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Corporate greed, corruption, and the coming collapse of America as we know it

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

The U.S. government, once crafted as a system that would serve the interests of the people, has devolved into a system of plutocracy where corporations control both the government and the people. Virtually every government regulatory department, for example, is now run by the corporations it is supposed to be regulating. Just look at the FDA, USDA, FTC, FCC, NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and most other government regulatory bodies and you’ll find a room full of politicians and bureaucrats who utterly disregard the People while prioritizing the financial needs of influential corporations.

Our nation’s policies on health, finances, agricultural, national defense and even education are increasingly slanted towards enriching the corporations, usually at the expense of the People. Even worse, the People have come to fear their government here in the United States, and any time a government gains so much power that the people begin to fear it, the scenario is set for police state atrocities against the citizens. In a healthy society, you see, the government fears the people, and it’s this fear of being replaced or kicked out of office that keeps government bureaucrats in line. But in America, that’s been lost, replaced by a tyrannical system of government that treats the people like common criminals. Don’t believe me? Just try to board an airplane without being detained and searched against your will. Try to bring a bottle of water on an airplane and see how much “freedom” you still have left in America today.

How did the corporations gain so much power over government and the people? It’s simple: Campaign finances. The corporations hire hoards of lobbyists who dart in and out of lawmakers’ offices in Washington, leaving behind trails of cash and corruption. Most lawmakers hardly ever meet with the actual people they claim to represent. Instead, they spend their time cavorting with corporate rabblerousers who operate based on the simple principle of greed. Think Enron, but times a thousand. That’s who controls Congress today.

To keep the People in line, public protests have been limited and outlawed in many areas, where new fenced-in “free speech zones” have been set up to force protestors to protest out of the way somewhere. (Note to all: If free speech is limited to a “zone” then it isn’t free speech at all!) At every turn, the U.S. government seeks to marginalize the power of the People and expand its own reach and power, usually at the behest of the wealthy corporations pulling the strings backstage.

The natural cycle of collapse and rebirth

So where is it all heading? To a desperate place, unfortunately. It’s a natural cycle of nation states. Following abundance comes greed, then corruption, then police state tyranny, then collapse. After the collapse there’s rebirth, reconstruction and a new cycle of abundance until the whole thing repeats itself over and over again, one century after the next. Read your world history to hear this same story repeated over at least fifty empires that once existed on Earth. The American empire will be no different: It will drown in its own greed and corruption, collapsing into a state of moral and financial bankruptcy, and then will likely be reborn as a series of smaller nation-states like the Washington / Oregon / Idaho / Northern California region that has very different values and interests than, say, the Texas region.

During all this, there will be lots of social unrest, poverty, personal bankruptcy, police state arrests and perhaps even the widespread use of detection camps to indefinitely hold troublemakers who dare to protest or speak out against government corruption. This is what’s coming for America, and the interesting part is that almost nobody in America seems to be able to anticipate this. Yet the writing is on the wall, and it’s as obvious as the dot-com crash was before 2000.

I publicly predicted the dot-com crash starting in 1998, and urged everyone to get out of the market through 1999, 2000 and right up until the bursting of the dot-com bubble in early 2001. All this time, nobody listened. Virtually everyone was caught up in the insane illusion that we would all get rich by selling each other pieces of paper with increasingly large numbers written on them (those are the stock prices, you see). Almost everybody was swept up by Groupthink, believing that the laws of economics had changed forever. CNBC became the cheerleader of unbridled greed, and brainwashed idiots at the American Enterprise Institute were publishing books predicting a Dow of 36,000 that would create infinite wealth requiring no effort or productive work.

Meanwhile, I was urging everyone to sell their stocks, which of course made me look utterly insane given that everybody else in the world was telling people to keep buying — including all the stock brokers and investment fund managers, who it turns out know almost nothing useful about finances or investments and are just as easily swept up by Groupthink as anything else. When the bubble finally burst, I was completely out of the market and lost nothing. But many people I knew lost big portions of their life savings.

Now, I told you that story to tell you this: What’s coming in America’s future is going to be far, far worse than the dot-com fiasco. Imagine the financial market breaking down, the U.S. government defaulting on its debt, the dollar going through massive hyperinflation, wiping out the value of the life savings of virtually all Americans. Think it can’t happen here? That’s what the Groupthink thinks. But it will happen here, and the massive corruption in our government is making sure of it. Whatever dollars you have in the bank will, in a few years, become virtually worthless. Hyperinflation is inevitable. Study the history of Germany following World War I to gain additional insight on this topic.

Sacrificing the future for today’s profit

When the corporations run a nation, that nation has no real future, because corporations only think in terms of the next quarter, not the next generation. Corporations will naturally do whatever they can to maximize their profits right now, including poisoning the children with vaccines, poisoning the population with toxic food products, sacrificing the financial future of the nation for short-term gain, destroying the environment, ignoring the health care needs of the People, inciting war so they can sell more profitable weapons to war-torn countries around the world, and so on. Essentially, corporations will sell out the future for higher profits today, and that’s exactly what they’ve done in America.

America has no real future. Not a good one, anyway. I give the nation anywhere from 5 to 25 years before it will self destruct under a mountain of debt, disease and corruption. You can thank the corporations and corrupt politicians for that. They’ve thrown away the dream of a nation that was once great and could actually be great again, if not for the greed.

My message to all U.S. citizens is to prepare yourself now for what’s coming. Get out of debt. Get healthy. Invest in your education and learn some practical skills like gardening, bicycle repair or natural medicine. Own some productive land and learn how to use it. Be near a source of fresh water. When the oil runs out, and the fresh water tables are drained, and the financial system collapses, and the real estate bubble bursts, life is going to be a whole lot harder than it is today. Forget about shopping malls, must-see TV and the latest fashions. Most families are going to be struggling just to put food on the table.

This is all several years away, of course. And until then, most people are going to continue the pursuit of even more debt and disease, oblivious to the future that awaits them. A great book to read on how that future might play out is The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. Or The Party’s Over: Oil, War and The Fate of Industrial Societies.

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School lessons plan to prepare children for terrorist attack

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

LYNDSAY MOSS
The Scotsman

School lessons could teach children about terrorism, so they were better able to cope in the event of an attack.

CHILDREN could receive school lessons preparing them for a terrorist attack as part of guidelines being developed in Scotland.

The guidance could also lead to TV educational campaigns informing the public what to expect in the event of a chemical, biological or nuclear attack.

And emergency service workers will also be given special instruction as they would be the first to respond to attacks.

Terrorism experts yesterday welcomed the idea, but said lessons would be best confined to children over the age of 14.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ conference in Edinburgh yesterday heard about work in Scotland to prepare people for attacks so they are more mentally able to cope with them without causing mass panic.

Professor David Alexander, of the Aberdeen centre for trauma research, and Professor Richard Williams, of the University of Glamorgan, have been commissioned by NATO and the Department of Health in London to develop guidance on preparing the public for a terrorist attack.

They will examine evidence from around the world and learn from previous attacks.

Prof Alexander said the guidance could lead to school lessons being developed to teach children about terrorism, so they were better able to cope in the event of an attack.

Similar sessions could be held in businesses that may be a target for terrorists. Another possibility would be a TV advertising campaign to educate the public about what to expect.

Prof Alexander, who led the psychiatric team which first responded to the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in 1988, said the focus would be on preparing for a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attack.

He added: “The security services believe such an attack will come. We are trying to develop guidelines on the best way to keep the public resilient.”

Prof Alexander said it was important that all age groups were informed about terrorism, but that people should not become “risk obsessed”. He added: “It would be a mistake to leave children thinking about this as some kind of mystery. But we have to inform them in a way that does not cause alarm.”

But Professor Paul Wilkinson, from the centre for the study of terrorism at St Andrews University, said:

“It is sensible to inform young people about terrorism. I think this is best directed at pupils [over the age of 14] in secondary school when they will have a better understanding of modern history and events.”

And Eric Wilkinson, professor of education at Glasgow University, said:

“It would be a delicate balance between scaremongering and making sure children are equipped to cope in a crisis.”

A Scottish Executive spokeswoman said: “Schools are free to explore these issues if they feel it is right for their pupils.”

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Congress Set to Uncover Truth about NSA Spying Program

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced in a press release that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to authorize subpoenas related to the National Security Agency (NSA)’s domestic spying program, setting the stage for a Congressional showdown over the surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans. The subpoenas demand certain legal documents that the administration has withheld despite Congress’ repeated requests.

“This subpoena authorization is a critical first step toward uncovering the full extent of the NSA’s illegal spying and the role that telecommunications companies like AT&T played in it,” EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston said.

“Considering that it’s been almost six years since the NSA started spying on Americans without warrants and over a year since that spying was revealed publicly, these subpoenas are long overdue. It’s high time for Congress to get to the bottom of this mess,” he added.

The EFF is suing AT&T for illegally assisting in the NSA spying. The government has asked the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss EFF’s case, claiming that the lawsuit could expose state secrets.

“Our case against AT&T includes evidence from a former employee that points to a massive spying program impacting millions of people — a program far broader than the government has admitted to,” Bankston noted.

“Americans deserve to know the truth about the NSA program,” he concluded.

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Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’ sentenced to hang

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

SINAN SALAHEDDIN and OMAR SINAN
Associated Press Writers

Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as “Chemical Ali,” and two other regime officials were sentenced Sunday to hang for slaughtering up to 180,000 Kurdish men, women and children with chemical weapons, artillery barrages and mass executions two decades ago.

Two other defendants were sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the 1987-1988 crackdown, known as “Operation Anfal.” A sixth defendant was acquitted for lack of evidence. Death sentences are automatically appealed.

The most notorious defendant was Saddam’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, who gained his nickname for ordering the use of mustard gas and nerve agents against the Kurds in response to their collaboration with the Iranians during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War.

Witnesses testified that Iraqi government forces indiscriminately attacked women and children, burned crops, killed livestock and rounded up civilians into detention camps in a campaign to exterminate the restive Kurdish minority.

The defendants insisted they were defending the nation against Kurdish guerrillas who had sided with Iran during the bloody eight-year war.

Al-Majid, once among the most powerful and feared men in Iraq, trembled in silence as Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa read the verdict against him and imposed five death sentences for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

“You had all the civil and military authority for northern Iraq,” al-Khalifa said. “You gave the orders to the troops to kill Kurdish civilians and put them in severe conditions. You subjected them to wide and systematic attacks using chemical weapons and artillery. You led the killing of Iraqi villagers. You restricted them in their areas, burned their orchards, killed their animals. You committed genocide.”

Al-Majid said “Thanks be to God” as he was led from the courtroom.

Also sentenced to death were Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai, the former defense minister who led the Iraqi delegation at the cease-fire talks that ended the 1991 Gulf War, and Hussein Rashid Mohammed, a former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi armed forces.

Mohammed interrupted the judge as the verdict was read, insisting the defendants were defending Iraq from Kurdish rebels who collaborated with Iran.

“God bless our martyrs. Long live the brave Iraqi army. Long live Iraq. Long live the Baath party and long live Arab nations,” he said.

Al-Tai insisted he was innocent, telling the judge “I will leave you to God” as he was led away.

Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, former deputy director of operations for the armed forces, and Sabir al-Douri, former director of military intelligence, were sentenced to life in prison. Taher Tawfiq al-Ani, former governor of Mosul, was acquitted.

Saddam himself was among the defendants when the trial began last Aug. 21, but he was hanged four months later for his role in the deaths of more than 140 Shiite Muslims in the town of Dujail — the first trial against major figures from the ousted regime.

In northern Iraq, many Kurds welcomed the verdict, even though some were disappointed that Saddam did not have to face the gallows in the Anfal case.

In Halabja, where an estimated 5,000 Kurds were killed in a massive chemical attack in March 1988, a power outage prevented many people from watching the televised proceedings. But dozens gathered in cafes and restaurants which had generators to watch the verdicts.

“I would never miss this,” said Peshtiwan Kamal, 24, who was too young to remember the attacks. “I always heard from my family what those criminals did to my people. So I just wanted to see how they would take the verdict and punishment.”

A small rally was also held at a memorial garden in the Halabja cemetery.

“We thank God that we have lived to see our enemies being punished for all of the atrocities they have committed against our people,” said Lukman Abdul-Qader, head of a local organization of chemical attack survivors.

Some Kurds, however, said they were frustrated that the verdict did not include charges related to the chemical attack in Halabja.

“That’s why I did not want to watch the trial from the beginning,” said Ali Mohammed as he read the newspaper with his back to the TV broadcasting an image of al-Majid in his black-and-white checkered headdress.

As in the Dujail case, some human rights organizations questioned whether the Anfal proceedings complied with international standards for fairness.

Miranda Sissons of the International Center for Transitional Justice said the broad array of charges facing all the accused made it difficult to prepare a proper defense.

“It matters to the rule of law and the future of Iraq that individuals are sentenced after fair and critical trials that meet international standards,” Sissons said.

Besides Saddam, three other figures from the former regime have been executed — all in the Dujail case. They include Saddam’s half brother and former intelligence chief, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, who headed the Revolutionary Court that sentenced the Dujail victims to death. They were hanged in January.

Former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was sentenced to life in prison for his role in Dujail but was hanged in March after an appeals court decided the life sentence was too lenient. Three other defendants were sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Dujail case, while one was acquitted.

Munir Hadad, a judge on the Iraqi high tribunal, said up to 15 officials were expected to go on trial in a few weeks in the suppression of a Shiite uprising in southern Iraq in 1991.

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Journalists Witness American Torture

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

By Mick Meaney
RINF Alternative News

Two German journalists have stated that they witnessed prisoner abuse while on patrol with troops from the North Carolina based 82nd Airborne Division in Afghanistan.

Reporter Wolfgang Bauer and photographer Karsten Schoene were embedded with the troops during a village search for Taliban fighters, when a platoon leader suspected a man in one of the houses.

According to Bauer and Schoene the suspect refused to talk so the platoon leader tied one end of a rope to his foot and the other end to a vehicle and threatened to use the vehicle to drag the man unless he “told the truth”.

This is not a unique incident as the reporters also witnessed a “secret service man” punching a suspect and hitting him with the butt of his gun in an attempt to “obtain information”.

Bauer said: “The U.S. soldier, a fighter against terrorism, is suddenly, according to international law, a criminal. He carried out a fake execution. He tortured.”

A U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan said that he was unware of the allegations and would need to investigate further before being able to comment.

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Revealed: Blair’s secret plan to sack Gordon Brown

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

The Independent

An explosive Cabinet Office document reveals that the departing Prime Minister had no intention of making a ’smooth transition’ of power to Gordon Brown. Political Editor Marie Woolf reveals the detailed plans to sack his bitter rival and break up the Treasury in an exclusive report that reveals an extraordinary breakdown at the heart of government

An astonishing confidential document - disclosed by The Independent on Sunday three days before Gordon Brown takes over as Prime Minister - proves that Tony Blair planned to sack Mr Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer immediately after the last election.

The Cabinet Office document, drawn up by a team of Downing Street advisers including Lord Birt, the former director-general of the BBC, shows that far from the “unswerving support” the Prime Minister pledged to Mr Brown this week, he planned to scupper his career and break up the Treasury just two years ago.

The revelations will shock Labour Party delegates assembling in Manchester for the formal announcement of Mr Brown’s succession as Labour leader.

They will also confirm long-held suspicions by allies of Gordon Brown that the Prime Minister has been undermining him for years. The top-secret paper confirms talk at Westminster that Mr Blair intended to sack Mr Brown after the 2005 election and move him to another post to loosen his control over the domestic agenda.

The paper provides the first concrete proof that the speculation was true, including draft speaking notes for the Prime Minister, a briefing for the ” new Chancellor”, as well as a list of personal qualities Mr Brown’s successor should have.

Marked “Copy No 1 - Prime Minister Confidential Policy”, the paper says the new Chancellor’s qualities must include “lack of personal investment in previous policies”. It adds that “teamwork” is a key asset, something that arch-Blairites have accused Mr Brown of being incapable of.

The document adds that on the first day in office Mr Blair should ” convey to the new Chancellor” his plans to split the Treasury and hand many of its key roles, including responsibility for tax credits, to other ministries.

In the week in which Tony Blair finally leaves the stage, the leak starkly illuminates the extent of the breakdown in the central relationship of the Labour government over the past decade.

It emerged last week that Cherie Blair repeatedly urged her husband to sack Mr Brown, and that Mr Blair told friends of his intention to ditch the Chancellor.

The paper was prepared by a trusted team of advisers in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, in close co-operation with John Birt and the Economic and Domestic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office - Mr Blair’s elite civil service support team.

Downing Street sources have told The Independent on Sunday that Mr Blair wanted to be kept closely informed of its work and watched presentations of the plans as they developed. As proof of how closely involved Tony Blair was, The Independent on Sunday has seen the Prime Minister’s own personal copy, drafted for him in March 2005, weeks before the election.

One Downing Street insider said that the secret plans were known only to a small coterie of Mr Blair’s inner circle, including Alan Milburn, Lord Birt and a group of key Downing Street officials.

“There were all sorts of presentations to the Prime Minister. He was definitely aware this was going on - he wanted it. There was a big thing about how Mr Blair was going to make a big comeback after the election. His basic command was ‘I want to refresh my government’. It was about Mr Blair being so sick of the in-fighting with Brown,” said one source.

The blueprint for the third term included Mr Blair’s notes for briefing the Chancellor and other ministers, including the new environment and industries secretaries and energy minister, who were all expected to be “neutral” on nuclear power. A list of policy decisions to be made throughout the third term, including raising the retirement age and taking a “nuclear decision”, are listed in detail.

Many of the changes listed in the document have been brought in, but the preparations to radically reshape the Government and split the Treasury were rapidly shredded after Mr Brown stepped in to rescue Labour’s flagging election campaign.

As Labour slipped in the polls, Gordon Brown did a deal not only to keep his job, but to have a say in the post-election reshuffle, in effect anointing him as Mr Blair’s successor.

Some months before the last election, the Chancellor had been sidelined from the campaign when Mr Blair put Mr Milburn, his staunch ally, in charge.

In the weeks before the campaign, Downing Street advisers were instructed to draw up a far-reaching blue-print for Mr Blair’s third term, and to renew government so it was fit for the next 10 years.

The secret “Gov 2015″ programme, the start of a 10-year plan to be put into effect the moment the 2005 election was over, is entitled “3rd Term Plan: Implementation Pack”. It shows that the Prime Minister not only wanted a new Chancellor but also to emasculate the Treasury as a power base.

It proposes boosting the role of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, who would head a new Office of Delivery and Expenditure within the Treasury, which would be responsible for public service delivery and control of spending. The Prime Minister would chair a new cabinet committee determining “overall strategy”.

The proposals suggest that Mr Brown was to be kept in the dark about the changes afoot, while his own civil servants would be asked to work on the plans without telling him.

The document says that the Prime Minister must decide whether to tell the top civil servant in the Treasury in advance of the secret plans “in confidence” so he could work with Sir Andrew Turnbull, the Cabinet Secretary, to refine them.

The changes were to be abrupt and ruthless, planned months in advance of the election.

A list of “Actions to be taken by the Prime Minister in Week 1″ begins with him conducting the reshuffle. His second priority in the first two days after the election result would be to “Convey to new Chancellor and Chief Secretary the high-level plans”.

The paper headed “draft speaking notes for the Prime Minister in his Day 1 briefing of the Chancellor” begins: “I propose to make some significant changes to the role of the Treasury.” It sets out point by point how the Treasury would be reduced from a powerhouse to an administrative department.

Mr Blair proposed to remove the Treasury’s ability to spend money because it had “caused a conflict of interest”. Most of its enterprise team would be transferred to the DTI, which would be renamed the Department for Trade, Productivity & Energy (DTPE) - a name change that was made but then swiftly dumped after objections by Alan Johnson, who was put in charge of the department after the election. Responsibility for overall policy on productivity would also go to the (DTPE) department, while a new Office of Delivery and Expenditure would be established within the Treasury to ensure that “the spending allocations and targets are aligned with the Government’s strategy”. The Department for Work and Pensions would take over responsibility for tax credits and tackling poverty.

The blueprint was designed to address Mr Blair’s concerns that Gordon Brown’s powers over spending and allocating money to government departments were so extensive that they worked against the Government’s own spending priorities. His advisers were determined it would never happen again. At Downing Street those in on the plans speculated that the changes were so dramatic that Gordon Brown, when he caught wind of them, would resign his post before being reshuffled. Others said he would have to be pushed and be made Foreign Secretary “to give him more experience”.

The plans to diminish the Treasury and appoint a “new Chancellor” demonstrate the depths to which the relationship had plummeted, and the extent of the distrust between the two men and their rival courts.

It was the lowest point of a steady deterioration that led to shouting matches, slamming doors and angry accusations - a situation that many in No 10 thought frustrated good government.

The tension was so palpable that Mr Blair’s aides complained that they were treated like children in a dysfunctional relationship. Estelle Morris, the former education secretary, recently said that “the tension between them made decision-making impossible”.

Tony Blair complained that Gordon Brown’s influence over domestic policy had stifled many of his reforms. At the 2005 Labour conference, the Prime Minister said revealingly: “Every time I’ve ever introduced a reform in government, I wish in retrospect I had gone further.”

The source of the enmity goes back at least to 1994 and the unexpected death of John Smith, the Labour leader. Mr Blair and Mr Brown, both rising stars on the opposition benches, were pitched into competition for the job. Elected in 1983, the two MPs shared a cramped office in Westminster and were close friends. They enjoyed each other’s company and worked in partnership as an energetic modernising force in the party. Mr Brown, the more experienced politically, took Mr Blair under his wing. Soon Mr Blair, promoted to the role of shadow Home Secretary, showed his parliamentary skills and asserted himself with a “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” message. When John Smith died, Gordon Brown was still the senior partner, but Mr Blair emerged swiftly as the modernising candidate considered most likely to win over middle-class voters.

The famed meeting at the Granita restaurant in Islington over who should become Labour leader sealed the premiership for Mr Blair. Over dinner Mr Blair is said to have reached an understanding with Mr Brown that he would not stay at Downing Street for ever and would step down to hand over the reins of power to his friend. Mr Brown was given guarantees that, as Chancellor, he would have control not only of the economy but also policies such as reducing poverty.

Mr Brown is said to have left the dinner with the understanding that Mr Blair would stand down during his second term. But his feeling that Mr Blair had somehow cheated him of his rightful inheritance poisoned the early years of government. One ally of the new Prime Minister said in 1998 that the Chancellor had to get a grip on his “psychological flaws”. In time it became clear that Mr Blair had no intention of handing over in his second term. Allies of the Prime Minister have often insisted that no time limit was put on his premiership but that he had made it clear that he would not go on and on. Repeated attempts to extract a date from Mr Blair failed and gradually the fault lines in the relationship became wider.

So bitter was the distrust between the two former friends that in 2004 the relationship reached near meltdown. The simmering tension finally became so great that the Chancellor’s patience snapped and he told Mr Blair, ” There is nothing you could say to me now that I would ever believe.”

In 2004 Mr Blair tried to dampen the flames by announcing that he would step down as Prime Minister during his third term of office. But the stand-off continued. At times, the two men would not speak to each other. Then, exasperated, Mr Brown would storm into No 10 and confront the Prime Minster face to face. Allies of the Prime Minister accused the Chancellor of being paranoid and obsessive.

By 2005, on the eve of the election, the dysfunctional marriage was heading to the divorce courts. But what the Treasury did not know was that Mr Blair was already drawing up the divorce papers - in the shape of the secret strategy document outlining plans to move Mr Brown out of the marital home. As the document was being drafted in secret, the relationship between Mr Blair and Mr Brown was at one of its lowest ebbs. Although the Chancellor was known for his campaigning skills, the Prime Minister publicly snubbed him, appointing his arch enemy to head the 2005 election campaign. Alan Milburn, the former health secretary, was summoned to the forefront of the campaign. However, preparations for the campaign began to falter and Mr Blair had no alternative but to bring the Chancellor back centre stage.

With Alastair Campbell as the intermediary, the Prime Minister struck a deal with Mr Brown. Not only would there be no question that he could keep his job, but he could also rewrite the manifesto on the economy and education, and have a say in the reshuffle following the election victory.

Mr Blair’s blueprint was hastily filed in a desk drawer, where it has remained until now. The Treasury remained the powerhouse it is today.

Mr Brown, unaware of how detailed the plans were that had been drawn up to move him, rallied to the cause. Labour’s first election broadcast, by the Oscar winner Anthony Minghella, featured Mr Blair and Mr Brown talking about their “shared values”.

Crucially, on the day that the Attorney General’s fuller and more equivocal legal advice on the Iraq war was leaked, Mr Brown rescued Mr Blair at a news conference by firmly saying, when asked if he would have taken the country to war, “yes”.

Visibly surprising Mr Blair with the strength of his endorsement, he continued: “I not only trust Tony Blair, but I respect Tony Blair for the way he want about that decision.”

Cementing Mr Brown’s position, Mr Milburn, seen by some as a plausible ” heir to Blair” and rival to the Chancellor, dramatically dropped out of government.

Could it have been that he had been lined up for the role of Chancellor and did not want to serve in a government where his arch-rival’s power had not been switched off, as planned, but given a megawatt boost?

The key architect of the plans, Lord Birt, also announced shortly afterwards that he would resign as Mr Blair’s strategic adviser and join a finance firm. His four years at the Prime Minister’s side had given him a pivotal position, often resented by civil servants and ministers who complained he used to interfere in policy. John Prescott was characteristically outspoken, launching an attack on “John Bloody Birt”.

Mr Blair, on the other hand, praised his blue-skies thinker: “His hard-headed analysis and ability to get to the heart of the most complex of problems has proved invaluable.” Had he not stepped aside, his blueprint suggests John Birt would have had a key role in overseeing the reshaped government and Treasury and would have been part of an ” implementation team” to “run the change process” which would have included the Cabinet Secretary, then Sir Andrew Turnbull.

The plans will appear to Brownites as a back-handed stitch-up, designed to reassert Mr Blair’s authority across government and undermine his most valuable lieutenant. Mr Blair’s team was, according to the paper, preparing to “hit the ground running” on day one.

But two years on, in the final days of Mr Blair’s premiership, it is Mr Brown who has prevailed and is preparing to revitalise the Labour government with a blueprint of energetic and radical proposals.

Today Tony Blair will travel to Manchester to hear Gordon Brown make a speech, accepting the leadership of the Labour Party. When he shakes hands with his old friend his smile is likely to be firmly fixed, and his tributes generous. But Copy No 1 of the confidential blueprint is proof that Mr Blair’s accolades are less than sincere.

Further reading: ‘Tony Blair - Prime Minister’ by John Rentoul, Little Brown

How Blair tried to sack Brown

1992 ‘Two bright boys’

Back in the innocent days before John Smith died, Brown and Blair are the ‘two bright boys’ feared by Alan Clark, the Tory minister, admired by Neil Kinnock, and promoted to top posts by Smith

1994 The breach

Tony and Gordon take a walk for the cameras after Brown has announced that he will not be a candidate for the Labour leadership. Early outing for the Mark I forced smile

1995 Bruise beneath the surface

In opposition, Blair and Brown work closely together, but Brown’s resentment at being beaten to the leadership takes the form of a ‘titanic feud’ behind the scenes with Peter Mandelson

1997 Neighbours

The newly elected Prime Minister and Chancellor wow a grateful and relieved nation with clever stuff like Bank of England independence, although their secretive way of working horrifies the civil service

1998 Putting on an act

Within a year things were already so bad, with Blair’s people deriding Brown’s ‘psychological flaws’, that they were forced to watch football together for the cameras. Who is supporting Scotland or Morocco?

2001 I’m not listening

As the first four-year term draws to a close, Blair suggests he might let Brown have a go in the driving seat if the Chancellor helps to make the case for Britain adopting the euro. Brown refuses to take the bait

2001 Give us a clue

As the election that was postponed by foot and mouth approaches, Brown becomes increasingly impatient to learn of Blair’s intentions about the next one. Blair’s too busy eating his fish and chips

2004 ‘Nothing you could ever say’

Having told Brown that he would stand down this year, Blair changes his mind. Brown takes it calmly: ‘There is nothing that you could ever say to me now that I could ever believe.’ Or words to that effect

2005 Brown seals the deal

Just before the start of Blair’s third election campaign, the Pope dies. Blair is forced to push Alan Milburn to one side, ditch the Birt plan and bring back Brown to rescue Labour’s electoral fortunes

2005 Corny, but it works

With Blair and Brown running as a team, the Labour campaign achieves lift-off. Blair is returned with a majority of 66; Brown keeps his job and tightens his grip on the succession, which is finally his two years later

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9/11 Victims’ Mother: Giuliani is Part of the Problem

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

By Mick Meaney
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Growing criticism of Rudy Giuliani is reaching breaking point with even more victims’ families speaking out against his ill gotten gains from the tragic events of 9/11 including his continuous profiteering, his repeated lying and complete “incompetence”.

Sally Regenhard, whose fire-fighter son was among the 343 FDNY killed during the false flag terrorist attacks in New York, said: “If Rudolph Giuliani was running on anything but 9/11, I would not speak out, If he ran on cleaning up Times Square, getting rid of squeegee men, lowering crime - that’s indisputable.

“But when he runs on 9/11, I want the American people to know he was part of the problem,” said the grieving mother.

In 2004 Sally Regenhard made the famous statement to Giuliani: “My son was murdered because of your incompetence,” during a commission hearing in Manhattan.

Head of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, Peter Gorman said: “We want America to know what this guy meant to New York City fire-fighters. In our experiences with this man, he disrespected us in the most horrific way.”

Some of the complaints by victims’ family members include the fact that still, more than 5 years after the attacks, body parts are still being found at ground zero. Before leaving office Giuliani reduced the number of fire-fighters and ordered a “scoop and dump” method for searching for remains, outraging fire-fighters and family members alike.

Giuliani also knowingly provided inadequate radios which did not work for first responders, in fact the same ones used during 1993 attack on the trade center.

Giuliani has used the horrific events of 9/11 to advance his own political career and has cashed in on the profitability without a second thought to the lives that were lost or to the victims’ families who still do not have the truth and justice they deserve.

It is the 9/11 Truth Movement, working with victims’ family members, who are fighting for truth and justice for the thousands of lives lost on that tragic day and for the hundreds of thousands of lives lost around the world in the illegal and immoral wars as a direct result of 9/11.

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Road To The New World Order

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

By Michael Nield
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A ‘new world order’ is a vision long shared by political leaders, industrialists, and intellectuals around the world. ‘Peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law’, what a wonderful idea! Strange then, that they have tried to conceal the reality of their vision from the wider public. For over thirty years, the European project was sold to the British people as little more than a benign free-trade agreement, despite the fact most of our new laws originate in Brussels and we are being asked to relinquish most of our independence under the European Constitution. The same process is underway on the American continent: NAFTA and the Free Trade Area of the Americas are the basis for supra-national political bureaucracies based on the European model. Evolution rather than revolution is the chosen course because, as the Fabian Society noted, the wolf in sheep’s clothing stands a better chance of getting lunch than his colleague openly salivating amongst the flock.
The end game is one-world government: The relinquishing of sovereignty to continental mega-states and the unification of these power blocs under the United Nations. This is the geo-political skeleton of the New World Order, which its advocates realize most people would reject.

Now that many of the levers and motors have been assembled onto the frame, the nature and function of the Death Star is plain to see. This is not the birth global liberal democracy and universal human rights; it is the end of them. ‘Global fascism’ or ‘global feudalism’ are terms often used by its detractors. Parliamentary democracy, human rights, economic freedom, and scientific integrity are rapidly being replaced with a privately controlled dictatorship of bureaucracy and technocracy that surpasses Orwell’s nightmarish vision.

This is the point at which we enter the world of ‘conspiracy’, for which the internet is renowned. This a place where mainstream opinion fears to tread, fearing close encounters with flying saucers or alien abduction. This e-book sketches the panorama of the grand scheme unfolding, examining major trends in politics, international relations, science, and medicine. It contains hundreds of references - most of which can be checked at the click of a mouse - which will help readers to decide whether this is conspiracy theory or conspiracy fact.

Much of the evidence presented here appears in the mainstream press but is rarely supplemented with contextual analysis which would reveal the grand design. All too often, journalists find that Big Brother has his hand on their pen. This has created a niche for an ‘alternative media’, largely based on the internet. Former British Environment Minister, Michael Meacher MP, said that the internet hosts the ‘new reality’, the forum in which unconventional questions can be asked.

So what does the future have in store? The first part of this book, ‘Three Hundred Trillion Dollars and Counting’, describes how the driving force behind political globalization is financial globalization. The world’s super-rich elite who own and direct the world’s banks and conglomerates are creating the first financial global empire through corporate mergers and international economic piracy. These kingmakers have financial interests in countries all over the world and work together to create the international political structures necessary for world domination. And because the media focuses on the stage of the puppet show, few suppose there might be a hidden aristocracy pulling the strings.

The second part, ‘The Art of Killing Quietly’, identifies what this cartel of financial barons, media moguls and key political minions are doing, or want to do to us. It concludes that this de facto elite regard most people on the planet as ‘useless eaters’ worthy of execution at their whim. Of course, the ‘cattle’ carrying out their plan do so unwittingly. Mass manipulation is the supreme application of money power since humanity would not knowingly build a prison for itself and hand the key over to a tiny ruling elite. Some have even been persuaded that in order to ’save the planet’ we must kill off most of the people. Jacques Cousteau said in the UNESCO Courier of November 1991 that,

One American burdens the Earth much more than twenty Bangladeshis…. In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day

This resembles George Bernard Shaw’s summation in his Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, that under socialism you need permission to live, and if you didn’t live well you’d be executed (in a kindly manner). And so today, in most policy areas we proceed on the basis of a manufactured premise handed down from on-high so that the end appears to justify the means. As O’Brien explains to Winston, ‘Truth’ is defined by the Party:

You must get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature’. -1984, Part 3, Chapter 3

Interestingly most of the witting participants also believe that they are doing good, just as many brutal dictators throughout history have done. However, whilst the unwitting participants are the turkeys praying for Christmas, the witting participants are more often the power-brokers who will be attending Christmas dinner. This is the natural patronage of the credulous by the crooked.

The modus operandi of the New World Order is the ‘psychological operation’, dressing up policies as something else, getting the populace to dig their own mass grave. Often they will actually create problems so that they can impose solutions which are favourable to their hidden agendas. This has been called ‘problem-reaction-solution’, applied with dramatic effect on September 11th to launch the global ‘War on Terror’ - actually a war against citizens- and the big push for the New World Order that Senator Hart encouraged.

So, how can the ordinary citizen compete against this international jet-set of the ‘haves’ and ‘have mores’? Team New World Order is quite happy to murder millions in pursuit of Utopia. However its fastidious requirement for deception is also its Achilles heal: We can strike it down with the plain old ’sword of truth’. The opposing team is not a right wing team or a left wing team, or a religious team; it’s ordinary people from across the board who value their freedom and basic rights. As Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky said:

I am neither from the revolutionary camp, nor from the reactionary camp - I am from the concentration camp.

If memory hole-enabled electronic voting machines have not replaced the ballot box before the referendum on the European Constitution, there waits a great opportunity to throw a spanner in the works of one of the key meat grinders. The U.K. Independence Party is currently the only major British political party dedicated to exposing the reality of E.U. membership and to opposing the existence of this unaccountable regime. A vote for UKIP is a vote against the ‘cartel’ behind the curtain whose megalomania - for which the Union is a key instrument - extends into every sphere of human existence. This has become apparent to millions of Britons outraged by the Brussels vitamin ban which takes effect in August this year.

On a personal level, the now easily obtainable knowledge of the cartel’s petrochemical-pharmaceutical sorcery and its public health disinformation, will afford great protection against a health catastrophe we might otherwise endure at its hand.

But one might also heed the wry encouragement of one of Mr Bukovsky’s colleagues from the old days in the Soviet Union:

Cheer up comrades, things are getting worse!

There is now an unprecedented window of opportunity to perceive the reality of the situation before it becomes too late to do anything about it. The U.S. has many independent radio programmes broadcast over the internet which routinely interview guests whose expertise is the ammunition for this information war. The Alex Jones Show, Radio Liberty, and The Power Hour, are prominent examples of this great resource. Alex Jones’ websites www.infowars.com and www.prisonplanet.com are updated daily with all the latest news from around the world. Collectively, these, and thousands more like them, are making great strides towards a ‘popular awakening’ and a demand for change. However, the internet may not survive much longer as a global free speech forum and another major terrorist attack will be used to take away more of our rights. Perhaps print off this preface and mail it to your elected representative or email it to your friends. You can copy and distribute this entire book for non-profit purposes. Hopefully, American readers will find as much of interest and relevance as Europeans, reflecting both the subject matter and the source material. But whatever you do, do it fast!

This March 2005 edition of The Police State Road Map builds on the original version published in January 2004. There have been many updates and improvements based on readers’ feedback and new research.

The website, www.policestateplanning.com , is updated regularly with articles and radio interviews that develop the themes outlined in the book.

Hard times lie ahead comrades but cheer up, things are getting worse.

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