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As The Elite Fences Itself In, Kissinger Announces Order Out Of Chaos

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Jurriaan Maessen
GCN Live.com
May 21, 2012

In a recent statement Henry Kissinger admitted that social upheaval and mass civil unrest are to be used as a means of merging the US into an “international system”.

The United States has to be part of an international system that we create domestically”, he told The Harvard Crimson in the beginning of this month. When asked what the most important problems are facing American society today, Kissinger answered:

Internationally, the problem is that there are upheavals going on in every part of the world, but these upheavals don’t follow the same basic causes, and so the United States has to be part of an international system that we create domestically.”

What the old man is saying here ties neatly into statements he made in the past concerning the concept of seizing crises and upheavals, the causes of which may differ from nation to nation, in order to bring about an international order- thereby following the elite’s golden rule that order is best brought about by chaos. Furthermore, he provides us with a glimpse of the underlying intent he and his fellow-bilderbergers have in mind, stating in so many words that civil unrest- be it economically, politically or socially motivated- must be seized upon in order to merge nations into the desired “international system.”

In a December 2008 Prisonplanet.com article it was reported that Kissinger, in an interview with the darling of Bilderberg Charlie Rose, “cited the chaos being wrought across the globe by the financial crisis and the spread of terrorism as an opportunity to bolster a new global order.”, Steve Watson wrote.

I think that when the new administration assesses the position in which it finds itself it will see a huge crisis and terrible problems, but I can see that it could see a glimmer in which it could construct an international system out of it.”, Kissinger told Rose.

All this talk of crises and upheavals as just another country-specific means to a centralized global end could specifically point to a plan. While at the surface the elite might scurry to salvage the ailing euro as currency-cohesion crumbles, it may have developed a darker plan B that in case the euro may turn out to be beyond repair, the solution of a world currency will be provided. Seize the euro-crisis, in other words, to introduce a world currency. This follows the course of classic Hegelian dialectic, namely the problem (whether real or feigned) provokes the reaction which in turn allows the elite to provide the solution on a silver plate. It just now occurred to me that Kissinger’s words are ominously reminiscent of those written down by University of Chicago’s Alexander Wendt, who in 2003 in his treatise titled “Why a World State is Inevitable: teleology and the logic of anarchy” stated:

Nationalist struggles for recognition are by no means over, and more new states- “more anarchy”- may yet be created. But while further fragmentation is in one sense a step back, it is also a precondition for moving forward, since it is only when difference is recognized that a larger identity can be stable. (…) Far from suppressing nationalism, a world state will only be possible if it embraces it.”

These words shed some sharp light on the words uttered by Kissinger and his fellow supranationalists, in essence revealing they are very much aware of the fact that the mere proposition of a world state will not make it so- may even backfire on them- and that now a detour should be pursued via nationalism and domestic unrest to get the job done- in other words not so much crushing protests for the sake of crushing them, but rather to use these upheavals for their own transnational designs.

At the same time, the elite members who gather at important meetings are fencing themselves in out of fear of chaos erupting outside. Just a few days ago, the European Central Bank issued a press-release stating that in order to protect their staff and visitors from protesters it has:

implemented measures (…), taking into account the protection granted to the ECB’s premises and operations by the Headquarters Agreement between the ECB and the Federal Republic of Germany.”

This makes clear the banking elites of the world are worried their safety may well be impaired as a result of the protests planned against their meetings. The same caution will of course apply to the upcoming Bilderberg conference in Chantilly Virginia. We can expect local police and armed guards to protect the elite players inside, who in return scheme all of mankind into another crisis.

This article first appeared on Jurriaan Maessen’s website www.explosivereports.com

Prominent Activist Backs Occupy Bilderberg Campaign

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Downing Street Memo protagonist David Swanson asks why the left protests G8 but not Bilderberg

Paul Joseph Watson
GCN Live.com

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Prominent anti-war activist David Swanson has publicly backed the ‘Occupy Bilderberg’ campaign, illustrating how people from across the political spectrum are coming together to shine a spotlight on the clandestine influence wielded on world events by the secretive group.

Swanson was instrumental in publicizing the Downing Street Memo, described by many as the “smoking gun” proving that the justification to invade Iraq was purposely fabricated and that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”

In an op-ed entitled Occupy Bilderberg, Swanson calls for Bilderberg to be “mic checked,” asking why summits such as G8 and NATO attract thousands of demonstrators while Bilderberg is largely ignored by leftists.

“Do you have to be xenophobic, paranoid, isolationist, or libertarian to protest a secretive gathering of over 100 billionaires, industrialists, media barons, and politicians working to shape our public sphere, or has the left dropped the ball? Is it time for Occupy to step in?” asks Swanson.

It’s an excellent question given the fact that many libertarians and conservatives who share OWS protesters’ disenfranchisement with the current political and economic climate don’t always share their convictions in terms of who is to blame for the problems.

As we have previously documented, the Occupy Wall Street movement has to a large extent been hijacked by Labor unions and other leftist organizations with direct ties to the Obama administration, which itself is financed by Wall Street.

Re-orienting the Occupy crowd to focus on targeting the real centers of power and corruption is a must if the movement is not to become self-destructive.

As we have highlighted, there are innumerable specific examples of where Bilderberg has manufactured consensus for decisions of global significance, from creating currencies, to scheduling wars, to picking vice-presidents. All this scheming has been done behind closed doors, with a sneering arrogance towards any notion of the democratic process, and with scant mainstream media scrutiny.

Occupy Bilderberg 2012 is shaping up to be the biggest protest ever against an organization that despises being in the public eye.

The Bilderberg Group meets from May 31st to June 2nd at the Westfields Marriott Washington Dulles hotel in Chantilly, Virginia.

Following Alex Jones’ call to occupy Bilderberg, the grass roots activist community has gone into overdrive. A detailed Facebook page has been set up along with a website in addition to numerous other alternative media websites who are getting on board with the event.

As we reported last week, Alex Jones has developed two sources within the Bilderberg Group itself, one of which provided him with the code name of the conference (Palm Tree), promising that 2012 will most likely see Bilderberg’s quasi-secret agenda exposed to a greater degree than ever before.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.

The Charmed Life of Julia, Government Serf

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

Neema Enriquez
GCN Live.com
May 8, 2012

This week, Obama’s campaign launched “The Life of Julia”, a cartoon interactive website and self-described lesson in how President Obama’s federal government programs continually rescue one woman over her lifetime, and conversely, how (the not-yet-nominated GOP candidate) Mitt Romney’s policies would negatively affect her life.

One can only wonder what dimension of reality Obama’s latest condescending propaganda effort is referring to, where an aging ‘Julia’ is basking in a life of government entitlement programs and a life of privilege. One hint might be that, coincidentally, “Julia” is a character out of George Orwell’s novel 1984. Moving on…

Thanks to Obama, at age 3, Julia is enrolled in a government (ahem, taxpayer) funded Head Start program which will help her prepare for kindergarten. In a matter of seconds, this presentation has now covertly limited its audience to those below the poverty line. For those who don’t know, ‘Head Start’ was initially created as an eight week summer camp program in 1965 as part of Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty”. Head Start today touts itself as a multi-year curriculum that can begin as early as birth continuing to age six for families whose income is determined to be at or below the federal poverty level. In reality, Head Start is merely an introduction – the first step in a life of social entitlement in America.

On the HHS Head Start website, a PDF titled “Recommendations for a Head Start Program” describes types of children enrolled into Head Start:

Many of these children have been totally neglected in terms of health evaluations and services since infancy. The listing below indicates highly desirable evaluation elements, but inclusion of particular elements should generally be at the option of the community. The Office of Economic Opportunity should request some common types of data as a result of evaluations for the purpose of assessing general problems among the poor.

While many will debate about the inherent value of providing early education programs to any child regardless of income or socio-economic status, to this day there has been only one scientific study analyzing Head Start’s long-term results. The study was released by the U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services in 2010. Based on the results found in the study, The Heritage Foundation’s, David Muhlhausen Ph.D. and Dan Lips, reported that

“Head Start has had little to no effect on cognitive, socio-emotional, health, and parenting outcomes of participating children…..Given this strongly negative evaluation, Congress should reconsider spending more than $9 billion per year on a program that produces few positive lasting effects. Furthermore, instead of creating yet another new federal preschool program at a cost of $8 billion, Congress and the Obama Administration should focus on terminating, consolidating, and reforming existing preschool and child care programs to better serve children’s needs and to improve efficiency for taxpayers.”

Perhaps Obama’s advisers should have read the HHS report before exaggerating the successes of another failed education program.

No slide is presented from age 4 to age 16 but we can assume that at some point Julia was given the CDC government recommended – or more likely a free government HPV vaccination given at her junior high school sometime between the age of 9 and 12 – without the knowledge or consent of her parents.

In this brave new world, Julia must also still ask her parents for permission to go on a school field trip, but once she is twelve, she now has the legal right to decide on her own, again – without the knowledge or consent of her parents, and to procure her birth control products in school and also to seek treatment of STD’s in her new sexually active liberal life.

At age 18 (Obama still sitting in as President), Julia can now prepare for her first semester of college. The presentation boasts of the $10,000 tax credit over four years that Julia’s family can claim from the “American Opportunity Tax Credit” but the slide fails to mention that she must choose between taking the education tax credit or taking the deduction for tuition and fees (likely a significantly higher deduction than claiming the tax credit) as a tax deduction but not both.

Fast forward several years later into Julia’s life, she’s now 25 (Obama still in charge) and somehow still under the President’s administration, she’s had surgery and has miraculously paid off all of her student loans. She’s even landed a job as a web designer before graduation. What the slide show fails to report is that the National Student Loan Default Rate has doubled since 2003 and at 8.8%, is at its highest in over 20 years – and those numbers are expected to rise. The likelihood that this young woman can afford to pay off her loans is remote at best. As is her ability to secure full-time employment during college while carrying a full course load. But these realities matter very little in Obama’s brave new socialist world.

According to Andrew Sum, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, nearly half of all recent college graduates are either under-employed or unemployed – with both numbers steadily increasing. Data compiled by Sum between September 2010 and January 2011 reflects approximately 1.94 million recent graduates as under-employed. In 2000, 75% of college graduates held a job that required a college degree, compared with 60% in 2011. This number has increased significantly in the past decade.

Unfortunately, under employment is not captured by the unemployment rate, which is why the number of jobless increases on a weekly basis, but the reported unemployment rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics magically keeps decreasing. Fortunately for Julia and her fairytale life, these real life facts do not enter into the picture.

At age 42 (Obama is seemingly still in office), Julia obtains a SBA loan and starts a small business. At 65, she enrolls in Medicare and at 67 she retires and receives a monthly benefit that allows her to live comfortably without tapping into her savings. She also volunteers in the community garden as all private gardens have been banned. But it gets even better…

Other than the reference to Julia’s family being able to claim a tax credit for her education, there is no other mention of a family structure in her government-designed life. There is no father figure when she is a child, no college sweetheart and no marriage, even though she is seen putting her child on the school bus at age 37. The Obama campaign is clearly blotting out the “traditional” family structure in place of single parent households ever more reliant on government handouts.

Could this be the template for the government’s new social engineering program?

The last slide of this presentation was left on the cutting room floor:

It shows Julia at age 68, when she realizes that all of her social security checks have bounced, Medicare is bankrupt, her life savings is gone through inflation and she has to move in with her son.

Watch as leading economist Peter Schiff translates modern-day reality in Julia’s charmed life as a government serf:

Links:

HHS “Recommendations for Head Start Program
Health and Human Services Impact Study on Head Start Program 2010
Heritage Foundation “Head Start Earns an “F”: No Lasting Impact for Children by First Grade
12 Year Olds Can Get HPV without Parental Consent in California
Report on National Student Loan Default Rate
Center for College Affordability and Productivity


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Canadian Government Moves to Outlaw Masks at Demos

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Kurt Nimmo
GCN Live.com
May 7, 2012

It may soon be a crime to wear a mask in Canada. The Harper government supports a bill proposed by Conservative backbencher Blake Richards that would slam protesters in prison for five years if they wear a mask during a demonstration.

The legislation is supported by the Conservative majority and will likely become law.

Richards said the bill will give the police more power to prevent property damage. “I think it strengthens the right for peaceful protest. It’s only when individuals engage in criminal activity or become violent where this law would apply.”

It will also allow the police to more easily photograph demonstrators and identify and target them.

Richards’ bill follows a tuition hike protest in Montreal that turned violent last month. A student federation said the riot was caused by the police after they “quickly and brutally” intervened in the protest. The police said they were responding to vandals attacking the Montreal Convention Center.

Canadian police have a documented history of inserting agents provocateurs in demonstrations and then using their behavior as an excuse to attack non-violent protesters. In 2007, police “anarchists” were caught staging violence in Montebello during a NAFTA summit.


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Jim Brown: So this Terrorist Walks into a Bar!

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Jim Brown
GCN Live.com

I was in the New Orleans airport this week waiting as a family member made her way through airport security with two small babies. Boy, were these guys with the Transportation Security Agency on the job and up to the task of stopping any terrorist threats. They all but strip searched her, opening every baby bottle and jars of baby food. Nothing gets by these guys. Well, except for Arabs loaded down with explosives.

No profiling allowed even though terrorist after terrorist fits a similar description. We can’t do that for it would be politically incorrect. Why is it that we profile clothes, but not the person? One guy years ago tries to set off an explosive with his shoe, so every traveler from that time on has to take off the shoes.

Two years ago on Christmas day, a Nigerian national boarded a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with his underpants packed with explosives. His frighty whities came with a special pouch to hold the explosives, no doubt sewn by al Qaeda’s finest seamstresses. You can just hear Louisiana’s own Jerry Lee Lewis hollerin’ “Great Balls of Fire.” All to no avail as his crotch bomb failed to ignite, and alert passengers wrestled the terrorist thug to the ground.

The Head of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, was quick to say that “the system worked.” Yeah, right. The attacker’s father, a Nigerian banker, had warned both U.S. and Nigerian authorities that his son had become a religious radical and was dangerous. Britain had refused to grant him a student visa this past May. But his U.S. visa was not revoked and no follow up investigation was undertaken. He almost set off the bomb, but it malfunctioned. And the head of U.S. air security says “the system worked?”

So now every week is holiday chaos at airports all over the country. Everyone gets patted down, and detailed questions are asked: “What exactly did you have for lunch?” We live in a world of computer technology where your credit card company knows your shirt size and the brand of deodorant you use. Yet federal officials are not capable of maintaining an updated potential terrorist list.

It would seem to be both efficient and prudent to run the passengers’ name though an updated database to flag guys like the crotch bomber. But that would mean we would have to rely on the FBI to do their job and maintain a current system of potential terrorists. Last year, the Inspector general for the Justice Department issued a scathing report highly critical of the FBI for being way to slow in adding terrorist suspects to a national watch list.

According to the report: “We believe that the FBI’s failure to consistently nominate subjects of international and domestic terrorism investigations to the terrorist watch list could pose a risk to national security,” the report stated. “The failure to nominate terrorism subjects can also lead to missed opportunities in gathering important intelligence, and it can place front-line law enforcement and screening personnel at increased risk.”

And then there is the bungling of the TSA itself. ABC News reported that: “In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers.”

Perhaps not the kind of “open government” the White House has in mind. The most sensitive parts of the document include details on how many bags are searched for explosives, which nationalities are subject to extra scrutiny, and other details of airport security that really should remain secret.

All in all, a bad year for the TSA, the FBI, and millions of travelers all over the United States. But hey, you can be sure that when a mother travels with her babies, the baby food has been checked and no explosives have been mixed in. Don’t you feel a lot safer?

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To paraphrase Trotsky in a manner even the most dense can understand: “You may not be interested in man-caused disasters, but man-caused disasters are most certainly interested in you.”
- Bruno Strozek

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talk radio hostJim Brown is the host of Jim Brown’s Common Sense talk radio show, which airs on GCN Sundays 9:00am-11:00am Central Time. Listen to the show On Demand.

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