‘Staged and scripted’: Mother Agnes finalizes chronology of Damascus chemical attack

A new version of a study produced by Mother Agnes, a catholic nun, pointing to a number of fabricated videos used as evidence of complicity by the Assad government in a recent chemical attack is in the works, she told RT.

 
The report by the Christian nun, Mother Agnes Mariam el-Salib, mother superior of St. James Monastery in Qara, Syria, has alleged that many videos featuring supposed victims of the chemical weapons attack in the Syrian village of Guta in August were in fact staged and scripted.

The question for the nun now revolves around the “humanitarian” question of what happened to the children featured in the video. “Those children are the children of whom? From where did you get them? Why are you using them and manipulating them?”

The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic was created in August 2011 by the Human Rights Council to investigate alleged violations of human rights.

I came to identify in many videos real staging, real screen playing and today after having redacted a study concerning my first impression, I called it a better version.

Today I’m just finishing the chronology of those videos and of the action they are unveiling to the public opinion. I’m more and more convinced that it is not the coverage of an ongoing reality , the ongoing emergency of chemical strikes, but a kind of screen playing with a script that has been worked on many days before. 

Swiss study shows 147 corporations rule the world

The Swiss Federal Institute (SFI) in Zurich released a study entitled “The Network of Global Corporate Control” that proves a small consortiums of corporations – mainly banks – run the world. 

A mere 147 corporations which form a “super entity” have control 40% of the world’s wealth; which is the real economy. 

These mega-corporations are at the center of the global economy.

The banks found to be most influential include: • Barclays • Goldman Sachs • JPMorgan Chase & Co • Vanguard Group • UBS • Deutsche Bank • Bank of New York Mellon Corp • Morgan Stanley • Bank of America Corp • Société Générale 

However as the connections to the controlling groups are networked throughout the world, they become the catalyst for global financial collapse. James Glattfelder, complex systems theorist at the SFI explains: “In effect, less than one per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network.”

Agenda 21 & FEMA Camps – Depopulation Plans In America

In a terrifying compilation of clips by Jason A, the exact purpose of the United Nation’s Agenda 21 is explained in what should be a wake up call if what the people in the video are stating are true.



An agenda so innocently called “Sustainable Development,” which has the sole goal of restricting our choices, limiting our ability to govern ourselves and take away our freedoms. 

If accurate, then this is being rolled out now across America, as shown in all the massive FEMA preparations and purchases of everything from medications to clothing, blankets to portable showers and bathrooms.

Also shown by the CDC preparing for a “wide scale Pacific Rim emergency,” Perhaps the most chilling statement seen in the video below, is that the goal of 11 regions of America rather than the 50 United States of America.

Make your own minds up!

Midway Island, North Pacific Ocean, Unbelievable !

There is no planet B .. stop polluting this one people!!

North East of Hawaii, the ocean currents form a giant whirl pool of debris from around the Pacific, the scientific name is called the North Pacific Gyre. It’s one of the largest ecosystems on Earth, comprising of millions of square kilometres.

Today it’s better known as “The Great Garbage Patch,” an area the size of Queensland, Australia where there is approximately one million tonnes of plastic spread throughout the ocean. Drag a net in any area of this part of the ocean and you will pick up toxic, discarded plastic. Photographer Chris Jordan has documented this phenomenon.

Eliminating the Suffering of Chickens Bred for Meat

This kind of food production is not only unethical and cruel to chickens and other animals living this way, it's also killing us!!

All the bad food we eat is harming our health, making us obese, and ultimately killing us.  We get sick from bad food, we get sicker from big pharma 'trying' to put us right.

We need to eat FRESH food, organic food, locally grown food, we need to know the source of our food.  Shop locally, know where your food comes from, stop eating processed foods.  It really is the only way to stop this happening and to stop us being killed by huge corporations and big pharma.

Chickens bred for meat are raised to six weeks old on floors in long low sheds the size of football fields, where they appear in their first week of life as thousands of indistinguishable yellow chicks, eating, drinking, and mixing with the sawdust and wood chips.

In the weeks that follow, their weight multiplies many times over until, sitting heavily and inert in layers of excrement, lame and in pain, they appear to a person standing in the doorway of the stench-filled shed like lumps of dough stretching into the dark

The Radiation Warnings You Won’t Get from the Mainstream Propaganda Machine

From Pakalert PRESS

The mainstream media and the federal government will soon have the blood of the world on it’s hands.

 
Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster in Japan is now actively in the ecosystem all along the North American west coast… even the sea weed is now radiated.  

The Vancouver Sun reported one year ago that the seaweed tested from waters off the coast of British Columbia were 4 times the amount considered safe.  No further test results were released after the initial report.

The governments of the United States and Canada are not conducting tests for radioactivity – at least not to the knowledge of the public.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to continue purchasing seafood from Japan, despite the fact that the food is not being tested for radioactive contamination.  

Last November, independent testing in Japan showed 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material).  Instead of refusing to purchase the poisoned fish, food safety agencies in both the United States and Canada have simply raised the “acceptable level of radiation.” 

We can’t go offending the Japanese after promising to buy their tainted goods, now can we?

After the North American governments refused to fund testing, oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass, along with Nicholas Fisher, a marine sciences professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and other concerned scientists, managed to secure private funding for a Pacific research voyage.  The results?

Read on .. click the link!

Hupacasath Court Challenge to Canada China FIPA

Published on 17 Sep 2013

Please donate now -- http://leadnow.ca/fipa-legal -- To learn more about what the Hupacasath First Nation is doing to delay ratification of the China Canada Trade Treaty (known as FIPA), visit http://www.WeStandTogether.ca. 

We have only a short time to raise the money to defend democracy in Canada from this secret deal, which will take away control of Canada's resources from its own citizens for 31 YEARS. 

Please help us by donating whatever you can! The money that is raised will go to cover court costs, legal costs of an appeal and a possible secondary set of court costs. Thank you.

The Agenda Of The New World Order (NWO) For The Next 4 years

Published on 19 Sep 2013



Lindsey Williams, who has been an ordained Baptist minister for 28 years, went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary.

The Transalaska oil pipeline began its construction phase in 1974, and because of Mr. Williams' love for his country and concern for the spiritual welfare of the "pipeliners," he volunteered to serve as Chaplain on the pipeline, with the subsequent full support of the Alyeska Pipeline Company. Because of the executive status accorded to him as Chaplain, he was given access to information documented in his eye opening book, The Energy Non-Crisis.

After numerous public speaking engagements in the western states, certain government officials and concerned individuals urged Mr. Williams to put into print what he saw and heard, stating that they felt this information was vital to national security. Mr. Williams firmly believes that whoever controls energy controls the economy. Thus, The Energy Non-Crisis.

Date: 03-2013

Ordained Baptist minister and former Chaplain to the 'Elite,' Lindsey Williams, shared what he'd been told by one of his 'Elite' contacts-- the agenda of the New World Order (NWO) for the next 4 years.

He revealed that the NWO was displeased with Pres. Obama, as he went against their wishes by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline plan, among other things.

The Elite do not want a financial collapse or catastrophic event with the American dollar for at least two to three years, which gives people temporary economic opportunities, he continued. 

The reason behind this is "forced debt creation" such as through college loans, and government spending, he said. This will bring debt levels up so high that when the Elite get ready to pull the plug on the currencies of the world, people will give up the Constitution, and accept a new world order, he outlined, adding that the end game for this scenario was four years.

While the super rich make up their own rules, the middle class will be taxed into oblivion, and be put into more and more debt, he continued.

Within four years, 70% of Americans will be receiving some sort of check from the government, and the dollar will be phased out as the reserve currency and petro dollar of the world, Williams stated.

Regarding gold and silver, he suggested that confiscation was unlikely-- the Elite are keeping this from being bothered. "One thing the Elite fear more than anything else, is the masses waking up...and as a result they are having to escalate their plans, 

The Wilderness Society condemns bill that would permit lawless logging in America’s national forests

The House of Representatives passed a radical forest bill on Sept. 20 that would open the way for vast clear-cutting of the country's national forests. 

 
H.R. 1526, would undermine more than 100 years of bedrock forest management laws, carving gaping loopholes in laws designed to protect our forests and our environment and would essentially lead to “logging without laws” in our national forests. 

The Wilderness Society is pleased to see that President Obama has threatened to veto the bill, should it pass the Senate.

You can read a statement from Wilderness Society President Jamie Williams below.

Thank you to all of our WildAlert members who sent letters to get this anti-forest bill stopped. Rest assured, we'll continue to fight this disastrous bill and keep you updated about ways to help.

22/9/13 #Daca, #Bangladesh

50,000 protesters took part in the protest to demand a salary increase of 5,000 taka ($ 70). The mobilizationthat lasted four hours, is considered the largest march in the history of the capital city.

The workers also blocked the entrances to Dhaka and damaged dozens of textile factories, located in the vicinity of the same city that are unemployed.

20/9/13 Besiktas, Istanbul

Istanbul, tonight: Hundreds of protesters gather in Besiktas to drink tea together in front of the Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa Pier, as a protest against the governments plan of selling the public pier to a hotel. 

Police attacked on protesters who wanted to march to the pier and 12 people are taken into custody. Protesters made a sit-down strike until their comrades be released by police

Greece - Members of Golden Dawn nazist party and police unite!

From World Riots

More photos and information on the site linked above.

20/9/13 Lamia, Greece

Clashes erupted on the highway between Athens and Lamia when the police attacked the striking workers of the mining company Larko. 

Many workers were taken to hospital with serious head injuries. 7 workers get arrested.

Snack Food Companies Face Scrutiny in Campaign Against Unsustainable Palm Oil

If you've ever eaten food from a box, bag or package, chances are it contained palm oil. 

 
Snack food companies are increasingly using palm oil for its low trans fat content in their products. But palm oil plantations are known for more than palm oil production. They're contributing to deforestation, animal extinction and human rights violations.

Indonesia is the largest producer and exporter of palm oil globally, and Malaysia accounts for more than 90 percent of exports to the United States. Both countries are known for their monopoly on palm oil production, and for the high volume of environmental and human rights abuses in palm oil production.

These abuses have prompted the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to fight the palm oil plantations that they believe are perpetuating these violations. On September 12, 2013, RAN announced a new campaign to put an end to irresponsible palm oil manufacture.

It singled out 20 household snack food companies whose influence they believe can help incite the change needed. Called the "Snack Food 20," the selected companies include Campbell's Soup, Hillshire Brands, PepsiCo, Hershey, Kraft Food Group and more. 

"We have collected these 20 companies because they are global brands and household names and they have the influence and power to engage their supply chains and tell their suppliers that they want responsible palm oil," RAN communications manager Laurel Sutherlin told Truthout.

 "Right now, there [are] plans to continue to clear an area the size of Missouri by the Indonesian government if this isn't put into check," Sutherlin said. "It's really a severe crisis. You've got major human rights violations, land being stolen from indigenous communities, and child labor.  Also palm oil is probably the single leading threat to the survival of orangutans as a species. So we could see the orangutan go extinct in our lifetimes."


With the palm oil industry continuing to grow uncontested, RAN hopes consumers will take a stand and demand that companies make a change.

"Companies really do care what their customers think," Sutherlin said. "They put millions of dollars into their brand identity and reputation, so what we really need is for people to raise their voices and make sure that they're heard by these companies."

5,250 gallons of oil spills into South Platte River

"This disaster is a clear indication that the Colorado oil and gas industry must do more to protect the public health of Coloradans," said Lane. 

"As our friends and neighbors pick up the pieces from this disaster, Anadarko must fulfill their responsibility to the people of Colorado."

BREAKING! Russia Today: 9/11 was a False Flag Event

19/9/13 Ankara, Turkey

Clashes erupted yesterday in Ankara when the police attacked the people defending a forested area between the campus of METU (Middle Eastern Technical University) and the neighboring 100. 



The government and local institutions have decided to build a highway through the historically preserved area.

25 Fast Facts About The Federal Reserve

As we approach the 100 year anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve, it is absolutely imperative that we get the American people to understand that the Fed is at the very heart of our economic problems. It is a system of money that was created by the bankers and that operates for the benefit of the bankers.  

The American people like to think that we have a "democratic system", but there is nothing "democratic" about the Federal Reserve. Unelected, unaccountable central planners from a private central bank run our financial system and manage our economy. There is a reason why financial markets respond with a yawn when Barack Obama says something about the economy, but they swing wildly whenever Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke opens his mouth.

The Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy than anyone else does by a huge margin. The Fed is the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world, and if the American people truly understood how it really works, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately. The following are 25 fast facts about the Federal Reserve that everyone should know...

Read here

ISTANBUL is under Chemical Attack

URGENT SHARE ! Kadikoy / ISTANBUL is under Chemical Attack of Cops Since 4 Days !

From Karton Piyer 

Not Only Resisters, Even Ordinary People are in Danger, Even in their Homes !

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Sep 13. The 12th Pan-Citizen Candlelight Rally

Members of 288 civic groups attended the 12th round of candlelight protests against the National Intelligence Service’s interference in last December’s presidential election

The candlelight protests against a fraudulent election reached a peak. More than 30,000 people took part int rally in Seoul.

Police against teachers in Mexico!

From World Riots

Brazilian Riots, September 7th Independence Day in Brazil 2013

From World Riots

15 October 2011, Rome (Italy)

From World Riots

Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance

A direct action coalition of groups and individuals against the extraction, transportation and refining of tar sands. 

Is there a media blackout on the fracking flood disaster in Colorado?

From Blue Daze

I will update this post as residents send me pictures and video.

We need the national news stations to go cover the environmental disaster that’s happening in Colorado right now.


From an email.

 I see you’ve noticed the underwater wells in Weld County, Colorado. Amazing; we’ve emailed the Denver TV stations, other media, and state and local politicians.

We’ve sent pictures that our members have taken. It’s like the media and politicians have been TOLD not to say anything about it. 

There has been no mention of the gas wells on the Denver newscasts either last night or this evening although all stations have had extensive and extended flood coverage. 

You can see underwater wells in the background of some of the newscast videos, and yet the reporters say absolutely nothing.

 Here’s a picture one of our members took yesterday in Weld County, Colorado. We’ve got tons more on our website. Check it out.

 
East Boulder County United Lafayette, Colorado

The tanks are tipping and, in some cases, have fallen over. They have to be leaking toxins into the flood waters. There have to be hundreds if not thousands of underwater well pads in Weld County as a result of the flooding. 

Please publicize this in Texas since our media people and politicians have gone silent!

Niger delta oil spill victims reject 'derisory' Shell compensation offer

Photo and article from The Guardian Global Development

Niger delta communities devastated by giant oil spills from rusting Shell pipelines have unanimously rejected a compensation offer from the company, calling it an insult, and cruel and derisory.

A court in London is now likely to decide how much the Anglo-Dutch firm should pay 11,000 fishermen and others from the Bodo community who lost their livelihoods when the 50-year-old Shell-operated trans-Niger pipeline burst twice within a few months in 2008.

Sources close to the negotiations in Port Harcourt this week suggest Shell offered the communities £30m, or around £1,100 for each person affected. Martyn Day, a partner with the UK law firm Leigh Day who represented the those communities, said Shell's offer was rejected unanimously at a large public meeting in Bodo.

"The amount offered for most claimants equated to two to three years' net lost earnings whereas the Bodo creek has already been out of action for five years and it may well be another 20-25 before it is up and running properly again. I was not at all surprised to see the community walk out of the talks once they heard what Shell were offering."

On Friday the full scale of the spills could be seen from the air with over 75 sq km of mangrove forests, creeks, swamps and channels thick with crude oil. Estimates of how much oil was spilled ranged from around 4,000 barrels to more than 300,000. Communities this week reported that no cleanup had been done and that water wells were still polluted.

Five years after the spills the creeks and waterways around Bodo have an apocalyptic feel. The air stinks of crude, long slicks of oil drift in and out of the blackened, dying mangrove swamps and a sheen of oil covers the tidal mudflats.

War Made Easy (2007)

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. 



Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically promoted the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.

Why We Fight (2005)

Inspired by Dwight Eisenhowers legendary farewell speech 

(in which he coined the phrase military industrial complex), filmmaker Eugene Jarecki surveys the scorched landscape of a half-centurys military adventures, asking how and telling why a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war. 


The film moves beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why - why does America fight? What are the forces political, economic, ideological that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy?

The Fog of War (2003)

Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris presents an amazing documentary about Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-68.



The film opens the door into what was really going on when the Kennedy Administration handled the Cuban Missile Crisis... as well as how Vietnam policy dramatically changed once Kennedy was no longer in office.

 Robert McNamara gives us 11 lessons that America needs to learn so that we don't make the same mistakes twice.

Honolulu Molasses Spill Highlights Lack Of Regulation

On Saturday, a gaggle of cameramen and reporters boarded a tug boat at Pier 9 behind Aloha Tower to go on a tour of what's being called the largest marine disaster in the state’s history — a massive molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor.

But if there was one takeaway from Saturday’s gathering it's that the state and federal governments need to find a better way to regulate shipments of molasses. Unlike oil or other products, molasses is not considered a hazardous material by oversight agencies.

 Dead fish and other marine life began washing ashore Sept. 9 after a leak in a Matson Inc. molasses pipeline dumped 233,000 gallons of the sugary liquid into the waters. Ever since, the plume — which cannot be cleaned up and must dissolve naturally — has killed everything in its pathway, from surgeonfish and eels to crab and coral.

Matson ships hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses to the mainland mainly to be used for animal feed. Shipments usually occur once a week, but company officials have halted exports until any issues related to the spill have been resolved.

Matson is responsible for inspecting and maintaining the molasses pipes at the harbor. While the piers are owned by the state, officials say the sugar pipelines that run underneath belong to the company through a lease agreement.

Unsafe Fukushima nuclear plant to face the wrath of Typhoon Man-yi

Typhoon Man-yi hit central Japan Monday as officials issued a "special warning" of heavy rain, amid fears the storm could go on to hit the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The typhoon was expected to cross the northeast, including the Fukushima area, Monday afternoon possibly bringing heavy rain to areas near the crippled nuclear power plant, according to its predicted track.

Crews have struggled to contain the nuclear plant after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that triggered the atomic disaster and led to the contamination of groundwater with radioactive materials as it flows to the Pacific Ocean. 

With torrential rains expected Monday more contaminated water was feared to seep into the groundwater and workers pumped water from around highly radioactive tanks at the plant.

National Farmers and Social Strike gets seeds control law 970 suspended

In Colombia after 21 days of a nationwide strike by thousands of farmers, blocking more than 40 roads nationwide, protesting farmers forced the Colombian government to negotiate the rejection of a farm bill and the release of detained protesters. - September 15, 13



Transcript of the video, more information and links can be found by clicking the link above the video.

Idle No More Calls for Mass Action on October 7th!

Our collective movement “Idle No More” has been growing in leaps and bounds over the summer season! 

Our #SovSummer campaign launched on June 21's National Aboriginal day was lifted up by hundreds of Indigenous-led community actions across both Turtle Island and Mother Earth!

 
We have amassed a database of over 120,000 Idle No More supporters through the new website along with a growing list of hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and many more taking action in the streets and out on the land.

 Idle No More organizers recently attended and participated in an important meeting of sixty Indigenous land defenders and their allies representing front line struggles from across Canada. 

The meeting named by organizers “Building Unity to Action” took place on August 17, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario on the traditional Anishinaabe Territory of the New Credit First Nation. 

This was a strategic & tactical planning meeting organized by Idle No More-Toronto and Defenders of the Land to crystallize a plan for fall action. One of the primary outcomes of this historic meeting was consensus by all participants to collectively put out a call to all Native and non-Native supporters to join in a mass day of action on Oct 7th, 2013. 

This day marks the 250th Anniversary of the British Royal Proclamation, which lead to the founding of this country they call Canada - a country founded on indigenous lands.

If you believe in the spirit of Idle No More and the 6 calls for change of #SovSummer then we ask you to stand up and be counted this October 7, 2013! 

We encourage local autonomous groups to join in this call for a national day of action with messages and tactics that are appropriate to your local struggles.   

We must collectively send a clear message that our movement will not stop intervening in Canada’s attempts to conduct business as usual, until our right to free, prior, and informed consent is universally upheld, until provisions of Bill C-45 are repealed, until justice is served in the dealings over our murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls and until our lands and our treaties are respected!

Organize an event in your community and read below about recent and upcoming Idle No More actions and events near you! Don’t forget to add your event for the October 7 day of mass action and be counted! Stay tuned for announcements by signing up to get involved and following us on Facebook and Twitter.

Anonymous - Declaration of Freedom | Nov5th, 2013

Anonymous #NOV5TH 2013 - THE LION SLEEPS NO

Anonymous: Million Mask March 2013

Anonymous Million Mask March UK

Anonymous will Target Government Globally on #Nov5th; the Lion Sleeps No More Anonymous says

World Wide Hackers Group Anonymous will target all the government facilities across the globe on November 5 2013 and this #Op in support of the Occupy movement.

You can find out various info from twitter about this #Op with has tag – #Nov5th and this will be a special operation by Anonymous Hackers.

Monsanto Protection Act 2.0: Politicians Bring Back Biotech Immunity

The Monsanto Protection Act that protects the biotech juggernaut from any legal action, even when it comes to federal courts, has been resurrected once again. 

 
In fact, this time even more corrupt politicians are trying to go ahead and extend the act in order to help shield Monsanto from the courts. 

I first reported on the original March Monsanto Protection Act before it hit the mainstream news, and thankfully we were successful in pushing it as a major talking point internationally.

Unfortunately, the act was passed through being slipped in as a rider on an emergency Senate spending bill.

Senators were ‘forced’ to pass the bill with the Monsanto Protection Act included, granting Monsanto the immunity that they were seeking.

Now, we are seeing the exact same scenario. Monsanto has once again managed to weasel its way into legislation by using politicians (who have utterly failed to represent the public in any capacity) to push through a renewal of the immunity.

9/11: Architects & Engineers - Solving the Mystery of WTC 7

Never trust your government. Investigate everything; be curious. 



Investigate all (im)possibilities. The US government has overwhelmed us with the most ridiculous stories. We must fight back! We can not let a handful of idiots control our lives.

We must wake up. And most importantly, we must learn to work together and respect each other. If we are divided we will lose our strength and this human chain may break. 

Please watch AE911Truth documentary and spread the truth! 

US inequality at historic high, surpassing Roaring ’20s

Recent survey shows inequality in the US is at its new peak. 

 
The richest 1 percent of the population received almost a fifth of the national households’ income in 2012, thus breaking the previous record set in 1928.

The gap between rich and poor in the US is wider than ever, according to research which uses preliminary 2012 US statistics for income. It’s an update to a comparative analysis tracing income figures back to 1913 and done by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.

The Great Recession of 2007-2009 saw the richest being hardest hit with 36 percent of income loss, while incomes for the remaining 99 percent of the population it only diminished by 11 percent.

The wealthiest 1 percent was, however, quick to recover, capturing 95 percent of the income gains in the first two post-recession years. The 2012 data suggests the bottom 99 percent of the population has hardly seen any recovery so far. 

Death by Corporation, Part IV: Dissolving the Planet for Oil

A trusting citizen of our great country would think, "But surely the federal government will bring down the regulatory hammer on those reckless oil barons." You're kidding, right?
 

The Chevron refinery in Salt Lake City just received notice of a civil penalty from the EPA for violating the Clean Air Act by failing to install pollution controls for NOx, mono-nitrogen oxides. The fine is $384,000.

Chevron has lost that much in the cushions of their CEO's couch. Literally, that represents 8 minutes of Chevron's $26 billion in profits for 2012. 

Chevron was fined only $1 million for a spectacular refinery fire that sent 15,000 Richmond, California, residents to the hospital last summer. The corporation spent $10 million lobbying Congress last year and came away with $700 million in tax breaks.

Little wonder how Chevron and the other members of the Big Oil club are able to do what they please, with impunity, including force feeding us hydrofluoric acid.

With the help of the masterminds of the oil industry, we are indeed, "running the entire planet to failure." 

At a recent hearing in California on matrix acidizing, Paul Deiro of the Western States Petroleum Association, said, "We use acid because it's effective. I'm unaware of any disasters related to this." He urged the legislators to avoid "unnecessary" regulation of acidizing.

Indeed, if something is "effective" in making hydrocarbons rise magically from deep in the ground, and the drillers are "unaware of any disasters," then what else do we need to know?

What demons could possibly be released by destroying the planet for oil? But this is not the movies, and just looking the other way won't save us.

Death by Corporation: America's Corporate Deathstar

Instead of protecting US citizens, the Obama administration is enabling the ultimate corporate "Deathstar." The TransPacific Partnership will allow corporations "virtually unchecked control of our food supply, our land, air, water, wallets and our future."

 
In Parts I and II of Mankind: Death by Corporation, we looked briefly at what amounts to ruthless, psychopathic behavior of our largest corporations spanning most major industries.  But aided and abetted by "sincere" government officials, corporations are working behind the scenes, rapidly assembling the corporate "Death Star" to be unleashed upon citizens throughout the world, allowing them virtually unchecked control of our food supply, our land, air, water, wallets and our future.

An in-house editorial in the New York Times on July 5, began, "For all its rabid partisanship, Congress has shown time and again that it is willing to come together to deregulate corporate America." This new corporate giveaway is a bill in the Senate sponsored by Democrats and Republicans that would, for all intents and purposes, end the "independence" of independent regulatory agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Labor Relations Board.  These independent agencies were established to be accountable to Congress - not the White House - with the goal of insulating them from political arm-twisting.

 

On paper, the Senate bill's "benign" goal is to ensure that new rules appropriately balance costs and benefits.But this is simply a euphemism for more deregulation, which itself is a euphemism for unleashing the corporate hounds on a hapless public. The bill would hollow out protection for investors, patients, consumers and workers.  For example, it would essentially eliminate the possibility of the meager financial reforms in Dodd-Frank from ever seeing the light of day.

 

This bill is just a warm-up act. While the public and the media sleep, the real corporate "Death Star," the TransPacific Partnership (TPP), is being forged in secret. The term "partnership" hardly sounds ominous. But for the last two years TPP negotiations that could have unprecedented consequences to citizens throughout the world have been going on among a dozen Pacific Rim nations. 

 

No information has been made available to the press or the public - and only extremely limited access has been allowed to a few members of Congress. But last year a document was leaked to the watchdog group, Public Citizen, revealing the current US position and the reason for the secrecy. 

 

The contents are surreal and shocking, and prima facie evidence for how corporations have become the master puppeteers of government.

 

 

Death by Corporation, Part II: Companies as Cancer Cells

The financial industry, chemical industry, drug companies, nuclear industrial complex and dirty energy empire work "like tumor cells for the relentless destruction of the environment that they themselves depend upon for their very lives. And the rest of us stand by and watch it happen."

The Financial Industry

The global financial crisis of 2008, at a cost of more than $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression. The financial crisis became a human crisis. The World Bank estimated that 53 million people worldwide were thrown into poverty and that between 200,000 and 400,000 babies died annually as a result. Millions of children in sub-Saharan Africa have suffered severe malnutrition and long-term brain damage as fallout from the financial disaster.

The Chemical Industry

Albert Einstein is often attributed with a statement like, "If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live." Although Einstein may not have actually said that, and he was not an entomologist, the importance of pollinators to modern agriculture is difficult to overstate. Humans likely will not survive a total collapse of the bee population, and we are headed in that direction. Eighty-seven of the top human food crops, which supply about 90 percent of the world's nutrition, are pollinated by bees.

The Drug Companies

About 20 years ago, the United States became, and still is, virtually the only major country where the $600 billion drug industry can advertise directly to consumers. Patients now tell their doctors what drugs they should be on. For the drug companies, the results have been spectacular, for public health, the exact opposite. The US is 49th in the world in life expectancy despite Americans taking more prescription drugs per capita than any other country. Spending on prescription drugs more than doubled between 1999 and 2008. Nine of ten adults over 60 are on a prescription drug, as are one of every four children and teenagers. More than 20 percent of all American adults are taking at least one drug for "psychiatric" or "behavioral" disorders. Americans' recent fascination with doped-up zombies is a reality show playing out in front of their own mirrors.

The Nuclear Industrial Complex

Any discussion about corporations that threaten the future of mankind must obviously include the nuclear industry. Even outside the realm of nuclear accidents, every phase of the nuclear fuel cycle releases radiation into the environment - the uranium mining, the milling, the fuel production, the power plant operation and the multiple streams of waste.

The Dirty Energy Empire

Finally, this brings us to the fossil fuel industry. As I write this, the temperature is a record-setting 105 degrees in Salt Lake City; no relief is expected for a week. Western forests are being obliterated by drought, pine beetle infestations and wildfires. Reservoirs are only half full. The summer is just getting started; so is global warming.

 

Mankind: Death by Corporation

Ironically, created by and managed by humans, corporations have become almost robotic monsters, perpetrating, even feeding off human misery, threatening every aspect of human life - the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat - and even the future of mankind itself. 

What have these corporate Frankenstein monsters done for us lately? At least 1,127 people have died in a collapsed garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the deadliest such accident in world history.

As of this writing, the largest American clothing corporations, Gap, Walmart and Target, who are end users of these death-trap factories, are still unwilling to commit to any safety improvements.

Fifteen people were killed and over 200 injured in West, Texas, from an explosion at a fertilizer plant. Despite the deaths of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school, no meaningful legislation to subdue ongoing gun slaughter in the United States will get passed.

All of these recent tragic headlines have a common denominator. Corporate profits were, and are, allowed primacy over all other considerations. 

Even Wayne LaPierre's foaming-at-the-mouth speech about freedom, liberty and second amendment rights is a smokescreen for ginning up profits for gun manufacturers, because American gun owners are on a steady, 30-year decline.

The death certificate of all these victims - at Dhaka, West and Sandy Hook - should read, "Death by corporation."

But rummaging over the current and historical larger-scale threats to entire societies, countries and mankind in general, we see a grotesque, recurrent theme - corporations willing to kill, maim and destroy even their own creators in the name of profit.

Cyanide pollution fears: Thousands of Romanians protest ‘biggest in Europe’ gold mine

Massive protests are gripping Romania against the government’s controversial decision to pave the way for a Canadian firm to build Europe’s largest opencast gold mine – which many fear may lead to an environmental disaster.

Some 15,000 people, including students and young parents, rallied across the country on Sunday in the eighth day of protests against a draft law issued by the leftist government, which would allow a Canadian miner to dig for gold and silver in the small town of Rosia Montana in Transylvania, northern Romania.

Eight thousand protesters marched to the government headquarters in Bucharest, carrying signs reading “I love nature, not cyanide” and “Corruption equals cyanide.” According to police, 6,000 demonstrators also rallied in the major Transylvanian city of Cluj and 900 people gathered in Brasov.

Why is the BBC Banging the War Drum on Syria? Just Look Who Runs It

Why is the BBC obsessively attempting to answer a question only they are asking?  A look at the interests and characters running the organisation help explain their seemingly rabid hunger for war.

 
 The Trust consists of 12 Trustees and is headed by Lord Patten.

Lord Chris Patten is a conservative peer and former governor of Hong Kong; he also happens to have 13 others jobs besides chief of the BBC. 

These include an £80,000 year role as an advisor for oil company BP, and £40,000 a year from EDF Energy.  Some might well be surprised that the Chairman of the BBC Trust is receiving more pay from just these two advisory roles than the £110,000 a year he receives for his chairmanship of the BBC Trust.

A war with Syria would increase the price of oil, which would in turn increase profits for the likes of BP – not to mention the possibilities of access to Syrian oil reserves if an alternative, compliant regime were in place.  Energy giant (and employer of former US Vice President Dick Cheney) Halliburton made $39.5bn from Iraq related contracts over the last decade.  Oil prices have already risen on the back of the mere threat of military action, the BBC gleefully reported just days ago.

The recently appointed Director of News and Current Affairs at the BBC, James Harding, is a former employee of the Murdoch Press.

While Editor of The Times newspaper, he was responsible for exposing the identity of police blogger NightJack by hacking the bloggers email accounts – which his legal team then covered up during a court case against the action.  Harding has also gone on the record as ‘pro Israel’. 

This is the figure responsible for hiring the news teams, presenters and journalists who will report on matters of hacking, privacy, Middle East issues and of course the planned assault on Syria.
Raffi Berg, Editor of the BBC News Website, was outed for clenched teeth inducing behaviour in a report by Electronic Intifada. 

 During the 2012 eight day assault by Israeli forces on the Gaza strip, in which hundreds of Palestinians were losing their lives, Berg was emailing journalists with ‘guidance’ to maintain a pro-Israel tone in their reports.  This from the report:

In one, he asked BBC colleagues to word their stories in a way which does not blame or “put undue emphasis” on Israel for starting the prolonged attacks. Instead, he encouraged journalists to promote the Israeli government line that the “offensive” was “aimed at ending rocket fire from Gaza.”
This was despite the fact that Israel broke a ceasefire when it attacked Gaza on 14 November, a ceasefire which the Palestinians had been observing — firing no rockets into Israel.

G20 Syria divide: World’s largest nations speak out against US-led strike

Although discussion of the Syrian conflict was never officially on the G20 agenda, world leaders used their statements and speeches to outline their stance on a possible US-led military strike against the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the notion that there was a 50/50 split of opinion on the issue, alluding that leaders of the majority of the world’s largest economies clearly stated their opposition to military intervention in Syria.

Russia, China, India, Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa were among the countries that openly spoke out against military action not authorized by the UN Security Council, Putin revealed. Putin himself said that he believes the alleged chemical weapons attack was nothing more than “a provocation on behalf of the armed insurgents in hope of the help from the outside, from the countries which supported them from day one.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang told RT at the summit that it is “vitally important” that any move on Syria be based on the UN investigation, stressing that China is “against the use of chemical weapons by any countries or organizations.” 

Other members of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies – Brazil, India and South Africa – also voiced their firm opposition to the possibility of a US-led military strike. 

The United States of America stands exposed in the eyes of the world

'The United States of America stands exposed in the eyes of the entire world as the number-one terrorist threat to the future of humanity. 

 Many have known this fact already, but now it is universally clear. As the US prepares to launch an overt war on Syria (the covert war has been raging for 30 months), the vast majority of humanity can finally see through all its decades of pretense and conceit as the world’s model of democracy and international law.

And what they see is the ugly opposite. The US is a terrorist state that holds international law, democracy and human rights in utter contempt. 

It is ready, as it always has been, to kill countless civilians for its selfish political ambitions. That is the conventional definition of “terrorism”. 

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad made a profound point recently when he said that his country has faced aggression for more than two years, but only now is the real enemy revealing itself – the US and its minions.

But the US terrorist state is not just being called out over Syria. It is being revealed as the enemy to the entire world.'

Barack Obama: The Naked Emperor - What David Icke wrote about the man before he even became president

From December, 2008 ...

'I can understand the appeal of Obama because people want him to be what he claims to be, but isn't. 

They are sick of the conflict, the corruption, the struggle we call 'life' and they want it all to change. But Obama's change is illusory and represents only the continued transformation of society in the image envisaged by Orwell ... keep your eye on the ball and you'll see how the agenda of the global tyranny is introduced under the guise of Obama's 'hope', 'change', 'believe', 'sacrifice' and 'coming together'.

It could take two years, maybe much more, before cognitive dissonance (lying to yourself) loses it current grip on the minds of the Obama faithful. Until then they will make endless excuses for him (lie to themselves) to keep the 'dream' alive.

But one day they will have to admit, by the power of the evidence before them, that they bought a dream and got a nightmare. What a pity they can't see the obvious now and save themselves such painful disappointment ... ...

Obama isn't against war at all and, if his controllers have their way, he will engage the US in even more foreign conflicts with the troops sent to their deaths, and the deaths of their targets, on a wave of oratory from the dark suit with the black face who would never go where he's sending them.'

I am writing this in the last days of 2008 as I watch with dismay as vast numbers of people across the world, including many who should know better, have been duped by the mind-game called Operation Obama. 

Even people with some understanding of the conspiracy have said things like: 'Well, at least he's not Bush' and 'Well, at least it's great to see such a new spirit of hope'. No, he's not Bush - he's potentially far more dangerous; and what is the use of a spirit of 'hope' if it's based on a lie? In fact, what use is 'hope' at all?

I studied the military/government mind-control programmes and techniques in great detail for many years during the late-1990s and across 2000, and the Obama 'phenomenon' is the most blatant mass-mind control operation you could wish to see.

At its core the plan has been to make Obama the focus of everything you hope for, believe in and want to change. This is why it has been crucial for him not to specify and detail what is meant by his 'hope, 'change' and 'believe'. 

Obama isn't against war at all and, if his controllers have their way, he will engage the US in even more foreign conflicts with the troops sent to their deaths, and the deaths of their targets, on a wave of oratory from the dark suit with the black face who would never go where he's sending them.

Obama has been the chosen one for a long time, a fact known only to a few in the deep inner circle, and his relationship with Brzezinski almost certainly goes back to the start of the 1980s when he attended the Ivy League, and big-time Illuminati, Columbia University where Brzezinski was head of the Institute for Communist Affairs. Obama simply will not talk in any detail about this period. He has been covertly funded and supported ever since by the Trilateral Commission and its network of foundations connecting into the Ford Foundation, for whom Obama's mother worked.

And a question: Does anyone really believe that someone, a 'man of the people', would simply appear from apparently nowhere to run the slickest and best-funded presidential campaign in American history? He was chosen long ago by those who wish to enslave the very people that Obama says he wants to 'set free'.

The sources of Obama funding read like a Wall Street Who's Who - Goldman Sachs, UBS, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and so on. 

No wonder he went back on his pledge to accept the limitations of public funding for his campaign and instead took the no-limit option of 'private' funding.
And those people are going to support a candidate who does not represent their best interests?? Oh please.