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Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics … Not Science

'In the real world, however, even low doses of radiation can cause cancer. Moreover, small particles of radiation – called “internal emitters” – which get inside the body are much more dangerous than general exposures to radiation. See this and this. And radiation affects small children much more than full-grown adults.

Indeed, instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan, the U.S. and the EU all just raised the radiation levels they deem “safe”.

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials.'

Governments Worldwide Raise Acceptable Radiation Levels Based Upon Politics ... Not Science





The Argument that Fukushima Was Sabotaged

'Former NSA analyst, Jim Stone, argues that there was no earthquake. The tsunami was caused by nuclear bombs in the sea and the Fukushima explosion and meltdown was caused by mini-nukes hidden in cameras installed by an Israeli security firm. The motive: punish Japan for offering to enrich Iranian uranium and straying from Illuminati diktat.'

savethemales.ca - The Argument that Fukushima Was Sabotaged



Militarized Drills Continue: Stadiums Prepped to Be Used as Martial Law Staging Centers

'The operational forces used the Dodgers Stadium as a staging point (mock FEMA Camp) to base the training session out of.

Stadiums have and will be used as FEMA camps during martial law type situations during future civil unrest and or economic collapse.

Hurricane Katrina was a prime example of how law enforcement and military work together during times of martial law to set up FEMA camps in sports stadiums as well as take part in large scale, illegal gun confiscation.'

Militarized Drills Continue: Stadiums Prepped to Be Used as Martial Law Staging Centers :





President Obama Mentions An Energy Company In His Big Speech And It Goes Bankrupt Instantly

'Andrew Restuccia of The Hill is reporting that Ener1, a battery company that President Obama referenced in his State of The Union Speech on Tuesday as an example of successful energy investments, has just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. That's just two days after the speech.

“In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world’s leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries,” Obama said in his speech.

According to Phil Milford and Dawn McCarty at Businessweek, Ener1 had received a $118 million U.S. Energy Department grant to make electric-car batteries.'

poorrichard's blog: President Obama Mentions An Energy Company In His Big Speech And It Goes Bankrupt Instantly




Israeli Finance Minister Pushes for Naval, Aerial Blockade of Iran

'In an interview today with Bloomberg Businessweek, Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz rejected the European Union’s ban on importation of Iranian crude oil, insisting it doesn’t go nearly far enough.

Instead, Steinitz called for the international community to impose a full naval and aerial blockade across all of Iran so that “no one can even go out [sic].” This is the only option with any chance of success, he said.'

Israeli Finance Minister Pushes Naval, Aerial Blockade of Iran -- News from Antiwar.com






Business As Usual at the FDA

'This story in the Wall Street Journal barely made a splash last week – “FDA Panelists Had Ties to Bayer.” Three advisors who had financial ties to Bayer AG were invited to serve on a “safety committee” for the FDA to assess the safety of four Bayer AG birth control drugs. All three individuals were either paid consultants, researchers, or speakers.'

Activist Post: Business As Usual at the FDA



Monsanto Investor Bill Gates Says GMO Crops Needed to Fight Starvation

'Bill Gates, the heavy Monsanto investor who purchased 500,000 shares of the biotech giant in 2010, has been touting Monsanto’s genetically modified creations as a tool that is necessary to prevent starvation in poor nations. The same poor nations where thousands of farmers routinely commit suicide after being completely bankrupt by Monsanto’s overpriced and ineffective GM seeds.

The same company that we recently exposed to be running ‘slave-like’ working conditions, forcing poor workers to operate the corn fields for 14 hours per day while withholding pay.

According to Gates, this is the company whose GMO crops are going to save the world from starvation. Of course, along with ‘saving the world from starvation’, GMO crops also bring along a large number of unwanted health and environmental effects.'


Activist Post: Monsanto Investor Bill Gates Says GMO Crops Needed to Fight Starvation





ACTA: The Corporate Usurpation of the Internet

'In the wake of a public outcry against internet regulation bills such as SOPA and PIPA, representatives of the EU have signed a new and far more threatening legislation yesterday in Tokyo. Spearheaded by the governments of the United States and Japan and constructed largely in the absence of public awareness, the measures of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) dramatically alter current international legal framework, while introducing the first substantial processes of global internet governance.

With complete contempt towards the democratic process, the negotiations of the treaty were exclusively held between industry representatives and government officials, while excluding elected representatives and members of the press from their hearings.

Under the guise of protecting intellectual property rights, the treaty introduces measures that would allow the private sector to enforce sweeping central authority over internet content. The ACTA abolishes all legal oversight involving the removal of content and allows copyright holders to force ISPs to remove material from the internet, something that presently requires a court order. ISPs would then be faced with legal liabilities if they chose not to remove content. Theoretically, personal blogs can be removed for using company logos without permission or simply linking to copy written material; users could be criminalized, barred from accessing the internet and even imprisoned for sharing copyrighted material.'

Activist Post: ACTA: The Corporate Usurpation of the Internet





Anti-ACTA Protest: Thousands March in Poland

'Thousands of protesters have taken to Poland's streets over the signing of an international treaty activists say amounts to internet censorship. On January 26 Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in Tokyo.

The treaty, known as Acta, aims to establish international standards to enforce intellectual property rights. Dozens of government websites have been hacked in protest.'




UK Bioethicist: Pregnancy and Natural Birth Should Not Be Tolerated

'Pregnancy and childbirth are so painful, risky and socially restrictive for women that public funding should urgently be directed to the development of artificial wombs. This is the only way to achieve true equality between men and women for then neither women nor men would then be limited by having children and the burdens of reproducing the species would be shared equally.

This is the radical suggestion made by a leading British bioethicist, Anna Smajdor, of the University of East Anglia.'

UK Bioethicist: Pregnancy and Natural Birth Should Not Be Tolerated - 12160




Nigeria: Thrown into Chaos and a State of Civil War: The Role of the IMF

'Despite its oil riches, Nigeria remains one of Africa’s poorest countries. The known oilfields are concentrated around the vast Niger Delta roughly between Port Harcourt and extending in the direction of the capital Lagos, with large new finds being developed all along the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea. Nigeria’s oil is exploited and largely exported by the Anglo-American giants—Shell, Mobil, Chevron, Texaco. Italy’s Agip also has a presence and most recently, to no one’s surprise, the Chinese state oil companies began seeking major exploration and oil infrastructure agreements with the Lagos government ...

... What has been buried from international accounts of the unrest is the explicit role the US-dominated International Monetary Fund (IMF) played in the situation. With suspicious timing IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde was in Nigeria days before the abrupt subsidy decision of President Jonathan.5 By all accounts, the IMF and the Nigerian government have been careful this time not to be blatant about openly announcing demands to ends subsidies as they were in Tunisia before food protests became the trigger for that country’s Twitter putsch in 2011.'

Nigeria: Thrown into Chaos and a State of Civil War: The Role of the IMF




NATO’s Grisly Crimes in Libya: Extensive Evidence that NATO Deliberately Targetted Civilians

'Based on interviews with victims of war crimes as well as with witnesses and Libyan officials in Tripoli, Zawiya, Sibrata, Khoms, Zliten, Misrata, Tawergha and Sirte, the report calls for the investigation of evidence that NATO targeted civilian sites, causing many deaths and injuries.

Civilian facilities targeted by NATO bombs and missiles included schools, government buildings, at least one food warehouse, and private homes.

The report also presents evidence of systematic murder, torture, expulsion and abuse of suspected Gaddafi loyalists by the NATO-backed "rebel" forces of the National Transitional Council. It describes the forced expulsion of the mostly black-skinned inhabitants of Tawergha and the ongoing persecution of sub-Saharan migrant workers by forces allied to the NTC and its transitional government.'

NATO’s Grisly Crimes in Libya: Extensive Evidence that NATO Deliberately Targetted Civilians




New UN Report Shows Sharp Rise In Palestinians Uprooted By Israeli Demolitions

Genocide: 'The systematic and widespread extermination or attempted extermination of an entire national, racial, religious, or ethnic group.'

'Almost 1,100 Palestinians, over half of them children, were displaced due to home demolitions in the West Bank by Israeli forces in 2011 – over 80 per cent more than in the previous year – according to a United Nations report released today (Thursday January 26, 2012).

"Demolitions and Forced Displacement in the Occupied West Bank," prepared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), adds that an additional 4,200 people were affected by the demolition of structures related to their livelihoods.

The report states that Israeli forces destroyed 622 structures owned by Palestinians including homes, animal shelters, classrooms and mosques – a 42 per cent increase compared to 2010.'

New UN Report Shows Sharp Rise In Palestinians Uprooted By Israeli Demolitions :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]





UK to Ban Occupy Camps as Olympics Near

'British Home Secretary Theresa May has given the green light to London 2012 organizers and the British police to make use of 'all available' powers and remove encampments set up by the Occupy protesters.

Olympic Games has become a blessing for the British government as British officials are to use it as an excuse to further crack down on anti-capitalist protesters.

“We have seen in recent months encampments taking place around London and elsewhere. I think it is right that we said to ourselves 'do we need to do anything extra in relation to the Olympics to ensure we can strengthen our policy to deal with this?'” said May.'

PressTV - UK to ban Occupy camps as Olympics near





Britons to Face Fuel Chaos

'British motorists are to face record fuel prices as one of the country's biggest oil refineries goes bankrupt ceasing deliveries of petrol, diesel, and heating oil.

The average price of petrol across Britain rose to 134.03p per litre (from 133.89p) with the price of diesel rising to 142.32p per liter (from 142.21p). The recent hike in the price of fuel in Britain comes as the Coryton refinery on the Thames, which refines over 170,000 barrels of crude oil a day, has went bankrupt and suspended its supplies.'

PressTV - Britons to face fuel chaos






Thousands Hold Anti-US Demonstration in Karachi

'About 100,000 JUI supporters held a demonstration organized by Jamiat Ulema-e Islam in front of the mausoleum of the founding father of Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, on Friday.

JUI leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the United States will face an “imminent defeat” in Afghanistan.

Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas have been hit by several airstrikes carried out by US assassination drones since the beginning of 2012.'

PressTV - 1000s hold anti-US demo in Karachi





Italians Protest New Austerity Measures

'Protesters say the controversial measures pending parliamentary approval are in violation of workers' rights.

The country's train and bus services also came to a halt during a nationwide strike.

"We're sick of these continual government programs that always hit the weakest, the pensioners and workers and not those in the political elite or those with real economic power in Italy," said union member Mauro Rustici in Rome.'

PressTV - Italians protest new austerity measures





Indigenous Protesters Burn Aussie Flag

'Australian indigenous activists have burned the country's flag outside Parliament House one day after a heated protest in the capital, Canberra.

The incident occurred on Friday when about 200 slogan-chanting protesters were met by a wall of police at the parliament's main entrance. The protesters were shouting their demands for justice and recognition of indigenous sovereignty.'

PressTV - Indigenous protesters burn Aussie flag




'Hands off Iran & Syria': UK Activists

'Britain's Stop the War Coalition has organized a protest rally in front of the US embassy in London on Saturday 28 January to stress opposition to an invasion on Iran.

The protest rally entitled “Hands Off Iran and Syria: No Western intervention”, will be held on Saturday from 2pm-4pm outside the US Embassy building in Grosvenor Square London W1, said the Stop the War Coalition in a statement.

The protest campaign is supported by Unite union, War on Want, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention on Iran (CASMII), Friends of Al-Aqsa, Goldsmiths Student Union and SOAS Student Union, the statement added.'

PressTV - 'Hands off Iran & Syria': UK activists






'Iran Will Stop EU Oil Exports This Week'

'Deputy head of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Hossein Ebrahimi said on Friday that Iranian lawmakers would debate a “double-urgency” bill on Sunday which calls for the ban of oil exports to Europe as early as next week.

The move comes after EU foreign ministers reached an agreement in Brussels on Monday to impose sanctions on oil imports from Iran as of July 1. The sanctions involve an immediate ban on all new oil contracts with the Islamic Republic and freezing the assets of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) within the EU.

The Majlis motion would deny Europe the six-month phase-in period that the bloc has considered to adjust and find alternative sources to Iran's crude.'

PressTV - 'Iran will stop EU oil exports this week'






Breaking: LAX FEMA Rendition Site Confirmed

'Alex presents newly exposed footage filmed at LAX airport in Los Angeles confirming a ‘rendition hub’ capable of processing thousands of people per hour from straight off the tarmac and other transportation points.'

Breaking: LAX FEMA Rendition Site Confirmed Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!




Obama Snubs, Mocks Georgia Judicial Hearing

'Judge Malihi talked to the attorneys in chambers before the hearing this morning and told them that he was going to enter a DEFAULT JUDGMENT against Obama and recommend that Obama’s name not be on the Georgia ballot! All the attorneys expressed a desire to put an abbreviated streamlined case on the record and the judge agreed. How does the mainstream media spin this? The Georgia SOS has already indicated that he will follow the judge’s recommendation. Obama will not get any popular vote or electors from the great state of Georgia! Congratulations to all freedom-loving Americans!'

Obama Ballot Access Challenge Hearing – Gavel to Gavel Live Video Stream Coverage from Atlanta GA CDR Kerchner's Blog






US has Arrested Iranian Scientist

'The United States has arrested and charged an Iranian semiconductor scientist with violating U.S. export laws by buying high-tech U.S. lab equipment, a development likely to further worsen Iranian-U.S. tensions.
Prison records show the U.S. has been holding Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi, 54, a microchip expert and assistant professor at Tehran's prestigious Sharif University of Technology, in a federal facility in Dublin, Calif., outside San Francisco. The Iranian interest section in the Pakistani embassy in Washington said it was aware of the arrest.'

US Has Arrested Iranian Scientist | Fox News







New Drone Has No Pilot Anywhere, So Who’s Accountable?

'The Navy’s new drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay stretches the boundaries of technology: It’s designed to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, one of aviation’s most difficult maneuvers.

What’s even more remarkable is that it will do that not only without a pilot in the cockpit, but without a pilot at all.

The X-47B marks a paradigm shift in warfare, one that is likely to have far-reaching consequences. With the drone’s ability to be flown autonomously by onboard computers, it could usher in an era when death and destruction can be dealt by machines operating semi-independently.'

New drone has no pilot anywhere, so who’s accountable? | StratRisks






'Green' Has Become Fabian Socialist 'Red'

‘... The Independent’ newspaper has permitted guest writer Alexander Wickham to write: “It seems that, increasingly, our Green Party is showing more of a resemblance to the Socialist Workers’ Party or UK Uncut than to an environmentalist movement.” Alexander Wickham, ‘When you think of a Green Party, what comes to mind?

... Wickham goes on to somewhat naively state “the environment should not be an issue of right or left. People of all political persuasions should be welcomed to support the ecological cause, not simply dyed-in-the-wool lefties.” With regard to Caroline Lucas, left-leaning UK Member of Parliament and leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, Wickham observes: “The fact that Ms. Lucas was one of the most popular speakers at the Fabian [Socialist] Society’s annual conference was hardly surprising.”'

‘GREEN’ HAS BECOME FABIAN SOCIALIST ‘RED’ | Sovereign Independent UK






The U.S. Constitution Vs. Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that law enforcement could not use GPS technology to track cars or their occupants without a warrant issued by a judge.

This judgement was not expected given the Supreme Courts record on upholding law enforcements actions that trample on the Constitutional rights of the American people.

A similar case, Olmstead V. United States, came before the Supreme Court in 1928. This case involved the use of wire tapping and whether or not it violated the fourth and fifth amendments.

The plaintiffs argued that wire tapping violated Olmsteads fourth and fifth amendment rights guaranteed under the Constitution and that wiretapping was the same as illegal search and seizure and therefore in violation of the Constitutional rights of all United States citizens.

The Supreme Court justices at the time of the ruling did not see it that way, stating:

“By the invention of the telephone fifty years ago and its application for the purpose of extending communications, one can talk with another at a far distant place. The language of the Amendment cannot be extended and expanded to include telephone wires reaching to the whole world from the defendant’s house or office. The intervening wires are not part of his house or office any more than are the highways along which they are stretched….We think, therefore, that the wiretapping here disclosed did not amount to a search or seizure within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. –Chief Justice Taft “

What caught my attention the most in the transcripts of this case were the words of the plaintiffs legal counsel regarding future technology and the governing of law enforcement.

Legal counsel argued that:

” This Court has repeatedly sustained the exercise of power by Congress, under various clauses of that instrument, over objects of which the Fathers could not have dreamed…”

This statement recognizes the burden of the Supreme Court Justices who must expound the words of the Constitution daily, interpreting each amendment and it’s meaning in an evolving technological world. The Supreme Court may have ruled that it was not illegal to wiretap but not all of the presiding judges agreed with the decision of the majority.

Justice Louis Brandeis, a presiding judge on the Olmstead case, wrote a very strong dissent documenting his differing opinion with the majority.

Brandeis, whose impartial opinions and strong hitting evidence earned him a reputation as a ” Robin Hood ” lawyer that represented the people, often only accepted cases in which he was fighting on the side of the people and the Constitution.

High profile cases that contained infringements on the defendants Constitutional rights to privacy or free speech were often discovered to have been argued by Brandeis. He fought for the rights of the people in cases that involved freedom of speech, right to privacy, and anti trust issues.

Brandeis dissent on the Olmstead case set the tone for many future judicial decisions regarding wiretapping and the Constitutional rights of those the wiretaps are trespassed upon.

You can read the dissent here:
http://www.soc.umn.edu/~samaha/bill_...rt_opinion.pdf

Read the whole transcript here:
olmstead materials

Brandeis vision of the possible future of technology spurred his thought provoking dissent on the dangers of allowing wiretapping without a warrant.

Brandeis argued that this decision would open the door for future Constitutional rights violations by law enforcement as technology in surveillance gathering evolved.

Foreseeing gadgets that would be able to spy on citizens and gather intelligence without being in violation of the citizens Constitutional rights were the basis of Brandeis dissent.

Brandeis wrote:

“Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the Government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the Government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet ”

The Supreme Court ruling in the Olmstead decision based on the expounding conclusions of the justices in today’s technological world have left a large gap as to where surveillance and the Constitutional rights of the people meet.

For example, GPS tracking used to require the unauthorized tampering of the vehicle being tracked by placement of the GPS monitor on the car. This action would result in a direct violation of the fourth and fifth amendments of the Constitution, based on the argument of the majority’s ruling.

Yet with further technological advancement, GPS tracking has become a grey line based on the same ruling, with companies like OnStar opening the way to tracking systems being built into the vehicles as part of their standard sales package thus eliminating the need to violate the personal property of the suspect in order to track them via GPS and therefore supposedly not violating their Constitutional rights, again based on the majority’s ruling.

With unclear defining lines of previous court rulings we find surveillance of law enforcement and the Constitutional rights of the people on the docket once again.

On the same day that the courts ruled GPS tracking by law enforcement must accompany a warrant, an article appeared in the Homeland Security News Wire that touted new technologies that will improve the safety of the public and law enforcement in the event of a high speed chase.

The article stated that:

“Thanks to OnStar, cars made by General Motors with the security and navigation system installed can be shut down remotely by law enforcement officials….”

Clearly the Supreme Courts ruling will be tested repeatedly as technology of law enforcement advances.

With the newest civilian “spy” gadget already gaining public opposition as an unconstitutional way to gather intelligence on the general public, the future is sure to see numerous more Supreme Court cases involving law enforcements use of drones and their legal legitimacy vs. the rights of the American citizens under the fourth and fifth amendments of the Constitution.