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Archive for July 12th, 2009

UK Ecotowns to get go-ahead despite local opposition

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Here is a test bed, as they say, for the high density population centres that social engineers intend to herd humanity into. As the thousands of data points on this site make clear, you’re to be reduced to serfdom, have your travel restricted, and be economically forced off your land, just like the Irish were during the great famine. Of course there are real environmental problems, like the Canadian government okaying mines using freshwater lakes for tailing ponds (the hypocrisy is enormous) but climate change is being used as a trumped up pretext to enact increasingly onerous legislation prohibiting use of resources. Now UNESCO sites and green belts are springing up everywhere as densification becomes part of the new religion of scarcity. Malthus advocated population reduction and a lower standard of living for the poor back in the 19th century, and population reduction and population movement has since become a part of US and UN policy under UN Agenda 21 and National Security Memorandum 200 – written by Henry Kissinger, of all people! We’re marinating in this elitest ideology and we don’t even realize it.

Flashback: US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive | Prentice tables bill to expand NWT park under UNESCO | American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse | Rich countries, corporations launch great land grab | Beijing peasants bullied, beaten off of family farms by state-developer blocs | 40,000 sq km to be signed over to UNESCO | Canada expanding parkland at ‘extraordinary’ pace | Ontario places vast boreal area under protection, 22% of province off limits to development | Manitoba’s boreal forest touted for UNESCO status | Get set – the future starts now | Today’s suburbs, tomorrow’s slums?

Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian
July 12, 2009

The projects in Norfolk and Cornwall are part of a green package to tackle the climate change threat

An abandoned Norfolk airfield and a cluster of Cornish china claypit villages are to become the first of a controversial new breed of “ecotowns”, offering thousands of new homes built within a cutting-edge eco-friendly community.

The decision will be a blow to villagers who have campaigned against new developments at Rackheath, just outside Norwich, and St Austell in Cornwall. Only Rackheath got a top rating from an independent panel set up to judge the green credentials of the plans, yet it is one of three projects expected to be taken forward by ministers this week.

The ecotowns will form part of a package of green announcements this week which Gordon Brown will argue can help Britain climb out of recession and reduce the threat from climate change. A white paper will propose major changes to the way Britons travel, work and consume in order to meet targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050. Ministers will also set out plans to reduce pollution by investing in rail electrification – leading to faster trains – and in electric cars, as well as exploring new sources of fuel.

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UK PM Gordon Brown plans troop surge in Afghanistan

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

It’s never going to end, is it? The point of war is the killing and the occupation and nothing else. The couple of wells and schools that have been built are window dressing. It’s sick. It’s calculating. It serves a long term policy agenda. The plan to invade Afghanistan was on Bush’s desk two days before 9./11. Of course the Taleban aren’t nice guys but we were the ones that put them into power. What will it take for people to say no? The troops over there are beginning to realize this as well. Will they just blindly march into Pakistan next or will they resist?

Flashback: Taliban flee new U.S. drive in Afghanistan | Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated | The Main Result of the “War on Terror”: The Destabilization of Pakistan | Report: CIA runs secret bases in Pakistan | US Incursion Turned Back by Pakistan Army | Bush secret order to send special forces into Pakistan | Pakistan fury over ‘US assault’ | US Allowed Taliban, Al-Qaeda Airlift Evacuation


Mark Townsend, Toby Helm, Peter Beaumont and Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian
July 12, 2009

2,000 more soldiers for Helmand, review comes after bloodiest day

Thousands more troops could be sent to Afghanistan within months under an emergency review of the UK mission being carried out by the Ministry of Defence.

The news of a possible troop surge comes after eight British soldiers were killed within 24 hours, leading to fresh calls from senior military and political figures for urgent reinforcements – and an end to Treasury constraints on spending on the Afghan war. Fifteen British soldiers have died during the first 11 days of July, with the total of 184 deaths surpassing the 179 killed in Iraq. Two of the soldiers who died on Thursday have been named as Daniel Hume, 22, from 4th Bn, The Rifles, and John Brackpool of the Prince of Wales’s Company, 1st Bn Welsh Guards, who would have celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday.

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