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Turkey tells US it won’t adhere to new sanctions on Iran

EU Times — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:36:44 +0000

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Turkish officials have told an American delegation that it has no intention of following unilateral US sanctions on Iran, a move likely to deepen a rift between the two NATO allies over the Islamic republic’s contentious nuclear program that Washington believes is aimed at developing nuclear weapons.

Turkish and American officials have confirmed that a US delegation comprising representatives from the State and Treasury departments visited Ankara last week to have talks at the Turkish Foreign Ministry and the Undersecretariat of the Treasury over US sanctions on Iran.

The talks came as Turkey said it would support Turkish companies making sales to Tehran despite unilateral US sanctions that restrict trade. “They were here to discuss and explain UN sanctions and also the new US sanctions package signed into legislation by President Obama on July 1,” a US Embassy official in Ankara told Reuters late on Friday. The official said Turkey was one of many countries the delegation was planning to visit.

Foreign Ministry officials said the delegation had offered details about the US sanctions but that Turkey’s response was negative, the Anatolia news agency reported. “We told them we don’t feel obliged to adhere to sanctions other than those imposed by the UN,” an official said.

Since June, the UN Security Council, the United States and the European Union have tightened sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, which Washington fears is a cover to build an atomic bomb. Tehran says its aims are purely peaceful.

Both the US and EU sanctions cover a broader range of activities than those enacted by the UN and are aimed at squeezing Iran’s energy and banking sectors, which could also hurt companies from other countries doing business with Tehran.

The US legislation will sanction companies for supplying Iran with refined petroleum products with a fair market value exceeding $1 million or that during a 12-month period have an aggregate fair market value of $5 million or more.

The Cumhuriyet daily, quoting an unnamed US official, said Washington had sent the delegation to warn Turkey it intended to target Turkish companies deemed to be trading with the Islamic republic in violation of US sanctions.

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız told Reuters this month Ankara would back private firms making sales to Iran. Turkey stepped in to sell Iran the equivalent of 1.2 million barrels of gasoline in June when most other sellers refused to continue sales due to the looming sanctions.

But Turkey charged Iran a 25 percent premium above the market rate then sharply curtailed gasoline shipments by some 73 percent in July as the US sanctions came into force.
Turkish tolerance

The US Embassy official would not comment on the report that Washington had warned Turkey about sanctions, but said, “They are making these visits because it is very important for us to pass the word about this sanctions package.”

A delegation of Turkish officials, led by Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu, is expected to begin talks with US officials in Washington today on a number of issues, including Iran’s nuclear program.

The United States has so far largely looked the other way as its Muslim NATO ally has strengthened political and economic ties with Iran as part of Ankara’s long-term energy strategy.

Washington’s tolerant attitude may end if Turkey continues to take the bite out of US sanctions or boost ties with the Islamic republic beyond a symbolic partnership. Any international firms that sell gasoline to Iran could face retribution under the US sanctions, including a possible ban from the US financial system or denial of US contracts.

Cumhuriyet, an anti-government newspaper, said the Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corporation (TÜPRAŞ), Turkey’s sole refiner and gasoline exporter, was vulnerable to the sanctions. It said the state petroleum firm, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO), was readying to sign important agreements with Iran, and that the United States could sever all commercial ties with these companies. TÜPRAŞ did not answer calls for comment.

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Italy inspired by France to expel citizens from other EU states by September

EU Times — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:42:48 +0000

A beggar on the streets of Venice. The Italian remarks come hot on the heels of Roma expulsions in France

Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves, in a move apparently inspired by France’s current crackdown on Roma.

Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told daily newspaper Corriere della Sera on Saturday (21 August) that French president Nicolas Sarkozy – whose recent actions include closing down Roma camps and deporting around 200 Roma to date – is “right.”

The minister, from the anti-immigrant Northern League Party, said that “if anything, it’s time to go a step further” and referred to the mandatory expulsion of EU citizens who do not meet certain criteria.

“Yes, expulsions just like those for illegal immigrants, not assisted or voluntary repatriations. Of course only for those who violate rules on requirements for living in another member state: a minimum level of income, adequate housing and not being a burden on the social welfare system of the country hosting them.”

“Many Roma are EU citizens but do not respect any of these requirements,” he said. But added, when asked if this would be discriminatory, that the policy should apply to all EU citizens and not just Roma.

“If anything, the problem is something else: unlike in France, many Roma and Sinti here have Italian citizenship. They have the right to remain here. Nothing can be done.”

Mr Maroni admitted that previous attempt by Rome to go in this direction were shot down by the European Commission but said he intends to re-raise the issue of automatic expulsions at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Paris on 6 September.

In 2008, the commission threatened Italy with legal action if it went ahead with a decree allowing the expulsion of other EU citizens facing two years of jail. It gave its blessing to a controversial proposal by Italy to fingerprint Roma, however.

Some in Italy have suggested there is a discrepancy between the relatively strong reaction by Brussels to Italy two years ago compared with its muted response to Mr Sarkozy’s policy towards the Roma community.

According to Mr Maroni this is due to an old “prejudice” whereby a policy carried out by a minister from the Northern League, a junior coalition partner in Rome’s right-wing government, is assumed to “violate human rights.”

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Mr Sarkozy’s government deported around 10,000 Roma to Romania and Bulgaria last year but the current raids against against a planned total of 300 Roma camps come after the French president for the first time expressly linked immigration and crime.

The European Commission, for its part, has said it is monitoring the situation in France noting that any deportation decisions must be proportionate and carried out on a case-by-case basis, with human rights watchdogs already questioning whether these criteria are being fulfilled.

Meanwhile, critics of Mr Sarkozy’s policy have suggested that the Roma will simply return as soon as they are able.

They also suggest that Paris is contributing to a vicious circle due to its decision to maintain until 2014 rules restricting access to the labour market to nationals from Bulgaria and Romania – where the majority of Roma come from – and with it a means of supporting themselves.

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Fueling of Iran’s nuclear plant begins

EU Times — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:24:53 +0000

Iran's first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr

Iran has begun loading its first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr with fuel in an effort to provide the country with nuclear-generated electricity.

Nuclear fuel is being transferred to the Bushehr reactor under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency and senior officials from Iran and Russia.

The Russian-completed plant is finally being launched after years of delay.

163 fuel rods are to be transferred to the core of the plant.

The fueling comes after head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi and Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency Director Sergei Kiriyenko held talks earlier on Saturday ahead of the inaugural ceremony of the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

Iran’s AEOI chief said the fueling process will be completed by September 5.

For his part, Kiriyenko lauded the “physical launch process” of the plant and said, “Bushehr plant is a unique power plant, as most of its parts and equipment have been installed on the ones mounted by the Germans,” said Kiriyenko, quoted by IRNA.

He further expressed satisfaction with Russia’s commitment to its part of the deal and noted, “This is an important event. We declare that Russia has stood by all its commitments to the Bushehr nuclear power plant.”

Iranian officials say they expect to use nuclear-generated electricity two or three months following the fuel launch of the plant.

The reactor’s construction was resumed by Russia in 1995, after the German contractor withdrew from the project soon after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in the country.

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Holocaust denier death, Mossad linked

EU Times — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:14:45 +0000

Dariusz Ratajczak

American writer JP Bellinger dose not rule out the the involvement of Israeli spy agency, Mossad, in the tragic death of a Polish historian, who was researching on the Holocaust.

Dariusz Ratajczak, a former professor at the University of Opole, was found dead in a car parked near a shopping center in Opole on June 11, 2010.

Forensic reports indicated that the body was in the car for nearly two weeks, but was in an advanced state of decay, suggesting that it was moved to car long after Ratajczak’s death.

“After being questioned, a number of witnesses told the police that the car had only recently been parked there,” Bellinger wrote in his article.

“Professor Ratajczak’s death was ruled a ‘suicide,’ but skeptical people, perhaps bearing in mind the recent arrest of a Mossad assassin operating in Poland, are asking how a person in an advanced staged of composition was able to drive to a public parking lot and park a car?” he inquired.

He was referring to Uri Brodsky, Mossad agent accused of helping fake a German passport that was used by one of the members of a hit squad involved in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas commander, in a Dubai hotel in January.

Bellinger went on to say that Ratajczak’s troubles began with the publication of his booklet, “Dangerous Topics,” in March 1999 for which he was convicted of Holocaust denial in Poland.

“What possesses greater intrinsic value? Maintaining the mainstream version of the Holocaust at any cost or the life of a single human being whose only offence was to engage in historical research in a quest for the truth?”

Ratajczak believed it was not possible to kill millions of people in the Nazi gas chambers — a view that provoked a firestorm of criticism among his contemporaries and Israelis lobbies.

Michael Sobelman, the spokesman the Israeli Embassy in Poland, accused Ratajczak of anti-Semitism and expressed “surprise” that “such a man works at a Polish university.”
Sobelman’s comment preceded Ratajczak’s expulsion from the University of Opole.

Ratajczak believed that charge of anti-Semitism had become a sort of exceptionally brutal weapon, which the “establishment” uses ruthlessly against independent thinking men.

“What hurts me most is that I found myself in a group of historians who have been muzzled. After all, please see: from 45 years to now the number of Jews murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau has dropped from six million to less than one million. It’s official data. Indeed, even if they had killed one man, that would be a tragedy. But how is it that some historians may legitimately question the numbers of the Holocaust, and others can not? How is it that some people can reduce the six million to less than a million and nothing bad is happening to them? How is it that some people are not allowed to examine this subject and even be wrong, while other historians are allowed all this?” Ratajczak commented.

Bellinger says disturbing news of Ratajczak’s death shocked some traditionalist and patriotic organizations in Poland, and concludes by asking, “Is questioning the holocaust, or holocaust ‘denial’ of more intrinsic worth than the life of any human being?”

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Tougher Than Arizona Immigration Bill Introduced in Utah

EU Times — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:42:33 +0000

Utah State Representative Stephen Sandstrom has introduced an immigration bill which in some ways may be tougher than Arizona’s embroiled S.B. 1070, yet omits the “onerous” and “punitive” aspects of the bill.

Rep. Sandstrom said he might be willing to bend on some minor points of the bill to improve its chance of passage, but will not compromise on allowing police to question individuals on their immigration status, as this is the “key to the bill.”

Rep. Sandstrom is expecting opposition, but says there are “dozens upon dozens” of legislators who will support the bill, and he believes it will ultimately pass.

RT Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed

EU Times — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:38:01 +0000

Russia Today (RT) – Files declassified in America have revealed covert public relations and lobbying activities of Israel in the U.S. The National Archive made the documents public following a Senate investigation. They suggest Israel has been trying to shape media coverage of issues it regards as important. You can download the files from the web-site of the Institute for Research on Middle Eastern policy. And we can cross to Washington now and talk to Grant F. Smith who is a director at that Institute.

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Former US Governor Warns Of Homeland Security “Gestapo” Takeover of America

EU Times — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:55:20 +0000

Former Governor still fuming over feds’ attempt to block him from filming at JFK memorial on political grounds

In an exclusive new video for Prison Planet.tv subscribers, former Governor Jesse Ventura warns that Homeland Security is rapidly becoming the American Gestapo, as Ventura still fumes over the fact that the feds tried to stop him from filming the JFK memorial at Arlington Cemetery.

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura visited Austin, Texas last week to work on the next season of his hit TV show “Conspiracy Theory.” Alex Jones had a chance to catch up with the governor while driving around for the shoot.

While the show is top secret until it airs, Jesse did disclose some of the harassment he and his crew have received during production, including being barred by the Army from filming Kennedy’s eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery.

When Ventura’s production team attempted to go through the proper channels to get permission to film the JFK memorial, they were refused on the basis that that the Army didn’t like the content of Ventura’s show. They were also lied to when the feds told Ventura that the Kennedy family held jurisdiction over who was allowed to film the memorial, a claim vehemently denied by a Kennedy family spokesman.

Ventura refuses to let the issue drop and is calling for the individual who made the decision to be fired on the basis that he is allowing his personal political viewpoints to interfere with his job.

Ventura also gives Alex his thoughts on Homeland Security’s takeover of the United States as well as TSA’s implementation of mandatory body scanners in airports across the nation. The former governor discusses how difficult it was merely to hire a boat to do some filming on an island, because all the captains were frightened that Homeland Security would revoke their licenses if they put a foot out of line. Ventura now fears that the DHS will become the American Gestapo as the implementation of martial law accelerates.

“I’m viewing Homeland Security and what I’m seeing out of them – they’re supposed to be there for our protection – I’m now referring to them as the Gestapo, they could evolve into the United States Gestapo, I can see that on the horizon,” said Ventura.

Meanwhile, Ventura comments, Wall Street bankers, Blackwater mercenaries (now Xe) and diplomats all carry out their actions with impunity as the American people are ruled by a fully-integrated surveillance system.

On a lighter note, Jesse discusses his time as a bodyguard for some of rock music’s biggest acts, including the Rolling Stones and a few details about his biggest Hollywood films, including ‘Predator’ and a lost alternate ending to ‘The Running Man.’

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Chavez said will have no peace until US gets its hands on Venezuela’s oil fields

EU Times — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:24:16 +0000

The Washington Post by-line was “How Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez tries to hide the truth about his government!” So I would like to rephrase the question: “Is the Washington Post attempting to hide the REAL truth about the Hugo Chavez government by innuendo instead of merely giving us the facts?”

I am well aware of the record of the Washington Post as a disseminator of US propaganda not just from the present time, but during World War II and during the Korean Conflict, well into the Vietnam War … from there it advanced into the Cold War and into the Afghan War and the Invasion of Iraq.

The Washington Post is very similar to the Soviet newspaper PRAVDA and the Nazi newspaper Deutsche Algemeine Zeitung, which were the mouthpieces of rabid fanatics.

While the Washington Post goes so far as accusing Senor Chavez of providing a haven and materiel support to Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), neighboring Colombia — a US puppet state under a Rightist regime — went about killing of anyone who they suspected of being left-leaning.

Now where did the Washington Post acquire the false information that FARC was guilty of the massacre of civilians, drug trafficking and the taking of hostages.

I would like to inform the Washington Post that George Washington and his guerrillas were also guilty of massacring non-combatants who refused to take sides during the American Revolution, and were also taking British hostages, no different to policies that the Washington Post today accuses FARC of doing.

FARC is as much a ‘terrorist organization as those who began the American Revolution … except that the American ‘terrorists’ were called ‘minutemen.’

For the US State Department to designate FARC as terrorist organization, is a joke in very bad taste … especially after the revelation by WIKILEAKS of all the secret assassinations and wholesale murders carried out on behalf of the very government of the United States of America all over the world.

But even the European Union has been found guilty of the massacre of men, women and children in Serbia, by permitting their planes to bomb schools, churches, hospitals, apartment buildings, railway stations, streetcars and bridges … these are no less the acts of murder carried out on behalf of the governments of the European Union.

So neither the US nor the European Union can claim any form of immunity for all their War Crimes against the sovereign Nation of Serbia. In fact the bombing of Serbia was a well-planned genocide … ask former US President Bill Clinton how much he received for his participation in the Serbian pogrom?

What the Washington Post has avoided any mention of the Afghan invasion and the murder of Afghan men, women and children by ISAF and US forces.

Then of course the Washington Post makes no mention of the illegal invasion of Iraq and the murder of well over two million Iraqi men, women and children by US and Coalition Forces. But the Washington Post the very mouthpiece of US government sees no reason to bring up these issues, since roil the FARC actions in Colombia and that would further expose the US’ war crimes, because it has NO excuse for that whatsoever.

Of course, it is quite okay for the Washington Post to accuse Chavez of being in violation of UN Security Council resolutions and the consideration of the Obama regime which is itself the World’s Biggest Drug & Terrorist Organization.

Of course ONLY the US has the “right” to invade and kill in other nations, because even the UN Security Council is afraid that if it does not kowtow to the US it might suffer big time.

As for any mention of Larry Leon Palmer who was designated US Ambassador to Venezuela, who some claim is a veteran diplomat/agent provocateur he is there to make sure that there will be no peace for Chavez until the US gets its hands on Venezuela’s oilfields.

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Iran will block Hormuz if attacked

EU Times — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:48:35 +0000

Top Iranian military official Brig. Gen. Ali Shademani

A senior Iranian military official says Iran will take full control of the Strait of Hormuz should Washington opt to launch aggression against Iran.

“The country’s armed forces which are under the (Islamic Revolution) Leader’s command are in the highest state of preparedness.” head of the Operations Department of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Ali Shademani was quoted by Mehr News Agency as saying on Tuesday.

“Three measures are in store to counter any potential aggression against the country”, he said.

“The first action would be to take full control of the Strait of Hormuz whereby we wouldn’t allow any move by anybody”, the top military official underlined.

He said the enemy ‘will be brought to its knees’ as soon as it makes a move.

As for the second measure, General Shademani said, “We are keeping a close watch on all American military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

“With the slightest move against Iran, we will paralyze the troops stationed in those bases and won’t allow them to make any move.” he stressed.

The top general also elaborated on the third plan.

“Israel is the United States’ backyard”, he highlighted, “So we will disturb the peace there.”

“The US and Israel well know that we can do it”, he added.

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Ron Paul to run for President of USA in 2012

EU Times — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:38:16 +0000

Washington, United States of America – According to the Ron Paul forums on his website he ( Ron Paul ) will run for the president of the United States in 2012. The message said “Ron Paul WILL BE running in 2012 barring unforseen circumstances”.

Ron Paul ran for president in 2008 but his popularity was not there yet, after Obama people realised that Ron Paul was the “real change” they were hoping for but unfortunately by then had already voted for Barack Obama.

If Ron Paul would run for president he already has the online support Barack Obama had if not more.

Gillard declares she wants Australia to become a republic when Queen dies

EU Times — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:27:15 +0000

TONY Abbott believes it is “far from certain” Australia will become a republic in his lifetime, after Labor signalled a new push on the issue.

Julia Gillard today declared she wants Australia to become a republic when the Queen dies, and plans to lead a national debate on the form the republic would take.

The Prime Minister said today that despite being a republican, she understood that Australians had a “deep affection” for the British monarch, who is 84.

“What I would like to see as prime minister is that we can work our way through to an agreement for the model of a republic,” Ms Gillard said while campaigning in the north Queensland city of Townsville, ahead of Saturday’s election.

“But I would think the appropriate time for this nation to move to being a republic is when we see the monarch change.”

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Her comments put her absolutely at odds with Mr Abbott, a staunch monarchist who was at the centre of the anti-republican cause in the 1999 referendum, which rejected the notion of change.

Campaigning with Wayne Swan in the crucial marginal seat of Herbert, Ms Gillard said she wished the Queen a long and happy life.

“Having watched her mother I think there’s every chance that she will live a long and happy life,” she said.

Mr Abbott said he saw no reason to change the existing constitutional arrangements.

“I think the first person who wanted Australia to become a republic was John Dunmore Lang back in the 1850s,” Mr Abbott told the National Press Club in Canberra.

“This republican cause has been with us for a long time but the Australian people have demonstrated themselves to be remarkably attached to institutions that work.

“I think that our existing constitutional arrangements have worked well in the past. I see no reason whatsoever why they can’t continue to work well in the future.

“So while there may very well be further episodes of republicanism in this country, I am far from certain that, at least in our lifetimes, that there’s likely to be any significant change.”

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A Rapist in the Guise of TV Journalist

EU Times — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:29:58 +0000

A French-language TV journalist, Hugues-Denver (HEWE’) Akassy that he called himself as, has been accused of a number of crimes against the New York women.

Earlier, in the last month, he was indicted for exploiting three women. In the first case, he raped a Russian tourist in a park, whom he met at Time Warner Center. In other case, he was found prowling on the fire escape of a woman claiming that he is homeless and in the third one; he harassed a woman, when she forbade hanging out with him.

As for now, he is on $100,000 bail, after landing into prosecution in New York. In order to disguise himself to avoid the questions on a website, he designated himself as French-language TV journalist.

Apart from the stated cases, the man committed a series of crime around Manhattan, where he lived for almost eighteen months. He was also prosecuted for those allegations, which have not been revealed publically yet. The complaints against him in Manhattan started pouring in after his prosecution on July 30.

Howard D. Simmons, lawyer of Akassy said, “Mr. Akassy doesn’t deny having social interactions with any of these women. However, he vehemently denies ever assaulting or victimizing any of them”.

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CIA Linked Israeli ‘Killing Machine’ Captured In US

EU Times — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:13:52 +0000

An interesting FSB report circulating in the Kremlin today states that United States Federal Police Forces have captured an Israeli “Killing Machine” who was attempting to flee the US after his being identified as the main suspect in a series of “racially motivated” stabbing attacks on black people that has resulted in at least 5 deaths over the past 3 months.

According to this report, a 33-year-old Israeli citizen holding duel US citizenship named Elias Abuelazam who was “deeply involved” in research for a new class of drugs called benzodiazepines, which are described as “anxiolytics and hypnotics”, for his employer Northridge Behaviorial Healthcare (aka Piedmont Behavioral Health Center), located not far from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) main headquarters in the US State of Virginia, [Note: these drugs include Valium Ambien Xanax Ativan Klonopin] is believed to have been “contaminated” with one of these drugs believed by the FSB to be able to induce “uncontrollable” racial hatred in its users.

The CIA use of these types of drugs to “control and manipulate” the American population was first exposed in 1976 in the Senate Report to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (commonly known as the Church Committee) [Book I, page 401, April 1976] that detailed the US intelligence agencies “war” against the 1960’s counter culture opposed to the Vietnam conflict and called “Operation Chaos”.

In this report to the US Senate, CIA Director Richard Helms (the only CIA Director convicted for lying to the US Congress) argued in defense of his agencies drugging of unsuspecting Americans by stating “that administering drugs, including poisonous LSD, might be on individuals who are unwitting as this is the only realistic method of maintaining the capability considering the intended operational use to influence human behavior as the operational targets will certainly be unwitting.”

The largest known mass-population “racial” drugging experiment against the American people by the CIA, this report continues, occurred in 1992 in the California city of Los Angeles when its black population was “unleashed” against Asian and white peoples for the purpose of “crisis analysis”, and aside from causing 53 deaths, also resulted in thousands being injured and caused over $1 Billion in property damage.

Interesting to note about the 1992 Los Angeles riot was the CIA’s use of “Effective Frequency” techniques delivered through television viewing that when combined with the already drugged US water supply combined to create the worst episode in mass unrest the United States had seen in nearly 40 years.

Effective Frequency is the number of times a person must be exposed to an advertising message before a response is made and before exposure is considered wasteful, and whose research was pioneered by Colombia University research scientist Dr. Herbert E. Krugman who warned of the dangers of mass-population mind control should this technique be used.

Note: In November 1969, Dr. Herbert Krugman, who later became manager of public-opinion research at General Electric headquarters in Connecticut, decided to try to discover what goes on physiologically in the brain of a person watching TV. He elicited the co-operation of a twenty-two-year-old secretary and taped a single electrode to the back of her head. The wire from this electrode connected to a Grass Model 7 Polygraph, which in turn interfaced with a Honeywell 7600 computer and a CAT 400B computer.

Flicking on the TV, Krugman began monitoring the brain-waves of the subject. What he found through repeated trials was that within about thirty seconds, the brain-waves switched from predominantly beta waves, indicating alert and conscious attention, to predominantly alpha waves, indicating an unfocused, receptive lack of attention: the state of aimless fantasy and daydreaming below the threshold of consciousness.

When Krugman’s subject turned to reading through a magazine, beta waves reappeared, indicating that conscious and alert attentiveness had replaced the daydreaming state.

What surprised Krugman, who had set out to test some McLuhanesque hypotheses about the nature of TV-viewing, was how rapidly the alpha-state emerged. Further research revealed that the brain’s left hemisphere, which processes information logically and analytically, tunes out while the person is watching TV.

This tuning-out allows the right hemisphere of the brain, which processes information emotionally and non-critically, to function unimpeded. “It appears,” wrote Krugman in a report of his findings, “that the mode of response to television is more or less constant and very different from the response to print. That is, the basic electrical response of the brain is clearly to the medium and not to content difference…. [Television is] a communication medium that effortlessly transmits huge quantities of information not thought about at the time of exposure.”

Note: Due to the danger of mass-population manipulation through the use of Effective Frequency techniques the US television broadcasting standards of NTSC (analog) and ATSC (digital) are banned in nearly all other countries in the World with the exception of Canada which is planning to adopt the ATSC standard on August 31, 2011.

This report further points out as “extremely useful” the “trail” of CIA connections (aside from its physical location) between the Israeli “Killing Machine” Abuelazam and his employer Northridge Behaviorial Healthcare which is owned by a company called Psychiatric Solutions Inc. (PSI) that describes itself as “the largest operator of owned or leased freestanding psychiatric inpatient facilities with approximately 11,000 beds in 32 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.”

PSI “also manages freestanding psychiatric inpatient facilities for government agencies and psychiatric inpatient units within medical/surgical hospitals owned by others” which extends its “mental health” reach into nearly every corner of the American people’s life.

Most important to note about PSI, this FSB report notes, is that it is “shadow” owned by one of the richest and most powerful man in America named Richard Rainwater, who aside from being one of President Bush’s “closet friends” has long warned of the United States destruction due to what is called Peak Oil and in a 2005 interview with CNN was quoted as saying what lies ahead for America “looms so large that it scares and confuses him”.

Aside from Rainwater being one of President Bush’s closest friends (they shared offices together in Texas) he managed the former US leader’s blind trust that is called Crescent Investments. Using Bush Family funds from Crescent, along with his own money, Rainwater founded Columbia Healthcare that he then merged with Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and which has become the World’s largest for-profit hospital company.

Rainwater also used his own and Bush’s funds to found PSI where he then installed his former protégée from Colombia Healthcare Joey A. Jacobs as its Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Joining Jacobs at PSI was another Bush “family friend” Dr. Kathy L. Bolmer who was made an Executive Vice President and was the former head of her own company called KB Behavioral Healthcare Consulting, LLC and is an internationally known expert on mass behavioral psychology. Important to note about Dr. Bolmer was that she was appointed by President Bush to serve on the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health which advocates among its many “shock findings” the immediate use of new drugs upon all Americans even without their testing, and to quote exactly from their Executive Summary:

“In a transformed system, research will be used to develop new evidence-based practices to prevent and treat mental illnesses. These discoveries will be immediately put into practice.”

Now to if the crazed Israeli “Killing Machine” just captured in the United States after his raging stabbing and hammer attacks on innocent black men is a part of PSI’s and Dr. Bolmer’s putting some “new discovery” into immediate practice it is not in our knowing.

What is in our knowing though, and as this FSB report points out, something very strange indeed is going on in America’s health care system that appears to have nothing at all to do with health, but everything to do with the US Governments effort to either keep their population from exploding, at the best, or to unleash upon these still asleep people a civil war the likes of which they have never seen.

If one was to bet on which one of these two scenarios is more likely they could, perhaps, follow the advice of the noted American investment guru Marc Farber who this past week advised all of his investors to “buy a farm you can tend to yourself way out in the boondocks and protect it with high voltage fences, barbed wire, booby traps, military weapons and Dobermans.”

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Nationalist Conference in Japan. Europeans Invited

EU Times — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:57:37 +0000

French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen leads a delegation of far-right European politicians to Japan this week where they plan to visit Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni shrine to war dead.

When asked about the visit to the shrine, which honours 2.5 million Japanese war dead including 14 top war criminals from World War II, the party’s deputy leader Bruno Gollnisch said “bad war criminals are the ones who lost.”

Other Asian countries view the shrine as a symbol of Japan’s wartime aggression.

However Gollnisch said: “We are not going to justify the imperialist policies of Japan 70 years ago. We are going to pay honour to the courage of the unfortunate soldiers who were in the enemy camp.”

The delegation will include representatives of the British National Party (BNP), Austria’s Freedom Party (FPOe), Hungary’s Jobbik, and the Vlaams Belang party of Belgium.

The delegation begin their visit on Thursday, and plan to visit the Yasukuni shrine on Saturday. They are to wrap up their trip on August 18.

The European politicians also plan to meet with members of Japan’s far-right Issuikai, said Gollnisch.

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Obama gets blasted as ‘worst President’ ever

EU Times — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:52:18 +0000

Well, we wondered who would be the first public figure to call Barack Obama “the worst president in history” — an appellation applied to most White House occupants at one time or another.

We just didn’t think it would be Dan Quayle’s son.

Ben Quayle, 33, who is seeking the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat in Arizona, has cut a commercial denouncing Obama, as well as “drug cartels in Mexico” and “tax cartels in D.C.”

For good measure, the former vice president’s son ends his stark ad by proclaiming: “I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.”

Note that Quayle, a lawyer and managing director of a Scottsdale, Ariz., investment firm, has also been criticized for alleged links to a racy website, claims his campaign has denounced as a smear.

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