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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
VIRGINIA EARTHQUAKE CHOCK FULL OF SEISMIC ANOMALIES
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/08/6-strange-anomalies-with-virginia.html
Eric Blair
Activist Post
My first thought upon hearing the news of the rare 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Virginia this week was that it was not a natural occurrence. After all, no one has ever felt or even heard of such a powerful temblor happening in this area in a lifetime. As is usual for my cynical instincts, I hoped that I was wrong. However, several anomalies indicate that something is not normal with the Virginia quake.
First, I spend a lot of time in the "Ring of Fire" zone and have experienced numerous earthquakes. By no means does this make me an expert, nor scientifically qualified to analyze earthquakes. But, as enthusiasts, we looked up every quake we felt over a five-year period -- the size, epicenter location, depth, and so on, to get a general sense of placing how it "felt" relative to the official data.
I can categorically state that, of the dozen or so earthquakes that I've experienced, including a powerful 6.2, all of them started gently, none of them were over 50 miles away, all of them had depths of several kilometers, and the big ones seemed to have multiple aftershocks reported. Again, I say this as an observer, not as a scientist, and I'm only providing this background simply to qualify my immediate skepticism.
Furthermore, curiously, the "Great Virginia Quake of 2011," unprecedented in size and scope, should have grabbed the media headlines and discussion for weeks, but Hurricane Irene has all but wiped the earthquake off the weather map. Even as all the storm measurements for Irene show that it will likely be a minor nuisance, maybe some flooding and power outages, multiple states of emergency have been declared, mandatory mass evacuations ordered, and the media is all too eager to spread the panic. You'd think the east coast of the United States was being invaded. It feels like a distraction, or perhaps a large but manageable live drill of some kind to make heroes out of our politicians, and FEMA look like a successful agency.
If this manic and surreal coverage of Irene is a deliberate distraction, the anomalies regarding the recent earthquake may have provided sufficient motivation for doing so. Not to discount other establishment catastrophes that they may want to distract from at this critical time -- like the crumbling economy, record political disapproval, and the bungled invasion of Tripoli -- but, if any discussion about the unusual nature of the earthquake was allowed one must ponder if some sort of manipulation was involved. The establishment will not permit such talk, apparently; hence the rapid about-face on earthquake coverage.
Below are six abnormalities about the Virginia earthquake that should warrant further investigation:
Location: The location is the most obvious anomaly for such a powerful quake. Although the area of the U.S. where the earthquake initiated sits on the edge of an ancient tectonic plate called the Craton Plate, it is considered a relatively dormant or settled area. In other words, it's not a very active earthquake zone. Therefore, any noticeable earthquake is unusual, let alone a 5.9 monster that was reportedly felt 500 miles away. Furthermore, if one is inclined to believe that earthquakes can be manipulated, the epicenter occurring close to Washington D.C. (with all its sensitive military and government infrastructure) raises some suspicions. Admittedly, that's conjecture, but considering the following oddities it might be more believable by the end of the article.
Unusually Shallow Depth: The initial hypocenter (depth) of the quake reported by the establishment media was, wait for it, wait for it, only 0.1 miles or about 528 feet (161 meters) deep. That's right, AFP announced the depth with certainty, "The Pentagon, the US Capitol and monuments in the nation's capital were all evacuated after the 5.9-magnitude quake, which was shallow with its epicenter only 0.1 miles underground." The depth was later adjusted to a more believable 3.7 miles (5.95 kilometers) beneath the surface. Still, shallow-focus quakes usually only occur in areas abundant in seismic activity, like the ring of fire. And the depths of those shallow-focus earthquakes are usually in the tens of kilometers deep. The Earth's crust in the Eastern U.S. where "the fault lines are more healed" is described by CBS News as "older and colder" than out West. Which, according to Wikipedia, means it should have been a deep-focus earthquake with a depth ranging from 300 to 700 kilometers. Certainly not one barely below the Earth's surface.
Odd Seismograph Reading: A reporter from Press Core received an anonymous email from someone claiming to be in the U.S. Air Force that stated the Virginia earthquake “wasn’t a natural earthquake and not a HAARP earthquake." The reporter was instructed to find a seismograph of the Washington DC area earthquake and compare it to a past earthquakes and seismic readings of the alleged underground nuclear test by North Korea that resulted in a 4.7 magnitude tremor at a depth of zero.
Press Core writes, the green lines indicate the blunt tremor that was felt in Washington D.C. and the black lines are a transparent overlay of a normal earthquake seismograph from a pdf file from Virginia Division Mineral Resources on Earthquakes. That file describes a typical natural occurring earthquake as:
Distance Felt: As my introduction stated, I've never "felt" an earthquake whose epicenter was farther than 50 miles away. Of course, this doesn't mean that it's not possible, as clearly this was felt upwards of 500 miles from the epicenter. The CBS article quoted above that referred to the crust as "older and colder" also uses that argument to explain why tremors were felt so far away: "The East is far less seismically active -- but when earthquakes do hit, that hard ground is far more effective at conducting the seismic waves. When you hit it, it rings like a bell," said Christopher Scholz a professor of geophysics at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory." This seems a bit contradictory given the shallow depth of the quake, but there may be some validity to the "bell" theory. The fact remains, earthquakes whose effects travel long distances are uncommon, hence the reason for the CBS article about why the quake was so "widely felt."
'Remarkably Low' Number of Aftershocks: Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the USGS Earthquake Information Center in Colorado told CBS News that "For the size earthquake that occurred, I think the number of aftershocks so far has been remarkably low." Don Blakeman, another geophysicist at the Earthquake Information Center, added "Typically, the larger the quake, the longer and the greater extent of aftershocks. Shallow earthquakes like the one in Virginia also tend to generate numerous aftershocks." The lack of aftershocks led the USGS to report that the Virginia quake may be just a foreshock of something larger to come. A foreshock is an earthquake that occurs before a larger seismic event (the mainshock) and is related to it in both time and space. I'm not sure what this means other than it's just another abnormality about this quake.
Instantaneously Knocked Irene Off Course: Kevin Hayden and Glenn Kreisberg reported "Coincidentally, the time frame leading up to Virginia/DC/New York area experiencing freak seismic activity, Hurricane Irene begins to weaken and move off course, avoiding its initial path of Havanna, inland Florida, the Carolinas, and eventually, the Washington, DC area. The newly projected paths show that it may barely clip the eastern coast, if at all. Just as Ophelia did when it threatened the same region." Irene stalled and changed directions similar to Ophelia seen in the graphic provided. Clearly, these types of drastic changes are not a natural path for hurricanes.
A few articles have speculated that HAARP earthquake weapons were to blame, in conjunction with manipulating hurricane Irene. Indeed, when one knows even the basic capabilities of HAARP, this does not seem too far-fetched. Press Core seems to think the seismic data proves it was more similar to an underground nuclear detonation. One thing is for sure, the mysterious characteristics of the Virginia quake seem to indicate that it was not a typical earthquake.
Comment on what you think about these strange anomalies, or please provide solid evidence to explain them away.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
6 Strange Anomalies With The Virginia Earthquake
USGS Shakemap Image |
Activist Post
My first thought upon hearing the news of the rare 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Virginia this week was that it was not a natural occurrence. After all, no one has ever felt or even heard of such a powerful temblor happening in this area in a lifetime. As is usual for my cynical instincts, I hoped that I was wrong. However, several anomalies indicate that something is not normal with the Virginia quake.
First, I spend a lot of time in the "Ring of Fire" zone and have experienced numerous earthquakes. By no means does this make me an expert, nor scientifically qualified to analyze earthquakes. But, as enthusiasts, we looked up every quake we felt over a five-year period -- the size, epicenter location, depth, and so on, to get a general sense of placing how it "felt" relative to the official data.
Furthermore, curiously, the "Great Virginia Quake of 2011," unprecedented in size and scope, should have grabbed the media headlines and discussion for weeks, but Hurricane Irene has all but wiped the earthquake off the weather map. Even as all the storm measurements for Irene show that it will likely be a minor nuisance, maybe some flooding and power outages, multiple states of emergency have been declared, mandatory mass evacuations ordered, and the media is all too eager to spread the panic. You'd think the east coast of the United States was being invaded. It feels like a distraction, or perhaps a large but manageable live drill of some kind to make heroes out of our politicians, and FEMA look like a successful agency.
If this manic and surreal coverage of Irene is a deliberate distraction, the anomalies regarding the recent earthquake may have provided sufficient motivation for doing so. Not to discount other establishment catastrophes that they may want to distract from at this critical time -- like the crumbling economy, record political disapproval, and the bungled invasion of Tripoli -- but, if any discussion about the unusual nature of the earthquake was allowed one must ponder if some sort of manipulation was involved. The establishment will not permit such talk, apparently; hence the rapid about-face on earthquake coverage.
Below are six abnormalities about the Virginia earthquake that should warrant further investigation:
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Unusually Shallow Depth: The initial hypocenter (depth) of the quake reported by the establishment media was, wait for it, wait for it, only 0.1 miles or about 528 feet (161 meters) deep. That's right, AFP announced the depth with certainty, "The Pentagon, the US Capitol and monuments in the nation's capital were all evacuated after the 5.9-magnitude quake, which was shallow with its epicenter only 0.1 miles underground." The depth was later adjusted to a more believable 3.7 miles (5.95 kilometers) beneath the surface. Still, shallow-focus quakes usually only occur in areas abundant in seismic activity, like the ring of fire. And the depths of those shallow-focus earthquakes are usually in the tens of kilometers deep. The Earth's crust in the Eastern U.S. where "the fault lines are more healed" is described by CBS News as "older and colder" than out West. Which, according to Wikipedia, means it should have been a deep-focus earthquake with a depth ranging from 300 to 700 kilometers. Certainly not one barely below the Earth's surface.
Odd Seismograph Reading: A reporter from Press Core received an anonymous email from someone claiming to be in the U.S. Air Force that stated the Virginia earthquake “wasn’t a natural earthquake and not a HAARP earthquake." The reporter was instructed to find a seismograph of the Washington DC area earthquake and compare it to a past earthquakes and seismic readings of the alleged underground nuclear test by North Korea that resulted in a 4.7 magnitude tremor at a depth of zero.
Seismograph of Virginia quake in green -- Washington and Lee University (85 miles from epicenter) |
When a fault ruptures, energy is released in the form of seismic waves. The first waves to reach the earth’s surface are primary or 'P' waves (Figure 2). P waves are compressional waves that travel at a speed of about four miles per second near the surface – faster as depth increases. The next waves to reach the earth’s surface are secondary or 'S' waves. S waves are shear waves that move at a speed of about 1.5 miles per second. P and S waves are body waves that travel through the earth much like sonar waves travel through water. Surface waves, which are slower than S waves, travel along the surface of the earth much like waves at the surface of the ocean. S waves and surface waves cause the most destruction at the earth’s surface.The article concludes; "What is missing from the seismograph for the Washington DC area 5.8 magnitude earthquake are the primary or 'P' waves. All earthquakes that are the direct result of fault rupture have these primary or 'P' waves. Nuclear detonations do not."
Distance Felt: As my introduction stated, I've never "felt" an earthquake whose epicenter was farther than 50 miles away. Of course, this doesn't mean that it's not possible, as clearly this was felt upwards of 500 miles from the epicenter. The CBS article quoted above that referred to the crust as "older and colder" also uses that argument to explain why tremors were felt so far away: "The East is far less seismically active -- but when earthquakes do hit, that hard ground is far more effective at conducting the seismic waves. When you hit it, it rings like a bell," said Christopher Scholz a professor of geophysics at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory." This seems a bit contradictory given the shallow depth of the quake, but there may be some validity to the "bell" theory. The fact remains, earthquakes whose effects travel long distances are uncommon, hence the reason for the CBS article about why the quake was so "widely felt."
'Remarkably Low' Number of Aftershocks: Amy Vaughan, a geophysicist with the USGS Earthquake Information Center in Colorado told CBS News that "For the size earthquake that occurred, I think the number of aftershocks so far has been remarkably low." Don Blakeman, another geophysicist at the Earthquake Information Center, added "Typically, the larger the quake, the longer and the greater extent of aftershocks. Shallow earthquakes like the one in Virginia also tend to generate numerous aftershocks." The lack of aftershocks led the USGS to report that the Virginia quake may be just a foreshock of something larger to come. A foreshock is an earthquake that occurs before a larger seismic event (the mainshock) and is related to it in both time and space. I'm not sure what this means other than it's just another abnormality about this quake.
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A few articles have speculated that HAARP earthquake weapons were to blame, in conjunction with manipulating hurricane Irene. Indeed, when one knows even the basic capabilities of HAARP, this does not seem too far-fetched. Press Core seems to think the seismic data proves it was more similar to an underground nuclear detonation. One thing is for sure, the mysterious characteristics of the Virginia quake seem to indicate that it was not a typical earthquake.
Comment on what you think about these strange anomalies, or please provide solid evidence to explain them away.
SGT. DYER BACK IN STEPHENS COUNTY FOR RAILROADING
Fugitive captured in Texas, returned to Oklahoma
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DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — A Marlow man who failed to show up for his trial on a child sexual abuse charge has been returned to Oklahoma after being captured in Texas.
Stephens County Sheriff Wayne McKinney told newspapers that he and two deputies brought Charles Dyer back to Stephens County on Friday.
"I flew down to Texas with two deputies and took him (Dyer) into custody," McKinney told the Duncan Banner. "We tried to keep this as quiet as possible, because the FBI asked us not to talk about it until we got him back."
The FBI had joined the search for Dyer after receiving information that he had crossed state lines.
McKinney said Dyer seemed worn down from his flight that included nearly a week hiding in and near the Brazos River.
"He said, 'Sheriff, I didn't think you'd send that many men after me,'" McKinney told The Lawton Constitution.
Dyer hadn't been seen since Aug. 12 and failed to appear for the Aug. 15 start of his trial in Stephens County. He had pleaded not guilty to the child sexual abuse charge after his first trial ended in a mistrial in April.
He was arrested Thursday morning near Richmond, Texas, by a Fort Bend County, Texas, deputy sheriff who responded to a call from a resident that Dyer was seen leaving a fast food restaurant.
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Dyer back in Stephens County; retrial set
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COMMENT
All that, and Dyer's back in the jaws of the beast that's been trying to devour him for the past two years. For speaking out for America.
We need a presence in Duncan, Oklahoma; people willing to take turns keeping a local vigil over J4P so they cannot think starve him or have some narc shank him because no one's watching.
We need Dyerfest to happen.
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Dyer back in Stephens County; retrial set
DUNCAN, Okla. – He spent two weeks running from the law, but Monday a Stephens County judge made sure Charles Dyer would not run again, denying his request for bond during an early morning hearing.
Dyer looked much different today than the last time he entered the Stephens County Courthouse. With dark hair, a beard, and in an orange inmate jump suit and shackles, Dyer was joined by his attorney and family.
District Judge Joe Enos denied Dyer's request and also revoked his $150,000 that was granted back in April.
Stephens County District Attorney Jason Hicks was out of town today, but 7News was able to reach him by phone. Hicks says as of today, Dyer's retrial is rescheduled for October.
Despite the recent extreme exposure of his case, Hicks says the trial is still set to be held in a Stephens County courtroom. While that could change, Hicks says everyone is taking some solace in knowing that Dyer is back in their jail for now. Something that proved to be more difficult than anyone expected.
Dyer found himself in the same courtroom he sat in just four months ago. But today, instead of a suit and tie and clean shaven appearance, Dyer took on a much different look while donning an orange jumpsuit, beard, and black hair.
"I never remembered Mr. Dyer having black hair or beard. So I asked him, I said ‘Charles, I didn't think your hair was black.' He said, ‘It's a bottle.' He dyed it, he changed his appearance and it worked a little bit," said Stephens County Sheriff, Wayne McKinney.
McKinney and two deputies flew to Texas by helicopter to bring Dyer back; something they felt was necessary to everyone's safety.
"Due to all the attention he received in the nationwide manhunt, we felt it was the safest, not only Dyer himself but for us," said McKinney.
McKinney says even while Dyer was a wanted fugitive who ran for days and led authorities on a wild chase, his attitude seemed far different than that of a wanted criminal.
"He was very nice and polite. The first thing he said to me was ‘Sheriff, I'm sorry to cause you all the problems.' I said ‘Well Charlie, it's over with now.'"
McKinney says Dyer seemed surprised to hear so many people were looking for him.
"He said ‘I just can't imagine that you sent that many people looking for me.'"
Now that he is back, McKinney says he and the DA hope for one thing…
"What's important is that Mr. Dyer gets a fair trial. If for some reason the court feels there needs to be change of venue based on publicity, that's the way it should be."
As 7News reported last week, Dyer was captured after he was seen ordering a cherry lime-aid at a Texas' Sonic Drive-In. When McKinney asked Dyer why he risked getting caught over the soda, Dyer told him he was just tired of drinking dirty water from the river he had been hiding near.
COMMENT
All that, and Dyer's back in the jaws of the beast that's been trying to devour him for the past two years. For speaking out for America.
We need a presence in Duncan, Oklahoma; people willing to take turns keeping a local vigil over J4P so they cannot think starve him or have some narc shank him because no one's watching.
We need Dyerfest to happen.
Dyerfest needs above all a venue. I am specifically looking for a donated space with power, restrooms in a county or municipality under an Oath Keeper type Sheriff to keep the scumbags at bay.
We will also need a website or some kind of internet venue for a live stream. Live streams from supporting rallies across America can also participate, or even from individuals on their computers.
The purpose of Dyerfest is to raise both money to save the Dyer farm and to raise awareness of the blatant criminality of how Stephens Co. Oklahoma, the state of Oklahoma and US government have persecuted an all but designated enemy of the state.
We need to make this a 3% event so come fully armed as an additional middle finger to the enemy. Loaded main battle rifle and sidearm.
After that, food vendors and entertainment-musicians, games, live theater, a patriot film festival. Speakers, seminars by knowledgeable people on the law, shooting, political round table, etc.
Don't know if we'll make the Sept. 10 time I wanted. We need to act FAST as the 90 days to pay off the Dyer farm will soon be up. Spread the word.
J. Croft
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com
Monday, August 29, 2011
REPOST: MESSAGE TO THE VETERAN
MESSAGE TO THE VETERAN
J. Croft
You gave years of your life to defend America . You might have given an eye, a limb, years off your life or
your sanity, or gained years of serious health problems.
You gave-and you’d like to think that your sacrifice was to preserve America … but I have some bad news: what you gave was taken by a pack of violent, psychotic inbred blueblood “elites” for their own gain.
Leftist rant? Right wing paranoia? You think I’m wearing a tinfoil hat?
Then how come the borders are wide open yet Americans are being accosted Gestapo-style at our airports and bus stops? How come checkpoints are sprouting up all over our once Free nation? How come thirty million illegals can run rampant in our once Free nation yet we are constantly accosted by overtestosteroned uneducated cretins with guns and fragile egos-known as cops-for the most asinine “infractions” and run through a cash register legal system?
How come lawyers run this country and write the laws and administer them, prosecute us for their laws? How come we let bureaucrats enforce each and every asinine rule and impose life destroying penalties on whole families and communities? How come we let what’s supposed to be our government commit massive fraud against the People by taking the money from all those taxes and investing them in for –profit financial vehicles, then taking the profit and using it to pay the bills? (Go to www.cafr1.com to confirm this).
How come known traitors like Bill and Hillary Clinton-who murdered children with poison gas and fire at Waco and sold nuclear weapons secrets to Red China-can still walk free? Run for President? How come we let the government enforce “free speech zones”? How come We the People let a few interconnected megacorporations own the banking, media, financial institutions who then turn around and have systematically looted our nation and ruined our future? How come We the People refuse to confront these problems because we’re trained by the media to be more preoccupied with Dog busting the N word in a private phone call to his own son, or Lindsay Lohan giving the paparazzi some fresh “wardrobe malfunctions”?
Is this what you fought and sacrificed your youth, your health, your future for?
USED IN WARS-FOR THE ELITE
The current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are proving to be frauds. If 9/11 was planned and staged from Afghanistan by Bin Ladin, how is it we can’t find that six foot plus old man and his kidney dialysis machine? Worse, how is that before 9/11 we were trying to cut a deal with the Taliban for a oil pipeline? How is it that opium production is the highest it’s ever been in that sorry land under NATO?
And we have destroyed Iraq . A short catalogue of the US government’s war crimes:
*Coup that plants CIA stooge Saddam Hussein in absolute power.
*Eight years of brutal war against Iran -which only ended in stalemate, exhaustion, millions dead-all because our stooge Hussein-photographed shaking hands with Donald Rumsfeld was absolute dictator and led that nation to war.
*Baiting Saddam to invade Kuwait commencing direct hostilities against Iraq .
*Desert Storm, which led to a decade of devastating economic sanctions against a already defeated war weary Iraqi people. In spite of the fact that the only people those sanctions affected were the estimated one million Iraqi children… children dying of starvation and disease… those sanctions weren’t deemed sufficient; under the guise of “no fly zones” Iraq ’s basic infrastructure was systematically bombed.
*Operation Iraqi Freedom, waged even though there was NO connection to 9/11, NO proof that war ravaged land was-or could-develop nuclear weapons. You Iraq veterans were sent in, inadequetly equipped because Rumsfeld wanted to wage the war on the cheap… made to HALT for three days… you could’ve been attacked if Saddam had nukes. Again, there was no plausible reason for an invasion. Sure Iraq was conquered. Then what? Shattered infrastructure-still unrepaired? Daily terror from your fellow soldiers driven to paranoia and psychosis? Iraq ’s Mesopotamian heritage stretching back six thousand years-looted? The near universal hatred of a entire nation every day we’re there, every innocent gunned or bombed out by warplanes and artillery?
That’s just Iraq . What about Vietnam-the staged Gulf of Tonkin “attack” that led to our decade long wasted effort, over a million Vietnamese dead-and our “leaders” just pull out, when the Marines could’ve taken Hanoi?
What about Korea-American troop positions, plans, and even personnel rosters were dutifully reported to the UN… which gave them to the Soviets, who gave them to the North Koreans and Chinese and caused a three year stalemate?
Let’s briefly examine World War Two; how FDR deliberately offered a collection of obsolete, old battleships to the Japanese Navy to piss you off enough to go to war? How about the US government forcing Japan into a corner with a embargo? How about Dubya’s granddaddy Prescott Bush helping to finance the rise of the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler? How about IBM helping the Nazis catalogue the Jews with primitive punch card mechanical computers? How about our support of the co-starter of World War Two, the Soviets, when they and the Nazi’s invaded Poland ?
We’ll go on to the First World War-that was started by an assasination of some inbred blueblood duke became the excuse to empty a generation’s worth of war production in a year of some of the most horrific warfare experienced. How is it that the British Empire became the “good guys”; they had a quarter of the Earth’s land mass under their rule? How is it that the German Empire repeatedly offered peace terms-that the British and French refused? How is it that Woodrow Wilson supported the empire that the sun never set on, hoping the Germans would get desperate enough to sink one of our ships, pissing us off enough to get suckered into another war?
American history is filled, filled with false provocations and misplaced rage against those the self-titled “elite” stage manage behind the scenes. For what? Average folks everywhere murdered? Their lands and wealth they struggled to build with honest work stolen? Oppressive empires built and torn down for more empire?
USED, ABUSED, PROFITED FROM AND CHUCKED ASIDE
What did you get out your military service? Got to fly some damn cool aircraft, or steer a 90,000 ton aircraft carrier, or shoot automatic weapons. Or maybe it’s having hundreds of men under you, responsive to your orders. Certainly, the military has some sweet perks to get you to sign that dotted line…
No, it was making a difference for your country, your people. That’s what it boils down to. You go in, get told you’re going to do things that matter, and that’s important for people-that they matter in the greater scheme of things. Problem is, the greater scheme of things is controlled, directed, designed by a pack of criminals-violent psychotic bluebloods who consider themselves gods. You’re their toy soldiers and the entire planet is their sandbox. When they’re done with you-when you get too expensive to care for from IED blasts or sucking down too much depleted uranium microparticles you’re kicked to the curb. Back in civilian life, denied your benefits.
They make trillions off weapons sales and stock speculations and you can’t even get treatment for the injuries you got from their wars. They shape history to their whim, and you wind up alone because nobody can live with you and your post-traumatic stress disorder. They pose in front of the flag and proclaim that their scripted conflicts are for securing freedom, and you get harassed by state loving cops for sleeping on steam grates because you’re homeless.
Your biggest enemy was the government you served.
Your biggest enemy IS the government you once served so faithfully.
Your biggest enemy is still on the offensive against us all; keeping us at each other’s throats… what will it take for you to rise to our defense?
“WHAT CAN I DO?”
More than you can realize, but do you have the will?
You need to anyway because, look around; America has been used and abused and put away wet with false wars, economic vampirism, globalism-all perpetrated by flag waving traitors. Why is it that a lot of those who wave the flag hardest, that make the biggest protestations about their “patriotism” turn out to be the biggest traitors?
It’s November, 2007; time to join the Ron Paul Revolution as that man and the people behind him-Americans of all kinds-recognize this is our very last chance at affecting peaceful political change in this country. Join, and do more than support Ron Paul; run for political office in your home town, or some town near you whose local parasites in government service are making life hell for the People.
Those returning from Afghanistan and Iraq , or at least able to if you haven’t been stop lossed your recent combat experience is valuable to the People. They will need lessons on how to defend themselves in modern urban combat when this country is deliberately collapsed, so get with the good Patriots at www.awrm.org A Well Regulated Militia and www.rwva.org Revolutionary War Veterans Association and form rifle clubs and militias… the Minutemen bravely deployed along our southern border. Know that the beast that is the US government seeks to disarm us all and is already trying to eliminate ammunition by taking it off the market and by putting impossible technological limitations, like the serial numbering ordnance passed in California and signed into law by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
If you’re going back to military service, know that the government’s plan for martial law and dictatorship cannot be allowed to succeed. It would be the final death of the America we hold in our hearts. Know that it will be up to you to thwart the beast inside it’s own military machine. How? That’s best left up to you and where you’re at.
Are you moderately successful? Start laying in private sale war surplus rifles and ammunition, cache them by individual rifle and 500 rounds in a sealed PVC tube, bury them. Bankroll a Appleseed shooting club(www.rwva.org)/militia outfit(www.awrm.org). Lay in machine tools, knowledge of basic 19th and 20th century manufacturing techniques. Secure underground tunnels, and smaller caves-most caves are on record and undoubtedly on search lists. Since you being successful have a better knowledge of the local politics than the average American, help finance and advise a emergency recall election campaign to clean out the scum. Back local Patriots with talent. Any vets out there homeless? Any of them you know? Help get them off the streets already!(Yes, they smell and they’re usually messed up in the head but… this is how we thank them for their military service?! We bitch at the government but we act just as cold.)
…See, you actually have money. Jesus said that it’s easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man reaching heaven because people are supposed to help others-and rich folks can help more folks than anyone else. Whether from metals investments or you have businesses you have resources to make the Second American Revolution happen. So what’s stopping you? You know you’re not going to take it with you, and you’re not even going to be able to give it to your kids because the beast that is the US government and their banker masters are going to steal it from you one way or another anyway.
Are you a regular blue collar guy? Just getting by? You and others can do what a rich person can do-just each of you kick a portion into a fund-that’s not in a bank. And have it in gold and silver. Get back in shape, get shooting (www.rwva.org) get a militia unit going (www.awrm.org) sort out who can do what, and back your talented people because the beast fears motivated, talented people who hate them enough to dedicate their lives to war against them more than ANYTHING.
Homeless? I don’t know the depths of your pain; what drove you to the street. I do know that you ain’t making it on your own-so band together with other homeless and vets if you haven’t already. Your priority is survival, but first you need shelter, so here’s a crazy suggestion; take over a abandoned home by ADVERSE POSSESSION. Your whole group; if there’s 20 or 30 of you get a big house. You’ll probably wind up in some gang war zone-but you’re vets, so those gangstas you don’t get together against, maybe you can convert them to the Cause. Keep in mind you probably won’t have a car so locate within walking distance of grocery stores and other shopping. This isn’t a permanent suggestion, because the cities will become the citadels of the beast but you can’t do anything else like hold down a job and get your lives back together until you have shelter. Once you have a roof over your heads you can start enacting the suggestions I wrote about above.
Most of all, hardship is coming, like nobody in history has experienced. America has been deliberately sabotaged. We as a people have lost the very means to sustain ourselves to defend ourselves and have become dependant on the very ghouls in pinstripe suits who plotted our downfall. Americans are the most unprepared people in history for collapse-and the planned downfall will be the harshest most horrifying event. They’ll succeed-and most people who survive will probably bow down to eternal slavery-but in that collapse they light the fire that will wind up destroying them. You know about hardship, how to survive, fight, plan, build, think. Take that military training and help those among the 250,000,000+Americans who are going to become destitute and starving in the coming collapse who will listen, who will struggle to get back the America we believe in. The America we can make reality.
The America that minds its own business, yet spreads Freedom to all mankind by motivated individuals who go back to their countries of origin and enact American Revolutions.
The America that has as its priority the maximization of the individual and opportunity for her or him to make the most of themselves in a climate of individual Freedom.
The America that encourages small businesses and for profit coops of blue collar workers for mutual gain yet keeps a one inch leash on big corporations.
The America that doesn’t need to turn every square inch of land into wasteful suburbia, or use it for a dump.
The America that honors it’s treaties, that doesn’t engage in wars of political intrigue or conquest.
The America that doesn’t need a leviathan of a government that sucks up most resources.
The America that leads the way for Man to take their Destiny and expand out into the Universe. See, it’s my vision that if we can overcome the beast, the n.w.o. we can accomplish everything Hollywood dreams of in their sci-fi shows. We have to free ourselves first, and you the Veteran must lead that battle.
J. Croft
OFFICIALLY DELCARED NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE
Officially Declared Nuclear Nightmare
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The Intel Hub
By Dr. Mark Sircus – Contributing Writer
August 28, 2011
It is now being said that the amount of radioactive cesium that has leaked from a tsunami-hit nuclear plant is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, Japan’s nuclear agency said Friday the 26th.
That’s like dropping one nuclear weapon a day since the beginning of this disaster and this is what they have been calling safe, no problem, don’t worry about it, go home and go to sleep.
Dr. Chris Busby tells us in the above video that he himself went to Japan with very sophisticated equipment and found areas in Tokyo that were 1,000 times higher than the exclusion zone around Chernobyl.
The report said the damaged plant has released 15,000 tera becquerels of cesium-137, which lingers for decades and could cause cancer, compared with the 89 tera becquerels released by the U.S. uranium bomb.
Now tell me who in their right mind would be comfortable being downwind of that? The answer to that one is very tragic and sad—millions are too comfortable and many more millions are simply unaware because they are not being told by their governments or the mainstream press. But today that finally changes!
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A person can still squirm around this one with all their rationalizations but you can now count them—each nuclear explosion worth of radiation being pumped into the environment day after day after day.
The National Institute for Environmental Studies said its simulation of aerial flow, diffusion and deposition of the two isotopes released from the tsunami-hit plant showed their impact reached most of Japan’s eastern half, ranging from Iwate in the north to Tokyo and central prefecture (state) of Shizuoka.
Both Iwate and Shizuoka are more than 180 miles (300 kilometers) away from the plant.
Tokyo is Finished
Time is running out for the 35 million people in the Tokyo metropolitan area and, in fact, in a year or two all of northern Japan will become quite uninhabitable for there is no way for them to stop the process once the fissioning materials work their way down into the earth and the water table below, which they have already done. (See my recent essay “The China Syndrome”.)
As radiation levels rise, some sanity has surfaced in Japan as the government lowered back down the radiation exposure limits for children to below one millisievert per year while at school.
Following the accident, in a move that prompted outrage, Japan raised the exposure limit for both adults and children from one to 20 millisieverts per year, matching the maximum exposure level for nuclear industry workers in many countries.
Parents in Fukushima have since been calling on the government to lower limits at school, claiming that children face a higher risk from radiation-linked cancers and other diseases than adults, which of course is absolutely true. Radiation experts agree that children are at greatest risk from cancers and genetic defects because they are still growing, are more prone to thyroid cancers, and because they will have more time to develop health defects.
The news services continue to misrepresent the situation. “Areas surrounding Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant could remain uninhabitable for decades,” Reuters reported, when in reality it will be thousands of years at best.
A brutal way of saying this is that the nuclear lobby is, all by itself, proving to be the undoing of the human race. But the British are still going to sing hail to the queen and the royal family, who are deeply wed to the uranium industry.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex “is still leaking low levels of radiation,” when it is still leaking high levels of radiation. “It could take more than 20 years before residents could safely return to areas with current radiation readings of 200 millisieverts per year, and a decade for areas at 100 millisieverts per year.”
Someone is having a nuclear wet dream with these assumptions. Too many have swallowed hook, line and sinker the “safe, low-level, no harm, nothing to worry about” pronouncements in the press, so much so that they actually believe it. Humanity is stuck with Fukushima and all by itself it will badly pollute the north and, perhaps after some time, the south of our world as well.
Newly released neutron data from three University of California San Diego scientists confirms Fairewinds’ April analysis that the disaster continues to contaminate the surrounding environment and upper atmosphere with large doses of radioactivity.
In a new revelation, the NRC claims that the plutonium found more than one mile offsite actually came from inside the nuclear reactors! If such a statement were true, it indicates that the nuclear power plant containments failed and were breached with debris landing far from the power plants themselves.
The bad idea of burning the radioactive materials (building materials, trees, lawn grass, rice straw) by the Japanese government will cause radioactive cesium to spread even further into areas within Japan that have been previously clean and across the Pacific Ocean to North America.
Until very recently we in the West were considered barbarians by the Japanese. Perhaps when they burn these materials, knowing where some of that radiation is going, they are thinking of the old days.
REST HERE: http://theintelhub.com/2011/08/28/officially-declared-nuclear-nightmare/
SAAVYSURVIVOR.COM: SURVIVOR'S SUPPLY CACHE
A friend of mine wants some business so I'm drumming some up for him; look over to the right column he's right at the top and he's got some very good stuff for sale.
He was one of those high-end government security people, high speed low drag and he knows his stuff. Best of all he's a Patriot; below is a article on supply caching out of a 5 gallon pail. Nothing you can't do.
Survivor's Supply Cache
A subject that seems to be coming up a lot on the survival related forums is the cache. A cache is a small amount of goods and supplies that a survivor would keep hidden, usually along a planned bugout route or in an area that the survivor might go to, but is not in control of the area and lacks the resources to secure pre-positioned goods. A hidden cache along the same route or in the same area will provide items and supplies that the survivor can determine ahead of time as opposed to the unpredictable nature of foraging. Pre-positioning items is one way to make sure you will have access to them if you end up in that place after traveling light. In practice, a cache is hidden, but not secured. That reduces the need for additional resources to secure the goods or the unwanted spread of news about the location and nature of supplies. Figure that the average night in a halfway decent motel is going to cost you $50 per person, and a campground with rudimentary bathrooms and showers is at least $10 per person. Food on the road is going to be at around $5 per meal if you are eating off the bargain menus at the fast food joints, or around $7 per meal at the truck stops. Spending $100 to set up a one or two day cache that makes it tolerable to live in the bush is not at all out of line or an extravagance, it is simply looking out for these things ahead of time. Again, $300 to $500 total on some supplies decent camping gear that you might be leaving in a stash vs a week of hotel and campground fees is a realistic consideration.
You will generally prepare items for a cache with a focus on the time frame that the items will be cached. A hasty cache may be as simple as dropping boxes of supplies off the side of a road somewhere while a complex long term cache might involve a sealed room in a pre-stocked bunker beneath an innocuous looking remote cabin. For most of us, it is going to be the basic mid-term "bucket stash" that is designed to last three to five years.
The bucket cache is fairly simple and easy to prepare, with a basic cost being fairly reasonable. Being limited by the size of a standard five gallon pail, the stash will not contain more goods than what a person would normally be expected to carry if they move on farther, but if they are going to stay in one location for a few days, it will provide enough minimal comforts for a person to get clean, some sleep, a few good meals and some clean water. I personally would limit the cost and contents of most bucket caches to around $100 in supplies, but obviously the caches that contain specific weapons, tools or equipment will end up costing more. Limit those caches to ones that are near the start of a bugout route.
The fully loaded bucket cache has enough to keep a person going for a couple days without further resupply. In a pinch, this could last a week or longer if the survivor is able to forage for some local food and supplies, but one should not get overconfident in the amount of supplies provided in a cache. Once you retrieve a cache, you need to immediately take stock of your estimated travel time and resources for replenishing your supplies, realizing that it would take about 100 such supply caches for one person to survive one year. Note also that storage weight of a cache is pretty much a non-issue. Your highest priority is preserving the integrity of the supplies in the cache. Then of course there is the consideration of your limits set by the size and shape of your container. In the case of the five gallon buckets, they are all usually about the same size, but that is not to say you cannot use other containers that would accommodate other items. Pelican cases are used by well funded special operations types because they seal up airtight and come in some larger sizes that can hold most weapons. The Browning travel vault is a long wide gun case that is airtight and can be buried with little preparation or modification. Again, such containers are so costly, that only the best funded operations would consider them cost effective even in the face of standard bucket caches occasionally failing or being found.
This is a good basic bucket stash with some extras. It should sustain one person for two days of moderate activity and that is usually enough time for a survivor to either move on to the next cache, or get started foraging for food and supplies. As an option, I designated this as a #1 cache, so it has a few basic survival items I might not have on me if I have to bugout in a "come as you are" situation. Since I don't always have a fixed blade knife and pistol on me, I put them in the stash along with a moderate supply of ammo. I opted for a fairly standard mini-mag lite because the AA batteries can be bought and stored in bulk, but a better cache would have one of the improved LED flashlights with the little built-in generator. It is likely that I will include one of those kinds of lights in other caches along the bugout route. It is logical that the various caches along a bugout would have different, but complimentary survival items that I would look forward to recovering as I travel along the route. I would assume that I would have some fairly common items on me before reaching the stash, this would include some sort of large bag or backpack, a full set of clothes, a folding pocketknife or leatherman tool, a hat of some sort, and probably something to use as a blanket or sleeping bag.
Items:
The bucket - has many uses, not the least of which is holding all of the other stuff in a watertight and nearly airtight environment for at least two years. It can be used to haul water, as a wash basin, or even as a toilet. In foraging activities, a clean bucket is good for carrying berries, mushrooms and various other edible plants back to camp. I can also be used for storing food out of reach of hungry animals. Fresh meat placed in the bucket and then secured in a stream is a sort of "frontiersmen's fridge". A few empty buckets secured to a few stout poles can be the basis for a usable raft.
The Poncho - There are a lot of uses for the standard military poncho, this one has some bungee cord attached to the corners to facilitate use as a fast shelter. The poncho is good for a lot of things, but not really so great as a foul weather garment, still better than nothing. Even if I am already carrying or using a shelter, the poncho might be useful in making that shelter better camouflaged or more comfortable.
The Pistol and Ammo - I picked a .45 that I had gotten in a trade deal where I got the gun fairly cheap but it needed some repairs. After the repairs, it shoots well but still looks fairly rough. For the $250 everyone tells me it is worth, It is better to stash than to sell, so it gets stashed with a spare mag and some ammo. 100 rounds of ammo is plenty for basic self defense and foraging in a non-combat environment. In a combat environment, the handgun is probably just a backup weapon and the rather light ammo load (or even less) would be appropriate. More ammo would be picked up along the bugout route. Prepping the pistol for long term storage means cleaning and oiling it then sealing it in plastic. I use regular motor oil since cosmoline can be harder to clean off under primitive conditions. The ammo was too bulky in the store packaging, not to mention the store packaging was not moisture resistant. I opted to repack the ammo in sealed plastic bags using a seal-a meal. Even better would be to use one of the newer vacuum sealers for the gun and ammo, but pack them separately to keep oil away from the ammo. In the long term, the oil breaks down and releases a gas that seeps into the ammo and can neutralize the primers, which kills the ammo. I did include one small bottle of lube for cleaning and re-lubing the pistol when I recover the cache. Again, just regular motor oil is good enough for the job.
Knife - I had a spare Cold Steel SRK on hand. It is well used and with a nice Kydex sheath, but lacks the original sheath and is not in good enough "original" condition to have any significant collector value. It is still an excellent utility knife and very sharp. I would expect to be carrying a pocket knife all the time and when I recover the cache, but may not have a good sharp fixed blade knife on hand, so it would not hurt to have one in the cache, thus, I included one. rest at the link: http://www.savvysurvivor.com/supplycache.htm
SALON.COM: ORIGINS OF THE CHICKENHAWKS... CHICKENSHITS MORE LIKE IT
Ain't that the truth!What makes chickenhawkery such a distinctly American phenomenon is our culture's coupling of aggressive militarism with a lack of anything even resembling shared sacrifice. Quite bizarrely, we celebrate those who rhetorically promote wars as "tough" and "strong" without requiring those very warmongers to walk their talk. Shielded from any personal risk of injury or death, the chickenhawk is thus permitted to wrap himself in an American flag and goose step his way through television studios as the alleged personification of patriotic bravery.
Rest here: http://www.salon.com/news/david_sirota/2011/06/29/chickenhawk_origins/index.html
SIPSEY STREET: GUNRUNNER GETS BIGGER, MORE AMERICANS ROBBED AND IMPRISONED, MORE MEXICANS MURDERED, MORE DRUGS ON THE STREETS
Ignored by the national press so far-- again.
NM gun smuggling case gets bigger: kasa.com
Good job there big government! We get more people on drugs and in the system, more 'greasers' murdered, and all thanks to the efforts of the gutless, child raping rat fuck BATFaggots robbing Americans of the guns used to accomplish this... and seeing them thrown in the system as well. Justice is coming!
SIPSEY STREET: RUSSIAN USE OF RIFLE GRENADES IN CHECHNYA
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/08/praxis-russian-use-of-rifle-grenades-in.html
Russian soldier takes a break in Second Chechen War. Note modern rifle grenades on rifles in background.
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Russian soldier takes a break in Second Chechen War. Note modern rifle grenades on rifles in background.
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COPBLOCK: TIN BADGE GOD MAKES SURE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PERSON 'RESPECTS HIS AUTHORITAH'
Wow! A tin badge punk tases and kicks a mentally handicapped person, and at least two alleged 'Americans' cheer him on.
Those will be the people who will cheer on martial law, thinking that if they go along they will get along. I'll laugh when it's their turn.
You'll note the pig was brazen enough to do this in public, alone, in front of witnesses making comments and recording his actions. He knows if there's an investigation it's a paid vacation for him. These dudes have no fear of us
Those will be the people who will cheer on martial law, thinking that if they go along they will get along. I'll laugh when it's their turn.
You'll note the pig was brazen enough to do this in public, alone, in front of witnesses making comments and recording his actions. He knows if there's an investigation it's a paid vacation for him. These dudes have no fear of us
Saturday, August 27, 2011
WHY THE U.S. NEEDS TO COLLAPSE
This man lays out why the US needs to collapse-it's to save all of our lives!
PROOF OF HAARP USED ON HURRICANE IRENE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKtxWP0haAw&feature=player_embedded
HAARP affects the ionosphere, it's out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Very intense perfectly circular high frequency blasts ahead and left of the path of Irene.
A comment left on Dutchinsense's You Tube channel:
Dutch, I can tell you from an engineering standpoint, because I hold a degree in Electrical Engineering and specialized for many years in design and build out of communications systems (radio towers) that were fed their data through microwave hops, that there is nothing in nature that can produce these almost-perfect rings. These are, as they appear, rings caused by transmitting apparatus that is being received by the equipment that you are monitoring. You are right on target. tomperanteau 2 hours ago 22
If you know Steve Jackson's Illuminati Card Game you know that it has playing cards that depict events that happened later, like 9/11... as if planned. A second video connecting that card, the predictive programming in "The Addams Family" and Hurricane Irene:
I've covered HAARP before. It's a secret government Tesla weapon that can create and steer storms through electromagnetic manipulation of the atmosphere. It may even be powerful enough to trigger earthquakes. What are their intentions?
In 2005 with Katrina, HAARP was used to steer it away from doing more damage to New Orleans. It was also used to weaken other threatening hurricanes.
More here: http://www.weatherwars.com/
In any event, be prepared; have food, water purification, knowledge, skills, guns, ammunition, tools, and a network of allies.
When you hear the words 'martial law' for whatever reason-RUN!!
HAARP affects the ionosphere, it's out of Raleigh, North Carolina. Very intense perfectly circular high frequency blasts ahead and left of the path of Irene.
A comment left on Dutchinsense's You Tube channel:
Dutch, I can tell you from an engineering standpoint, because I hold a degree in Electrical Engineering and specialized for many years in design and build out of communications systems (radio towers) that were fed their data through microwave hops, that there is nothing in nature that can produce these almost-perfect rings. These are, as they appear, rings caused by transmitting apparatus that is being received by the equipment that you are monitoring. You are right on target. tomperanteau 2 hours ago 22
If you know Steve Jackson's Illuminati Card Game you know that it has playing cards that depict events that happened later, like 9/11... as if planned. A second video connecting that card, the predictive programming in "The Addams Family" and Hurricane Irene:
I've covered HAARP before. It's a secret government Tesla weapon that can create and steer storms through electromagnetic manipulation of the atmosphere. It may even be powerful enough to trigger earthquakes. What are their intentions?
In 2005 with Katrina, HAARP was used to steer it away from doing more damage to New Orleans. It was also used to weaken other threatening hurricanes.
More here: http://www.weatherwars.com/
In any event, be prepared; have food, water purification, knowledge, skills, guns, ammunition, tools, and a network of allies.
When you hear the words 'martial law' for whatever reason-RUN!!
ICELAND'S ONGOING REVOLUTION AGAINST THE BANKSTERS
General
by Deena Stryker An Italian radio program's story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. We may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back into oblivion.
As one European country after another fails or risks failing, imperiling the Euro, with repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland to become an example. Here's why:
Five years of a pure neo-liberal regime had made Iceland, (population 320 thousand, no army), one of the richest countries in the world. In 2003 all the country’s banks were privatised, and in an effort to attract foreign investors, they offered on-line banking whose minimal costs allowed them to offer relatively high rates of return. The accounts, called IceSave, attracted many UK and Dutch small investors. But as investments grew, so did the banks’ foreign debt. In 2003 Iceland’s debt was equal to 200 times its GNP, but in 2007, it was 900 percent. The 2008 world financial crisis was the coup de grace. The three main Icelandic banks, Landbanki, Kapthing and Glitnir, went belly up and were nationalised, while the Kroner lost 85% of its value with respect to the Euro. At the end of the year Iceland declared bankruptcy.
Contrary to what could be expected, the crisis resulted in Icelanders recovering their sovereign rights, through a process of direct participatory democracy that eventually led to a new Constitution. But only after much pain.
Geir Haarde, the Prime Minister of a Social Democratic coalition government, negotiated a two million one hundred thousand dollar loan, to which the Nordic countries added another two and a half million. But the foreign financial community pressured Iceland to impose drastic measures. The FMI and the European Union wanted to take over its debt, claiming this was the only way for the country to pay back Holland and Great Britain, who had promised to reimburse their citizens.
Protests and riots continued, eventually forcing the government to resign. Elections were brought forward to April 2009, resulting in a left-wing coalition which condemned the neoliberal economic system, but immediately gave in to its demands that Iceland pay off a total of three and a half million Euros. This required each Icelandic citizen to pay 100 Euros a month (or about $130) for fifteen years, at 5.5% interest, to pay off a debt incurred by private parties vis a vis other private parties. It was the straw that broke the reindeer’s back.
What happened next was extraordinary. The belief that citizens had to pay for the mistakes of a financial monopoly, that an entire nation must be taxed to pay off private debts was shattered, transforming the relationship between citizens and their political institutions and eventually driving Iceland’s leaders to the side of their constituents. The Head of State, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, refused to ratify the law that would have made Iceland’s citizens responsible for its bankers’ debts, and accepted calls for a referendum.
Of course the international community only increased the pressure on Iceland. Great Britain and Holland threatened dire reprisals that would isolate the country. As Icelanders went to vote, foreign bankers threatened to block any aid from the IMF. The British government threatened to freeze Icelander savings and checking accounts. As Grimsson said: “We were told that if we refused the international community’s conditions, we would become the Cuba of the North. But if we had accepted, we would have become the Haiti of the North.” (How many times have I written that when Cubans see the dire state of their neighbor, Haiti, they count themselves lucky.)
In the March 2010 referendum, 93% voted against repayment of the debt. The IMF immediately froze its loan. But the revolution (though not televised in the United States), would not be intimidated. With the support of a furious citizenry, the government launched civil and penal investigations into those responsible for the financial crisis. Interpol put out an international arrest warrant for the ex-president of Kaupthing, Sigurdur Einarsson, as the other bankers implicated in the crash fled the country.
But Icelanders didn't stop there: they decided to draft a new constitution that would free the country from the exaggerated power of international finance and virtual money. (The one in use had been written when Iceland gained its independence from Denmark, in 1918, the only difference with the Danish constitution being that the word ‘president’ replaced the word ‘king’.)
To write the new constitution, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five citizens from among 522 adults not belonging to any political party but recommended by at least thirty citizens. This document was not the work of a handful of politicians, but was written on the internet. The constituent’s meetings are streamed on-line, and citizens can send their comments and suggestions, witnessing the document as it takes shape. The constitution that eventually emerges from this participatory democratic process will be submitted to parliament for approval after the next elections.
Some readers will remember that Iceland’s ninth century agrarian collapse was featured in Jared Diamond’s book by the same name. Today, that country is recovering from its financial collapse in ways just the opposite of those generally considered unavoidable, as confirmed yesterday by the new head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde to Fareed Zakaria. The people of Greece have been told that the privatization of their public sector is the only solution. And those of Italy, Spain and Portugal are facing the same threat.
They should look to Iceland. Refusing to bow to foreign interests, that small country stated loud and clear that the people are sovereign.
That’s why it is not in the news anymore.
Courtesy of http://www.dailykos.com - (A nod to Bella Caledonia for making us aware of this article)
http://www.newsnetscotland.com/index.php/scottish-news/3057-a-story-missing-from-our-media-icelands-on-going-revolution.html
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