HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Stealing Elections

Couldn't happen here in the West, right? Remember Ohio, Bush, Diebold and the exit poll discrepancies?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9WVuKGwOM

George Carlin

Excuse the swearing, but this is how it is, folks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI&feature=related

Snow Storm

Excellent time-lapse video of 32" of snow falling in 20 hours:

http://vimeo.com/18213768

Terrorism in Europe

Take a guess at the percentage of terror attacks perpetrated by Muslims? And does the answer, in this Europol report equate to what you're hearing on the television? If not, why not?

http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

Here's Chomsky, defining terrorism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6TgL8ruF4M&feature=related

Not For Distribution

When you come across a document like this, which is clearly designed to persuade global public opinion to believe a certain world-view, and you see that it is clearly labelled 'not for distribution', you have to wonder what the motives are.

http://australiansforpalestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/tip_report.pdf

Palestinian People

Palestinian Perfume

Palestinian Pizza

Climate Change?

The jury is in, and in this report over 700 scientists worldwide disagree that global warming is a) man-made or b) proven. This number is 13 times the amount of scientists who signed the original UN IPCC Report of 2007.

It has been looking for some while as if this was a cleverly engineered (excuse pun) political exercise in order to bring in a raft of internationally-binding agreements which probably have much more to do with peak oil than with climate change. That is not to say, however, that we are not rapidly destroying our environment - we are - but just that the solutions to that problem are much more complex than slapping a few extras taxes on everything we do. The latter option would, of course, continue to enrich a minority whilst restricting freedoms of the majority.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=83947f5d-d84a-4a84-ad5d-6e2d71db52d9

Rare Earth Elements

As well as the race to get our grubby hands on the last of the planet's easily available oil and gas reserves, a little talked about subject is REEs. As you will see from this document, they are vital to the new high-tech industries, but the USA has none of them. China and India hold the vast majority of the world's reserves, and so are both in very strong positions for the future. (page 9).

To be borne in mind next time we hear anti-Chinese rhetoric being ramped up. From page 7:

'Many scientific organizations have concluded that certain rare earth metals are critical to U.S.
national security and becoming increasingly more important in defense applications.' (11)

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R41347.pdf

Indentured Servitude

I've been blogging a lot about financial issues, mainly because I feel it's extremely important that the little guy - that's you and me - tries to understand what is being done at the top of the global food chain. Unless we understand it, we are deemed to become victims of it. Here, ex-Wall St trader, Max Keiser, gives an hour-long interview which really does spell out exactly where we are today. I really hope a lot of people can find an hour to listen to it:

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/66383

Be The Change...

...you want to see in the world.

I've been writing articles for this magazine for over a decade now, and they're a great organisation:

http://www.veganorganic.net/

(those are my vegetables in the wheelbarrow!)

Inside Job

We saw this film in Toulouse yesterday, and would highly recommend it. It explains what has happened in the financial markets in clear, unambiguous terms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2DRm5ES-uA

Tony Benn

A good short interview with a rare individual who speaks calmly about today's situation in relation to history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MfbzYh43As&feature=player_embedded

JPMorgan Chase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

The above explanation is like an antidote to being called a conspiracy theorist, and only time will tell who is right on this. Either everything is fine, and we're just in a normal double-dip recession and you just need to forego your pension and library and tighten your belts.....or the whole fiat currency system has finally reached the end of the line as far as confidence goes. As 'fiat' means 'confidence' anyway, you can tell which camp I'm in!

Please watch these two videos, twice or three times if necessary, and go and do some research afterwards on the terms used in them. You'll have to excuse the infantile behaviour of the presenters, but the message is deadly serious, and they're advising you to own some physical assets, like gold, silver, copper, land, or any other commodity that has some worth. There is inside information here, and I believe we are going to see a lot of financial turbulence in 2011. Don't say you haven't been warned!

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrSilvergoldsilver#p/a/u/2/Gl47z2g2EvI

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrSilvergoldsilver#p/a/u/0/uPg4qTNTP-E

Home Again

HOPE

History repeats itself:

http://www.arlev.co.uk/glubb/fate.pdf

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/23259

http://books.google.fr/books?hl=fr&lr=&id=YdW5wSPJXIoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=collapse+complex+societies&ots=OGOPhhQhq0&sig=MIuNbAcX_v4KeGGmeiWP3-Z24ew#v=onepage&q&f=false

Translation? Get some land and grow some food :)

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Israeli Soldiers Speak Out

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/our-lives-became-something-wed-never-dreamt-the-former-israeli-soldiers-who-have-testified-against-army-abuses-2154663.html

Hillary Clinton

Lovely lady, almost as nice as Hubbie.

Note the flag:

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article11672.shtml