Open Your Eyes News - Edition 25

An awful lot has happened while the world watched the Olympic's. Ignorance is not bliss. YOU can make a differnce.
Areas Covered Each Week: Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War

Story of the Week:
Mexicans get microchipped over kidnapping fears
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14589-mexicans-get-microchipped-over-kidnapping-fears.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
The most predictable aspect about the totalitarian tiptoe is how fear is used so effectively as a tool to progress the agenda. In this case human chipping becomes morally acceptable due to a state of fear. Classic problem > reaction > solution (explanation at the bottom of the page). Expect a similar fear mongering to come to your country soon too perhaps in the form of "what if you child or senile relative got lost?" Either way the agenda is ultimately to chip you all like the sheep that they see you as. It will be so much more effective than having to have CCTV everywhere and will be the ultimate form of control. Don't ever say you haven't been warned. This is happening, this is real, and you must act now. Even if it is just to raise the awareness of those around you it will be a help. On our own we are helpless, together we can roll back the tide. Burying our head's in the sand is not an option.

Civil Liberties:
No stereotypical terrorist - MI5
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gpGsXMH02_1SZq5qQQv2uG55AKaw
In other words you are all potential terrorists and therefore you all need to be monitored "just in case"

MI5 helped US agents grill Briton
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24225843-2703,00.html
Can you really be surprised to hear that the British have been taking part in torture at Guantanamo and have subsequently tried to cover it up? If it can happen in in the home of "the mother of all Parliaments" it can happen where you live too, whether it be Australia, Canada or Japan.

U.N. slams U.K. over human rights
http://www.hindu.com/2008/08/17/stories/2008081751641300.htm
I wonder how much press this will be given in the UK by the mainstream media? I suspect the silence will be deafening.

How Big Brother watches your every move - Average Briton is being recorded 3,000 times a week.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2571041/How-Big-Brother-watches-your-every-move.html
Do you still believe you like in a free society? Or are you beginning hear that tiptoe as the process slowly takes away more of your once sacrosanct freedoms?

'Spy-in-the-sky' paves way for road pricing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/fairdealfordrivers/2573876/Spy-in-the-sky-paves-way-for-road-pricing.html
Oh that's okay, it'll just be monitoring you driving habits, not monitoring where you go etc....

Teachers fear hidden CCTV cameras in schools
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2575057/Teachers-fear-hidden-CCTV-cameras-in-schools.html
The Stasi in East Germany understood how it worked. Make people believe that they are being surveilled and they will be compliant even if they are actually never watched. In fact only 10% ever were monitored and yet 90% thought they had been. Big Brother "may be watching you" as Orwell said in 1984.

Man arrested and locked up for five hours after taking photo of police van ignoring 'no entry' sign
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1046853/Man-arrested-locked-hours-taking-photo-police-van-ignoring-entry-sign.html
The Ten Steps to a Closed Society: Number 6. Arbitrarily detain and release citizens (full list at the bottom of the page)

New York settles suit with antiwar activists for $2M
http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/news/ny-nysuit195808143aug20,0,5946340.story
There is still hope. The door has not shut completely yet.

U.S. tracking citizens' border crossings
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2034302420080820
All citizens are potential "terrorists".

Surveillance made easy
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14591-surveillance-made-easy.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
This is reality not science fiction and it is happening now.

Every petrol pump 'will be prepay by 2011'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1047495/Every-petrol-pump-prepay-2011.html
Another tiptoe towards a cashless society. From there on in you are reliant upon your masters computer systems and the micro-chips they want to implant in you giving a true reflection of your wealth.

Environment:
Herbivores eat away at climate-change predictions
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn14544-herbivores-eat-away-at-climatechange-predictions.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
So now we’ve got to kill all the large herbivores for eating the plants? And as for all the methane they emit! Well at least we are polluting them to death I suppose (see next article) – IT’S THE SUN PEOPLE, NOT CO2!!!!!!

Coal's toxic legacy to the Arctic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7568748.stm
The reason’s why we should be moving away from the primitive burning of fossil fuels is nothing to do with CO2 – if you will excuse the pun, that is a smokescreen to hide all the other very damaging stuff we are doing to this planet’s fragile eco-system.

Arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/15/goddard_arctic_ice_mystery/
Another inconvenient truth for Mr. Gore. At the end of the day it matters not whether it ebbs or flows, just as it has done throughout history. What causes it is the big shiny thing in the sky, which incidentally has recorded no sun spots for over a year now, the longest since records began. If anything that signifies that we could be actually heading for an ice age. Do you reckon that is why the media and politician's now call it "climate change" as opposed to "global warming"?

Mining company apologises for uranium waste
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24185092-5005200,00.html
However they are only contrite because they have been caught. It is not as though they owned up to all this illegal dumping of low level radioactive waste and tones of other waste in a nature reserve. This is a glimpse inside the psychology of a corporation. The vast majority of the employees are probably great people, however in the thrust for ever increased profits, those with more "relaxed" morals will always cut corners whether it be for personal advancement or plain old profit. A strong democracy is your only protection, and at the end of the day corporations naturally want to weaken it, and therefore checks and balances that will limit their aspirations. Ultimately these are the same corporations who control your media, give your politicians jobs when their careers are over, sell weapons, and oil, and CCTV. You are a consumer, and if you are not you are in the way.

Global warming the new religion
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Lautens_Stephen/2008/08/16/6472061-sun.php
A journalist at The Calgary Sun will probably be looking for a new job by now - all for being rational.

Peru throws out Amazon land laws
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7578040.stm
One small victory in the protection of the Amazon, however the assault continues on many fronts and each day more and more of this crucial part of the earth's eco-system is destroyed in the name of profit.

Lawsuit seeks EPA pesticide data over bee's disappearance
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/18/BAKR12DBPO.DTL
Is the culprit Bayer CropScience (formally part of IG Faben who brought you the Holocaust) or Monsanto (the controllers of the GM industry and seeking to own the world's food supply)? Either way, NO BEES = NO FOOD

The War on Terror:
Feds: Fire took down building next to twin towers
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5isReaHAE4U2HLBEPKqetS6J8_BvgD92MUH780
Yeah, sure it did. Those are the fires that had virtually gone out, were only on a few floors, and yet brought down a huge skyscraper in just a few hours, and which conveniently collapsed at freefall speed (i.e.: no friction) straight down in on its own footprint (watch the footage if you don't believe me). Incidentally it is one of only three skyscrapers that have ever completely collapsed as a “result of fire”. Co-incidentally the other two fell on exactly the same day as this one. What are the odds?

Why We Love 'America's Outrageous War Economy'
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/media/love-americas-outrageous-war-economy/
The US economy has been a war economy since 1941. Icke warned about it, JFK tried to stop it. The rest have accepted it. By the way how do you "lose" $2.3 trillion dollars?

US troops 'to quit Iraq by 2011'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7577730.stm
Not quite true I'm afraid as they haven't been building 14 massive permanent bases out in the desert, and the biggest US embassy in the world, for no reason. They may not be on the streets after that, but they will certainly still be in Iraq, just as they are in over 100 other countries worldwide.

U.S.-led forces kill 76 Afghan civilians
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080821/twl-uk-afghan-violence-bd5ae06.html
Opps. More "collateral damage"

The Next War:
Attacking Iran via South Ossetia
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/usforeignpolicy.iran?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
Though I fear he is right about the intention to bomb Iran before Dubya leaves office at the end of January I believe that his analysis is way of mark. The US orchestrated Georgia/Russian conflict was simply a smokescreen to enable the US to move three more carrier groups into the Gulf (5 aircraft carrier groups, that's the biggest naval armada since the 1991 Gulf War, and they are not there for a holiday). Also he is very wrong when he says that US foreign policy is dictated by emotion. Wrong on three counts. First it is very rational indeed when you look at the end game goal of control of the worlds oil supply so to ensure increased profit, and the need to keep the military industrial economy "profitable" (see earlier article). Second though Russia still has a large nuclear arsenal, and a large standing army, it is largely made up of poorly trained conscripts, and in military terms it is a minnow compared to the US' armed forcers whose technology is light years ahead, and who outspend the Russian's on arms many times over. It is being used as a tool of fear, but its threat is more potent economically with its oil & gas, than its military. Third, and most importantly, it is not the USA per se, however they are the instrument. When you look at the web of connections that link all the world's leading corporations and families (seen at its zenith in meetings like Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission) this is way beyond good old fashioned nationalism, this is corporations working towards an inevitable end goal of complete control over a subservient (and significantly reduced and largely ignorant) world population - the "useless eaters as Henry Kissinger calls them, will not be required.

Health:
Superfood rice bran contains arsenic
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn14592-superfood-rice-bran-contains-arsenic.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
Want to "help" the world's poorest people and make a quick buck along the way? Here's how you do it.


Democracy & International Diplomacy:
Russian General Says Georgia May Commit False Flag Terror Attacks
http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29159
The question which wide do you believe, if either? Remember the Russians are only doing what we did in Kosovo a few years ago.

Georgia 'will join NATO' : Merkel
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5irjdfQdHqnS5LyXe2laHu-TxW8zQ
The pay off for provoking an unwinnable war with Russia, on behalf of the USA, so to provide a smokescreen to move 3 more carrier groups to the Gulf.

Finance & Economics:
Bail-out fears rattle US shares
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7568978.stm
Remember if these 2 go down, the US Government will be forced to intervene which will double the US national debt, effectively crippling the US economy and devaluing the dollar – just what the doctor ordered if you want the American people to embrace the concept of ditching the dollar for the Amero (NAFTA currency union) – Problem > Reaction > Solution

BAE in £2bn MoD ammunition deal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7573160.stm
Who ever said you couldn’t profit from war – and this is just for “inexpensive” small arms. As for the expensive bombs and technology, now that’s where the real profit margins are. It is a shame on our entire species that we spend more on arms in a month worldwide than we do on education in a year.

Pentagon OKs over $10 billion in arms sales for Iraq
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0149846920080801
And you know the best bit? Iraq has the biggest known reserves of black gold in the world and yet is the 2nd most heavily indebted nation in the world (after the USA) as we "encourage" them to rearm, and charge them for the rebuilding of their country that we have bombed back to the stone age with uranium tipped munitions (in other world's effectively a low level nuclear war) - and yet what was once the best education and health systems are collapsing.

Contractors reap $85 billion from Iraq war: US report
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxS75sv04PD8M-WHuRPzM65zexFQ
Do you still think it was all about WMD's? And do you think the soon to come war against Iran will be any different?

OPEC may cut output as oil prices set to fall further
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/International_Business/OPEC_may_cut_output_as_oil_prices_set_to_fall_further/articleshow/3377915.cms
No need lads, you just watch that price when the bombs start falling on Iran

Large U.S. bank collapse seen ahead
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSSP21695020080819
What has been so far is just the opening shots.

Bernanke warning on US inflation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7577357.stm
Things are going to get very messy from here. What we are currently in is the calm before the storm.

UK economy comes to a standstill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7576274.stm
Do you reckon the idea of joining the Euro will start becoming more popular?

Science & Technology:
Army Moves Ahead With Mobile Laser Cannon
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/army-moves-ahea.html
Another few billion dollars of your money going towards causing further death and destruction.


Quote of the Week:

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King. Jr



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