statism watch

Is this a joke? This is so wrong on so many levels, it makes one’s head spin. The US is gearing up its propaganda machine to roll into Iran next. If by the ‘peace’ being promoted they mean the ‘peace’ of a dictatorial international regime (Obama has just accepted the seat of President of the UN Security Council, in contravention of Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution), they may have an argument. But so much the worse for the Nobel Prize. Now, let’s snap back to reality and see a bit of what Obama’s really been up to:

Flashback: Obama rules out Afghanistan troop cuts | Obama White House can’t find – or won’t release – millions of Bush emails | Obama Stands Behind Use of ‘State Secrets’ in Warrantless Surveillance Lawsuit | Obama tells UN new era demands global unity | Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions | Barack Obama to cement new US-UN relationship, chair UN Security Council | Obama’s effort in Afghanistan ‘just beginning’: U.S. defence secretary | Guantanamo’s closure window dressing – overseas CIA ‘black sites’ to stay | Obama Administration Shuts Down 9/11 Families Lawsuit | Obama Set to Create A Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate | Obama Nominates Globalization Advocates to Clinton’s State Department | Obama, Gore, tied to Chicago carbon exchange | Obama adds another brigade to Afghanistan troop surge | Obama administration: Guantanamo detainees have ‘no constitutional rights’ | Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets | Dismay at Obama plan to leave 50,000 US troops in Iraq after 2010 | Obama administration tries to kill Bush e-mail secrecy case | Obama backs Bush: No rights for Bagram prisoners | After Obama praises torture ruling, civil liberties group appalled | Obama eyes 3 more brigades for Afghanistan | Obama’s planned troop surge in Afghanistan could lead to more violence: ISAF | Obama requests Guantánamo Bay tribunals suspension | Obama appoints architects of economic collapse, financial globalism to economic team | Obama, like McCain, surrounds himself with elite CFR, Brookings powerbrokers | Hope for Obama’s US and Europe to drive a ‘new deal’ for a ‘new world’: Barroso, Brown | Obama promises 10,000 more troops for Afghanistan

Ian MacDougall, Celean Jacobson, George Jahn, Monika Scislowska, Associated Press
October 8, 2009

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Rome called – they want their Imperial symbols back.

OSLO – U.S. president Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. [Ed. Note: Pretext and lies all.]

Nobel observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama woke up to the news a little before 6 a.m. The White House had no immediate comment on the announcement, which took the administration by surprise.

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They’re working on it Peter, they’re working on it. Shall we put you down as a fan of the antidote – Austrian economics, then?

Related: Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse? | Wanted: a new financial order | Global ‘liberalization’ illusion under threat. Economist calls for world economic regime, Keynesian saviour. Irony? | Soros points out regulated markets fail to operate on market fundamentals, calls for more regulation | The Illustrated Road to Serfdom

Peter Foster, The National Post
October 8, 2009

What would those economists suspicious of inventories do, torch our farms and factories?

John Maynard Keynes is frequently described as “the greatest economist of the 20th century.” He might more accurately be called the most influential economist of the 20th century. That was because he provided an intellectual justification for activist government.

It was to be expected in the wake of the recent crisis that market critics such as Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz would be quick to claim that Keynes was “back,” but the most depressing convert to the cause is Richard Posner, a highly-respected U.S. judge and expert in “law and economics” at the University of Chicago.

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Flashback: Gold price rises to all-time high | Fisk: Nations to hasten demise of dollar in new world order

Graeme Wearden, The Guardian
October 8, 2009

Investors are continuing to move into gold to hedge themselves against the weakness of the dollar

Gold has hit a new all-time high for the third day running, clearing the $1,050 per ounce mark for the first time as the US dollar continued to lose ground in the currency markets.

The spot price of gold reached $1,058.2 this morning, with the futures contract for delivery in December hitting $1,059.6.

Traders said that investors are continuing to move into gold to hedge themselves against the weakness of the dollar. The greenback has been sliding since Tuesday morning, following reports of plans to use a new basket of currencies for oil trading.

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If you don’t obey the gods police right away, you will be subject to ‘pain compliance’. It’s the new freedom.

Flashback: Merced police used TASER on unarmed, legless man in a wheelchair | Pregnant mother tasered at baptism party | US Lawsuit: Cops tasered 3 kids in shelter, threatened one with sodomy | Latest TASER victim looked ’scared’ as officer approached with knife | Mounties discussed Tasing Dziekanski prior to altercation | UK Police watchdog to investigate Taser arrest, beating posted on YouTube | New video shows officer shove, then taser 72-year-old great grandmother

CBC News
October 8, 2009

The Parti Québécois is asking for an investigation into the alleged use of a stun gun by Quebec City police on a mentally challenged man living in a group home.

The incident happened Aug. 6 when police were called to a group home where a man with Down syndrome had reportedly become agitated and refused to cooperate with authorities.

The 43-year-old man, identified only as “Martin,” received medical treatment and has no apparent lasting effects.

Questioned on the issue by the Opposition in the national assembly, the response from Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis was brusque.

“There is a simple truth,” he said. “When you don’t obey police orders — you are opening yourself to a certain number of things.”

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Who was the leader – Amara or the (at last count) four police informants swarming over the case, aiding and abetting Amara’s wildly inflated dreams of ‘jihad’ at every turn? It’s all out in the open now – how the RCMP and CSIS (in the persons of moles Shaher Elsohemy, Mubin Shaikh, ‘Talib’ and Qari Kifayatullah) cozied up to the angry young gas station attendant and associates. How the moles, compromised by debt, criminality, and addiction issues, were paid massive sums of money ($300,000 in the case of Mubin Shaikh and $4.1 million in the case of Elsohemy) and given legal immunity to “knowingly facilitate a terrorist activity“. How Shaikh organized and paid for equipment for the notorious paintball ‘winter training camp’. How shadowy figures such as Aabid Hussein Khan, a lynchpin in encouraging militancy across several continents, claimed links to ISI-sponsored groups such as Lashkar-E-Taiba, provided jihadist training material and promised passage to these Pakistani training camps we keep hearing about. How, despite all this manipulation, the domestic media breathlessly reported on the paramilitary theatrics of the arrest of the rapidly shrinking ‘Toronto 18′, amplifying lurid police suggestions such as the ‘plot to behead Stephen Harper‘. How the present regime made all kinds of political hay off of these activities when it was claimed that the quick and decisive action on the part of federal police forces saved us all despite the fact the ‘plot’ had been surrounded by police for months and which could have been dismantled at any time prior. Anyways – perhaps now that the ‘ringleader’ has copped his plea and signed his confession, we can move on and let the RCMP focus on their probable next provocation out in BC. After three years, this one’s got a lot of mileage on it.

Flashback: Crown appeals Toronto bomb plotter’s sentence | The making of a homegrown terrorist | Links to ‘Al-Qaeda’, Pakistani training camps linger after ‘Toronto 18′ member imprisoned | ‘Toronto 18′ member handed 14-year sentence | 2-year term sought in Toronto ‘terror plot’ | Toronto 18 ‘terror’ accused signs confession, media retreads tales of planned chaos | Toronto 18 member pleads in bomb plot | How MI5 blackmails British Muslims | New York “Terror Plot” Another Government Provocateured Set-Up | Toronto 18 Terror case: RCMP agent Shaikh was instigator who broke law: defence | Five muslims face life for Fort Dix ‘terror plot’ orchestrated by FBI | American Intelligence Contractors Leak Canadian Toronto 18 ‘Terror Training’ Video to Web | Third Mole Surfacing in Toronto Terror Trial? | RCMP informant says accused in militant plot was naive | Paid CSIS Informant Says Public Not Upset Enough about Toronto ‘Terror’ Plot | Latest Toronto 18 ‘Terror’ Wiretaps Confirm Youths Goaded by Reservist, Paid Police Informant | Toronto ‘Terrorists’ Agree on Decapitation Plot, Fail to Open Tuna Tin | Many Question if Toronto “Terrorists” Were Led by Informants as Case Weakens | Crown presents evidence in Toronto terror suspect trial | Australian ‘Terror Plot’ Case Bears Remarkable Similarities to ‘Toronto 18′ | Terror case begins to emit ripe aroma | Canada’s anti-terror law unconstitutional, defence says | Toronto’s Terrorism Case: For the Families, Fear and Bewilderment | CSIS informant admits cocaine, marijuana use during investigation | Terror trial proceedings troubling | Alleged Toronto terror plot included two police agents | Toronto Terrorist Ringleader Has Military Connections | Canadian ‘Terror Plot’ Begins To Unravel | Police arrest terrorist suspects in Toronto

Colin Freeze, The Globe and Mail
October 8, 2009

Zakaria Amara relentlessly worked toward a goal of causing mayhem and mass casualties on Canadian streets

Zakaria Amara, the 24-year-old Canadian mastermind of an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to explode truck bombs in downtown Toronto, entered a surprise guilty plea to terrorism charges in the so-called “Toronto 18” case this morning.

Mr. Amara pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism.

He faces life in prison – prosecutors are unlikely to show any leniency.

He was presumed innocent during the three years he maintained a not-guilty plea. But his plea today may render the prosecution of related cases anti-climatic as the six remaining suspects head toward trial this winter.

Until now, the evidence against Mr. Amara has been covered by court-ordered publication bans. That evidence suggests there is no other suspect in this conspiracy, or any known conspiracies hatched since 9/11, who was as much of a direct threat to Canadians.

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