statism watch

Steve Watson, infowars.net
September 15, 2008

Kingpins of Military-Industrial complex say they will “brand” websites they consider “trustworthy and reliable sources of information”

A foundation populated by the giants of business, banking, government and military wants to “vet” websites and limit the spread of information that it says creates “conspiracy theories”.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), fronted by Internet creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says it is worried about the way the web has been “used to spread disinformation”.

Speaking to the BBC, Berners-Lee said that there needed to be a new system that would give websites a “label for trustworthiness” once they had been proved reliable sources. Only then would the rise of “cult thinking” be avoided according to Berners-Lee.

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David Gutierrez, Natural News
September 15, 2008

A government-sponsored report has concluded that levels of fluoride that people are regularly exposed to in drinking water can cause serious malfunctioning of the thyroid glad, leading to even more serious health problems.

“A low level of thyroid hormone can increase the risk of cardiac disease, high cholesterol, depression, and, in pregnant woman, decreased intelligence of offspring,” said study co-author Kathleen Thiessen.

The comprehensive review of the scientific literature on fluoride exposure and thyroid toxicity was conducted by a panel appointed by the National Research Council of the National Academies (NRC). It found that fluoride exposure was associated with low levels of thyroid and parathyroid hormones, and an abnormally enlarged thyroid gland (goiter). They also found that fluoride tended to concentrate in the thyroid more than in any organ but the kidneys.

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The chickens are coming home to roost. This is what happens when market fundamentals are ignored, the monetary system is distanced from production, fiat inflation is used to finance militarism, and the people allow their leaders, in cahoots with the economic establishment, to replace vast swathes of the economy with a Ponzi scheme. This is the result of fraud on a massive scale, and more expropriation and regulation isn’t the answer. After all, we already have laws against fraud. With the fed deciding that commercial paper can be used as collateral – on major source of the problem in the first place – the debt has been leveraged again, and we’ve taken one big step backwards towards fuedalism. You, I, and your children’s children will be paying these debts through taxation.

CBC News
September 15, 2008

The central banks of the major industrialized economies moved quickly Monday to shore up an ailing global financial system in the wake of the seismic restructuring among Wall Street banks and brokers houses that took place the same day.

The European Central Bank [ECB], the Bank of England, the United States Federal Board and the Bank of Canada have all either offered up extra cash for debt-heavy financial service companies to borrow, or relaxed the collateral requirements that would allow these firms to access existing cash from central banks.

These moves will give firms, faced with huge outstanding borrowing, a pool to additional capital to cover their debts.

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Joe Bel Bruno, Christopher Rugaber,
Martin Crutsinger, Associated Press
Spetember 15, 2008

NEW YORK – When Wall Street woke up Monday morning, two more of its storied firms had fallen.

Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real estate holdings, said it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after attempts to rescue the 158-year-old firm failed. Its businesses in Britain were already placed in administration, said the administrator, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, and employees carrying boxes and bags were walking out of Lehman’s London offices.

Bank of America Corp. said it is snapping up Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in a $50 billion all-stock transaction.

The demise of the Wall Street institutions came as shock waves from the 14-month-old credit crisis roiled the U.S. financial system six months after the collapse of Bear Stearns.

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BBC News
September 15, 2008

Pakistani troops have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing into the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, local officials say.

Reports say nine US helicopters landed on the Afghan side of the border and US troops then tried to cross the border.

South Waziristan is one of the main areas from which Islamist militants launch attacks into Afghanistan.

The incident comes amid growing anger in Pakistan over increasingly aggressive US attacks along the border.

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If the magic machine says you’re guilty, then guilty you must be. How convenient.

Anand Giridharadas, IHT
September 15, 2008

The new technology is, to its critics, Orwellian. Others view it as a silver bullet against terrorism that could render waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods obsolete. Some scientists predict the end of lying as we know it.

Now, well before any consensus on the technology’s readiness, India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on evidence from this controversial machine: a brain scanner that produces images of the human mind in action and is said to reveal signs that a suspect remembers details of the crime in question.

For years, scientists have peered into the brain and sought to identify deception. They have shot infrared beams through liars’ heads, placed them in giant magnetic resonance imaging machines and used scanners to track their eyeballs. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States has plowed money into brain-based lie detection in the hope of producing more fruitful counterterrorism investigations.

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