statism watch

This is the culture of the worm, the parasite.

Our veins are thin
Our rivers poisoned
We want the sweet meat
We want the young blood
- Radiohead

Flashback: UK: New scanners break child porn laws | The future of the residential school commission — An interview with Judge Murray Sinclair | Abused children revictimized by public institutions: Cornwall report | Irish church and police covered up child sex abuse, says report | Rape case to force defence contractors Halliburton/KBR into the open | Police review 1980s allegations against bishop | Pope ‘led cover-up of child abuse by priests’ | Ex-employees claim Blackwater pimped out young Iraqi girls | US Lawsuit: Cops tasered 3 kids in shelter, threatened one with sodomy | B.C. ‘public guardian’ accused of abusing senior’s rights, property seizure | Abu Ghraib abuse photos ’show rape’ | Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More | Children’s Services Ministry sued by Advocate for Stonewalling Beating Investigation | Police decline to lay charges in school sex-abuse allegations | Commission to Probe Graves at Native ‘Residential School’ Sites | Links between Judge Ramsay, RCMP and Child Predation in our Justice System | Alberta Barren: The Mannings and forced sterilization in Canada

Daniel Tencer, RawStory
January 7, 2010

Some 12 percent of minors held in government custody are sexually abused, and in some facilities the rate reaches a stunning one in three children, says a report released Thursday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

The first-ever National Survey of Youth in Custody found that no less than 10 percent of the 26,550 juveniles being held in detention facilities in the US are abused by staff at the facility, while another 2.6 percent report abuse at the hands of other inmates.

Among the facilities studied were six identified to have rates of sexual abuse as high as three in 10. According to the Associated Press, those six facilities are Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana; Corsicana Residential Treatment Center in Texas; Backbone Mountain Youth Center in Swanton, Maryland; Samarkand Youth Development Center in Eagle Springs, North Carolina.; Cresson Secure Treatment Unit in Pennsylvania; and the Culpeper Juvenile Correctional Center, Long Term, in Mitchells, Virginia.

“The widespread sexual abuse of children in juvenile facilities shows that public officials either aren’t paying attention or can’t be bothered to do the right thing,” said Jamie Fellner, senior counsel for Human Rights Watch. “The high rates of victimization are powerful testimony to the failure of governments to safeguard the boys and girls in their care.”

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The sound of hoof beats ‘cross the glade
Good folk, lock up your son and daughter
Beware the deadly flashing blade
Unless you want to end up shorter
Blackwater, Blackwater, they ride a pitch black steed
(Apologies to The Black Adder)

Flashback: US court dismisses charges against Blackwater security guards | CIA admits Blackwater presence in Pakistan | Blackwater guards linked to secret CIA raids | 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

The Associated Press
January 7, 2010

Two former Blackwater contractors were arrested Thursday in the shootings of two Afghan men after a traffic accident in Kabul, according to an indictment obtained by The Associated Press.

The indictment charges Justin Cannon, 27, and Chris Drotleff, 29, with second-degree murder, attempted murder and weapons charges. Both are in custody, said Peter Carr, a spokesman with the U.S. attorney’s office in Virginia’s eastern district.

Both men have said in recent interviews with AP that they were justified in opening fire on a car in May that caused an accident in front of their vehicle, then turned and sped toward them after they got out to help.

The indictment says the shooting at the Kabul intersection killed two men and injured at least one other person.

The military veterans worked for Paravant, a subsidiary of Xe, the company formerly known as Blackwater.

Both Cannon and Drotleff were fired after the shooting for failing to comply with the terms of their contract.

“My conscience is clear about it, but that doesn’t really matter,” said Cannon in a recent interview. “If someone’s got an agenda, then there’s nothing I can do about it.”

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First, it’s in the terminal. Then, it’s behavioural profiling in the parking lot. Hey – are you a nervous flyer? Fidget? Don’t have a smile plastered over your face all the time? How’s a strip-search sound? Your government is getting ready to implement facecrime, just like in Orwell’s 1984. And they’re already working on machines to do it. Hell, why not move the security zone back further and just scan people continuously as they walk down the street? Wouldn’t that make you feel even more secure?

“It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.” (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part 1, Chapter 5)

Flashback: The ‘Israelification’ of airports: High security, little bother | UK: New biometric security checks could include brain scans, heart rhythm fingerprinting | Homeland Security seeks Bladerunner-style lie detector | Researchers use brain scans to read people’s memories | Halifax thinks again about subjecting applicants to lie-detector tests | ‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise | India’s use of brain scans in courts dismays critics | Brain will be battlefield of future, warns US intelligence report | US Homeland Security Keen on ‘Novel’ Israeli Airport Security Technology | Israel startup uses behavioral science to identify terrorists

Katie Daubs, The Toronto Star
January 7, 2009

Behavioural clues are a vital link, experts say

A full body scan may reveal a bomb tied to an ankle, but the space between the fingers could determine a terrorist’s state of mind.

Joe Navarro, an ex-FBI agent, says there is no “Pinocchio effect” when looking for deceit.

“Our bodies tell us we’re either comfortable or uncomfortable and when people lie you see displays of discomfort,” he said.

Navarro, who teaches non-verbal communication to poker players, says when a person lacks confidence, the fingers that normally rest apart, tend to come together.

Detecting these kinds of nervous clues may soon be the norm at Canadian airports. The federal government announced Tuesday it will soon accept bids for a company to design a behaviour observation screening program for Canadian airports. The new layer of security will focus on recognizing irregular and suspicious behaviour.

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Disorder is a rather loaded term. What would Sarkozy’s definition of ‘order’ be? A monolithic basket of currencies and SDRs controlled by the World Bank? Here’s an idea, Sarkozy – if you’re worried about differences in valuations between fake paper currencies, use gold – it’s worth the same eveywhere.

Flashback: Current And Former IMF Heads Call For New Global Currency | U.S. urges China to strengthen currency | George Soros Calls for World Currency and “New World Architecture” | U.S. dollar sags on global financial leaders’ omission | G20 Meet To Finalize Dumping Of Dollar This Weekend? | Dollar Reaches Breaking Point as Central Banks Shift Reserves | Fisk: Nations to hasten demise of dollar in new world order | US dollar set to be eclipsed, World Bank president predicts | Bilderberg Wants Global Currency Now | Dollar to fall under scrutiny at G20 summit | UN wants new global currency to replace dollar | G20 agrees to continue economic stimulus measures; Geithner shops international reserve accord | China Set to Buy $50 Billion in IMF Notes | Medvedev Unveils “World Currency” Coin At G8 | China calls anew for super-sovereign currency | China explores buying $50bn in IMF bonds | Chinese economists deem huge holding of US bonds “risky” as Geithner visits | A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF | UK PM reveals G20 plan to boost IMF by $1 trillion, hails new world order (again) | UN & IMF Back Agenda For Global Financial Dictatorship | U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar | IMF poised to print billions of dollars in ‘global quantitative easing’ | Gordon Brown seeks sweeping reforms to give IMF global ’surveillance role’ | IMF may need to “print money”, act as “world’s central bank” as crisis spreads | Globalists Exploit Financial Meltdown In Move Towards One World Currency | World needs new Bretton Woods, says Brown | IMF prescribes state regulation of ‘global financial order’ | Bilderberg Seeks Bank Centralization Agenda | Banks face “new world order,” consolidation: report

Reuters
January 7, 2010

French leader calls for currency issues to be at the centre of international economic discussions., for the second time in two days

Disorder among world currencies has become unacceptable and France intends to make it a major subject of its presidency of the G8 and G20 in 2011, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday.

France has been at the forefront of European complaints about the strength of the euro against other currencies.

It is the second time in as many days that Mr. Sarkozy has called for currency issues to be at the centre of international economic discussions.

“The monetary disorder in the world has become unacceptable,” he said in a speech to an economic conference.

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There shall now be a brief respite after (according to official figures) dumping $200 billion, created out of thin air, into the money supply.

Flashback: US Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank | Financial reform bill passes U.S. House | Taibbi: Obama’s sellout to Wall Street creates ‘permanent bailout’ | Flaherty, USA say no to global financial tax, yes to continued ’stimulus’ at G20 | Bank of England extends quantitative easing to £200bn | Plentiful paper currency buffing gold’s shine | Central bank of Canada stands ready to inflate currency in response to strong loonie | Bank of England to pump another £50bn into economy | Central Bank of Canada ‘considering’ regulatory changes, ‘continuous private liquidity creation’ | With interest rates at zero, Fed looks at going negative | Bank of Canada poised to print money to buy bonds | IMF poised to print billions of dollars in ‘global quantitative easing’ | UK Central Bank begins using ‘new’ money | Central bank tactics pushed to brink | Bank of England cloaks books, fears of monetary manipulation arise | Maybe we should look at Zimbabwe before trying to print our way out of a money crisis | Analysts Predict Hyper-Inflation To Push Gold To $2000, Oil to $300 | IMF may need to “print money”, act as “world’s central bank” as crisis spreads | Bank of Canada greases financial system with $12B in new cash

Larry Elliot, The Guardian
January 7, 2010

Threadneedle Street’s nine-strong monetary policy committee leaves bank rate at 0.5%

The Bank of England adopted a “wait-and-see” approach to the economy today when it pegged interest rates at record low levels and left its £200bn money-creation programme unchanged.

In a widely anticipated move, Threadneedle Street’s nine-strong monetary policy committee left the interest rate at 0.5% — the lowest level since the Bank was founded in 1694.

The MPC had signalled previously that it would look at the Bank’s quarterly health check on the economy next month before contemplating any changes to the stimulus package designed to lift Britain out of its toughest postwar recession.

Despite evidence of strong spending in the shops over Christmas and news from the Halifax today of a sixth consecutive monthly increase in house prices, the Bank is alert to the risks of higher borrowing costs or a reversal of the quantitative easing programme triggering a double-dip recession.

Since last February, the Bank has been buying government gilts in an attempt to provide commercial banks with extra money to lend to consumers and businesses. The last tranche of these purchases is due to be completed next month, by which time official figures are likely to show that growth resumed in the final three months of 2009.

Philip Shaw, economist at Investec, said today’s decision by the MPC was easy, but the committee would face more challenging meetings over the months ahead.

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In light of past Nazi connections to the Bonesmen, it’s not that surprising that ‘Thor’ is engraved upon one of those femurs. The Swastika has been called The Hammer of Thor in some variants of Teutonic religions, representing a swirling thunderbolt. It’s hidden right there in the open.

Flashback: Geronimo’s descendants fight Yale secret society for their ancestor’s remains

AFP
January 7, 2010

Grisly trophies from Yale University’s mysterious Skull and Bones society, whose members include former president George W. Bush, are to go on auction in New York this month.

The human skull and two large bones are estimated to sell for between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars on January 22 at Christie’s.

The auction house said the human remains were used as a ballot box by the secret society. The skull includes a specially cut lid in the top — apparently for ballots — and one of the bones is inscribed “THOR.”

The auction lot also comes with a black book listing names of Skull and Bones members back in 1831-1877.

“The ballot box and documents offer a rare glimpse into an organization in which membership has evolved into a closely guarded secret,” Christie’s said.

Members, dubbed “Bonesmen,” have included Bush and his father, who also served as president, Senator John Kerry, the late conservative writer William F. Buckley, Jr, and a number of major businessmen such as Averell Harriman and H.J. Heinz II. [Ed. Note: Bush's Grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a member also and a protege of Harriman. The two were noted business supporters of the Third Reich. Now have a look at that Death's Head again.]

The society, joined by leading students at the university and which is said to maintain bizarre initiation rites, was founded at Yale in 1832. Women were admitted for the first time in the 1990s.

Prospective buyers can learn more at Christies.

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They’re taking Congresswomen and grandmothers off of planes and we’re expected to believe the no-fly list – now at well over a million names, it was a million names back in March – isn’t stringent enough? More lies and spin from Obama. The Underwear Bomber was a setup, and the national media refuses to cover the evidence, as per usual. The suppressed evidence here explains why he wasn’t screened against any lists in Amsterdam – someone ushered him onto the plane. He never had a passport, according to eyewitnesses!

Flashback: ‘Unclear’ Whether US Air Security Profiling Violates Canadian Charter: Baird | Abdelrazik vows to clear name from ‘unjust’ UN no-fly list | Selective enforcement: Charkaoui barred from US airspace on flight from Fredericton to Montreal | US Terrorist watch list hits 1 million | Canada backpedals on sharing ID database with U.S. | Former US congresswoman, presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney barred from boarding plane to human rights conference | Retired B.C. woman surprised to find herself on international no-fly list | U.S. air-security rules cause Canadian turbulence | Montreal man changing name to escape U.S. no-fly list | Family of Canadian stranded by no-fly list to make public appeal | Critics alarmed by Canada’s no-fly list | Canada to launch no-fly list in June

CBC News
January 7, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama took responsibility Thursday for the failure of U.S. intelligence to stop a man from carrying explosives on a U.S.-bound plane Christmas Day and said he is ordering changes to how information on potential threats is handled.

“Ultimately, the buck stops with me,” he said. “As president, I have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people, and when the system fails, it is my responsibility.”

Obama spoke after reviewing reports on how Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to board a plane despite being initially flagged to receive extra security screening.

Obama had earlier said the failure was not in gathering intelligence but rather in “connecting the dots.”

He said Thursday he is telling the intelligence community to assign “clear lines of responsibility” for immediately pursuing leads on threats. He also said he wants to strengthen the way people are added to the terror watch list, and that those reports are shared more quickly and widely.

The U.S. Homeland Security Department issued a statement earlier Thursday saying Abdulmutallab was initially flagged to be given extra security screening after he landed in the U.S. The department said Abdulmutallab’s potential extremist connections came up on a check of passengers already flying to the U.S. from overseas.

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