Malachi Smith's List: CORPOTOCRACY

• Spying on Americans: The Bipartisan National Security State
• Telecoms Lobby US Congress
• by Tom Burghardt
• Global Research, October 20, 2009
• The bipartisan consensus that encourages unaccountable secret state agencies to illegally spy on the American people under color of a limitless, and highly profitable, "war on terror" was dealt a (minor) blow October 13.
• Federal District Court Judge Jeffrey White denied a motion by the Obama administration that the court issue a 30-day stay to "release records relating to telecom lobbying over last year's debate over immunity for corporate participation in government spying," the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported.
• The Justice Department had argued that the Bush, and now, the Obama administration's Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and Congress were exempt from releasing lobbying records under the Freedom of Information Act, since consultations amongst said grifters were protected as "intra-agency" records.
• One might add, since the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, a well-funded surveillance-industrial-complex fueled by giant defense firms and the telecommunications industry have, as investigative journalist Tim Shorrock reported back in 2005 "fielded armies of lobbyists to keep the money flowing."
• White's denial of a motion for a stay followed a startling admission by Department of Justice (DoJ) attorneys that America's telecommunication firms are actually "an arm of the government--at least when it comes to secret spying," Wired reported October 8.

• The government had argued that:

   

   

  "The communications between the agencies and telecommunications companies regarding the immunity provisions of the proposed legislation have been regarded as intra-agency because the government and the companies have a common interest in the defense of the pending litigation and the communications regarding the immunity provisions concerned that common interest."
  
  U.S. District Court Judge Jeffery White disagreed and ruled on September 24 that the feds had to release the names of the telecom employees that contacted the Justice Department and the White House to lobby for a get-out-of-court-free card. (Ryan Singel, "Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit," Wired, October 8, 2009)
• EFF had sued the state in order to discover what role telecom lobbyists played in persuading Congress to grant the nation's telecommunications' giants retroactive immunity for their role in illegal spying as part of the Bush, and now, Obama regime's Presidential Spying Program.
• If congressional grifters who have reaped serious campaign contributions from deep-pocket telecoms had not granted companies such as AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and other carriers retroactive immunity, potential privacy breaches and claims from EFF's Hepting vs. AT&T, and dozens of other lawsuits, could have potentially cost the firms billions in damages.
• A federal district court judge dismissed Hepting in June, ruling that the companies had immunity from liability under provisions of the despicable FISA Amendments Act (FAA).

• In dismissing the state's motion for a stay in the telecom lobbying records case, EFF senior staff attorney Kurt Opsahl wrote,

   

   

  On October 8, the day before the documents were due, the DOJ and ODNI filed an emergency motion asking the Court of Appeals for a 30-day stay while the agencies continue to contemplate an appeal. Around noon on October 9, the Ninth Circuit denied their emergency motion, telling the government it had to file for a motion for a stay pending appeal in the district court first.
  
  Later that afternoon, the government filed again in the federal district court, but once again did not seek a stay pending an actual appeal. Instead, for the third time, the government insisted it could delay the release of telecom lobbying records while it considered the pros and cons of appealing. Briefing was complete by noon today, and Judge White denied the third attempt at delay this afternoon. (Kurt Opsahl, "Federal Court Denies Government Attempt to Delay Release of Telecom Records. Again.," Electronic Frontier Foundation, News Update, October 13, 2009)
• Judge White noted that the Obama administration's cynical "directive on transparency in government" applied to "the warrantless wiretapping program" and insisted that the "public interest lies in favor of disclosure" of pertinent lobbying records.
• The ruling is all the more remarkable when one considers that Judge White was appointed to the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, the most civil liberties' friendly court in the nation, by none other than world class war criminal and corrupter-in-chief, George W. Bush.
• Corrupting Congress, Subverting the Bill of Rights
• Last year, Antifascist Calling reported that the congressional watchdog group, MAPLight, published a list of campaign contributions to congressional Democrats who had changed their votes on FAA's crucial retroactive immunity provision.
• Significantly, then congressman and current White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, pulled-in some $28,000, "blue dog" Democrat Steny Hoyer "earned" $29,000 while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hardly a slouch when it comes to contributions from her "constituents"--grifting capitalists--raked-in $24,500 from the telecoms.
• Analyzing the "change of heart" by congressional Democrats between between the March 14, 2008 vote which rejected retroactive immunity and the June 20, 2008 vote approving it, MAPLight researchers discovered that "Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint gave PAC contributions averaging: "$8,359 to each Democrat who changed their position to support immunity for Telcos (94 Dems)" and "$4,987 to each Democrat who remained opposed to immunity for Telcos (116 Dems)."
• According to MAPLight: "88 percent of the Dems who changed to supporting immunity (83 Dems of the 94) received PAC contributions from Verizon, AT&T, or Sprint during the last three years (Jan. 2005-Mar. 2008)."
• The group reported that after the June 20 vote, "Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint gave PAC contributions averaging (for all House members): "$9,659 to each member of the House voting "YES" (105-Dem, 188-Rep)" and "$4,810 to each member of the House voting "NO" (128-Dem, 1-Rep)."
• Daniel Newman, MAPLight's Executive Director said at the time: "Campaign contributions bias our legislative system. Simply put, candidates who take positions contrary to industry interests are unlikely to receive industry funds and thus have fewer resources for their election campaigns than those whose votes favor industry interests."
  
  Proving once again, that ours' is the best Congress money can buy.
• White House Planning "Limited Hangout"
• The saga over the release of secret state documents continues to rage out of public sight, even as the corporate media "reports" for endless hours on the (media manufactured) tale of the Colorado "balloon boy."
  
  So corrupt and degenerated has our political culture become that a simple Google search reveals that as of October 17 there are some 15,000,000 search results available for the term "balloon boy" while only 520,000 hits for the term "EFF warrantless wiretapping."
  
• As Project Censored notes, modern censorship is defined "as the subtle yet constant and sophisticated manipulation of reality in our mass media outlets. On a daily basis, censorship refers to the intentional non-inclusion of a news story--or piece of a news story--based on anything other than a desire to tell the truth. Such manipulation can take the form of political pressure (from government officials and powerful individuals), economic pressure (from advertisers and funders), and legal pressure (the threat of lawsuits from deep-pocket individuals, corporations, and institutions)."
• Clearly, the series of lawsuits by EFF and other civil liberties' watchdogs challenging the secret state's pervasive surveillance of the American people is a case study of "intentional non-inclusion" by corporate media.
• Nevertheless, the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported October 15, that the Director of National Intelligence and DoJ attorneys "filed yet another emergency motion with the Ninth Circuit, asking for a stay of the deadline to release telecom immunity lobbying documents, less than 24 hours before the documents are due to be released to the public."
• According to the government's motion, the Executive Branch has refused to disclose the names of telecom lobbyists and company representatives because, get this, "the agencies ... invoked Exemption 6 [to the Freedom of Information Act] which protects information about individuals whose disclosure 'would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy'." It doesn't get any cheekier than that even by cynical Washington standards!
• DoJ attorneys once again, have resurrected that old chestnut--national security--to conceal the identities of telecom shills and the politicians who do their bidding, claiming that "disclosure of such information would assist our adversaries in drawing inferences about whether certain telecommunications companies may or may not have assisted the government in intelligence-gathering activities."
• In other words, the public's right to know how our rights are being systematically violated--and who profits--is, by inference, another "tool" that will allow al-Qaeda to kidnap your kids, impose sharia law and detonate a nuke in Wichita!
• Indeed, the secret state's new motion avers that "disclosure of the identities of those individuals and entities that may have assisted, or in the future may assist, the government with intelligence activities could impede the government's ability to gather intelligence information."
• Meanwhile, Politico reported that the Obama administration "may be on the verge of a major concession in a long-running legal battle over records about so-called telecom immunity."
• A leaked email to the publication, probably by a friendly source inside the White House, reveals that the administration is preparing for "the possible release of some details of the Bush Administration's lobbying for legislation giving telecommunications companies immunity from lawsuits over their involvement in warrantless domestic wiretapping." (emphasis added)
• However, the devil as they say, is in those closely-guarded details. Politico reports that the administration will continue its legal battle "to keep secret the identities of the companies involved in the program."
• In other words having lost in the court's, the administration will move into damage control mode by disclosing a few insignificant "facts" as it camouflages the scope of these illegal programs and continues to conceal the identities of telecom lobbyists and their congressional partners in crime from public scrutiny.
• The Obama administration's Justice Department, similar to President Nixon's sacrificial offering of close advisers to congressional investigators at the height of the Watergate scandal, will leverage these paltry "facts" into an opportunity to appear "transparent," even as it continues to obfuscate, delay and deny; thus continuing the cover-up.
• This is nothing less than an updated version of a classic Washington "limited hangout."
• House legal counsel Irv Nathan informed relevant congressional committees that the White House Counsel's Office agreed to "provide lawmakers and their staffs with copies of the records being prepared for release in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by an internet-focused civil liberties group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation."
• Politico reported that "the move could also be a litigating tactic to surrender some of the less sensitive information in the case in order to bolster the government's credibility for a determined attempt to protect the most sensitive data: the names of the companies which were seeking immunity."
• According to Nathan, the Justice Department plans "to renew its motion for a stay in the Court of Appeals limited to a very small number of documents, not including the communications with Congress."
• Among the details leaked to Politico, Nathan wrote House leaders: "We understand that there are few, if any, communications from Members that are in the materials. ... We have been previously advised that there is nothing very disturbing or embarrassing in these particular communications, but a generalized worry about the precedent this sets for future inter-branch communications." (emphasis added)
• Unfortunately, neither Mr. Nathan nor Politico have revealed what might prove "very disturbing or embarrassing" to members of Congress in the documents the Obama administration plans to withhold.
• If past lobbying practices are a signpost for the present, one can hazard an informed guess and conclude that Congress and their Executive Branch counterparts have much to hide.
• According to the Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org database, lobbying by the Telecom Service & Equipment sector, the Telephone Utilities sector and the Computer/Internet sector amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars paid out to congressional grifters between 1998-2009.
• According to OpenSecrets.org, AT&T contributed some $8,191,618; Verizon Communications showered some $6,830,000; Qualcomm Inc. handed over $3,080,000; Qwest Communications $1,829,542 and Sprint/Nextel coughed-up some $1,306,000 to "our" representatives. By any standard, this is serious money by powerful constituencies not to be trifled with.
• Indeed, the "big four" firms caught-up in the warrantless wiretapping scandal have showered Congress with millions in payouts.
• Like their Republican colleagues across the aisle, the Democrats have operated a revolving door between powerful corporations, financial institutions and secret state agencies, under the guise of bringing entrepreneurial expertise into government and "security" for our nation's citizens.
  
  They do neither.
• Something as trivial as the rights of the American people to speak their minds, protest endless imperialist wars of aggression, the looting of the economy and the degradation of the environment for profit will however, continue to come under the lens of an out-of-control national security state committed to facilitating the greasing of various palms well into the future.
• Tom Burghardt is a frequent contributor to Global Research.  Global Research Articles by Tom Burghardt

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• ENEMIES   TO AMERICA... THE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA
• By   Dr. Laurie Roth
    October 30, 2009
    NewsWithViews.com
• The   push to flatten us into submission to the International elites is going   just as planned.
• The Copenhagen Climate Treaty is set to take off December   8th, 09 just weeks away and President Obama has promised to sign it.
• This would cede our sovereignty to the International elites running   this Treaty.
• Once the Senate had ratified this, international taxes   and new rules would be levied on the American people to lower the mythological   effect of carbon emissions.
• This would lead beautifully to its domestic   relative and nightmare, the Cap and Trade Bill, also a carbon emissions   bloodhound Obama will gladly sign.
• Neither of these international schemes   should happen. We must fight them with all that we have.
• The   UN has been exploring international controls and a one world Government   for decades while the U.S. has largely looked the other way.
• One of   the UN’s offspring, boldly declaring their real agenda was started   clear back in 1945, UNESCO   – United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization.
• Their declared goal laid out for all to see is to push for a standardized   one-world culture in preparation for world government.
• One   of UNESCO’S founding members Julian   Huxley (brother of Aldous Huxley and grandson of T.H. Huxley) stated   if you can believe it: “The lowest strata are reproducing too   fast. Therefore…they must not have too easy access to relief or   hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection   should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive long   unemployment should be a ground for sterilization.”
• The   Internationalists of today i.e. global elites, environmentalists and   global warming crowd are nothing more than communistic agents hiding   behind the created crisis of trees in trouble, animals disappearing   and suffering, mystery poor folks needing the wealth and money from   workers and rich people, and the endless sea of special rights for special   people, Muslim, Gay, Illegal alien and of course misunderstood terrorists.
• We all know that Christians, conservatives and Vets are domestic terrorists   so we can just write them off.
• As   Americans we have pursued excellence, achievement and freedom. We have   done this for several hundred years with the blessing of God since we   were indeed a nation founded and inspired by God and His morals.
• We   have drifted very far from our roots and heritage but I believe with   all my heart that our skeletal structure and core is still in place   though threatened by the Internationalists who hate our spirit and freedom.
• They must size us down in the world and steal our wealth or be challenged   sooner or later by their own people demanding American style freedom.

• Will we fight for our sovereignty, freedom and spiritual core? God bless   America.

   

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• Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry
• AN ACCIDENTAL DISCLOSURE
  Document was found on file-sharing network
• By Ellen Nakashima and Paul Kane
   Washington Post Staff Writer
   Friday, October 30, 2009
• House ethics investigators have been scrutinizing the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides in inquiries about issues including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling, according to a confidential House ethics committee report prepared in July.
• The report appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations. The committee said Thursday night that the document was released by a low-level staffer.
• The ethics committee is one of the most secretive panels in Congress, and its members and staff members sign oaths not to disclose any activities related to its past or present investigations.
• Watchdog groups have accused the committee of not actively pursuing inquiries; the newly disclosed document indicates the panel is conducting far more investigations than it had revealed.

• Shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, the committee chairman, Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), interrupted a series of House votes to alert lawmakers about the breach. She cautioned that some of the panel's activities are preliminary and not a conclusive sign of inappropriate behavior. 

   

   "No inference should be made as to any member," she said. 
• Rep. Jo Bonner (Ala.), the committee's ranking Republican, said the breach was an isolated incident
• It also outlines the work of the new Office of Congressional Ethics, a quasi-independent body that initiates investigations and provides recommendations to the ethics committee. The document indicated that the office was reviewing the activities of 14 other lawmakers. Some were under review by both ethics bodies.
• The 22-page "Committee on Standards Weekly Summary Report" gives brief summaries of ethics panel investigations of the conduct of 19 lawmakers and a few staff members.
• A broader inquiry
• Ethics committee investigations are not uncommon. Most result in private letters that either exonerate or reprimand a member. In some rare instances, the censure is more severe.
• the committee announced over the summer that it was reviewing lawmakers with connections to the now-closed PMA Group, a lobbying firm.
• Many of the broad outlines of the cases cited in the July document are known --
• But the document indicates that the inquiry was broader than initially believed. It included a review of seven lawmakers on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee who have steered federal money to the firm's clients and have also received large campaign contributions.
• The document also disclosed that:
• -- Ethics committee staff members have interviewed House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) about one element of the complex investigation of his personal finances, as well as the lawmaker's top aide and his son.
• Rangel said he spoke with ethics committee staff members regarding a conference that he and four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus attended last November in St. Martin. The trip initially was said to be sponsored by a nonprofit foundation run by a newspaper.
• But the three-day event, at a luxury resort, was underwritten by major corporations such as Citigroup, Pfizer and AT&T.
• Rules passed in 2007, shortly after Democrats reclaimed the majority following a wave of corruption cases against Republicans, bar private companies from paying for congressional travel.
• Rangel said he has not discussed other parts of the investigation of his finances with the committee. "I'm waiting for that, anxiously," he said.
• -- The Justice Department has told the ethics panel to suspend a probe of Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.), whose personal finances federal investigators began reviewing in early 2006 after complaints from a conservative group that he was not fully revealing his real estate holdings.
• There has been no public action on that inquiry for several years. But the department's request in early July to the committee suggests that the case continues to draw the attention of federal investigators, who often ask that the House and Senate ethics panels refrain from taking action against members whom the department is already investigating.
• Mollohan said that he was not aware of any ongoing interest by the Justice Department in his case and that he and his attorneys have not heard from federal investigators. "The answer is no," he said.
• -- The committee on June 9 authorized issuance of subpoenas to the Justice Department, the National Security Agency and the FBI for "certain intercepted communications" regarding Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.).
• As was reported earlier this year, Harman was heard in a 2005 conversation agreeing to an Israeli operative's request to try to obtain leniency for two pro-Israel lobbyists in exchange for the agent's help in lobbying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to name her chairman of the intelligence committee.
• The department, a former U.S. official said, declined to respond to the subpoena.
• Harman said that the ethics committee has not contacted her and that she has no knowledge that the subpoena was ever issued. "I don't believe that's true," she said. "As far as I'm concerned, this smear has been over for three years."
• In June 2009, a Justice Department official wrote in a letter to an attorney for Harman that she was "neither a subject nor a target" of a criminal investigation.
• Because of the secretive nature of the ethics committee, it was difficult to assess the current status of the investigations cited in the July document.
• The panel said Thursday, however, that it is ending a probe of Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) after finding no ethical violations, and that it is investigating the financial connections of two California Democrats.
• However, according to the July document, Rep. Maxine Waters, a high-ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, came under scrutiny because of activities involving OneUnited Bank of Massachusetts, in which her husband owns at least $250,000 in stock.
• The committee did not detail the two newly disclosed investigations.
• In December, Treasury selected OneUnited as an early participant in the bank bailout program, injecting $12.1 million.
• Waters arranged a September 2008 meeting at the Treasury Department where OneUnited executives asked for government money.
• The other, Rep. Laura Richardson, may have failed to mention property, income and liabilities on financial disclosure forms.
• File-sharing
• The committee's review of investigations became available on file-sharing networks because of a junior staff member's use of the software while working from home, Lofgren and Bonner said in a statement issued Thursday night. The staffer was fired, a congressional aide said.
• The committee "is taking all appropriate steps to deal with this issue," they said, noting that neither the committee nor the House's information systems were breached in any way.
• "Peer-to-peer" technology has previously caused inadvertent breaches of sensitive financial, defense-related and personal data from government and commercial networks, and it is prohibited on House networks.
• House administration rules require that if a lawmaker or staff member takes work home, "all users of House sensitive information must protect the confidentiality of sensitive information" from unauthorized disclosure.
• Leo Wise, chief counsel for the Office of Congressional Ethics, declined to comment, citing office policy against confirming or denying the existence of investigations. A Justice Department spokeswoman also declined to comment, citing a similar policy.
• Staff writers Carol D. Leonnig and Joby Warrick and staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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• Microbiologist alleges Baxter "swine flu" vaccine is a bioweapon
• Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 08:19         Wednesday, 23 September 2009 08:15
• Joseph Moshe (MOSSAD Microbiologist): “Swine flu vaccine is bioweapon”
• Joseph Moshe (MOSSAD Microbiologist): “Swine flu vaccine is bioweapon”
• Friday, August 21, 2009
• Today, the MSM are not talking about this case any more.
• Yesterday, they wanted us to believe that Joseph Moshe was a nutcase and a terrorist, arrested for threatening to bomb the White House.
• Interesting detail about his arrest (the “Westwood standoff”) was that he seemed to be immune to the 5 cans of tear gas and 5 gallons of law-enforcement grade  pepper spray they pumped into his face. He very calmly remained in his car, as the video footage of his arrest shows.
• Professor Moshe  had  called into a live radio show by Dr. A. True Ott, broadcast on Republic Broadcasting claiming to be a microbiologist who wanted to supply evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions.
• He said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine.

  • Isn't the Ukraine even now (November 2009) being reported as experiencing a pandemic or near pandemic of some kind of disease outbreak that to date none can say what it is or whence it came? And just a few days ago it was being reported on the Net that Ukrainians were alarmed at and reporting aircraft flying over, spraying some unknown commodity.
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• He claimed that the vaccine contained an adjuvant (additive) designed to weaken the immune system, and replicated RNA from the virus responsible for the 1918 pandemic Spanish flu, causing global sickness and mass death.
• Sources tell us that Bar-Joseph Moshe made no threat against the President or the White House. He did not mention any bomb or attack.
• He then proceeded to inform the White House he intended to go public with this information.
• When he noticed men in suits in front of his house and feared that the FBI was about to detain him, he packed some belongings into his car and, him being a dual Israeli citizen, tried to reach the Israeli consulate located in close proximity to the federal building where the standoff took place.
• Who is this man? His profile on biomedexperts.com says he is a plant disease expert with many publications on his name involving the genetic manipulation of virii. Photographic evidence that Moshe is who he says he is can be found here.
• The FBI and the bomb squad prevented him from reaching it.
• Joseph Moshe was soon after his arrest sent or let go to Israel. Nothing has been heard from him since.
• The Secret Service was not the agency involved in the surveillance of Moshe at his home in California. This was done by the FBI, who had orders to detain or arrest him.
• Mounted on top of a large black vehicle used in his arrest was a microwave weapon that possibly damaged the electronics in Moshe’s car as well as any communication devices he had which might have been used to contact the media or others who could help him.
• Moshe did not suffer the same effects of the gas and pepper spray that others would have because he had built up an immunity to such weapons as a by-product of his Mossad training. Moshe was not handcuffed because he was not placed under arrest.
• Does this sound like an insane conspiracy theory? Sure it does.
• Due to the scarcity and anonimity of the sources we would dismiss it as exactly that, if it weren’t for some uncomfortable facts:
• Baxter Pharmaceutical has been caught, red-handed, in spreading a live, genetically engineered H5N1 Bird flu vaccine as a lethal biological weapon all over the world, destined to be used for human vaccinations. This happened just a few months ago. And only luck prevented a global catastrophe of epic proportions.
• Baxter International Inc. had mixed live, genetically engineered avian flue viruses in vaccine material shipped to 18 countries.
• Only by sheer luck, a Czech laboratory decided to test the vaccine on a dozen ferrets, which all died in days. The World Health Organization was notified and catastrophe was averted.
• This was clearly a deliberate act on Baxter’s part, because they adhere to BS3, bio-safety level three. Baxter admitted a “mistake”. Such monumental screwups are totally impossible at that level.
• Many safety systems would have needed to be sabotaged, many key personell would have needed to be bribed. It simply can’t be done without direction from the inside. They did not send out the wrong vial – they produced dozens of gallons of biological-weapon agent (genetically engineered live H5N1 / Bird flu virus), then sent it out as a “vaccine”.
• Baxter knew full well that their vaccine was lethal, because the year before they had tested it on a few hundred homeless Polish people – dozens died as a result.
• Where’s the meat? Well – Baxter is now being sued for the deliberate, repeated contamination of vaccines with biological weapons designed – by them – to mass-murder people.
• By some kook nutcase? Not likely – Jane Burgermeister is an experienced, respected journalist. She is not the only one suing Baxter for planning and executing a plan for global genocide: Other are filing complaints as well. Read a well-researched complaint here (PDF).
• Here is the complaint (PDF).
• Motive? The latter complaint alludes to it.
• Have you heard of the Georgia Guidestones? An enormous monument loaded with Masonic symbolism costing millions of dollars, it has been erected by unknown, powerful elites (multimillionaires with the clout to erect monuments wherever they please, obviously) around 30 years ago.
• It gives an “alternative ten commandments”, of which the first is the extermination of six and a half billion people from the face of the Earth. Half a billion will remain.
• This is the number of people the planet can sustain indefinitely, so that the descendents of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers can live in peace and affluence indefinitely. Slaves are needed to produce that luxury, but 500 million will do just fine.
• But how does one go about killing off most of the world?
• Baxter would provide both the bioweapon as well as the vaccine against it to “civilized” Western peoples.
• “Vaccinating” the planet with a bioweapon with near-100% mortality would do the trick.
• Result: We can plunder Africa, we have no more competition from SE Asia, the oil is for our taking and only Western and perhaps Chinese sheeple remain.
• Rockefeller said this in 1994 at a U.N. dinner: “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
• PNAC said something similar right before 9/11.
• Board of Directors of Baxter International Inc.
   
   Walter E. Boomer
    Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Rogers Corporation
   
   Blake E. Devitt
    Former Senior Audit Partner and Director Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industry Practice, Ernst & Young LLP
   
   John D. Forsyth
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield
   
   Gail D. Fosler
    President, The Conference Board
   
   James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D.
    Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Healing Our Village, Inc.
   
   Peter S. Hellman
    Former President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, Nordson Corporation
   
   Wayne T. Hockmeyer, Ph.D.
    Founder and Former Chairman of the Board, MedImmune, Inc.
   
   Joseph B. Martin, M.D., Ph.D.
    Professor of Neurobiology and Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
   
   Robert L. Parkinson, Jr.
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Baxter International Inc.
   
   Carole J. Shapazian
    Former Executive Vice President, Maytag Corporation
   
   Thomas T. Stallkamp
    Industrial Partner, Ripplewood Holdings LLC
   
   K. J. Storm
    Former Chairman of the Executive Board, AEGON N.V. (The Netherlands)
   
   Albert P.L. Stroucken
    Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Owens-Illinois, Inc.
• Executive Officers
   
   
    Joy A. Amundson
    Corporate Vice President - President, BioScience
   
   Peter J. Arduini
    Corporate Vice President - President, Medication Delivery
   
   Robert M. Davis
    Corporate Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
   
   J. Michael Gatling
    Corporate Vice President - Manufacturing
   
   Jeanne K. Mason
    Corporate Vice President - Human Resources
   
   Bruce McGillivray
    Corporate Vice President - President, Renal
   
   Robert L. Parkinson, Jr.
    Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
   
   Norbert G. Riedel
    Corporate Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
   
   David P. Scharf
    Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
   
   Karenann Terrell
    Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer
   
   Cheryl L. White
    Corporate Vice President - Quality
• Corporate Officers
   
   
   
   
    Carlos Alonso
    Corporate Vice President -- President, Latin America
   
   Michael J. Baughman
    Corporate Vice President and Controller
   
   Robert J. Hombach
    Corporate Vice President and Treasurer
   
   Gerald Lema
    Corporate Vice President - President, Asia Pacific
   
   Peter Nicklin Corporate Vice President - President, Europe
• Cap Matifou 2009-10-31 13:47:55

    

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     Ukraine has got a new virus, but that is only a coincidence, off course.
   
   http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/mysterious-virus-hits-ukraine
   Test are being carried out to establish what kind of virus is causing the sickness. The H1N1 virus which causes Mexican flu has been ruled out.
   
   This has nothing to do with Baxter developing over there a bioweapon cloaked as vaccine. Nothing to see here, move on people.
   
   http://www.unfictional.com/joseph-moshe-mossad-bioweapon-swine-flu-vac cine-westwood
   A microbiologist who wanted to supply evidence to a States Attorney regarding tainted H1N1 Swine flu vaccines being produced by Baxter BioPharma Solutions. He said that Baxter’s Ukrainian lab was in fact producing a bioweapon disguised as a vaccine.
• Robin 2009-10-31 16:30:48

    

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     Are people so dumb and stupid they have not worked out what is going on? I mean I totally dispair. We have been warned for a long time by the Elite and by those trying to help humanity that a new virus could mutate (or be seeded) in the population riding on the back of the first swine flu scare. Just so happens that that another completely unknown flu virus appears somewhere in the World. They are not f****** around. The Global Elite mean business. This is the much vaunted 'second wave' of the virus.....and it will surve to acare even more people into taking toxic vaccinations. Also the very act of vaccinating people will shed the virus and make it more transferable. WHAT A MESS WE ARE IN!!!
• Dead Microbiologist's

       

  M. Power 2009-11-01 09:34:32

    

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     In 2005 40 top Microbiologists,this has now gone up to over 100 many murdered many in suspicious circumstances. It is known that ALL were working on highly sensitive, government funded projects tied to Bio-weapons and viral pandemics ????
• A very courageous man

       

  Trond Ruud 2009-11-01 21:02:27

    

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     A very courageous man, professor Joseph Moshe. What happens to him now? Another accidental fall from the 17th floor of a United Nations building?
   
   Is it possible to give him some protection through a lot of attention?
   
   What about visits by a lawyer?
• 1996 U S Air Force Study

       

  Thomas Potter 2009-11-04 16:42:51

    

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     Considering the potential risk of the novel hybrid A/H1N1/09 virus or the vaccine itself, I found the following study strangely coincidental. On June 17, 1996, the U.S. Air Force released Air Force 2025 "a study designed to comply with a directive from the Chief of Staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future." In the unclassified study, the College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama posed several "fictional representations of future situations or scenarios" likely to arise. In Chapter 5, page 55, the authors present a time line figure representing "plausible history". In 2009, according to the report, influenza will kill 30 million people.
   
   The study also suggests that no one determined if the virus was a natural mutation or bioengineered.
   
   Alternate Futures for 2025: Security Planning to Avoid Surprise
   http://web.archive.org/web/20070802020816/http://csat.au.af.mil/2025/a _f.pdf
• Baxter-Rockefeller-Rothschild

       

  George LoBuono 2009-11-04 21:45:13

    

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     Baxter International is headquartered in Deerfield IL but owned partly by British and Swiss persons.
• SEC Records show a Rothschild Investment Corp. investment in Baxter International http://www.secinfo.com/dv4vp.6e.htm
• Former Baxter director Pei-Yuan Cia was Citibank's vice chairman and head of Citibank's Global Consumer Banking. Thus Pei-Yuan Cia was responsible for all personal banking, including that of Mexican President Carlos Salinas Gotaris’ narco-dealing, murderer brother Raul Salinas.
• Baxter director Pei was also an AIG director (AIG is the company that just took billions of US money to prevent going bankrupt).
• Maybe that’s where the Baxter schemes partly originate.
• Former Baxter chief Vernon R. Loucks Jr. is Skull and Bones, plus a Bohemian Grove member.
• Loucks supported Bush Jr. for president.
• So we see a Rothschild investment in a company recently headed by a Rockefeller-Bohemian Grove cohort and Skull and Bones member, Loucks. Caremark, a former Baxter subsidiary, manages Rockefeller University prescription benefits.

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• Goldman takes on new role: taking people's homes
• By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers Greg Gordon, Mcclatchy Newspapers    –  Mon Nov 2
• SAN JOSE, Calif. -- When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages.
• The couple wound up in a desperate, six-year fight to keep their modest, 1,500-square-foot San Jose home, a struggle that pushed them into bankruptcy.
• The lender with whom they sparred, however, wasn't the one that had written their loans. It was an obscure subsidiary of Wall Street colossus Goldman Sachs Group .
• Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packaging them into high-yield bonds.
• Now that the bottom has fallen out of that market, Goldman finds itself in a different role: as the big banker that takes homes away from folks such as the Beckers.
• The couple alleges that Goldman declined for three years to confirm their suspicions that it had bought their mortgages from a subprime lender,
• even after they wrote to Goldman's then-Chief Executive Henry Paulson -- later U.S. Treasury secretary -- in 2003.
• Unable to identify a lender, the couple could neither capitalize on a mortgage hardship provision that would allow them to defer some payments, nor on a state law enabling them to offset their debt against separate, investment-related claims against Goldman.
• In July, the Beckers won a David-and-Goliath struggle when Goldman subsidiary MTGLQ Investors dropped its bid to seize their house.
• By then, the college-educated couple had been reduced to shopping for canned goods at flea markets and selling used ceramic glass.
• Theirs is an infrequent happy ending among the hundreds of cases in which subsidiaries of Goldman, better known for sending top officers such as Paulson to serve in top Washington posts, have sought to contain bondholder losses by foreclosing on properties and evicting delinquent borrowers.
• Goldman spokesman Michael DuVally declined to comment on individual cases or on the firm's new role in bankruptcy courts.
• Joining other Wall Street firms that bought millions of subprime mortgages, Goldman companies have gone to courts from California to Florida seeking approval to foreclose on the homes of middle- and lower-income Americans who couldn't keep up with their loans' soaring monthly payments.
• Some borrowers were speculators or homebuyers who exaggerated their incomes on loan applications, thinking they'd always have an escape hatch because housing prices would keep rising.
• Others, however, were victims of fast-talking mortgage brokers who didn't explain that the loans' interest rates could rise to as high as 15 percent. Many borrowers who defaulted on their mortgages may never qualify for a home loan again.
• In court encounters, Goldman and other Wall Street firms have faced the impact of their own wheeling and dealing.
• Many of the families being put on the street never would've gotten their big mortgages if investment banks hadn't provided a seemingly insatiable secondary market for millions of loans to marginally qualified buyers.
• Subprime borrowers were supposed to provide a safe income stream for investors who bought mostly high-grade, triple-A-rated bonds from Goldman and bigger subprime players, such as now-defunct Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch .
• Now, millions of these borrowers have defaulted on mortgage payments, contributing to a historic slump in home prices and depressing the bonds' value. Half the homes in some California neighborhoods have been subject to foreclosures or short sales, in which a home is sold for less than the mortgage balance, and either the seller or the lender takes a loss.
• Earlier this year in Los Angeles , the Wall Street giant took possession of the home of Gladys Aguirre , a housecleaner who's married to a construction worker. Together, the couple listed monthly earnings of $7,480 , including $3,480 from a job she'd held for two months.
• Aguirre originally took a $444,000 subprime mortgage on Sept. 1, 2005 , from Argent Mortgage Co. , a subsidiary of big subprime lender Ameriquest Mortgage Co. , which shut down in 2007. The adjustable interest rate sent her monthly payments zooming to $3,800 from $2,479 , and Aguirre couldn't keep pace on that loan or a $119,000 second mortgage. She filed for bankruptcy protection.
• Aguirre's Los Angeles lawyer, Eber Bayona , declined to discuss her case, but said that subprime loans amounted to "setting up the person for failure" because interest rate adjustments hit borrowers with "shock payments."
• For example, he said, loan agents promised applicants that they could buy a $600,000 house for payments of $1,200 a month, and the buyers "never read the fine print . . . (and) didn't know their interest would increase and that eventually they would lose their house and their money."
• In San Fernando, Calif. , Dina Alfero-Pacheo qualified for two mortgages totaling nearly $500,000 , with monthly payments starting at $2,004 . By 2007, the payments had grown to $3,761 . In a bankruptcy filing early this year, Alfero-Pacheo said she was a bartender earning $3,800 a month.
• Goldman bought her first mortgage from Argent and recently got title to the house, which had sunk in value to $280,000 from more than $500,000 .
• In Orlando, Fla. , Adela Mendez seems to be someone who would've known the risks when she took a $164,000 mortgage from Argent on her home in 2005 and a $75,000 second mortgage a year later. In a bankruptcy filing this year, she listed her occupation as a loan specialist for Washington Mutual , a leading subprime lender that collapsed last year.
• Not only did Mendez fall 11 months behind on her mortgage payments, but her home's value also plummeted to $100,000 .
• Goldman Sachs Mortgage, which bought the Argent loan, took the house -- and at least a 50 percent loss.
• The Beckers charged that in their case, Goldman engaged in years of obfuscation and resistance.
• "In bankruptcy court, they tried to portray us as incompetent or deadbeats,'' said Celia Fabos-Becker , blinking back tears as she sat with her husband in their living room, with boxes of mortgage-related documents surrounding them.
• The couple thought they'd made a safe bet in 2000 when they opened a retail jewelry business in two San Diego County areas populated mainly by military personnel.
• The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq , however, brought big military call-ups, sapping their market.
• After a wildfire ravaged much of the area in 2002, the Beckers refinanced their house to generate some $70,000 in cash to prop up their two stores.
• They wound up with an adjustable-rate, subprime loan from WMC Mortgage Corp. , an arm of General Electric's GE Money unit, and a 10.75 percent second mortgage with the same lender.
• A second wildfire in 2003 all but killed their business and left the couple reeling financially as interest-rate adjustments pushed the mortgage payments higher.

• "We'd gotten to the point where I was cutting my own hair. I was cutting his on occasion," Fabos-Becker said. 

    "And trolling the Goodwills," Tony Becker said. 
• Tony Becker , an engineer, took short-term contract jobs amid the technology bust. Celia Fabos-Becker , meanwhile, found a provision in the mortgages that allowed the borrower to push payments to the end of the loan term in the event of a disaster such as the two fires.
• When she wrote to Paulson, however, lawyers for Goldman denied that it owned the Beckers' mortgages. So did Germany's Deutsche Bank , a trustee that was holding thousands of subprime mortgages Goldman had converted to bonds.

  • International criminal cabal..domestic and "foreign" mafiosa..Oh..."but there's no conspiracy! Honest, there ain't!"
  Add Sticky Note
• To stall foreclosure, the Beckers wound up negotiating "forbearance agreements" with Ocwen Loan Servicing, a Florida company, that required the couple to pay several thousand dollars under the threat that their house would be auctioned off in a week or a month, Fabos-Becker said. Their monthly payments rose to nearly $3,300 from $2,650 .
• The couple already had taken Goldman and Morgan Stanley , another Wall Street firm, to arbitration over their $325,000 in stock market losses, accusing the investment banks of misleading investors about public offerings.
• On the same day in June 2006 , Goldman sued to end the arbitration, and Ocwen filed papers seeking to foreclose on the Beckers' home.
• In desperation, the couple filed for bankruptcy protection. With no money to hire an attorney, they acted as their own lawyers.
• As the months dragged on, Fabos-Becker finally found a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission confirming that Goldman had bought the mortgages.

• Then, when a lawyer for MTGLQ showed up at a June 2007 court hearing on the stock battle, U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California demanded to know the firm's relationship to Goldman, telling the attorney that he hates "spin." 

    The lawyer acknowledged that MTGLQ was a Goldman affiliate. 
• That was an understatement. MTGLQ, a limited partnership, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman that's housed at the company's headquarters at 85 Broad Street in New York , public records show.
• In July, after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Roger Efremsky of the Northern District of California threatened to impose "significant sanctions" if the firm failed to complete a promised settlement with the Beckers, Goldman dropped its claims for $626,000 , far more than the couple's original $356,000 in mortgages and $70,000 in missed payments. The firm gave the Beckers a new, 30-year mortgage at 5 percent interest.
• That lowered their monthly payment to $1,900 , less than half the maximum $4,000 a month their subprime loans could've demanded.
• Fabos-Becker, 60, said that the trauma has left her hair "a lot grayer." Much of the stress would have been alleviated, she said, if a law required lenders to identify themselves, especially to borrowers facing hardships.
• "I take solace," Tony Becker said, "in knowing that I was up against the worst possible opponent -- the biggest, strongest investment bank in the world."

• ( Tish Wells contributed to this article.) 

    (This article is part of an occasional series on the problems in mortgage finance.) 

• COMING TOMORROW 

     Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms turned to secret Cayman Islands deals to draw overseas investors, including European banks and other foreign financial institutions, to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in securities tied to risky U.S. home loans. Unlike U.S. investors that lost money on the securities, however, these overseas institutions have fewer legal options. 

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• About Vigilant
• “Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.”
   -Confucius
• To understand the world we live in, we must understand the symbols surrounding us. To understand those symbols, we must dig up their origin, which is often deep in occult mysteries. This site goes beyond the face value of landmarks and items of pop culture to reveal their esoteric meaning.
• This timeless quote sums up perfectly the aims of this website.
• I’ve mainly studied the way power uses mass media to shape and mold attitudes of the general public.
• My quest for knowledge led me to obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Politics.
• The information obtained was perfect to hold a job in marketing and PR but did not satisfy my thirst for truth.
• My efforts to further understand the forces governing the world lead me to  study secret societies, mystery religions, esoteric sciences and ancient civilizations.
• I’ve spent the last five years researching Theosophy, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, the Bavarian Illuminati and Western Occultism. These schools of thoughts have many things in common: they are based on Hermetic teachings (Hermes, Thoth, Enoch, Mercury), they attach EXTREME importance to symbolism and they recruit within their ranks the most prominent people of all fields of society, especially politics, law and public service.
• The natural result of this phenomenon is the display of occult symbolism in all aspects of society, whether it be music, movies, buildings or else.
• My goal is to bring  out the meaning of those symbols in a clear, concise and entertaining way.
• There is a reason why occult teachings are held secret. They reveal the naked Truth without any compromise. Very few people are prepared to face those facts. 
• If you’re however interested in the findings of a genuine truth seeker, you’re at the right place.

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• Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public: Alice Schroeder
• Commentary by Alice Schroeder
• “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol.
• Dec. 1 (Bloomberg)
• The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.
• I called Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag to ask whether it’s true that Goldman partners feel they need handguns to protect themselves from the angry proletariat.
• He didn’t call me back.
• The New York Police Department has told me that “as a preliminary matter” it believes some of the bankers I inquired about do have pistol permits. The NYPD also said it will be a while before it can name names.
• While we wait, Goldman has wrapped itself in the flag of Warren Buffett, with whom it will jointly donate $500 million, part of an effort to burnish its image -- and gain new Goldman clients.
• Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein also reversed himself after having previously called Goldman’s greed “God’s work” and apologized earlier this month for having participated in things that were “clearly wrong.”
• Has it really come to this? Imagine what emotions must be billowing through the halls of Goldman Sachs to provoke the firm into an apology.
• Talk that Goldman bankers might have armed themselves in self-defense would sound ludicrous, were it not so apt a metaphor for the way that the most successful people on Wall Street have become a target for public rage.
• Pistol Ready
• Common sense tells you a handgun is probably not even all that useful. Suppose an intruder sneaks past the doorman or jumps the security fence at night. By the time you pull the pistol out of your wife’s jewelry safe, find the ammunition, and load your weapon, Fifi the Pomeranian has already been taken hostage and the gun won’t do you any good.
• As for carrying a loaded pistol when you venture outside, dream on. Concealed gun permits are almost impossible for ordinary citizens to obtain in New York or nearby states.
• In other words, a little humility and contrition are probably the better route.
• Until a couple of weeks ago, that was obvious to everyone but Goldman, a firm famous for both prescience and arrogance.
• In a display of both, Blankfein began to raise his personal- security threat level early in the financial crisis.
• He keeps a summer home near the Hamptons, where unrestricted public access would put him at risk if the angry mobs rose up and marched to the East End of Long Island.
• To the Barricades
• He tried to buy a house elsewhere without attracting attention as the financial crisis unfolded in 2007, a move that was foiled by the New York Post.
• Then, Blankfein got permission from the local authorities to install a security gate at his house two months before Bear Stearns Cos. collapsed.
• Blankfein somehow anticipated the persecution complex his fellow bankers would soon suffer.
• Surely, though, this man who can afford to surround himself with a private army of security guards isn’t sleeping with the key to a gun safe under his pillow. The thought is just too bizarre to be true.
• So maybe other senior people at Goldman Sachs have gone out and bought guns, and they know something. But what?
• Henry Paulson, U.S. Treasury secretary during the bailout and a former Goldman Sachs CEO, let it slip during testimony to Congress last summer when he explained why it was so critical to bail out Goldman Sachs, and -- oh yes -- the other banks.
• People “were unhappy with the big discrepancies in wealth, but they at least believed in the system and in some form of market-driven capitalism. But if we had a complete meltdown, it could lead to people questioning the basis of the system.”
• Torn Curtain
• There you have it. The bailout was meant to keep the curtain drawn on the way the rich make money, not from the free market, but from the lack of one.
• Goldman Sachs blew its cover when the firm’s revenue from trading reached a record $27 billion in the first nine months of this year, and a public that was writhing in financial agony caught on that the profits earned on taxpayer capital were going to pay employee bonuses.
• This slip-up let the other bailed-out banks happily hand off public blame to Goldman, which is unpopular among its peers because it always seems to win at everyone’s expense.
• Plenty of Wall Streeters worry about the big discrepancies in wealth, and think the rise of a financial industry-led plutocracy is unjust.
• That doesn’t mean any of them plan to move into a double-wide mobile home as a show of solidarity with the little people, though.
• Cool Hand Lloyd
• No, talk of Goldman and guns plays right into the way Wall- Streeters like to think of themselves.
• Even those who were bailed out believe they are tough, macho Clint Eastwoods of the financial frontier, protecting the fistful of dollars in one hand with the Glock in the other.
• The last thing they want is to be so reasonably paid that the peasants have no interest in lynching them.
• And if the proles really do appear brandishing pitchforks at the doors of Park Avenue and the gates of Round Hill Road, you can be sure that the Goldman guys and their families will be holed up in their safe rooms with their firearms.
• If nothing else, that pistol permit might go part way toward explaining why they won’t be standing outside with the rest of the crowd, broke and humiliated, saying, “Damn, I was on the wrong side of a trade with Goldman again.”
• (Alice Schroeder, author of “The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life” and a former managing director at Morgan Stanley, is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.)

• To contact the writer of this column: Alice Schroeder at aliceschroeder@ymail.com.

            Last Updated: November 30, 2009

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• Mega Corruption Scandal At The WHO
• By F. William Engdahl
• Author of Full Spectrum Dominance:
    Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
    12-9-9
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  WHO's 'Mr Flu' Holland's Albert Osterhaus   has deep ties to pharma industry
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  The WHO gets more money from private pharma and 
    related industry sources than from governments
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  The UK Pharma Giant GlaxoSmithKline is at the  heart
    of the WHO scandals of influence peddling
• The man with the nickname "Dr Flu", Professor  Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam Holland has been  named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide  Swine Flu H1N1 Influenza A 2009 pandemic hysteria.
• Not only is Osterhaus  the connecting person in an international network that has been described  as the Pharma Mafia, he is THE key advisor to WHO on influenza and is intimately  positioned to personally profit from the billions of euros in vaccines  allegedly aimed at H1N1.
• Earlier this year the Second Chamber of the Netherlands  Parliament undertook an investigation into alleged conflicts of interest  and financial improprieties of the well-known Dr. Osterhaus.
• Outside of  Holland and the Dutch media, the only note of the sensational investigation  into Osterhaus' business affairs came in a tiny note in the respected British  magazine, Science.
• What is in question, according to a short report published  by the journal Science, are his links to corporate interests that stand  to potentially profit from the swine flu pandemic.
• Osterhaus's credentials and expertise in his field were  not in question.
• Science carried the  following brief note in its October 16 2009 issue about Osterhaus:
• " For the past 6 months, one could barely switch  on the television in the Netherlands without seeing the face of famed virus  hunter Albert Osterhaus talking about the swine flu pandemic. Or so it  has seemed.
• Osterhaus, who runs an internationally renowned virus lab at  Erasmus Medical Center, has been Mr. Flu.
• But last week, his reputation  took a nosedive after it was alleged that he has been stoking pandemic  fears to promote his own business interests in vaccine development.
• As Science went to press, the Dutch House of Representatives  had even slated an emergency debate about the matter."
• On November 3, 2009 it appeared that Osterhaus emerged  with at least the damage somewhat under control.
• An updated Science blog  noted, "The House of Representatives of the Netherlands today rejected  a motion asking the government to sever all ties with virologist Albert  Osterhaus of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, who had been accused  of conflicts of interest in his role as a government adviser.
• But Dutch  health minister Ab Klink, meanwhile, announced a "Sunshine Act"  compelling scientists to disclose their financial ties to companies."
• The Minister, Ab Klink, reportedly a personal friend  of Osterhaus, subsequently issued a statement on the ministry's website,  claiming that Osterhaus was but one of many scientific advisers to the  ministry on vaccines for H1N1,
• and that the Ministry "knew" about  the financial interests of Osterhaus. Nothing out of the ordinary, merely  pursuit of science and public health, so it seemed.
• More careful investigation into the Osterhaus Affair  suggests that the world-renowned Dutch Virologist may be at the very center  of a multi-billion Euro pandemic fraud
• which has used human beings in effect  as human guinea pigs with untested vaccines and in cases now emerging,  resulting in deaths or severe bodily paralysis or injury.
• The 'Bird Shit Hoax'
• Albert Osterhaus is no small fish. He stands at the global  nexus of every major virus panic of the past decade from the mysterious  SARS deaths in HongKong, where current WHO Director Margaret Chan got her  start in her career as a local health official.
• According to his official  bio at the European Commission, Osterhaus was engaged in April 2003, at  the height of the panic over SARS (Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome)  in investigation of the Hong Kong outbreak of respiratory illnesses.
• The  EU report states, "he again showed his skill at moving fast to tackle  a serious problem. Within three weeks he had proved that the disease was  caused by a newly discovered coronavirus that resides in civet cats, other  carnivorous animals or bats."
• Then Osterhaus moved on as SARS cases vanished from view,  this time publicizing dangers of what he claimed was H5N1 Avian Flu.
• In  1997 he had already began sounding the alarm following the death in Hong  Kong of a three-year-old who Osterhaus learned had had direct contact with  birds.
• Osterhaus went into high gear lobbying across Holland and Europe  claiming that a deadly new mutation of avian flu had jumped to humans and  that drastic measures were required.
• He claimed to be the first scientist  in the world to show that H5N1 could be transferred into humans.
• In a BBC interview in October 2005 on the danger of Avian  Flu, Osterhaus declared, "if the virus manages indeed to, to mutate  itself in such a way that it can transmit from human to human, then we  have a completely different situation, we might be at the start of the  pandemic."
• He added, "there is a real chance that this virus  could be trafficked by the birds all the way to Europe.
• There is a real  risk, but nobody can estimate the risk at this moment, because we haven't  done the experiments."
• It never did manage to mutate, but he was ready  to "do the experiments," presumably for a hefty fee.
• To bolster his frightening pandemic scenario, Osterhaus  and his lab assistants in Rotterdam began assiduously assembling and freezing  samples of, well, bird shit, in an attempt to build a more scientific argument.
• He claimed that at certain times of the year up to 30% of all European  birds acted as carriers of the deadly avian virus, H5N1.
• He also claimed  that farmers working with hens and chickens were then exposed. Osterhaus  briefed journalists who dutifully noted his alarm.
• Politicians were alerted.
• He wrote papers proposing that the far away deaths in Asia from what he  termed H5N1 were coming to Europe, presumably on the wongs or in the innards  of deadly sick infected birds.
• He claimed that migratory birds were carrying  the deadly new disease as far west as Rügen and Ukraine.
• He conveniently  ignored the fact that birds do not migrate east to west but rather north  to south.
• Osterhaus' Avian Flu alarm campaign really took off in  2003 when a Dutch veterinary doctor became ill and died.
• Osterhaus claimed  the death was from H5N1.
• He convinced the Dutch government to order slaughter  of millions of chickens. Yet no other infected persons died from the alleged  H5N1.
• Osterhaus claimed that that was simply proof of the effectiveness  of the preemptive slaughter campaign.
• Osterhaus claimed that bird feces were the source, via  air bombardment or droppings, onto populations and birds below. That was  the vehicle for the spread of the deadly new Asian strain of H5N1 he insisted.
• There was only one problem with the now voluminous frozen  samples of diverse bird excrement he and his associated had collected and  frozen at his institute. There was not one single confirmed example of  H5N1 virus found in any of his samples.
• At a May 2006 Congress of the World  Organization for Animal Health (OIE), Osterhaus and his Erasmus colleagues  were forced to admit that in testing 100,000 samples of their assiduously  saved bird feces, they had discovered not one single case of H5N1 virus.
• At a WHO conference in Verona in 2008 titled "Avian  influenza at the Human-Animal Interface," in a presentation to scientific  colleagues undoubtedly less impressed by appeals to pandemic emotion than  the non-scientific public, Osterhaus admitted that "A proper risk  assessment of H5N1 as the cause of a new pandemic cannot be made with the  currently available information."
• By then, however, his sights were  already firmly on other possible pandemic triggers to focus his vaccination  activities.
• Swine Flu and WHO corruption
• When no mass wave of human deaths from Avian Flu materialized  and after Roche, maker of Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline had banked billions  of dollars in profits from worldwide government stockpiling of their dangerous  and reportedly ineffective antiviral drugs, Tamiflu by Roche, and Relenza  by GlaxoSmithKline, Osterhaus and other WHO advisers turned to other greener  pastures.
• By April 2009 their search seemed rewarded as La Gloria,  a small Mexican village in Veracruz, reported a case of a small child ill  with what had been diagnosed as "Swine Flu" or H1N1.
• With indecent  haste the propaganda apparatus of the World Health Organization in Geneva  went into gear with statements from the director-general Dr Margaret Chan,  about a possible danger of a global pandemic.
• Chan made such irresponsible statements as declaring  "a public health emergency of international concern."
• The further  cases of outbreak at La Gloria Mexico were reported on one medical website  as, "a 'strange' outbreak of acute respiratory infection, which led  to bronchial pneumonia in some pediatric cases. According to a local resident,  symptoms included fever, severe cough, and large amounts of phlegm."
• Notably those were symptoms which would make sense in  terms of the proximity of one of the world's largest pig industrial feeding  concentrations at La Gloria owned by Smithfield Farms of the USA.
• Residents  had picketed the Smithfield Farms site in Mexico for months complaining  of severe respiratory problems from the fecal waste lagoons.
• That possible  cause of the diseases in La Gloria apparently did not interest Osterhaus  and his colleagues advising the WHO.
• The long-awaited "pandemic"  that Osterhaus had predicted ever since his involvement with SARS in the  Guandgong Province of China in 2003, was now finally at hand.
• On June 11, 2009 Margaret Chan of WHO made the declaration  of a Phase 6 "Pandemic Emergency" regarding the spread of H1N1  Influenza.
• Curiously in announcing it, she noted, "On present evidence,  the overwhelming majority of patients experience mild symptoms and make  a rapid and full recovery, often in the absence of any form of medical  treatment."
• She then added, "Worldwide, the number of deaths  is smallwe do not expect to see a sudden and dramatic jump in the number  of severe or fatal infections."
• It later was learned that Chan acted, following heated  debates inside WHO, on the advice of the scientific advisory group of WHO,  or SAGE, the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts.
• One of the members of  SAGE at the time and today was Dr. Albert "Mr Flu" Osterhaus.
• Not only was Osterhaus in a key position to advocate  the panic-inducing WHO "Pandemic emergency" declaration.
• He was  also chairman of the leading private European Scientific Working group  on Influenza (ESWI), which describes itself as a "multidisciplinary  group of key opinion leaders in influenza [that] aims to combat the impact  of epidemic and pandemic influenza."
• Osterhaus' ESWI is the vital  link as they themselves describe it, "between the World Health Organization  (WHO) in Geneva, the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and the University  of Connecticut, USA."
• What is more significant about the ESWI is that its work  is entirely financed by the same pharma mafia companies that make billions  on the pandemic emergency as governments around the world are compelled  to buy and stockpile vaccines on declaration of a WHO Pandemic.
• The funders  of ESWI include H1N1 vaccine maker Novartis, Tamiflu distributor, Hofmann-La  Roche, Baxter Vaccines, MedImmune, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Pasteur and  others.
• Not to lose the point, the world-leading virologist,  official adviser on H1N1 to the governments of the UK and Holland, Dr Albert  Osterhaus, head of the Department of Virology at the Erasmus Medical College  of Rotterdam, also sat on the WHO's elite SAGE and served as chairman at  the same time of the pharma industry-sponsored ESWI, which in turn urged  dramatic steps to vaccinate the world against the grave danger of a new  Pandemic they insisted could rival the feared 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic.
• The Wall Street bank, JP Morgan, estimated that in large  part as a result of the WHO pandemic decision, the giant pharma firms that  also finance Osterhaus' ESWI work, stand to reap some ¤7.5 to ¤10  billion in profits.
• A fellow member of WHO's SAGE is Dr Frederick Hayden,  of Britain's Wellcome Trust and reportedly a close friend of Osterhaus.
• Hayden also receives money for "advisory" services from Roche  and GlaxoSmithKline among other pharma giants involved in producing products  related to the H1N1 panic.
• Chairman of WHO's SAGE is another British scientist,  Prof. David Salisbury of the UK Department of Health.
• He also heads the  WHO H1N1 Advisory Group.
• Salisbury is a robust defender of the pharma industry.
• He has been accused by UK health citizen health group One Click of covering  up the proven links between vaccines and an explosive rise in infant autism  as well as links between the vaccine Gardasil and palsy and even death.
• Then on September 28, 2009 the same Salisbury stated,  "There is a very clear view in the scientific community that there  is no risk from the inclusion of Thiomersal."
• The vaccine being used  for H1N1 in Britain is primarily produced by GlaxoSmithKlilne.
• It contains  the mercury preservative Thiomersol.
• Because of growing evidence that Thiomersol  in vaccines might be related to autism in children in the United States,  in 1999 the American Academy of Pediatrics and the US Public Health Service  called for it to be removed from vaccines.
• Yet another SAGE member at WHO with intimate financial  ties to the vaccine makers that benefit from SAGE's recommendations to  WHO is Dr. Arnold Monto, a paid consultant to vaccine maker MedImmune,  Glaxo and ViroPharma.
• Even more, the meetings of the "independent"  scientists of SAGE are attended by "observers" who include, yes,  the very vaccine producers GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Baxter and company.
• One might ask if the SAGE are supposed to be the world's leading experts  on flu and vaccines, why they would ask the vaccine makers to sit in.
• In the past decade the WHO, in order to boost funds at  its disposal entered into what it calls "public private partnerships."
• Instead of receiving its funds solely from member United Nations governments  as its original purpose had been, WHO today receives almost double its  normal UN budget in the form of grants and financial support from private  industry.
• The industry? The very drug and vaccine makers who benefit from  decisions like the June 2009 H1N1 Pandemic emergency declaration.
• As the  main financiers of the WHO bureaucracy, naturally the Pharma Mafia and  their friends receive what has been called "open door red carpet treatment"  in Geneva.
• In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine in Germany,  epidemiologist Dr. Tom Jefferson of the Cochrane Collaboration, an organization  of independent scientists evaluating all flu related studies, noted the  implications of the privatization of WHO and the commercialization of health:
• "one of the extraordinary features of this influenza  -- and the whole influenza saga -- is that there are some people who make  predictions year after year, and they get worse and worse. None of them  so far have come about, and these people are still there making these predictions.
• For example, what happened with the bird flu, which was supposed to kill  us all? Nothing.
• But that doesn't stop these people from always making  their predictions. Sometimes you get the feeling that there is a whole  industry almost waiting for a pandemic to occur.
• SPIEGEL: Who do you mean? The World Health Organization  (WHO)?
• Jefferson: The WHO and public health officials, virologists  and the pharmaceutical companies.
• They've built this machine around the  impending pandemic. And there's a lot of money involved, and influence,  and careers, and entire institutions!
• And all it took was one of these  influenza viruses to mutate to start the machine grinding...
• When asked if the WHO had deliberately declared the Pandemic  Emergency in order to create a huge market for H1N1 vaccines and drugs,  Jefferson replied, 

    

  "Don't you think there's something noteworthy about  the fact that the WHO has changed its definition of pandemic?
• The old definition  was a new virus, which went around quickly, for which you didn't have immunity,  and which created a high morbidity and mortality rate.
• Now the last two  have been dropped, and that's how swine flu has been categorized as a pandemic."
• Conveniently enough, the WHO published the new Pandemic  definition in April 2009 just in time to allow WHO, on advice of SAGE and  others like Albert "Dr Flu" Osterhaus and David Salisbury, to  declare the mild cases of flu dubbed H1N1 Influenza A to be declared Pandemic  Emergency.
• In a relevant footnote, the Washington Post on December  8 in an article on the severity, or lack of same, of the world H1N1 "pandemic"  reported that, "with the second wave of H1N1 infections having crested  in the United States, leading epidemiologists are predicting that the pandemic  could end up ranking as the mildest since modern medicine began documenting  influenza outbreaks."
• Russian Parliamentarian and chairman of the Duma Health  Committee, Igor Barinow has called on the Russian Representative to WHO  in Geneva to order an official investigation into the growing evidence  of massive corruption of the WHO by the pharmaceutical industry.
• "There  are grave accusations of corruption within the WHO," said Barinow.  "An international commission of inquiry is urgently required."

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• Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control
• Greenpeace International, Dec 8, 2009
            Straight to the Source
• EXTRACT: Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite 'the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.
• Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite 'the best practices [to stop contamination]'(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated.
• $2 million US dollar verdict against Bayer confirms company's liability for an uncontrollable technology
• Greenpeace welcomes the United States federal jury ruling on 4 December 2009 that Bayer CropScience LP must pay $2 million US dollars to two Missouri farmers after their rice crop was contaminated with an experimental variety of rice that the company was testing in 2006
• This verdict confirms that the responsibility for the consequences of GE (genetic engineering) contamination rests with the company that releases GE crops.

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• Bayer AG
• Last edited by lenazun on November 25, 2009 - 1:17pm
• Company Snapshot: 
• Bayer AG is credited as inventing aspirin as well as many controversial drugs such as heroin, Ciproxin and Baycol.
• Bayer AG is a massive German based chemicals and pharmaceuticals manufacturer.
• Its operations are divided into three sectors: Health, Agriculture and Polymers (plastics, synthetic rubber).
• It has operations in most countries worldwide and had global sales for 2007 of 32.4 billion euro.
• The company sold its chemicals sector holdings (now Lanxess) in 2005, but is still a major player in the others through Bayer HealthCare, Bayer CropScience and Bayer MaterialScience.
• For over 125 years Bayer has a distinguished history of corporate crimes ranging from the manufacture and sale of controversial drugs (Heroin, Ciproxin and Baycol), the development of chemical warfare agents and poisons (Chlorine Gas, Zyklon B and VX), the use of forced labour during WW2, and numerous cases of poisoning, side-effects and environmental pollution connected to its chemical and pharmaceutical products.
• It acquired Aventis' controversial CropScience business in 2001, which made the company a key player in the development, commercialization and sale of GM crops.
• In December 2001, Multinational Monitor rated Bayer AG as one of their Top Ten Worst Companies of the year.
• Number of employees worldwide: 

  106 000

  Chief executive officer: 

  Werner Wenning

  Website: 

  http://www.bayerus.com/

  Global Fortune 500 rank: 

  154

  Total revenue: 

  39,899.2
• Corporate accountability

  Labor: 
• This investigation began in July 2000 after a contract worker notified OSHA of a methylenedianiline (MDA - a regulated carcinogen) spill and clean up, and subsequent exposures.
• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the Bayer Corporation in Baytown, TX (USA) for safety and health violations with penalties totalling $135,900.
• Bayer failed to alert employees who may have been exposed of an emergency, did not establish regulated areas, failed to ensure that employees use appropriate protective work and clothing, failed to place contaminated clothes and equipment in closed containers and failed to institute exposure monitoring.
• Bayer did not even record the incident on the log within the appropriate amount of time (six days).
• No Employment Rights and Work Related Illness at Bayer factory in Guatemala
• Workers in Guatemala are hired without contracts, health benefits or vacation. The workers at the pesticide plant complain about anaemia and damage to their nervous system.
• Violations of safety regulations in Indonesia
• Kompak has reported mass violations of safety regulations in Indonesia. The ages of young workers have been altered, and often the ages of those hired were not even checked.
• In times of high production, shifts sometimes last as long as 16 hours. Workers were consistently exposed to extreme heat and humidity as well as poisonous gases at the PT Sinar Plataco plant,
• Young workers were used in all areas of production, including those with occupational hazards.
• workers complained about various health problems including skin diseases, eye problems, asthma, pulmonary disease, coughing and headaches.
• Many had received no safety instructions for handling hazardous chemicals, and the few masks distributed were cloth and insufficient to protect from toxic fumes.
• 90% of employees surveyed considered occupational safety insufficient.
• Half of the workers received no health benefits or social security.
• Bayer Call in Brazilian Military Police

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• Rolling in Dough, Still Kicking Out Families
• Goldman Sachs Subsidiary Among 'Loan Servicers' Collecting Criticism
• By RICH BLAKE
  Dec. 23, 2009
• There's no place like home for the holidays. But this year, Phil and Barb Kubes and their three children will have to settle for memories of Christmas past.
• Last month, the Omaha, Neb., family was forced out of their home of 12 years after falling drastically behind on mortgage payments.
• Having failed to reach a workable solution with Litton Loan Servicing, the Houston-based company that collects their mortgage debt, the Kubes were foreclosed upon and told to vacate.
• They ended up renting a house across town.
• "It's comfortable," Barb Kubes said. "But it's not home."
• Litton is by no stretch the largest loan servicing company --
• essentially the mortgage industry's version of a collection agency --
• but it is among the ones coming under the most heavy fire in the wake of a housing crisis that continues to roil the country.
• Litton, unfairly or not, has drawn the wrath of legions of homeowners, homeowner advocacy groups, lawmakers, labor unions and class action attorneys alike.
• One glaring reason Litton has attracted so much of the scorn directed at loan servicing in general: It is owned by Goldman Sachs, proverbial poster child for Wall Street's excess and its percieved indifference to the plight of average Americans.
• "Upset," Barb Kubes said, choking back emotion, when she was asked how she felt when she found out Litton was owned by massively profitable Goldman Sachs.

• It didn't help that her hometown hero, Warren Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, invested $5 billion in Goldman shares during the height of the crisis last year. 

   "I'm surprised Warren Buffett would have anything to do with them," she said. 
• With the exception of maybe AIG, no firm has come to symbolize Main Street's disgust with Wall Street practices more than Goldman.
• In a move that caused a global backlash, Goldman has said it expects to set aside more than $20 billion for bonuses and other forms of employee compensation and benefits at the end of the year.
• Critics of Goldman's compensation practices say the firm has no business handing out billions to bankers and traders after having been the beneficiary of numerous forms of federal assistance, including TARP money (that Goldman has since paid back) as well as billions in FDIC-guaranteed loans and another $13 billion in taxpayer money given to AIG that was ultimately paid to Goldman.
• Though it will derive only a tiny fraction of the billions it expects to earn this year from revenues produced by Litton, Goldman nevertheless finds itself, albeit indirectly, connected to a highly controversial issue at the crux of the housing crisis: Widespread failure by banks to allow homeowners to modify their loans.
• A recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston showed banks have little incentive to modify loans to help homeowners avoid foreclosure because of one simple reason that at this time of year perhaps only Ebenezer Scrooge could appreciate: Loan modification is not profitable for lenders.

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