New World Next Week: Episode0144 - Blemished Banquet, Monsanto Patents, Insider Ketchup

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode144 -
Blemished Banquet, Monsanto Patents, Insider Ketchup
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: UN Offers Banquet Of Blemished Food To Highlight Waste
Flashback: California Throws Away Enough Food To Fill 35 Stadiums Per Year

Story #2: Justices Skeptical Of Farmer Who Planted Patented Monsanto Seeds
Open Seeds: Biopiracy and the Patenting of Life
The Non-GMO Project

Story #3: FBI Probes Suspected Insider Trading In H.J. Heinz Buyout
Flashback: Buffett May Have Been Involved in Congressional Insider Trading Scandal

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Previous: Episode143 - Big Brother Buses, G7 Currency War, Executive Cybersecurity

#Newspurge: Rising Sun Blues

Econocrash:
Rockefellers and Rothschilds Unite: Two of the world's greatest family dynasties, are pooling their vast resources*

Keynesianism & Eugenics*
A History of Bank Runs*
Euro Near a 2-Year Low; #EU Calls for a 'Banking Union'*
UK Plans Border Controls For Euro Meltdown*
Drach to the future! The Greek currency conundrum*
Bank of America: Thanks for the Bailout…We’ll Create Some Jobs in the Philippines*
Video: Dylan Ratigan interviews 'Bailout' movie makers*
Bank Profits Hit 5-Year High*
Half a Million Long-Term Unemployed Lose Benefits Earlier than Expected*
Postal Service offers buyouts to 45,000 mail handlers*
Bleak May unemployment report suggests economic recovery may be stalling*
Audio Satire: New 'Desperate Poverty' Video Game Blamed For Urban Violence*

Geopolitiks:
Video: Al Qaeda and the West team up to frame Syrian government for massacre*
Turning the T.I.P. – From Guernica to Huola*
SCO member-states to set up the Development Bank and Energy club*
SCO Armed Forces to Stage “Peace Mission 2012″ Drill*
Video: Nile Bowie on RT - Laying the Foundations for Preemptive Nuclear War Against Iran*

Media/Memes:
Buffett to buy newspapers;
Berkshire claims he won't influence content*
Broadcasters Warn of Apocalypse in Dish’s Ad-Skipping Service*
Acting Director of Defense Media Activity: Who Is Bryan Whitman?*
Sweden wins song contest marked by Azeri dissent*
Video: Loreen "Euphoria"*
For Some New York Immigrants, VHS Is King for Movie Rentals*
MIBs: Silencers vs Killers*
Vallée on MIB Imagery*
'Hemingway & Gellhorn': Directed by Philip Kaufman*
John Travolta hiding out in the Bahamas*
Against Me! Singer Plays First Show as Laura Jane Grace -
Transgender rocker, formerly Tom Gabel, opens for The Cult*
Amanda Palmer Dramatically Answers Questions About Her Connection to Scientology*
Video: Tyson Posted Training Video of #Bieber Before Singer's Assault on Photographer*
Despite Kabblah "cult" reunion Ashton and Demi not reuniting*
During her stay in Israel Madonna visited Tel Aviv’s Kabbalah Center*
Madonna Prays at Kaballah Center Ahead of Show*
Video: Doc Watson, Folk-Music Legend, Dies 89*
Audio: Doc Watson "Rising Sun Blues"*

Police State Updates:
Outsourcing Surveillance:
Watching dissidents is a booming business in China*
Quebec government makes it illegal to protest against the government*
If Violent Crime Rate is at 40-Year Low, Why is U.S. Spending S100 Billion a Year on Police?*
Gunshot Detection Systems:
The Latest Tool against Violent Crime*
Flashback: Who watches the watchers in surveillance society?*
Man Ticketed for Dropping Money on the Ground*
Judge Jails Honor Student with Two Jobs for Missing School*
Video: 11th-grade Honors Student Jailed for Truancy*

Portlandia/Oregon Oddities:
Oregon county releases inmates amid budget cuts*
Portland uses bad roads to qualify PSU area for Urban Renewal*
Portland man's 'Live #LipDub Proposal' goes viral*

West Virginia Worry:
Mountain Mourning:
Appalachian Women Lead Dramatic Protest Against Mountaintop Removal*
'Serpent-Handling' Pentecostal Pastor, ‪Mark Wolford‬ 44, Dies From ‪Snake Bite*

New World Next Week: Episode111 - SCO Grows, Bigger Banksters, Crowd-Sourced Research

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode111 -
SCO Grows, Bigger Banksters, Crowd-Sourced Research

Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Becoming Full Member, India Will Strengthen SCO
Background: Meet the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Related: Children of Immigrants to US Expatriating Themselves
So, You Want to Move 'Back' to India?

Story #2: Giant Banks Now 30% Bigger than When Dodd-Frank Financial “Reform” Law Was Passed
The Too Big To Fail Banks Are Now Much Bigger And Much More Powerful Than Ever
Flashback: McCain, Obama Headed to Washington for Bailout Talks
Flashback: Martial Law Will Be Declared If Banker Bill Not Passed In House

Story #3: Crowd-Sourcing Brain Research Leads to Breakthrough
Related: Research, Retractions, Access and more

Bonus: Food World Order on Corbett Report Radio

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Previous:
DHS Hacks Xbox, Sibel Ungagged, Knockout Gas

#occupyeverywhere except the foundations that fund protests

a globalist op designed to destroy efforts to end the fed?
from paul joseph watson: Despite their honest intentions, many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are being suckered into a trap and calling for the very "solutions" that are part of the financial elite's agenda to torpedo the American middle class – higher taxes and more big government. Watch the clip below in which journalist Adam Kokesh talks to Occupy Wall Street protesters.

mass economic riots are now here & US will never be the same*
just as it had with the tea party; beware of infiltrators*
video: 700 anti-wall street protesters arrested on brooklyn bridge*

update: exclusive sights & sounds from #OccupyPortland

related police state updates:
crimes by federal prison guards on the rise*
'underwear bomber' abdulmutallab starts trial with outburst*
terror scare on delta flight 235 from amsterdam to detroit*
cia contractor charged in pakistan deaths arrested in colorado*
judge refuses to sanction cia for destroying torture tapes*
scotus docket: surveillance, profanity & thought patents*
ken starr op-ed: open up high court to cameras*

obama accused of waging 'class warfare' with millionaire tax plan

from foxnews: A top House Republican accused President Obama of appealing to Americans' "fear, envy and anxiety" by pushing a new tax rate on people making more than $1 million annually, saying the "class warfare path" will only hurt the economy. "Class warfare ... may make for really good politics, but it makes for rotten economics," Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, told "Fox News Sunday."


related econocrash updates:
lloyd's of london pulls deposits from banks on debt crisis*
study: child abuse rose during recession*
video: max keiser interviews bill still of 'the money masters'*

related obamessiah updates:
obama admin officials brief reporters on transparency plans... anonymously*
perry, romney, paul: gallup numbers show gop nomination is three way race*
man with backpack hops over white house fence*

US 'approaching' insolvency, fix to be 'very painful'

from reuters: The United States is on a fiscal path towards insolvency and policymakers are at a "tipping point," a Federal Reserve official said on Tuesday. "If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us, we will become insolvent, the question is when," Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said in a question and answer session after delivering a speech at the University of Frankfurt. "The short-term negotiations are very important, I look at this as a tipping point." But he added he was confident in the Americans' ability to take the right decisions and said the country would avoid insolvency. "I think we are at the beginning of the process and it's going to be very painful," he added. Fisher earlier said the US economic recovery is gathering momentum, adding that he personally was extremely vigilant on inflation pressures. Fisher added that the U.S. Federal Reserve had ways to tighten its monetary policy other than interest rates, including by selling treasuries, changing reserves levels and using time deposits.

related econocrash updates:
supreme court denies effort to bar details of fed bailout*
financial times on 'how china should rule the world'*
detroit sets national record for population loss*
toyota tells US plants 'prepare to shut down'*
mccaskill admits failure to pay taxes on plane*
liberty dollar creator convicted in federal court *
billionaires flourish, inequalities deepen as economies 'recover'*
video: warren buffet says japan crisis creates 'buying opportunity'*

econocrash: the fed, graves, reader's digest & diy tobacco

jobless spike compounds foreclosure crisis*
no wonder the poker game is ending:
the wealthiest have taken all of the chips*
fed running low on ammo*
colonial bancgroup fails, sold to bb&t*
is bank of montreal, canada's 4th largest bank, about to crash?*
US preparing to prosecute 150 ubs account holders*
pressed to dig up cash, owners market their cemetery plots*
americans: serfs ruled by oligarchs*
reader's digest plans to file for bankruptcy*
buffett op-ed on america's crushing debt*
diy cigarettes? some growing own tobacco*
panning for gold makes a comeback in bad economy*
larry flynt: "the real war is not between the left & the right.
it is between the average american & the ruling class...
who would make us their slaves."*

elites 'secret' meeting discussed depopulation

video: abc news reports on secret meeting of the rich
from wsj: Last week’s meeting of the Great and the Good (or the Richest and Richer) was bound to draw criticism. The New York meeting of billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, Eli Broad, George Soros, Ted Turner, Oprah, Michael Bloomberg and others was described by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as an informal gathering aimed at encouraging philanthropy. Just a few billionaires getting together for drinks and dinner and a friendly chat about how to promote charitable giving. There was no agenda, we were told. And no plan for a follow-up meeting.

But in an age of fallen wealth idols, it was inevitable that a meeting of billionaire minds would draw scrutiny. Surely all that money and power in one room had to spell trouble for the rest of us. An article in the Times of London, headlined “Billionaire Club in Bid to Curb World Population,” said the issues discussed in the top-secret meeting included health care, education and – by far the most controversial – slowing the global population growth.

“Taking their cue from Gates they agreed that overpopulation was a priority,” the article said, adding that “this could result in a challenge to some Third World politicians who believe contraception and female education weaken traditional values.” Such a stand wouldn’t be surprising. Mssrs. Gates, Buffett and Turner have been quietly worrying about Malthusian population problems for years. Mr. Gates in February outlined a plan to try to cap the world’s population at 8.3 billion people, rather than the projected 9.3 billion at which the population is expected to peak.

But some right-leaning blogs have started attacking the billionaires as forming a kind of secret sterilization society or giant ATM to fund abortions. It fed into time-honored fears of the rich using their wealth to reshape mankind in its preferred image. Some are raising the specter of eugenics.

I am not taking a stand on population control. But from what I was personally told about the meeting – and what the Times spells out further down in its story – population control was just one of many items raised during the meeting, as each philanthropist talked about what they were working on. It wasn’t the reason for meeting and there are no real plans for a follow-up confab. The notion that this secret gathering was aimed mostly at shrinking the world’s population just doesn’t ring true.

That said, almost all of the attendees are politically liberal. Do you think this Star Chamber of Philanthropists is something to worry about or something to be grateful for?

flashback: abc news reports on secret meeting of the rich,
yet ignores the bilderberg group completely

bilderberg 2009: chaos, control & the cost

bilderberg 2009 attendee list: w/ kissinger, coke & facebook!

bilderberg fears losing control in chaos-plagued world
from paul joseph watson: Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin, whose information from inside Bilderberg has routinely proven accurate, states that the global elite’s plan to completely destroy the economy and ultimately lower global population by two thirds has stoked fears even within Bilderberg itself that the fallout from such chaos could ultimately result in the globalists losing their control over the world. In a telephone interview, Estulin re-iterated his original points about Bilderberg’s 2009 agenda, which were released in a pre-meeting booklet to members. These include the notion that investors, whipped up into a false state of euphoria by the belief that the economy is recovering, are being suckered into ploughing their money back into the system as a set up for “massive losses and searing financial pain in the months ahead” as the stock market reverses its uptrend and plummets to new lows.

was john kerry at bilderberg 2009? if so, expect this skull & bonesman to make a prominent return to the globalist stage...

video: 'chasing bilderberg' doc chronicles group’s hidden history

meanwhile, the bilderbergers are advancing in norway

we are change confronts soledad o'brien, fareed zakaria & others on their connections to & defense of bilderberg, the cfr & 'secret societies'

video: bilderberg club's plan


stop bilderberg's nightmare future at all costs
from paul joseph watson: London Guardian journalist Charlie Skelton, who began his coverage of the 2009 Bilderberg conference in a jovial and mocking manner, is now warning that the horrendous treatment dished out to him by both police and undercover spies is just a taste of what we can expect in our daily lives if we allow Bilderberg’s agenda, and specifically ID cards and implantable microchips, to be implemented. Initially setting out to cover the event in a satirical way, Skelton left Greece yesterday chilled to the bone about how he had been harassed, detained and stalked for days on end by authorities merely for taking photographs of the hotel where Bilderberg members were staying. “My experience over the last several days in Greece has granted me a single, diamond-hard opinion,” writes Skelton, “That we must fight, fight, fight, now – right now, this second, with every cubic inch of our souls – to stop identity cards.”


update: abc news reports on secret meeting of the rich,
yet ignores the bilderberg group completely
from paul joseph watson: ABC News today [may20] devoted a prominently featured three page story to a “secret meeting” of rich philanthropists which took place earlier this month in New York, and yet one of the biggest news corporations in America was completely silent during a far more important meeting of around 150 of the world’s powerbrokers at the Bilderberg conference last week. At time of press, the ABC News story is the second top story on the ABCNews.com website under the headline, America’s Richest Givers’ Secret Meeting. “Under a cloak of secrecy, some of the world’s wealthiest people gathered in an unprecedented meeting early this month in New York City possibly to coordinate strategies for giving their vast fortunes to charity in the midst of the financial crisis,” begins the report, before descending into a deluge of fawning idolatry about how people like David Rockefeller, Bill Gates and Ted Turner, who has repeatedly called for world population to be reduced by a shocking 95% as well as a one child policy instituted in the west, are committed to saving the poor from the ravages of the economic crisis with their benign acts of philanthropy. The report states that the meeting is “enough to spark the imaginations of conspiracy theorists everywhere,” linking to a previous ABC News report that implies people who believe that powerful individuals conspire to rule the world in secret are probably mentally ill. The most vomit inducing paragraph of the whole article arrives when ABC asks, “There remain as many questions about the meeting’s details as there are about the logistics behind its organization. How did some of the world’s most public figures coordinate their schedules, travel, and security with no one in media knowing about it?” Well how indeed did they manage to do that I wonder? 150+ of the global elite manage to do it on a routine basis every single year without barely a whimper from the corporate media, despite the location of the Bilderberg meeting leaking in advance every time. They manage to do it because the corporate media was castrated decades ago and is merely a PR machine for the establishment, which is why they dutifully follow orders not to report on what would otherwise be a gargantuan story of worldwide interest in the form of the secret Bilderberg Group meetings. ABC News is owned by the Walt Disney Company, Vice Chairman of which is Roy Disney, nephew of Walt Disney himself. Roy Disney is a Bilderberg member, having attended the secretive cabal’s 1999 conference in Sintra, Portugal.

financial 'bailout' deal fails 228-205

from thinkprogress: The Congress has just voted down the proposed bipartisan bailout package. The vote failed in part because the Republican leadership failed to deliver the 70-100 votes needed from the conservative side. Before the vote, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) implored his GOP colleagues to vote in favor of the negotiated bailout proposal, almost breaking down into tears... When asked what might happen if the $700 billion dollar rescue plan failed to pass, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said today, “Heaven help us.” The Dow Jones Industrial Average “dropped more than 700 points as ‘no’ votes mounted,” later stabilizing around 500 points.

money$hit: bailouts, banksters, bread & circuses

bush does 9/11 replay in ask for unprecedented powers & budget
from the washington note: Just after the September 11th terrorist attacks occurred, George W. Bush went before the nation and made the case that he needed unprecedented authority - budgetary and military - to take on the threats poised at the well-being and safety of the country. Now with the current economic crisis in the United States, Bush is yet again asking for unprecedented powers and budget. What happened after 9/11? We saw no-bid contracts given to firms like Halliburton. We saw $9 billion of U.S. taxpayer money "go missing" through the Coalition Provisional Authority. We saw abuses of power, the expansion of secrecy, and the promulgation of norms that seemed to be the very antithesis of what America stands for. A nation's values and its deep DNA are really only knowable and observable during times of crisis - when it's tough to stand up for codes that seem a heavy burden during tough times. We are in a crisis again - and the Bush administration is again asking Americans to forgo fundamental values. Tonight, George Bush succeeded I think in scaring Americans that this crisis could be a systemic threat. Bush said "our entire economy is in danger." That's the fear button. He pushed it. And he said the clock was ticking. This seems like a bad episode of "24."

3 stooges meet at white house & act like the run something
from raw replay: President Bush met with Congressional leaders, Barack Obama and John McCain at the White House. This video is from Fox’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, broadcast September 25, 2008.


1000s contact lawmakers about 'bailout' plan
from wcco: As Congressional leaders have worked out an outline for a deal on the bailout, the proposal remains extremely unpopular with many Minnesotans. In a Minneapolis coffee shop, single mother Ann Pearson thinks the bailout is helping the wrong people. "It's the people like me that are having a hard time keeping up with the economy and paying their bills, and we're losing our houses and losing our cars. And we need the government to help us not the bigger people," she said. Congressional offices are getting bombarded with phone calls and e-mails from constituents with their opinions on the bailout deal. Minnesota Congressman Jim Ramstad said in 48 hours he has gotten 1,002 calls and e-mails against bailout; only 10 were in favor of it. "People are angry, people are angry at the administrations bailout plan, they are angry at rewarding incompetence and bad judgment," Ramstad said.


deal said to be near in financial 'bailout'
from ap: President Bush is bringing presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain into negotiations on a $700 billion rescue of Wall Street as Democrats and Republicans near agreement on a bailout plan with more protections for taxpayers and new help for distressed homeowners. Senior lawmakers and Bush administration officials have cleared away key obstacles to a deal on the unprecedented rescue, agreeing to include widely supported limits on pay packages for executives whose companies benefit.

bush & mccain blackmail america w/ economic terrorism
from paul joseph watson: From shying away from even mentioning such terms as “recession,” “unemployment” or “bank failures,” Bush, Bernanke and Paulson are now vigorously invoking the fear of financial meltdown as part of a campaign of economic terror to blackmail the American people into accepting the power-grabbing “bailout,” while John McCain, who last week said the fundamentals of the economy are strong, is now all but threatening to cancel the election should the proposal not receive swift passage. Bush’s speech last night was a throwback to his March 2003 stump before the invasion of Iraq - replace words like “weapons of mass destruction” with “financial panic” and the tone of the two is not dissimilar. Bush rammed home the fear by appealing to people’s personal anxieties.

video: ron paul schools bernanke on the 'bailout'
from youtube: Congressman Ron Paul lectures Bernanke on the flaws of the bailout plan and the hazard of the attempt to fix prices versus letting them correct naturally in the free market at the Congressional Hearing today (9/24/08). Ron also questions Bernanke's authority and constitutionality of using the printing press to generate all this extra money needed for the bailout.

china banks told to stop lending to US banks
from reuters: Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday. The Hong Kong newspaper cited unidentified industry sources as saying the instruction from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) applied to interbank lending of all currencies to U.S. banks but not to banks from other countries. "The decree appears to be Beijing's first attempt to erect defences against the deepening U.S. financial meltdown after the mainland's major lenders reported billions of U.S. dollars in exposure to the credit crisis," the SCMP said. A spokesman for the CBRC had no immediate comment.

video: defazio on the 'bailout'
from floating capital: Peter DeFazio takes 5 minutes today on the House floor to speak out against the outrageous Paulson intervention plan.

fbi begins widespread financial probe of 26 firms
from wikinews: The FBI is investigating 26 firms and 1,400 individuals involved in the US financial crisis for fraud and "sub-prime lending practices". Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and AIG are among the firms being scrutinized after recently receiving federal bailouts. Investigators, who are cooperating with the IRS, Postal Office, and other federal offices to complete their investigation, are concerned that major corporations may have also forced or bribed ratings agencies to favor them. The probe, which is in early stages, began eight months ago when the FBI began taking a close look at the mortgage industry and widespread irresponsible loaning practices. At least one corporation has been raided, but so far no evidence of fraud has been found.

citizens dumping personal junk on wall st to protest bailout
from alternet: An e-mail that began as a rallying cry from a lone journalist to an influential circle of friends to protest the U.S. government bailout of Wall Street has ignited a national day of street protests. Some demonstrators plan to dump their rubbish in front of the bronze bull sculpture near Wall Street in downtown Manhattan Thursday. "People are going to bring their own personal junk that they think is worth as much as the junk financial instruments that the government is proposing to buy from the Wall Street banks," says Andrew Boyd, an activist and freelance online-video artist for nonprofit groups in Manhattan. "We're hoping that people show up with their 8-track cassette collections, their old Spice Girl CDs, their surf boards that got bit by sharks and old Enron stock certificates."

meltdown perpetrators position themselves
from scoop: Well, they finally did it. The Money Party exposed the nauseating underbelly of first world finance. It's a cross between a Ponzi scheme and a complex math puzzle, all geared to let those in charge rake off as much money as they can, whenever they can, while they leave us out in the cold. Unfortunately, this time their greed and lack of control has the world poised for a systemic economic meltdown. The collapse and subsequent government rescue of home mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, stock brokerage Merrill Lynch, investment bank Bear Stearns, and, an insurance company, AIG, are designed to show we're moving away from the brink of disaster to a safer place. "The system is working" to manage what Alan Greenspan is calling a once in a century event.

and the rest of this week's meltdown (from oldest to newest)...
video: wamu looking for buyer*
obama: help for US finance crisis needed from abroad*
wall st journal: one week later, a new world order*
industrials: biggest 2 day rally since 1929*
china blames wall st meltdown on fed overissuance of currency*
dodd: the US may be 'days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system'*
failed bank list*
we have only days to stop the $700b stick-up (& fascist powergrab)*
regulators shut down ameribank in west virginia*
in hard times, tent cities rise across the country*
growing 'tent cities' blamed on foreclosure crisis*
US treasury proposes $700b bailout plan*
video: the mother of all frauds*
markets remain on edge as investors seek safety*
fury at $2.5b bonus for lehman*
video: ron paul talks about the bailout w/ wolf blitzer*
the end of america as you knew it is at hand*
few limits proposed for treasury*
conflict of interest? report says goldman sachs ‘among biggest beneficiaries’ of paulson’s bailout*
goldman & morgan to become bank holders*
what's a bank holding company?*
financial crisis comparable to terrorism, alistair darling tells labour party conference*
financial weapons of mass destruction*
china paper urges new currency order after 'financial tsunami'*
paulson's former firm to be among largest beneficiaries of bailout*
bailout: it’s all part of the new intl economic order*
america vs the financial elite*
buffett deal at goldman seen as a sign of confidence *
buffett calls crisis an 'economic pearl harbor'*
(meaning we knew all about it in advance, hastened its arrival & will use the 'shock' as a means for more command & control... problem, reaction, solution)

shooter, spy sat cover, dhs death, buffet, blackwater, beijing

shooter did time in mental health facility
from washington times: A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said. Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in the late 1990s, former house manager Louise Gbadamashi told the Associated Press.

russia: US spy sat shot is 'a cover'
from bbc: Russia has accused the US of using a plan to shoot down a broken spy satellite as a cover for testing an anti-satellite weapon... "Speculations about the danger of the satellite hide preparations for the classical testing of an anti-satellite weapon," a statement reported by Itar-Tass news agency said. "Such testing essentially means the creation of a new type of strategic weapons," it added.

newborn dies while in custody of homeland stupidity
from ap: American Samoa's delegate to the U.S. Congress is calling for an investigation into the death of a baby at Honolulu International Airport. Delegate Eni Faleomavaega has asked the Department of Homeland Security to begin an investigation into death of 14-day-old Michael Tony Futi last Friday. The baby had been flown to Honolulu for emergency heart surgery. He died while detained inside a customs' room at the Honolulu airport with his mother and a nurse. A lawyer for the family announced plans to sue the federal government over the baby's death. Faleomavaega called for the probe in a letter issued to Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff.

anti al-qaeda iraqis quit US army
from press tv: An anti al-Qaeda group in central Iraq has resigned en-masse from its US military employers, accusing them of killing 19 of the group... "The group, which comprises 110 members, resigned in protest at organized assassinations by the coalition forces," Sabah al-Janabi, leader of the anti al-Qaeda Awakening group in the area told AFP.

buffet sees healthy future in drugs firms
from guardian: Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, has given a stamp of approval to the healthcare sector by taking small stakes in big pharmaceutical companies, including GlaxoSmithKline. The billionaire's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, declared in a filing in the US yesterday that it had bought 1.5m shares in GlaxoSmithKline in the form of American depositary receipts (ADRs) for $76m (£39m)...

blackwater schooling taiwan's secret police
from danger room: I know, I know. You've been worried. Sure, Blackwater is up to its mercenary neck in Iraq. They're protecting missile interceptors in Japan, and rescuing blondes in Kenya. And let's not forget about their fine work in New Orleans. But how, you're asking, is Blackwater going to get involved what many think is the great struggle of the 21st Century - the upcoming war against China? Well, never fear. Blackwater has got that struggle covered, too. Defense News reports that "Blackwater is training members of the Taiwanese National Security Bureau’s (NSB’s) special protection service, which guards the president.

protests over beijing games 'will grow'
from guardian: For six years, the organisers of the Beijing Olympics have been planning an event that will restore China to the centre of the world stage... But with less than six months to go, this celebration of Chinese resurgence is threatening to degenerate into an opportunity for critics to land some blows on the communist leadership.

video: US navy sonar vs the whales
from raw replay: US navy is trying to protect whales from the navy’s super sonar. The following video is from CNN’s The Situation Room, broadcast on February 15, 2008.

flashback: navy must cut sonar use off california

military connection to latest mass-shooting psy-op?

citizens for legitimate government & total411 have compiled the following information from mainstream media reports regarding the mass shooting today in Nebraska...

gun nut kills eight after bush speech
from mirror uk: A crazed gunman shot eight people dead before killing himself in a crowded shopping mall last night - an hour after President [sic] Bush gave a speech nearby. Five others were wounded in the rampage, two critically. Though police suspected the gunman was acting alone, a second man wearing camouflage was arrested. Last week a grenade was found hidden behind a plant stand at the same mall.

photo shows man in handcuffs
from msnbc: A viewer photo shows a man in handcuffs after shots were fired inside the Von Maur store at Westroads Mall on Wednesday afternoon. A description of the shooter, broadcast over scanners, was that he was in an Army-green vest and was holding a rifle. The viewer's photo showed a young man in [Army] fatigues surrounded by police and apparently in handcuffs. Police have not yet confirmed an arrest. It was reported by KETV crews that the man in fatigues was found under a bus bench. KETV NewsWatch 7's Carol Kloss said she could see a man in cuffs and a black, hooded sweatshirt surrounded by police.

9 dead, including suspect, in omaha mall shooting
from ny daily news: A rifle-toting gunman went on a holiday murder spree in a crowded Nebraska mall Wednesday, killing eight shoppers. The killer, identified as Robert Hawkins, 19, left behind a note promising to "go out in style," Omaha television station KETV reported. Hawkins, his hair in a military buzz cut, was reportedly wearing a camouflage vest and carrying a black backpack when he walked into the mall. It was the deadliest U.S. attack since a gunman left 32 people dead on the Virginia Tech campus in April, and the second mass shooting at a mall this year. Five people were killed and four wounded at a Salt Lake City mall in February, when police killed the gunman responsible. 'Witnesses described the suspect as a man wearing Army fatigues or camouflage.' [This reference has been purged from the New York Daily News article, but Google retained the 'Army fatigues' reference. The Army reference disappeared from the mainstream media quicker than a snowdrift in July. -- Lori Price]

Two men arrested in military fatigues in shopping mall shooting spree -- 'Guys dressed in camouflage, with guns, leaving a school bus, acting suspiciously before the shooting. Earlier in December, a live grenade was removed from this shopping mall... It was completely random -witness [the shooting]' (MSNBC live, 4:15PM EST 05 Dec 2007)

man guilty in grenade plot on shopping mall
from reuters: A man charged with plotting to set off hand grenades inside a shopping mall in what the FBI said he intended to be a "violent jihad" pleaded guilty in the case on Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney's office said Derrick Shareef, 23, of Rockford, Illinois, a U.S.-born convert to Islam, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Investigators said he had been under surveillance from the very beginning of his plotting and the public was never in danger.

update: shootings monthly cycle
from loren coleman: In the book, 'The Copycat Effect', a clear anniversary cycle is noted in well-publicized shootings, which can serve a predictive function. Often these patterns follow a monthly cycle. Currently, there is a strong indication the shootings are following that specific model.

The Omaha mall shooting came exactly one calendar month after the school shooting in Finland, which was exactly one calendar month after the school shooting in Cleveland, Ohio. The last three months, remarkably, therefore, have had precisely four weeks to the day between each of these dangerous Wednesdays.

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the oracle of omaha pimps for hillary

from bloomberg: Billionaire investor Warren Buffett will host a fundraising event for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in New York this month, helping her attract donors who can write four-figure checks and court fresh faces in the investing community.

An invitation for the June 26 cocktail party, whose location is still to be announced, says a limited number of tickets will go to "young Wall Street" at $500 each. Other attendees are asked to give between $1,000 and $4,600, the legal maximum.

Buffett, who built Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. from a failing textile maker into a holding company with a market value of $168 billion, said last month that he would help either Clinton or Illinois Senator Barack Obama with their presidential campaigns if asked. He will also host a fundraiser for Obama, said Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

Clinton and Obama both "would apply enormous energy toward the right goals," Buffett said in a May 9 interview. "Either one would make a great president." ...

Executives at Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. represent the two biggest groups of donors to Clinton, 59, during her two Senate campaigns. In the first quarter of the presidential race, Goldman employees gave more of their contributions to Obama than to Clinton, Federal Election Commission filings indicate.