statism watch

Lieberman reveals below that the Pentagon’s groundbreaking was 60 years to the day of 9/11, September 11, 1941 – prompted by War Secretary Henry L Stimson, in preparation for a war the US had yet to be formally drawn into. This journal had not been aware of this before. As President Eisenhower ended his career in 1961, he warned of a takeover by the military-industrial complex. And recall George Bush I called for a New World Order twice, both on September 11, 1990, and September 11, 1991. Interesting, isn’t it. And here we are.

“…avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” — George Washington

Mike M. Ahlers, CNN
September 9, 2009

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Washington notables broke ground on the future home of the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, symbolically starting construction on the biggest federal building project in the Washington area since the Pentagon 68 years ago.

The project will bring together more than 15,000 employees now scattered in 35 offices in the region, placing them on a 176-acre campus strewn with historic buildings in a long-neglected corner of Washington, five miles from the Capitol building.

Department leaders hope the $3.4 billion consolidation will help the department fulfill its core mission — protecting the homeland — in ways big and small.

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This? Just a perfectly ordinary urban military exercise in the middle of a major Canadian city. Happens every day. Move along, citizen.

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Montreal Gazette
September 9, 2009

Don’t be alarmed if you see military helicopters flying over downtown Montreal. Two Canadian Forces CH-146 Griffon helicopters from the 427th Special Operations Aviation Squadron have begun three evenings of training manoeuvres, from Wednesday to Friday night. Flying from the St. Hubert airport, the choppers will approach Complexe Desjardins (at Ste. Catherine and Bleury Sts.) from various directions and hover over the building for brief periods between 6 p.m. and midnight to practise night approaches to high-rise buildings.

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John Hooper, The Guardian
September 9, 2009

In five months, some 30 women were procured for parties given by Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, according to a statement to police by the businessman who supplied them. Extracts published today in the newspaper Corriere della Sera identified by name at least half a dozen women who stayed the night at Berlusconi’s Rome residence.

The businessman, Gianpaolo Tarantini, said his aim was to win favours from those in power. “I wanted to get to know prime minister Berlusconi and to that end I incurred significant expense to enter into his confidence,” he was quoted as saying. “Knowing of his interest in the female sex, what I did was to take girls to see him, introducing them as friends of mine and concealing from him that sometimes I paid them.”

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David Friend, Canadian Press
September 9, 2009

Canadian shoppers should expect to pay more at supermarket cash registers this fall as food prices keep ticking higher despite a weak economy, according to industry watchers.

And chains across the country who choose to pass on the ballooning costs of food ingredients and workers’ wages could face pressure from disgruntled shoppers who continue to worry about the possibility of job losses and tight credit.

Toronto shopper Merle Pierre said higher prices have left her with some bitter choices about where she’ll buy food, forcing her to decide between quality and quantity when she decides which store to visit.

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Steve Watson, Infowars.net
September 9, 2009

Secret documents leaked to press spur charges of “liberticide”

Documents leaked to the French national newspaper Liberation, reveal that the government there intends to use the threat of a swine flu pandemic to overhaul legal protections for citizens.

According to documents provided to the daily by a judges’ union, the plan would extend the period police can keep a suspect in detention without charge or a hearing before a judge to up to six months, reports the Agence France-Presse.

The plan also involves denying suspects access to a lawyer for up to 24 hours, holding more secret trials and trying children in adult courts.

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Police checkpoints… special ID cards… bans on protest… neighbourhood snitch brigades… all of these will come to North America, too, unless the militarization of our culture is opposed – witness the ongoing integration of the police and the military around the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver for just one particularly visible example.

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Carolynne Wheeler, The Globe and Mail
September 9, 2009

As Beijing prepares celebrations to mark the country’s founding 60 years ago, security is tightening and residents are told to stay away

It is meant to be a celebration to outdo even last year’s Summer Olympics opening gala, marking 60 years since Mao Zedong founded the People’s Republic of China on Oct. 1, 1949.

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