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Amsterdam Coffee Shop Customers Face Biometric Testing

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

By Sabine Fiedler

Buying cannabis in the Dutch city of Maastricht will soon mean having your fingerprints taken, your face scanned and your biometric data recorded.

All 15 coffee shops in the southern city are spending about 100,000 euros (67,000 pounds) installing a security system that makes it harder for an under-age cannabis smoker to enter than a terrorist to set foot in Europe, according to Marc Josemans, head of the local coffee shop union.

“We are ashamed for this attack on your privacy”, reads an explanatory leaflet about the system starting in September.

The coffee shops face a continual struggle to prove they are not selling to people under the age of 18 or more than 5 grams of cannabis a day to any one individual.

If they can’t, they risk being shut down.

“If a 17-year-old comes here, shows the ID of his very similar-looking older brother and then gets caught by the police with cannabis bought in our shop, we have to prove that he broke the rules, not us,” said Josemans.

Cannabis is theoretically illegal in the Netherlands but has been tolerated in small amounts since the 1970s.

Customers in Maastricht will have their fingers and face scanned. The scans will be compared with stored data and, if everything matches, they will be able to enter the coffee shop.

No names and addresses are stored and details on the amount of cannabis bought every day will be saved only until midnight.

The information is completely secure, coffee shop owners say. But Josemans concedes 90 percent of his clients don’t like the system and he expects the new measures to hurt sales initially.

“I don’t like them registering what you buy, it’s too much Big Brother”, says Barry, 34. “But a fingerprint is okay.”

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RFID Used To Track 2,500 London Dome Staff

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

By Mick Meaney
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As The Millennium dome re-opens to the public this weekend, renamed the O2, over £350m has been spent on updating and adding new technology, including privacy invading RFID security passes for all 2,500 staff.

In recent years the use of RFID has increased from

the tracking of good
being hidden inside clothing labels
the implanting in our pets
used in experiments on the mentality ill

There is growing pressure in the UK for parents to microchip their children as a safety measure and some fear this will eventually lead to the mass micro chipping of the population as chips become ever smaller and can be read from greater distances.

NEC’s Richard Farnworth at the O2 venue said “It’s not Big Brother at all, what we’re trying to do here is make ease of access for the 2,500 employees that are going to be in the venue everyday”.

However Mr. Farnworth also states the use of the RFID chips can monitor where employees are in the venue.

As highlighted by editor of Vanity Fair magazine and writer for the Observer newspaper, Henry Porter in his Channel 4 documentary, Suspect Nation, these chips can be easily implanted under the skin through a seemingly normal injection and act as a ‘human barcode’.

Besides the obvious privacy concerns of RFID chips, if implanted in humans the risks are enormous. If the chips malfunction it could lead to major surgery and open the floodgates for identity thieves.

Some religious groups fear RFID as ‘the mark of the beast’ although the way RFID chips are currently being used does not justify that concern. They do however create the possibility that one day all humans will be chipped at birth and will become mandatory as we move towards a cashless society.

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Does The Law Apply To The Bush Administration?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

By Mick Meaney
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According to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Bush Administration has failed to execute the law in a number of Presidential signing statements, amounting to 30%.

The report found that President Bush issued 149 signing statements, 127 (85%) of which raised objection.

Again we see the power hungry Bush Administration behaving like they are above the law.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said “The Administration is thumbing its nose at the law. This study calls for an extensive review of these practices, something the Administration has so far refused to do.

“The White House cannot pick and choose which laws it follows and which it ignores. When a president signs a bill into law, the president signs the entire bill. The Administration cannot be in the business of cherry picking the laws it likes and the laws it doesn’t.

“GAO opinion underscores the fact that the Bush White House is constantly grabbing for more power, seeking to drive the people’s branch of government to the sidelines. Too often, the Bush Administration does what it wants, no matter the law. It says what it wants, no matter the facts. We must continue to demand accountability and openness from this White House to counter this power grab.”

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Chaos In The New World Order

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

By Peter Zaza

Chaos En Novus Ordo Seclorum

“Make me one with everything” - Buddhist in a pizza parlour

Unification of Europe was first - now the North American Union is in full swing - replete with fuzzy, double-speak, feel good names like Harmonization, Deep Integration, Free Trade, Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement, etc. These measures, based on negating geopolitical boundaries and securing monopolistic markets, will ultimately lead to the clash of cultures, as has already begun. Of course the elite will have a solution for the Hegelian problem they created, namely, a new world order – with themselves as puppet masters pulling our strings.

“For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists” and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” - David Rockefeller 2002 autobiography Memoirs

There is a small, but powerful group of individuals who are the architects and instigators behind the formation and implementation of the New World Order. Their plans represent a consciously organized attempt to bring about an end to national sovereignty and western democracy.

“David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day’s work… In the world of David Rockefeller it’s hard to tell where business ends and politics begins” - Bill Moyers

Their motivations are the age old human traits of greed and power – their instruments of control include the monopolization of corporate interests and banking, influence of political power, enforcement of laws utilizing a ruthless and centralized military, the manipulation of opinion engendered through academic circles, and the control of mainstream media which provides the necessary propaganda tool to shape public consciousness.

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination practiced in past centuries” - David Rockefeller - address to a Trilateral Commission

North America is being transformed from three distinct countries - Canada, USA and Mexico, into a single economic entity called the North American Union. The creation of this new state is being implemented by stealth, virtually without opposition, and in front of an unwitting population.

“The unaware are unaware that they are unaware” - Bo Britz

The method of enforcement for the North American Union is a police state. Under the guise of keeping us all safe with anti-terrorist laws, citizens will lose their civil liberties preventing any dissent against Big Brother.

“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.” - Adolf Hitler

“There ought to be limits to freedom” - GW Bush

Learning the truth about 9/11, and its integral part in the formation of the new world order, helps us to understand the concepts and objectives of the globalists. Just as this event has been used to justify such horrific acts of aggression and suppression of freedoms, we can use it to expose those who are truly responsible, and start to heal the deep wounds afflicted by such aberrations of humanity.

The ruling elite do not care about human rights, or true democracy, indeed, these values stand in the way of achieving their goals. For the current cabal, the end justifies the means, as vividly demonstrated by the events of 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq, just to name the most obvious. Their objectives must be implemented with the use of corruption and deceit, simply because nobody would willingly vote for the kind of world they are trying to build.

“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.” - David Rockefeller

I remember going to the annual exhibition in Toronto as a kid. Inside a tent this magician was waving handkerchiefs over a girl who appeared to be suspended in mid air in front of him. Because I knew that humans could not just float above the ground, I was intrigued and determined to get as close as possible, and really look at what they were doing. Sure enough, the loose drapery hanging off the table at the back concealed, upon closer scrutiny, a protruding steel bar which held up the woman. I couldn’t help but think-as I stepped once again to the back of the tent, a throng of people now in front of me-this is actually a really good trick, as long as you don’t look too close or think too hard.

That’s how I feel about 9-11. Nice try, fellas. You gave us a good dog & pony show-lots of fireworks; a quick and ready story filled with a cast of radical Muslim villains, all prepackaged for us to hate; and this guy with a beard in a cave, who can play evil mind-tricks from across the ocean-but the jig is up. And please don’t think I’m being flippant or disrespectful to the many lives that have been so tragically taken through this horrendous act and all its subsequent horrors.

“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the TRUTH becomes the greatest ENEMY OF THE STATE.” - Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels

Once we expose the fraudulence of 9/11, the entire globalist agenda will tumble like a house of cards, or in this case, a “twin tower”. Understanding this event within its greater context, we can pull the lynch-pin on the plans for the North American Union, and generate some much needed chaos in the new world order.

“Three things cannot long be hidden-the sun, the moon, and the truth” – Confucius

Look up and down the streets where you live. The vast majority of people in this country, and around the world, are just honest, hard working individuals who want to build a life for themselves, raise their families and enjoy their customs.

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one “makes” them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted — and you create a nation of law-breakers-and then you cash in on the guilt.” - Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

Although most people are not conscious of the subtle and the not-so-subtle mechanisms of social conditioning we are bombarded with on a daily basis, rest assured the elite in charge have an agenda, a timetable, and the means with which to execute their objectives.

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves” - Edward R. Murrow

Here are just some of the documented features and objectives of the North American Union:

- Development of a common security perimeter by 2010

- Implementation of a North American Border Pass with biometric identifiers

- Unification of the border and expanded US controlled customs facilities

- A single economic space that shares a common external tariff

- A North American currency replacing the dollar and the peso that will be called the amero

- Seamless movement of goods within North America

- Labour mobility between Canada and the U.S.

- A North American energy strategy as a regional alternative to Kyoto

- A North American regulatory plan that includes “open skies and open roads”

- A unified approach on food, health, and the environment

- A permanent tribunal for trade and investment disputes

- An annual North American summit meeting

- Scholarships to Centers for North American Studies

- The NAFTA superhighway, a north-south interstate trade corridor linking Mexico, Canada and the U.S. The NAFTA superhighway will bypass U.S. entryways and allow global conglomerates to capitalize by exploiting cheap labour, bypassing local union considerations, and exposing the entire continent to potential security risks.

NAFTA , SPP, GATT, WTO and other trade agreements are the means by which the globalist political regime have expanded into North America. Different from the IMF, which can wield its power through financial dispensations to third world countries, these trade agreements supersede local regulatory powers, and through the force of national law, ensure that transnational interests are in a sense codified into each constitutional framework.

Opponents to the NAU include progressives in all three countries who believe the union would be detrimental to the average citizen. Chief among their many concerns is the loss of sovereignty and democracy, the relinquishment of authority to unelected corporations with privately contracted law enforcement, and the displacement of a workforce due to an influx of immigrants.

So what can we do? Many things. We have incredible power in our numbers and in our potential economic influence. The system would collapse without our cooperation. What we lack is the solidarity of purpose, and organization of our huge numbers.

“A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and prize the rights that God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins!” - Benjamin Franklin

We are living in a critical time of change, our number one weapon in this new age is our understanding of the forces set to control us, and an effective response in great numbers from people willing to assert their independence and freedom - there was once a great country built on such ideals.

“Suddenly the whole world is not enough punishment for the wicked, nor reward for the good” - Taoist saying

We live within a duality of perception every moment. Within rages the battle of desire and reality, while on the outside, the ancient struggle between those who would work for the benefit of society, through peace, and those forces set upon exploiting others for profit and control, through destruction. Alone, we have the responsibility to assert our complete sovereignty first as individuals, and by extension of ourselves, to the greater group of which we are all a part.

Unification does not have to mean deceit and tyranny. National identities and human rights can be maintained while we come together on many things that might benefit us all. Just as we must accept the inner conflicts that cause us to adjust our desires, and with the right choices lead to a reinvention of ourselves in order to adapt, we also must recognize and challenge those external forces that would promote marginalization and exclusion of others, and create struggles that would constrain us in our inevitable choice between good and evil, and ultimately our ability to survive.

A native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said ‘I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.’ The grandson asked him, ‘Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?’ The grandfather answered: ‘The one I feed.’ - Native American Story

On the grand chessboard of the power elite in this world, we may only represent insignificant entities, insofar as we are concerned as individuals. However, when considered as a group, we can have considerable influence. Our strength in numbers only serves our cause to the detriment when we blindly live our lives as revenue generating hunks of flesh that serve as an economic engine for the ruling class - it is our ignorance that works against us. When we are illuminated with the light of truth and understanding, we can then use that power to influence the course of events and make the big machine grind to a halt, or at least cause a few gold hubcaps to fly off. All this can be accomplished through non-violent means, lest we sink to the level of our enemies, in which case we risk becoming that which we oppose.

“Because we are part of one existence, whomsoever you are hurting, you are hurting yourself in the long run. Today you may not realize it, but one day when you become more aware; then you will say, ‘My God! This wound was inflicted by me — upon myself.’ You had hurt somebody else thinking that people are different. Nobody is different. This whole existence is one, cosmic unity. Out of this understanding comes non-violence.” - Osho

There is room for everyone in this world. My beliefs tell me that every human dynamic resolves from its highest intellectual level down to understanding and compassion. I know in my heart that we could be caring enough to engender a consciousness where there is consideration for all people on this earth. And I know if we use our heads, we could be creative and resourceful enough to find a way to do it while abolishing the act of war itself.

That would be my New World Order.

“If one has a self - it is impossible to achieve the great oneness” - Taoist saying

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US ‘wants Blair’ for Mid-East job

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Tony Blair has spoken to President Bush and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about becoming a Middle East envoy, a White House official says. Two senior US administration sources told the BBC that the PM’s aides have indicated he is interested in the role.

The president would reportedly like him to be an envoy for the quartet of the US, European Union, UN and Russia.

The PM’s official spokesman said there was lots of speculation over Mr Blair’s future, much of it “inaccurate”.

The White House officials told the BBC that the talks were preliminary, and did not have any comment on Mr Blair’s reaction to the suggestion.

But later, the administration sources told the BBC’s Jonathan Beale that both Israel and the Palestinians had signed up to the proposal.

Beale said: “Most important of all Tony Blair, or aides of Mr Blair, have signed up to this.

“It looks like this is going to be Tony Blair’s next job and it looks like Tony Blair wants this job… that is the message I am getting from officials in Washington.”

However, he added that the appointment was not a “foregone conclusion” and that more discussions were needed.

Beale said that Mr Blair would not be President Bush’s envoy under the plan but specifically the envoy of the quartet of nations and institutions mediating in the Middle East.

But he added that there was momentum building for Mr Blair to take the role with backing from the US.

Position vacant

Mr Blair steps down as prime minister on 27 June, ending 10 years in Downing Street.

The White House officials did not know if the president had discussed the idea with the other three members of the peace quartet.

It follows reports on the al-Jazeera TV news network that Mr Blair was set to take up the position, which has been vacant since former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn resigned the post in April 2006.

Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin said: “Officials in the prime minister’s office are aware of this idea and Prime Minister (Ehud) Olmert is very supportive of Prime Minister Blair and of his continuing involvement in the Middle East and the peace process.”

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said: “Obviously Prime Minister Blair has been very active and deeply involved in Middle East peace issues throughout his prime ministership.”

She added that Mr Blair and the US President spoke often, adding: “It would not surprise me if they have talked about what Prime Minister Blair would like to do following the end of his term… but we don’t have anything to announce today”.

Mr Blair is a controversial figure in some Arab circles, after his refusal to press for an immediate ceasefire during the war in Lebanon in 2006 and his prominent backing for the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

BBC

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France bans BlackBerrys over fears of US intelligence snooping

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Claire Soares

Seven million people worldwide may be addicted to them but the French government has said “non” to Le BlackBerry, fearing US intelligence agents could be snooping on state secrets.

“The risks of interception are real. It is economic war,” Alain Juillet, who is in charge of economic intelligence for the government, told Le Monde newspaper.

The concern is that information sent from a BlackBerry gets routed via servers in the United States and Britain, and that this poses “a problem with the protection of information”.

Research In Motion, the company that makes the handheld devices, poured cold water on the French fears, saying there was no way that the US National Security Agency could see the content of messages that were transmitted .

But Paris is clearly not convinced. France’s General Secretariat for National Defence first declared the ban on BlackBerrys 18 months ago but recently had to send out another reminder.

Civil servants say rebellious employees are still engaging in surreptitious BlackBerrying. And government officials are still moaning about the edict, because they object to being ordered to abandon technological advances.

“We feel like we’re losing a ridiculous amount of time. We’re having to learn how to do things in the old-school way,” one minister’s aide complained.

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Brown made secret offer to Lib Dem peers

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Philip Webster and Greg Hurst

Gordon Brown made a secret offer to bring Liberal Democrats into his first Government as ministers in the Lords, The Times can reveal.

Paddy Ashdown, the former Lib Dem leader and an expert on international affairs, was top of the list of peers targeted by Mr Brown.

The plan applied only to certain Lib Dem peers and they would have been offered posts up to the level of Minister of State and not seats in the Cabinet. Lib Dem MPs would not have been included.

Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC, a prominent barrister who already acts as the Government’s independent assessor of counter-terrorism legislation, is another likely candidate, as is Lord Lester of Herne Hill, a human rights lawyer who has led the way on several pieces of reforming legislation.

The offer was made by Mr Brown at a meeting with Sir Menzies Campbell on Monday evening, in the Chancellor’s office and arranged at his request.

Sources close to Mr Brown said the Lib Dem leader undertook to go away and discuss the plan with his advisers, including his close friend Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope and chief of staff Ed Davey.

Labour MPs suspect it was leaked deliberately by other Lib Dems in attempt to kill the move. Despite the leaking of his proposal, however, allies of Mr Brown insisted that he remained committed to a broader approach to government.

Mr Brown and Sir Menzies, who are long-time friends and have neighbouring constituencies in Fife, also had a general discussion about the Prime Minister-in-waiting’s plans for constitutional reform and his wish to involve a wider range of people in Government decisions.

Sir Menzies appeared to close the door on the idea of Lib Dem ministers today as he issued a statement ruling out any member of his party joining the Government after Mr Brown becomes Prime Minister after the resignation of Tony Blair on Wednesday next week.

“There is no prospect of any Liberal Democrat joining the Government,” the Lib Dem leader said.

Mr Brown’s surprise offer explains his remark on accepting the nomination as the sole candidate to be Labour’s next leader last month that he wanted to lead “a Government of all the talents”.

One of his allies said: “He asked Ming whether he would have any objection to him approaching members of his party in the Lords with a view to them serving on the front bench.”

He was specific that the offer did not extend to seats in the Cabinet nor to any of the 63 Lib Dem MPs in the Commons.

A source close to Mr Brown confirmed that they discussed Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, who returned to Britain last year after four years serving as the European Union’s high representative for Bosnia.

Lord Ashdown is regarded as an expert on international affairs and conflict resolution, if something of a hawk, and was one of the few senior Lib Dems to have backed the Iraq war.

Lord Ashdown himself had lengthy negotiations with Mr Blair before the 1997 election with a view to taking his party into a full Lab-Lib coalition, including up to four seats in the Cabinet, but the plan was eclipsed by the scale of Labour’s majority in the Commons.

At the time, and during subsequent looser discussions between the parties during Mr Blair’s first term, Mr Brown was seen as a sceptical to such cross party collaboration.

But the Lab-Lib co-operation was founded on an agreement between the parties on a joint programme on constitutional reform, spanning a human rights law, devolution for Scotland, Wales and London and freedom of information laws, although it foundered over Lords reform.

It is this cross-party co-operation on constitutional reform that Mr Brown may be seeking to revive as he prepares to embark on a new programme to include codifying Britain’s unwritten constitution, giving Parliament the final say on committing British troops to war and another attempt at Lords reform.

Two months ago Sir Menzies rebuffed another offer of cross-party collaboration, this time a proposal from David Cameron that the Conservatives and Lib Dems jointly back Greg Dyke, the former BBC Director General, as an independent candidate for London mayor.

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