Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

UPDATE: Police Say All Hostages Are Safe, Gunman James Lee Shot Dead

A crazed gunman who entered a Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring, Maryland today with explosives posted an online manifesto revealing his views on how “parasitic human infants” should be eliminated and humans sterilized, providing a shocking insight into the dark side of the environmentalist cult that seeks to enact draconian eugenicist policies in the name of saving the planet.

The gunman, named in reports as James J. Lee, ran a website called Save The Planet Protest. The site organized protests centered around the very building that Lee stormed today. It also included a screed detailing how Lee saw the birth of newborn babies as a plague upon the planet in a chilling echo of how many top environmentalists are now demonizing humanity itself in their bid to enact dictatorial control measures in the name of halting climate change.

According to reports, Lee underwent his environmentalist “‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s global warming documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.”

In his online rant (archived here), Lee outlines the need to “disassemble civilization,” while putting into place Malthusian programs of population reduction and sterilization in order to combat global warming by stopping people from breeding and ending completely the use of crude oil.

“Talk about Malthus and Darwin until it sinks into the stupid people’s brains until they get it!!” Lee rants, adding, “Saving the Planet means saving what’s left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies!” which he also labels “parasitic human infants”.

“Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding culture,” he adds.

Lee’s entire manifesto reads like a clone of the more sophisticated but no less shocking rhetoric we’ve been hearing from top environmentalists for years.

Read more here

Alex Jones Channel

Alex welcomes to the show Don Adams, the former FBI agent who has presented compelling evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate president John F. Kennedy.

Almost 50 years have gone by since President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963. Yet, we are no closer to solving this murder today than we were back then.

Seattle Global Justice

Contact:
Travis English, AGRA Watch
+1 (206) 335-4405
Brenda Biddle, The Evergreen State College & AGRA Watch
+1 (360) 878-7833

Seattle, WA – Farmers and civil society organizations around the world are outraged by the recent discovery of further connections between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and agribusiness titan Monsanto. Last week, a financial website published the Gates Foundation’s investment portfolio, including 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock with an estimated worth of $23.1 million purchased in the second quarter of 2010 (see the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission). This marks a substantial increase from its previous holdings, valued at just over $360,000 (see the Foundation’s 2008 990 Form).

“The Foundation’s direct investment in Monsanto is problematic on two primary levels,” said Dr. Phil Bereano, University of Washington Professor Emeritus and recognized expert on genetic engineering. “First, Monsanto has a history of blatant disregard for the interests and well-being of small farmers around the world, as well as an appalling environmental track record. The strong connections to Monsanto cast serious doubt on the Foundation’s heavy funding of agricultural development in Africa and purported goal of alleviating poverty and hunger among small-scale farmers. Second, this investment represents an enormous conflict of interests.”

Monsanto has already negatively impacted agriculture in African countries. For example, in South Africa in 2009, Monsanto’s genetically modified maize failed to produce kernels and hundreds of farmers were devastated. According to Mariam Mayet, environmental attorney and director of the Africa Centre for Biosafety in Johannesburg, some farmers suffered up to an 80% crop failure. While Monsanto compensated the large-scale farmers to whom it directly sold the faulty product, it gave nothing to the small-scale farmers to whom it had handed out free sachets of seeds. “When the economic power of Gates is coupled with the irresponsibility of Monsanto, the outlook for African smallholders is not very promising,” said Mayet. Monsanto’s aggressive patenting practices have also monopolized control over seed in ways that deny farmers control over their own harvest, going so far as to sue—and bankrupt—farmers for “patent infringement.”

Full article here

WA Today

Katherine Fenech
August 25, 2010 - 10:56AM

Students at a West Australian high school have been told to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many innocent people as possible as part of an assignment.

A society and environment teacher at the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Community High School asked Year 10 students to pretend they were a terrorist planning a chemical or biological attack on ''an unsuspecting Australian community''.

''Your goal is to kill the MOST innocent civilians in order to get your message across,'' the assignment said.

The students had to explain their choice of victims and decide the best time and place for their attack.

WA Council of State Schools president Robert Fry said he was stunned when he heard about the assignment and that there was "something amiss" in the teacher's training.

"I couldn't believe that a teacher could ask a class to do that," Mr Fry said.

"Maybe this (teacher) needs to go back to university to learn a bit more. There's obviously something missed out in the training."

"There's an expectation of standards and we would expect that (the assignment) would not have made it to students."

He congratulated Year 10 student Sarah Gilbert, who brought the matter to the deputy principal's attention.

Sarah said she was horrified with the assignment and asked the teacher for an alternative assessment but was told she had to complete it.

"She is a good teacher, she's one of the best that we have and it just really shocked me that she'd ask us to do this," the student told Radio 6PR.

Sarah's mother, Tania Gilbert, said she was "quite shocked" by the assignment and said after it was brought to the deputy principal's attention it was still not withdrawn.

"Sarah said she didn't want to do the assignment and I told her that that was fine by me," Ms Gilbert said.

"The deputy told the class that they didn't have to do the assignment and it wouldn't affect their grades, but the assignment wasn't changed."

The school's principal, Terry Martino, agreed the assignment was inappropriate, and said he had the task withdrawn as soon as he was aware of its content.

But Sarah said that wasn't the case and some students had handed it in despite being "appalled" by the concept.

"I know people who have handed it in... I had a friend who had the same opinion as me but she did it because she needed the extra marks," she said.

Sarah's mother was quoted as saying the assignment was doubly offensive because a member of her extended family had been killed in the 2002 Bali bombings.

Mr Martino said students were reminded that the teacher was not promoting terrorism and that if they chose not to complete the assignment they wouldn't be disadvantaged.

''The teacher, who is relatively inexperienced, made a well-intentioned but misguided attempt to engage the students in an assignment on contemporary conflict and how beliefs and values influence the behaviours and motives of individuals,'' Mr Martino said.

"I have spoken to the teacher and she is very remorseful and understands that the topic was inappropriate and potentially disturbing and upsetting to students and their families."

He said the incident should be viewed as one mistake by a hard working, keen young teacher "who is highly regarded by both staff, students and the community."

- with AAP

Corbett Report


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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
August 16, 2010

Former interim U.N. ambassador and leading neocon John Bolton went on Fox News on Friday and sounded the alarm bells over Russia’s pending delivery of nuclear fuel to Iran’s Bushehr reactor. If Israel plans to attack Bushehr, Bolton said, it must act now because allowing the Russians to load nuclear fuel rods at the site will make Iran “essentially immune from attack by Israel. Because once the rods are in the reactor an attack on the reactor risks spreading radiation in the air, and perhaps into the water of the Persian Gulf.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzyXmDp-2_k

“The fuel will be loaded on Aug 21. This is the start of the physical launch” of the reactor, said Sergei Novikov, a spokesman for Rosatom, the Russian Energy State Nuclear Corp. “From that moment the Bushehr plant will be officially considered a nuclear-energy installation.” Russia is currently operating under a $1 billion contract with Iran and has worked for over a decade on the reactor.

As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iran has the right to build nuclear reactors for its civil energy needs. Iran has long claimed that its nuclear program is for peaceful power-generation purposes and would help free up oil and gas resources for export, thus generating additional hard-currency revenues.

Bolton and the neocons refuse to accept that the facility will produce nuclear energy and insist it will be used to create nuclear weapons. According to Bolton, once the reactor is operational, it is only a matter of time before it begins producing plutonium that could be used in a nuclear weapon. “And in the normal operation of this reactor, in just a fairly short period of time, you could get substantial amounts of plutonium to use as nuclear weapons,” Bolton told Fox.

As usual, Bolton and the neocons — with the helping hand of Fox News — are only telling part of the story. As Russia notes, the project is under close supervision by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Moreover, Iran has signed a pledge to ship all the spent uranium fuel from Bushehr back to Russia for reprocessing, thus ruling out the possibility that the uranium could used to manufacture nuclear weapons. Bolton did not mention this during his Fox News interview.

Fox News, which claims to be “fair and balanced,” made it sound like Iran will control the spent uranium from the plant, not Russia, thus providing yet another bogus argument that allows the neocons to push for an attack.

It should be noted that John Bolton does not believe Israel or the Obama administration will move to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities before the Russians begin to load fuel into the reactor on July 21.

Corbett Report


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8WeSx6OoNw

Herald Sun

VICTORIANS hit with soaring electricity bills could have their power rationed under a smart meter plan.

Some companies want to "choke" or restrict amounts delivered to homes to help families cope with costs.

Victorians' electricity bills have surged in the past two years, racing ahead of inflation.

New meters that are being rolled out to every household and small business can ration power to control debt for individual customers.

An Essential Services Commission review reveals retailers are expected to push for contracts that can cap consumption as a "credit management tool" once all the meters are in place.

Consumer Action Law Centre energy spokeswoman Janine Rayner said the development was "dangerous territory with all sorts of social, health and safety implications" that should be outlawed. "The electricity market is complex, and consumers don't understand how much power they are using and the different energy loads for different appliances," she said.

Full article here

Brisbane Times

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has been appointed to an unpaid part-time position on a "high-level" United Nations panel tackling global sustainability issues.

Mr Rudd last month confirmed he had been approached by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to become involved with the United Nations project.

The appointment would require Mr Rudd to attend three meetings over the next 18 months.

Mr Ban said the 21-member High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability would be co-chaired by Finland’s President Tarja Halonen and South African President Jacob Zuma.

It comprises current and former world leaders, top diplomats and national ministers.

Mr Ban said the panel would look at ways to combat global poverty through economic growth without contributing to global warming and harming the environment.

Full article here

Delimiter


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i7fY2AfFYM

Liberal MPs Malcolm Turnbull and Paul Fletcher flayed Labor’s mandatory internet filter project at an anti-filter forum held by the former Opposition Leader on Saturday in Sydney, where not a single voice was raised in praise of the controversial policy and Turnbull claimed the idea was now in the past.

“It’s dead, buried and cremated, and if it shows any signs of revival it will then be exorcised,” a jovial Turnbull told the crowd.

The news comes as last week Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey revealed the Coalition would vote against the filter legislation if it was introduced into parliament and would not introduce a mandatory ISP filter if elected. The move is likely to torpedo the filter project, as long as the Greens hold the balance of power in the Senate after the election, as they are expected to.

Turnbull said the idea “should have been put down long ago” and was a bad idea as a matter of principle in terms of civil liberties, as well as from a technological point of view. “It was simply not workable,” he said. “It was a really bad idea that could only have come up from people that didn’t actually understand the internet.”

The MP pointed out that when the Parliament’s own Cyber-Safety Committee — on which Fletcher sits — reached out to the community, including parents, to investigate whether they wanted a filter, the community said no, leading to the question of where the demand for the filter project could be coming from.

“You wonder whether the concern is coming from people that don’t use the internet at all, but in fact are a little bit concerned about it as a phenomenon — uncomfortable with it as a phenomenon,” he said.

Fletcher said he suspected that industry skepticism about the filter had been fuelled by the “deeply simplistic way” in which Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had promoted the filter. “Let me remind you of his famous statement in late 2007,” said Fletcher, noting that at that point Conroy was presumably feeling “slightly intoxicated by the joy of having just got into government”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MyhkGTaOxA

“He said if people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd Labor Government is going to disagree,” said Fletcher. “It is hard to think of a more fatuous statement of public policy in the past 3 years.”

Other speakers at the event – former BigPond chief Justin Milne and Simon Sheikh, national director of political advocacy group GetUp! – also slammed the filter, and the idea was widely pilloried by members of the audience as well – consisting of numbers of about 100 people.

Milne initially described the filter project in philosophical terms, arguing that every time censorship had entered human history, it had led to dark periods of violence due to a lack of information, and that sharing information itself was actually a key to humanity’s dominance as a species. The former BigPond chief also argued against the filter on technical grounds — describing it as “a fence with holes”.

Sheikh took a more international view — discussing filtering and censorship with relation to oppressive regimes in Iran, for example.

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WeAreChange San Francisco


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlPZZGZCt6s

Gizmodo
By Fiona Patten on August 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM

When was the last time someone went to jail in Australia for a censorship crime? 1870? 1926? 1947?

Try… May 2010.

That’s right. In May of this year, the NSW Labor government sent a 40-year-old gay adult-shop owner to jail for selling non-violent, erotic X-rated films. He has just been released and from all reports is a broken man.

Make no mistake about what really happened here. This man went to jail for selling films that had been classified by a federal Labor government as legal to sell, legal to purchase and legal to possess at a Commonwealth level. They were legal to bring into the country through Customs in Sydney and they were legal tender in western democracies around the world. But in the moral backwater that Australia has become since the mid 1980s, politicians are in our bedrooms like never before. The religious right have quietly transformed this once free nation into a country of censors and moral puritans.

Last week a 40-year-old Sydney woman who ran an adult shop in Sydney’s southern suburbs was hauled before a magistrate and fined $5000 for selling adult films that were legal at a federal level and was told by the magistrate that if she was convicted again she would immediately go to jail. This happened in a state where the Police Commissioner is a regular Hillsong Church worshipper and who recently ordered bibles to be printed with NSW Police monograms on them. Whatever happened to the notion of separation of church and state in Australia?

Last month, Australia’s largest producer of non violent erotica, a Gen Y Melbourne website operator called abbywinters.com, was convicted and fined for making X rated films by a state Labor government. He used Gen Y models who often filmed themselves in their own homes and many of these 18 -25 year old men and women received visits from the police in trying to convict the website operator. Rather than wait around for a jail sentence on a second offence and for proceeds of ‘crime’ legislation to bankrupt him, he packed up his entire business and staff and migrated to the Netherlands where his business is perfectly legal.

A couple of months ago the federal Labor government changed the Customs regulations to force people to declare whether they had any ‘pornography’ when returning to Australia. It didn’t matter if the material was legal. If you had anything that could possibly fit the definition of ‘pornography’ such as a Playboy magazine, a lesbian journal, a photo of your partner naked or, worse still, an image of the two of you making love on a mobile or a laptop, you had to declare it or risk prosecution. Customs officers now have the right to search your browsing history and iPhoto for the catch-all reason of investigating ‘pornography’.

Suddenly the tide has turned. Morals groups and religious bigots have infiltrated both the Labor and Liberal parties to such a degree that they are now jailing people for censorship crimes and forcing companies to leave the country. Even the Greens have chosen not to make an issue of this increasingly alarming situation.

It is against this backdrop of the most sinister censorship regime in years, that the federal Labor government has launched its new internet filtering regime and now an equally sinister online data retention proposal. Although the Coalition have hedged their bets on these proposals they unequivocally back the moral agenda behind them even more than Labor. The Greens, through Scott Ludlam, have strenuously and publicly opposed these on line proposals but have done nothing to address the creeping censorship that underpins these crazy schemes. The fact that they preselected Clive Hamilton, the architect of the government’s online filtering proposals, to contest the by election for the seat that Peter Costello vacated in December last year, meant that they were, at best, confused about their approaches to censorship in general.

Full article here

Fiona Patten has over 20 years experience in the adult goods and services industry as a lobbyist and advocate. She has been the CEO of Australia’s national adult retail and entertainment industry association – the Eros Association – since 1992. In 2008 she launched the Australian Sex Party in an attempt to win Senate and state Upper House seats and to challenge the balance of power positions that Steve Fielding’s Family First and the Rev Fred Nile’s Christian Democrats, currently hold.

She started her career as an AIDS educator with ACT sex workers through the local advocacy group, WISE. Since then she has held positions on the Board of the AIDS Action Council, AFAO, ACT Attorney General’s Sex Industry Consultative Group and the National Sex Worker organisation the Scarlet Alliance.

In 2007 she was a consultant to Foxtel’s Showtime, advising on the making of the brothel industry program, Satisfaction. In 2002 she was a regular sexual health commentator on Channel 10’s Beauty and the Beast.

Her work frequently sees her meeting with state and federal Ministers over a range of adult industry issues from immigration to censorship.

Brisbane Times

COURTNEY TRENWITH
July 29, 2010 - 1:58PM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqRNbQlO6Z4

Police have defended having access to commuters' movements through Go Card data, despite admitting information gathered so far had not solved a single investigation.

Police Chief Superintendent Mike Condon said the technology was necessary to make the community safe and critics were being "alarmist".

Queensland Police has been forced to defend its use of Go Card technology after brisbanetimes.com.au exclusively revealed this morning that police were using commuter records to not only pinpoint the movements of criminal suspects but also potential witnesses.

One woman has told brisbanetimes.com.au she was contacted last month as part of a murder probe after police tracked her down via her Go Card, which is registered with her details by TransLink.

"There seems to be some suggestion that it's quite sinister, when we have been quite open about it," Superintendent Condon said.

"The community should support the fact that these technologies are helping to make the community a safer place."

Two-thirds of the more than 1200 readers who had responded to a brisbanetimes.com.au poll by 1.30pm today said they were concerned about the privacy of Go Card users.

At least three people have contacted TransLink today specifically to inquire about access to their Go Card records, a TransLink spokesman said.

He was not aware of any commuters deregistering their Go Card, which would cut off police access to their public transport movements without possession of their card.

Police have made 46 applications to TransLink in the past 12 months for commuters' private movements on Brisbane's public transport system, including buses, trains and ferries.

Superintendent Condon said he understood all applications had been granted.

The information was used in a variety of investigations, including missing persons searches and crimes such as murder.

However, none had been solved.

"Those operations or investigations are ongoing," Superintendent Condon said.

Police can make a written application for the Go Card information under an exemption to the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Chapter 29).

Mr Condon "absolutely" guaranteed the private information would be safeguarded and said commuters had "nothing to fear".

However, he confirmed the Go Card details could become publicly available during related court proceedings.

Although suspected witnesses tracked down using the Go Card technology were not compelled to give a statement, they could be subpoenaed to attend court and their public transport movements could be disclosed.

"Depending on the type of investigation, eventually the defence would be made aware of the information we've seized if it's relevant to the trial and then you've got the open court and the public process ... so eventually it may fall into the realm where the community would become aware," Superintendent Condon said.

He said police access to Go Card records was not widespread and officers must follow a "strict process" that included satisfying a threshold to receive the information.

"I think it needs to be put into perspective here," Superintendent Condon said.

"The facts are that the community expects the police to carry out the functions of their duties. Part of those functions are to investigate serious crime and to use whatever lawful methodologies are available to us to bring those responsible for those crimes to justice, and that's what we do, and I'm quite sure that the community would support that."

The Go Card tracking device is among a string of new technologies being used in police investigations.

"We are using any technology that we can access lawfully," Superintendent Condon said.

"We live in a world of developing technology and as we progress through that process we have found as investigators, as I no doubt law enforcement agencies across the world have, that the advent in the advancements in technology have greatly assisted agencies globally in carrying out their responsibilities."