statism watch

Now, in this insane world we live in, we find the Communists aligned with the National Post. The masks have slipped, and the left-statists and right-statists are exposed as united in their desire for total global control.

Flashback: Diane Francis: We need a global one-child policy | Baby emissions fuel global warming | Aging Shanghai pushes for more babies | Obama Science Advisor Called For “Planetary Regime” To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures | Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation | David Attenborough becomes patron for population reduction | UK population must fall to 30m: Optimum Population Trust | Don’t blame right-wing thugs for eugenics – Socialists made it fashionable | Do Swiss parents need a childrearing licence? | Population control thinktank to Britons: Have less children

Steve Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
December 10, 2009

Communist Chinese delegates cite concept as key to saving the planet

The Chinese government delegation at the Copenhagen climate change conference has argued that the Communist dictatorship’s one child policy should “serve as a model for integrating population programs into the framework of climate change adaptation.”

Zhao Baige, vice-minister of National Population and Family Planning Commission of China (NPFPC) population program told other delegates at the summit that China “has made a great historic contribution to the well-being of society” by instituting population control.

“Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic, social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits right into the picture,” said Zhao.

The Chinese delegate also cited the UN’s own 2009 State of World Population report, which suggests that if the global population remains at 8 billion by the year 2050 instead of increasing to just over 9 billion, as projected, “it might result in 1 billion to 2 billion fewer tons of carbon emissions”.

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A groundbreaking article. It neglects to mention, however, that many high ranking former CIA officials were in the employ of Blackwater, as Erik Prince’s Vanity Fair interview reveals.

Flashback: Blackwater’s Erik Prince: Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy | Taliban: Blackwater to blame for Pakistan attacks | Report: Blackwater approved plan to pay off Iraqi officials | Taliban Chief Blames Blackwater, ISI for Peshawar Blast | Ex-employees claim Blackwater pimped out young Iraqi girls | Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Implicated in Murder | Obama’s Blackwater? Chicago Mercenary Firm Gets Millions for Private “Security” in Israel and Iraq | Blackwater, mired in Iraq controversy, changes its name to ‘Xe’ | Official: Blackwater contract for Iraq not renewed | Blackwater Guards facing Charges in Case of 17 Dead Iraqi Citizens | Madsen: CIA collusion with “Al Qaeda” financiers and attack planners | Blackwater-linked firm to train Canadian troops | Canadian troops continue gearing up, to receive US counter-insurgency training | Blackwater Worldwide, Wal-Mart of modern war

James Rizen, Mark Mazetti, The New York Times
December 10, 2009

WASHINGTON – Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities – clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees, according to former company employees and intelligence officials.

The raids against suspects occurred on an almost nightly basis during the height of the Iraqi insurgency from 2004 to 2006, with Blackwater personnel playing central roles in what company insiders called “snatch and grab” operations, the former employees and current and former intelligence officers said.

Several former Blackwater guards said that their involvement in the operations became so routine that the lines supposedly dividing the Central Intelligence Agency, the military and Blackwater became blurred. Instead of simply providing security for C.I.A. officers, they say, Blackwater personnel at times became partners in missions to capture or kill militants in Iraq and Afghanistan, a practice that raises questions about the use of guns for hire on the battlefield.

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Big brother will be watching you, too – not just garbage truck drivers.

Flashback: GPS Tracked Road Tolls Back On Agenda for Toronto Metrolinx | EU urges use of tracking boxes for motorists | NY Times: Mileage Tax Would ‘Track Where Motorists Have Been’ | UK: ‘Spy-in-sky’ trials get the go-ahead despite Government promise to scrap road-pricing plan | Calls for GPS-tracked ’speed-limiting’ cars in UK | Oregon Governor Wants GPS-Tracked Vehicle Mileage Tax | Global ‘Intelligent Transport’ initiative comes to your cellphone: Location data used to track traffic flow | GPS Mapping Systems Enable Police Tracking | Metrolinx Proposes Satellite Vehicle Tracking for Road Tolls|

CBC News
December 10, 2009

Flashback: Israel rules out Gaza probe | UN body endorses Gaza war crimes report | UN body debates Gaza war crimes report | UN condemns ‘war crimes’ in Gaza | Israeli soldiers allege abuses against Palestinians | Israeli troops kill apartheid wall protester | Israeli military whistleblowers: troops fired on children | Israel pulls land forces from Gaza, gunboats continue shelling coast | Israel admits troops used phosphorus shells in Gaza | Israel steps up Gaza withdrawal after ceasefire | Hamas joins fragile Israeli ceasefire | Israel declares ceasefire | Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel | Video shows proof of phosphorous bombs in Gaza | Aid destroyed as UN’s Gaza HQ hit by Israeli fire | Protests over Israel’s Gaza offensive held in Canadian, world cities | Israel ignores ceasefire plea, pounds Gaza | UN relief agency halts aid to Gaza, citing Israeli attacks on staff | Rockets fired from Lebanon hit northern Israel | Israel is on its way to reoccupying all of the Gaza Strip | Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza | Tanks, rockets, death and terror: Gazan civilian catastrophe unfolding | They hate us for our bombs | Israeli army set for invasion | Food, medicine, fuel needed in Gaza, agencies warn | Gaza relief boat carrying former Congresswoman rammed by Israelis | Worldwide protests urge end to attacks on Gaza

PressTV.ir
December 10, 2009

Renowned American sociopolitical analyst Noam Chomsky says Israel functions as Washington’s main weapons storage base in the Middle East.

“Israel is essentially a US military base, the US positions weapons there, that’s a very close military and intelligence tie,” the Jewish academic told Press TV on Wednesday while explaining the complexity of relations between Washington and Tel Aviv.

Commenting on the weapons that Israel received from the US before launching its 2007-2008 offensive in the Gaza Strip, Chomsky said that the exchange of weapons between the two sides was not surprising.

“[Israel] is receiving weapons constantly. In fact, weapons were sent during the invasion of Gaza. They tried to send them, they were supposed to send them from Greece, and Greece refused to ship them,” he said.

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Flashback: Vancouver eases Olympic protest restrictions | Anti-Olympic activists decry ‘Orwellian’ treatment | Vancouver police get military sound cannon just in time for Olympics | Protesters block Olympic torch relay | Anti-Olympic signs could net 6 months’ jail: rights group | Olympic security follows protester’s friend | UK: Police given powers to enter homes and tear down anti-Olympics posters during 2012 Games | 2010 Olympic security plans include ‘free speech’ zones | Olympic security boss puts protesters on notice | Activists seen as potential threat to Vancouver Games | CSIS Spying on Natives, Olympic Dissidents

CBC News
December 10, 2009

Riot police had to intervene Thursday night to push back protesters at celebrations marking the arrival of the Olympic torch in Old Montreal.

More than 100 protesters gathered in front of the stage, carrying placards, and chanting “No Olympics on stolen native land.”

No arrests were reported, and officers were on hand to make sure the event went smoothly, said Const. André Leclerc of the Montreal police.

Jacques Villeneuve, a former Formula One world champion, carried the Olympic flame along a snow-filled street in Old Montreal before an exchange in front of the brightly lit Notre-Dame Basilica, a Montreal landmark.

The Vancouver Olympics have been the target of protests by native communities and anti-poverty activists, who are critical of what they said are misplaced priorities and the forced evictions of low-income earners.

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This man is an oligarch and a globalist that funds regime change and is on record as being in favour of a global currency and global government. Who elected him to speak at this conference? Right out in the open, the architecture of world government is being set under the pretext that these puppet masters give a damn about the environment. What they actually care about is power and fleecing the public. You know, like the rest of the tyrants that human history has been plagued with. Offering the IMF as a solution is a dead giveaway – the IMF is a corrupt institution that ensures developing nations remain ‘developing’ in perpetuity through debt slavery. See Greg Palast’s interview with the former World Bank head, or see John Perkin’s insider book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, to see why putting the IMF in charge is the very last thing we should do. Disgusting.

Flashback: Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after ‘Danish text’ leak | Canada agrees to contribute to $10-billion climate change fund | UK: Brown proposes global fund to kick-start Copenhagen climate change process | Leaked G20 Documents Shed Light on Global Carbon Tax | Everyone in Britain could be given a personal ‘carbon allowance’ | Czech President: Copenhagen to be ‘Largest tax increase in world history’ | Friends of the Earth attacks carbon trading as banker scam | Oil Companies Support Global Warming Alarmists, Not Skeptics | Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate, downgrades CO2 threat | EU agrees to pay developing countries ‘climate aid’ to pass Copenhagen | Copenhagen’s Plans for a New ‘Government’ are Scary | Copenhagen, carbon, and the global corporate agenda | Lord Nicholas Stern: The world’s future is being decided this weekend | Thatcher science adviser: Copenhagen goal is world government | German Scientists Call for ‘World Climate Bank’ | G8 Summit: Rich nations to pay green tab | US Congress Passes the 1,200-page Climate Bill that it was not allowed to read | Climate Cops To Fine “Wasteful” Homeowners & Businesses | Obama targets US public with call for climate action | Obama to stake reputation on fast-tracked climate bill | The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment? | Ontario unveils cap-and-trade legislation | Economic stabilization may rely on carbon economy, economist says | Climate panel presses for federal cap-and-trade system | NRTEE Carbon Market Panel is ‘Round Table on Socialist Planning’ | Obama, Gore, tied to Chicago carbon exchange | U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy | U.N. Environment Head Wants Global Warming Tax | Time to emulate Roosevelt’s New Deal and create green jobs | EU calls for global carbon trading system to fight climate change

CBC News
December 10, 2009

Billionaire investor George Soros says a deadlock in global negotiations over aid to poorer countries adapting to climate change could be broken if resources of the International Monetary Fund were used to help financing.

The American financier-philanthropist, one of a number of international notables visiting the 192-country meeting in Copenhagen, told reporters on Thursday a $10 billion-a-year fund proposed to assist poor nations adapt to climate change is not enough to get the developing world behind a new agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

He suggested redirecting International Monetary Fund resources from providing liquidity to the stressed global financial system to a new mission to finance projects in developing countries that work with clean energy or work toward adapting to the effects of climate change, such as rising sea levels.

A one-time infusion of about $100 billion could be raised in this way, said Soros.

He said such a deal might be necessary to salvage negotiations at the conference, which seeks to deliver a global pact on emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

“I think it is already becoming apparent in the negotiations that there’s a gap between the developed and developing world on this issue which could actually wreck the conference,” said Soros. [Ed. Note: Yes - because they found out what you were up to.]

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The figure given is 0.026% fatality for known cases of H1N1. Now, factor in the strong suspicion of UK public health that ‘millions more’ than known have had the flu, and there’s good reason to think that even this figure has been ‘larded’, as Dr. Schabas put it so colourfully.

Flashback: Only 30% of Ontario residents have H1N1 shot | Santa Claus vaccinated in Montreal | UK: Millions more than thought have already had swine flu, Government scientists say | Dr. Richard Schabas – How they larded H1N1 facts with fear | Push is on to inoculate everyone against H1N1, Ontarians stay away in droves | UK Doctors say most Britons reject swine flu vaccine | Swine flu cases drop in England | H1N1 overplayed by media, public health: MDs | Elite Council Recording Suggests Creating False Scarcity To Drive Up Demand For H1N1 Vaccine | WHO pandemic definition too broad, doctor contends | Vaccine scarcity claims don’t add up | ‘No reason’ to delay seasonal flu shots, global health panel says | Flu Season Has Already Peaked in US, Little Benefit to H1N1 Jab: Study | Flu vaccine shortage expected to last a week | Mass Rejection Of Swine Flu Vaccine Continues Throughout Europe | GlaxoSmithKline profit rises on flu drug | Swine Flu Scam Reaches New Heights With Obama’s Emergency Declaration | US Government Hijacks Kids TV To Propagandize For Swine Flu Shots | UK: National Health Service frontline staff shun H1N1 vaccine | Swine flu death rate similar to seasonal flu: expert | Swine flu unlikely to become superbug | UK: Half of all pregnant women will refuse swine flu jab, poll reveals | UK Government Swine Flu Advisor On Vaccine Maker Payroll | Swine flu: How scared should we be? | Top Epidemiologist Slams Swine Flu Fearmongering | Lessons of 1976: swine flu, fear, mass vaccinations, wasted millions

Sarah Boseley, The Guardian
December 10, 2009

A study by the chief medical officer has revealed that there have been only 26 fatalities out of every 100,000 people with the illness

The first flu pandemic of the 21st century is less lethal than experts feared, killing only 26 out of every 100,000 people who became ill, a study by the chief medical officer reveals today.

But a third of deaths have been among healthy people who would not have been eligible for vaccination under the present strategy. Sir Liam Donaldson and colleagues say in their paper published online that vaccination may have to be extended to a wider population than at present.

An estimated 540,000 people have gone down with swine flu in England since a pandemic was declared in July and there have been 138 deaths where flu was confirmed as the cause.

In spite of the concern for children and young people, there has been a particularly high fatality rate in the oldest age group, just as there was in previous pandemics. The over-65s are less likely to get flu, the results show, probably because they have been exposed to other H1N1 viruses in the past, but if they get it, they are at greater risk than most of us.

There are low numbers of deaths among the very young (nine in the under-5s, 20 in the under-14s and 17 among 15- to 24-year-olds), which may make it difficult to know how lethal H1N1 is proving to them, says the paper published online by the British Medical Journal.

“The 1918-19 pandemic was characterised by high case fatality rates among young healthy adults. There is no evidence of this from our analysis of the current pandemic,” says the paper. “Our estimate of the case fatality rate compares favourably with those in the three 20th century influenza pandemics. The rate in the 1918-19 H1N1 pandemic was 2%-3%. Rates in the subsequent pandemics (1957-58 and 1967-68) were in the order of 0.2%.” The case fatality rate in the current pandemic is 0.026%.

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Another trip to meet shadowy ‘Al-Qaeda’ militants in Pakistan, another patsy takes the fall (eventually, that is – they had to dismiss the first jury for failing to find a conviction). This time, it’s for a crime that was impossible to commit. You can’t cook up a bomb in an airport washroom, but the recipt to cook up a ‘terror plot’ is an old one. None of these supposed terrorists even had plane tickets or passports. For their part, they said they wanted to set off some sort of a non-fatal bang, a political stunt to promote a propaganda video. So this is a complete farce. And it’s come to light that the ISI has a hand in training up these misled, manipulated, angry young kids that want to fight for the Ummah, and MI5 had also been trailing this group around for a year, so it’s pretty clear what was going on here. And so now we’re all reminded of the dire threat of terror every time we have to throw away their toothpaste and bottled water at the airport. Thanks, MI5!

Flashback: UK: ‘Airline bomb plotters’ jailed for life | 3 U.K. men convicted in airline bomb plot | How MI5 blackmails British Muslims | Terrorist plot was to blow up seven airliners, prosecutor tells court | ‘Bomb plot’ case jury dismissed | Prosecuters fail to secure airborne liquid bomb convictions, conspiracy charges stick | 3 men plead guilty to lesser charges in ‘liquid bomb’ airline plot | FBI Informant in British terror trial given immunity, proceedings raise question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings | Mass murder in the skies: Are portable liquid explosives feasible? | Former British Ambassador Says Liquid Bomb Terror Alert Is “Propaganda” | British ‘Terror Suspects’ Were in Contact With MI5

BBC News
December 10, 2009

A British Muslim has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of conspiring to murder civilians in a “deadly terrorist attack”.

Adam Khatib, 23, a factory worker from Walthamstow, east London, was part of a terror cell run from Pakistan.

The cell was led by Abdullah Ahmed Ali, convicted of plotting to blow up transatlantic passenger airliners.

Mr Justice Calvert-Smith told Woolwich Crown Court “cold-hearted” Khatib would spend at least 18 years in jail.

The judge described him as “Ali’s lieutenant” and said: “The gravity of your offence is extreme. You are clearly a character capable of being charming.

‘Limbs blown away’

“However, you are immature, attention-seeking and cold-hearted.”

Khatib had conducted research into the chemicals to be used in the detonator of the bombs and his fingerprints were also found in a flat the men were using as a bomb factory.

He had travelled with Ali to Pakistan where it is believed they met militants linked to al-Qaeda.

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Flashback: Mumbai highlights security on attack anniversary | Pakistan charges 7 in Mumbai attacks | Mumbai attack suspect shocks court and own defence lawyer by pleading guilty | Mumbai attacks suspect alleges torture, retracts confession | Pakistani officers helped plan Mumbai attacks, says India | Indian Mumbai dossier details gunmen’s calls with handlers | India signs new anti-terror laws in wake of Mumbai attack | India to create national spy agency in wake of Mumbai attacks | Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both “Inside Jobs” | Indian Intelligence Provided SIM Cards to Mumbai Gunmen | CIA Foreknowledge of the Mumbai Attacks | “Fair-skinned, blonde” assailants began attack in Mumbai | Terror strikes Mumbai

Prachi Pinglay, BBC News
December 10, 2009

Police in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) ignored intelligence alerts, according to an official inquiry into the deadly 2008 attacks in the city.

The report said the police were ill-equipped and lacked co-ordination, but it praised them for their courage.

The BBC is in possession of an advance copy of the Ram Pradhan Committee report which is yet to be made public.

At least 174 people, including 14 policemen, died when 10 gunmen attacked the city on 26 November 2008.

Police caught one of the gunmen alive and he is currently on trial. Nine other attackers were killed.

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Erik Prince has more than an ‘image problem’. Jeremy Scahill, one of the foremost experts and critics of Blackwater/Xe, always has some choice words about Prince over at his blog, Rebel Reports.

Flashback: Taliban: Blackwater to blame for Pakistan attacks | Report: Blackwater approved plan to pay off Iraqi officials | Taliban Chief Blames Blackwater, ISI for Peshawar Blast | Ex-employees claim Blackwater pimped out young Iraqi girls | Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Implicated in Murder | Obama’s Blackwater? Chicago Mercenary Firm Gets Millions for Private “Security” in Israel and Iraq | Blackwater, mired in Iraq controversy, changes its name to ‘Xe’ | Official: Blackwater contract for Iraq not renewed | Blackwater Guards facing Charges in Case of 17 Dead Iraqi Citizens | Blackwater-linked firm to train Canadian troops | Madsen: CIA collusion with “Al Qaeda” financiers and attack planners | Canadian troops continue gearing up, to receive US counter-insurgency training | Blackwater Worldwide, Wal-Mart of modern war

Adam Ciralsky, Vanity Fair
December 10, 2009

Erik Prince, recently outed as a participant in a C.I.A. assassination program, has gained notoriety as head of the military-contracting juggernaut Blackwater, a company dogged by a grand-jury investigation, bribery accusations, and the voluntary-manslaughter trial of five ex-employees, set for next month. Lashing back at his critics, the wealthy former navy seal takes the author inside his operation in the U.S. and Afghanistan, revealing the role he’s been playing in America’s war on terror.

I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.’s disposal for some very risky missions,” says Erik Prince as he surveys his heavily fortified, 7,000-acre compound in rural Moyock, North Carolina. “But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.” Prince–the founder of Blackwater, the world’s most notorious private military contractor–is royally steamed. He wants to vent. And he wants you to hear him vent.

Erik Prince has an image problem–the kind that’s impervious to a Madison Avenue makeover. The 40-year-old heir to a Michigan auto-parts fortune, and a former navy seal, he has had the distinction of being vilified recently both in life and in art. In Washington, Prince has become a scapegoat for some of the Bush administration’s misadventures in Iraq–though Blackwater’s own deeds have also come in for withering criticism. Congressmen and lawyers, human-rights groups and pundits, have described Prince as a war profiteer, one who has assembled a rogue fighting force capable of toppling governments. His employees have been repeatedly accused of using excessive, even deadly force in Iraq; many Iraqis, in fact, have died during encounters with Blackwater. And in November, as a North Carolina grand jury was considering a raft of charges against the company, as a half-dozen civil suits were brewing in Virginia, and as five former Blackwater staffers were preparing for trial for their roles in the deaths of 17 Iraqis, The New York Times reported in a page-one story that Prince’s firm, in the aftermath of the tragedy, had sought to bribe Iraqi officials for their compliance, charges which Prince calls “lies … undocumented, unsubstantiated [and] anonymous.” (So infamous is the Blackwater brand that even the Taliban have floated far-fetched conspiracy theories, accusing the company of engaging in suicide bombings in Pakistan.) [Ed. Note: Perhaps Vanity Fair should look at the evidence of same before printing apologias about a man that heads up one of the most murderous mercenary armies in the world.]

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