statism watch

Yet more lies and fraud from the IPCC exposed. It’s beginning to appear that the real ‘deniers’ are the ones with financial interests in anthropogenic global warming to protect.

Flashback: Taxpayers’ millions paid to Indian institute run by UN IPCC climate chief | Climategate: A 2,000-page epic of science and skepticism – Part 2 | Climategate: Al Gore lies | Climategate: A 2,000-page epic of science and skepticism – Part 1 | If Climategate Is No Big Deal, Why Are Questions About It Met With An Armed Response? | Climategate: Investigations into climate fraud fixed | ‘Independent’ United Nations panel to examine Climategate evidence | Bombshell UN Climate Documents Reveal Planned “End Run” Around National Sovereignty | Climategate: Global Warming scientists placed under investigation | Latest Climategate revelation: Climate change data dumped | Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation | Obama’s ‘Science Czar’ John Holdren Friend of Climate Deception Lab | “Climategate”: Peer-Review System Was Hijacked By Warming Alarmists | Top Climatology Lab Hacked, E-Mails Reveal Biased Science | Al Gore Set To Become First “Carbon Billionaire” | IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0 | What happened to global warming? | IPCC case for global warming melts on multiple fronts | More defects, exclusions in key climate warming data are uncovered | Climate change complacency `global suicide pact,’ UN told | Obama Science Advisor Called For “Planetary Regime” To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures | Washington Post Meteorologist: A Skeptical Take on Global Warming | Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites | Warming oceans mean less cloud cover | Global Warming or Global Cooling? A New Trend in Climate Alarmism | Counterpoint: Climate skepticism for beginners | E-mails indicate EPA suppressed report skeptical of global warming | Polar bear expert barred from conference by global warming advocates | Global warming alarmists out in cold | Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking | Scientists warn global warming accelerating | Top Japanese Scientists: Warming Is Not Caused By Human Activity | IPCC caught with false figures, doubt cast on accuracy of global temperature record

Peter Foster, The National Post
January 19, 2010

Now the question is whether Rajendra Pachauri should resign

The Himalayan glaciers will still be around in 2035, contrary to oft-repeated alarmist claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Whether the IPCC’s head, Rajendra Pachauri, whose credibility is melting faster than the proverbial snowball in Hades, will make it to his next paycheque is another matter.

With Climategate still simmering and the collapse of Copenhagen reverberating, a fresh storm has blown up over the discovery that the IPCC’s claim that Himalayan glaciers were about to disappear is entirely bogus.

“If the present rate [of melting] continues,” said the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report in 2007, “the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high.”

There was no significant questioning of this claim until late last year, when the Indian government published a discussion paper that pointed out that there was in fact no sign of any “abnormal” retreat in the Himalayan glaciers. India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh accused the IPCC of being “alarmist.”

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That’s what the Orwellian-termed Patriot Act is for – to keep journalists and the public in line, right? In light of the principles that the US was founded on, it’s certainly not ‘patriotic’ by any standard. And it’s not as though all’s well now. The surveillance has expanded, it’s just all being done electronically now, on the world wide wiretap under the guise of ‘cyber security’.

Flashback: China Google Hack Exploited Security Gaps Introduced By State Surveillance Provisions | UK: Telecom firms’ fury at plan for ‘Stasi’ checks on every phone call and email | Surveillance Shocker: Sprint Received 8 MILLION Law Enforcement Requests for GPS Location Data in the Past Year | Authority to Spy on Americans Unclear as Patriot Act Expires | U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets | Report: Massive FBI database set to quadruple in size | EU Plans Massive Surveillance Panopticon That Would Monitor “Abnormal Behavior” | US Police to get access to classified military intelligence | Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions | UK plans to integrate ‘cybersecurity’ centre with US, Canada | US Federal Judge Tosses Telecom Spy Suits | Showdown in NSA Wiretap Case: Judge Threatens Sanctions Against Justice Department | NSA Surveillance Exploding, Americans Wiretapped Beyond Congressional Limits | Put NSA in Charge of Cyber Security, Or the Power Grid Gets It | NSA Dominance of Cybersecurity Would Lead to ‘Grave Peril’, Ex-Cyber Chief Tells Congress | New law to give police access to online exchanges | Whistleblower: NSA even collected credit card records | RCMP to helm a Canadian “cyber-security strategy” | Big brother to track all emails, internet history and telephone calls under UK plan | US military targets social nets | ‘Einstein’ replaces ‘Big Brother’ in Internet surveillance | UK Security services want personal data from sites like Facebook | Secret EU security draft risks uproar with call to pool policing and give US personal data | Vision 2015: Consolidation of U.S. Intelligence Into Global Intel Network | Bush approves surveillance bill | Sweden approves wiretapping law | Secretive Canadian spy agency to get $62-million HQ | Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier – Congress Reacts | Canada working with FBI on ’server in the sky’ | Listening in on the enemy: Canada’s master eavesdroppers

Chris McGreal, The Guardian
January 19, 2010

Justice department to accuse FBI of invoking crises to obtain details of more than 2,000 calls, Washington Post reports

The US justice department is preparing a report which concludes that the FBI repeatedly broke the law by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist to obtain more than 2,000 telephone call records over four years from 2002, including those of journalists on US newspapers, according to emails obtained by the Washington Post.

The bureau also issued authorisations for the seizure of records after the fact, in order to justify unwarranted seizures.

The Washington Post said the emails show how counter-terrorism ­officials inside FBI headquarters breached regulations designed to protect civil liberties.

The FBI’s general counsel, Valerie Caproni, told the Washington Post that the agency violated privacy laws by inventing non-existent terrorist threats to justify collecting the phone records. “We should have stopped those requests from being made that way,” she said.

Caproni said that FBI’s issuing of authorisations after the fact was a “good-hearted but not well thought-out” move to give the phone companies legal cover for handing over the records.

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First Iceland, now Greece? A Euro crisis would be devastating, of course – but with the amount of cash central banks are dumping into economies, it looks as though the inevitable choice will be: deflation and correction now, or hyperinflation and a delayed correction that will only bite deeper once it comes.

Flashback: Greece To Enforce Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccinations | Police and farmers clash in Greece, militant group attacks police station | Greek protesters seek European support | Amnesty: Disproportionate Police Force Used Against Peaceful Greek Demonstrators | Greek Police Battle Mourners, Memories of Dictatorship after Student Shooting

Aoife White, Elena Becatoros, Associated Press
January 19, 2010

EU finance ministers are pressing their indebted and riot-prone Balkan member to embrace a massive austerity plan and plug its debilitating deficit. But with markets skeptical and the appetite for more bailouts at a low, there are deepening concerns that a Greek meltdown could deal a severe blow to the very European idea of a common currency, and set off a domino effect through Italy, Spain, and Portugal.

On Tuesday, some European Union leaders said they were confident that Greece would pull itself out its debt crisis under a plan submitted by Prime Minister George Papandreou, who promises to cut expenditure and tighten the country’s notoriously leaky tax system.

Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado — whose country holds the rotating EU presidency — said she was “not worried” that Greece will default. But she refused to discuss the possibility of a bailout in case Greece fails to make debt repayments — fears that have sharply raised its borrowing costs.

“I think Greece is going to do all that is necessary to avoid that,” she said before chairing an EU finance ministers meeting.

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Publication bans: Not in the public interest. The bottom line is, if you’re on a jury, you should be treated as a rational adult.

Flashback: Canadian Supreme Court expands freedoms for media | Auditor General Wields Crown Copyright To Demand Takedown of Public Report | Globe appeal to protect adscam sources before court | Don’t let media shield ‘criminals’, hearing told | Supreme Court to rule on ‘tidal-wave’ of press freedom cases | Top court reserves decision in reporter confidentiality case | Canadian Parliament Threatens People For Posting Video Of Proceedings Online | Publication ban law too broad, top Ontario court rules | Public access vs. government secrecy the issue in Supreme Court of Canada case

Editorial Staff, The Globe and Mail
January 19, 2010

Terrorism trials are of pressing public interest. A sweeping publication ban on the trials of the Toronto 18 goes too far

Terrorism trials are of pressing public interest, yet because of a sweeping publication ban, we won’t be allowed to report in much detail on the Toronto 18, a group of accused plotters, some of whom attempted mass murder.

There is something here that goes to the heart of our system of justice. But we can’t say what it is, except to say that there is a name we aren’t allowed to use, and that if it is not unprecedented to ban the use of this name, it is rare. A judge has ordered the media not to use this name, and further, banned mention of the relevance of this person. (The name is not that of an informant. We can say that much.) We are not allowed to say what we’re not allowed to say.

Then there are the things we can say, but only for a short time.

Until Saturday at midnight, we can talk about Zakaria Amara, the ringleader of a group of homegrown plotters that intended to blow up the Toronto Stock Exchange and other landmarks, and who was sentenced to life in prison this week. After Saturday at midnight, we can’t tell you much of anything about his trial or why he was found guilty. We can’t tell you about the evidence and other information related to 17 other people either.

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Articles like this are an insult to your intelligence. The globalists think we’re idiots, easily distracted and easily manipulated. “Yes, yes! Tax the banks!” But they don’t know that this time, we’ve been paying attention. We know that this is a thinly disguised money laundering scheme playing off of our emotions. We know that this has been in the works for a while, and Obama didn’t just come up with this wonderful idea for our benefit last month. We know the real purpose of this proposed international Tobin tax is in the end to create a fund to increase the IMF’s power and elevate it to the position of global central bank, a pool of capital to bind nations together like der Ring des Nibelung, crafted from the world’s stolen gold. We know Anders Borg is a member of the shadowy Bilderberg group, essentially an globalist steering committee. And we’re not going to fall for it – or will we? That much is in your hands.

Flashback: Obama ponders bank transaction levy to recoup bailout shortfalls | Explosive Leaked Emails Expose Treasury Secretary Geithner’s Deception in ‘Backdoor Bailout’ | Final Copenhagen Text Includes Global Transaction Tax | EU calls for tax on bank transactions | UK: Brown takes campaign for Tobin tax to Commonwealth | UK: Brown proposes global fund to kick-start Copenhagen climate change process | Flaherty, USA say no to global financial tax, yes to continued ’stimulus’ at G20 | Bernanke continues pressing for sweeping new powers for Fed | IMF chief wants global bank tax | G20 nations meet as protests flare on issue of international banking regulation | IMF approves $13bn gold sale to boost lending fund | China Set to Buy $50 Billion in IMF Notes | China calls anew for super-sovereign currency | No one talking about dumping dollar: China minister | 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 | 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

John O’Donnell, Reuters
January 19, 2010

Sweden’s finance minister wants Europe to follow Obama’s lead

Sweden’s Finance Minister, Anders Borg, right. (AP)

Sweden’s finance minister has called on his counterparts in Europe to follow U.S. President Barack Obama’s lead with a supertax on banks to recoup the costs of propping up the industry.

Mr. Obama proposed last week that Wall Street pay up to $117-billion to reimburse taxpayers for the financial bailout, as he slammed “fat cat” bankers for making massive profits and “obscene” bonuses.

“We cannot accept a situation where the bankers are running away from the bill,” Sweden’s Anders Borg told journalists on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of European Union finance ministers.

“I think there is support among several of my colleagues for this idea,” said the 42-year-old economist. “We had been worried about the competitiveness of Europe. But if this is introduced in the U.S. (that is no longer a concern).”

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If you’re just joining us, ‘quantitative easing’, a term used below, means printing new money and dumping it into the economy.

Flashback: UK: Interest rates and quantitative easing on hold | Bank of England extends quantitative easing to £200b | UK banks receive more bailouts, restructuring | Bank of England to pump another £50bn into economy | Economist Warns Fed Will Bring About Zimbabwe Style Hyperinflation | UK Central Bank begins using ‘new’ money | UK government takes control over Lloyd’s bank | New UK bank bailout | 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 | UK banking shares plunge as crisis deepens

Russell Lynch, Press Association
January 19, 2010

Inflation jumped at a record rate in December, official figures showed today.

The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) hit 2.9 per cent last month – much higher than expected by the City – compared with just 1.9 per cent in November.

The surge was because VAT was unchanged last month compared with the Government’s temporary cut to 15 per cent to help the economy a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

Far less discounting from retailers in the run-up to Christmas last month and unchanged fuel prices compared with sharp falls a year earlier added to the inflationary pressure, the ONS said.

The jump to 2.9 per cent in December is the biggest ever rise in the annual rate of CPI inflation in a single month, the ONS said.

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The people of Iceland have seized a chance to give the finger to the international banks and expose the whole terrific scam that has been sold to the rest of us as the ‘international financial crisis’. Isn’t it wonderful? You can sign a petition in support of the Icelandic people and learn more here.

declare independence
don’t let them do that to you
declare independence
don’t let them do that to you
make your own flag!
raise your flag, higher higher

- “Declare Independence” Bjork, from Volta

Flashback: Iceland says IMF aid likely delayed | Iceland blocks central bank debt repayment deal | Icelandic parliament rolls over, votes for EU membership | Iceland to be fast-tracked into the EU | Iceland’s government collapses | In Iceland, the heat is on | Police fire pepper spray at Iceland protesters | Icelanders storm central bank in protest | Iceland inflation soars to 17.1% | 5 injured during protest in Iceland over economic meltdown

The Associated Press
January 19, 2010

March 6 picked for referendum on whether to approve deal to repay $5.7-billion to the U.K. and Netherlands for depositors’ losses in collapsed online bank

The people of Iceland will vote March 6 on whether to approve a deal to repay $5.7-billion to the U.K. and Netherlands for depositors’ losses in a collapsed online bank, the government announced Tuesday.

The Ministry of Justice said in a statement it had agreed the date with the national electoral committee. March 6 is the latest date the vote can be held under Icelandic election rules.

Earlier this month Icelandic President Olafur R. Grimsson invoked a rarely used power to veto the bill, which laid out terms for repaying the Dutch and British governments for money they paid to compensate depositors whose savings were lost in the collapse of Icesave Internet bank.

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