Open Your Eyes News - Edition 26

If this is your first visit I would suggest that, after viewing the articles in this page, you click onto the "Blog Archive" on the right hand panel. Have a look at some of the previous editions too. That will give you a much fuller picture of what is happening than by simply reading what has happened in the last week.

Areas Covered Each Week:
Civil Liberties - Health - Environment - Democracy & International Relations - Economics - Science - The War on Terror - The Next War

Story of the Week:
A sample of seven articles that have appeared in the mainstream UK press over the past 7 days. If this process can happen in the UK it can happen in any free democracy, and just as quickly. The UK (and the USA) is not yet a fully closed society, and yet this process has taken barely 1/2 a decade, and it is a long way down the track and only one major event away from a tipping point (War with Iran perhaps?). All you need is a trigger. In the US it was 9/11, in the UK it was 7/7. What will it be in your country? And when it does happen, and you react and call out for your government to "protect" you, don't be too surprised when that solution is presented in the form of step, after tiny step, after tiny step, after tiny step.......and then one day you wake up in a closed society and you are powerless to stop it. This is happening. Do something about it before it goes too far. Burying your head in the sand is not an option.
Child protection database 'will be used to prosecute young people' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2621163/Child-protection-database-will-be-used-to-prosecute-young-people.html
Crackdown 'leaves taxpayers unprotected' http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/aug/25/tax.taxandspending
No snapping: Photographers get collars felt http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/23/camera_analysis/
Instant justice creating nation of criminals http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/24/justice.police
Anti-terror laws hold kid boozers http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/08/28/anti-terror-laws-hold-kid-boozers-115875-20714369/
Number plate cameras at airport http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7585534.stm
Councils recruit unpaid volunteers to spy on their neighbours http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050738/Now-citizen-snoopers-Councils-recruit-unpaid-volunteers-spy-neighbours.html

Civil Liberties:
Convention host cities become high-tech fortresses
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/25/convention.security/?eref=rss_politics&iref=polticker
Meanwhile the USA heads headlong towards a tipping point to become a closed society. The convention cities both have "4th Amendment Zones" so that demonstrators can express their right to free speech. Behind barbed wire with CCTV, armed security and guard dogs "protecting" them.

Woman Knocked to the Ground & Kidnapped by Gestapo Like Storm Troopers at Democratic Convention
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2cnJPSOX4k
Modern Definition of Martial Law: Martial law is when military-like actions are taken upon a nations own citizens and constitutional and human rights are violated on a regular basis as part of a standard operating procedure (SOP). It is when you cannot protest without a "permit" and your freedom of speech is silenced.'

Police grilled mum over breast pump
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24250024-421,00.html
Just in case you thought little Hitler's don't exist in Australia too.

Environment:
Iraq bans nuclear tests
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926712.800-iraq-bans-nuclear-tests.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
The dark irony of the situation should not be forgotten. Since 1991 we have subjected Iraq to what in effect has been a low level nuclear war by the use of depleted uranium munitions. The legacy of which the Iraqi people will feel for tens of thousands of years to come. If you don’t believe me watch the documentary link on the right hand panel “The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children”

British families pay almost £800 per year in 'dishonest' green taxes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1050098/British-families-pay-800-year-dishonest-green-taxes.html
Have you ever why Government’s go along with the whole “man made climate change” thing (formerly known as “Man Made Global Warming”)? It is because it is the dream scenario of an “ethical” tax that the population likes paying. The fact that the sun is the actual culprit and the CO2 “debate” takes attention away from much more serious pollution issues that affect the whole planet is neither here nor there.

Experimental link found between the Sun and Climate
http://www.dailytech.com/Experimental+Link+Found+Between+Sun+and+Climate/article12804.htm
You don't say! The primary cause of all previous climate changes (ahead of volcanic activity) is the sun, the provider of all energy that reaches this planet. Oh well another team of scientists bout to lose their research grants for going "off message".

Bayer on defensive in bee deaths
http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1193866.html
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

A raft made of junk crosses Pacific in 3 months
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_-m1l9b0gZoGWhiDycxZ6B8SiRwD92R6QV80
A tiny bit of mainstream coverage for what is probably the biggest man made environmental disaster in the world - the massive "islands' of plastic that re floating in all the worlds oceans. These are slowly degrading at the bio-molecular level poisoning the sea life, and entering the food chain that you are at the end of. However this gets 0% coverage compared to the CO2 that you personally emit by simply breathing and has no direct impact on the climate (it's the sun, as it has been throughout history and long before we ever came around). Why do you reckon that discrepancy in coverage might be?

Fluoride referendum rejected
http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/FON0101/808280436/1985/FONopinion
Yes why should you little people get a say in which industrial waste poisonous toxin gets put into your water supply? Just because fluoride dulls the brain synapses, costs a hell of a lot to dispose of otherwise, causes intestinal cancers, and has no tooth decay benefits despite what the PR machine tells you (countries and states that don't add it to water have lower rates of decay - go figure)

Health:
Experts warn on cervical cancer vaccination plan
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0821/1219243766838.html
Pharmaceutical companies are corporations. As such they need to make money and increase returns for shareholders. That means sell more and more drugs each year. If evidence coimes up aginst the "health benefits" of their drug they will do everything in their power to suppress it.

Cell Phone Dangers -- What They Don't Want You to See
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/08/26/cell-phone-dangers-what-they-don-t-want-you-to-see.aspx?source=nl
Funnily enough this never got mentioned again in the Australian media after airing - anything to do with the advertising spend clout of the telecoms companies perchance?

Drug giants accused over doctors' perks
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/aug/23/health.pharmaceuticals
Damn those politicians for making things so complicated. In the olden days we used to just pay the doctors to use our drugs. Now if we could just undermine the democratic process then those pesky politician's would look out for our interests over those of those annoying citizen's - now if only we and our other corporate friends had the power and influence to do that wouldn't the world be a much better place (for us)?

The War on Terror:
U.S. soldiers say they executed Iraqis on riverbank
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2742059920080827
More collateral damage in the mission to "bring democracy" to Iraq.

KBR sued for forcing Nepalese workers to Iraq
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/halliburton-sued-for-forcing-nepalese-workers-to-iraq-911831.html
Remind yourself just how many billions of dollars KBR and its sister company Halliburton (Former Chairman Dick Cheney) have made from this "war on terror" and then look at the psychology of a corporation that would conduct human trafficking, and ask yourself what else would they be prepared to do in order to make more money? Lie, cheat, start another war?

Hamid Karzai accuses America over civilian deaths
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/2608964/Afghanistan-Hamid-Karzai-accuses-America-over-civilian-deaths.html
More collateral damage in the mission to "bring democracy" to Afghanistan.

The Next War:
Third US ship due in Black Sea next week
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5S-R7655KAA1RDCL3WKoKP4xUKg
The bombing of Iran will most probably start before the US inauguration in late January (so the new guy doesn't get the blame). The pieces are in place. Public opinion is being continually softened up. All it needs is the spark.....over to you Israel and Iran.

Israel planning unilateral Iran attack
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1015879.html

Biggest Newspaper In Holland Says Dutch Intelligence Helped Prepare Imminent Attack On Iran
http://infowars.net/articles/august2008/290808Iran.htm
I appreciate this isn't a mainstream site, however if you can speak Dutch and can translate the original Dutch source please let me know if this interpretation is correct.

Russian analyst points to link between Georgian attack and Iran
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080827/116318584.html
Do ya reckon?

Putin says U.S. provoked Georgia crisis
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKLK45461520080830
I fear Vlad is spot on, however I suspect the real reason isn't to help McCain in the US election, rather to provide cover for further military expenditure to cope with the renewed "Red menace" and most significantly to allow yet more US military build up in the region, this time into the Black Sea, on top of the 5 aircraft carrier groups already in the Gulf.

Russia faces fresh condemnation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7585182.stm
Don't forget that whatever Russia's wrong's in this war (and there are quite a few) they didn't start it, the Georgian's did after US military encouragement and aid, and what they have done by pushing the Georgian army out of an ethnic Russian self governing province, and is no different at all than what NATO did against Serbia in Kosovo. This whole thing was a smokescreen for the continued build up of forces in preparation for the war with Iran.

Why was Cheney's guy in Georgia before the war?
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/08/georgia-war.html
Do you reckon he might have been there to tell the Georgian's that they want to join the NATO club they'd better do old Dick's dirty work first and start an unwinnable war against a foe immeasurably bigger?

Russia may cut off oil flow to the West
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/08/29/cnrussia129.xml
And one guess for what that will do for world oil prices? Great if you are Director of a major oil corporation, not so good for the rest of us addicts.

Iran says 4,000 atomic centrifuges working
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLT26535020080829?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
Are you ready for the next war? The private contractors, and the armaments industry certainly are now that profits from the pillage of Iraq are now drying up.

Education:
Australian Prime Minister to take on unions over education reforms
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24254264-2702,00.html
A carbon copy of the education "reforms" that Tony Blair introduced to the UK in 1998, and which have spectacularly failed as witnessed by the continuing decline in UK state school standards and the ever growing gap between the top and bottom in UK society. And all these "target's and "league tables' have their origin in John Nash's Nobel Prize winning "Game Theory" which Nash himself now says is not an accurate or moral way of enhancing human performance (see the BBC documentary The Trap, a link to which is on the right hand panel). The mark of any civilisation is how well it educates its next generations. Seeing as we spend considerably more on weapons to kill each other than education that says a lot about the state of human "civilization" nowadays.

Democracy & International Diplomacy:
Admission of Organ Harvesting is 'Undeniable,' Say Investigators
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/admission-organ-harvesting-undeniable-says-lawyer-3249.html
This is just one example of what can happen if you live in a closed society.

Obama picks Biden as running mate http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7578136.stm
McCain moves to steal Obama's thunder by choosing woman running mate http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/30/johnmccain.palin1
It makes no difference which wins I'm afraid. At the end of the day they represent (and are paid for) by the same interest groups, and essentially are powerless to the really change the policy of the Pentagon/Corporate machine that really determines policy, as it has done since the 1950's. The ultimate goal here and across the rest of the world, is one world government and currency. That will be done in stages, as can be seen by the evolution of the EU, NAFTA, AU, SAU and ASEAN. All are a step towards the end goal. It will be of benefit to any of us "sheep" if that day comes to pass.

Social injustice is 'killing on a grand scale'
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn14619-social-injustice-is-killing-on-a-grand-scale.html?feedId=online-news_rss20
But how else would we get our cheap consumer goods?

U.S. debates going after militants in Pakistan
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-uspak23-2008aug23%2C0%2C4404839.story
Yes naughty old Russia killing the citizens of another country. Now for us on the other hand.....

Finance & Economics:
The USA - The next Argentina?
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5990
That is the $99.2 trillion (of debt) question. And if/when it does happen will it be down to economic mismanagement on a monumental scale, or part of a more sinister long term plan by the private banks that own (yes own) the Federal Reserve to manipulate the USA into the "Amero" (the proposed NAFTA currency union) that is another stepping stone towards the long term goal of One World Government?

Economy at 60-year low, says UK Chancellor. And it will get worse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/30/economy.alistairdarling
Do you think that the solution to this problem might be presented as ditch the pound and embrace the Euro perchance? So what if that will effectively mean the end of UK sovereignty and democracy as the majority of decisions will now be made by unelected bureaucrats?

Science & Technology:
Under the radar: Subliminal cues do work after all, says study
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jl7tecJeh8Xk4c0X7ikraxP0nmKg
Yep and we are constantly under bombardment to attempt to condition us into accepting "fact" and not questioning. A lot of research has been done over the last century in the human mind. One example is the us of multiple screens and images behind newsreaders on certain commercial channels like Fox News. If there are 6 or more moving images on a page many people are manipulated into a semi-hypnotized state. They hear what they are being fed but do not (have the ability) to question it.


Quote of the Week:
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H.G Wells



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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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