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Friday, February 12, 2010
Constitution
"I don't give a goddamn. I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ...
Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
George W. Bush November 2005
Source: White House cabinet meeting to discuss the renewal of the Patriot Act,
in response to GOP leaders presenting a valid case that the Patriot Act undermined the
Constitution.
Doug Thompson, Capital Hill Blue, Dec 5, 2005
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Bush.Quote.AA91
DEFICIT DECEIT (Fuzzy Math)
"We can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget
deficits, even if the economy softens."
George W. Bush 2001
"I don't give a goddamn. I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. ...
Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
George W. Bush November 2005
Source: White House cabinet meeting to discuss the renewal of the Patriot Act,
in response to GOP leaders presenting a valid case that the Patriot Act undermined the
Constitution.
Doug Thompson, Capital Hill Blue, Dec 5, 2005
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/George.Bush.Quote.AA91
DEFICIT DECEIT (Fuzzy Math)
"We can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget
deficits, even if the economy softens."
George W. Bush 2001
Our budget will run a deficit that will be
small and short-term"
George W. Bush 2001
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to
attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that,
all options are on the table."
George W. Bush --Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2005
"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein
recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use
chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells
us he does not have."
- George Bush, February 8, 2003
1. "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for
the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the
form of a mushroom cloud."
[Bush Remarks, Cincinnati OH, 10/7/02]
Fact: Saddam Did not Have Chief Requirements for Nuclear
Weapons
The Washington Post reported, "What Hussein did not have
was the principal requirement for a nuclear weapon, a
sufficient quantity of highly enriched uranium or
plutonium. And the U.S. government, authoritative
intelligence officials said, had only circumstantial
evidence that Iraq was trying to obtain those
materials." Inspectors in postwar Iraq have "found the
former nuclear weapons program, described as a 'grave
and gathering danger' by President Bush and a 'mortal
threat' by Vice President Cheney, in much the same
shattered state left by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s."
[Washington Post, 8/10/03, 1/7/04]
small and short-term"
George W. Bush 2001
"This notion that the United States is getting ready to
attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that,
all options are on the table."
George W. Bush --Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2005
"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein
recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use
chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells
us he does not have."
- George Bush, February 8, 2003
1. "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for
the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the
form of a mushroom cloud."
[Bush Remarks, Cincinnati OH, 10/7/02]
Fact: Saddam Did not Have Chief Requirements for Nuclear
Weapons
The Washington Post reported, "What Hussein did not have
was the principal requirement for a nuclear weapon, a
sufficient quantity of highly enriched uranium or
plutonium. And the U.S. government, authoritative
intelligence officials said, had only circumstantial
evidence that Iraq was trying to obtain those
materials." Inspectors in postwar Iraq have "found the
former nuclear weapons program, described as a 'grave
and gathering danger' by President Bush and a 'mortal
threat' by Vice President Cheney, in much the same
shattered state left by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s."
[Washington Post, 8/10/03, 1/7/04]
Bush on the Economy
5. "Our budget will run a deficit that will be small
and short-term."
[Bush, State of the Union, 2002]
Fact: Deficit Will Be Largest in History and Will
Exceed $400 Billion Every Year for Next Ten Years
The deficit will exceed $400 billion every year
through 2014. By 2014, the deficit will reach $708
billion. In 2004, the deficit is projected to reach a
record high of $477 billion, dwarfing the previous
record of $290 billion posted by Bush's father in 1992.
[Congressional Budget Office, 1/26/04, 2/27/04;
Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, 1/21/04, 2/1/04]
6. "Tax relief is central to my plan to encourage
economic growth, and we can proceed with tax relief
without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy
softens," Bush promised.
[Bush Remarks at Western Michigan University, 3/27/01]
Fact: Bush Deficits Due Largely to Tax Cuts
In 2002, due largely to Bush's tax cuts, the federal
government posted a deficit of $158 billion and
returned to deficit for the first time since 1997. In
2004, Bush's three tax cuts over as many years reduced
revenues by $270 billion. Over 35 percent of the $9.9
trillion deterioration from 2002-2011 is due to Bush's
tax cuts. By 2014, tax cuts will account for 40 percent
of the deterioration. Despite Bush's claims to the
contrary, only 6 percent of the $477 billion deficit in
2004 is due to the lackluster economy.
[Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 10/21/03;
Congressional Budget Office, 3/04; CBO, Historical
Budget Data, Table 1 http://www.cbo.gov; Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, 10/27/03]
5. "Our budget will run a deficit that will be small
and short-term."
[Bush, State of the Union, 2002]
Fact: Deficit Will Be Largest in History and Will
Exceed $400 Billion Every Year for Next Ten Years
The deficit will exceed $400 billion every year
through 2014. By 2014, the deficit will reach $708
billion. In 2004, the deficit is projected to reach a
record high of $477 billion, dwarfing the previous
record of $290 billion posted by Bush's father in 1992.
[Congressional Budget Office, 1/26/04, 2/27/04;
Center on Budget & Policy Priorities, 1/21/04, 2/1/04]
6. "Tax relief is central to my plan to encourage
economic growth, and we can proceed with tax relief
without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy
softens," Bush promised.
[Bush Remarks at Western Michigan University, 3/27/01]
Fact: Bush Deficits Due Largely to Tax Cuts
In 2002, due largely to Bush's tax cuts, the federal
government posted a deficit of $158 billion and
returned to deficit for the first time since 1997. In
2004, Bush's three tax cuts over as many years reduced
revenues by $270 billion. Over 35 percent of the $9.9
trillion deterioration from 2002-2011 is due to Bush's
tax cuts. By 2014, tax cuts will account for 40 percent
of the deterioration. Despite Bush's claims to the
contrary, only 6 percent of the $477 billion deficit in
2004 is due to the lackluster economy.
[Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 10/21/03;
Congressional Budget Office, 3/04; CBO, Historical
Budget Data, Table 1 http://www.cbo.gov; Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, 10/27/03]
Flip Flops
Bush is against campaign finance reform;
then he's for it.
Bush is against a Homeland Security Department;
then he's for it.
Bush is against a 9/11 commission;
then he's for it.
Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation;
then he's for it.
Bush is against nation building;
then he's for it.
Bush is against deficits;
then he's for them.
Bush is for slashing overtime pay for American workers
then he is against it.
Bush is for free trade;
then he's for tariffs on steel;
then he's against them again.
Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli
Palestinian conflict;
then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.
Bush is for states right to decide on gay marriage,
then he is for changing the constitution.
Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders
(fire, police, emergency), then he doesn't.
Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ...
then he cuts benefits.
Bush-"The most important thing is for us to find
Osama bin Laden.
Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and
I really don't care.
Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and
then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.
Bush talks about helping education and increases
mandates while cutting funding.
Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea.
Now he will
Bush goes to Bob Jones University.
Then say's he shouldn't have.
Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on
whether to sanction military action against Iraq.
Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote.
Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by
the sailors. Bush later admits it was his advance team.
Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who
enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox,
he's against it.
Bush is against campaign finance reform;
then he's for it.
Bush is against a Homeland Security Department;
then he's for it.
Bush is against a 9/11 commission;
then he's for it.
Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation;
then he's for it.
Bush is against nation building;
then he's for it.
Bush is against deficits;
then he's for them.
Bush is for slashing overtime pay for American workers
then he is against it.
Bush is for free trade;
then he's for tariffs on steel;
then he's against them again.
Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli
Palestinian conflict;
then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.
Bush is for states right to decide on gay marriage,
then he is for changing the constitution.
Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders
(fire, police, emergency), then he doesn't.
Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ...
then he cuts benefits.
Bush-"The most important thing is for us to find
Osama bin Laden.
Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and
I really don't care.
Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and
then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.
Bush talks about helping education and increases
mandates while cutting funding.
Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea.
Now he will
Bush goes to Bob Jones University.
Then say's he shouldn't have.
Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on
whether to sanction military action against Iraq.
Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote.
Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by
the sailors. Bush later admits it was his advance team.
Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who
enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox,
he's against it.
A bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has sold for 65 million pounds ($104.3 million) — making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, Sotheby's auction house said.
It took just eight minutes of furious bidding Wednesday for about ten bidders to reach the hammer price for "L'Homme Qui Marche I" (Walking Man I), which opened at 12 million pounds, Sotheby's said.
The sculpture by the 20th century Swiss artist, considered an iconic Giacometti work as well as one of the most recognizable images of modern art, was sold to an anonymous bidder by telephone, the auction house said.
Sotheby's had estimated the work would sell for between 12 to 18 million pounds.
The sale price trumped the $104.17 million paid at a 2004 New York auction for Pablo Picasso's 1905 "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)." That painting broke the record that Vincent van Gogh had held since 1990, and its sale was the first time that the $100 million barrier was broken.
"It's a phenomenal result ... I think the result pretty much reflects the depth of the market," Helena Newman, a specialist of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby's, told the BBC.
The price for the sculpture went up rapidly with keen interest from bidders calling in from Europe, Asia and the U.S., Newman said.
"L'Homme Qui Marche I," a life-size sculpture of a thin and wiry human figure standing 72 inches (183 centimeters) tall , "represents the pinnacle of Giacometti's experimentation with the human form" and is "both a humble image of an ordinary man, and a potent symbol of humanity," Sotheby's said.
The work was cast in 1961 in the artist's mature period. It is rare because it was the only cast of the walking man made during Giacometti's lifetime that has ever come to auction, Sotheby's said. It was bought by Dresdner Bank in the early 1980s.
The last time a Giacometti of comparable size was offered at auction was 20 years ago. That sculpture was sold for $6.82 million, a record for Giacometti works at the time.
It took just eight minutes of furious bidding Wednesday for about ten bidders to reach the hammer price for "L'Homme Qui Marche I" (Walking Man I), which opened at 12 million pounds, Sotheby's said.
The sculpture by the 20th century Swiss artist, considered an iconic Giacometti work as well as one of the most recognizable images of modern art, was sold to an anonymous bidder by telephone, the auction house said.
Sotheby's had estimated the work would sell for between 12 to 18 million pounds.
The sale price trumped the $104.17 million paid at a 2004 New York auction for Pablo Picasso's 1905 "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)." That painting broke the record that Vincent van Gogh had held since 1990, and its sale was the first time that the $100 million barrier was broken.
"It's a phenomenal result ... I think the result pretty much reflects the depth of the market," Helena Newman, a specialist of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby's, told the BBC.
The price for the sculpture went up rapidly with keen interest from bidders calling in from Europe, Asia and the U.S., Newman said.
"L'Homme Qui Marche I," a life-size sculpture of a thin and wiry human figure standing 72 inches (183 centimeters) tall , "represents the pinnacle of Giacometti's experimentation with the human form" and is "both a humble image of an ordinary man, and a potent symbol of humanity," Sotheby's said.
The work was cast in 1961 in the artist's mature period. It is rare because it was the only cast of the walking man made during Giacometti's lifetime that has ever come to auction, Sotheby's said. It was bought by Dresdner Bank in the early 1980s.
The last time a Giacometti of comparable size was offered at auction was 20 years ago. That sculpture was sold for $6.82 million, a record for Giacometti works at the time.
I SUPPOSE IF THIS ARTIFACT WAS EVIDENCE OF LIFE ON A PLANET CALLED EARTH IT MIGHT BE WORTH OVER $100 MILLION. IF THE PERSON WHO SPENT THIS KIND OF MONEY ON A PIECE OF SCULPTURE FEELS THEY GOT VALUE FOR THEIR MONEY, GOD BLESS THEM. I JUST THINK IT'S F****** CRAZY!!!
Internet Censorship Alert! Alex Jones exposes agenda to ‘blacklist’ dissenting sites and license users The Western world, from Australia to the United States, UK and parts of Europe, are moving in a unified front toward dictatorial Internet censorship. Australia has led the way, despite outcry from its populace, by “filtering” out certain banned content. In the United States, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, in continuing his family’s tradition of oppressing free humanity, has pushed forward Cybersecurity legislation that has already passed the House. He has done so in the name of warding off ghastly cyber “attackers” conceivably fronting for al Qaeda while ushering in a means to restrict free speech and expression online for the general population.
With Obama’s support, most of the developed world has accepted plans for government-approved online activity and Pentagon-monitored internet traffic. The U.S. and UK are facilitating the hijacking of what has, until now, been a highly-democratic Internet. Overall, it has been a technological God-send for bringing together communication and strongly expressing thought outside of the mainstream information available on television and in print.
Now, people are being forced onto the corporate-dominated Internet2– once again, in the name of “security.” (Internet) Freedom sacrificed at the same false alter of (Internet) Security. Independent blogs, news sites and online businesses will all be financially disadvantaged by access fees not demanded of dominant entities. What is today outside the ‘norm’ but well within free speech will tomorrow be evaluated by politically-correct criteria that will be used to identify sites to block and users to deny access. Currently, a campaign is underway to convince the public to accept “driver’s licenses” for the once-free Internet.
Already, government “blacklists” have been exposed. On its lists? The usual suspects– Infowars.com, PrisonPlanet.com, Wikileaks.org and the like. Referrals to sites like Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com are being denied not only in Australia, but in places like New Zealand– who have not adopted the same policies, but do share ISPs who have ordered a block. All across the world, wherever internet “filtering” and outright censorship has been phased in– via libraries, businesses, airports, and so forth, sites that are critical of government are consistently blocked first. This has been true not only of Alex Jones’ several websites, but also of sites like Wikileaks, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Cryptome and etc, etc. The common theme is not operating outside of law or of speaking in extremities, but challenging the power establishment through distribution of information and/or shedding light on its otherwise little known unscrupulous activities.
This Orwellian scheme has already been branded by the outrages of Cass Sunstein, one of the Obama ‘Czars’, who has called for governments to ban “conspiratorial theories” and identified thought-crimes including a disbelief in man-made global warming and a belief in the basic goodness of “sunshine.” In considering how to eradicate ‘outlawed’ beliefs, Sunstein posits the benefits of using bloggers to engage and counter ‘disinformation.’ A very similar version of this strategy has already been adopted by the Pentagon in its “infowars” campaign.
Alex uses his most-recent experience in an outright ban to sound a warning that the enemy is already among us. Internet censorship threatens to stifle out a recent phenomenon of free thought and widespread information that has flourished on the Internet / world wide web. Only by standing up to undue constraints on our rights and by saying no to efforts to chill speech on the web can we save a stronghold of free humanity.
THE SAME PRICKS WHO WANT TO QUADRUPLE YOUR ELECTRIC BILL BY TRADING "CARBON CREDITS" WANT TO CHARGE YOU FOR USING THE INTERNET AND LIMIT THE CONTENT UNLESS YOU PAY "FULL PRICE".
- Frightening Taste Of Internet Censorship As Major Free Speech Websites Blocked
- Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites
- Obama Information Czar Calls For Banning Free Speech
- Conspiracy Theories (Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School; Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School — January 15, 2008)
- Should Obama Control the Internet?
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard”
- Proposed Web video restrictions cause outrage in Italy
- Joining China and Iran, Australia to Filter Internet
- Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites
- Internet Censorship: Major Truth-Providing Websites Blocked By Asia Netcom To New Zealand Users
- New Zealand blocks two websites selectively
- Online Kiwis maybe feeling Oz censor trickledown
- Australia’s compulsory internet filtering ‘costly, ineffective’
- Australia Censors Wikileaks Page
- WikiLeaks Exposes Australian Web Blacklist
- Gates backs China in Google censorship spat
- Gates calls China censorship ‘limited’
- Microsoft’s Mundie calls for ‘internet driving licence’
- UN agency calls for global cyberwarfare treaty, ‘driver’s license’ for Web users
- Internet ‘driver’s license’? Microsoft’s Mundie wants it
- House Passes Cybersecurity Bill
- S. 773: Cybersecurity Act of 2009
- Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
- TIME: Driver’s licenses for the Internet
- Enemies Of Free Speech Call For Internet Licensing
- Information Week: May I See Your Internet Driver’s License?
- NY Times: Driver’s Licenses for the Internet?
- Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan
- Police want backdoor to Web users’ private data
- Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
- Pentagon Secretly Goes To War With The Internet
- Air Force Creates “Counter Blog” Response Plan To Quell Online Dissent
- Lt. Col. Ralph Peters Calls For Military Killing Of War Journalists
- U.S. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears
- AOL Time-Warner Censors Alex Jones Websites
- My ISP (Internode) has blocked infowars.com!!!
- MySpace Admits Censorship Of Prison Planet.com
- Major International Transport Hub Censors Political Websites
- ISPs to record all emails and calls
- DOD to start using Web 2.0
- Microsoft exec: Internet still not safe enough
- UNIC Moscow participates at the open meeting of the “Year of Safe Internet in the Russian Federation” Organizing Committee
- Cybersecurity through public-private partnership
- Industry should lead cybersecurity partnership
- Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites
- Obama Information Czar Calls For Banning Free Speech
- Conspiracy Theories (Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School; Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School — January 15, 2008)
- Should Obama Control the Internet?
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller: Internet is “Number One National Hazard”
- Proposed Web video restrictions cause outrage in Italy
- Joining China and Iran, Australia to Filter Internet
- Leaked Australian blacklist reveals banned sites
- Internet Censorship: Major Truth-Providing Websites Blocked By Asia Netcom To New Zealand Users
- New Zealand blocks two websites selectively
- Online Kiwis maybe feeling Oz censor trickledown
- Australia’s compulsory internet filtering ‘costly, ineffective’
- Australia Censors Wikileaks Page
- WikiLeaks Exposes Australian Web Blacklist
- Gates backs China in Google censorship spat
- Gates calls China censorship ‘limited’
- Microsoft’s Mundie calls for ‘internet driving licence’
- UN agency calls for global cyberwarfare treaty, ‘driver’s license’ for Web users
- Internet ‘driver’s license’? Microsoft’s Mundie wants it
- House Passes Cybersecurity Bill
- S. 773: Cybersecurity Act of 2009
- Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
- TIME: Driver’s licenses for the Internet
- Enemies Of Free Speech Call For Internet Licensing
- Information Week: May I See Your Internet Driver’s License?
- NY Times: Driver’s Licenses for the Internet?
- Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan
- Police want backdoor to Web users’ private data
- Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
- Pentagon Secretly Goes To War With The Internet
- Air Force Creates “Counter Blog” Response Plan To Quell Online Dissent
- Lt. Col. Ralph Peters Calls For Military Killing Of War Journalists
- U.S. Web-Tracking Plan Stirs Privacy Fears
- AOL Time-Warner Censors Alex Jones Websites
- My ISP (Internode) has blocked infowars.com!!!
- MySpace Admits Censorship Of Prison Planet.com
- Major International Transport Hub Censors Political Websites
- ISPs to record all emails and calls
- DOD to start using Web 2.0
- Microsoft exec: Internet still not safe enough
- UNIC Moscow participates at the open meeting of the “Year of Safe Internet in the Russian Federation” Organizing Committee
- Cybersecurity through public-private partnership
- Industry should lead cybersecurity partnership
Hacker group in demonstration against web filter that blocks sites deemed offensive by authorities
Hackers protesting government censorship of the Internet have shut down several Australian government websites in a demonstration against the announcement that filters would be imposed to block access to websites deemed offensive by the authorities.
The campaign was launched by the anti-Scientology group Anonymous in response to plans to implement a mandatory and wide-ranging internet filter modeled on that of the Communist Chinese government.
This is not the first time the group has attacked government websites, having launched a similar stunt last September.
“The main government website, www.australia.gov.au, and parliament’s www.aph.gov.au were both affected along with the sites for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy,” reports AFP.
“No one messes with our access to perfectly legal (or illegal) content for any reason,” said a statement released by the group.
The Australian government attacked the campaign as “not a legitimate form of political statement.”
Despite the Australian government promising that the Internet filter would only be used to block access to child pornography and other illegal websites, the watchdog group Electronic Frontiers Australia warned that the law will also allow the government to block any website it desires under vague definitions.
In March 2009, the Wikileaks website published a leaked secret list of sites slated to be blocked by Australia’s state-sponsored parental filter.
The list revealed that blacklisted sites included “online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.”
The campaign was launched by the anti-Scientology group Anonymous in response to plans to implement a mandatory and wide-ranging internet filter modeled on that of the Communist Chinese government.
This is not the first time the group has attacked government websites, having launched a similar stunt last September.
“The main government website, www.australia.gov.au, and parliament’s www.aph.gov.au were both affected along with the sites for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy,” reports AFP.
“No one messes with our access to perfectly legal (or illegal) content for any reason,” said a statement released by the group.
The Australian government attacked the campaign as “not a legitimate form of political statement.”
Despite the Australian government promising that the Internet filter would only be used to block access to child pornography and other illegal websites, the watchdog group Electronic Frontiers Australia warned that the law will also allow the government to block any website it desires under vague definitions.
In March 2009, the Wikileaks website published a leaked secret list of sites slated to be blocked by Australia’s state-sponsored parental filter.
The list revealed that blacklisted sites included “online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites, the website of a tour operator and even a Queensland dentist.”
The filter will even block web-based games deemed unsuitable for anyone over the age of fifteen, according to the Australian government.
Calls to mandate Internet users to obtain licenses, in other words government permission, before they can post to the web have grown in recent weeks, with top Microsoft executive Craig Mundie insisting at the recent Davos Economic Forum that the Internet should be policed.
Within days, Time Magazine enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon to back Mundie’s proposal, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than in Communist China, where only people who have been approved by the authorities would be allowed to express free speech.
ISPs across the world, including in supposed democratic countries like the UK, the US and New Zealand, have periodically blocked access to Alex Jones’ websites without justification and only restored access after a barrage of complaints.
As we have highlighted before, although the merits of hacking as a form of protest can be debated, what seems certain to happen is that governments will launch a false flag cyber attack which will cause a major catastrophe that can then be blamed on the free Internet, acting as a pretext to tighten the screws on plans for centralized regulation and censorship which are already in place.
Calls to mandate Internet users to obtain licenses, in other words government permission, before they can post to the web have grown in recent weeks, with top Microsoft executive Craig Mundie insisting at the recent Davos Economic Forum that the Internet should be policed.
Within days, Time Magazine enthusiastically jumped on the bandwagon to back Mundie’s proposal, as authorities push for a system even more stifling than in Communist China, where only people who have been approved by the authorities would be allowed to express free speech.
ISPs across the world, including in supposed democratic countries like the UK, the US and New Zealand, have periodically blocked access to Alex Jones’ websites without justification and only restored access after a barrage of complaints.
As we have highlighted before, although the merits of hacking as a form of protest can be debated, what seems certain to happen is that governments will launch a false flag cyber attack which will cause a major catastrophe that can then be blamed on the free Internet, acting as a pretext to tighten the screws on plans for centralized regulation and censorship which are already in place.
Iran moves closer to nuke warhead capacityTells UN it will enrich uranium to higher levels! By George Jahn (AP) [OH MY GOD! IRAN IS GOING TO WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP!]
VIENNA, Austria — Iran moved closer to being able to produce nuclear warheads Monday with formal notification that it will enrich uranium to higher levels, even while insisting that the move was meant only to provide fuel for its research reactor.
Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh told The Associated Press that he informed the International Atomic Energy Agency of the decision to enrich at least some of its low-enriched uranium stockpile to 20 per cent, considered the threshold value for highly enriched uranium.
Soltanieh, who represents Iran at the Vienna-based IAEA, also said that the U.N. agency's inspectors now overseeing enrichment to low levels would be able to stay on site to fully monitor the process. And he blamed world powers for Iran's decision, asserting that it was their fault that a plan that foresaw Russian and French involvement in supplying the research reactor had failed.
"Until now, we have not received any response to our positive logical and technical proposal," he said. "We cannot leave hospitals and patients desperately waiting for radio isotopes" being produced at the Tehran reactor and used in cancer treatment, he added.
Western powers blame Iran for rejecting an internationally endorsed plan to take Iranian low enriched uranium and return it in the form of fuel for the reactor - and in broader terms for turning down other overtures meant to diminish concerns about its nuclear agenda.
At a news conference with French Defence Minister Herve Morin, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates praised President Barack Obama's attempts to engage the Islamic Republic diplomatically and chided Tehran for not reciprocating.
"No U.S. president has reached out more sincerely, and frankly taken more political risk, in an effort to try to create an opening for engagement for Iran," he said. "All these initiatives have been rejected."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had already announced Sunday that his country would significantly enrich at least some of the country's stockpile of uranium. Still, Monday's notification to the IAEA was important as formal confirmation of the plan, particularly because of the rash of conflicting signals sent in recent months by Iranian officials on the issue.
Although material for the fissile core of a nuclear warhead must be enriched to a level of 90 per cent or more, just getting its stockpile to the 20 per cent mark would be a major step for the country's nuclear program. While enriching to 20 per cent would take about one year, using up to 2,000 centrifuges at Tehran's underground Natanz facility, any next step - moving from 20 to 90 per cent - would take only half a year and between 500-1,000 centrifuges.
Achieving the 20-per cent level "would be going most of the rest of the way to weapon-grade uranium," said David Albright, whose Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security tracks suspected proliferators.
Soltanieh declined to say how much of Iran's stockpile - now estimated at 1.8 tons - would be enriched. Nor did he say when the process would begin. Albright said enriching to higher levels could begin within a day - or only in several months, depending on how far technical preparations had progressed.
Apparent technical problems could also slow the process, he said.
Iran's enrichment program "should be like a Christmas tree in full light," he said. "In fact, the lights are flickering."
Legal constraints could tie Iran's hands as well. A senior official from a member nation of the 35-country IAEA board said he believed Tehran was obligated to notify the agency 60 days in advance of starting to enrich to higher levels.
The official asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the issue. The IAEA had no immediate comment.
On Sunday, Iranian officials said higher enrichment would start on Tuesday.
The Iranian move came just days after Ahmadinejad appeared to move close to endorsing the original deal, which foresaw Tehran exporting the bulk of its low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment and then conversion for fuel rods for the research reactor.
That plan was welcomed internationally because it would have delayed Iran's ability to make a nuclear weapons by shipping out about 70 per cent of its low-enriched uranium stockpile, thereby leaving it with not enough to make a bomb. Tehran denies nuclear weapons ambitions, insisting it needs to enrich to create fuel for an envisaged nuclear reactor network.
The proposal was endorsed by the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - the six powers that originally elicited a tentative approval from Iran in landmark talks last fall. Since then, however, mixed messages from Tehran have infuriated the U.S. and its European allies, who claim Iran is only stalling for time as it attempts to build a nuclear weapon.
Even before Iran's formal notification of the IAEA, some of those nations criticized the plan and suggested it would be met by increased pressure for new penalties on the Islamic Republic.
Iran has defied five U.N. Security Council resolutions - and three sets of U.N. sanctions - aimed at pressuring it to freeze enrichment, and has instead steadily expanded its program.
Iran's enrichment plans "would be a deliberate breach" of the resolutions, the British Foreign Office said. In Berlin, Ulrich Wilhelm, the spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Germany and its allies were watching developments and were prepared to "continue along the path of raising diplomatic pressure."
Associated Press writers Danica Kirka in London, Anne Flaherty in Paris and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
Iranian envoy Ali Asghar Soltanieh told The Associated Press that he informed the International Atomic Energy Agency of the decision to enrich at least some of its low-enriched uranium stockpile to 20 per cent, considered the threshold value for highly enriched uranium.
Soltanieh, who represents Iran at the Vienna-based IAEA, also said that the U.N. agency's inspectors now overseeing enrichment to low levels would be able to stay on site to fully monitor the process. And he blamed world powers for Iran's decision, asserting that it was their fault that a plan that foresaw Russian and French involvement in supplying the research reactor had failed.
"Until now, we have not received any response to our positive logical and technical proposal," he said. "We cannot leave hospitals and patients desperately waiting for radio isotopes" being produced at the Tehran reactor and used in cancer treatment, he added.
Western powers blame Iran for rejecting an internationally endorsed plan to take Iranian low enriched uranium and return it in the form of fuel for the reactor - and in broader terms for turning down other overtures meant to diminish concerns about its nuclear agenda.
At a news conference with French Defence Minister Herve Morin, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates praised President Barack Obama's attempts to engage the Islamic Republic diplomatically and chided Tehran for not reciprocating.
"No U.S. president has reached out more sincerely, and frankly taken more political risk, in an effort to try to create an opening for engagement for Iran," he said. "All these initiatives have been rejected."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had already announced Sunday that his country would significantly enrich at least some of the country's stockpile of uranium. Still, Monday's notification to the IAEA was important as formal confirmation of the plan, particularly because of the rash of conflicting signals sent in recent months by Iranian officials on the issue.
Although material for the fissile core of a nuclear warhead must be enriched to a level of 90 per cent or more, just getting its stockpile to the 20 per cent mark would be a major step for the country's nuclear program. While enriching to 20 per cent would take about one year, using up to 2,000 centrifuges at Tehran's underground Natanz facility, any next step - moving from 20 to 90 per cent - would take only half a year and between 500-1,000 centrifuges.
Achieving the 20-per cent level "would be going most of the rest of the way to weapon-grade uranium," said David Albright, whose Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security tracks suspected proliferators.
Soltanieh declined to say how much of Iran's stockpile - now estimated at 1.8 tons - would be enriched. Nor did he say when the process would begin. Albright said enriching to higher levels could begin within a day - or only in several months, depending on how far technical preparations had progressed.
Apparent technical problems could also slow the process, he said.
Iran's enrichment program "should be like a Christmas tree in full light," he said. "In fact, the lights are flickering."
Legal constraints could tie Iran's hands as well. A senior official from a member nation of the 35-country IAEA board said he believed Tehran was obligated to notify the agency 60 days in advance of starting to enrich to higher levels.
The official asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the issue. The IAEA had no immediate comment.
On Sunday, Iranian officials said higher enrichment would start on Tuesday.
The Iranian move came just days after Ahmadinejad appeared to move close to endorsing the original deal, which foresaw Tehran exporting the bulk of its low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment and then conversion for fuel rods for the research reactor.
That plan was welcomed internationally because it would have delayed Iran's ability to make a nuclear weapons by shipping out about 70 per cent of its low-enriched uranium stockpile, thereby leaving it with not enough to make a bomb. Tehran denies nuclear weapons ambitions, insisting it needs to enrich to create fuel for an envisaged nuclear reactor network.
The proposal was endorsed by the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany - the six powers that originally elicited a tentative approval from Iran in landmark talks last fall. Since then, however, mixed messages from Tehran have infuriated the U.S. and its European allies, who claim Iran is only stalling for time as it attempts to build a nuclear weapon.
Even before Iran's formal notification of the IAEA, some of those nations criticized the plan and suggested it would be met by increased pressure for new penalties on the Islamic Republic.
Iran has defied five U.N. Security Council resolutions - and three sets of U.N. sanctions - aimed at pressuring it to freeze enrichment, and has instead steadily expanded its program.
Iran's enrichment plans "would be a deliberate breach" of the resolutions, the British Foreign Office said. In Berlin, Ulrich Wilhelm, the spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Germany and its allies were watching developments and were prepared to "continue along the path of raising diplomatic pressure."
Associated Press writers Danica Kirka in London, Anne Flaherty in Paris and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.
AP Article Fuels Iran War Hysteria
Article Speculates Medical Uranium Enrichment a Weapons Plot
Article Speculates Medical Uranium Enrichment a Weapons Plot
UPDATE: The Associated Press has pulled the original article by George Jahn and it is being replaced by a more benign article called “Iran to stop enrichment if given nuclear fuel” by Nasser Karimi. (2/9/2010)
In a widely-circulated article which has further fueled Western hysteria about the prospect of an imminent war with Iran, the Associated Press today claimed that Iran’s uranium enrichment program move, an effort to produce medical isotopes which are rapidly running out in the nation, was a secret plot to build nuclear weapons.
In a widely-circulated article which has further fueled Western hysteria about the prospect of an imminent war with Iran, the Associated Press today claimed that Iran’s uranium enrichment program move, an effort to produce medical isotopes which are rapidly running out in the nation, was a secret plot to build nuclear weapons.
The article, entitled “Iran moves closer to nuke warhead capacity,” claims that Iran had informed the IAEA that it “will increase its ability to make nuclear warheads,” an allegation which is not only unsupported by fact but even goes beyond the ample bellicose Western statements quoted in the piece.
In fact the IAEA’s own confirmation of the Iranian statement says simply that Iran is planning to begin efforts for “production of less than 20 percent enriched uranium,” noted by the AP piece as “just below the threshold for high enriched uranium” but actually well short of the 90 percent plus needed for weapons grade material.
Iran has made it clear than the approximately 20 percent enriched uranium will be used in an effort to produce fuel rods for its US-built Tehran reactor, needed in the creation of medical isotopes. The move came as efforts for a third party enrichment deal, which would provide Iran with access to fuel rods from overseas, has stalled amid international ire.
But the AP piece glossed over Iran’s acceptance of the third party enrichment deal last week, a move which it claims was “welcomed internationally” but which was actually roundly condemned by Western officials who claimed that accepting their own demands was an effort to “stall.”
In fact this was the key to Iran’s move, as German officials insisted that Iran’s acceptance couldn’t be accepted, and that they would have to start a new round of negotiations, something Western officials have repeatedly rejected. With the prospect for a third-party enrichment deal at best speculative going forward, Iran was left with the choice of abandoning nuclear medicine treatments for thousands of patients or pushing forward with efforts to become self-sufficient in the process.
In fact the IAEA’s own confirmation of the Iranian statement says simply that Iran is planning to begin efforts for “production of less than 20 percent enriched uranium,” noted by the AP piece as “just below the threshold for high enriched uranium” but actually well short of the 90 percent plus needed for weapons grade material.
Iran has made it clear than the approximately 20 percent enriched uranium will be used in an effort to produce fuel rods for its US-built Tehran reactor, needed in the creation of medical isotopes. The move came as efforts for a third party enrichment deal, which would provide Iran with access to fuel rods from overseas, has stalled amid international ire.
But the AP piece glossed over Iran’s acceptance of the third party enrichment deal last week, a move which it claims was “welcomed internationally” but which was actually roundly condemned by Western officials who claimed that accepting their own demands was an effort to “stall.”
In fact this was the key to Iran’s move, as German officials insisted that Iran’s acceptance couldn’t be accepted, and that they would have to start a new round of negotiations, something Western officials have repeatedly rejected. With the prospect for a third-party enrichment deal at best speculative going forward, Iran was left with the choice of abandoning nuclear medicine treatments for thousands of patients or pushing forward with efforts to become self-sufficient in the process.
And while British officials insisted, and the AP was quick to point out, that they doubt Iran’s capability to actually produce the fuel rods, other experts said they would likely be able to, and Iran seemed to have few options but to try.
At the end of the day though, the biggest problem with the piece was the reference to “nuke warheads,” a technology which Iran isn’t even accused of moving forward. If Iran isn’t even capable of making fuel rods for medical reactors out of 20 percent enriched uranium it is hoping to produce, it is absolutely absurd and irresponsible to claim that Iran is nearing the capability of producing nuclear-capable warheads, which would require not only weapons-grade uranium which they are not producing, but advanced delivery systems.
With Iran’s enrichment facilities under 24-hour IAEA surveillance, they will be able to confirm that neither Iran’s current 3.5 percent uranium or its speculative 20 percent uranium is diverted to anything but civilian purposes. The surveillance would also instantly confirm if Iran began enriching uranium beyond 20 percent, meaning the threat of Iran suddenly acquiring a nuclear weapon is entirely illusory. Western officials, and some writers at the Associated Press, however, see fit to look beyond the lack of concrete threats and instead rely on public fear of the unknown to make the case for escalating tensions beyond all reason, and bringing the West ever closer to a needless war with Iran.
At the end of the day though, the biggest problem with the piece was the reference to “nuke warheads,” a technology which Iran isn’t even accused of moving forward. If Iran isn’t even capable of making fuel rods for medical reactors out of 20 percent enriched uranium it is hoping to produce, it is absolutely absurd and irresponsible to claim that Iran is nearing the capability of producing nuclear-capable warheads, which would require not only weapons-grade uranium which they are not producing, but advanced delivery systems.
With Iran’s enrichment facilities under 24-hour IAEA surveillance, they will be able to confirm that neither Iran’s current 3.5 percent uranium or its speculative 20 percent uranium is diverted to anything but civilian purposes. The surveillance would also instantly confirm if Iran began enriching uranium beyond 20 percent, meaning the threat of Iran suddenly acquiring a nuclear weapon is entirely illusory. Western officials, and some writers at the Associated Press, however, see fit to look beyond the lack of concrete threats and instead rely on public fear of the unknown to make the case for escalating tensions beyond all reason, and bringing the West ever closer to a needless war with Iran.
AP Pulls Iran Nukes Story After Antiwar.com Exposé
Associated Press issued a story yesterday (Monday) entitled “Iran moves closer to nuke warhead capacity.” It was full of inaccurate and misleading information implying that Iran had admitted trying to enrich weapons-grade nuclear material. The story appeared on a wide variety of media.
Last night, Antiwar.com news editor Jason Ditz issued a story refuting the AP story.
This morning, Associated Press recalled the story without explanation and replaced it with another, much less inflamatory story written by a different author.
It is important to question the mainstream media and not let them get away with helping the warmongers with their agenda.
Last night, Antiwar.com news editor Jason Ditz issued a story refuting the AP story.
This morning, Associated Press recalled the story without explanation and replaced it with another, much less inflamatory story written by a different author.
It is important to question the mainstream media and not let them get away with helping the warmongers with their agenda.
The Israeli's and their hawk allies are having a connniption fit over the prospect Iran is building nukes!http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conniption_fit
Last night on WABC radio [am 770] out of NYC, NY-host John Batchelor had a line up of pro Israel guests on his show. I thought I was listening to radio Tel Aviv. They denounce the Goldstone report which is highly critical of Israel's "Operation Cast Lead", the Gaza incursion which killed hundreds of woman and children and destroyed over 10,000 buildings.
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The CBS radio network has Robert Berger working in Israel as the networks' jewish propaganda specialist. All of his stories on Israel are pro-Israel.
(CBS) Robert Berger has been reporting for CBS Radio News since 1989. Based in Jerusalem, he has covered major news events, including the First Gulf War in 1991, the Israeli-PLO Accords in 1993, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, the Second Palestinian Uprising from 2000-2005, the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and the Gaza War in 2009.He has also been with US forces in the Persian Gulf during confrontations with Iraq and covered the funeral of Jordan’s King Hussein and terrorist bombings in Amman and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Berger has reported for CBS News on major stories outside the Middle East as well. He covered the US intervention in Haiti in 1994, the deployment of US peacekeepers in Bosnia in 1996, the funeral of Mother Teresa in Calcutta in 1997, the US embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998, the earthquakes in Turkey (1999) and Pakistan (2005), and the tsunami in Indonesia in 2005. Berger has been honored with a number of journalism awards, beginning with a Gold Medal New York Festivals Award in 1994 for “Best Coverage of an Ongoing News Story” from Haiti. His live coverage of the Rabin assassination earned a Peabody, an Edward R. Murrow, the New York Festivals, and the Sigma Delta Chi bestowed by the Society of Professional Journalists. In 1996, Berger won Sigma Delta Chi and New York Festivals Awards for his reports from the scene of Israeli-Palestinian gun battles in the West Bank. He won Sigma Delta Chi and Murrow awards for his coverage of the US Embassy bombing in Nairobi in 1998. His coverage of the Turkey earthquake in 1999 earned an additional Murrow award for “Best Use of Sound.” Most recently, his coverage of the Lebanon War in 2006 brought additional Murrow and Sigma Delta Chi awards. In addition to his radio reporting, Berger has contributed television pieces to various CBS News broadcasts. He was born and raised in Kansas City and attended Brandeis University in the Boston area. He is married and has three daughters.
The Pro Israeli "AJC" and its' spokeweasle David Harris buy plenty of air time to rattle the sabres and exploit the paranoia over Iran.
LOOK AT THIS PRO WAR, PRO ISRAEL SITE-
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