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Archive 3 – February 4 2011 to August 25, 2012
I’ll start by making the observation that many friends and family members lost their job in the last few months and there isn’t any work out there anywhere. I don’t see things improving next year. Rumblings everywhere. Could get nasty indeed!
http://www.reunionblackfamily.com/apps/blog/show/7348488-white-man-says-they-are-still-our-slaves
@clip. I am afraid that things will not get nay better even with a change of government. It is destined to be this way.
Hi BFP, I just now finished making a post here in Open Discussion and after hitting the post comment button, it disappeared. I didn’t get the usual message that it was being held for moderation. It should be of some interests to aviation buffs. I hope you can find it and make it available.
Thanks
Taking another stab at ;posting the missing post referred to above. On the night of June 27th, 1980 an Italian DC-9 airliner belonging to the Italian airline Itavia mysteriously disappeared from radar and was subsequently found to have exploded in mid air while flying over the Mediterranean sea. There was much speculation at the time as to whether a bomb had been placed on board, but after the wreckage was recovered it was determined the plane had been hit by an air to air missile. A former Italian president, Francesco Cossiga, did at one point before he died say that the aircraft had been shot down by a French air force fighter, but no further details were ever provided by any of the authorities or French or Italian political leaders as to how or why a French air force pilot made such a presumably tragic mistake as to fire on a passenger carrying, civilian airliner.
Only now, some 30 years later, with the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, documents have apparently come to light from which it is possible to reconstruct what might actually have happened that night which lead a French fighter pilot to fire an air to air missile into a civilian DC-9, destroying the aircraft and killing the 81passengers and crew. Apparently a pair of French fighter pilots were secretly tasked by the French government with assassinating Gaddafi by shooting down his plane as it was flying over the Mediterranean Sea on a flight carrying him home to Libya from Europe. One of the French pilots goofed up big time, and instead of shooting down Gaddafi’s Tupolev, mistakenly fired an air to air missile at Itavia Flt 870, believing it was Gaddafi’s aircraft. Gaddafi had apparently been tipped off about the plot by someone in Italian intelligence and had his aircraft diverted to a different destination and consequently was not where the French fighters were looking for it, but the unfortunate DC-9 was.
Further details of the plot’s twists and turns, and how a tragic concatenation of circumstances lead to the loss of at least 81 innocent lives here:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/08/25/botched-1980-gaddafi-assassination-kills-all-aboard-italian-airliner-flight-870/
Looks like growing resistance by a common corn pest to Monsanto’s widely used genetically modified Bt corn could also be an additional factor contributing to the damage caused to the US corn crop by this years drought.
Drought and SuperBugs Devastate U.S. Corn Crop
In yet another instance of “unintended consequences,” a recent study has determined that this year’s drought damage to corn crops is even worse because of Bt corn, and failure to rotate crops.
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Bt corn is a type of GMO and the subject of the recent investigation into the rootworm outbreak. One effect of the pest’s presence is that it prevents corn roots from absorbing water, especially serious given this year’s drought. Pest experts suggest that the primary reason for the rootworm-infested crops is that rootworms have become resistant to the Bt protein, resulting in strong and larger rootworm populations.
But not only are corn plants unable to absorb water, the plants become unstable and can easily topple over. Sandager said, “Strong wind came up and it just tipped the corn plants over like a big old tree.”
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The toll on crops isn’t the only casualty. Pete Riley of GM Freeze said in a 2011 article that biotech companies are not liable for the failure of the crops, so farmers have no recall when infestations are economically damaging. As they certainly are now in the worst U.S. drought in decades. Riley added, “Strategies to prevent pests becoming resistant are either not being correctly implemented, are failing, or are suffering from a combination of both. The result is more pesticide use rather than less. Throwing more GM at the problem may work in the short term, but the history of artificial pest control in agriculture has repeatedly shown the pests will win over the longer term.
“The sooner we switch to agroecological farming techniques, such as avoidance of monocultures, long rotations and the use of natural predators to control pests, the better.”
http://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/drought-and-superbugs-devastate-u-s-corn-crop/
Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart’s Hidden Secret on Human Rights Abuse Expose
With foreign investments in Barbados disappearing at an alarming rate due to a justice system’s slow to dispense justice. One must ask if the Government of Barbados intentionally hoodwink the US State Department during 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights DEMOCRACY, and LABOR Report release May 24, 2012 into believing all was well with its citizens on this tiny Caribbean nation. http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2011/wha/186489.htm
Barbadians who are too black, too poor or unknown family name are not being accorded equal and fair justice in a timely manor. Current Barbadian constitution provides a persons charged with criminal offenses be given a fair public hearing without unnecessary delay by an independent, impartial court or a speedy trial by jury.
As the constitution prohibits arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, the government has mislead the US State department into believing it generally respected these rights in practice, when in fact there are between 100 and 200 persons in pretrial detention at various times during the year. While the length of pretrial detention may vary from one case to another; there are confirmed reports of extended periods of pretrial detention and human rights abuse committed by Attorney General Adriel Dermont Braithwaite and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Charles Leacock and Police Commission Darwin Dottin.
In the case of Earl Victor, a young man with a poor family just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time during a robbery is being held by Barbadian corrupt police department since May of 2008 without bail and has yet to be charged with a crime. At each court appearance, the Chief prosecutor Leacock and his deputies will threaten this indigent young man with a life sentenced for refusing to plead guilty for a crime he did not commit.
It is very important to note, criminal defendants do have the right to consult with an attorney in a timely manner; the government has failed to provide free legal aid to Mr. Victor for his defense. In addition, although the constitution mandates defendant be allowed to confront and question witnesses and present evidence on his own behalf, in addition access to government-held evidence relevant to their case, and the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty with the right to appeal his detention, the governmNent of Barbados and it’s corrupt and racist court systems have ignored Mr. Victor’s rights.
Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and Chief Justice Marston Gibson have deliberately ignored this on-going serious human rights abuse, triggered by blatant criminal case fabrication against underprivileged citizens by corrupt officials within the Barbados Police Force.
Are you one of those types that likes to walk around yakking away on a cell phone plastered to your ear? You might want to take note of this.
Study: 290% Increased Risk of Brain Tumor After 10 Years of Cellphone Use
Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
How long have you been using your cellphone? Using a mobile device for any length of time is damaging to some degree, but new research is shedding light on just how significant of an influence extended cellphone use has on the brain.
In a newly-released study conducted at the Örebro Hospita in Sweden, it was revealed that 10 years of cellphone use resulted in an average 290% increased risk of brain tumor development. Interestingly, the tumor development was found on the side of the head in which the cellphone was most used.
It’s important to understand that cellphone use has gone up significantly since 10 years ago, meaning that more recent results may show an even higher risk. Statistically, the average person in Britain and many other developed nations will soon have about 2 cellphones each. With the increased number of cellphones on the citizens of the world comes something known as ‘second-hand cellphone use’. Just as with smoking, sitting in a bus, airplane, or train will expose you to upwards of several hundred cellphones at one time.
Another key factor is that 10 years ago far less young children were using cellphones –a select few having them as ‘emergency’ contact devices. Now, it’s not uncommon to see children under 10 chatting or texting on their cellphone throughout the day.
It is a well known fact that developing children are more affected by cellphone radiation, with behavioral disorders known to develop from cellphone use at an early age. It is also known that cellphone radiation is actually changing the brain in ways that are not currently understood.
In other words, the large-scale global use of cellphones is essentially a massive biological experiment. The true long-term effects will only be absolutely known when they occur. Following the research, this will likely be a historical spike in brain tumor development and damage.
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/09/study-290-increased-risk-of-brain-tumor.html
How Corrupt Bajan Cops duped American Customs and Boarder Patrol Agents:
A man wanted for questioning in a 2006 murder in his home country of Barbados was detained by American authorities as he attempted to enter the United States at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials reported.
Earl Victor, 34, a citizen of Barbados, presented an Ontario driver’s license and claimed his passport was at his St. Catharine’s home. He was referred to secondary inspection.
There, authorities learned Victor was the subject of an Interpol lookout issued July of 2006 which was fabricated by corrupt Barbadian cops indicating he was wanted for questioning in a July 2006 murder in Barbados.
Authorities in the Caribbean nation also duped American officials into believing that Victor has several criminal convictions there, including assault, and may be involved in drug smuggling which was a complete lie to US lawenforcment officials by the Barbadian cops.
They further advised that Victor was wanted in Barbados on a warrant for robbery, which was fabricated by the dirty and racist cops. He previously was held in their custody but fled to Canada to escape the corrupt justice system in Barbados.
As US citizens We will request for the Department of Home land security, US Customs and Border Enforcement to conduct and an objective investigation in the deceptive conduct of officials from Royal Barbados Police Force and to charge them criminally pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001 makes it a crime for any one to intentionally lie and provide false information to federal government agents during an investigation.
“You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how. Boris Bazhanov’s Memoirs of Stalin’s Former Secretary, 1992
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections (Full Version)
UNCOUNTED shares well documented stories about the spine-chilling disregard for the right to vote in America. In Florida, computer programmer Clint Curtis is directed by his boss to create software that will “flip” votes from one candidate to another. In Utah, County Clerk Bruce Funk is locked out of his office for raising questions about security flaws in electronic voting machines. Californian Steve Heller gets convicted of a felony after he leaks secret documents detailing illegal activities committed by a major voting machine company. And Tennessee entrepreneur, Athan Gibbs, finds verifiable voting a hard sell in America and dies before his dream of honest elections can be realized.
Video at link, 1hr 20min:
http://undergrounddocumentaries.com/uncounted-the-new-math-of-american-elections-full-version/
Looks like CNN can’t quite decide if it is in the public relations business or the journalism business.
Report: why didn’t CNNi air its own ‘iRevolution’ documentary?
By Glenn Greenwald
Today I reported on the refusal of CNN International (CNNi) to broadcast an award-winning documentary, “iRevolution”, that was produced in early 2011 as the Arab Spring engulfed the region and which was highly critical of the regime in Bahrain. The documentary, featuring CNN’s on-air correspondent Amber Lyon, viscerally documented the brutality and violence the regime was using against its own citizens who were peacefully protesting for democracy. Commenting on why the documentary did not air on CNNi, CNN’s spokesman cited “purely editorial reasons”.
Even so, the network’s relationships with governments must bear closer examination. CNNi has aggressively pursued a business strategy of extensive, multifaceted financial arrangements between the network and several of the most repressive regimes around the world which the network purports to cover. Its financial dealings with Bahrain are deep and longstanding.
CNNi’s pursuit of and reliance on revenue from Middle East regimes increased significantly after the 2008 financial crisis, which caused the network to suffer significant losses in corporate sponsorships. It thus pursued all-new, journalistically dubious ways to earn revenue from governments around the world. Bahrain has been one of the most aggressive government exploiters of the opportunities presented by CNNi.
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At the same time as CNN was covering the regime, Bahrain was an aggressive participant in CNN’s various “sponsorship” opportunities, with official agencies of the regime often boasting of how their extensive involvement with CNN was improving the nation’s image around the world. Beyond that, there are multiple examples of CNN International producing plainly propagandistic coverage of the regime, often without any minimal disclosure of the vested interests of its sources.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/04/cnn-business-state-sponsored-news
On 9/11 Doubts Were Immediate
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
The TV news anchors compared the disintegration of the towers to controlled demolition. There were numerous reports of explosions throughout the towers from the base or sub-basements to the top. (Once the government put out the story of terrorist attack, references to controlled demolition and explosions disappeared from the print and TV media.) This made sense to me. Someone had blown up the buildings. It was completely obvious that the towers had not fallen down from asymmetrical structural damage. They had blown up.
The images of the airliners hitting the towers and the towers blowing up were replayed time and again. Airliners hit the top portions of the towers, and not long afterward the towers blew up. I turned off the TV wondering how it was that cameras had been ready to catch such an unusual phenomenon as an airplane flying into a skyscraper.
I don‟t remember the time line, but it wasn‟t long before the story was in place that Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda gang had attacked the US. A passport had been found in the rubble. Another airliner had flown into the Pentagon, and a fourth airliner had crashed or been shot down. Four airliners had been hijacked, meaning airport security had failed four times on the same morning. Terrorists had successfully assaulted America.
When I heard these reports, I wondered. How could a tiny undamaged passport be found in the rubble of two skyscrapers, each more than 100 stories tall, when bodies, office furniture and computers could not be found? How could airport security fail so totally that four airliners could be hijacked within the same hour? How could authorities know so conclusively and almost immediately the names of the perpetrators who pulled off such a successful attack on the world‟s only superpower, when the authorities had no idea that such an attack was planned or even possible?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/on-911-doubts-were-immediate/
@Green Monkey Maybe it was an inside job.
@Green Monkey Building 7 came down and there was no fire or direct impact with a plane. There were reports of explosives going off in the building. Look on youtube for a guy called barry jennings. He was one of the witness to the explosions. He is dead now.
@GW
I am aware whereof you speak. And certainly there are many others as well (see below for one more example). The big question is, will there be enough of us worldwide willing to take the “red pill” and wake up to the true nature of our present reality while there might be still time for us to avert the dystopian, 1984-like future that is looming into view. I am not optimistic.
US Newspaper Columnist Sydney Schanberg, while musing about how easily the Johnson Administration and the Pentagon had used a fake Gulf of Tonkin attack on a US destroyer to bring the US population onside and gain popular support for the USA’s full scale military involvement in the Vietnam war wrote: “We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”
The only thing I would add, is to say, “It isn’t only Americans. Mr Schanberg.”
President of Italy’s Supreme Court to Refer 9/11 Crimes To International Criminal Court
Ferdinando Imposimato is the honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy, and former Senior Investigative Judge, Italy.
Imposimato presided over several terrorism-related cases, including the kidnapping and ultimate assassination of President Aldo Moro, the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, other political assassinations and kidnapping cases and several cases against the Mafia. He is a former Senator who served on the Anti-Mafia Commission in three administrations.
Imposimato is also a former legal consultant to the United Nations regarding institution of laws to control drug trafficking.
This week, Judge Imposimato stated publicly in writing that 9/11 was just like the “strategy of tension” carried out in Italy.
Specifically, the former Italian Prime Minister, Italian judges, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence admit that NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and other European countries in the 1950s and blamed the communists, in order to rally people’s support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism.
As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: “You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security” (and see this)(Italy and other European countries subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO before the bombings occurred).
http://911blogger.com/news/2012-09-09/president-italy-s-supreme-court-refer-911-crimes-international-criminal-court
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Significant wealth was created in the 90s and the new millenium via newly incorporated “conduit ” companies that did significant business with government. These companies were owned by those close to those in the highest political offices. if you wanted to do business with government you had to deal with these companies. Ofcourse anyone and yes any attorneys given government work over the years have done very well. Some on the verge of bankrupcy quickly recover and create considerable wealth with a change of government. Lets not forget those in senior civil service positions being paid big sums to get certain “permissions”. Now while it is wrong to receive is it not also wrong to pay? One thing is for sure. Those not prepared to pay have to wait many years to hopefully get exactly what those who pay large sums get in weeks. Barbados is an amazing place to live and work but make no mistake corruption is no secret and the system does not help.Good luck implementing IL
Anyone know the criteria for a non Bajan relocating from the UK to Barbados for retirement ? No reply from Immigration Dept despite numerous emails
Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel ises an iphone to provide a perfect example of how easy it is to propagandize and brainwash a human being.
Press Confrence on the Threat of CSIRO’s GM Wheat
CSIRO = Commonwealth Scientific International Research Organization – an Australian government body for scientific research
Why Are We Being Kept in the Dark Over GMOs?
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But why are you being kept in the dark about the dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the fight against Proposition 37? Despite the massive amount of research linking genetically modified foods to environmental and human dangers, giant corporations are shelling out millions and millions of dollars to ensure that GMOs are not labeled in the food market. Why are Americans and others being kept in the dark?
While studies continue to highlight the very serious impact of GMOs on both the human body and the environment alike, a few major countries still do not require the labeling of GMOs. Countries like China, Russia, Australia, France, Spain, and others all require GMOs to be labeled, while Canada and the U.S. are slow to follow. Biotechnology giants like Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences — as well as government organizations such as the FDA — have such a significant impact on what really goes on in America that they may actually be the reason Americans are still kept in the dark.
“Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the F.D.A.’s job” – Philip Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications. “Playing God in the Garden” New York Times Magazine.
Does that make you a bit concerned about the integrity of our food safety system? There are many important factors to consider with genetically engineered foods, which are increasingly overtaking the food supply. These are living, synthetic organisms that can reproduce and proliferate; they can mutate and migrate. How can a small group of chemical companies be trusted to control and monopolize our foods and restructure the world’s food system?
Well, it seems that no individual within government or alphabet government agency is doing the required work to ensure GMOs are safe; they are simply putting safety responsibility on each other. The FDA has not conducted a single independent test of any genetically engineered product. The agency simply accepts the testing completed and provided by the biotechnology corporations like Monsanto.
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/why-are-we-being-kept-in-the-dark-over-gmos/21319/
I do not know what anyone else thinks but the WI cricket captain ,Darren Sammy looks so out of place in the picture in today’s paper.
Sir Hilary Beckles must be really scraping the bottom of the barrel when he can accept donations from WHITE folks seeing that he previously had no use for them.But money talks, doesn’t it?????
The Corporate Takeover of Science and the Destruction of Freedom
September 18, 2012 by kristalklear
When rich companies with politically-connected lobbyists fund their own research and distort outcomes for their own ends, we are in serious trouble. Due to the corporate takeover of science, our choices, rights and freedoms are currently in the process of being destroyed.
In a genuine ‘age of reason,’ science would assist in providing clear answers to issues, and the public would be able to engage in open, honest debate over the rights and wrongs of policies. Instead, corporate interests have used their junk science, lobbyists, presence within the heart of governments and PR machines to muddy the waters and sometimes engage in fear-mongering so that public debate has too often become distorted and campaigns of deliberate misinformation have become commonplace.
‘Scientific’ debate is now often played out in full public glare and acrimony has become the norm, particularly when someone’s huge profits are threatened. Corporate greed leads to debate being stifled whereby scientists and various groups who do not support particular corporate stances are made to look like they are the ones who are pushing dogma based on self-interest and not the other war around.
No wonder, therefore, that the public is sometimes left feeling confused. Even when the weight of credible scientific evidence is overwhelming, powerful companies and interest groups are highly skilled in creating ambiguity and controversy through their spin machines. Think back to how the tobacco companies set out to fool the public for decades. Of course, having access to huge funds helps.
http://tipggita32.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/the-corporate-takeover-of-science-and-the-destruction-of-freedom/
From the Natural News web site: …..since soy and corn derivatives are so ubiquitous in packaged food, the Grocery Manufacturers of America has estimated that as much as 80 percent of processed food on US shelves contains GM ingredients. This includes breakfast cereals and other products labeled “natural” or “all natural.”
Now, bearing in mind that the bulk of our processed foodstuffs on our local grocery store shelves comes from the US or Canada (which apparently has an equally lax approach as the US when it comes to requiring testing for harmful effects before unleashing GM containing food products on the consuming public), see this:
French Study Finds Tumors and Organ Damage in Rats Fed Monsanto Corn
Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto’s genetically engineered corn or exposed to the company’s popular Roundup herbicide developed tumors and suffered severe organ damage, according to a French study released on Wednesday.
The study could have a big impact on the battle over a California ballot proposal that would require groceries containing genetically engineered ingredients to be labeled as such. Monsanto has already donated $7.1 million to the campaign to defeat the proposal, known as Proposition 37.
The study, published in a reputable American journal, links varying levels of both the Roundup herbicide and the transgenes in Monsanto’s patented NK603 corn to mammary tumors and severe liver and kidney damage.
The rats were either fed the NK603 corn alone, corn treated with agricultural levels of Roundup, or given water treated with Roundup at low levels commonly found in contaminated drinking water and used in agriculture in the United States. In each group, there were two to three more deaths compared to control groups, and the rats on the Monsanto diet died more quickly.
Gilles-Eric Séralini, a professor of molecular biology at the University of Caen who lead the research team, told reporters on Wednesday that the rats’ diet reflected the kind of exposure that humans who eat genetically engineered food should expect.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11639-french-study-finds-tumors-and-organ-damage-in-rats-fed-monsanto-corn
Lucifer
Experts discuss the findings of the Roundup/GM cancer trial
(This is in regards to post above French Study Finds Tumors and Organ Damage in Rats Fed Monsanto Corn Sep 20 @ 6:02am)
WHO ARE WE ?
WHO ARE WE PART 2
Racism Is Still With Us. A black man cannot be a racist because he does not have to power or the money to be a racist.
http://israelunite.org/videos/racism-never-left/
GMO Researchers Attacked, Evidence Denied, and a Population at Risk
In the early 1990s, Dr. Pusztai was awarded a $3 million grant by the UK government to design the system for safety-testing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). His team included more than 20 scientists working at three facilities, including the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, the top nutritional research lab in the UK, and his employer for the previous 35 years. The results of Pusztai’s work were supposed to become the required testing protocols for all of Europe. But when he fed supposedly harmless GM potatoes to rats, things didn’t go as planned.
Within just 10 days, the animals developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller brains, livers and testicles, partially atrophied livers, and damaged immune systems. Moreover, the cause was almost certainly side effects from the process of genetic engineering itself. In other words, the GM foods on the market, which are created from the same process, might have similar affects on humans.
With permission from his director, Pusztai was interviewed on TV and expressed his concerns about GM foods. He became a hero at his institute – for two days. Then came the phone calls from the pro-GMO prime minister’s office to the institute’s director. The next morning, Pusztai was fired. He was silenced with threats of a lawsuit, his team was dismantled, and the protocols never implemented. His institute, the biotech industry, and the UK government, together launched a smear campaign to destroy Pusztai’s reputation.
Arpad Pusztai, saw his career runied by big government and big agri-business because he told the truth about GM food. Eventually, an invitation to speak before Parliament lifted his gag order and his research was published in the prestigious Lancet. No similar in-depth studies have yet tested the GM foods eaten every day by Americans.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/gmo-researchers-attacked-evidence-denied-and-a-population-at-risk/
GMOs and Genetic Roulette
We all know what happens when it becomes known that a Chinese food producer or food processor has adulterated their product with contaminants for the sake of increased profits. The problem gets lots of exposure in the mainstream media along with commentaries in the media and on blogs offering up widespread condemnation of the Chinese manufacturers and their entire system of government for allowing such an inexcusable breach of health regulations or food processing protocols.
Will be interesting to see what happens now that French scientists have confirmed that one of Monsanto’s widely promoted (over the last 10 years) and widely eaten, genetically modified corn varieties (which US FDA regulators allowed to come on the market without any long term animal feeding trials) has now shown in such trials conducted by independent scientists evidence of being a significant cancer promoter. (See my posts and links above if this is news to you.)
Systemic Destabilization as “A Strategy of Tension”: 9/11, the JFK Assassination, and the Oklahoma City Bombing
By Peter Dale Scott
From an American standpoint, it is easy to see clearly how Italian history was systematically destabilized in the second half of the 20th century, by a series of what I call structural deep events. I have defined these as “events, like the JFK assassination, the Watergate break-in, or 9/11, which violate the … social structure, have a major impact on … society, repeatedly involve law-breaking or violence, and in many cases proceed from an unknown dark force.”2
The examples in Italy, well known to Italians, include the Piazza Fontana bombing of 1969, the Piazza della Loggia bombing of 1974, and the Bologna railway bombing of 1980.
These bombings, in which over one hundred civilians were killed and many more wounded, were attributed at the time to marginal left-wing elements of society. However, thanks chiefly to a series of investigations and judicial proceedings, it is now clearly established that the bombings were the work of right-wing elements in collusion with Italian military intelligence, as part of an on-going “strategy of tension” to discredit the Italian left, encourage support for a corrupt status quo, and perhaps move beyond democracy altogether.3 As one of the conspirators, Vincenzo Vinciguerra, later stated, “The December 1969 explosion was supposed to be the detonator which would have convinced the political and military authorities to declare a state of emergency.”4
Vinciguerra also revealed that he and others had also been members of a paramilitary “stay-behind” network originally organized at the end of World War II by the CIA and NATO as “Operation Gladio.”
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The original purpose of Gladio was to consolidate resistance in the event of a Soviet takeover. But many of the senior Italians involved in the bombings implicated the CIA and NATO in them as well:
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Has a Strategy of Tension Been Exercised in America?
Gladio connections to sustained false-flag violence, again involving NATO and the CIA, were subsequently established in other countries, notably Belgium and Turkey.12 I wish to propose that America, as well as Europe, has also suffered from a similar series of false-flag structural deep events, including bombings, that have, in conformity with the same strategy of tension, systematically moved America into its current condition, a state of emergency.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/systemic-destabilization-as-a-strategy-of-tension-911-the-jfk-assassination-and-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/
ICONOCLASM
http://israelunite.org/videos/iconoclasm-many-days-without-an-image/
Deut:33:29: Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
@GlenWick: Well said
CNN Insider: CNN is A Hoax
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that the American media act as presstitutes for rich and powerful Americans.
But it turns out that the American media will turn “tricks” for foreign johns as well …
Specifically, three time Emmy award winning reporter Amber Lyon was until very recently a respected CNN reporter:
Lyon was fired from CNN after she refused to stop reporting on her first-hand experience of the systematic torture and murder of peaceful protesters by the government of Bahrain.
Lyon’s special report on Bahrain was scheduled to run on both CNN’s U.S. and international networks, but was pulled after only a limited showing due to pressure from the Bahrainis and their lobbyists.
As a relative of Earl Victor living abroad in Huston Texas I wish to thank the Barbados Free Press (BFP) for it’s professional and objective reporting on the Earl Victor Story.
Since BFP reporting the abuse of authority by Charles Leacock and others at the Royal Barbados Police Force weeks ago, all charges have now been dropped against Mr. Victor.
One week ago Saturday, Mr. Victor’s mother Myra received a call from a high ranking official at Dodd prisons notifying her all charges have been drop against her son. The official told Mrs. Victor, they were just waiting for a court date so Earl can appear before a magistrate to sign his release order.
What seem so strange about this on-going miscarriage of justice of this your man and his family, is that a crooked lawyer know as Maryellen Gordon of passage road has been attempting to shake down Mr. Victor and his mother for money.
Mr. Gordon went to Dodds prison, and told Earl Victor, “Now Mr. Leacock has dropped the charges against; you must pay us $5000.00 if you want to go home alive”. For the record, Mrs. Victor and her family never hire Mr. Gordon as an attorney. Why is this unscrupulous lawyer trying to extort money from a poor family on behalf of Charles Leacock when their son was detained for 4 years without due process of law?
We will appreciate the BFP look into this story.
Thank you very much for all your help.
WOW!!!! $ 2.4 million for an overpass.Must be an awful lot of kickback involved in that amount
Even background television exposure will ‘zombify’ your children, study finds
The first ever national study to investigate the effects of background television exposure, or being in the same room as a blaring television without necessarily watching it, has found that young children are affected quite dramatically by this inadvertent media vulnerability. According to researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), children on average are now exposed to more than five hours a day of television, which is basically turning their brains into mush.
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So why is background television exposure, which accounts for about 80 percent of overall exposure, such a big deal? According to the research, the background noise emitted from a television set can thwart the proper development of children’s brains, and distract them to the point that they are unable to focus during conversations, or properly interact with other human beings. For many children, excessive background television exposure can also severely limit proper cognitive development and formative speech patterns.
“This is a clear warning signal to parents that if they are not watching TV, they ought to turn it off,” says Dr. Victor Strasburger, a pediatrician from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque who has previously studied media exposure among children, but who was not involved in the new study. “[It is also] a reminder that parents should be avoiding screen time in infants under two.”
More at:
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/even-background-television-exposure-will-zombify-your-children-study-finds/23153/
BBC brass are today being accused of aiding in the cover up of child molestation by a recently deceased and much celebrated BBC personality, former DJ Sir Jimmy Savile OBE KCSG LLD.
From The Daily Mail:
A cesspit: BBC Chairman’s damning verdict on Savile abuse scandal and the cover-up by TV bosses
The Jimmy Savile scandal was branded a ‘cesspit’ yesterday by the BBC’s own chairman.
Lord Patten admitted that heads could roll if corporation bosses were found to have acted improperly.
He said he feared that the television and radio star may have been helped in his sordid sexual exploitation of teenage girls by other BBC employees.
Yesterday the former Tory MP asked director-general George Entwistle to review the corporation’s guidelines on child protection following what he called the ‘appalling’ allegations of sexual abuse against Savile.
He also said an independent inquiry at the BBC, supervised by an outside figure, should be started as swiftly as possible following a police investigation into Savile’s activities.
Former patients at Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire and another in Leeds yesterday claimed they had been assaulted during visits by Savile in the 1970s and 1980s.
Teenagers in wheelchairs and others recovering from cancer were among those said to have fallen victim to the DJ.
One claimed nurses told young patients to pretend to be asleep whenever the star visited their wards.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215887/Lord-Patten-BBC-Chairmans-damning-verdict-Jimmy-Savile-abuse-scandal-cover-TV-bosses.html
How brave are the Taliban. They hunt down and shoot an unarmed 14 year old girl on her way home from school. With bravery like that, they’ll all deserve 1500 virgins each. How brave they are. .
The US is Now a Gestapo Police State says Paul Craig Roberts (former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Ronald Reagan administration and a former Wall Street Journal editor).
In light of the rather dire consequences that could follow should any person be designated a terrorist or a terrorist supporter by a US government official or agency (as outlined by Roberts in the video just above), the following article should be a real eye opener for those who think there is no way that they would ever be designated a terrorist or a terrorist supporter under the laws of the USA.
Latest definition of a terrorist by some US federal and state politicians now includes those who conduct undercover investigations and expose wanton animal cruelty at corporately owned, “Big Ag” factory farms or slaughter houses. Presumably anyone belonging to or paying dues or contributions to a humane society or animal protection organisation which conducts such an investigation could earn that individual the label of “terrorism supporter”.
U.S. Congressmen Compare Undercover Investigators to Arsonists and Terrorists
Three members of the U.S. Congress have sent a letter to the USDA urging the department to take action against “the onslaught of attacks” by animal welfare groups who have conducted undercover investigations of factory farms.
In a blog post about the letter, one member of Congress equated the recent investigation of Central Valley Meat Co. in California to arson, and called it “economic terrorism.”
A nonprofit animal protection group called Compassion Over Killing released undercover video footage that documented shocking cruelty at that California slaughterhouse. The footage shows workers unsuccessfully shooting cows in the head and then walking away as they writhe in pain, and workers suffocating cows by standing on their faces.
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This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights is in court arguing that a 2006 law called the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is so broad that it wraps up a wide range of conduct as terrorism, including investigations, if they hurt the profits of animal industries. Opponents of the law say that this has had a chilling effect on lawful, non-violent activism. The government has dismissed the concerns, and said the fears are overblown.
Yet according to FBI files I have published on GreenIsTheNewRedDOTcom, the FBI has explicitly considered prosecuting undercover investigators as terrorists as far back as 2003. The documents show FBI agents were considering the charges because activists allegedly “illegally entered buildings owned by [redacted] Farm… and videotaped conditions of animals.”
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As Mark Bittman wrote in opposition to these Ag Gag bills last year: “Videotaping at factory farms wouldn’t be necessary if the industry were properly regulated. But it isn’t.”
The media smear campaigns by Big Ag groups and politicians are intended to sidetrack the public from that key point: the industry is not regulated. It has insituttionalized practices that most consumers, when educated, find appalling. The multi-billion dollar industry that is animal agriculture is dependent on secrecy, and dependent on politicians bending to its interests.
Perhaps this is the most damning exposé to result from these investigations. The documentation of animal welfare abuses has unintentionally shined a spotlight on politicians so beholden to corporate interests, so stuffed full of their talking points, that they believe “extremists” are not those who engage in unspeakable animal abuse, but those who non-violently expose it.
http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/undercover-investigation-usda-slaughterhouse-terrorism/6296/
Another post directly related to my last two posts above relating to the arbitrary abrogation of rights US citizens assumed were guaranteed by their constitution..
How the NDAA Directly Threatens Average Americans, and How You Can Take Action Now,
By former CNN reporter and documentary maker Amber Lyon
Journalists rarely take a vocal stand against legislation in order to remain objective, but sometimes new laws are such an egregious assault on our basic rights to democracy and freedom that we have a duty to speak up.
This is the case with the National Defense Authorization Act, a relatively new law that gives the U.S. military the power to detain anyone without trial indefinitely, further criminalizing dissent and investigative journalism in the United States.
What does the NDAA do?”
The NDAA gives the federal government the power to behave like dictators and arrest any American citizen, or anyone for that matter, without warrant and indefinitely detain them in offshore prisons without charge and keep them there until “the end of hostilities.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, calls the law a “catastrophic blow to civil liberties”.
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We are all ‘terrorists’
Another disturbing aspect of the NDAA is that it allows the government to imprison anyone suspected of or even associated with ‘terrorism’. This power is open to wide interpretation under the law and can and will be abused.
Who in the heck is a terrorist anymore? We’ve witnessed the U.S. government and Military-industrial complex mold the term ‘terrorist’ to their subjective and financial goals too many times to trust any use of that word. Even Nobel Peace Prize-winner Nelson Mandela was once considered a terrorist by governments worldwide and put on U.S. terrorist watch lists.
As Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges told Democracy Now, the term ‘terrorist’ is too loose so what the NDAA is really doing is setting up a legal mechanism to criminalize dissent.
http://amberlyonlive.com/2012/10/10/how-the-ndaa-is-a-direct-threat-to-average-americans-protesters-journalists/
Message to ALL black Christians
http://www.yahspeople.com/black-christians.html
Amazon customer learns the hard way the downside of storing reading material on Amazon’s kindle. You aren’t buying books to read on kindle, you are only renting them. On Amazon’s whim they can delete everything from your kindle without any warning and without providing you, the customer, with any reasonable explanation or opportunity to resolve whatever supposed problem arose that made Amazon decide to wipe the material from the kindle in the first place. .
Outlawed by Amazon DRM
A couple of days a go, my friend Linn sent me an e-mail, being very frustrated: Amazon just closed her account and wiped her Kindle. Without notice. Without explanation. This is DRM at it’s worst.
Linn travels a lot and therefore has, or should I say had, a lot of books on her Kindle, purchased from Amazon. Suddenly, her Kindle was wiped and her account was closed. Being convinced that something wrong had happened, she sent an e-mail to Amazon, asking for help. This was the answer:
Dear Linn [last name],
My name is Michael Murphy and I represent Executive Customer Relations within Amazon.co.uk. One of our mandates is to address the most acute account and order problems, and in this capacity your account and orders have been brought to my attention.
We have found your account is directly related to another which has been previously closed for abuse of our policies. As such, your Amazon.co.uk account has been closed and any open orders have been cancelled.
Per our Conditions of Use which state in part: Amazon.co.uk and its affiliates reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at their sole discretion.
Please know that any attempt to open a new account will meet with the same action.
You may direct any questions to me at resolution-uk@amazon.co.uk.
Thank you for your attention to this email.
Regards
Michael Murphy
Executive Customer Relations
Amazon.co.uk
This answer was very confusing. Which account was he talking about? She had never had any other accounts at Amazon.
So, she replied to Murphy’s e-mail:
Continued at:
http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/
Well,well,well I must be dreaming. A lawyer in Barbados specifically Mr Hal Gollop is concerned about MORALITY in connection with the Nation newspaper report about the BWA building. Is this the same Hal Gollop who is representing Mr Leroy Parris of CLICO ? Does Mr Gollop think that this is morality when 35000 policy holders have had their lives wrecked by this man while he continues to live the high life???
I can’t believe that John King is a Scientologist! That’s a crazy cult.
http://israelunite.org/videos/negotiation-with-gad-and-the-virgin-birth/
http://israelunite.org/archives/4113
Vanity’s photo (#7) has been chosen as a finalist in the MQI contest!
The finalists are featured on McEnearney’s website, for the next week. Guests can vote for their favorite photo up to December 24th – results of the contest (Mini iPad up for grabs) will be announced shortly thereafter. Have a look at “Mrs Rudolph” and select her pic (#7) in the online competition!
http://www.mqi.bb/iPadGiveaway/
Vote for Vee, LOL!
Cutting back on artificial light.
Around the world, towns and cities are looking at the cost of artificial light. Barbados is not, as usual. Full moonlight, and the whole island is blazing with artificial sky light, spoiling the very idea of the beauty of tropical night, and sending thousands, millions of dollars, uselessly, down the drain. Check Google. ‘ Cutting back on city artificial light’.
In Barbados we can afford to blow energy light into the night sky. We have plenty of gas and oil, and all the money we need to light up the whole place, and import all the food we want. That is what we would have ourselves believe.
A check with Google on the cutback on night light will show millions being saved monthly in Canada, the UK, The USA, Singapore and other countries. But might it provoke a like response here in Barbados ?,…. we doubt that. We’re not interested in global warming or the Earth CO2 level. That is for the big rich countries to do. We’re happier destroying the night with light, convinced crime is curtailed in this way, which according to reports from various police stations in the USA, it actually is not.
Then all you need these days, is a solar powered flash flight. The one we have has a battery that has lasted 14 years, and is solar recharged when it needs, during the day.
Barbados will just muddle on, never very serious about anything except ‘We Culture’, certainly not serious about growing its own food, or curtailing wastage of excessive light. And so Barbados goes, and God help that it may. But things are getting a lot more than tight, everywhere, and we’re still living in grass- hopper- land, and shedding millions of dollars on our night skies —- to block the moon and the stars.
CLB
Damage to the Earth System
If one, using Google, checks Worldairtraffic0-24h.wmv he will see all the world air traffic over a 24 hour period. Each one of those transcontinental flights is consuming more than one hundred tons of fuel up in the high atmosphere. Remember, that is just the air traffic,….Just the air traffic.
If we add the ocean shipping, and all the rest of the traffic in use on road systems, farming, and in motor sport, right across the world, and still insist that humans have nothing to do with global warming or the rise in CO2, one has to admit we must be much stupider than we are supposed to be.
The problem, really, is not that we won’t do anything about this damage to the Earth system. The problem is that we can’t.
Colin Leslie Beadon.
THE BLACK HOLOCAUST
Captive. We need to get up to date. Much worse is going on in Africa today, between Africans. This morning I got the horrifying clip of square yards of horribly burned bodies in the Catholic/ Islamic strife. I’m trying to find a way to place it all on Barbados free press with the written document. It needs spreading throughout the West Indies, like what was going on during apathad in South Africa was spread through the WI. But these people and their burning alive, is……. today, today, today.
Interesting !!!
Barbados at moment is chaotic, just a total mess. The S&P and Moody’s said so. There are lots of theft there [Barbados], the United Nations said so. Violet Beckles, though, proved it. Alike Al Barack and VECO and CLICO, the Violet Beckes fire started with Owen Arthur and the BLP. They know this, can’t hide it. Should have been resolved before that woman’s demise [Violet Beckles] and without difficulty. Someone said “the largest industry in Barbados is not tourism, it’s theft”. Agree. This has happened, MASSIVE LAND THEFT AND FRAUD repeatly because of a nonchalant judicial system; it’s still THIRD WORLD.
Violet according to Maria Bradshaw of the Nation News (12-13-09) showed the Sunday Sun title deed to the 240 acres of land in St. Peter stating that her aunt Beatrice Henry bought and bequeathed all to her. The deed according to Ms. Bradshaw said show that Beatrice Henry purchased the land, 240 acres at Six Men in St. Peter October 10, 1926 for 10,000 pounds. The deed document was signed by then Register of the Supreme Court, H. Williams, in the presence of Hugh Banfield and E.D. Mottley. All land and plantations that Beatrice owned was surrendered to Violet. Violet owned everything thatbelonged to Beatrice; all, however was WITHHELD. She was allowed No piece or remnant of what she inherited from Beatrice Henry. Violet Beckles fought for her land because it was rightfully hers, now her heirs. What belonged to Violet Beckles now belong to her heirs.
Speaking at a political meeting at the corner of Deacons Road, Owen Arthur said “the island had been humilated by the recent S&P downgrade. “We have been reduced to junk status and someone has to be held responsible for it. He, Arthur said also that the S&P report must be taken seriously. Violet Beckles also has been humilated by massive land theft and fraud. This must be taken seriously. Someone has to be held accountable.
David Thompson knew that Owen Arthur was not an honest man and knew that he himself was not an honest man, but he (Thompson) did successfully impede the Owen Arthur regrime of fourteen years and based on documentation presented by Plantation Deeds made effort to investigate the validity of Violet Beckles’ case. Thompson mudded Owen Arthur’s face with that 75,000 campaign cheque and would have replicated the same feat concerning Violet Beckles, Sherene Mongroo, etc. This mess, Violet Beckles also Sherene Mongroo, Al Barrack, CLICO and VECO handicaps the return of Owen Arthur. Maybe.
MARGARET SANGER IN HER OWN WORDS:
http://israelunite.org/archives/5122
THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT …… PAEDOPHILES EVERYWHERE
British royal and political Establishment with its global significance peers over the cliff.
The David Icke Newsletter Goes Out On Sunday
It is starting to get silly now and the arrest and questioning of major political and Establishment figures must take place in at least the next few weeks if the police investigation is to retain any public confidence.
The evidence for a massive paedophile ring infesting the royal palaces, Downing Street and the Westminster Parliament is overwhelming and mounting by the week. The implications of the full truth being revealed can hardly be overstated – the devastating discrediting of the major political parties and the end of the monarchy.
It would bring about a total public re-evaluation of everything they have believed about the country they live in and the forces that dictate its laws, direction and methods of operation. The same is true for much of the rest of the world because what I am about to describe is happening in every country – not least in the United States.
The revelations about record-breaking paedophile and child procurer Jimmy Savile have exposed the former BBC ‘star entertainer’ as a purveyor of sheer evil on a scale that would challenge any imagination. Here are the cold and shocking numbers according to the police – and these are not even nearly the whole story:
450 people of both sexes have made complaints about Savile involving 28 police areas throughout the country and among them are 34 alleged rapes. The abuse spanned a period of 54 years between 1955 and 2009 when Savile was 82. The abuses happened to 23 children and young people on BBC premises, at 14 hospitals and at least one hospice. More than 70 per cent of his victims were under 18 and one was as young as eight.
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Spindler added – ludicrously – that Savile used his celebrity to ‘hide in plain sight’. Oh, no, no, no, mate. That will not do. Savile got away with it for 54 years because he was protected by the highest levels of the paedophile-Satanist-controlled British Establishment for whom he was procuring children.
Lest we forget: Disc jockey Jimmy Savile was a very close friend of the royal family including Lord Louis Mountbatten, Prince Philip and Prince Charles from the 1960s until he died aged 84 in 2011. Savile was also a close friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who ran one of the most paedophile-infiltrated administrations of modern times – yes and with all the competition, too.
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/78363-the-british-establishment-paedophiles-everywhere
Green Monk. They’ll probably vote pedophilia into accepted law, shortly, like they have done Gay marriage and all the other such abnormalities that were once frowned upon. We are watching the downfall of Western civilization, left right and center, a downfall caused by the inability of lawmakers to get anything done, as though the Western human race has lost its cause, its will, and its energy.
Perhaps, El Quida and Sharia law, makes some sense out of the runaway freedoms of Western Democracy. Perhaps this is the reason so many young people are drawn to its cleaner simpler way of life, its return to an older order, less exorbitant, far less frivolous, less energy consuming, less nature depleting, less Earth destroying. Yet it is under Sharia, the women and girl children will suffer ; and those who don’t agree with it.
A new use for DNA.
We’ve been recently allowed into the new realms of science by the BBC.
DNA has been discovered to be ably used like computer chips. In other words, a way has been discovered how to store information on DNA like you would on a computer chip.
Since DNA is so much smaller than any computer chip, this has aroused a great deal of interest world wide in the halls of science. I remember the first chattering finding of the three legged Minute that put an end to the glowing bulbous power consuming radio valve , and cut the size of radios, transmitters,computers, and so much else, down to less than one /8th.
Now, recently, that scale has been diminished where soon, we’ll need a microscope to work on any electronic, including those in cars; and less than a pen, will be a camera, recorder, and diagnostic monitor of your own health in your top pocket .
What else will our DNA be used for,begs the question? Who will be allowed to manage it. Have we opened Pandora’s box.
Government writing bonce checks
After the government refuse to pay supplies onetime, they then write checks with no money to pay they bills and blame the suppliers for being behind in deliver.
Why has this massive story of global importance been removed from the Daily Mail Website?
Friday, 01 February 2013 10:55
It exposes a Problem-Reaction-Solution of a chemical attack in Syria that would be blamed on President Assad to justify military action against him and his regime.
Visitors to this website know that this is happening all the time and 9/11 was the most famous example, but here was a British national newspaper publishing the story.
Now it has gone. Do you think you could explain why Daily Mail? If there was a denial as there would have to be why is that not simply printed with the original story?
(Image capture of the original story as it appeared on the Daily Mail web site goes here)
This image of the article was captured by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton who read the story and thought that it may well disappear given the content. She was right.
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/79175-why-has-this-massive-story-of-global-importance-been-removed-from-the-daily-mail-website
I’m disturbed that the recent attack on a British tourist couple, where they were both repeatedly stabbed, the wife in the spleen among other places; this happened at a gated apartment in Speightstown, has not been reported locally. Barbados citizens have a right to know about this, for their own preservation. Everyone else seems to know, as I got word from the USA on email.
CLB Note This stabbing did not occur at a gated apartment in Speightstown it happened at a house without much security backing on to the ocean and a route behind the house over rocks gave access to the terrace of the house. However now the incident is published in The Telegraph and The Daily Mail the story has been published in Barbados without giving full details. The police say that the offender is 6 foot and slim and has not been apprehended which is worrying since it appears he is psychopath to behave with such violence causing two innocent visitors severe injuries and stealing their money. Then to make matters worse the victims were robbed of their remaining funds when in QEH…..
@ Colin
Colin, this recent attack on the British couple, wasn`t an uncommon accurance in Barbados, I`m afraid to say. It has been accuring as far back as the 1970s when I was a kid. I grew up just behind District A Police Station, and witness throughout those years the many tourist who were victims of violent crime in Barbados, giving their many statements to police. I recalled quite vividly as a young lad, this very attractive blonde hair British female, who was raped repeatedly all night by three vagabonds from across Bush Hall Yard Gap.
@ Colin
I also remembered the Son of one of the Police officer who had died, victmizing the tourist on one of the popular beaches in Barbados. And everytime he was arrested, he mother would come to the station and speak to the Inspector, who obviously was a friend of hers. And he would be released to the mother to do it all over and over again. In essence the lower ranking police wanted to charge this guy, but their hands were essentially tied. That`s Bajan justice for ya friend, and whether you like it or not is was true.
I have been a long standing supporter of the DLP and now i think i have had ENOUGH. Enough of the lies. Enough of the deception tired of all the promises that were made since 1994. But i am not going to dwell on the past. I want one thing done from the DLP Candidates, ESPECIALLY Chris Sinclair to GIVE BARBADIANS THE TRUTH. Tell the in is YOU that plan to privatize the Sanitation Service, National Housing and the Transport Board not to mention the rest that you have on you “list of change”. Let them know that it is YOU that wants these changes and not the BLP. I am not going to stand and watch a party that was built on morals and integrity for you and Frundel Stuart to come in and ruin its name. Tell the people the TRUTH and stop lying to get votes. My allegiance will ALWAYS lie with the Democratic Labour Party, but I am not going to let you ruin a legacy for the benefit of votes built on LIES.
@Barbados Free Press,
Stay Alert ! The rumours I am hearing are startling, much grievance in Cabinet choices and some worrying things. Next couple weeks very dicey.
@deep throat: What else did you expect from Fumble?
‘ Self Induced Hysteria .’
Travels of a bullet
Hendricks, having lost the girlfriend he had all his life, decided he would write a story about a bullet, and how it would be found later, in his own heart.
The gun would be a Glock, 9 MM, or maybe a Berretta, like the one his father had been given by a visiting Italian fellow police officer in Trinidad. Both those guns used 9MM bullets, so Hendricks would allow the story to evolve as to which gun he might use as he wrote. Perhaps, since he liked Lugars, he might switch yet again.
The bullet is manufactured of course, and he would write that he had it engraved ‘Sin ti, que hari yo ? ( without you, what shall I do?)” so the police would know from papers found on his writing desk– the bullet was ( sort of ) engraved with his touch from the start.
The missile starts its travels from a factory in Mississipy, and becomes owned by various people who place it in one gun or another. Once it was in the chamber of a Glock carried by a woman police officer. But her gun got stolen in Lafayette as she moaned and writhed in the back of a paddy wagon, allowing the big police driver to ‘hang out of her’ (an expression Hendricks leaned in Liverpool when he was at sea ).
The police woman’s stolen Glock became quickly sold to a gun collector who placed the bullet in the clip of a long barreled Lugar he proudly displayed on his collection stand in Bakersfield California.
Later, the Lugar, was swapped with the bullet still in the clip, to a yachtsman in a marina in Miami about to set sail for the Windward Islands of the Caribbean.
The yachtsman got ownership by exchanging his Ingram M10 bought in Maracaibo, for the Lugar, ‘ A weapon he thought not quite so offensive.
He was quite right of course. The first port he entered in the Caribbean, would have taken an Ingram M10 off him, and he would have been lucky to see it again. But an old worn Lugar with just one bullet in the clip, was another yarn.
Hendricks found the story appeared to be writing itself quite well, with little assistance from him. In its progression Hendricks had been taken back years spent in Venezuela, where guns reminded him of several close friends (and not a few acquaintances,) and the loss of their lives in devious unexpected ways from bullets fired from such weapons.
These memories clouded Hendricks in his ambitions to write such a story, and made him wake at night, alone, his girlfriend long gone— and him sweating from bad dreams.
It would not have troubled him so much if he had lived in Timbuktu, Newhaven, or Dar Es Salaam. But he lived not in Port Elizabeth– South Africa, but in Port Elizabeth– Bequia, and now that a yachtsman had that engraved bullet in a Lugar and would obviously visit such a popular Grenadian port —-made the hair stand up on the back of Hendrick’s neck, and gave him extraordinarily cold feet,…. So he stopped further writing of this story.
THE END By Colin Leslie Beadon
BAJANS TOO QUIET ABOUT SIR BRANFORD & FUNERAL
Maybe it is out of respect, or maybe people just don’t care anymore, but something strange needs to be talked about regarding Sir Branford’s passing and arrangements.
After a man worked so hard for his country and suffered so much, its almost like he’s going out not with a bang but a whimper. Yes, they were elections, but that was more than two weeks ago. So why did it take almost a whole month to bury this man and to give him a proper state funeral lying in state in Parliament. If nobody else, he deserved this. You telling me the B’dos government does not have provisions to quickly put in place for a state funeral? Its disgusting.
Everything was so hush hush, and then BAM, suddenly they announce his funeral with one day lead time. I mean a lot of people wanted to prepare to pay their respects.
And Lord knows Colleen Taitt is coming across like a shrew. For all that Sir Branford achieved, his obit seemed to be stripped of everything but Colleen’s army of step children and step grandchildren’s names for this 5-year marriage. How is it that the man has a son the splitting image of himself and he is not mentioned just because he is an outside child? How come his handicapped other son is completely left out as well, but all Colleen’s children are paraded like they have a claim to fame, by this few year marriage. It is pawdling and awful how all the man’s friends are just lumped together as ‘friends too numerous to mention”.
Something wrong wrong. Golden has friends much closer than any of Colleen’s children or grandchildren. Not a single politician’s name is mentioned, nothing about the DLP, actually if it were not for his three children by first wife, everybody else would basically be Colleen’s family.
My condolences to all those unmentioned friends who stood by Taitt through thick and thin, you know who you are. My condolences to his two outside sons, the law says, outside children have equal rights as ones in the marriage, and that they can claim their father’s name. Well, I hope they come forward and do that. I hope they get part his estate as well, whether or not Colleen likes it.
Its sad that some women are so damn selfish, they would rob a man of his life’s work even in death. What goes around comes around and I say this to everyone who tries to shut out flesh and blood to install their brood. Ii hope some of his friends get together and take out a full page add in his honor, and write an obit the way it really should be written.
R.I.P. Branford
Microsoft becomes autocrats’ best friend: It enables China to spy on and censor its citizens using Skype
In most of the world Skype is used to make it easier for people to communicate with each other. But in China, it has another purpose: To spy on Chinese citizens, gather information about their political beliefs, and censor what they can say to one another. And Microsoft so far has refused to do anything about it.
All that came to light thanks to research done by Jeffrey Knockel, a computer-science graduate student at the University of New Mexico, who has cracked the encryption that Skype uses to hide what information it’s gathering from Chinese citizens, reports Bloomberg Business Week.
Unlike throughout the rest of the world, people in China must use a special version of Skype, called TOM-Skype, which is a joint venture between Microsoft and Tom Online, a Chinese wireless Internet company. TOM-Skype has almost 96 million users.
Knockel’s research covers Skype being used for chats, not voice calls. TOM-Skype servers send keyword lists to every Skype user’s machine. Skype then monitors every message sent and received by that machine, and scans them for words in the keyword list. When it finds one, it sends the entire message in which the word is contained to TOM-Skype servers. And it sends much more than just the message. It also sends “the account’s username, time and date of transmission, and whether the message was sent or received by the user,” according to Bloomberg. Sometimes, the message is also blocked from being sent. The keyword list is constantly updated.
Knockel wasn’t able to find out what happened to the information after it’s sent to the servers. But you can be sure it’s then sent along to spy agencies and police departments.
This isn’t the first time TOM-Skype has made the news, or that Microsoft has come under fire for how Skype is being used worldwide. Back in January, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and dozens of privacy groups asked Microsoft to release a Transparency Report which would detail exactly what kind of Skype information is being sent to third parties, including governments.
The letter said in part:
Many of its users rely on Skype for secure communications-whether they are activists operating in countries governed by authoritarian regimes, journalists communicating with sensitive sources, or users who wish to talk privately in confidence with business associates, family, or friends.
It is unfortunate that these users, and those who advise them on best security practices, work in the face of persistently unclear and confusing statements about the confidentiality of Skype conversations, and in particular the access that governments and other third parties have to Skype user data and communications.
Microsoft never released a transparency report.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/21880/microsoft-becomes-autocrats-best-friend-it-enables-china-spy-and-censor-its-citizens-using-skype
With the way things are going in Barbados, tourist or travelers to this island, would be advised to leave everything make of gold behind, and not buy anything made of that metal here in this island.
The question: Will Francis be able to put right what has been going on in the Catholic Faith since the Dark ages? We must wish him luck, as he has his work cut out for him, and, he is from our side of the world, this time.
I shall reserve the right to hold my good feelings about Xi Jinping, hoping he will dictate to his countrymen over the slaughter of Elephants, Rhino, Tigers, shark , due to the demented and inchoate demand of his people for body and bone parts they consider emblems of high esteem.
What is the use of the United Nations if it allows politics to get in its way in the saving of lives in Syria ? And so the slaughter goes on, and on !
We hope Barbados will take notice:
This is a crime report against tourists visiting Trinidad and Tobago. The report has gone world wide. http://tntwarning.com/link
Whole Foods Market GMO Labeling Announcement Reverberating Through Industry
I am at Expo West in Anaheim, the annual pilgrimage of more than 60,000 members of the natural foods industry. In a surprise announcement yesterday, Whole Foods Market said that by 2018 they would require labeling of genetically engineered foods sold in their store for products that were not either organic or verified by the Non-GMO Project. The statement was met with huge cheers from the filled auditorium, and soon resounded around the world with coverage in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, etc.
This significant breakthrough puts on notice all food companies who still use GMOs. Those who sell to health conscious shoppers are sure to make plans to remove GMOs. But the momentum against GMOs is so widespread now, we are already hearing stories of mainstream conventional brands taking steps to replace GMO ingredients.
And not a moment too soon. According to USA Today, “Products that get a ‘Non-GMO’ verification label see sales spike between 15 percent and 30 percent, said A.C. Gallo, president of Whole Foods.” We saw this same dynamic in Europe just before the non-GMO avalanche kicked GMO ingredients out of the continent. Iceland Frozen Foods was the first chain to announce they had eliminated GMOs in late 1998. Their sales shot up, everyone took notice, media coverage then alerted even more consumers about GMO risks, and by April of 1999 the rest of the European food industry followed suit.
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At a presentation by the Non-GMO Project yesterday, one retailer asked if educating consumers about the dangers of GMOs might hurt sales of GMO-laden products in the same store. I then shared a comment I heard just last week about one natural food store manager that attributed recent record sales to the popularity of non-GMO products, particularly due to more and more physicians in their area prescribing non-GMO diets.
Consumer rejection of GMOs is being reflected in the demand for mandatory labeling, which is already enjoyed by 3 billion people in 62 other countries. Groups in 37 states have efforts underway to pass state labeling bills, and Washington state’s ballot initiative—to be voted on by citizens in November—has a huge chance of success. In particular, the state’s salmon, apple, and wheat industries are all at risk of contamination by future GMO introductions, and therefore industry leaders have become champions of labeling and segregation to protect their markets.
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/posts/whole-foods-market-gmo-labeling-announcement-reverberating-through-industry/
Green Monk. All this about GMO labeling, etc, only makes it more imperative we grow as much of our own food in our gardens, half drums, plant pots, old bathtubs, swimming pools, anywhere we can get anything to grow. And raise as much of our own live stock as we possibly can, fed on locally produced agriculture. GMO’s are going to find their way weedling in one way or another, into everything we import.
The Server we have had for eleven years, ‘Sunbeach’ has, after problems for a number of weeks, apparently gone ‘through’ ( bankrupt). So nice of them not to tell anybody, and jam all our email traffic. This is the highly business minded progress of the new world, and to hell with the proletariat who pay for everything.
This is a totally different topic,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Democracy and squatters rights,,,,,,
As I ponder the world and its inhabitants and the countries that have various views about their form of government,something stands out so obvious,,,,,Where are hundreds and thousands that risk their lives,Die in their efforts to get to China,Russia,India,Pakistan,North Korea,Cuba,Venezuela,Asia,South America etc., etc., etc., WHERE ARE THEY??????????????????? I would like all those Leftist,Muslim Factionist,Local Idiotist,Marxist,Che Guervarist,Hugo Chavistas etc., etc.,etc.,Reflect on this…………….Oh how many have died in their attempt to get to that hated place U.S.A?????????????????????
SQUATTERS………… I wonder if I stop paying my Land Tax and tell the Govt that I been here more than 30 years if they can tek it back?????????????????
A short entertaining look into all the sciences.
The book is now on the net: All you need is : Ashorthistoryofnearly everything.pdf By Bill Bryson. You can read the whole book ( like I have a number of times in book form) or just chose any chapter you want. Have a go starting at page 335, in the section ‘ Life Itself’. ‘Good -Bye To All That.’
We humans don’t fully appreciate how extraordinary easily life, all life, on Earth could be wiped out like it has in the past several times, by one of the millions of asteroids that pass the track of Earth on a daily basis. And here we are worrying about global warming and rising sea levels, GMO foods, the Idiot in North Korea.
The book is the very best book I have ever read dealing across the board with science. Bryson writes in a most amusing and gripping way. If a young person cannot find a facit in science to take a grip on him in that book, then let him or her stick to sports,… though even in sports there is so much science these days too.
Don’t you dare throw away and waste old cucumbers.
Chose an old cucumber that has gone a little soft. Slice it along its length several times. Lay each slice, seed and all, just below soil level.You don’t need to water at this point, since the slices have all the water and nourishment the seeds need . Within just two days, you’ll have more young cucumber plants than you could wish for. So don’t dare throw away and waste, old cucumbers.
Really like ‘bfp’, told my son in the UK and he likes it too. I need some help please, do you know anyone that has ever visited Barbados, even a VFR,(visiting friends and relatives) that you could direct them to this fb page to fill out a 14 question no-typing survey, I’m a student at UWI, studying Hospitality and Tourism Management, this important judging by the changes I’m seeing and reading about on this island, and the results of this survey as a Research Methods course will be quite indepth, I need it like today, let me know, here’s the link: http://apps.facebook.com/my-surveys/qjmbx
thanks!
After looking at the picture of the home economists on the front page of today’s Advocate 2014-04-09 ,is it an wonder that over 50 percent of secondary school students in Barbados are overweight or obese
The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming
By Dr. Vandana Shiva
Monsanto’s talk of ‘technology’ tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed,
“Monsanto is an agricultural company.
We apply innovation and technology to help farmers around the world \produce more while conserving more.”
“Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.”
These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing control over cotton seed supply — 95 per cent of India’s cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto.
Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers.
Monsanto’s concentrated control over the seed sector in India as well as across the world is very worrying. This is what connects farmers’ suicides in India to Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser in Canada, to Monsanto vs Bowman in the US, and to farmers in Brazil suing Monsanto for $2.2 billion for unfair collection of royalty.
Through patents on seed, Monsanto has become the “Life Lord” of our planet, collecting rents for life’s renewal from farmers, the original breeders.
Patents on seed are illegitimate because putting a toxic gene into a plant cell is not “creating” or “inventing” a plant. These are seeds of deception — the deception that Monsanto is the creator of seeds and life; the deception that while Monsanto sues farmers and traps them in debt, it pretends to be working for farmers’ welfare, and the deception that GMOs feed the world. GMOs are failing to control pests and weeds, and have instead led to the emergence of superpests and superweeds.
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Monsanto’s talk of “technology” tries to hide its real objectives of ownership and control over seed where genetic engineering is just a means to control seed and the food system through patents and intellectual property rights.
A Monsanto representative admitted that they were “the patient’s diagnostician, and physician all in one” in writing the patents on life-forms, from micro-organisms to plants, in the TRIPS’ agreement of WTO. Stopping farmers from saving seeds and exercising their seed sovereignty was the main objective. Monsanto is now extending its patents to conventionally bred seed, as in the case of broccoli and capsicum, or the low gluten wheat it had pirated from India which we challenged as a biopiracy case in the European Patent office.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-seeds-of-suicide-how-monsanto-destroys-farming/5329947
Asleep In Christianity
http://israelunite.org/videos/asleep-in-christianity/
Hoooray. Around where we living, we’re starting to see local grown vegetables in increasing numbers by small farmers. Every single village should be surrounded by such small allotments, but that might never come about.
Great. At Last. ‘Who will Save Caribbean Aviation’. Page 15, Sunday Advocate. At last the beans have been truly spilled by David Jessop. Of course, it will be ignored, much to the detriment of everything the Islands could stand for, if they had just one good airline, well operated and un-financed by governments and taxpayers, which has been the long, far- to- many- years long, story in the West Indies. Read about the astounding success of the Panamanian airline Copa, and wonder, like so many of us have wondered for years, why we can’t have an airline like that too ???
I used to buy Hazel’s mango chutney from Super Center but I haven’t seen it for about a year or more so I had to buy one imported from England that wasn’t as tasty. I bought some other kind that doesn’t look too appetizing. Anybody know what happened to the Hazel’s mango chutney?
Well,well,the Rev Dr John Holder does not see anything wrong with being a Christian and a member of the lodge. But he is not a member himself.How can he make that determination if he does not know what goes on. How can you worship the devil and love Christ at the same time.?
And surely Rev Holmes Williams should know because he was a banker himself.
Sunday Sun of May 5th 2013.
PALIG inaugurates Barbados office:
General Manager of the Barbados operation ,Mr Keith King .Is this the same Keith King who was Manager of BAICO? .Surely this cannot be!!! How ironic that I have been waiting three (3 ) years to get back my money from BAICO which the said Mr King personally told me was safe and just hold on awhile, and is now in this new job at PALIG. It is wonderful that my God is an awesome God and I leave you Mr King in His hands.
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Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?
In a recent book Classified Woman, Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI, describes how the Pentagon, CIA and State Department maintained intimate ties to al-Qaeda militants as late as 2001. Her memoir, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story, published last year, charged senior government officials with negligence, corruption and collaboration with al Qaeda in illegal arms smuggling and drugs trafficking in Central Asia.
In interviews with this author in early March, Edmonds claimed that Ayman al-Zawahiri, current head of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden’s deputy at the time, had innumerable, regular meetings at the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, with U.S. military and intelligence officials between 1997 and 2001, as part of an operation known as ‘Gladio B’. Al-Zawahiri, she charged, as well as various members of the bin Laden family and other mujahideen, were transported on NATO planes to various parts of Central Asia and the Balkans to participate in Pentagon-backed destabilisation operations.
According to two Sunday Times journalists speaking on condition of anonymity, this and related revelations had been confirmed by senior Pentagon and MI6 officials as part of a four-part investigative series that were supposed to run in 2008. The Sunday Times journalists described how the story was inexplicably dropped under the pressure of undisclosed “interest groups”, which, they suggest, were associated with the U.S. State Department.
Continued at;
http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/whistleblower-al-qaeda-chief-u-s-asset/