5 Minutes To Self-Immolation Of The Israeli Empire

Israel Shahak wrote a foreword to his translation of Oded Yinon’s 1982 paper for the World Zionist Organization which revealed Zion’s plans for America, Israel, the Mideast and the world. Wesley Clark was given a list of 7 Muslim nations 10 days after 911 that America was to invade. That 2001 hit list originated in Israel in 1982. The last nation on that list is Iran.

Today I would hope to prove that if America attacks Iran for Israel, then the Israeli Empire will self-immolate and the America we knew will die. The words 5 Minutes in the title refers to the undeniable fact that it will take Iran 5 Minutes to sink the American Persian Gulf fleet, eviscerate the US Central Command and send America into a Depression so severe that I think it should be called the Greatest Starvation.

The Iranians have hundreds of small boats armed with Russian made anti-ship missiles designed to sink American aircraft carriers. Those would be the N-22 Sunburn (Mach 2.1) and the N-26 Onyx (Mach 3). They also have the Chinese made C-802 which has a 165 kg (364 pound) warhead. They have rocket artillery with ranges of 65, 92 and 130 miles (100, 150 and 210 km). This rocket artillery includes the Zelzal-2 meaning “Earthquake”. It is a 610 mm heavy artillery rocket with a 600 kg (1,323 lb) warhead. The missile is based on the Soviet FROG-7 missile.

Iran has 20 submarines. Their Russian designed torpedoes have a top speed of 360 km/h (223.7 mph).

The Iranians have many other anti-ship missiles that can be launched from small and medium sized boats from the land and from helicopters and jets. See the reference below as they are too numerous to name.

The Iranians recently electronically hijacked an advanced CIA stealth drone proving they are not a primitive nation. Iran has a drone with a 1,000 km range capable of firing 4 missiles.

Perform this thought experiment. Suppose Israel launches 100 jets to attack Iran. What does the American Persian Gulf fleet do? Do they wait for the Iranians to launch ten thousand torpedoes, missiles and rocket artillery shells from more than a thousand locations? Do American fighter pilots scramble their jets and fly in circles waiting for the Israeli jets to show up an hour later? What if Iran issues an ultimatum to the American field commanders that launching their jets would be tantamount to a declaration of war?

In the first 5 Minutes every single ship without exception in the American Persian Gulf fleet will be sinking. In the first 5 Minutes every single base in the US Central Command will have multiple incoming missiles rapid;y approaching and spelling doom for NATO troops.

Israel will have 150,000 incoming missiles from Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. Hezbollah has 300 or more M-600 guided missiles with 1,000 pound warheads and is capable of turning Tel Aviv into a parking lot.

As an exercise, you might calculate what will be left of the Israeli population if the 2,000 most industrialized and most populous square miles in Israel were hit by 1,000 thousand pound fuel air explosives and by 1,000 thousand pound conventional bombs. Hint 1: 42% of Israeli Jews live in 528 square miles of metropolitan Tel Aviv. Hint 2: A fuel air explosive has 4 times the impact of a conventional bomb. Fires and explosives require oxygen. A fuel air explosive burns up all the oxygen in the atmosphere in a radius of half a mile or more so it has more room for explosives.

Might I take this opportunity to point out what the only adult running for President of the United States has said:

The only thing Iran does not have is a plan to make a nuclear bomb.

I would like to make a suggestion:

I believe Iran has an advanced High Powered Microwave Electromagnetic Pulse (HPM EMP) defense system under construction. Israel does not want to attack Iran during winter cloud cover so the Iranians have a few months to prepare a welcome for those Israeli and American jets. I would suggest the Iranians reveal their top secret HPM EMP device either from Syria or Iran by disabling an American ship or a few jets or maybe both. This might be sufficient reason even for a fanatical Israeli to call off World War III. And why proceed with an attack that would be doomed to failure from EMP weapons?

Please consider that Iran is an ally of China and Russia through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in which they have Observer status. The Iranians made secret alliances with the Pakistani military after the US killed those 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26th. Pakistan has lots of Hydrogen bombs. Of more immediate concern is that Russian carrier task force in Syria. What plan does Washington have to avoid escalating a missile exchange between Syria and Israel and Russia into a thermonuclear war.

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The American-Iranian Cold War in the Middle East and the Threat of A Broader War

A cold war has been ongoing between Tehran and Washington. U.S. spies, drones, assassinations, and accusations against Tehran have all been a part of this package. Washington and its minions have been using every means possible, including international organizations, like the United Nations, as a battleground against Tehran in this cold war. The destabilization campaign being waged against Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon are also a critical front in this cold war…

The Obama Administration has used 2011 to unleash Washington’s so-called “Coalition of the Moderate” against the Resistance Bloc, which pins together all the countries and forces united by their opposition to U.S. and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East-North Africa (MENA) region. The two camps that are becoming more and more visible in the MENA region are falling along the lines of what Washington, Tel Aviv, and NATO planned on forming after the 2006 Israeli defeat in Lebanon as a means of tackling Iran and its allies. In 2007, the United States of America, represented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates, held a meeting in Cairo under the “GCC + 2” formula with the Gulf Cooperation Council – Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, the U.A.E., Oman, and Qatar – plus Egypt and Jordan to form a strategic and all encompassing front against Iran, Syria, and their regional allies. This “Coalition of the Moderate” formed by Washington was a direct extension of NATO that also included Israel and Turkey as important and central participants.

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Stitched up like Kippers: Stephen Lawrence murder: Dobson and Norris found guilty

Two men have been convicted of the racist murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, 18 years after he was stabbed to death near a south London bus stop.

Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty by an Old Bailey jury after a trial based on forensic evidence. Scientists found a tiny blood stain on Dobson's jacket that could only have come from Mr Lawrence. As he was led away, Dobson told the jury they had condemned an "innocent man". Sentencing will be on Wednesday.

The courtroom was completely silent as the jury delivered their verdicts. It was only afterwards, as the implications sank in, that people began to react.

Stephen Lawrence's mother remained composed, as she did throughout the trial. She wept a little, but also smiled at her solicitor. She was comforted by Stephen's brother Stuart. His father, Neville, wiped a tear from his eye as he left court.

Above, in the public gallery, Pauline Dobson, the mother of one of the defendants Gary Dobson, began to sob loudly, before crying out "He did not kill that man". As he was led away with his co-defendant David Norris, Gary Dobson turned to the jury and shouted "You have condemned an innocent man here today".

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UK: Double whammy from green taxes

Britons face soaring costs for fuel and family holidays as a result of green taxes, experts warn today. A leading energy analyst has predicted that one in three households will face fuel poverty if the Government does not back a new era of nuclear power.

In a separate report, think-tank Civitas says that environmental charges imposed on airlines by Brussels from this week mean that a family of four will have to pay an extra £130 for return flights to the U.S. by the end of the decade.

The fuel poverty claim is made by Tony Lodge, a former adviser to the Conservatives, in a report from the Centre for Policy Studies. He warns that failure to build new atomic plants will leave the country reliant on expensive foreign gas; the expense of importing this would then be passed on to customers through higher fuel bills.

Britain’s existing nuclear power plants are due to close within a few years. As a result, the country’s nuclear capacity will fall by 75 per cent. A number of coal-fired plants are also set to shut, as the Government strives to meet EU targets for reducing carbon emissions.

Wind farms – funded by green taxes on homes and businesses – will not be able to cover the resulting energy shortfall, Mr Lodge warns.

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Slavery by Consent (Full Film)

This powerful series will attempt to not only show the deception that has been taking place, in the past and currently, as many documentaries have covered this topic before. Rather, this series will attempt to uncover the key components that will hopefully empower each one of us, to regain control of our lives, freedoms, rights and dignity, just by using the same matrix that we’re currently living in to our advantage, rather than leaving it in the hands of those who are currently calling the shots.

The NWO will not only be exposed, but hopefully dismantled. Those who keep complaining about the system, but are not willing to educate them selves, so they’re able to stand up for them selves, and others, end up empowering the same system, they’re trying to reject.

Iowa Is Golden When Obama Wins, But Absolute Garbage When Ron Paul Wins

This video speaks for itself about the importance of the Iowa caucuses UNLESS Ron Paul is the one who is winning.

The Federal Reserve Is The Black Hole In American Democracy

The Federal Reserve is one of the most powerful and secretive institutions in Washington, long considered beyond the reach of lawmakers. But now, as details emerge of how the Fed secretly doled out more than a trillion dollars during the financial crisis, a rare bipartisan movement in Congress demands that the Fed be held accountable.

Emma West. "I want to face trial"

Tuesday, 03 January 2012 13:12

Emma West appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court in south London (Tuesday 3rd January) charged with two racially aggravated public order offences, one with intent to cause fear or provocation of violence.

She was charged with intent to cause fear or provocation of violence after a passenger, Ena-May Eubanks, said she hit her left shoulder with a “closed fist” – a convenient new development!

By all accounts, the court gave out Miss West’s personal address, putting her at risk unnecessarily.

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Sandringham Estate, Queen Elizabeth II Retreat, Home To Human Remains, UK Police Say

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LONDON — Human remains have been discovered on Sandringham estate, a vast area in rural Norfolk where the royal family retreats for the holiday season, local police announced Monday.

A terse statement posted to the website of the Norfolk Constabulary said that a member of the public found the remains on New Year's Day in an area of woodland at Anmer, a tiny village about 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of London. The hamlet is home to several dozen people and sits around three miles (4.8 kilometers) from Sandringham House, the 19th property at center of several thousand acres of gardens, mudflats, woods, and farmland.

Police Sgt. Andrew Terry said he didn't know whether the remains were found on the site of Sandringham, but Britain's Press Association news agency identified Anmer as being part of the royal estate. No indication of the age or nature of the remains was given, and Terry said no further information would be released until Tuesday.

Sandringham has served as a private residence for British monarchs since 1862, and queen Elizabeth II traditionally retreats there with her family during the holiday season.

The estate's website says that half of the royal residence is rented out to agricultural tenants. There are also two stud farms, a fruit farm and a country park which, together with the estate's gardens, employ over 100 full-time staff.

Buckingham Palace referred questions about the find back to police.

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The UK's Sordid Zionist Underside

Much has been written about Rupert Murdoch’s massive worldwide telephone and mail hacking of celebrities, sportsmen politicians and military servicemen who were all put under secret surveillance, but activity of this kind on such a large scale cannot be kept in-house, and a London private detective while collecting information for a society divorce, claimed both Tony Blair’s and Gordon Browns marriages are shams, also the investigator stumbled on unhealthy links between Tony Blair and Rupert Murdoch.

Tony Blair repeatedly refused to condemn Murdoch's phone and mail hacking and actually put on pressure to silence Tom Watson the New Labour M.P who helped expose the criminal goings on, and Blair and Murdoch are so close that Tony Blair is actually godfather to Murdoch’s daughter Grace.

New Labour was from start to finish a Rothschild Zionist front organisation, and they fund Murdoch's empire with USA taxpayer’s money.

Murphy-Fawkes the N.S.A whistleblower claimed the USA tapped Tony and Cheries phones from day one, as they saw him as a " Pinocchio" figure lightweight unreliable and unstable, because the NSA partly funds the British GCHQ they have access to everything they have from telephones and emails worldwide, and we now know from GCHQ traffic that Tony was brought to power for just one reason, the Iraq war and that Tony sanctioned the murder of Dr.David Kelly as Kelly refused to lie about WMDs in Iraq.

The private investigator while working with telephone intercepts also has print outs which claims Tony Blair's prior knowledge of Princess Diana's death, he has been to the police who just fob him off and say investigations are already in hand, strangely some days later his home was burgled and relevant papers disappeared, as did blogger Colin Carswell who covered it, Colin claims that Rebekah Brookes Nicole Kidman and Carol Caplin are all Jews connected to Blair and Murdoch and all working for Israel.

When Tessa Jowell was culture secretary she was tasked with investigating and regulating Murdoch's News International, she had her phone tapped her mail read and a bug and camera installed in her home, and Murdoch apparatchik Rebekah Brookes said to both Tom Watson and Tessa Jowell unless the investigation into the Murdoch activities stopped, they would be hounded for the rest of their lives scandals both true and untrue would appear about them and their families in the Murdoch press.

Murdoch had people tap the phones of families of murder victims such as Millie Dowler, and a slush fund was set up to buy off any more court cases and bad publicity.

The unanswered questions about why tap phones and mail of army servicemen and 9/11 and 7/7 bombing victims, appears to be too check everyone is still onside and not looking under the veil, any serviceman or journalists who get too close and who speak out on criminal activity has accidents, the Pat Tillman case is one in particular.

I live in a Jewish area of London and more and more Jewish people are breaking ranks and speaking out and asking when will British people see the human vermin who govern them? When will they stop supporting their own financial ruin and foreign wars ?

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Iran: Ahmadinejad says sanctions will be met with 'force'

Tehran, 2 Jan. (AKI) - The Iranian Central Bank will respond to new sanctions imposed by the United States "with force, "Iranian president Ahmadinejad told an annual meeting of senior central bank officials on Monday, according to state media.

US president Barack Obama on Saturday signed into law a defense bill that included sanctions on the Iranian central bank in response to Iran's refusal to curb its nuclear program which the West believes is for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies it has a nuclear arms program. Separately, Iran is flexing its muscles in response to Western moves to isolate it economically.

Iran's deputy Navy Commander Mahmoud Mousavi told the official news agency IRNA. on Monday it had conducted a successful test of a long-range missile during its naval exercise in the Gulf.

"We have test fired a long-range shore-to-sea missile called Qader, which managed to successfully destroy predetermined targets in the Gulf," Mousavi said in the report

The Euroepan Union says it may follow the US's lead by imposing an import ban on Iranian crude oil.

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Mystery of the DEAD herring

Thousands of dead herring have been discovered washed up on a north Norwegian beach - prompting Doomsday predictors to hail it as another sign the world is set to end. More than 20 tonnes of the fish is currently carpeting the beach of Kvaenes, in Nordreisa, with experts views differing on how they have come to be there. One thing is for sure, it will provide welcome ammunition to those believing the Mayan prophecy that 2012 will bring the end of Earth.

Jan-Petter Jorgensen, 44, was walking with his dog Molly when he found the stinky haul. He said: 'People say that something similar happened in the 80s. Maybe the fish have been caught in a deprived oxygen environment, and then died of fresh water?'

Another theory is that the fish were washed ashore during a recent storm, or trapped in shallow waters and affected by freshwater from a river that flows into the bay. Jens Christian Holst, of the Institute of Marine Research, said several factors could have come together at once. And he said he hoped they would be able to conduct tests on the dead fish to see if they had died of a disease.

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First sign of an apocalyptic year to come? Thousands of blackbirds fall to their death

Ancient Mayan legend says that 2012 will bring the end of the world. A small Arkansas town might have shown the first example of that as approximately 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead from the sky last night in the early hours of the new year. As if the incident was not strange enough, it is the second time in two years that the birds have fallen as the calendar year changes.

'I thought the Mayor was messing with me when he called me,' said Milton McCullar, the street department supervisor in Beebe, Arkansas. 'He got me up at 4:00 in the morning and told me we had birds falling out of he sky.' Mr McCullar told ABC News.

Given the amount of birds and the condensed time and location of their deaths, there has to be some commonality behind the bizarre event, but scientists remain baffled. The fact that the birds were even flying in the middle of the night makes no sense because that is not something that they are trained to do.

'Most of these birds don’t see any better at night than you or I do. They aren’t adapted to see at night like owls so if they went off from their perches at night they're blind at night just like you would be' said Dr Kevin McGowan, an ornithologist from Cornell University.

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Arab Bloody Spring: 'Protests bring Sharia law not democracy' - RT

The Arab Spring uprisings were arguably the most significant events of the last 12 months. Protests are still raging across the region, even after regimes were toppled. Our correspondent Irina Galushko who's at Tahrir Square in Cairo says protests brought no improvement to the region but economic and political instability.

UK Immigration: Howzat! Now they've got us all by the googlies

Call Me Dave came to power promising to cut immigration to a trickle and scrap the pernicious European Yuman Rites Act. He has reneged on both counts.

Net immigration actually rose to record levels last year, with more than 250,000 new arrivals. This year there are estimates that the number might fall to 180,000, but these predictions have a history of proving horribly inaccurate. Despite our economic troubles and unemployment heading for three million, Britain is still a magnet for immigrants from all over the world.

They are attracted here by a generous, no-questions-asked welfare regime, and a twisted legal system which moves heaven and earth to make sure they won’t be deported even if they have arrived illegally or commit a crime while they are here.

It is virtually impossible to remove anyone from Britain, thanks to the human rights racket and the deliberately perverse interpretation of the law by politically-motivated judges appointed by the last government.

Labour purposely abandoned border controls to change the face of Britain for ever and ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity’. Ministers saw no upper limit to the number of foreigners settling in our overcrowded island and smeared as ‘racist’ anyone who dared to disagree. Once you’re in, the chances of you ever being kicked out are close to zero.

Calling Britain a ‘soft touch’ is a cliche which doesn’t begin to do justice to the scale of the problem. Many arrivals from outside Europe come through ports in Greece, France and Italy, where they are supposed to be processed. They are required by law to apply for asylum in the first country they set foot in.

But our so-called EU ‘partners’ simply wave them on to Britain. We are now even banned by the courts from returning them to Greece, which despite being in the EU isn’t considered ‘safe’.

We are told that’s because the Greek asylum system is a shambles. Tough. Why should the Greeks be allowed to dump their problems on our doorstep?

More than 90 per cent of foreign nationals who arrive in Britain in this way are never considered for deportation. In 2010, on the latest figures available, just 1,600 out of 18,000 failed asylum seekers who had travelled here through other European countries were considered for removal, despite having no legal right to remain in Britain.

Judges and lawyers display great ingenuity in discovering reasons why illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay.

The Yuman Rites Act is an elastic piece of legislation which can accommodate an infinite number of imaginative interpretations of the law. We are all familiar with the story of the Bolivian shoplifter who was granted leave to remain in Britain because of his right to a ‘family life’ — determined, in part, by the fact that he kept a pet cat.

This caused a spat at the Tory conference between Home Secretary Theresa May and our dripping wet Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, for whom any piece of European legislation, no matter how insane, carries the weight of a holy writ.

Then there was the case I brought you last May, concerning the 22-year-old Sri Lankan, jailed for 15 months for robbery, who managed to resist deportation on the grounds that he, too, had an inalienable right to a ‘family life’.

He wasn’t married, had no children, no job, but he did have a girlfriend. So now the definition of ‘family life’ extends to some bird he met in a pub. Judge Christopher Hanson even refused to allow us to publish his name, any details of his crime, where he lives, or how he arrived here in the first place — on the grounds that not only is he entitled to a ‘family life’ he also has an absolute right to ‘privacy’.

This was secret justice from a Secret Santa, masquerading as a judge, paid handsomely by British taxpayers whose views he apparently holds in contempt. The case was dragged out — on legal aid, naturally — with the expert assistance of a defence barrister who used to work at the European Court of Human Rights.

Cameron’s plans to replace the convention with a British Bill of Rights have been scuppered by the Lib Dems’ lunatic fetish for all things European. He should tell Clegg to get stuffed. 

The Lib Dems are hardly going to collapse the Coalition to defend the rights of foreign criminals, international terrorists, failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants to stay in Britain. They’d be wiped out at the next election.

The paying public is sick of the abuse of the immigration and asylum system. The camel’s back is close to breaking point.

Now we learn that a Bangladeshi trainee accountant called Abdullah Munawar, who was refused permission to stay in Britain, has won his appeal against deportation because he has a right to a ‘private life’ under Article Eight of the European Convention. This is because he has made friends here and plays cricket. It’s not as if they’re short of cricket pitches in Bangladesh.

If you stay here long enough, you’re bound to make some friends, but that is irrelevant. He should have gone home when his student visa expired. If playing cricket is now a legitimate basis for flouting the immigration process, then the game is well and truly up.

For a start, it will throw a large googly into the Government’s plans to prevent hundreds of thousands of temporary student visas becoming a passport to permanent residency. I’ve heard of Norman Tebbit’s famous ‘cricket test’, but this really is ridiculous.

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Britain's big five banks aim to rake in £35bn profit this year

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Britain's biggest banks are aiming to rake in around £35billion in combined profits this year while families see their incomes squeezed in the worst downturn for almost a century. Between them, the big five banks in the UK will earn around £137million for every working day of this year, according to City estimates collated by financial news agency Reuters.

Barclays is expected to make £7billion profit during 2012. State-supported Lloyds Banking Group is tipped to earn more than £3.3billion and Royal Bank of Scotland – also bailed out by the taxpayer – is predicted to report a gain of £4.6billion after making a £1.1billion loss in 2010.

HSBC, which has extensive operations overseas as well as on the UK high street, is forecast to make a mammoth £15.4billion and fellow international bank Standard Chartered is tipped to earn £4.6billion.

The banks will reveal their results for 2011 from next month and are expected to have made just under £30billion, around a third more than their combined earnings in 2010.

This year, they are expected to increase their collective profits by another 15 per cent. But despite this, the banks are expected to announce a further round of job cuts over the next 12 months, adding to the tens of thousands of employees they are already cutting.

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UK: As train fares rocket, MPs enjoy first-class travel at our expense

Cosseted: Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, pictured with Labour leader Ed Miliband 

on a train to Newcastle, claimed six first-class fares of up to £116 each 

between London and Wakefield in the months of June and July last year

MPs are on course to claim more than £1million a year for first-class travel – despite a promised ban on the practice in the wake of the expenses scandal. The claims have more than doubled in a year as they exploit a loophole in the latest ‘tough’ expenses regime, figures show. They highlight the extent to which the system cossets MPs from the crippling rises in the cost of living that are squeezing the incomes of ordinary families.

While commuters are facing a rise in ticket prices of up to 11 per cent, MPs can simply bill the taxpayer and continue to travel first class.

Figures released by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, covering the months of June and July last year, show that MPs claimed for 1,334 first-class rail journeys at a total cost of £136,800 – a 155 per cent increase on the same period the previous year.

During the same two months, they also took 115 business class flights, claiming £35,722 from the taxpayer. The combined claims for upper class rail and air fares are now on course to top £1million a year.

Emma Boon, campaign director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, called for a clampdown on the practice. ‘It beggars belief that some politicians think they can live the high life at taxpayers’ expense,’ she said. ‘If they want to sit in first class, they can pay the extra themselves.’

MPs’ claims for taxis have also doubled in the past year, despite a supposed ban in all but exceptional circumstances. In June and July, they claimed £13,681 in taxi fares – up from £6,384 in the same period the previous year.

MPs reacted with fury to proposals for a ban on first-class travel in the wake of the expenses scandal. The backlash resulted in watered-down proposals that allowed MPs to travel first class if they could find a more expensive standard class ticket.

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UK: Now small firms are targeted by taxman

Tax inspectors are threatening tens of thousands of small firms with fines if they fail spot checks on their paperwork. The HM Revenue & Customs crackdown comes despite a Government pledge to cut red tape and regulation for small businesses. There has also been controversy over claims that inspectors have let large firms such as Goldman Sachs and Vodafone off millions of pounds in tax.

HMRC has been piloting the ‘business record checks’ in eight areas. Inspectors trawl through company paperwork dating back several years looking for what they deem to be inadequate proof of expenses and income. Firms found to have failed to keep or preserve records ‘in real time’ can be fined up to £3,000. The pilot projects suggest that around 12 per cent of firms would fail the audit.

Under the HMRC’s plans to expand the checks, as many as 20,000 small businesses will face demands to show receipts for income and expenditure. Those who are unable to do so will face penalties, which business leaders warn could push some into bankruptcy and hit the economic recovery.

John Walker, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said: ‘Despite the worsening economy HMRC are launching this scheme regardless of the consequences. We have spoken to HMRC and expressed our concerns about this a number of times. But as far as they and ministers are concerned it is an absolute policy aim to make this happen. There is a huge difference between the rhetoric of the Government about helping small businesses and what they’re doing in reality.’

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Declare Your Personal Independence: I Hereby Secede

By Roger Young

Secession is a topic that seems to increasingly pop up in conversation, discussion, and written opinion.

I believe that more people every day are seeing state secession as a viable and even necessary action to counteract increasing personal oppression, stolen liberties, and monetary incompetence and thievery by the United States Government.

According to the Declaration of Independence, when such conditions become intolerable for the people, "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

But why wait for your state to secede? In the meantime, why not make a personal declaration of secession? Below is my idea of what a personal declaration would look like. I encourage others to make this same declaration and add or subtract any statements you deem relevant. Or write your own. Make copies and distribute to friends and relatives, encouraging them to do likewise. By all means, send copies to your Congress critters and other ruling tyrants. Convey the message that you no longer willingly submit to their arbitrary rules, and the theft and violence committed against you personally and against others in your name.

Some will dismiss such a declaration as merely symbolic, lacking any legitimate authority. By how does it contain any less authority than a state and constitution created by others a couple centuries before you were born? Here is my declaration:

I, Roger Young, a sovereign, free-born individual, and a child of God/Nature, do hereby declare my personal secession from the political entity known as the "United States of America." Though reason tells me that this entity has no inherent legitimacy toward ruling my life (as this arrangement was not created by me, nor obtained my consent), I find it necessary to declare such a separation.

By this act of secession, I hereby withdraw any present and future consent toward being ruled by this authoritarian organization. Any laws, edicts, regulations, executive orders, or demands issued by this organization will be ignored as so much verbal static emanating from tyrants lacking any legitimate authority.

By this act of secession, I declare I will no longer consent to being described as a willing citizen or subject, collectively enslaved under the rule of the "United States Government," nor its permanently ensconced ruling class. I hereby refuse to be labeled a participant of, nor a collaborator with, the criminal actions executed by those individuals declaring to be representatives, employees, or agents of the "United States Government." Such actions include waging war and stealing the property and wealth of other individuals. Any such actions declared to "be in my name" or "for my benefit or protection" will be considered blatantly fraudulent. I will hereby consider myself only as a sovereign individual residing on the North American continent, responsible only for the actions I commit as an individual.

By this act of secession, I will no longer be a party to the collectivist "we" used to describe those residing within the geographical boundaries claimed by some as the "United States of America." I will no longer be subject to the responsibilities, agreements, debts, or liabilities, claimed by that institution and "shared" by its subjects

By this act of secession, I will no longer consider my body subject to the rules and regulations of that entity known as the "United States Government." Any attempt to restrict my consumption of any food or drug will be branded as illegitimate and ignored. Any attempt to actively apply such restrictions by this entity will be considered an act of violence and dealt with accordingly in a peaceful, though effective and persuasive, manner.

By this act of secession, I will no longer consider my physical, property (tangible or intangible) subject to any "laws" or regulations put forth by the entity known as the "United States Government." Any taking or taxing of such property will be considered theft and will be dealt with accordingly in a peaceful, though effective and persuasive, manner.

By this act of secession, I will no longer deem any restrictions, regulations, or limits on the use of my labor as legitimate, nor the taking or taxing of the fruits of such activity. The interference in the voluntary, contractual associations and agreements that involve my personal labor will not be tolerated. Such agreements and contracts will be considered sacrosanct and immune to the dictates and interventions from that entity known as the "United States Government."

By this act of secession, I will no longer maintain any allegiance or loyalty to the political abstraction named "The United States of America." I will not recognize its "boundaries" as legitimate nor use their existence as a regulator or hindrance toward interacting with those individuals who reside outside said "boundaries." I will also declare no aggressive intentions toward destruction or take-over of this entity. I will also by this act declare no immediate allegiance or loyalty to any other present or future political abstraction.

By this act of secession, I hereby declare absolutely no reverence or respect for that political entity known as the "United States of America" nor its self-declared ruling body known as the "United States Government." I will from this time forward view both with suspicion and as dangerous predators, preying on the lives, fortunes, and liberties of free individuals.

By this act of secession, I will not automatically obey any illegitimate "laws" or orders, not previously mentioned, put forth by that entity known as the "United States Government." Any perceived obedience by me will be the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.

Any state agents sent forth by the "United States Government" to contact me will be dealt the equivalent respect and kindness that is shown toward me by such agents. Any perceived obedience by me will be the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity and its agents exhibiting superior firepower.

By this act of secession, I will not tolerate, as a free-living, free-thinking, peaceful individual, any violent, unjustified attacks on other such individuals and private organizations or their property by this entity known as the "United States Government." I will utilize all available time, talents, and resources available to me to expose and ridicule those agents of the "United States Government" that initiate such attacks. I will also help and support any active, peaceful countermeasures to help prevent or overturn any such violent, aggressive actions against sovereign lives and property.

By this act of secession, I will no longer listen to any speeches, comments, or information communicated by that entity known as the "United States Government." All such information will be instantly declared not credible and subject to verification and confirmation by reliable, non-state sources. Any verbal or written communication emanating from this entity will automatically be considered a lie until proven otherwise.

By this act of secession I remain open to the idea of being ruled by similar such entities, but such an action will occur only with unequivocal consent by me and legitimized by mutual contractual agreement.

By this act of secession, I do not make the arrogant assumption of speaking for other sovereign, free-born individuals. This declaration is relevant only to me and not to any other sovereign individuals known personally to me or related by birth. However, I encourage other like-minded individuals to do the same. I encourage and even implore them to stand up for their lives, liberties and property. I passionately advise they throw off the yoke of bondage that inhibits, strangles, and even kills them, destroys and steals their wealth and property, and poisons the futures of all who seek to live unchained. No shedding of blood or violent extremism is necessary. Just take the time to officially declare withdrawal of your consent.

“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.”

Roger Young is a professional photographer and columnist living in U.S.-occupied Texas. Please visit and support his work at his blog and his amazing photography website. Email Roger HERE.

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Media Lies and the Onset of War

David Icke - The Bloodthirsty Bloodline

Jewish Man Exposes Israel's Lies

This author born in Israel condems Israeli policies and lies and reveals the truth about the zionist state.

Ron Paul Tells The Truth - We ARE Under Martial Law

Ron Paul Says Anybody Can Be Called A Terrorist Dec 2011

Goodbye to 2011, Year of the Rabbit, Welcome 2012, Year of the Dragon

Welcome the year of the Dragon. The dragon is a symbol of power, strength, and good luck.

The US president urged Americans to rise up and respond to a “Sputnik moment” He said at the beginning of the year 2011, in the annual state of the union address, the US faced a changed world, adding: “The rules have changed. In a single generation, revolutions in technology have transformed the way we live, work and do business. “Meanwhile, nations like China and India realized that, with some changes of their own, they could compete in this new world. And so they started educating their children earlier and longer, with greater emphasis on maths and science. 

“They’re investing in research and new technologies. Just recently, China became home to the world’s largest private solar research facility, and the world’s fastest computer.”

America now faces another “sputnik moment.” The challenge: to “out-innovate, out-educate and outbuild the rest of the world.” he said. Will the US win the future from China ?

“We have trumped the mil­i­tary by seiz­ing the role of chief ex­e­cu­tioner with a rapidly ex­pand­ing drone em­pire. After decades of pas­sion­ately deny­ing its for­ays into as­sas­si­na­tion, the CIA now preens over them. The CIA is mostly tasked with killing for­eign­ers but not shirk­ing elim­i­na­tion of U.S. cit­i­zens. We have thus em­barked on a new era” opined Alex Cockburn from the left.

Torture is now solidly installed in America’s repressive arsenal, not in the shadows where it has always lurked, but up front and central, vigorously applauded by prominent politicians. Rituals of coercion and humiliation seep through the culture, to the extent that before Christmas American travelers began to rebel at the invasive pat-down searches, conducted by the TSA’s airport security teams, groping around bosoms and crotches.

The American liberal conscience began to make its accommodation with torture in June, 1977, which was the month the London Sunday Times published a major expose of torture of Palestinians by the Israeli armed forces and the security agency, Shin Bet. Suddenly American supporters of Israel were arguing that certain techniques — sensory deprivation, prolonged stress positions while hooded, incarceration in “cells” the size of packing crates, etc ? somehow weren’t really torture, or were morally justifiable torture under “ticking time bomb” theory.

January 13

Wednesday night’s memorial in the McHale Arena at the University of Arizona did strike me as slightly strange, like an Irish wake that had prematurely transitioned into the later boisterous phase. The offbeat tone was established from the outset by Carlos Gonzalez, an associate prof at AU who delivered us from stuffy Anglican proprieties by very properly “politicizing” the event .

Gonzalez flourished a talisman of eagle feathers and chanted a bracing traditional Indian blessing, walking the 13,000 crowd inside McKale Center (plus an overflow 13,000 at Arizona Stadium) around the four “doors” to wisdom, spirit, visions and energy and guidance, plus the male energy of the sky and the female energy of earth. He blessed the victims, their families, all Americans, his son in Afghanistan and all his relations, all creatures including snakes.

It was a bracing one-in-the eye for the Judeo-Christian tradition. The event nosedived into bad faith and tedium with an address by the shifty Gov. Jan Brewer, followed by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, who read highly inappropriate verses from Isaiah, ch 40 and U.S. Attorney Eric Holder giving us verses from the second letter to the Corinthians written by the markedly intolerant Paul.

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Fightin' Words: Stupid just signed the NDAA

Yep. He did it!

What? You haven't heard? The NDAA - the unconstitutional (translated ILLEGAL) "law" [sic] where the chief dunce in charge signed a scam being foisted upon We the People - purporting to make it legal to take me and YOU and YOUR KIDS AWAY - indefinitely - without the right to trial, a lawyer ( as if they matter anyway - good ones are scarcer than hen's teeth) - nothing - 'cause stupid Obama thinks he is GOD! Hey - now all anybody will have to do if they want you to, as Bill O'Reilly would say, is "shut up", will be to accuse you of being a "terrorist." Too bad the word "terrorist" doesn't really mean anything.

Rest assured: Obama says he'll never use the power he just "gave" himself (in violation of his oath of office he tried to flub) in anticipation of this event- an oath John Roberts made him re-do -which makes him accountable for his betrayal of We the People.

A reassurance and PROMISE not to DO something coming from the biggest liar our planet has ever known, next to Hitler, is supposed to allay my concerns that he has just become dictator? (He lied about EVERYTHING)

Other than Obama wiping his ass with YOUR Bill of Rights in broad daylight - what will it take to wake YOU people up who are still arguing over Democrat vs Republican ?

Really - are you insane? Both partieshatched this plot to UNDERMINE OUR RIGHTS - the most liberal of the liberals like Leahy and Leven - and the most right of right like that complete idiot Lyndsey Graham.

Ask yourself - my citizen-patriot friend - how is it possible for these opposites to actually agree on something - possibly for the first time in history - and the end-game is that YOU and I and YOUR KIDS, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, EVERY TAXPAYER IN THE US - LOSES! Isn't that special? WTF????????

Without a Constitution/Bill of Rights - and an understanding that the principles of the Declaration of Independence are waiting in the wings in case the last two are disrespected - YOU HAVE NOTHING. Kiss everything you hold dear, sacred, property, family, spiritually, anything - KISS IT GOODBYE! - that is - unless you are willing to fight to retain these sacred foundations of what it means to be an American.

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Blitzer gets grilled by Dr. David Duke ! (*Nice Work) 2006

(*submitted in responce to CNN and Blitzer , in particular , choosing to play 'willfully ignorant' to the fact that Ron Paul didn't write , didn't read , and disenvowed those contriversial 'news letters' , Blitzer keeps spewing about . )

Mitt Flop Romney vs Mitt Flop Romney

Flip flop is a polite term for Liar aka they just tell whoever is in front of them what they want to hear.

2012 Could Be the Year of Unintended Consequences

Then year 2012 could be the year of liberty rising pushing back against tyranny. When we have people conspiring behind closed doors against our liberty and way of life. What goes around comes around like a boomerang. The very plot they seek to destroy humanity can be the weapon that take them down. The internet has proclaimed on the roof tops what was spoken in secrecy in darkness. We have seen what happened to Russia, China, Germany and Cuba when they implement a dark tyranny. America has been blessed with seeing all this happen a safety from a distance. Now these same forces are trying to take down America the same way.

We can see the globalist trying to bring down America losing the wiggle room. They cannot go to war because they have shown their cause to be farce. I have a feeling even their minion politicians brought and paid for might be having second thoughts about carrying out the agenda of the bankers who want to implode the nations. They may see these bankers are insane that could bring their own destruction if they follow along knowing this can have far reaching consequences they maybe the end of them too. If you ever seen the movie True Lies when the agent tried jumping building to building with a horse. The horse will only go so far going up the stairs. At a certain point even the horse will say hell no in the name of self preservation then follow the master orders to jump off the building.

With the Congress passing NDAA(S-1867) and the rest of the factions inside the US government in the highest levels moving to quash what is left of our liberties might start to see the unintended consequences of their actions. They are not dealing with Europeans and Asians. They are dealing with Americans. The weeks before Christmas we seen fire arms sales surge to a record level. The reason why because a coming collapse and they do not trust the goverment. We have seen what the governments solution to every problem they created. Instead of allowing the people to deal with it because they are more capable to have a better solution. The governments solution is loss of freedom and a jackbooted thug in a black uniform with an MP-5.

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Ann Coulter: "I Would Prefer Ron Paul As President Over Newt Gingrich"

Coulter is generally useless, but she gets this one right, except of course for her war-mongering criticism of Paul's foreign policy.

Game Over: Tyranny Revealed

It is so predictable that it has become a tropism. The creeping, stealthy soft tyranny gets called out into the open, first by those dedicated to digging in the archives of history, then by the general public who awakens to their undeniable daily condition. It is the life force tilting toward the sunshine.

We know that the world is run by an unworthy gang of misanthropic inbred elites and their lackey minions. And, yet, through their spoils (and the spoiled), they have amassed great treasure that has no real value.

Their moral compass is broken; their political capital is zero; their fiat currency is worthless; and their method of rule has become comical. These thespian thieves have now been pushed toward the gates of the temple to be whipped into the desert of their own creation.

The dogs of war are set to be loosed upon the throat of anyone who gives voice to peaceful opposition and creative resistance; for this is the Wolfsbane they have continuously stomped upon. The assassinated messengers of peace comprise a long and distinguished list of familiar names, but is also a list filled with myriad third-world democratically-elected leaders who had the hubris to suggest that their nations and people should remain independent from fascist jackals with nothing more to offer than loaded words and loaded guns.

But those were the days of dark room diplomacy, where tyranny could operate under the cover of night, releasing zombies to do their bidding.

Those were the days, because they are past. These days, enough people know about government-designed patsies, economic hitmen, false flag terror, staged revolutions and the machinations funded by the black budget to which we donate our tax dollars. And the system has admitted its fear of the awakening masses.

So, we now look toward 2012 and beyond. The landscape of that future is land-mined with divination, proclamation, prognostication . . . and devastation. We are told of dollar collapse, societal breakdown, food shortages, nuclear war, rapture, and hell of every stripe. Based on current indicators -- every circle of hell detailed certainly can be perfectly corroborated.

Yet, some suggest that such cataclysmic crises are ultimately good for the overwhelming majority of the tortured and oppressed. Can this be just wishful thinking? How can we rejoice amid such documented horror?

The reason to rejoice is that tyranny has finally reached the lowest depths attainable. We live in a world where children can be raped in front of their parents just to gain (suspect) information from suspected terrorists. The military itself has approved of bestiality in its barracks. Torture is good. Citizen spies are accepted, as are the databases through which reports are fed into the central mega-computer to be translated by the borg. Our natural world has been poisoned into an unrecognizably unnatural state.

The positive outcome suggested is that the rubber band has been stretched to its final limit, and it can only go in one direction from this point -- forward.

Time is accelerating, and so our awareness and lack of patience is accelerating. Enough is enough is the mantra of the true new age.

The tyranny is already beginning to tip under its own weight. And those of us who are awake are leaning forward with all our might for the final push. Occupy Tyranny.

Are we prepared for peace? Because it is coming. Can we stick our collective heads above the bunker line instead of in the sand? Can we see the endless horizon?

When the dust settles and the sky clears -- perhaps a few or many years off -- we might do well to remember our folly for ever having entered the bunker in the first place. Because, while the bunker was constructed with our needs in mind; we entered of our own free will. And only through our free will can we ever emerge to seek the sunlight again.

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Unmanned drones used within UK civil airspace

Analysis of information received in response to a series of Freedom of Information requests to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has revealed that around fifty to sixty companies and public bodies per year are being granted “blanket permission” to fly unmanned drones within UK civil airspace. With very few exceptions each flight must remain under 400 feet and within 500 metres of the operator.

While names of companies and institutions who have been granted permission to fly drones has not been revealed, the type of work being undertaken includes aerial photography and filming, surveying of buildings and land, emergency services work, and surveillance in support of law enforcement, data collection, evidence gathering and security.

The Civil Aviation Authority grants three types of ‘permissions’ to fly unmanned aircraft : a) permission for a one-off flight, b) permission for a series of flights in a limited time frame, or c) blanket permission which must be renewed on an annual basis.

The CAA has told Drone Wars UK that out of the 100 applications submitted between January 2010 and September 2011, 98 blanket permissions were issued. 

With one exception all the applications were for drones weighing less than 20kg. While in the time frame many of the 98 applications will have been renewals a conservative estimate is that around fifty to sixty companies and public bodies are regularly flying unmanned drones in UK civil airspace.

Chris Cole of Drone Wars UK said: “I expected to find that the CAA would have mostly granted one-off permissions to fly drones in UK airspace, with perhaps a handful of blanket permissions granted each year. However around ten times the number of blanket permissions are being granted. Once this blanket permission has been granted, who monitors what these companies are doing with their drones?”

Some work being undertaken by these drones seems fairly innocuous, including application for tasks such as “surveys for geography, environment and archaeological survey” and “data gathering for insurance, building surveys, health and safety etc.“ The majority of applications however, contain little real information about the work being undertaken with “stills & video photography from the air” and “aerial photography & video” being common. Occasionally other types of work are mentioned such as: “evidence gathering, surveillance and search” and “surveillance in support of UK law enforcement.”

While the CAA are responsible for ensuring that these unmanned flights within UK civil airspace are flown safely, who is ensuring that the public’s privacy and civil liberties are protected?

globalresearch.ca

2012's Freedom From Responsibility

By Jim Kirwan 1-1-2011

WAR has been declared upon the people of this country, not by any foreign nation (unless you count Zionist-Occupied Israel): This war is being waged by the government of this country against every man woman and child that lives here. There are two measures that are proof of the existence of "The War." This is NDAA, the first one. (1)

Every politician that has spoken out regarding the latest trend in fascism and the need for fascistic methods to "PROTECT" the people, have each and all cited "The WAR" and yet none of them have specified "What exactly we need "protection from." This answer to this double-speak statement is in two parts. The first part is that the "we" refers not to the people but to the filthy-rich and the completely-corrupted who commit treason each and every day. It is those criminals that are being "PROTECTED." The second part of the answer is that 'WHAT' is being protected are the actions of the criminal-outlaw-state: From the personal RESPONSIBILITIES that must accompany every action taken, whether political, military, economic or just for private gain. . .

Initially this classic diversion began by reducing the nation from a REPUBLIC to a democracy (mob rule) on the way to becoming the Police State that we have finally achieved. Two things are important about this change. The first is that our real protections were contained within the Republic, whose first-principles were based on the Magna Carta signed in the 1200's. Once the nation began to brag about our 'democracy' we had already lost both our freedoms and our involvement in any process of the government. For those of us that understood this it amounted to major political defeat. However while that phase lasted there was still the sham-appearance of a free country. That step was necessary to get us to the final surrender of everything else; which the government just eliminated with the passage of NDAA and the pending Ultra-Zionist's new Bill regarding the Enemy Expatriation Act. (2)

At first glance this is an inconceivable-obscenity of the first order, basically it turns the entire country into a prison colony ruled by Innuendo and accusations that have absolutely nothing to do with any formal charges: And it marks the ending of all "laws" that ever restricted the government from doing quite literally anything they might decide to do from torture and rendition to murder or life in prison. However it also means that the Fascists have failed to control the population thru deception and lies alone: Because the population is awakening to facts that can no longer be hidden-consequently society itself must be OUTLAWED.

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Congress Should Be In Jail - Rense & Kirwan

Jim Kirwan is an accomplished artist and writer, in this 10 minute excerpt there is a discussion on the dispassionate modern American individual and the likelihood of the military going walkies in the event of an EMP attack.

'Invading Iran is invading Russia, China'

A political analyst says Russia and China consider a US military action on Iran as an attack on their own borders and a threat to their own national security.

“The US is assuming that Russia or China will not respond militarily, but they've been wrong before,” Shamus Cooke wrote on the Global Research website.

Cooke explained that when former US president George W. Bush gave the green light to the then President of Georgia Mikheil Saakahvili to attack South Ossetia in 2008, “Russia surprised everyone by responding militarily and crushing Georgia's invasion.”

“Attacking Syria and/or Iran opens the door to a wider regional or even international war,” Cooke stressed.

Last Month, Major General Zhang Zhaozhong, professor from the Chinese National Defense University, said China would not hesitate to protect the Islamic Republic against a military strike, even if this means the start of the Third World War.

Also last week, Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin vehemently criticized any plans of attacking Iran, describing the measure as “a very dangerous scenario” which could lead to a “regional catastrophe.”

The United States and Israel have repeatedly threatened Tehran with the "option" of a military strike, based on the allegation that Iran's nuclear program may consist of a covert military agenda.

Iran has refuted the allegations, saying that as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), it has the right to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Over the past weeks, Israel has renewed its aggressive rhetoric against Iran. On November 21, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned that "time has come" to deal with Iran.

Israeli President Shimon Peres also threatened on November 6 that an attack against Iran is becoming "more and more likely."

Iranian officials have promised a crushing response to any military strike against the country, warning that any such measure could result in a war that would spread beyond the Middle East.

“If the US becomes militarily involved with Syria and Iran, it is up to the working people of the US to mobilize in massive numbers in the streets to prevent such an attack,” Cooke concluded.

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Anger in UK: Rotten politicians betrayed people - RT

England had a scorching August, but it was nothing to do with the summer sun. A wave of riots and looting seemingly sprang from nowhere, gripping London for days and spreading to other cities nationwide with buildings torched and streets trashed. Police struggled to contain the worst violence in decades. Investigative journalist Tony Gosling says injustice in the UK sparked the unrest.

USA: Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops

A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test.

“This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.” He said he does not plan to take any further legal action.

Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training.

Most Cops Just Above Normal The average score nationally for police officers is 21 to 22, the equivalent of an IQ of 104, or just a little above average.

Jordan alleged his rejection from the police force was discrimination. He sued the city, saying his civil rights were violated because he was denied equal protection under the law.

But the U.S. District Court found that New London had “shown a rational basis for the policy.” In a ruling dated Aug. 23, the 2nd Circuit agreed. The court said the policy might be unwise but was a rational way to reduce job turnover. Jordan has worked as a prison guard since he took the test.

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USA: Obama Signs NDAA, Indefinite Detention Now Law of the Land

Indeed it is a new day. Ushering in the New Year, President Obama signed legislation that helps to further destroy the principles the nation was founded upon.

President Obama, who pledged to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), has now signed it. Of course, his promise was only for public consumption. After all, lying to your enemy is what invading corporate takeover armies do. It was the Obama administration all along that demanded the indefinite detention provisions be added while at the same time telling the American people he was fighting to protect their rights. This is treason on parade, in your face all out despotism– that is, for those paying any attention!

As the Associated Press reports, the President signed the bill on Saturday “despite having ‘serious reservations’ about provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.”

However, those reservations have nothing to do with the rights of the people under the Constitution and Bill of Rights that he swore to protect– rather, his reservations dealt with changes that “challenged the president’s terrorism-fighting ability.” He reportedly accepted the legislation only after such impedance was removed.

Instead, it was a deceptive maneuver to appear wary of such powers when the White House demanded it all along. In fact, Obama’s veto threat was always about that issue– the language over Section 1022 and NOT the authorization for the indefinite detention of Americans in Section 1021. Rather, it was a debate over “requiring” military protocol on detention rather than leaving the discretion over whether to detain to the executive branch, under the power of the Presidency.

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UK: The perfect honours list for a shameless age

Another new year, another honours list and yet another unseemly uproar. At least six of the recipients on the New Year’s list who were honoured for their philanthropic activities just happened to have donated big bucks to political parties.

Paul Ruddock, James Wates, James Lupton and Doug Ellis, who gave the Tories almost £1 million between them, received two knighthoods and two CBEs. Rod Aldridge, who secretly lent the Labour party £1 million in 2005, was knighted for services to young people, and Denise Coates, founder of the online betting company Bet365, and who gave £330,000 to Labour, was appointed CBE.

Sound familiar? Of course. How could any of us forget the great ‘cash for honours’ controversy that consumed British politics under the Blair government, when the public was outraged by honours bestowed on those who had bankrolled the Labour Party?

And who could forget David Cameron’s pledge in opposition that he would clean up British politics in the wake of that surfeit of sleaze?

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Brussels' radical VAT shake-up 'will cost families £800 a year'

EC says VAT exemptions on things like food and children's clothes should be abandoned

Families could see the cost of food, children’s clothes and other essentials rise by £800 a year under European Commission proposals for a radical shake-up in VAT. The warning has been triggered by a Commission white paper on the future of VAT and efforts to harmonise the sales tax across Europe.

The Coalition government raised the VAT rate to 20 per cent in January. However there is an exemption for food, children’s clothes, tap water, passenger travel, books, newspapers and some other products. The UK also has a lower rate of 5 per cent on domestic energy bills in a bid to help struggling families.

The Commission, which is supported by the UK’s respected Institute for Fiscal Studies(IFS), argues that exemptions should be abandoned in order to create a common VAT regime, cut business costs and improve the functioning of the European single market. Such a move, which could raise £24billion a year for British government coffers, would be a hammer blow to the country’s poorest families and pensioners.

Significantly, the paper argues for a shift towards a simplified VAT regime with exemptions reduced to a minimum in a bid to reduce bureaucracy and boost economic growth.

It states: ‘The fragmentation of the common EU VAT system into 27 national VAT systems is the main obstacle to efficient intra-EU trade and thus prevents citizens from reaping the benefits of a genuine single market. To simply stay in the comfort zone of ‘business as usual’ will not be enough. Responding to these challenges demands a more ambitious reform of the current VAT system.’

Mr Asquith said: ‘The EC is also looking to eliminate many reduced VAT rate exemptions in an attempt to impose a harmonised fiscal regime across all 27 member states, and help countries consolidate their financial position in the face of the current Euro crisis.

‘For the UK, this means its cherished zero VAT rating of food and other goods, such as books and newspapers, could be lost. ‘Instead, it would be forced to raise the VAT rates on household food spend to the standard VAT rate to 20per cent.’

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