statism watch

WiseupJournal.com
March 2, 2009

Last week (Feb 25th) the Gardai, Irish Police force, protested by the thousands and We The People Of Eire interviewed the Garda Representative Association. In this video, posted on the left, you can hear Deputy General Secretary of the Garda Representative Association, Mr. John Healy say the government has “sat around while our banks have been raid by private individuals for their personal profit” where “43 billion has been made in the last three years of the Celtic Tiger while 1% of the population has profited.”

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Flashback: Justin Trudeau introduces National Voluntary Service motion | US Democrats Introduce Public National Service Bills

Kurt Nimmo, PrisonPlanet.com
March 2, 2009

Citing none other than Pericles and John F. Kennedy, CFR member and New World Order minion Gary Hart declares on the liberal Huffington Post website that “the notion of dedication, participation, and service is as old as the Republic itself.” Hart says the globalist front man Barack Obama has awakened “a renewed spirit of national service” and the “American Republic must now respond.” For Hart and the Greek elitist Pericles, those who do not respond are “useless” and devoid of “civic virtue.”

For Hart and the banker front man Obama, it is time for the plebs to give “something back” to the republic. Unfortunately, the United States is no longer a republic. It is a bankster dominated plutocracy.

For Obama, Gary Hart, and the global elite, it is not enough that many Americans volunteer to help those in need within their local communities — the “renewed spirit of national service” must be mandated by law. Last September, Congress passed the Serve America Act, legislation creating the Education Corps, the Healthy Futures Corps, the Clean Energy Service Corps, the Opportunity Corps, and the Reserve Corps, among other “initiatives.” During his Inaugural Address, Obama declared this expensive and burdensome expansion of government represents “a new era of responsibility.”

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BBC News
March 2, 2009

The Central intelligence Agency (CIA) has destroyed 92 tapes of interviews conducted with terror suspects, a US government lawyer has admitted.

The agency had previously said that it had destroyed only two tapes.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a lawsuit against the CIA to seek details of the interrogations of terror suspects.

Techniques involved are understood to have included water-boarding, which the Obama administration says is torture.

The acknowledgment of the 92 destroyed tapes came in a letter sent to the judge presiding over the ACLU lawsuit.

“The CIA can now identify the number of videotapes that were destroyed,” the letter by acting US Attorney Lev Dassin, obtained by the BBC, said. “Ninety-two videotapes were destroyed.”

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How soon before selected combinations of traits are patented? While it is not this journal’s position that it is the state’s job to legislate the morality of an individual’s decisions, it is imperative nonetheless for us all to stop right now, take a deep breath, and ask what the long term consequences may be of fixing the game. This story is a bombshell, and as of this moment, we live in a Brave New World.

BBC News
March 2, 2009

A US clinic has sparked controversy by offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like the eye and hair colour of their offspring.

The LA Fertility Institutes run by Dr Jeff Steinberg, a pioneer of IVF in the 1970s, expects a trait-selected baby to be born next year.

His clinic also offers sex selection.

UK fertility experts are angered that the service will distract attention from how the same technology can protect against inherited disease.

The science is based on a lab technique called preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD.

This involves testing a cell taken from a very early embryo before it is put into the mother’s womb.

Doctors then select an embryo free from rogue genes – or in this case an embryo with the desired physical traits such as blonde hair and blue eyes – to continue the pregnancy, and discard any others.

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