars of misinformation. Next stops: Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea. "

U.S. Plans Cyber Shield for Utilities, Companies

 The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed "Perfect Citizen" to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program. 

Gulf Coast now a BP police state as law enforcement conspires with BP to intimidate journalists

This is scary stuff, folks. Now we have a police state in America. No one can deny it. You can't argue the point anymore. It is documented fact, and it's happening right now in the Gulf Coast.

If you pick up a professional camera and start snapping photos of a BP refinery, or a BP cleanup vessel, or a beach with an oil boom on it, you risk being followed, detained, questioned and intimidated. And if you don't surrender your own rights and consent to an illegal search of your photos or film footage, you will be hauled into a federal holding facility and held by the Department of Homeland Security until they feel like letting you go.

Your rights as a free citizen have now been obliterated. America is now a fascist corporatocracy that answers to the financial interests of the corporations -- at the expense of the freedoms of the People.

Government Trying to Sweep Size of Oil Spill Under the Rug, Just As It Tries to Sweep the Economic Crisis, 9/11 and Everything Else Under the Rug 

As I previously pointed out, the Gulf oil spill is very similar to 9/11, because - in both cases - the responders helping with rescue and clean up were getting sick ... but were told they don't need  any safety gear.  In addition, the government is keeping scientists away from "ground zero" of the oil spill and - for that reason - scientists cannot accurately measure the size of the oil spill. BP has also tried to cover up its blunders by lowballing spill estimates, keeping reporters out of areas hardest hit by the oil and threatening to arrest them if they try to take pictures, hiding dead birds and other sealife, and using dispersants to hide the amount of spilled oil (the dispersants are only worsening the damage caused by the spill).

The government is complicit in all of these cover-ups. Indeed, the Obama administration has made it a felony to get near enough to oiled wildlife and beaches to film them.

Is the IMF about Ready to Muscle U.S. Taxpayers?
I smell a rat.

The IMF has long been a bought, and paid for, muscle arm of the U.S. government and the banking elite.

The play goes like this. Banks loan money to third world countries that have no chance in hell of paying the money back. The IMF comes in with "austerity" programs that include heavy new tax burdens on the working class. The revenue from the new taxes will, of course, go to payoff the banking elite. It's a sick game, but the elite seem to get their jollies by pulling this scam in country after country.

It appears the elite appear to want to up the ante. It appears they are getting set to turn the guns inward and go after the hard earned money of Americans.

We Want More: Congress Looks to Tax ATM Withdrawals, All Financial Transactions

A debt-free America? Yes — it’s possible
One idea for raising taxes to pay down the debt is the bill introduced this February by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.). His “Debt Free America Act” (H.R. 4646) would impose a 1 percent “transaction tax” on every financial transaction — whether paid by cash, credit card or any form of financial transfer, the only exception being transactions involving the purchase or sale of stock. Theoretically, everyone would pay one cent on the dollar for every such transaction in America every day — whether $3 million on a $300 million business acquisition, $300 on the purchase of a $30,000 car, or $5 on a $500 ATM withdrawal.

BP oil disaster

Lessons in Brazil's oil spill after a decade

wow

Enforcing the G20 economy
...the cold reality of the G20 meetings is a renewed commitment to building an economy that reflects the brutality of Toronto's G20 jails

City council commends “outstanding” police G20 work

After an emotional morning-long debate, city council has voted 36-0 to laud police Chief Bill Blair, the Toronto police services and other forces for their work on the G20 weekend.

G20 police ‘yanked’ off prosthetic leg: amputee

Toronto — A 57-year-old amputee says he was “brutalized” and “humiliated” by police patrolling the G20 summit when they confiscated his prosthetic leg, labelled it a “weapon” and ordered him to “hop” into a paddy wagon

Fascism Then. Fascism Now?
When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare.

US Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Operations, FM 3-05.202, Feb 2007

This leaked military document is critical to understanding the militaristic tactics being perpetrated upon innocent civilians on Canadian soil. The tactics used by US special forces abroad, as laid out in this booklet, are virtually the same tactics that are now progressively being utilized by our police forces. To understand and expose their tactics is to render them useless. Must read and please pass this on!
Wikileaks:
"US Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Operations, FM 3-05.202, Feb 2007
FM 3-05.202: Special Forces Foreign Internal Defense Operations is the 110 page manual for US Special Forces support, including undeclared support, of foreign governments against internal revolt or insurgency, such as in El Salvador, Colombia, Somalia and the post occupation governments of Iraq and Afghanistan. The manual was made US military doctrine (policy) in February 2007. It supersedes the 1994/2004 version FM 31-20-3: Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces, which Wikileaks described as follows:
The document, which is official US Special Forces policy, directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control, restrictions on labor unions & political parties, suspending habeas corpus, warrantless searches, detainment without charge, bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations, concealing human rights abuses from journalists, and extensive use of "psychological operations" (propaganda) to make these and other "population & resource control" measures palatable."
Document freely accessible here: http://bit.ly/aUgVij

 

G20 Justice

 

Self-anointed G20 ‘journalists’ should get real

Journalists covering the protests were due no special rights, access or protection 




POlice - "You have no rights...You're not in Canada anymore"

Gulf Coast now a BP police state as law enforcement conspires with BP to intimidate journalists

Oil/Water samples from Gulf...VERY TOXIC

Canadian RE Update

July 6, 2010 : Vancouver Housing Sales Plunge BNN

Vancouver's housing sales plunged 30 percent in June from a year ago. Is this a sign of things to come for the rest of the Canadian real estate market? BNN asks Brian Ripley, CEO, Oakes Ripley & Associates.  "Top is in...wages falling"

Drop in home sales may be sign of peak

Existing home sales dropped sharply in Canada’s two most expensive markets, a further indication that the real estate market may have peaked.

House prices and sales to decline, market survey says

OTTAWA — House prices continued to climb higher across Canada in the second quarter of 2010, but sales and prices are expected to fall in the coming months, according to a Royal LePage House Price Survey and Market Forecast released Wednesday.

Canada’s Housing Bubble About to Pop? 

House sales in Vancouver and Calgary are plummeting. Is the top in Canada’s ridiculously inflated housing bubble finally in?

Canadian May building permits unexpectedly plungeOTTAWA — The value of building permits fell by a much-larger-than expected 10.8 per cent in May from April, slipping to $6 billion, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday.
Analysts polled by Bloomberg had called for a two per cent month-over-month drop.

Vancouver home sales drop sharply

Vancouver's housing market slowed considerably in June, with 30 per cent fewer sales than a year ago.

Toronto house sales sink 23%

Toronto-area Realtors sold 8,442 resale homes in June, a 23 per cent drop from the level of the same month a year ago.

Is Canada’s Housing Market Going Bust?

This morning, Statistics Canada reported a staggering 10.8% drop in Canadian building permits. Permits for residential construction decreased 5.3% while non-residential construction fell 18.3%. So, is the Canadian real estate market finally reverting to the mean? It may be too early to make a comprehensive statement, but the leading indicators are starting to look soft — especially since over the last year, “the average home price [in Vancouver] has risen 14%, to around C$1 million.”As those in the US know, once the bidding lust for houses starts to wane, everyone seems to awaken and ask, “Wait a minute. Is a 2,000 square foot house really worth over $1 million?” These are the inquiries which turn real estate dreams into nightmares.

Vancouver Home Sales Drop 30 Percent , Calgary 42 Percent - First Comes Volume, Then Comes Price; Canada Housing Peak is Finally In
Housing Collapse Cascade Pattern

• Volume drops precipitously
• Prices soften a bit
• Inventory levels rise slowly
• High-end home prices remain relatively steady for a brief while longer
• The real estate industry tries to convince everyone it's "business as usual" and homes are affordable because rates are low
• Bubble denial kicks in with media articles everywhere touting the "fundamentals"
• Stubborn sellers hold out for last year's prices as volume continues to shrink
• Inventory levels reach new highs
• Builders start offering huge incentives to clear inventory
• Some sellers finally realize (too late) what is happening
• Price declines hit the high-end
• Increasingly desperate sellers get creative with incentives, offering new cars, below market interest rates, trips, etc
• Gimmicks do not work
• Price declines escalate sharply at all price levels
• The Central Bank issues statements that housing is fundamentally sound
• Prices collapse, inventory skyrockets, and builders holding inventory go bankrupt

Some of those may happen simultaneously or in a different order, but the whole mess starts with a huge plunge in volume.

China's property market braced for 30pc drop

Standard Chartered has told clients to prepare for a fall in property prices of up to 30pc in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzen, and other large cities in China as the delayed effects of monetary tightening begin to bite

Ken Rogoff: "China Property Market Collapse Starting"

US - New Loan Delinquencies on the Rise Again

Paul Craig Roberts telling it like it is...

Paul Craig Roberts: Military has more power than the people

Fact and Fiction - Obama and Netanyahu

Fiction



Parsing the words - One interpretation





Washington and Tel Aviv can’t speak honestly to each other 
The influential commentator Dr Anthony Cordesman of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies said that America's commitment to Israel's security "does not justify or excuse actions by an Israeli government that unnecessarily makes Israel a strategic liability when it should remain an asset".

Netanyahu hears no discouraging words from Obama

A blue-and-white Israeli flag hung from Blair House. Across Pennsylvania Avenue, the Stars and Stripes was in its usual place atop the White House. But to capture the real significance of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's visit with President Obama, White House officials might have instead flown the white flag of surrender.

THE APPARENT RIFT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE U.S. IS A MIRAGE.

Obama cannot be seen to be caving in to Israel when it comes to resolving the Palestine issue and US efforts to create a Palestinian state and so, for the sake of public opinion, needs to be seen resisting Netanyahu’s insistence that settlement building and building in Jerusalem continues. Of course, Netanyahu’s insistence, in turn, is designed to placate Zionist public opinion.

The fact is that once the final confrontation with Iran has taken place, the whole question about Palestine’s future, settlements in the West Bank and building in East Jerusalem becomes academic. Israel will, so they hope, have defeated Hezbollah and Hamas and occupied south Lebanon and the Gaza, together with a full occupation of the West Bank, while the US will, so they hope, have bombed Iran to the negotiating table and regime change. The US will accept Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza and south Lebanon as fait accompli.

There will be no Palestinian state. The US will accede to Israel’s creation of a Greater Israel. The West will support Israel and the Arab states, having witnessed the destruction of the Iranian regime, will become utterly compliant.

That, at least, is what the Israelis and the US hope will happen. 

What Peace negotiations are you talking about?

TRUE TELL 8:28 PM ET July 2, 2010

Like snake-oil salesmen, the Israelis have been using the so-called peace negotiation ploy to establish facts on the ground (settlements) with full complicity from the US media and the US Congress.


Obama has finally come to feel the heavy boot of the Jewish lobby over his thin black neck; he is hopeless and helpless and in no position to stand to the lobby. For the Israeli lobby, it was only a matter of time before challenging Obama. They waited for his election euphoria to die down and his approval rating to slip and both factors are reality now. Obama is in no position to challenge Netanyahu on peace or settlements; Netanyahu has more clouts in Congress than Obama, even with Obama’s own party.


The best Obama can do when he meets Netanyahu is to seek forgiveness and ask Netanyahu to intercede with the Jewish lobby and Congress not to block his domestic agenda. By examining the political assets of both men, you can easily see the frailty of President Obama in comparison with Netanyahu.


Netanyahu got Hollywood on his side; he got the main stream media executing his PR game, he got Wall Street and AIPAC working for him, and he got the US Congress. Obama got a bunch of brain-washed citizens who can hardly tell where Palestine is on the map.

STEALING THE LAND BY THE ZIONISTS WON'T CHANGE HISTORY

When Herzl convened the Zionist Conference in Basel in 1897 to call for Homeland for the Jews; Jews were hardly one-twentieth of the population of Palestine. When Britain's Balfour Declaration promising a Jewish state in Palestine was issued in November 1917, there still were only an estimated 55,000 Jews among another 670,000 Muslim and Christian Palestinians. Massive ethnic cleansing of Palestinians took place between 1917 and 1948 by three Zionist terror groups; the Haganah, the Stern Gang and the Irgun. Palestinian villages were ransacked and thousands of Palestinians were murdered in cold blood to terrify Palestinians to flee their homes. 750,000 to 800,000 Palestinians were not permitted by Israel to return to their homes after its creation in 1948. Some of the brutal massacres committed by the Israeli terrorists then were at the Palestinian villages of Deir Yassin and Kafr Qasim. The Israeli historian Ilan Pappe documents that era in details in his book “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”.  Palestine’s was where Israel is now; stealing the land by the Zionists is not a license to falsify geography and fabricate History.

Bibi Back at the White House — The Consistency of Israeli Duplicity Comes Ever More Clearly into Focus

How Israel Wages War on the U.S.—By Way of Deception

Zionist Dominance in the Obama Presidency

The truth about Israel's land grab in the West Bank

 

What is the "New World Order"

Ellen Brown - Goal is to totally privatize the creation of money and lend it to governments and individuals.

The IMF and the BIS are now in charge of the whole system.  SDR's will replace US Dollar as global reserve currency eventually.  Not going to happen anytime soon.

Give up ability to issue own currency, ie the EU.

The Financial Hijacking of America — Ellen Brown _on Guns & Butter


Daniel Estulin - Goal is to create "world corporation ltd"


Michael Hudson - NeoFeudalism.  Future is Latvia/Iceland.  Debt Peonage.

FDL - "Historians will look back on this period in history as the time when the defining unit of power in the world shifted from nation-states to corporations."

 

'A Protectorate is Now Installed in Haiti'

"Situation becomes more absurd"

the prospects for peace have never seemed gloomier or the situation more absurd.

Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job

Class of 2010 told to consider flipping burgers or shelf stacking to build skills as they also compete with last year's graduates

Meaning of Life

The meaning of life is to be the best human being you can, to be human, to be the best human and experience all the emotions, the fear, the love, the jealousy, the hate, the passion, its about passion, so whatever you do, do it with passion. - C.Veitch

Sites, writers and Blogs I follow in no particular order

Glenn Greenwald
Willyloman
OrwellsDreams 
Rebel News - Independent News and Analysis
IntelHub
OccuplyCalifornia
PlaestineChronicle
CCLA Rights Watch
Toronto Media Co-op
Vancouver Media Co-op
Jews United against Zionism
Asia Times
Carlos Miller
InformationLiberation
CounterPunch
Neweconomicperspectives
MediaMattersAction
submedia.tv
Haaretz
Rebelnews
Kenny's sideshow
Starkravingviking 
OpedNews
The Indepentant
AfterDowningStreet
NewDeal 2.0
FireDogLake
Dr Michael Hudson
DebkaFile
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Gilad Atzmon
UglyTruth
Joseph Dana
Hamsayeh.net
EmptyWheel
YeahFilms
Torontoist
Telegraph.co.uk
JohnPilger
AMped Status
Alternet
David De Graw
Real Zionist NEws
Zionism Research
BObama the Zionist
DailyMail
Global Research 
iranaffairs 
Top Ten Most Glaringly Blatant Instances of Zionist Control in Canada for 2009
 

Michael Hudson

An economist who actually makes sense...first couple of clips from over a year ago. Still 100% accurate





And here is Michael Hudson on June 25th 2010






Hudson's latest article, published June25 2010, which unfortunately makes a lot of sense

Europe’s Fiscal Dystopia: The “New Austerity” Road to Neoserfdom
Somebody must take a loss on the economy's bad loans – and bankers want the economy to take the loss, to "save the financial system." From the financial sector's vantage point, the economy is to be managed to preserve bank liquidity, rather than the financial system run to serve the economy. Government social spending (on everything apart from bank bailouts and financial subsidies) and disposable personal income are to be cut back to keep the debt overhead from being written down. Corporate cash flow is to be used to pay creditors, not employ more labor and make long-term capital investment.

Financial Capital intend to create Neo-Feudalism in Europe and the US
June 21st 2010

Audio – 22/06/2010 Renegade Economist interview where Michael says banks want wages cut 40%.

Now we have this headline on July 4th 2010

Cameron orders Ministers to draw up 40 per cent spending cuts - the biggest in history

Treasury orders cabinet ministers to brace themselves for 40% cuts

And this from Paul Krugman July 1st 2010

Myths of Austerity

 

Michael-hudson.com

G20 and BP

Whistle blower to testify on oil spill worst fear:BP deliberately sinks oil with Corexit as cover up

Is BP Hiding Seriously Ill Clean-Up Workers?

BP's Smoking Gun and the Manipulation of Oil Prices

BP Labor Camps

Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world

 

 

G20

G20 Injustice

G20 Media Centre 

Chronicles of Rebick: The Real G20 Police Conspiracy To Divide Social Movements

 

The Story of My Arrest & Detainment Police strangled me, punched me in head, manhandled me

 

G20 cops ‘threatened women with rape’

 

Violations of Basic Rights at the G20 protests

Protesters demand Bill Blair’s resignation, call for inquiry into G20 policing

“There were cages of people screaming for water, and male officers could see women going to the washroom.” He says he and his fellow inmates were given Styrofoam cups when they asked for toilet paper.

My Experience Inside the G20 Detention Facility Inside Torontanamo

The Fourteen Essential G20 Videos

Poll finds G20 protesters blew it big time

No to public inquiry into police tactics at G20 protests: McGuinty

Timeline of the Events. by karol orzechowski

 

What will Austerity Fascism look like?

Somebody must take a loss on the economy's bad loans – and bankers want the economy to take the loss, to "save the financial system." From the financial sector's vantage point, the economy is to be managed to preserve bank liquidity, rather than the financial system run to serve the economy. Government social spending (on everything apart from bank bailouts and financial subsidies) and disposable personal income are to be cut back to keep the debt overhead from being written down. Corporate cash flow is to be used to pay creditors, not employ more labor and make long-term capital investment.
http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2010/06/europes-fiscal-dystopia-new-austerity.html

So, the world's elites have decided to focus all their efforts on generating another Great Depression. Their cunning plan is to destroy their countries in order to save them:
http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003326.html#more

the current sovereign debt crisis is about something much more interesting:  it's another battle in a war for dominance between "our" integrated, impersonal global economic system and traditional nation-states.  At issue is whether a nation-state serves the interests of the governed or it serves the interests of a global economic system. Who's winning?  The global economic system, of course
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/05/the-decline-of-the-west.html

How's That Recessioney, Oily Thing Working Out For Ya?
Let's be honest: We live in stunningly, jaw-droppingly, ridiculously absurd political times. Here's the story in a nutshell: A far-right predatory overclass has spent the last thirty years undoing the hard-fought gains of the mid-twentieth century, which had produced a robust middle class and vastly more economic and social justice in America than the country had ever known before. These regressives used every kind of deceit imaginable to persuade unsophisticated voters to choose candidates whose real agenda was to assist their plutocratic puppetmasters in fleecing the very same people who voted for them.

Stimulus or Austerity: The People vs. the Banks

The most powerful nations in the world met recently at the G-20 in Toronto and managed to agree on only one thing of significance: the need to reduce deficits, “half by 2013.” Implied by the statement is the need to lower deficits via “austerity,” meaning eliminating or reducing social programs. 

Why does every mainstream political pundit or corporate CEO fanatically agree that reducing deficits is the most important thing to do now? Let Obama explain: 

“… if financial markets are skittish and don't have confidence in a country's fiscal soundness, that is also going to undermine our recovery."

Apparently, the most important policy for the world economy cannot be said in plain English. What does Obama mean? Essentially, he is saying that “financial markets” should determine how wealth is distributed and how the economy is directed.

How the State Causes Collapse

As I have explained in the past, what constitutes a “bubble” can be understood as the result of perpetuated myths or distortions of the truth. When one believes something to be true, they behave in accordance with that belief; when that belief becomes exposed as fraudulent, whatever effort they had put forward up to that point is lost and any effort they had planned on putting forth in the future needs to be redirected to some new project. The example I had previously used was a child writing letters to Santa and then finding out Santa is not real. After such information comes to light the behavior of the child changes and he no longer writes wish lists to Santa. In the Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle, distortions in the interest rate result in misallocations of capital towards less productive ends. When those ends are discovered to not be as productive as alternatives, the structure of production needs to be realigned. But as I’ve described it, the theory can be applied to a broader social context beyond just basic production. The State is such a bubble: it is perpetuated primarily by faith in its unique legitimacy. Bubbles burst; in the case of the State, how does that occur?
States destroy community

In Ireland, a Picture of the High Cost of Austerity

DUBLIN — As Europe’s major economies focus on belt-tightening, they are following the path of Ireland. But the once thriving nation is struggling, with no sign of a rapid turnaround in sight. Nearly two years ago, an economic collapse forced Ireland to cut public spending and raise taxes, the type of austerity measures that financial markets are now pressing on most advanced industrial nations.




Some EXCELLENT Iran-Israeli analysis:

The Delusional Lobby

I guess this is what happens to people who never hear the word "no."...Note: the lobby's next big move will come when it starts telling the US government that Iran sanctions have failed and it's time to allow Israel to attack.  And, as Yogi Berra famously said, it'll be déjà vu all over again

Gaza blockade 'easing' is a facade 
However, the fact of the matter is that this ‘easing' of the blockade is another in a long line of Israeli methods of pacifying the so-called international community and providing a facade for further illegal activities.

Strike on Iran would be destabilizing'

A military strike against Iran would be "incredibly destabilizing" to the region said the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen.

THE COMING IRAN WAR.

But, while the attack on Iran will be seen by the world as the main event, the real purpose for the war will be happening on Israel’s doorstep.

At the same time as Iran is being attacked, Israel, using the excuse of pre-empting retaliation for attacking Iran, will attack both Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza and then move to occupy south Lebanon up to the Litani River and the Gaza Strip. Israel will also likely fully occupy the West Bank.

This is the scenario that the US and Israel would prefer to see happen; a quick overwhelming move against all of Israel and America’s enemies that concludes with the defeat of the Iranian regime and, thus, regime change, together with the demise of Hezbollah and Hamas. This then will give the Israelis a free hand in creating a Greater Israel that ultimately includes the Gaza Strip, south Lebanon up to the Litani River, the West Bank and the Golan Heights. It will also provide the US with an even stronger ally in the Middle East and also a neutered enemy.

Obviously, Iran Would Retaliate Against U.S. Attacks

One need only think about how our government would react if a state or group launched unprovoked “targeted” attacks on major military and energy facilities to see how foolish this is. It wouldn’t matter to our government if the attack was “targeted” or not, and it wouldn’t matter to the American public what absurd rationalizations the attackers used to justify what they were doing. If a foreign military started bombing Sandia and LANL and assorted military bases throughout the Southwest and declared ahead of time that it would do this, I doubt that Washington would respond with a shrug. “Oh, they’re only attacking our nuclear labs and military facilities–that’s all right, then!” Americans would not respond to this by casting blame on their government for inviting attack, but would instead become excessively deferential to whatever course of action the government proposed and would mute whatever other criticisms of the government they may have had in the past. We would be fools to think that Iranians would respond differently. 

Some EXCELLENT G20 Analysis:

Chronicles of Rebick: The Real G20 Police Conspiracy To Divide Social Movements

G20 Toronto Survivor testimonies

‘I will not forget what they have done to me’

20 people arrested at the G20 tell of ‘inhumane’ treatment at the hands of police

Thorold, Ontario Amputee Has His Artificial Leg Ripped Off By Police And Is Slammed In Makeshift Cell During G20 Summit – At Least One Ontario MPP Calls The Whole Episode “Shocking”

We are all screwed

The quickening, pace and speed of incoming austerity fascism is horrifying.  The audacity, fraud, deceit and complicity of our supposedly democratically elected representatives - of the people by the people, is, at the moment, beyond my comprehension.  I thought I had seen it all, but this is beyond disgusting.

This G20 meeting in Toronto  was yet another watershed moment for me personally.  It demonstrated, and to anyone paying attention, that no one was safe anywhere in the world. 

It showed that police power and laws are only to be enforced when suited.  This was a watershed moment in Canadian history.  It showed you have no rights, you have nothing, police/state power is absolute, and don't you forget it.

I am disgusted, repulsed, ashamed to be a Canadian.  But where else would I be?  The US is corrupt, Britain is a defacto police state, where should I go?  The world is becoming an all seeing eye just as George Orwell predicted.




Naomi Klein discusses the failures of the G20 summit with CBC's Evan Solomon.
June 28, 2010
Watch the program.

What happened today has no precedent in Canadian history. In the middle of the biggest city in the country, dozens if not hundreds of people were arrested for exercising their right to protest.

Police states don’t appear full blown, over night.  They are, like any other social phenomenon, part of social and political process – the end result of long term corruption of the political culture and the incremental diminishing of democracy.  This is a process that has been taking place for at least twenty years in Canada and it should come as no surprise that the police in Canada are now willing to take actions – at the direction of the politicians – that escalate the threats to democratic expression and the intimidation of ordinary citizens.

Top Ten Most Glaringly Blatant Instances of Zionist Control in Canada for 2009 

Canada: Israel's new defender

Systemic Canadian Serfdom

What's next? AUSTERITY FASCISM G20 and BP HORROR

TORONTO G20 - THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME 






Judy Rebick: On Saturday's G20 arrests and detentions

Seeing It All in Toronto

Still Free, Barely Holding On

By DAVID Ker THOMSON

Synopsis:  Not all of us who are fighting in the streets here in Toronto are despondent, but a great many of us are.  I am.  We are experiencing in our neighborhoods what brown people have experienced for centuries around the world at our hands.  It has come home to roost.  I woke this morning from a dream of Kanada, and I was weeping uncontrollably.  Our children are attacked by troops openly in the streets, openly in so-called “free speech zones.”  We chant, “the world is watching,” but as we are beaten back from the neighborhoods in which we have lived for two hundred years by troops who may not even be Canadian, we see football on the TV’s.  Is anyone watching us?  My ten-year-old was almost fucking killed when he was attacked by police in a free-speech zone.  My fourteen-year-old and I were chased for two hours.  Does anyone out there care?  My friend in California recommends TOSCA-style action.  Could we have TOCA here—take over Canada?  I feel nothing but despair.  My friends are being dragged off to left and right, and the world watches football.  I began the weekend juggling for the troops, holding out flowers, but I end hunted and in tears, paranoid and sad.  It feels like the end.  We are still free, but barely holding on.  Why do they hate us so much?

Toronto Police attack peaceful protesters and journalistsJune 26, 2010
Toronto, Ontario -- After a large march and rally against the meeting of the G20, police attacked a crowd of peaceful protesters in Queens Park. The following clip shows police attacking and arresting protesters. At 1:02, video journalist Brandon Jourdan is thrown to the ground and beaten by police while shooting video.

G20 Live: Saturday

G20 Live: Sunday

Fox's Business crew launches a class war against the poor

On today's (June 26, 2010) episode of Fox News' Cashin' In, Fox Business employees Cheryl Casone and Tracy Byrnes and regular FBN guest Jonathan Hoenig came up with a radical idea to solve America's national debt problem: Raise taxes on the poor!

Far From Gulf, a Spill Scourge 5 Decades Old

BODO, Nigeria — Big oil spills are no longer news in this vast, tropical land. The Niger Delta, where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface, has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates. The oil pours out nearly every week, and some swamps are long since lifeless. 

Oil leak may be 19 times larger than BP and US government say


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Rep. Gene Taylor: Response to Gulf of Mexico oil spill incompetent
As oil spread as close as 1½ miles from Jackson County's coast Saturday, U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor called the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster "incompetent."

"I'm having a Katrina flashback," said the Bay St. Louis Democrat after an aerial survey of the Mississippi Sound and barrier islands Saturday morning. "I haven't seen this much incompetence since Michael Brown was running FEMA." Brown was the FEMA director who was fired for a faulty response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005

Myth of anti-semitism

3 Great Cons of our time

If civilization can survive the cynical path it’s on, future historians will identify three great cons that were played out upon the world during this time; the fractional-reserve central-banking system, the war on terrorism and Israel. All three are equally dangerous to the future of mankind, are presented with equal deception, and emanate from the same source.







Who Is The Terrorist: Hamas or Israel?

Touching Left, Islam, Israeli Lobby, Chomsky and Many other Hot Topics  

Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 10:05PM Gilad Atzmon

George W Bush - War Boosts The U.S. Economy

Oliver Stone with former President Nestor Kirchner discussing President Bush.

President George W. Bush argued in 2004 that the best way to grow the U.S. economy was by waging war, according to former Argentine Prime Minister Néstor Kirchner.
Kirchner, in a meeting with Bush, suggested that the United States replicate the successful nation-building strategy it implemented at the end of World War II.
"And he stood up from his chair and got angry. He told me, 'A Marshall plan! No! That's a crazy idea from the Democrats. What needs to be done here, and the best way to revitalize the economy is -- the United States has grown based on wars,' he told me. That's what he told me," Kirchner recounted.
Bush added, said Kirchner, that "all the economic growth that the U.S. had had, had been based on the different wars it had waged."
The former Argentine leader, whose wife now heads the country, made the comments in an interview with Oliver Stone for his upcoming documentary "South Of the Border."

The charge startled even Oliver Stone. "War? He said that?" Stone asked Kirchner, who was among a wave of progressive leaders elected in Latin America over the last decade.
"He said that, word for word," Kirchner assured Stone.
Stone followed up: "Is he suggesting that Latin America should go to war?"
No, said Kirchner. "Well, he was talking about the United States, never said South America. That the United States -- that it was a misunderstanding of the Democrats, that all the economic growth that the U.S. had had, had been based on the different wars it had waged."
The Kirchner interview is done through a translator and the subtitles on the screen don't exactly match what Kirchner was saying, but more closely reflect how his comments were being translated at the time. The Huffington Post had three separate native Spanish speakers translate Kirchner's remarks. His comments above are the result of those translations.
If Kirchner is accurately relaying the comments, that would make Bush the highest-ranking public official to state outright that war is and has been good for the American economy.

Evo Morales - Worst enemy I have is the media