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This is, imho, an example of global mind manipulation by mass media and false science.
Scientists had predicted that the polar ice caps would be melted by 2012. *distraction alert* tax emissions, first world can buy third world surpluses of emission allowances.
People buy CO2 to feed plants. Hello!
I'm not saying pollution isn't a problem. Saying that CO2 isn't the biggest concern by far, nowhere even close to the puke that alarmist, well rewarded science whores spew.
Designed to distract and occupy the minds and time of many honest academics, scholars etc.
Designed as a way of diverting human energy and funds.
The USA never took it seriously, carbon monoxide yes, money to be made using platinum or palladium is used in diesel exhaust filters. Catalyst convertors I think they're called.
The myth umm lies about global warming. (wish they stop destroying rainforests)
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Off topic, I know, but it backs up my false science claims. “Infiltrate and shut down fact-based doubters…” Facts are irrelevant in science????
The event of 9/11 is now outside the realm of fact, science, and evidence. It is a dogma that justifies the Bush/Cheney/Obama war crimes against Muslims and their countries.
Obama regime appointee Cass Sunstein, a Chicago and Harvard Law School professor, thinks the 9/11 movement, for challenging the official “truth”, should be infiltrated by US intelligence agents in order to shut down the fact-based doubters of government propaganda.
When a law professor at our two most prestigious law schools wants to suppress scientific evidence that challenges government veracity, we know that in America respect for truth is dead.
The notion that a country in which truth is dead is a “light unto the world” is an absurdity.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/does-9-...a-chance/26498
But from my observations from within the ANC’s election campaign it was clear that Mbeki and those around him had already thrown in their lot, first with Tony Blair’s Labour Party (major advisors in the run-up to the election) and second with Clinton’s Democratic Party. The deal was done. The US even allowed South African communists such as Joe Slovo, formerly branded a terrorist, to visit the US (I heard him talk at Hunter College in NYC in 1991).
Mantashe by the way, is now Jacob Zuma’s right-hand man and Ramaphosa is on the board of mining giant Lonmin at the centre of the massacre, as are some members of the SACP also now big capitalists. The conflicts of interest abound but this not the important aspect as far as I’m concerned, it’s what underpins it, spelt out by the SACP’s ‘analysis’ above. In 1994 everything changed, except it seems the SACP’s interpretation of the post-Apartheid world when the ANC ceased to be part of the liberation movement after it transformed itself into a political party that followed the Western, capitalist model.
Marikana is the rest of South Africa waiting to happen and in large measure it is the result of the SACP’s relationship to the ANC. And being in bed with COSATU compromises the SACP’s independence as much as COSATU compromises its members through its relationship with the ANC. It’s a tangled web we weave, part the product of an era now vanished and part the result of Apartheid capitalism’s perverted vision of reality that has created such a complex set of contradictory relationships. But then again, nobody said that making a revolution was easy.
And a little something to back up the claim of Bankstas being nympho criminals (effing thieves);
The $4 billion in payments to struggling homeowners are necessary for the bank, which would otherwise lose even more money if it had to evict borrowers by foreclosing on them. Reuters also reports that JP Morgan could be allowed to get a tax deduction for the fines paid which will reduce its actual cash costs by $4 billion.
Senior Wall Street executives are definitely relieved by the deal. After all 25 years ago, some 1,000 bankers were convicted by the Justice Department, for their role in the savings and loans crisis. CEOs like Charles Keating Jr. of Lincoln Savings and Loan and David Paul of Centrust Bank, went to jail for years.
The Obama administration has not been as aggressive in its pursuit of bankers. Just 150 have been charged, none of whom are top bosses.
The “too-big-to-jail” approach to bankers and their “too-big-to-fail” banks have been condemned by veteran observers.
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The report shows that the South African government, through the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) is the largest investor in Tiger Brands, and that over 50% of the company’s shares are held outside South Africa. Pioneer Foods’ largest shareholder is Zeder, the agribusiness investment arm of PSG Konsult Group, a private financial services company. Premier Foods is 80% owned by private equity firm Braite, listed on the Euro MTF market in Luxemburg but domiciled in Malta, both jurisdictions being notorious tax havens. ‘These ownership patterns have increased the distance between food producers and consumers, and are lucrative avenues for capital accumulation by actors far removed from these firms’ locales.’ Said Mariam Mayet, Director of the ACB.
According to Gareth Jones, researcher at the ACB, ‘It appears as if South Africa’s major millers and retailers are making healthy profits from our staple food and certainly not passing falling maize prices onto consumers.’ The report shows that from April 2007 to April 2013, the average cost of a 5 kg bag of maize meal increased by 43.7% in rural areas, and 51.8% in urban areas. ‘These sharp price increases aggravate the already appalling conditions that millions of South Africans live under. This is particularly significant for the poor, who spend 41% of their income on an average “food basket” ‘ said Jones.
Further findings of the report include:
Two companies Monsanto and Pioneer Hi-Bred control the maize seed market;
Maize handling and storage is dominated by three companies Senwes, NWK and Afgri, all former co-ops;
Louis Dreyfus and Cargill, international grain traders, dominate the maize trade on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange;
A highly concentrated value chain feeds into an equally concentrated food retail sector, with four major retailers: Shoprite/Checkers, Pick n Pay, Spar and Woolworths dominating the market.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsant...s-poor/5357142
The ACB has today, released test results on the most extensively consumed maize brands in South Africa, which indicate that the entire maize supply is utterly saturated with GM maize. “The majority of South Africans are not only eating GM maize without their knowledge and consent but have no choice or alternative whatsoever even if the products were correctly labelled. This is totally undemocratic and unacceptable. It smacks of outright food fascism” said Mariam Mayet, Director of the African Centre for Biosafety.
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If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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More to the point;
It is becoming clear to this reporter that heavily armed police hunted down and killed the miners in cold blood. A minority were killed in the filmed event where police claim they acted in self-defence. The rest was murder on a massive scale.
It took several days for police to release the number of those killed. The number 34 surprised most of us. With only about a dozen bodies recorded by the media, where exactly had the remaining miners been killed, and how did they die?
Most journalists and others did not interrogate this properly. The violence of the deaths we could see, again and again, was enough to contend with. The police certainly did not mention what happened outside of the view of the cameras.
This has allowed the actions and reactions of both the strikers and the police to be scrutinised in ways that undocumented tragedies can never be. Therefore, while the motives and rationale of both parties will never be completely clear, their deeds are quite apparent.
Thus developed a dominant narrative within the public discourse. The facts have been fed by the police, various state entities and by the media that the strikers provoked their own deaths by charging and shooting at the forces of law and order. Indeed, the various images and footage can be read to support this claim.
The contrary view is that the striking miners were trying to escape police rubber bullets and tear gas when they ran at the heavily armed police task team (our version of SWAT). The result was the horrific images of a dozen or so men gunned down in a fusillade of automatic fire.
The police line parted and they were allowed to continue, but once they were about 10 metres past, the police opened fire on them.
The miners turned and took on the police.
It was here, he said, that they killed two policemen and injured another. The police killed two miners and injured a third severely, from helicopter gunfire, Themba said. The miners carried the wounded man back to Wonderkop, where he was taken to hospital in a car. His fate is unknown.
This police statement clearly states that the police acted in self-defence, despite the fact that not a single policeman suffered any injury on 16 August.
And as we discussed earlier, it is possible to interpret what happened in the filmed events as an over-reaction by the police to a threat. What happened afterwards, 400 metres away at Small Koppie, is quite different. That police armoured vehicles drove over prostrate miners cannot be described as self-defence or as any kind of public order policing.
The language reportedly used by the policeman is strikingly similar to that used by Adriao early on 16 August, and quoted on MineWeb: “We have tried over a number of days to negotiate with the leaders and with the gathering here at the mine, our objective is to get the people to surrender their weapons and to disperse peacefully.”
“Today is D-day in terms of if they don't comply then we will have to act ... we will have to take steps,” he said.
A little later he commented: “Today is unfortunately D-day,” police spokesman Dennis Adriao said. “It is an illegal gathering. We've tried to negotiate and we'll try again, but if that fails, we'll obviously have to go to a tactical phase.”
If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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There are accusations that the massacre at Marikana on 16 August was premeditated, coupled with allegations that police at the killing scene destroyed evidence.
“There is grass that has been burned and you can see blood which has been burned,” said Peter Alexander, a professor from the University of Johannesburg. “Clearly the police have been removing evidence without there being any independent investigator present. But there is some evidence that they cannot remove, and that is the scorched grass. I think it would also be quite difficult to remove the pools of blood, which show that there was more than one killing site at Marikana.”
Dlamini and Adriao both confirmed that the investigations were launched on 16 August, the day of the shooting, and were completed the following day. Researchers and activists were on the scene soon after and describe people picking up evidence and removing it from the scene.
Experts in crime scene investigations questioned the thoroughness of such a rapid investigation.
Hennie van Rooyen, a private forensic instructor and former SAPS brigadier, told Daily Maverick it would have been impossible to undertake thorough forensics on such a large scene in such a short time. “No, no, no. You could never complete such an extensive investigation in a day and a half.”
As Zuma finally met with strikers Wednesday and pushed for a speedy enquiry, the Human Rights Commission (HRC) raised concerns over the deaths of miners and the police. The HRC in South Africa said it was concerned that clothes and other traditional weapons were still scattered on the hill where miners gathered when they visited the site over the weekend and said allegations were made by some of the community members about police tampering with or not protecting evidence.
“It is concerning for us as the Commission that the scene of the crime that shocked the country and the world and claimed 34 lives, has allegedly not been properly attended to,” said Isaac Mangena, spokesperson for the HRC in SA. “We are equally concerned that IPID has not been quick enough to take steps to protect evidence that will become necessary in the investigation, as we would be naive to expect the police to investigate themselves properly.”
With activists calling for an independent enquiry and scores of people having trampled across the kill site for days on end, the HRC plea has come too late. If the site wasn’t secured properly or forensic procedures not followed to the letter by police, crucial evidence will have been lost forever.
Some workers fled through a five metre gap in the razor wire. They were met with a barrage of live fire from the police and many died. Images of this shooting were broadcast around the world.
4: Terrified strikers scattered in all directions, with a large number heading for cover by a koppie about 300 metres in the opposite direction from the wire. This “killing koppie” is where the largest number of strikers died.
No cameras recorded this slaughter. But evidence remained on Monday, four days after the massacre. There are remnants of pools of blood. Police markers show where corpses were removed. We found markers labelled with letters up to ‘J’.
They told us about the shootings. “All we saw was a helicopter flying. We heard shots. Then we saw men running and cops picking up anyone running around the streets.”
Lonmin management said any worker still striking on Monday would be sacked. It also maintains that it will only negotiate with the NUM.
Even the government recognises that Lonmin has lost touch with reality. The minister of police told the company it could not fire workers during a week of mourning called by president Jacob Zuma. On Tuesday the company withdrew the sack threat.
Chris Molebatse is a local monitor for the Bench Marks Foundation, which looks into conditions for miners. He told Socialist Worker, “Last year a white man died underground. People were told not to go into work.
“Not long after a black man died. Miners wanted to stop work, but were told to go on as normal. This anger has been building for a long time.”
He said bosses at the Lonmin firm take a lot of miners on as subcontractors, rather than employing them. “Living conditions are terrible. People are housed in camps with no sanitation or running water.
“And these are people who mine for platinum! Meanwhile Lonmin officials drive in from Sandton, South Africa’s most expensive suburb.”
If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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Definitely evidence of a new world order!It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles DarwinComment
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Yeah, pmguy. You are also correct in saying nothing new, or asking what's new. There I said it! Once if, and only if they do have absolute power over the entire globe will they become New. They've been at it for ages and they have never got it right yet. But that doesn't stop the show. An Alien false flag psyop of global proportions is rumoured to be planned to frighten us into believing that the earth has surrendered to the superior race (alien) that is holding our planet to ransom. The Elite or possibly the US (and maybe Russia/China too?) will claim the Alien Forces will only communicate through them and blah blah.
I'm not really sure what the whole story is, I've not looked into it at all. I come across some articles from time to time and here is one I'll share. Somebody pinch me!
I warned you that ET was coming out, lol. (the poster does not always agree with the views expressed in these posts, OK?)
A very interesting rumor from a reputable source, is that the Mandela Funeral was used as a cover-story to assemble the world’s Top Leaders to pay homage to an ancient……
Teco, your time travelers have landed! Seriously though, this, to me, is a Whackhead conspiracy theory of note. Psyop of enormous proportions, coming as reality to a TV near you. Get ready for a lot more of this ET business/propaganda to appear in the Media.
The Mandela June/July theory has been posted on the web in other posts. I never posted them, (for good reason) but the theory is included in this article, I repeat; Not all theories, or whatever you would call this type of post is believed or presented as fact by myself.
Management takes no responsibility for claims made in these posts. Lol. If I get zapped by a weird looking guy with a laser that cuts like a razor, you know I peed some King or suchlike Alien off, Beeg Time.
Nice to know that the hand waving dude (idiot) was actually relaying sign language to those that speak waves and stuff.If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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Do you put mix in your zol?It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles DarwinComment
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No. Do you?
This is part of the intended result of psyop Marikana. imho. Divide and conquer. EFF and Malema re-emerging will further reduce the number of the present Regime’s votes in the next elections. Chummy with China (BRICS) and planning to drop future IMF loans and move off the petro-dollar for oil scheme = regime change. (ask Gaddafi or ask Saddam, they’ll tell you the same!)
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s largest trade union withdrew its support for the African National Congress on Friday, a move that is likely to erode the party’s dominance ahead of national elections next year and reorder the politics of a country the party has governed with huge majorities since the end of white rule two decades ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/wo...rssnyt&emc=rss
Note; I’m not aware of any changes since this article was posted. Please correct me if there have been changes. Thanks.If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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The Pentagon is involved in organizing war games in different part of the World. The stated military mandate is national security and the “Global War on Terrorism”.
The South African media has reported the holding of military exercises involving the US military and the South African National Defense Force (SANDF).
The South African and US armed forces are to conduct war games in the Eastern Cape over a period of almost two weeks (24 July to August 5)
The joint war games are to be coordinated by USAFRICOM’s “US Army Africa Contingency Command”.
What is not mentioned is that these so-called “unstable nations” are invariably the object of a US engineered political and economic destabilization process (including the imposition of deadly IMF-World Bank economic reforms), which create conditions for the “recolonization” of sub-Saharan Africa.
These July-August war games were prepared in prior exchanges in February at USAFRICOM headquarters in Vicenza, Italy between the U.S. Army Africa Contingency Command and SANDF commanders:
While the stated purpose of the war games is to “protect Africa”, the real objective is imperial conquest. Washington’s hidden agenda is to “make Africans fight Africans”.
It is worth noting that the SANDF was recently involved in fighting rebel forces in the Central African Republic, in which 15 SANDF soldiers were killed.
The SANDF is supportive of US hegemonic objectives in Africa.
By collaborating with the US in joint military operations, the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) is, in some regards, playing a similar role to that of the SADF of the Apartheid period.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-sout...ricans/5343320If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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No I also smoke it cleanIt is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles DarwinComment
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Lol, well put this in your pipe and smoke it.
Question; if you were the King of the Invisible planet, would you choose an underground bunker in KZN to live in? Or would you live in an underwater palace with King Neptune? What about the flats over the road from the Brakpan Roadhouse?
Hi, we’re from the US Government and we are here to help you” (The biggest lie ever told?).
Thus when Presidents set up 40 Billion dollar plans to help prevent and treat aids in Africa one must be very suspect. It is always like the old saying goes, the time to start worrying is when the suits show up and say, “hi, we’re from the government and we’re here to help you.” And that includes all the other supposed do gooder programs like Gates vaccination help and other sophisticated means which can allegedly be turned as used as sterilization or “thin the herd” depopulation means.
Edward Snowden is alleged to have just made a major new disclosure which if true, could be a game changer and could perhaps make this rumor of Marduk landing in Africa more credible.
And now a new claim has entered the situation. A recent article (12) from an unvetted source now claims not only has Venezuela granted Edward Snowden asylum, but that Snowden has revealed that the USG and specifically NSA has massive proof UFOs and Aliens exist and “doesn’t know what to do with this information”. Sometimes misinformation sites are used to break real news so that it will be ignored and discredited. Kind of like using “blown cover” as “cover” in the Intel business.
Stay tuned because in the weeks and months to follow this whole storyline may get even stranger. Veterans Today will likely be the first to break such any such stories which clarify any of these claim one way or the other.
Yikes, the story line can get stranger? This ain’t strange, this are weird. (are = is in NWO sign language)If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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Personally I’d swop Houghton for Pollsmoor (Adrian how do you spell this?) anyday. With millions in the bank and invitations to Royal functions, fancy cars and fancy food, tailored matching socks and wotnot, who would turn such an offer down?
Even if it meant my promises were broken in the process, what’s a promise to millions worth these days? Zip, nada, zilch! Maybe it was an offer he couldn’t refuse? Accept or become suicidal!
Any thoughts on this?
In a 2010 interview with the wife of British author V.S. Naipaul, the anti-apartheid firebrand and "Mother of the Nation" Winnie Madikizela-Mandela accused her former husband of selling out after being broken by his 27 years in apartheid prisons.
"Mandela did go to prison and he went in there as a burning young revolutionary. But look what came out," she was quoted as saying.
Not my mother, butt maybe I'm picking up other people's Stompies?If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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Here is another side of Madiba, also stating (Winnie) that a deal was made to keep the financial power in European hands.
MI6 claim he was an asset of theirs (not in this article) Mossad claims to have trained him. (also not in this article – but evidence is mounting to support the Mossad claims)
If the outcome of a vote is unknown then voting is tantamount to gambling. If the outcome of a vote is known, then voting is futile. Robert Rorschach.Comment
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