Haiti Quake – man made? (MORE on it)

29 01 2010

13 reasons to suspect HAARP caused Haiti quake

Report: US Weapon Test Aimed at Iran Caused Haiti Quake

Chavez says US ‘weapon’ caused Haiti quake

cryptome.org

Survivors' Camp in Haiti - from cryptome.org

There are more photos from Haiti (aerial) at http://cryptome.org/

There is background on US techtonic weapons at http://codshit.com/

Are the ‘camps’ being built in Haiti concentration camps? Just wondering. Also U.S. Media Blocks News on Aid from Cuba to Haiti.





HAITI: geophysics or WMD at work?

21 01 2010

The unusually focused ‘earthquake’ in Haiti seems remarkably spot on for destroying the government there.  It seems eerily similar to this bit I just read on http://codshit.com

America was understandably most eager to hide the means by which it had wrought these disasters, what it had achieved by them, and the massive collateral destruction which had resulted in a most false, self-serving way to its biggest global challenger and its most self-assured ally. Beijing wanted a similar cover up to hide the process by which it had opened itself up to this most damaging strategic setback to its nuclear deterrent, the personnel responsible for making them, and the means of delivering them at the hands of the Americans, one whose consequences would plague the regime for years to come. The Burmese junta had been taught that its insulated relationship with China was a two-way street which could result in terrible consequences, and leave it with no recourse if it or its patrons stepped unduly on the toes of America’s empire.

Washington was eager to portray the cyclone and earthquake as simply natural disasters which neither Myanmar nor Beijing had properly anticipated and prepared for – unlike what Bangladesh and Thailand had down in the wake of Indian Ocean tsunamis, and Iran had done after the 1990, 2003 and 2006 earthquakes. The Bush administration concentrated on reporting the thousands of children killed in the disasters, especially those 8,000 or so killed when eight schools around Mianyang were simply crushed by falling rock. There was no account of the 80,000 others who died when their offices, living quarters, testing laboratories, nuclear manufacturing and storage plants, rocket launching sites, etc., were simply swallowed up or smashed in the ensuing collapse of the whole area. And these were among the most skilled people China had in making, testing and producing its strategic arms, the core of its whole defense establishment….(more)

http://codshit.blogspot.com/2009/07/glimpses-of-americas-man-made-disasters_15.html

Trowbridge H. Ford writes in detail in America’s Man-Made Disasters.

Also it seems incredible that the US media ignores the prior US invasions of Haiti and the huge debt Haiti still pays for those illegal acts. Invasions, massacres, embargoes and election rigging are all absent in the “reporting” on Haiti.

MORE-

Haiti, Guns or Food? (video)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_gs7f-o2Ec&feature=player_embedded

Too Little, Too Late: Human Solidarity & Haiti’s Disaster http://www.kabobfest.com/2010/01/too-little-too-late-human-solidarity-haitis-disaster.html

Chomsky on US/Haiti relations http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20040309.htm





Patriot Act news from Stonefruit

5 01 2010

More on that Patriot Act extension …..

   http://stonefruit.blogspot.com/2009/12/extremes-of-right-and-left.html

     … and an underwear bomber appears in coach just in time to scare everybody!





Bush Jr.: Deep Thinker on Economy – oh really, James B. Stewart?

5 01 2010

In his hardly believable description of the recent Wall Street super meltdown [New Yorker, Sept. 21, 2009] Columbia prof. James B. Stewart portrays idiot (p)resident Bush Jr. as engaged in the huddle to figure a solution. Omitted from the entire piece, Eight Days, are the thuggish crimes of the principals in the whole calamity.

Nevermind that Bernanke and Paulson are treated as financial wizards (not pariahs) but he says on Sept. 16th  Jr. had a head transplant and gave a grave assessment of the situation to the banksters. Here’s the snip:

When Bernanke and Paulson finished, Bush said, “Sometimes you have to make the tough decisions. If you think this [gov rescue] has to be done,  you have my blessing.” But, as he rose to leave, he said, “Someday you guys are going to need to tell me how we ended up with a system like this. I know this is not the time to test them and put them through failure, but we’re not doing something right if we’re stuck with these miserable choices.”

=Ahem=

Anyone who thinks that’s a verbatim account from the baffoon who said, “I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.” I have some Lehman Brothers stock for you.

What would be a better read would be an article on Wall Street’s giant ponzi scheme, the relationship between incompetance, pedigree and career accent in banking, or the relationship between Wall Street and drug money laundering. Or the real unemployment numbers.





How Algal Biofuels Lost a Decade in the Race to Replace Oil

31 12 2009

WIRED     -  By Alexis Madrigal

For nearly 20 years, a government laboratory built a living, respiring library of carefully collected organisms in search of something that could grow quickly while producing something precious: oil.

But now that collection has largely been lost.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory scientists found and isolated around 3,000 species algae from construction ditches, seasonal desert ponds and briny mashes across the country in a major bioprospecting effort to find the best organisms to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into fuel for cars.

Despite meager funding, the Aquatic Species Program (.pdf), initiated under President Jimmy Carter, laid the scientific foundation for making diesel-like fuel from the fat that microscopic algae accumulate in their cells. Fifty-one varieties were carefully characterized as potential high-value strains, but fewer than half of those remain….(more)

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/the-lost-decade-of-algal-biofuel/





CLG: Northwest Bomb Plot ‘Oddities’

29 12 2009

By Lori Price, http://www.legitgov.org/   Updated: 29 Dec 2009

[excerpt]….

In 2008, the ACLU estimated the US ‘No Fly List‘ to have grown to over 1,000,000 names – heck, even Cat Stevens and the late Senator Ted Kennedy were on it — and it continues to expand. But, suspected terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was curiously able to obtain military-grade high explosives –80 grams of PETN (Gee, where’d he get that?) — managed to escape airport security and detonate his underwear bomb!

In April 2009, American authorities reportedly refused an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico entry into US airspace because a left-wing journalist writing a book on the CIA was on board. Hernando Calvo Ospina, who works for Le Monde Diplomatique and has written on revolutionary movements in Cuba and Colombia, figured on the US authorities’ ‘no-fly list.’ Air France said the April 18 flight was forced to divert to the French Caribbean island of Martinique before continuing its journey (telegraph.co.uk).

Got it? Write a book critical of the CIA — you cannot fly. Carry explosives (allegedly from Yemen) on board when the US is trolling for an excuse to invade and occupy Yemen for its oil — yes you can! The US needs false flags to provide cover for illegal invasions and occupations. The 9/11 terrorist attacks (aka inside job, six ways to Sunday) worked well for the US government; the security-industrial complex made billions and US corporaterrorists were able to negotiate the wholesale theft of Iraq’s oil…. (more)

http://www.legitgov.org/northwest_bomb_plot_oddities.html





Obama’s Role in the Militarization of Mexico

26 12 2009

from Information Clearinghouse -

…..

 Mike Whitney— Will you explain what Plan Mexico is and how it relates to the North American Free Trade Agreement? (NAFTA)

Laura Carlsen:  Plan Mexico, also called the Merida Initiative, is a three-year regional security cooperation plan devised by the former Bush administration and presented in October of 2007. The plan grew out of the extension of NAFTA into security areas, known as the Security and Prosperity Partnership. Originally Plan Mexico was to be announced in the context of the SPP trinational summit but was delayed. It is presented as a petition of the Mexican president Felipe Calderon for US help in the war on drugs but in reality it was designed in Washington as a way to “push out the borders” of the US security perimeter, that is, that Mexico would take on US security priorities including policing its southern border and allowing US companies and agents into Mexico’s intelligence and security operations.

Plan Mexico proposed $1.4 billion in mostly foreign military financing. It is referred to as a “Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism and Border Security” proposal….. (more)

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24253.htm





US Threat to Venezuela

26 12 2009

Venezuela’s Chavez accuses Dutch of aggression

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez on Thursday accused the Netherlands of planning “aggression” against Venezuela by allowing U.S. troops access to Dutch islands off the Caribbean coast of the OPEC nation.

“I am accusing the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with the Yankee empire, of preparing aggression against Venezuela,” Chavez said at a meeting with leftist groups in Copenhagen, which was broadcast on Venezuelan state television.

Chavez, in the Danish capital to attend climate talks, is embroiled in a dispute with neighbour Colombia over a deal to give the United States more access to its military bases. The former soldier says Washington fears his socialist government and is surrounding Venezuela.

Chavez said the self-governing Dutch islands were located in Venezuelan territorial waters. The Dutch Embassy in Caracas was not immediately available for comment.

The United States has long had a military presence on the islands of Curacao and Aruba, with about 250 Air Force crew and ground staff involved in counter narcotics and surveillance operations over the Caribbean.

Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell operates a lubricants plant and a joint venture with Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA in the western Lake Maracaibo oil fields in the South American nation, according to Shell’s website.

Chavez did not say why he was accusing the Netherlands of preparing aggression now. He also mentioned the reactivation last year of the U.S. Navy Fourth Fleet, which was disbanded in 1950.

The Fourth Fleet patrols the coasts of Latin America.

Colombia on Thursday demanded Venezuela hunt down and extradite around 15 guerrilla chiefs it says have taken refuge across the border.

(Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Xavier Briand)

link:  http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE5BG5SG20091217

For more on the US military build up around Venezuela see Terrorama 3.0

and this analysis blog has a good entry   http://hcvanalysis.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/cubadebate-is-the-us-likely-to-launch-a-military-attack-against-cuba/

 





Copenhagen Spoof Shames Canada

19 12 2009

 Climate Debt No Joke

African, Danish and Canadian youth join the Yes Men to demand climate justice and skewer Canadian climate policy… 

details here:  http://theyesmen.org/canada

the (spoof) press release: http://www.enviro-canada.ca/agenda2020





Obama’s Big Sellout

19 12 2009
The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway

by MATT TAIBBI, Rolling Stone Dec 09, 2009

Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers “at the expense of hardworking Americans.” Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it’s not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.

Then he got elected. .  . .

. . . . . . . It started just moments after the election — and almost nobody noticed.

“Just look at the timeline of the Citigroup deal,” says one leading Democratic consultant. “Just look at it. It’s fucking amazing. Amazing! And nobody said a thing about it.”

Barack Obama was still just the president-elect when it happened, but the revolting and inexcusable $306 billion bailout that Citigroup received was the first major act of his presidency. In order to grasp the full horror of what took place, however, one needs to go back a few weeks before the actual bailout — to November 5th, 2008, the day after Obama’s election. . . .   (more)

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout/2

[ Emphasis ours. F.C. says "Econ sellout, war sellout, Copenhagen sellout, jobs sellout... we're tired o' sellouts!" Fish gotta swim!" ]