Think for yourself Think for yourself ISSUE 24: JUNE – SEPTEMBER 2011 PRICE: $NZ9.90 $A8.95 $US 6.95 SPECIAL REPORT How to Protect Yourself from Radiation Poisoning At least three Japanese reactors have melted down and/or exploded, releasing radiation equivalent to at least 2,000 Hiroshima-size nuclear bombs. While the spill continues to spew, irradiating the entire world, mainstream media have put a virtual lid on the story – so that you can go back to sleep. Read about what you can do to protect yourself and your family ... now. REPORT BEGINS PAGE 29 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz 1 “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – President John F. Kennedy Can computers go insane? – Story Page 76 Contents • 11 UNCENSORED NEWS and FASCISM WATCH • 25 Preplanned Banking Brash Coming To NZ and Australia? • 26 The Conspiracy Files: New Twists on JFK and RFK Assassinations • 29 SPECIAL REPORT: Fukushima – The Mother of All Disasters • 51 COVER STORY: How To Protect Yourself from Radiation Poisoning • 59 SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY • 62 Pictorial: Martian Anomalies • 63 FREE ENERGY: Cold Fusion Proven (again) • 65 The Truth About Nibiru (and Elenin) • 69 Best UFO Pictures of the Year ... or Ever? • 81 WHAT YOUR DOCTOR WILL NEVER TELL YOU • 88 REVIEWS Much more ... “Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.” – Bertrand Russell UNCENSORED www.uncensored.co.nz founded september 2005 Disclaimer: The articles in this magazine are for educational purposes only and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors, publisher or advertisers. Our sole aim is to stimulate rational debate and discussion of the important issues of our time. We do not endorse any treatments, medical or otherwise, and encourage our readers to continue with their own research and consult a health professional if they are ill. Publisher: Brian Jewell ([email protected]) Editor: Jonathan Eisen ([email protected]) Assistant Editor: Katherine Smith ([email protected]) Contributing Editors: Wolf Brinsbury, Tom Brown, Gary Cook, Isabel H, Julie Smith, Brian O’Leary, Michael Vincent Editorial Correspondence: PO Box 44-128, Pt Chevalier, Auckland 1246, New Zealand Business Correspondence: PO Box 104-220, Lincoln North, Auckland 0654 Tel + 64 9 521 1904 NZ Distributor: Gordon & Gotch 9 979 3900 Australian Distributor: Gordon and Gotch: 1300 650 666 (www.gordongotch.com.au) Introduction So, you may well ask, what’s really going on here? Did they really kill “Osama bin Laden”, a stunt double (what the Germans call a “doppelganger” – a double, as for example, a stand-in for, say Hitler), or what or whom? The evidence seems to indicate that they indeed killed someone, and it was probably another Osama doppelganger, someone who was paid to live in the compound until he was needed – to be killed when the “need” arose, and of course, extrajudicially. But like the gang who couldn’t shoot straight, US government leaders just can’t seem to make up their minds as to what actually happened. First “Osama” was armed and dangerous, then he was unarmed and not so dangerous; first he used one of his wives as a “human shield”, then he didn’t. Then his body was dumped in the ocean according to “Islamic traditions”, but soon that “Islamic traditions” thing was hastily put aside. Then, there was the famous picture of the “top brass” following every moment of the assassination on live TV, until it emerged by the head of the CIA, that they had lost 25 or 30 minutes of coverage, and so it was just another “photo-op”. No body, shaky story falling apart at the seams, and to top it off, all sorts of people, such as Benazir Bhutto, the late President of Pakistan, claiming that Osama had died in 2001! And then there was even George Bush who opined that the US had “moved on” from trying to find Osama and the FBI not even looking for him – and you’ve got the ingredients for another botched up lie. Like the myth itself of the “Arab highjackers” on 9/11. However, and this is the big “however”, none of this matters in the US of A. Many Americans still actually believe what “their” government tells them, no matter how farfetched the story may be, and it’s time the rest of the world woke up to that inconvenient truth. Facts simply don’t matter any more to people who are addled to the point of not being able to follow anything more complicated than a basketball score. Moreover, not only do facts not matter; the rest of the world doesn’t matter; indeed life itself doesn’t matter any more. This is the end of the line, the end of “history” as we thought we knew it. It’s the end of reason; the end of rational discourse; the end of factual or evidential arguments. From now on it’s all pomp and circumstance, more smoke and mirrors. America has been bludgeoned and massaged, shocked and awed (to quote the Nazis) to the point where nothing really matters anymore. The game is well and truly over, and until the next radical realignment comes along that will chiropractically adjust the human psyche back to “normality” there will be nothing coming from the US except more lies, damn lies and made-up statistics. The place has been living in a Disney dreamland for so long, that they believe exactly what they have been conditioned to believe and don’t try to tell them anything that they aren’t “ready” to hear. 4 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 Fukushima? The greatest ecological disaster – EVER? Heck, Obama told them it was safe and not to worry and even worse! – not even to prepare – and guess what? They believed him! Now a FULL MELTDOWN is happening and the US EPA has actually SHUT DOWN their radiation monitoring. Amazing how the “birth certificate” controversy went away, and everything else, for that matter, as soon as he became miraculously transformed into a Super Hero by “directing” the assassination of the goblin of goblins, Osama bin Laden. Why, Batman or any of the other comic book (but mistaken for real) super heroes could not have done any better. For sure! Call it what you will – satanic, demonic possession, or simply the apotheosis of an Illuminati germ that was planted on the Potomac River in 1789 and is now at last bearing its toxic fruit. The Americans and now much of the world is in thrall, and as the song sort of goes, wakin’ up is hard to do. Face it: Osama died in 2001, and he was working for the CIA, as was his doppelganger. However, the Osama story did its job: it deflected the people from the real stories: the spewing, deadly radiation from the (at least) four Fukushima reactors that were melting down and/or blown their toxic, radioactive brew into the Pacific Ocean and the jet stream itself. The reactors are still haemmorhaging as we go to print and are more than likely to continue doing so well into the coming months or even years. Is this truly an “extinction event” as some experts are saying? At this point, it certainly looks as though the cancer epidemic is a certainty as the radiation equivalent of 72,000 Hiroshima Abombs has thus far been released into the environment. And what about Nibiru or “Planet X” as some have designated it. Is it a “brown dwarf” or a comet? A planet or a giant asteroid? Or simply a figment of an overactive imagination? Unfortunately, it looks as though it may be real and a lot closer than some would have you believe. And it looks as though it’s a brown dwarf, a star that has exploded in the past and shrunk up to something incredibly dense. If that’s the case, then what’s coming may not be entirely salubrious. Along the way, we have found something that people have been speculating about for many years – photographs of flying discs at a top secret anti-gravity facility at “Area 51”. Are they Photoshopped? It doesn’t look that way, but as always, we are open to your views on this and welcome your feedback. Anyhow ... Welcome to Issue 24. It’s a cracker. Jonathan Eisen, Editor www.uncensored.co.nz Letters Government is an instrument of the Banksters; it collects taxes to pay interest to the Banksters, to provide bailouts to the Banksters, and provide welfare for the Elite Jon: I came across this video which shows exactly how Banking Gangsters create money from nothing as accounting entries in computer ledgers, i.e. legalized counterfeiting. Thus the debt is phony and interest payments to Banksters are legalized extortion. The Elite Bankers want mankind to pledge allegiance to the phony debt which they stole from mankind on which taxpayers will pay usury/interest eternally until the Banksters are brought to justice. exist before on charging interest and using physical assets as collateral, then that is in reality a model for expropriation.” When banks create money that is not backed by any assets of their own, it is referred to as “fiat” money, a.k.a. legalized counterfeiting. The process of creating fiat money by private bankers implies expropriation of everyone’s wealth and productivity by the private bankers who issue money against it. The national debt is in fact a record of how much bankers expropriated from The People. When bankers create money from nothing, they are issuing a claim for goods and services that will be provided by other than the bankers, i.e. they expropriate everyone’s wealth and labor in the process of creating money from nothing, at no liability to themselves. “The national debt is in fact a record of how much bankers expropriated from The People.” Franz Hörmann, Professor at the Economics University in Vienna, explained the fraudulent workings of the fractional reserve banking system in an interview published in the mainstream Austrian newspaper, Der Standard, with extraordinary clarity indicating that information about the fraudulent banking system is now going mainstream. Good quote: “If one creates money out of thin air and then passes what did not http://derstandard. at/1285200656759/ derStandardatInterview-Bankenerfinden-Geld -aus-Luft President Wilson, who was originally responsible for creating the federal reserve, later regretted that decision for obvious reasons – “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men … [W]e have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world – no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” This puts our fiscal situation into real perspective – I keep trying to let you know that we are in serious trouble and BOTH parties are doing it although the Obamanites are the worst by far. www.youtube.com/embed/VtVbUmcQSuk Also check: http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=Jdx72CF5CDY – Anon Race War Coming? To the Editor: In 1991 I was in Australia and I was buying an Akubra from a hatshop in Melbourne. (And by the way, my two Akubras (both Snowy River models) are my prize possessions to this day. Works of art.) The lady who ran the shop asked me what is going to come of all the racial conflict in the USA. And I said Americans are being driven towards a civil war whether Americans like it or not. It is a race war if you care to call it that. I also told her the same thing is coming to Australia whether they like it or not. And, Europe will not escape this fate. The civil war that is coming to Australia is being brought to you by the same people who made this possible in the USA. It all started with the so-called Immigration Reform Act of 1965. For the same reasons the otherwise tight immigration laws of Australia were changed to allow non-whites to immigrate to the great land of OZ. To be aware is to be ready!!! The YouTube below illustrates these points. Watch it right away, because it has been removed several times by youtube. Just too much truth in that film. YouTube - Got DIE-versity? – Anon http://www.youtube. com:80/watch?v=uCH_ yPSvEUk&feature=email UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz 5 Letters Doctors Pushed Smoking – Now Vaccines Hi Jon: Incredibly, medical doctors used to promote cigarette smoking, as in the famous advertising line “More Doctors Smoke Camels”. Since those days, cigarette manufacturers have had their day in court and cigarette smoking has become pretty much socially unacceptable. Now, “NZ experts push for smokefree world by 2040” (April 7). How the world is changing! This Herald item has inspired us at the ‘Vaccination Information Network’ (VINE) not to give up hope for a vaccine free world by 2040, and a vaccine free New Zealand by 2020. We are aiming for this noble goal because vaccination is having such a disastrous effect on children the world over. Chronic ill health in the form of asthma, allergies, ear infections, diabetes and neurological disorders, including ADHD and autism, has been on a steep increase which exactly parallels the increase in the number of vaccines given to children. This fraud must in our opinion stop We sincerely hope that - like the cigarette manufacturers - the people who manufacture and push vaccines will also have their day in court, with a bit of luck in the not too distant future. Erwin Alber Spokesperson Vaccination Information Network (VINE) Warkworth Ph 09 425 8842 No Nuclear Power for Oz Jon: The political tents of Ozzland are being overrun with Green argument to shut down our CO2 generation – which of course – means our Coal fired Electric Generation is the target. We cannot live without electric power (well – we could – but it requires a host of adjustments). I believe – the ultimate aim of this progress towards pricing CARBON and CARBON TRADING – is a scam of horrendous proportions. I also believe – the ultimate aim is to introduce NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION. I am totally against the MINING or the USE of URANIUM for POWER GENERATION. Please watch this video presentation by Australian physician, Dr. Helen Caldicott – on the effects of our current world disaster at Fukushima, Japan. This is outstanding material – please watch and listen and pass it on – PARTICULARLY to politicians. Here is the link to the video presentation : http://www.project.nsearch.com/video/press-conference-on-fukushima Here is another link (one of many) with script info : www.guardian.co.uk/ environment/2011/apr/11/nuclearapologists-radiation Please – please – head off any moves to have NUCLEAR POWER GENERATION in Australia –EVER ! It’s up to you. Lynn Stanfield, (Co-ordinator – Save Australia Alliance) Forced Medicine To the Editor: Here’s the latest from the US: A Salem, Massachusetts, mother is facing up to 40 years in prison for allegedly withholding medical care that her autistic son needed to fight the cancer that took his life this year. (Autism and Cancer, both of which can be caused by vaccination as well as other medicinal drugs). It is all right for hundreds of thousands of people to die a horrible death after 6 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 being treated with chemotherapy; but it’s not all right for one person to die if that person should select natural healing as a method of treatment. At this time a mother has been found guilty for witholding chemotherapy from her child’s cancer treatment. Chemotherapy is one of the most vile, inhuman, immune depressing and cancer causing concoctions that the medical industry has dared to push on the American people in its thirst for money and power. Our politicians have sold us out to the medical industry, and in the near future, we may all be subject to criminal prosceution for failing to obey the wishes and commands of the medical authorities. If we don’t fight now, we will surely lose the war with this industry who is pushing their products down our throats, the throats of our children, and even our household pets. The time has come to say “No!” to FORCED VACCINATIONS!, “No!” to FORCED MEDICINE!” and a great big “NO!” to the MEDICAL INDUSTRY! Robert E. Catalano Author: The Great White Hoax www.medicine-no.com The sheeple sprouts up Hi Jon: If you are European, at least your governments are nominally scared of you enough to “warn you” about about eating radioactively contaminated foods. Especially the green leafy veges. But what do you do? Here the gov’mint is both criminal, and incompetent. They (political stooges, and other minions) don’t bother to warn the sheeple. After all, why bother? They are there to be shorn...as all religions demonstrate. What’s an awake sheep to do then? Well... convert your diet now, while you can. Stand not in the common grazing areas lest you ingest radioactive grass. And go search for cows near Fukushima to see what that will get you. Instead, be a bit smarter, and do investigate how easy it is to grow your veges in- www.uncensored.co.nz Letters side in the form of spouts. Protected away from radioactive debris and chemtrail madness. There is a complete garden in my kitchen in less than 3/three cubic feet (one third a cubic meter/yard). It provides clean, parasite free food for my dogs as well. It provides all kinds of nutritious foods that are fresh, and hugely loaded with vitamins, and tasty. At a very small costs. And not radioactive. The Greeks, and Cretans (no dummies there) ate what we now call “micro greens” (go look it up...it will save your life maybe) to stay alive when the nazis kept at least one quarter of the whole populace from starving. Sadly, one quarter did starve... These days the elites are taking your food by proxy, by destroying it with radiation (and chemtrails, and other chemical/genetic assaults). Be a smart sheeple, learn to research. Knowledge WILL save your life...when nothing else will. – Clif Censored by the BBC To the Editor: As I was surfing through the BBC site yesterday I came across a link that declared: “Have Your Say”. Great, I thought. An opportunity to actually get my opinion to the powers that be within the British media establishment. In order to have my say however, it was required that I register online and accept their cookie to boot. After filling in all the blanks, responding to their message of confirmation and crossing the T’s, I was finally a registered person, able to Have My Say on their site. This is what I wrote: “I find it quite amazing that the massive war crimes Israel is committing against tiny Lebanon receives no condemnation nor outrage from the western media, including BBC. Imagine if Slobodan Milosevic had committed even one iota of such action against Kosovo. Serbia would have been flattened and Belgrade would look like Grozny after the brutal Russian assault. The hypocrisy of the West is stunning to behold.” Well. It seems that in order to actually have your say under the BBCs rules you must say something they approve of. I received notice that my comments were being forwarded to their comments monitor for further study but as of this moment there are no plans in the works to print my statement. Have your say indeed, but don’t say what isn’t wanted to be heard. That challenges the conventional wisdom and the BBC, like the propaganda network CNN surely aren’t interested in too much truth. – Robert S. Rodvik (2006) Free Energy Charger Dear Sir: I read with interest your article on p58 of the March-June Uncensored in which is described a free energy experiment to build a cell phone charger using energy from the air – well, probably supposed to be using energy from the zero point field. As an ex-electronics technician I was fascinated how a simple diode detector circuit which appeared designed to rectify radio waves could actually tap into the energy of the zero point field, so I built the circuit. I also watched the video which the photographs in your article came from (the site referred to was not operating but an alternative http://www.squidoo. com/tesla-secret-generator seemed to have the same information). I noted that there were several other sites which offered information on this project - some cashing in by offering information for $100 and others offering a forum for people to comment on the project. A couple of interesting ones are http:// www.disclose.tv/forum/ok-so-let-sbuild-this-and-get-off-the-fkn-gridt44398-20.html and http://alternativeenergyreviewsite. com/?p=4. So I bought the parts and built the circuit. It didn’t say how much aerial wire to use so I used about 10m to start with and increased this later to 25m. I also used it unearthed and earthed to the negative side of the circuit. To measure the voltage available I used an analogue rather than digital meter – the difference being that an analogue meter draws a few microamps of current while the digital meter can probably work on voltage only without drawing any current. terminals – certainly not enough to charge a cellphone. My comments on this whole project are that it is a scam. If you watch the video you never actually see what the cellphone plug is connected to – probably a wall socket. You also never see what scale the voltmeter is on when it registers about 2.26 – these could well be millivolts or even microamps – who knows? As presented, this is a scam presumably to sell the information kits which are promoted on several websites. I would have expected more of your publication than to simply regurgitate this information without first checking that it works. It throws doubt on all the very interesting articles that you publish, many of which I am certain are factual. As an additional comment, in the past farmers have been prosecuted for setting up coils of wire beneath high tension lines of the national electricity grid and generating their own ‘free’ electricity for use on the farm. It is a well known fact that a conductor in an alternating electric field will exhibit a small voltage – after all, that is how a transformer works. We live in an alternating electric field from power wires, appliances, radio and tv waves, and wireless internet modems, so it is perfectly understandable that the aerial in this project will pick up some voltage, which is then rectified and accumulated by this circuit. What is not true are the claims that it is free (line losses cost energy companies and radio waves are expensive to produce), that it can charge a cellphone, that it is anything to do with Tesla and that it comes from the zero point field. Kind regards Alan Willoughby Ed Note: We published the article after one of our readers claimed to have built one and verified that it worked. Not being electronically-minded ourselves, we ran the article in good faith. The result: very little. I was able to detect approximately 0.2 volts at the output UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz 7 Letters Shocking pet story – with loads of evidence Hi Jonathan, how are you? I absolutely love Uncensored, I look forward to buying it every 3 months. What I’m emailing about is actually a pretty shocking story that I think you might like to put in as a feature in your magazine. Please don’t decide against it until you have watched at least one of the following YouTube links I have put here. It’s the horrifying truth about pet food, and it’s backed up by many veterinarians and other qualified professionals. There are a quite few shocking details, but I know you must be busy so I’ll try and keep it quick. Firstly, did you know that euthanised pets, flea collars and all, will often end up in pet food? Along with pus filled tumour meat, road kill and rotting meat? It’s true, there are masses of evidence supporting it (including video footage in the link below), and it’s the major brands that use these ingredients, usually labeled as “by-products”. And it’s not just in America, it’s pet food everywhere... if you look at the pet food labels in the supermarket is will likely say USFDA approved, and they allow this to go on. If that’s not bad enough, they also have chemical preservatives added that have been scientifically linked to tumours and cancer and were long ago banned from human food. Some of these are BHA, BHT, TBHQ and Ethoxyquin. Another horrifying fact is that the main ingredients in dry food are often corn, wheat or rice (usually left overs from a factory floor in countries like China, you may have heard about a recall on some major brands due to bad rice that killed I think it was 2000+ pets in USA) What’s so bad about it? Well, and this applies to cats in particular, cats and dogs are carnivores, cats are obligate carnivores, and they both need meat as their main diet. Cats actually get a lot of their water intake from fresh raw meat and can go blind or die from liver failure if they don’t get an adequate amount. Did you know cats genetically can live to a healthy 20 - 25 years? Mostly they only live to 13-15 because they live off rice and pasta-filled dry food with no nutrients, or cooked canned food (which cooks a lot of the goodness they require out, like taurine. Look up “cats and taurine” as they don’t make it themselves like people do). Pet food companies do this because they need to show a certain amount of energy in the food, and corn, pasta and rice are cheap ways of doing this. Another disturbing fact, you may wonder why so many vet clinics push commercial pet food products? Well guess who sponsors a lot of the veterinary interns and equipment? And guess who teaches “pet food nutrition” to the students? You guessed it, the pet food companies, mainly the ones they sell in the vet clinics, which are just as bad as cheaper brands. In fact, Iams, a popular brand sold by vets, do horrible testing on animals they keep below their factory (see video below through hidden employee camera) the pets will often die and be used in the food. In the video you can see how traumatised and unhealthy the pets are. They are moving their head in repetitive slow motion much like a poorly treated elephant does when chained for too long, and they are hacked at while alive and awake for samples. I can give you many more links and even direct you to books by veterinarians, and figures that will shock. I would really love for more people to know about this, and I think the open minded readers of your magazine would spread the word, as I do with many of your articles. The links below are some of many, an Australian vet who is going all out and making his own pet products is Dr Bruce Syme www.vetsallnatural.com.au if you would like more information on what pets should eat and why commercial food fails. Marijuana Cancer Cure Jon: I thought that your YouTubes and citations about marijuana oil being a cure for cancer were a bit over the top – until I started doing some research myself. And, lo and behold, it is, and the government has indeed known about it for a long, long time. In today’s news, Harvard University has just published a study that shows that marijuana cuts lung cancer tumour growth by 50% – something that deserves not only wide publicity but a serious rethink on the part of the cancer estabishment and the government. Here’s a relevant quote: “Although the researchers do not know why THC inhibits tumor growth, they say the substance could be activating molecules that arrest the cell cycle. They speculate that THC may also interfere with angiogenesis and vascularization, which promotes cancer growth.” Here’s the link to the story: http://current.com/news/89799784_ marijuana-cuts-lung-cancer-tumorgrowth-in-half-harvard-study-shows.htm Here is another story from Natural News: http://www.naturalnews. com/032381_cannabis_cures.html All the best and congratulations for your excellent work. – Jared Katje Pyne Editor, What’s On + Where To Go E. [email protected] http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=g9DTzDfYMxo http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=dkyBv2wA8tU&featur e=related http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=9GLFjLiALwQ http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=dLaxXD8vPao&featur e=related http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=GzBMVNQ6IrM&feat ure=related 8 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz On the Second Death of Osama bin Laden By Kawther Salam ring filter. The fakery around Osama bin Laden is very interesting before the background that American citizens investigating the 9/11 attack have found that the list of victims of that crime published by CNN appears to be a vast catalog of false, composite identities. They have published a so-called “Vicsim Report” (“Vicsim” = Victim Simulation”) which includes many examples of manipulation of pictures and other personal details of purported victims. Another hole in the story published is the almost immediate DNA identification purported to have been performed. According to this article, it would take about two days to confirm an identification done with help of DNA (if a reader knows otherwise, please post a comment). Photoshop FAIL According to historians, during the last year of the reign of Pharaoh Tutankhamen, General Horemhab went on an expedition against the Hittites to far away Syria. The Egyptian army was defeated, putting General Horemhab in an awkward position and his head in peril. The general solved the problem by sending emissaries back to Egypt proclaiming his victory. When he arrived back home with the remains of his army, they were celebrated as heroes. When the truth about the defeat eventually arrived in Egypt, the Pharaoh had died and the political situation changed, and the truth about the defeat became inconsequential and Horemhab later became Pharaoh of Egypt. Today morning, I awoke to the portentous “news” that Osama bin Laden had been “killed in Pakistan during an operation of the US special forces”, proclaimed by President Obama in the most manly pose and and the gravest voice of which he is capable. I first thought that I was dreaming. Between that “news” and the celebratory mood of the presenters on all channels as if it was the North Korean TV and all those people celebrating before the White House, I told myself: If it is on TV, then it is probably bullshit. But let’s give credit where credit is due: at least it took them under 10 years to (allegedly) hunt Osama down. The details published about this heroic act are few until now. Apparently, a walled house in northern Pakistan was raided by US special forces with support from several helicopters, of which one was shot down, and Osama plus seven other people were killed. Of course, “DNA proof” of Osama’s identity was obtained within hours, and then, “because no country would accept the body”, it was dumped into the sea. One among many “small problems with this show is that Osama has been reportedly dead since 16 December 2001. It was reported in June of 2001 that Osama was hospitalized because of kidney problems and that he received a visit of CIA employees in the hospital. In December 2001 an obituary was published in an Egyptian newspaper. And the holes in the story only become bigger the more one looks. To support the narrative of the US government, the AP agency first published and then retired a picture of the supposedly dead Bin Laden. The picture is above, together with another Osama bin Laden picture. If you look, you can notice that the picture on the left, purported to be a portrait of the dead OBL, is obviously a Photoshop job of the undistorted picture on the right. The picture on the left appears to be a composite of Osama’s head and details from the picture of a cadaver of unknown provenience, probably an Iraqi victim since many pictures of dead Iraqis have been published in the past by US soldiers. It is also obvious that the AP picture has been worked on with a blur- UNCENSORED June – September 2011 Abottabad (see: Google map), the city in northern Pakistan where Osama was supposedly killed yesterday, lies sprawled along a valley, it has about 300,000 inhabitants. The city appears to be neither remote nor underdeveloped. It has many schools and other educational institutes, several hospitals, paved roads, government offices, a golf course, other modern amenities and several big military compounds. It appears inconceivable that Osama bin Laden could live for “years” in such a place without having come to the attention to the massive intelligence service of Pakistan. Several hundred meters immediately north of one of the probable locations of the house which was raided yesterday lies the campus the “COMSATS Institute of Information Technology”, a professional education institute whose Islamabad branch was visited on April 25 by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Whatever the Prime Minister was doing in Islamabad, it is doubtful that he traveled halfways around the globe to merely give some nice speech in exactly the school which has a branch next to the raided house. The emissaries of empire always afford their tribute, be it in blood or otherwise. Why, what is to be gained by this lie, and what comes next? Continued on page 80 www.uncensored.co.nz 9 Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death By Paul Craig Roberts May 3, 2011 In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release that “Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by Navy SEALs in an intense firefight, was hunted down based on information first gleaned years ago from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclosed Monday.” How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the “report” justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture “the terror mastermind” would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001. How many Americans will have the wits to wonder why the “terror mastermind” who defeated not merely the CIA and the FBI, but all 16 US intelligence agencies along with Israel’s Mossad and the intelligence services of NATO, who defeated NORAD, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and Joint Chiefs of Staff, the US Air Force, and Air Traffic Control, who caused security procedures to fail four times in US airports in one hour on the same day, who caused the state-of-the-art Pentagon air defenses to fail, and who managed to fly three airliners into three buildings with pilots who did not know how to fly has not pulled off any other attack in almost ten years? Do Americans really believe that a government’s security system that can so totally fail when confronted with a few Saudi Arabians with box cutters can renew itself to perfection overnight? How many Americans will notice the resurrection of the long missing bin Laden as “terror mastermind” after his displacement by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Guantanamo prisoner who confessed to being the “mastermind of 9/11” after being waterboarded 183 times? Americans are too busy celebrating to think, a capability that seems to have been taken out of their education. Americans are so enthralled over the death of bin Laden that they do not wonder why information gleamed years ago would take so long to locate a person who was allegedly living in a million-dollar building equipped with all the latest communication equipment next to the Pakistani Military Academy. Allegedly, the “most wanted criminal” was not moving from hide-out to hide-out in desolate mountains, but ensconced in luxury quarters in broad daylight. Nevertheless, despite his obvious location, it took the CIA years to find him after claiming to have gained information of his whereabouts out of captives in secret prisons. This is the image of the CIA as the new Keystone Cops. In an immediate follow-up to the announcement that the Navy SEALs and CIA mercenaries acted in an exemplary fashion following the rules of engagement while a cowardly bin Laden hid behind a woman shield when the gunfire erupted, we have from the pressitutes that “U.S. officials conceded the risk of renewed attack. The terrorists almost certainly will attempt to avenge bin Laden’s death, CIA Director Leon Panetta wrote in a memo. . . . Within a few hours, the Department of Homeland Security warned that bin Laden’s death was likely to provide motivation for attacks from ‘homegrown violent extremists’.” John Brennan, White House counterterrorism adviser, told reporters that “it was inconceivable that the terrorist fugitive didn’t have support in Pakistan where his hideout had been custom built six years ago in a city with a heavy military presence.” answer, given the location, the length of time and the apparent fact that this facility was actually build for bin Laden, and its closeness to the central location of the Pakistani army.” The two reporters question nothing in the government’s propaganda. Instead, the reporters join in the celebration. Nevertheless they let slip that “officials were weighing the release of at least one photo taken of bin Laden’s body as part of what Brennan called an effort to make sure ‘nobody has any basis to try and deny the death.’” As the Guardian and European newspapers have revealed, the photo of the dead bin Laden is a fake. As the alleged body has been dumped into the ocean, nothing remains but the word of the US government, which lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda connections, about yellowcake, about Iranian nukes, and, according to thousands of experts, about 9/11. Suddenly the government is telling us the truth about bin Laden’s death? If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I’ll let you have for a good price. My initial interpretation of the faked bin Laden death was that Obama needed closure of the Afghan war and occupation in order to deal with the US budget deficit. Subsequent statements from Obama regime officials suggest that the agenda might be to give Americans a piece of war victory in order to boost their lagging enthusiasm. The military/security complex will become richer and more powerful, and Americans will be rewarded with vicarious pleasure in victory over enemies. Copyright © 2011 Paul Craig Roberts So the claimed murder of bin Laden by the US in a sovereign foreign country with which the US is not at war, a crime under international law, has set up three more self-serving possibilities: Terrorists will avenge bin Laden’s death, says the CIA, setting up another false flag attack to keep the profits flowing into the military/security complex and the power flowing into the unaccountable CIA. Homeland Security can extend the domestic police state, abuse of travelers, and arrests of war protestors. And Pakistan is under the gun of invasion and takeover (for India, of course) for shielding bin Laden. The Israel Lobby’s representatives in the US Congress quickly fell in with the agenda. Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, declared that the Pakistani Army and intelligence agency “have a lot of questions to 10 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz The Uncensored News AND FASCISM WATCH The False Pretense For The War On Libya By Alan J. Kuperman April 14, 2011 Evidence is now in is that President Barack Obama grossly exaggerated the humanitarian threat to justify military action in Libya. The president claimed that intervention was necessary to prevent a “bloodbath’’ in Benghazi, Libya’s secondlargest city and last rebel stronghold. But Human Rights Watch has released data on Misurata, the next-biggest city in Libya and scene of protracted fighting, revealing that Moammar Khadafy is not deliberately massacring civilians but rather narrowly targeting the armed rebels who fight against his government. Misurata’s population is roughly 400,000. In nearly two months of war, only 257 people – including combatants – have died there. Of the 949 wounded, only 22 – less than 3 percent – are women. If Khadafy were indiscriminately targeting civilians, women would comprise about half the casualties. Obama insisted that prospects were grim without intervention. “If we waited one more day, Benghazi … could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world.’’ Thus, the president concluded, “preventing genocide’’ justified US military action. But intervention did not prevent genocide, because no such bloodbath was in the offing. To the contrary, by emboldening rebellion, US interference has prolonged Libya’s civil war and the resultant suffering of innocents. The best evidence that Khadafy did not plan genocide in Benghazi is that he did not perpetrate it in the other cities he had recaptured either fully or partially – including Zawiya, Misurata, and Ajdabiya, which together have a population greater than Benghazi. Libyan forces did kill hundreds as they regained control of cities. Collateral damage is inevitable in counter-insurgency. And strict laws of war may have been exceeded. But Khadafy’s acts were a far cry from Rwanda, Darfur, Congo, Bosnia, and other killing fields. Libya’s air force, prior to imposition of a UN-authorized no-fly zone, targeted rebel positions, not civilian concentrations. Despite ubiquitous cellphones equipped with cameras and video, there is no graphic evidence of deliberate massacre. Images abound of victims killed or wounded in crossfire – each one a tragedy – but that is urban warfare, not genocide. Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The “no mercy’’ warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away.’’ Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight “to the bitter end.’’ If bloodbath was unlikely, how did this notion propel US intervention? The actual prospect in Benghazi was the final defeat of the rebels. To avoid this fate, they desperately concocted an impending genocide to rally international support for “humanitarian’’ intervention that would save their rebellion. On March 15, Reuters quoted a Libyan opposition leader in Geneva claiming that if Khadafy attacked Benghazi, there would be “a real bloodbath, a massacre like we saw in Rwanda.’’ Four days later, US military aircraft started bombing. By the time Obama claimed that intervention had prevented a bloodbath, The New York Times already had reported that “the rebels feel no loyalty to the truth in shaping their propaganda’’ against Khadafy and were “making vastly inflated claims of his bar- UNCENSORED June – September 2011 baric behavior.’’ It is hard to know whether the White House was duped by the rebels or conspired with them to pursue regime-change on bogus humanitarian grounds. In either case, intervention quickly exceeded the UN mandate of civilian protection by bombing Libyan forces in retreat or based in bastions of Khadafy support, such as Sirte, where they threatened no civilians. The net result is uncertain. Intervention stopped Khadafy’s forces from capturing Benghazi, saving some lives. But it intensified his crackdown in western Libya to consolidate territory quickly. It also emboldened the rebels to resume their attacks, briefly recapturing cities along the eastern and central coast, such as Ajdabiya, Brega, and Ras Lanuf, until they outran supply lines and retreated. Each time those cities change hands, they are shelled by both sides – killing, wounding, and displacing innocents. On March 31, NATO formally warned the rebels to stop attacking civilians. It is poignant to recall that if not for intervention, the war almost surely would have ended last month. In his speech explaining the military action in Libya, Obama embraced the noble principle of the responsibility to protect – which some quickly dubbed the Obama Doctrine – calling for intervention when possible to prevent genocide. Libya reveals how this approach, implemented reflexively, may backfire by encouraging rebels to provoke and exaggerate atrocities, to entice intervention that ultimately perpetuates civil war and humanitarian suffering. About the Author Alan J. Kuperman, a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas, is author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention’ and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention. www.uncensored.co.nz 11 Libya: All About Central Banking? By Ellen Brown April 13, 2011 (Asia Times) Several writers have noted the odd fact that the Libyan rebels took time out from their rebellion in March to create their own central bank – this before they even had a government. Robert Wenzel wrote in the Economic Policy Journal: I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences. Alex Newman wrote in the New American: “In a statement released last week, the rebels reported on the results of a meeting held on March 19. Among other things, the supposed rag-tag revolutionaries announced the “[d]esignation of the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and appointment of a Governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi.” Newman quoted CNBC senior editor John Carney, who asked, “Is this the first time a revolutionary group has created a central bank while it is still in the midst of fighting the entrenched political power? It certainly seems to indicate how extraordinarily powerful central bankers have become in our era.” Another anomaly involves the official justification for taking up arms against Libya. Supposedly it’s about human rights violations, but the evidence is contradictory. According to an article on the Fox News website on February 28: As the United Nations works feverishly to condemn Libyan leader Muammar alQaddafi for cracking down on protesters, the body’s Human Rights Council is poised to adopt a report chock-full of praise for Libya’s human rights record. The review commends Libya for improving educational opportunities, for making human rights a “priority” and for bettering its “constitutional” framework. Several countries, including Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia but also Canada, give Libya positive marks for the legal protections afforded to its citizens – who are now revolting against the regime and facing bloody reprisal. Whatever might be said of Gaddafi’s personal crimes, the Libyan people seem to be thriving. A delegation of medical professionals from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus wrote in an appeal to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that after becoming acquainted with Libyan life, it was their view that in few nations did people live in such comfort: [Libyans] are entitled to free treatment, and their hospitals provide the best in the world of medical equipment. Education in Libya is free, capable young people have the opportunity to study abroad at government expense. When marrying, young couples receive 60,000 Libyan dinars (about 50,000 US dollars) of financial assistance. Due to government subsidies the price of cars is much lower than in Europe, and they are affordable for every family. Gasoline and bread cost a penny, no taxes for those who are engaged in agriculture. The Libyan people are quiet and peaceful, are not inclined to drink, and are very religious. They maintained that the international community had been misinformed about the struggle against the regime. “Tell us,” they said, “who would not like such a regime?” Even if that is just propaganda, there is no denying at least one very popular achievement of the Libyan government: it brought water to the desert by building the largest and most expensive irrigation project in history, the US$33 billion GMMR (Great Man-Made River) project. Even more than oil, water is crucial to life in Libya. The GMMR provides 70% of the population with water for drinking and irrigation, pumping it from Libya’s vast underground Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System in the south to populated coastal areas 4,000 kilometers to the north. The Libyan government has done at least some things right. Another explanation for the assault on Libya is that it is “all about oil”, but that theory too is problematic. As noted in the National Journal, the country produces only about 2% of the world’s oil. Saudi Arabia alone has enough spare capacity to make up for any lost production if Libyan oil were to disappear from the market. And if it’s all about oil, why the rush to set up a new central bank? Another provocative bit of data circulating on the Net is a 2007 “Democracy Now” interview of US General Wesley Clark (Ret). In it he says that about 10 days after September 11, 2001, he was told by a general that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq. Clark was surprised and asked 12 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 why. “I don’t know!” was the response. “I guess they don’t know what else to do!” Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran. What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). That evidently puts them outside the long regulatory arm of the central bankers’ central bank in Switzerland. The most renegade of the lot could be Libya and Iraq, the two that have actually been attacked. Kenneth Schortgen Jr, writing on Examiner.com, noted that “[s]ix months before the US moved into Iraq to take down Saddam Hussein, the oil nation had made the move to accept euros instead of dollars for oil, and this became a threat to the global dominance of the dollar as the reserve currency, and its dominion as the petrodollar.” According to a Russian article titled “Bombing of Libya – Punishment for Ghaddafi for His Attempt to Refuse US Dollar”, Gaddafi made a similarly bold move: he initiated a movement to refuse the dollar and the euro, and called on Arab and African nations to use a new currency instead, the gold dinar. Gaddafi suggested establishing a united African continent, with its 200 million people using this single currency. During the past year, the idea was approved by many Arab countries and most African countries. The only opponents were the Republic of South Africa and the head of the League of Arab States. The initiative was viewed negatively by the USA and the European Union, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy calling Libya a threat to the financial security of mankind; but Gaddafi was not swayed and continued his push for the creation of a united Africa. And that brings us back to the puzzle of the Libyan central bank. In an article posted on the Market Oracle, Eric Encina observed: “One seldom-mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State owned. Currently, the Libyan government creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, through the facilities of its own central bank. Few can argue that Libya is a sovereign nation with its own great resources, able to sustain its own economic destiny. One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking www.uncensored.co.nz ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations. Libya not only has oil. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its central bank has nearly 144 tonnes of gold in its vaults. With that sort of asset base, who needs the BIS, the IMF and their rules? All of which prompts a closer look at the BIS rules and their effect on local economies. An article on the BIS website states that central banks in the Central Bank Governance Network are supposed to have as their single or primary objective “to preserve price stability”. They are to be kept independent from government to make sure that political considerations don’t interfere with this mandate. “Price stability” means maintaining a stable money supply, even if that means burdening the people with heavy foreign debts. Central banks are discouraged from increasing the money supply by printing money and using it for the benefit of the state, either directly or as loans. In a 2002 article in Asia Times Online titled “The BIS vs national banks” Henry Liu maintained: “BIS regulations serve only the single purpose of strengthening the international private banking system, even at the peril of national economies. The BIS does to national banking systems what the IMF has done to national monetary regimes. National economies under financial globalization no longer serve national interests. “... FDI [foreign direct investment] denominated in foreign currencies, mostly dollars, has condemned many national economies into unbalanced development toward export, merely to make dollar-denominated interest payments to FDI, with little net benefit to the domestic economies. He added, “Applying the State Theory of Money, any government can fund with its own currency all its domestic developmental needs to maintain full employment without inflation.” The “state theory of money” refers to money created by governments rather than private banks. The presumption of the rule against borrowing from the government’s own central bank is that this will be inflationary, while borrowing existing money from foreign banks or the IMF will not. But all banks actually create the money they lend on their books, whether publicly owned or privately owned. Most new money today comes from bank loans. Borrowing it from the government’s own central bank has the advantage that the loan is effectively interest-free. Eliminating interest has been shown to reduce the cost of public projects by an average of 50%. And that appears to be how the Libyan system works. According to Wikipedia, the functions of the Central Bank of Libya include “issuing and regulating banknotes and coins in Libya” and “managing and issuing all state loans”. Libya’s wholly state-owned bank can and does issue the national currency and lend it for state purposes. The Truth About Libya That would explain where Libya gets the money to provide free education and medical care, and to issue each young couple $50,000 in interest-free state loans. It would also explain where the country found the $33 billion to build the Great Man-Made River project. Libyans are worried that North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led air strikes are coming perilously close to this pipeline, threatening another humanitarian disaster. So is this new war all about oil or all about banking? Maybe both – and water as well. With energy, water, and ample credit to develop the infrastructure to access them, a nation can be free of the grip of foreign creditors. And that may be the real threat of Libya: it could show the world what is possible. Most countries don’t have oil, but new technologies are being developed that could make non-oil-producing nations energyindependent, particularly if infrastructure costs are halved by borrowing from the nation’s own publicly owned bank. Energy independence would free governments from the web of the international bankers, and of the need to shift production from domestic to foreign markets to service the loans. If the Gaddafi government goes down, it will be interesting to watch whether the new central bank joins the BIS, whether the nationalized oil industry gets sold off to investors, and whether education and healthcare continue to be free. About the author: Ellen Brown is an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute, http://PublicBankingInstitute.org. In Web of Debt, her latest of eleven books, she shows how a private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her websites are http://webofdebt.com and http://ellenbrown.com. UNCENSORED June – September 2011 By Stephen Goodson April 4, 2011 Colonel Muammar Gadaffi is frequently referred to in the media as a “mad dictator” and “bloody tyrant”, but do these allegations accord with the facts? Libya consists of over 150 tribes, with the two main groups, the Meghabra living in Tripolitania in the west and the Wafallah living in Cyrenaica in the east. Previous attempts to unite these tribes by the Turkish (1855-1911) and ltalian (1911-43) colonial rulers failed and the country was split in two for administrative purposes. Oil was discovered in Libya in 1959, but King ldris of the Senussi tribe allowed most of the oil profits to be siphoned into the coffers of the oil companies. The coup d’etat on 1 September 1969 led by Colonel Gadaffi had countrywide support. He subsequently married a woman from the royal Barqa tribe and adroitly unified the nation. By retaining Libya’s oil wealth for the benefit of all its people, Gadaffi had created a socialist paradise. There is no unemployment, Libya has the highest GDP in Africa, less than 5% of the population is classified as poor and it has fewer people living below the poverty www.uncensored.co.nz 13 datum line than, for example, Holland. Life expectancy is 75 years and is the highest in Africa and 10% above the world average. With the exception of the nomadic Bedouin and Tuareg tribes, most Libyan families possess a house and a car. There is free health care and education and not surprisingly Libya has a literacy rate of 82%. Last year Gadaffi distributed $500 to each man, woman and child (population 6.5 million). Libya has a tolerable human rights record and stands at 61 on the International Incarceration Index, comparable with countries in central Europe (the lower the rating, the lower the standing – the USA occupies the no.1 spot!). There is hardly any crime and only rebels and traitors are dealt with harshly. Anyone who has read Gadaffi’s Little Green Book will realise that he is a thoughtful and enlightened leader. Libya has been accused of having committed numerous acts of terrorism in the past, but many of these have been perpetrated by foreign intelligence agencies as false flag operations – the Lockerbie bombing being a prime example. The CIA and MI6 and their frontmen have been stoking up dissent in the east of the country for almost 30 years. Libya produces exceptionally high quality light crude oil and its production cost of $1 a barrel, is the lowest in the world. Riba (usury) is not permitted. The Central bank of Libya is wholly-owned by the Libyan Government and is run as a state bank, issuing all government loans free of interest. This is in contrast to the exploitative fractional reserve banking system of the West. The no-fly zone and the bombing of Libya have nothing to do with the protection of civilians. It is an act of war a blatant and crude attempt by the oil corporations and international bankers to steal the wealth of Libya. SOURCE: <http://rense.com/general93/truth.htm> http://rense.com/general93/ truth.htm Icelanders Refuse To Sell Themselves Into Slavery – Iceland Won’t Pay For Bankers’ Sins By Al-Jazeera The UK and the Netherlands are set to sue Iceland after voters there rejected a debt repayment plan over collapsed bank Icesave. British and Dutch depositors were bailed out by their governments, which are now demanding the $3.5bn back. Rory Challands reports from Reykjavic, Iceland’s capital. Icelandic voters reject Icesave debt repayment plan Prime minister says the ‘worst option was chosen’ after 60% of voters in referendum oppose £3bn repayment By Agencies in Reykjavik April 10, 2011 The Guardian – Icelanders have rejected the latest governmentapproved plan to repay the £3bn owed to Britain and the Netherlands from the crash of the country’s banking system in 2008, prompting the prime minister to warn of economic and political chaos. Final results from five of six constituencies, including the capital, Reykjavik, showed the “no” side taking nearly 60% of the vote, meaning the dispute is likely to end up in a European court. “The worst option was chosen,” said the prime minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. “The vote has split the nation in two. We must do all we can to prevent political and economic chaos as a result of this outcome.” Iceland rejected an earlier Icesave repayment blueprint in a referendum. Economists say uncertainty over the payback deal is hurting efforts to drag Iceland out of recession, end currency controls and boost investment. Many voters cited opposition to taxpayers footing the bill for irresponsible bankers as their reason for voting against the plan. “I know this will probably hurt us internationally, but it is worth taking a stance,” said Thorgerdun Ásgeirsdóttir, a 28-yearold barista, after casting a “no” vote. Svanhvit Ingibergs, 33, who works at a rest home, said: “I had no part in causing those debts, and I don’t want our children to risk having to pay them. It would be better to settle this in a court.” Sigurðardóttir said Iceland would now defend its case before the court of the European trade body overseeing Iceland’s co-operation with the EU, the Efta Surveillance Authority (ESA). Economists have said this route could be much costlier. Iceland is still pulling itself out of a deep recession. Politicians and economists believe solving the Icesave issue would help the country get back into international financial markets. Getting such funding is also part of a plan to end the controls on capital flows it imposed in 2008 to stabilise a tumbling currency. The controls have left an estimated equivalent to a quarter of Iceland’s gross domestic product in the hands of foreign investors, many of whom are expected to want to pull out. Ratings agencies will have followed the vote closely, with Moody’s having said it may lower its credit rating on Iceland after a “no” vote. The debt was incurred when Britain and the Netherlands compensated their nationals who lost savings in online Icesave accounts owned by Landsbanki, one of three Icelandic banks that collapsed in late 2008. Icelandic politicians in February backed a repayment plan agreed with creditors, but the president refused to sign the bill, triggering the vote. In March last year, 14 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz NZ PIKE RIVER MINE DISASTER Whistleblower claims it was “MURDER”. Is that why the company doesn”t want to “fully participate in the inquiry”? By Penny Bright April 7, 2011 Was it “MURDER” at Pike River Mine? Is that why the company isn’t “facing up to its responsibilities” and apparently trying to dodge fronting up to the Royal Commission of inquiry into the Pike River disaster, in a proper way? www.stuff.co.nz/national/pikeriver-mine-disaster/4854892/Govtsays-no-to-Pike-River-legal-help “Pike River Coal lawyer Stacey Shortall said the company could not afford to fully participate in the inquiry. She said the company did not have the money to prepare the documents and witness statements the commission had requested and would have legal representation at only some hearings.” “Whistle-blowing” author of Murder at Pike River Mine, Jacob Cohen, sent me hard copies of his work, with additional hard copy evidence to support his extremely disturbing claims. Essentially, the allegation is that the Pike River mining disaster was deliberate, that the 29 miners were murdered, in order to help build support for open-cast mining, which can then be argued to be “safer” than underground mining, thus help open up New Zealand for international mining companies. www.scribd.com/doc/47745564/ Murder-at-Pike-River-Mine-SECOND-EDITION-With-Postscript Here are some excerpts, which focus on Jacob Cohen’s allegation of “safety negligence” at Pike River Mine: Chapter Two: “Pike River Coal Mine Explosion & Safety Negligence” According to news reports, the giant methane explosion in the mine occurred around 3.15pm ± 3.30pm on Friday,19 November 2010. Quite simply, it was massive. The force of the explosion blew out of a 110 meter deep ventilation shaft and blackened the surrounding bush 60 meters away from the shaft portal. It also blew over 2km down the main access tunnel and was recorded by a CCTV camera at the portal blasting outwards for 52 seconds, so remarkably, there must have been an enormous, undetected buildup of methane in the mine prior to the explosion, but no warnings or alarms for the miners ever sounded. Clearly, there was no proper fixed methane gas detection monitoring system in the mine connected to alarms, or if there was the system was not working. It seems there also was no monitoring system to the office outside for 24 hour constant surveillance either. All this is rather strange, since strategically located gas detectors are now a standard requirement in all Australian and US underground coal mines. There are strict requirements to provide extensive gas monitoring, safety and health management systems in all Australian mines in which the CEO, Peter Whittall, has been trained and worked. Why were there none working? The first reports of an explosion were at 3.45pm and management was not even aware that there had been an explosion until around 4.10pm, nearly a half an hour after the estimated time of the explosion! This is much more than extreme negligence. www.stuff.co.nz/national/4368031/ Mine-explosion-timeline Gas detectors are also available for miners as well that are lightweight, shock and vibration resistant, simple to operate, self calibrating, will not ignite coal dust, provide instant gas analysis, and provide REMOTE PROTECTION UP TO 500 FEET AWAY! These detectors are also invaluable in mine rescue operations. Today there is simply no excuse for any, properly run, safety conscious, coal mine company to have any explosion at all! www.methanegasdetectors.com/ info/coal-mining-and-the-risk-ofmethane-gas-e For example, there are strict requirements for alternative electricity supply, continuous gas monitoring of both portable and fixed methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and oxygen gas detectors in all underground coal mines in Queensland, Australia, and they are all clearly outlined in the Queensland Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2001 (still in force as at 1st October 2010). These regulations also specify precise locations of detectors and alarms, an under- UNCENSORED June – September 2011 ground mine manager who is designated to acknowledge alarms, and at least one person must be on the surface at all times monitoring the situation when at least one person is underground. The regulations also provide precise safety requirements for the site senior executive to follow, including the monitoring of auxiliary or booster fans which are to be protected by methane detectors connected to audible and visible alarms that trip the electricity supply to the fans when the gas concentration exceeds 2%. See: www.legislation.qld. gvt.au/legisltn/current/c/coalminshr01.pdf According to all news reports, the Pike River Mine explosion was discovered by a mine electrician, Russell Smith, who went into the mine to investigate a power outage, and was hit by the mine blast about 1km into the access tunnel. In the United States, it is well known by all executives in the coal mine industry that Federal Mining Regulations require that all personnel must begin evacuating a mine within 15 minutes of a fan stoppage. Since the power stoppage had occurred long before the explosion, it may have caused the ventilation fans to stop, causing the methane gas levels to build up to dangerously explosive levels very quickly, thus causing the explosion. Had the workers stopped and evacuated the mine immediately the power outage had occurred as they should have within the wellknown recommended safety period, they would never have been killed, and probably there never would have been an explosion. All underground coalmines in the US and Australia must have secondary power supply. According to reports, remarkably, Pike River Mine Ltd had no proper gas monitoring system, no auxiliary power supply, and obviously no safety plan to evacuate the mine following a power failure, accident or explosion. This is just for “starters”! There is more... a whole LOT more! I strongly recommend that you make the time to read the whole report, from beginning to end with an “open mind”. Then ask yourself if there may indeed be good reasons other than alleged “financial hardship”, behind the Pike River Mine company not wanting to “fully participate in the inquiry”? Penny Bright is a Court-recognised “Public Watchdog” and anti-corruption campaigner”.http://waterpressure.wordpress.com www.uncensored.co.nz 15 Is PM John Key Set to Profit from Oil Drilling Off NZ’s Shores? The New Zealand government's decision to open up NZ waters to foreign oil companies is meeting with concerted opposition from New Zealanders determined to protect their natural environment from potentially devastating oil contamination like the Deep Water Horizon disaster that caused massive contamination of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. A flotilla of boats set off from Auckland on March 27 in response to a call for help from East Cape iwi [tribe] Te Whanau a Apanui to help them protect their ancestral fisheries from oil exploration by oil giant Petrobras, which is part owned by the Brazilian government. At the time Petrobras was conducting seismic surveys in the Raukuamara basin off the East Cape of the North Island of New Zealand. A coalition of different groups including Greenpeace, Forest and Bird, anti-mining group Coromandel Watchdog, The Coal Action Network (CAN) and climate action group 350 Aotearoa have pledged support for the campaign to resist or stop oil exploration and exploitation off the coast of New Zealand. Greenpeace reported that the captain of the Orient Explorer had confirmed that he had received radio messages from Greenpeace New Zealand Climate Campaigner Vanessa Atkinson requesting him to cease surveying and leave the area. On April 10, activists disrupted the testing process by swimming into the path of the oil survey ship Orient Explorer, causing the ship to divert from its course. Rikirangi Gage, spokesperson for Te Whanau a Apanui said, “Petrobras has no consent to be in these waters from Te Whanau a Apanui. We’ve already told them that. This is not a protest. This is an act of defence of our ancestral lands and waters that have sustained us for generations. Te Whanau a Apanui want Petrobras to leave these waters and not return.” According to the NZ Herald (April 12) a NZ Air Force Orion has been patrolling the surveying area and there is also a naval ship in the area. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ nz/news/article.cfm?c_ id=1&objectid=10718730 On April 24, police boarded the San Pietro and arrested its skipper Elvis Teddy. An additional charge (that of resisting arrest) has also been added to the first charge (that of operating a vessel in an unsafe manner). http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ nz/news/article.cfm?c_ id=1&objectid=10722303 According to the Dominion Post: "Petrobras has earlier warned that action off the East Cape could cause it to withdraw earlier from its contractural obligations." http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/news/4921340/Police-arrest- By Katherine Smith http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ nz/news/article.cfm?c_ id=1&objectid=10721643 Meanwhile, questions are being asked whose interests are being served by the deep sea oil exploration. Auckland activist Penny Bright from the Water Pressure Group discovered that Prime Minister John Key holds shares in the Bank of America which was one of the banks which helped to manage $70 billion worth of Petrobas shares sales last year. https://waterpressure.wordpress. com/2011/04/11/heads-up-doesthe-bank-of-america-have-sharesin-petrobas-if-yes-then-will-johnkey-personally-profit-from-oildrilling-because-he-has-sharesin-the-bank-of-america/ According to The New York Times' Dealbook financial news service, the banks involved in the massive share deal earned 147.2 million dollars in fees between them, something which is considered small potatoes in investment banking circles. http://dealbook.nytimes. com/2010/09/27/petrobrashuge-deal-not-so-big-fees/ protest-boat-captain While most people who oppose deep sea oil drilling don't want to risk another "Deep Water Horizon" disaster off New Zealand's coast with its attendant ecological and economic devastation, there are also concerns that the seismic survey itself may have harmful effects on local wildlife such as whales and as well as adverse effects on the seafood industry. http://www.gpuk.org/atlantic/library/oil/siesmic.html http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=qyiDgG1gya0 Local people have also reported that there have been dead penguins found washed up in the area and Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell is calling for the penguins' deaths to be investigated. 16 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 Petrobras has reportedly borrowed a large amount of money to expand its operations, taking a loan from the US Import Export Bank as well as a large loan from China. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/ news?pid=newsarchive&sid=az30 AawXLDoA Interestingly, Bank of America Merill Lynch is listed as one of the "Working Capital Guarantee Delegated Authority Lenders" for the US Import Bank. (See: http://www.exim.gov/pub/pdf/ ebd-w-13.pdf ) To keep up to date with developments on this issue: See: http://www.stopdeepseaoil. org.nz/ See also: http://uriohau.blogspot. com/2011/03/flotilla-gathers-forpetrobras-protest.html www.uncensored.co.nz Herbal medicines banned as EU directive comes into force By Daily Mail Reporter April 30, 2011 was only open to those who could afford the licensing process which costs between £80,000 to £120,000. At least 50 herbs, including horny goat weed (so-called natural Viagra), hawthorn berry, used for angina pain, and wild yam will no longer be stocked in health food Patients have lost access to hundreds of herbal medicines today, after European regulations came into force. Acupuncture falls outside the EU directive and so remains unaffected. Sales of all herbal remedies, except for a small number of popular products for “mild” illness such as Echinacea for colds and St John's Wort for depression have been banned. Prince Charles, a long-standing supporter of complementary therapies, has voiced his support for formal regulation of herbal practitioners. Until now the industry has been covered by the 1968 Medicines Act. This was drawn up when only a small number of herbal remedies were available. For the first time traditional products must be licensed or prescribed by a registered herbal practitioner. The government allowed access to some unlicensed manufactured herbal medicines via a statutory register Both herbal remedy practitioners and manufacturers fear they could be forced out of business as a result. Some of the most commonly used products were saved after the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley approved a plan for the Health Professions Council to establish a register of practitioners supplying unlicensed herbal medicines. However, many remedies were lost as it Royal Family Enforces Media Embargo Against Australia To Prevent Nazi Jokes By Paul Joseph Watson April 29, 2011 Still think the British Royal Family has no power and fulfils merely a ceremonial purpose? Think again. In order to prevent an Australian comedy show from making jokes about Prince Philip being a Nazi during the Royal Wedding, the Royals ordered broadcasters in Britain to enforce a media embargo that would have completely severed live coverage to Australia’s biggest broadcaster if they refused to cancel the satirical show. After Prince Charles’ Clarence House found out that Australian broadcaster ABC planned to run a satirical commentary of the Royal Wedding alongside the regular feed, Charles issued more than a dozen alerts in the past two years, including a warning last month over a contaminated weight loss pill called Herbal Flos Lonicerae (Herbal Xenicol) due to concerns over possible side-effects. Mr Lansley, in a written statement, said the Government wanted to ensure continuing access to unlicensed herbal medicines via a statutory register for practitioners ‘to meet individual patient needs’. But recent studies show that at least six million Britons have used a herbal medicine in the past two years. shops, says the British Herbal Medicine Association. The 2004 EU directive demands that a traditional herbal medicinal product must be shown to have been in use for 30 years in the EU – or at 15 years in the EU and 15 years elsewhere – for it to be licensed. The UK drug safety watchdog, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Agency, has Professor George Lewith, professor of health research at Southampton University, said: ‘Evidence for the efficacy of herbal medicines is growing; they may offer cheap, safe and effective approaches for many common complaints.’ SOURCE: http://www.dailymail. co.uk/health/article-1382135/Herbal-medicines-banned-EU-directivecomes-force.html demanded ABC cancel the show, and then ordered broadcast suppliers BBC, Associated Press, Sky and ITN to cut off the feed to Australia, a command which they instantly obeyed. That’s right – the Royals have the power to enforce media embargoes between Britain and other major countries of the world. If this doesn’t indicate how much influence and power they still retain then nothing does. The Royal Family threatened to deny Australia’s national broadcaster access to the Royal Wedding after they announced plans to run a satirical show called Chaser, which would have featured comedians providing light-hearted commentary over live pictures of the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Read more at: http://www.infowars.com/royalfamily-enforces-media-embargoagainst-australia-to-prevent-nazijokes/ UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz 17 Shock Finding: Princess Diana’s Post-Mortem Samples Were Switched An investigation of official documents that were withheld from the 2007-8 Diana inquest jury has revealed that Princess Diana’s post-mortem samples were switched prior to undergoing toxicological testing. A new book, published early May, shows that the samples that were tested at the Charing Cross Hospital on 1 September 1997 – although purported to be from Princess Diana – were actually taken from another body. The book by Brisbane-based investigative writer, John Morgan, is the definitive work on what actually occurred in the 24 hours following the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed in a Paris car crash on 31 August 1997. In this latest volume of a series written about the Diana inquest, entitled Diana Inquest: The British Cover-Up, Morgan reveals that the inquest judge, Lord Justice Scott Baker, prevented the jury from having access to the two most important documents that assist in establishing cause of death – the PostMortem Report and the subsequent Toxicology Report on the tested samples. The book shows that when these documents are studied – along with other important official documents that were also withheld – they reveal that Princess Diana’s samples were not handed over to the toxicologist based at Charing Cross Hospital. Instead the toxicologist received the samples of another female and tested them in the belief that they were from Princess Diana. from the inquest jury. Further surprising revelations in Diana Inquest: The British Cover-Up, the fourth volume of the series, are: • Princess Diana was subjected to two post-mortems and two embalmings – both in France and the UK – within the first 25 hours after her death • The earliest post-death events – including Diana’s pre-post-mortem French embalming – were instigated and controlled by the royals in Balmoral • On 31 August 1997 the royal coroner took illegal jurisdiction over Princess Diana’s body • Out of 23 documents connected to the post-mortem of Princess Diana, the inquest jury got to see just 2, and they heard evidence from only 3 of 14 key witnesses. John Morgan says that “it is amazing that the inquest jury – who were expected to arrive at a verdict on the cause of death – were prevented from having access to the post-mortem reports for the two people, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, whose deaths they were investigating”. He continues: “Scott Baker’s inquest jury were required to draw conclusions without being allowed to view some of the most basic documentation and without hearing any evidence from some of the most important witnesses.” A leading UK QC, Michael Mansfield, who served throughout the six months of the London inquest, stated in 2010: “I have read all of the books that John Morgan has produced.... I have no doubt that the volumes written by [him] will come to be regarded as the ‘Magnum Opus’ on the crash ... that resulted in the unlawful killing of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Al Fayed and the cover-up that followed.” Diana Inquest: The British Cover-Up is available at Amazon. Book details can be viewed at: http://www.amazon.com/ Diana-Inquest-Cover-Up-John-Morgan/dp/0980740738/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UT F8&s=books&qid=1304282950&sr=8-5 All the books in the Diana Inquest series can be viewed at: http://www.amazon.com/s/ ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_13?url=searchalias%3Daps&field-keywords=diana+i nquest&sprefix=diana+inquest Contact information: Email: [email protected] Morgan has spent over 5 years investigating the evidence relating to the 1997 crash in Paris’ Alma Tunnel. The Diana Inquest series of books is based on the testimony heard during the inquest and also evidence in official documents from within the British police investigation that were withheld 18 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz Medical Fascism in the US April 16, 2011 Fascist Symbols in the US The fasces is an ancient symbol of authority and power from Roman times. Below is a picture of a Roman lictor carrying a fasces. The elm whips could be removed from the bundle and used to punish, the ax could be used to execute. If you ever had any doubt that the medical police state has descended upon us, look no further than what just happened in Detroit to an African-American mother of a 13-year-old daughter: Up until World War II the fasces symbol was widely applied in American political iconography and appears twice on the Lincoln Memorial and twice in the House of Representatives on the wall behind the rostrum. For refusing to medicate her daughter with dangerous psychiatric drugs, she was subjected to an attempting kidnapping by CPS, then her front door was broken down by armed police, then a SWAT team beseiged her house for 12 hours with semiautomatic weapons, and now she faces multiple felony charges. What was her crime? Not giving her child psychiatric drugs! The medical police state is angry at parents who refuse to drug their children. More here: http://www.naturalnews. com/032089_antipsychotic_drugs_ health_freedom.html UNCENSORED June – September 2011 www.uncensored.co.nz 19 Obama: Who is he REALLY? your license five seconds before the state suspends you. 2. Michelle Obama “voluntarily surrendered” her law license in 1993. 3. So, we have the first black President and First Lady – who don’t actually have licenses to practice law. Facts. This is from a former Chicago lawyer now practicing law in Tyler, Texas. This is legit. I checked it out myself at https://www.iardc.org Stands for Illinois Attorney Registration And Disciplinary Committee. It’s the official arm of lawyer discipline in Illinois; and they are very strict and mean as hell. (Talk about irony.) Even I, at the advanced age of almost 65, maintain (at the cost of approximately $600/year) my law license that I worked so hard and long to earn. Big surprise. Former Constitutional Law Lecturer and U.S. President Makes Up Constitutional Quotes During State Of The Union (SOTU) Address. Consider this: 1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is no longer a “lawyer”. He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. A “Voluntary Surrender” is not something where you decide, “Gee, a license is not really something I need anymore, is it?” and forget to renew your license. No, a “Voluntary Surrender” is something you do when you’ve been accused of something, and you ‘voluntarily surrender” Source: http://jdlong.wordpress. com/2009/05/15/pres-barackobama-editor-of-the-Harvard-lawreview-has-no-law-licens/ 4. A senior lecturer is one thing, a fully ranked law professor is another. Barack Obama was NOT a Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Chicago. 5. The University of Chicago released a statement in March 2008 saying, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) “served as a professor” in the law school. However, that is a title Obama, who taught courses there part-time, never held, a spokesman for the school confirmed in 2008. 6. “He did not hold the title of Professor of Law,” said Marsha Ferziger Nagorsky, an Assistant Dean for Communications and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago School of Law. Source: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ sweet/2008/03/ sweet_obama_ did_hold_the_ title.html 7. The former Constitutional Senior Lecturer (Obama) cited the U.S. Constitution during his State of the Union Address. Unfortunately, the quote he cited was from the Declaration of 20 UNCENSORED June – September 2011 Independence... not the Constitution. 8. The B-Cast posted the video: http://www.breitbart.tv/didobama-confuse-the-constitutionwith-the-declaration-of-independence/ 9. Free Republic: In the State of the Union Address, President Obama said: “We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal. 10. Um, wrong citing, wrong founding document there, Champ, I mean Mr. President. By the way, the promises are not a notion, our founders named them “unalienable rights”. The document is our Declaration of Independence and it reads: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. 11. And this is the same guy who lectured the Supreme Court moments later in the same speech? When you are a phony it’s hard to keep facts straight. Still in doubt? Check it out through the sources provided. ALSO SEE: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=93UmFfiu0BY&NR=1 www.uncensored.co.nz
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