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		<title>Unrelenting Global Economic Crisis: A Doomsday View of 2012</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The economic, political and social outlook for 2012 is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists is pessimistic regarding the world economy. Although, even here, their predictions understate the scope and depth of the crises, there are powerful reasons to believe that beginning in 2012, we are heading toward a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<p>The economic, political and social outlook for 2012 is profoundly negative. The almost universal consensus, even among mainstream orthodox economists is pessimistic regarding the world economy. Although, even here, their predictions understate the scope and depth of the crises, there are powerful reasons to believe that beginning in 2012, we are heading toward a steeper decline than what was experienced during the Great Recession of 2008 – 2009. With fewer resources, greater debt and increasing popular resistance to shouldering the burden of saving the capitalist system, the governments cannot bail out the system.</p>
<p>Many of the major institutions and economic relations which were cause and consequence of world and regional capitalist expansion over the past three decades are in the process of disintegration and disarray. The previous economic engines of global expansion, the US and the European Union, have exhausted their potentialities and are in open decline. The new centers of growth, China, India, Brazil, Russia, which for a ‘short decade’ provided a new impetus for world growth have run their course and are de-accelerating rapidly and will continue to do so throughout the new year.</p>
<p><strong>The Collapse of the European Union</strong></p>
<p>Specifically, the crises wracked European Union will break up and the de facto multi-tiered structure will turn into a series of bilateral/multi-lateral trade and investment agreements. Germany , France , the Low and Nordic countries will attempt to weather the downturn. England &#8211; namely the City of London, in splendid isolation, will sink into negative growth, its financiers scrambling to find new speculative opportunities among the Gulf petrol-states and other ‘niches’. Eastern and Central Europe, particularly Poland and the Czech Republic , will deepen their ties to Germany but will suffer the consequences of the general decline of world markets. Southern Europe ( Greece , Spain , Portugal and Italy ) will enter into a deep depression as the massive debt payments fueled by savage assaults on wages and social benefits will severely reduce consumer demand.</p>
<p>Depression level unemployment and under-employment running to one-third of the labor force will detonate year-long social conflicts, intensifying into popular uprisings. Eventually a break-up of the European Union is almost inevitable. The euro as a currency of choice will be replaced by or return to national issues accompanied by devaluations and protectionism. Nationalism will be the order of the day. Banks in Germany , France and Switzerland will suffer huge losses on their loans to the South. Major bailouts will become necessary, polarizing German and French societies, between the tax-paying majorities and the bankers. Trade union militancy and rightwing pseudo ‘populism’ (neo-fascism) will intensify the class and national struggles</p>
<p>A depressed, fragmented and polarized Europe will be less likely to join in any Zionist inspired US-Israeli military adventure against Iran (or even Syria ). Crises ridden Europe will oppose Washington ’s confrontationalist approach to Russia and China .</p>
<p><strong>The US : The Recession Returns with a Vengeance</strong></p>
<p>The US economy will suffer the consequences of its ballooning fiscal deficit and will not be able to spend its way out of the world recession of 2012. Nor can it count on ‘exporting’ its way out of negative growth by turning to previously dynamic Asia, as China, India and the rest of Asia are losing economic steam. China will grow far below its 9% moving average. India will decline from 8% to 5% or lower. Moreover, the Obama regime’s military policy of ‘encirclement’, its economic policy of exclusion and protectionism will preclude any new stimulus from China .</p>
<p><strong>Militarism Exacerbates the Economic Downturn</strong></p>
<p>The US and England will be the biggest losers from the Iraqi post war economic reconstruction. Of $186 billion dollars in infrastructure projects, US and UK corporations will gain less than 5% (Financial Times, 12/16/11, p 1 and 3). A similar outcome is likely in Libya and elsewhere. US imperial militarism destroys an adversary, plunging into debt to do so, and non-belligerents reap the lucrative post-war economic reconstruction contracts.</p>
<p>The US economy will fall into recession in 2012 and the “jobless recovery of 2011” will be replaced by a steep increase of unemployment in 2012. In fact, the entire labor force will shrink as people losing their unemployment benefits will fail to register.</p>
<p>Labor exploitation (“productivity”) will intensify as capitalists force workers to produce more, for less pay, thus widening the income gap between wages and profits.</p>
<p>The economic downturn and growth of unemployment will be accompanied by savage cuts in social programs to subsidize financially troubled banks and industries. The debates among the parties will be over how large the cuts to workers and retirees will be to secure the ‘confidence’ of the bondholders. Faced with equally limited political choices, the electorate will react by voting out incumbents, abstaining and via spontaneous and organized mass movements, such as the “occupy Wall Street” protest. Dissatisfaction, hostility and frustration will pervade the culture. Democratic Party demagogues will scapegoat China ; the Republican Party demagogues will blame the immigrants. Both will fulminate against “the Islamo-fascists” and especially against Iran .</p>
<p><strong>New Wars in the Midst of Crises: Zionists Pull the Trigger</strong></p>
<p>The ‘52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations’ and their “Israel First” followers in the US Congress, State Department, Treasury and the Pentagon will push for war with Iran . If they are successful it will result in a regional conflagration and world depression. Given the extremist Israeli regime’s success in securing blind obedience to its war policies from the US Congress and White House, any doubts about the real possibility of a major catastrophic outcome can be set aside.</p>
<p><strong>China: Compensatory Mechanisms in 2012</strong></p>
<p>China will face the global recession of 2012 with several possibilities of ameliorating its impact. Beijing can shift toward producing goods and services for the 700 million domestic consumers currently out of the economic loop. By increasing wages, social services and environmental safety, China can compensate for the loss of overseas markets. China ’s economic growth, which is largely dependent on real estate speculation, will be adversely affected when the bubble is burst. A sharp downturn will result, leading to job losses, municipal bankruptcies and increased social and class conflicts. This can result in either greater repression or gradual democratization. The outcome will profoundly affect China ’s market &#8211; state relations. The economic crisis will likely strengthen state control over the market.</p>
<p><strong>Russia Faces the Crises</strong></p>
<p>Russia ’s election of President Putin will lead to less collaboration in backing US promoted uprisings and sanctions against Russian allies and trading partners. Putin will turn toward greater ties with China and will benefit from the break-up of the EU and the weakening of NATO.</p>
<p>The western media backed opposition will use its financial clout to erode Putin’s image and encourage investment boycotts though they will lose the Presidential elections by a big margin. The world recession will weaken the Russian economy and will force it to choose between greater public ownership or greater dependency on state funds to bail out prominent oligarchs.</p>
<p><strong>The Transition 2011 – 2012: From Regional Stagnation and Recession to World Crises</strong></p>
<p>The year 2011 laid the groundwork for the breakdown of the European Union. The crises began with the demise of the Euro, stagnation in the US and the outbreak of mass protests against the obscene inequalities on a world scale. The events of 2011 were a dress rehearsal for a new year of full scale trade wars between major powers, sharpening inter-imperialist struggles and the likelihood of popular rebellions turning into revolutions. Moreover, the escalation of Zionist orchestrated war fever against Iran in 2011 promises the biggest regional war since the US-Indo-Chinese conflict. The electoral campaigns and outcomes of Presidential elections in the US , Russia and France will deepen the global conflicts and economic crises.</p>
<p>During 2011 the Obama regime announced a policy of military confrontation with Russia and China and policies designed to undermine and degrade China ’s rise as a world economic power. In the face of a deepening economic recession and with the decline of overseas markets, especially in Europe , a major trade war will unfold. Washington will aggressively pursue policies limiting Chinese exports and investments. The White House will escalate its efforts to disrupt China ’s trade and investments in Asia, Africa and elsewhere. We can expect greater US efforts to exploit China ’s internal ethnic and popular conflicts and to increase its military presence off China ’s coastline. A major provocation or fabricated incident in this context is not to be excluded. The result in 2012 could lead to rabid chauvinist calls for a costly new ‘Cold War’. Obama has provided the framework and justification for a large-scale, long-term confrontation with China . This will be seen as a desperate effort to prop up US influence and strategic positions in Asia . The US military “quadrangle of power” – US-Japan-Australia-South Korea – with satellite support from the Philippines , will pit China ’s market ties against Washington ’s military build-up.</p>
<p><strong>Europe: Deeper Austerity and Intensified Class Struggle</strong></p>
<p>The austerity programs imposed in Europe, from England to Latvia to southern Europe will really take hold in 2012. Massive public sector firings and reduced private sector salaries and job opportunities will lead to a year of permanent class warfare and regime challenges. The ‘austerity policies’ in the South, will be accompanied by debt defaults resulting in bank failures in France and Germany . England ’s financial ruling class, isolated from Europe, but dominant in England , will insist that the Conservatives ‘repress’ labor and popular unrest. A new tough neo-Thatcherite style of autocratic rule will emerge; the Labor-trade union opposition will issue empty protests and tighten the leash on the rebellious populace. In a word, the regressive socio-economic policies put in place in 2011 have set the stage for new police-state regimes and more acute and possibly bloody confrontations with workers and unemployed youth with no future.</p>
<p><strong>The Coming Wars that Ends America “As We Know It”</strong></p>
<p>Within the US , Obama has laid the groundwork for a new and bigger war in the Middle East by relocating troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and concentrating them against Iran . To undermine Iran , Washington is expanding clandestine military and civilian operations against Iranian allies in Syria , Pakistan , Venezuela and China . The key to the US and Israeli bellicose strategy toward Iran is a series of wars in neighboring states, world- wide economic sanctions , cyber-attacks aimed at disabling vital industries and clandestine terrorist assassinations of scientists and military officials. The entire push, planning and execution of the US policies leading up to war with Iran can be empirically and without a doubt attributed to the Zionist power configuration occupying strategic positions in the US Administration, mass media and ‘civil society’.</p>
<p>A systematic analysis of American policymakers designing and implementing economic sanctions policy in Congress finds prominent roles for such mega-Zionists (Israel-Firsters) as Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Howard Berman; in the White House, Dennis Ross in the White House, Jeffrey Feltman in the State Department, and Stuart Levy, and his replacement David Cohen, in the Treasury. The White House is totally beholden to Zionist fund raisers and takes its cue from the ‘52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organization. The Israeli-Zionist strategy is to encircle Iran , weaken it economically and attack its military. The Iraq invasion was the US ’s first war for Israel ; the Libyan war the second; the current proxy war against Syria is the third. These wars have destroyed Israel ’s adversaries or are in the process of doing so.</p>
<p>During 2011, economic sanctions, which were designed to create domestic discontent in Iran , were the principle weapon of choice. The global sanctions campaign engaged the entire energies of the major Jewish-Zionist lobbies. They have faced no opposition from the mass media, Congress or the White Office. The Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) has been virtually exempt from criticism by any of the progressive, leftist and socialist journals, movements or grouplets – with a few notable exceptions. The past year’s re-positioning of US troops from Iraq to the borders of Iran , the sanctions and the rising Big Push from Israel ’s Fifth Column in the US means expanded war in the Middle East . This likely means a “surprise” aerial and maritime missile attack by US forces. This will be based on a concocted pretext of an “imminent nuclear attack” concocted by Israeli Mossad and faithfully transmitted by the ZPC to their lackeys US Congress and White House for consumption and transmission to the world. It will be a destructive, bloody, prolonged war for Israel ; the US will bear the direct military cost by itself and the rest of the world will pay a dear economic price. The Zionist-promoted US war will convert the recession of early 2012 into a major depression by the end of the year and probably provoke mass upheavals.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>
<p>All indications point to 2012 being a turning point year of unrelenting economic crisis spreading outward from Europe and the US to Asia and its dependencies in Africa and Latin America . The crisis will be truly global. Inter-imperial confrontations and colonial wars will undermine any efforts to ameliorate this crisis. In response, mass movements will emerge moving over time from protests and rebellions, and hopefully to social revolutions and political power.</p>
<p>by Prof. James Petras<br />
<a href="http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=28349" target="_blank">Global Research</a>, December 25, 2011
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		<title>West plans false flag ops in Syria</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States, Britain and France seek to carry out a series of false flag operations in Syria, says a political observer. Middle East expert Peter Eyre said in an article posted on Eyreinternational.wordpress.com on Sunday that the trio “are again rattling their sabers at Syria.” “They are waiting for a justification to move in; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The United States, Britain and France seek to carry out a series of false flag operations in Syria, says a political observer.</p>
<p>Middle East expert Peter Eyre said in an article posted on <a href="http://eyreinternational.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/syria-is-fast-becoming-another-libyan-style-us-uk-france-false-flag/" target="_blank">Eyreinternational.wordpress.com</a> on Sunday that the trio “are again rattling their sabers at Syria.”</p>
<p>“They are waiting for a justification to move in; a &#8216;false flag incident&#8217; such as [what] happened on 9/11,” Eyre said.</p>
<p>The political analyst added that the three countries will “also push the UN for permission to go in [Syria] on humanitarian grounds, which is one of the best cons.”</p>
<p>“For sure the French have their experts training militia close to the border in Turkey and also in Lebanon. The US and British continue to push hard for a regime change,” Eyre said.</p>
<p>The Middle East expert also referred to the stance of Israel against Syria, saying that “at the top of the list is Israel waiting to strike and at the same time utilize their vast storage of weapons that have been stockpiled by the United States (almost double the norm).&#8221;</p>
<p>Eyre said the plot against Syria is part of a plan by the United States, Britain and France to “take control of the European Union, Middle East and the world.”</p>
<p>“Their plan has three main themes, to take control of the world&#8217;s natural resources, to take control of the markets for those resources, and to take control of the sea lanes and transit routes for those resources,” Eyre added.</p>
<p>Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned against any foreign attack against Syria, saying the military action will cause instability in the whole Middle East.</p>
<p>Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March, with demonstrations being held both in favor of and against President Assad. Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed in the turmoil.</p>
<p>Damascus blames “outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, saying that it is being orchestrated from abroad.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Examiner &#8211; Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre that the “Japan earthquake and “accidents” at the Fukushima’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/alfred-lambremont-webre" target="_blank">Examiner</a> &#8211; Independent scientist <a rel="nofollow" href="http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2010/03/leuren-moret-biography-independent-scientist-expert-witness-at-the-tokyo-international-tribunal-for-war-crimes-in-afghanist.html">Leuren Moret</a>, whose <a rel="nofollow" href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html">2004 landmark article in the Japan Times</a> unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre that the “Japan earthquake and “accidents” at the Fukushima’s 6 nuclear power plant units starting March 11, 2011 are in fact deliberate acts of tectonic nuclear warfare, carried out against the populations ecology of Japan and the nations of the Northern Hemisphere, including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.</p>
<p>In her May 23, 2004 Japan Times article, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html"><em><strong>Japan&#8217;s deadly game of nuclear roulette</strong></em></a>, Ms. Leuren predicted, “It is not a question of whether or not a nuclear disaster will occur in Japan; it is a question of when it will occur. Like the former Soviet Union after Chernobyl, Japan will become a country suffering from radiation sickness destroying future generations, and widespread contamination of agricultural areas will ensure a public-health disaster. Its economy may never recover.”</p>
<p><strong>Japan earthquake triggered by HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails plasma weapon, to cause nuclear radiation mega leaks</strong></p>
<p>Now, in an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxmeOqYtB0">exclusive interview released March 20, 2011</a>, independent scientist has set out the multiple reasons why the Japan earthquake was most plausibly conditioned and triggered by a HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails plasma weapon, to cause Chernobyl-like nuclear radiation mega leaks that, according to a report by the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/swedish-government-radiation-to-cover-entire-northern-hemisphere.html">Swedish government</a>, will be distributed over the entire Northern hemisphere of the planet.</p>
<p>Among the various aspects of the Japan earthquake discussed by Ms. Moret that fit the profile of a HAARP-triggered earthquake system are:</p>
<p>• The earthquake intensity and characteristics; the deliberate confusion by the U.S. around the scale of the earthquake;</p>
<p>• The foreshadowing sale of Japan Westinghouse (controlled by Rockefeller interests) in 2006 to Hitachi and other interests;</p>
<p>• The use of the Stuxnet virus in the Fukushima plant to cause the malfunctions of the cooling pumps and valves, thereby creating the dangerous radiation releases;</p>
<p>• The creation of HAARP-related vortex clouds over the San Francisco, CA Bay Area on March 18, 2011 to trigger a heavy rain out of the radiation from the first Fukushima plant explosion onto the population, food and ecology of the Bay area.</p>
<p><strong>Watch interview with independent scientist Leuren Moret demonstrating Japan earthquake, nuke “accident” are tectonic nuclear warfare</strong></p>
<p>Readers can watch the interview with Leuren Moret embedded in the article above or at the URL below:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxmeOqYtB0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WxmeOqYtB0</a></p>
<p><strong>The Stuxnet virus caused the Fukushima post-earthquake disaster</strong></p>
<p>Ms. Moret indicated that a new cybervirus was found in Japan.  The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T101004003493.htm">Stuxnet virus</a> is designed to attack off-line servers via USB memory sticks</p>
<p>The Stuxnet virus was designed to cause malfunction in the Siemens controllers that are used in some nuke plants.  Fukushima had the same Siemens controllers that Stuxnet was designed for.  The Stuxnet virus was also used by Israeli intelligence – Mossad &#8211; to destroy the Bushar nuclear-related centrifuges in Iran.</p>
<p>Ms. Moret stated, “The trouble after the earthquake was that the pumps and valves and controllers malfunctioned so the workers could not get the pumps working.  This just adds to the HAARP earthquake and much more evidence that it was a false flag HAARP event.”</p>
<p><strong>Energy released by Japan HAARP earthquake equals 1 million nuclear bombs</strong></p>
<p>During the interview, radiation expert Leuren Moret, who was an expert witness with the Tokyo International Tribunal for War Crimes in Afghanistan, reveals the calculations of a former Manhattan scientist that the Japan earthquake – a HAARP weapon of mass destruction – released approximately the energy equivalent to one million nuclear bombs.</p>
<p><strong>Exposed spent rods in cooling ponds releasing radiation equivalent to 92,000 bombs per unit (total 4 units)</strong></p>
<p>In the interview, radiation expert Leuren Moret also reveals calculations she developed regarding the amount of radiation being released by spent fuel rods that were being stored in cooling pools above each of the 6 reactors of the Fukushima plant.  Spent fuel rods from each unit of the Fukushima plant are releasing the equivalent of 92,000 nuclear bombs, Ms. Moret calculates.  Each unit has 400 assemblies of spent fuel rods, with 60 spent fuel rod for each assembly.  Each individual rod holds 72 pounds uranium, as opposed to a 20-pound uranium payload for a nuclear bomb.</p>
<p>This radiation from 4 units time 92,000 nuclear bombs is now being released into the troposphere, and traveling at below 300 feet altitude over Japan and the western United States.</p>
<p><strong>HAARP-triggered rainout of Bay Area, California on March 18, 2011</strong></p>
<p>During her interview, HAARP expert Leuren Moret notes the strange vortex clouds that appeared over the Bay Area, California the night of March 18, 2011, bringing large scale rains that night and continual predicted rains the week of March 21.</p>
<p>These HAARP-induced rains, Ms. Moret indicated, are for the purpose of intentionally causing the rainout of the first batch of serious radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant explosions upon the people, food crops, and ecology of the Bay Area.</p>
<p><strong>Japan HAARP earthquake of future Diablo Canyon HAARP quake/nuke event may be FEMA 3rd &#8220;predicted event&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Ms. Moret notes that on September 10, 2001, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) &#8220;predicted&#8221; 3 future catastrophes on the U.S. continent, two of which (the false flag operations of 9/11 and hurrican Katrina) have occured and have been HAARP-related events.</p>
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<p>One source notes, &#8220;In 2001, the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cuttingedge.org/News/n2104.cfm">Federal Emergency Management Agency</a> ranked the most likely and deadly disasters that could befall the United States. The top three were a terrorist attack on New York, an earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane in New Orleans. The list was announced at a FEMA conference on Sept. 10. The next day was 9/11.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;This news is so incredible that we need to stop right here, so we can accurately understand what we have just been told. On September 10, 2001, FEMA accurately &#8220;predicted&#8221; three&#8221; most likely and deadly disasters that could befall the United States&#8221;. These deadly disasters foretold were:</p>
<p>&#8220;1) Terrorist attack on New York &#8211; The HAARP-directed false flag operation of 9/11</p>
<p>&#8220;2) A hurricane in New Orleans &#8211; The HAARP-enhanced and steered Katrina hurricane</p>
<p>&#8220;3) An earthquake in San Francisco &#8211; This HAARP-triggered event has yet to occur.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ms. Moret notes that the false flag events of 9/11 and Hurrican Katrina have occured and have both been HAARP-triggered events.  She states that the Japan HAARP earthquake, with its nuclear warfare targeted on the west coat of the U.S., could be the 3rd FEMA &#8220;predicted&#8221; false flag operation.  A HAARP earthquake around the San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear plants in California could also be foreshadowed by the Japan HAARP earthquake, and be the 3rd event that the intelligent behind HAARP has in store for the population and ecology of the U.S.</p>
<p>Please see:</p>
<p>9/11 &amp; HAARP:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/scientist-directed-energy-weapons-turned-world-trade-center-into-nanoparticles-on-9-11">https://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/scientist-directed-energy-weapons-turned-world-trade-center-into-nanoparticles-on-9-11</a></p>
<p>Katrina &amp; HAARP:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peaceinspace.org/">www.peaceinspace.org</a></p>
<p><strong>Japan HAARP earthquake congruent with Leuren Moret findings on China, Haiti, Chile earthquakes</strong></p>
<p>These findings on the Japan HAARP earthquake/nuke tectonic attack are congruent with Leuren Moret findings on the May 2008 China, January 2010 Haiti, and February 2010 Chile earthquakes, all of which have been found to be tectonic attacks with covert political and financial agendas.</p>
<p>For a series of science-based interviews and articles demonstrating that each of the above earthquakes are in fact HAARP-triggered tectonic warfare attacks, please visit</p>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peaceinspace.org/">www.peaceinspace.org</a></p>
<p><strong>Japan HAARP earthquake congruent with the Clifford Carnicom findings on HAARP/aerosol-chemtrails tectonic weapons system application</strong></p>
<p>Likewise, findings on the Japan HAARP earthquake/nuke tectonic attack are congruent with the Clifford Carnicom findings on HAARP/aerosol-chemtrails tectonic weapons attacks.</p>
<p>Clifford E. Carnicom, an acknowledged expert since 1999 on the global covert spraying of aerosols into the atmosphere operation (also known as “Chemtrails”), stated in an <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/expert-chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos">exclusive ExopoliticsTV interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre</a>released March 1, 2011 that the covert aerosol-spraying operation had transformed the Earth’s atmosphere into a plasma for carrying out weaponized applications such as bio-warfare (including Morgellons disease), electromagnetic operations such as HAARP, weather warfare, tectonic (earthquake) warfare, mind control, advanced surveillance technology, and detection of advanced propulsion technology including UFOs.</p>
<p>The over-all purpose of this covert operation of spraying aerosols into the atmosphere and converting it into plasma was to achieve “absolute control” over the global human population.  This total control is accomplished using the combined effects of seven weapons-like applications that use the plasma-like atmosphere with weaponized effects on the environment, the biosphere and the human population.</p>
<p>Although Mr. Carnicom prefers to use the term “aerosols”, the global covert operation spraying of aerosols into the atmosphere is also known as the “chemtrails program”.</p>
<p>In a Jan. 10, 2011 assessment of the current impact of the global aerosol-spraying program, Mr. Carnicom stated, “The vitality and viability of human existence and life on this planet, as it has been known to exist, is under threat.”</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/expert-chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos">In his ExopoliticsTV interview</a>, Mr. Carnicom details seven weapons applications of the covert global sprayed aerosols program that are being used to carry out over-all the goal of “absolute control” over the global human population.</p>
<p><strong>These seven weapons applications of the sprayed aerosols include tectonic (earthquake) warfare, and are the following:</strong></p>
<p>1.  Biological operations, including the use of apparent bio-warfare, such as Morgellons disease, in the sprayed aerosols, constituting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Geneva conventions.</p>
<p>2.  Military Operations, such as advanced radar applications, anti-missile Star Wars applications.</p>
<p>3.  Electromagnetic Operations, including HAARP directed energy scalar weapons and mind control weapons applications, constituting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Geneva conventions.</p>
<p>4.  Environmental modification and weather wars.  Mr. Carnicom stated he has concluded that the covert aerosol-spraying program has transformed the atmosphere of the planet into plasma capable of sustaining weaponized applications since its acceleration in 1999.  This constitutes a violation of the 1978 Treaty against Modification of the Environment.</p>
<p>5.  Geophysical operations, including tectonic (earthquake) warfare, constituting war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the Geneva conventions.</p>
<p>6. An advanced surveillance system capable of covert surveillance of the entire human population.</p>
<p>The 3-article series on the HAARP/Aerosol-chemtrails weapons system by Alfred Lambremont Webre can be found at:</p>
<p><strong>Expert: Chemtrails are global covert operation for total control, detecting UFOs</strong></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/expert-chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos">http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/expert-chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos</a></p>
<p><strong>Chemtrails are global covert operation for earthquake and weather warfare-Part 2</strong></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos-part-2">http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos-part-2</a></p>
<p><strong>Chemtrails are global covert operation for mind control-Part 3</strong></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos-part-3">http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/chemtrails-are-global-covert-operation-for-total-control-detecting-ufos-part-3</a></p>
<p><strong>Leuren Moret provides some home and diet remedies for combatting nuclear radiation</strong></p>
<p>Toward the end of the interview, Leuren Moret also provides home and diet remedies that individuals and families can use in combatting nuclear radiation, including chlorella (chlorophyll), Miso soup, seaweed, greens, and dark vegetables.</p>
<p><strong>Banning HAARP and Chemtrails: The use of the law to protect the population, food supply and ecology of the planet</strong></p>
<p>Radiation and HAARP expert Leuren Moret notes that there was one prior attempt to ban the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapon of mass destruction.  That was in a bill <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rense.com/general19/ex.htm">H.R. 2977</a>, introduced into the U.S. Congress in October 2001 by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://kucinich.house.gov/">U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)</a>, and withdrawn by Kucinich himself for no just reason almost immediately after introduction, thereby undercutting any efforts to legislate a ban on HAARP and aerosol/chemtrails for the past decade 2001-2011.</p>
<p>H.R. 2977 was a bill banning space-based weapons, and as soon as Rep. Kucinich&#8217;s office discovered that H.R. 2977 also banned the HAARP-chemtrails weapons system (which technically are a space-based weapons system of mass destruction), he ordered his staff to withdraw H.R. 2977 and to submit a substitute bill that did not mention HAARP and Chemtrails.  The HAARP-chemtrails weapons system had intentionally been included by this reporter Alfred Lambremont Webre, who drafted the original HR 2977 as introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich.</p>
<p>Rep. Dennis Kucinich ordered H.R. 2977 to be withdrawn, despite the fact that the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system is a space-based weapons system one of whose principal applications is space warfare.  There was no consultation with this reporter or with any of the anti-HAARP or anti-aerosol/chemtrail constituency behind H.R. 2977.  Rep. Dennis Kucinich acted apparently upon some other factor that commitment to ban the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapon of mass destruction in gutting HR 2977.  To date, Rep. Kucinich has reportedly even refused to meet with anti-HAARP and anti-aerosol/chemtrails activists seeking a legislative ban of the HAARP Chemtrails weapons system, thus gatekeeping and blocking any legistative ban on this weapons system.</p>
<p>Rep. Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s actions in destroying the HR 2977 bill banning the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system left open the HAARP system to carry out significant destruction of populations and infrastructure in the 2005 Katrina Hurricane, the 2008 Myanmr Cyclone, the 2008 China Earthquake, the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, the 2010 Chile Earthquake, and now the 2011 Japan HAARP quake/nuke false flag attack.</p>
<p>With Rep. Dennis Kucinich&#8217;s killing of a bill explicitly banning the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system just a month after its use on the World Trade Center in New York City at the false flag operation of September 11, 2001, that move effectively has shut out any legislation to ban HAARP and/or aerosols/chemtrails since 2001, as many anti-HAARP and anti-aerosol/chemtrail activists can testify.</p>
<p><strong>Treaty to ban HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system</strong></p>
<p>Aerosol/chemtrails expert Clifford Carnicom and HAARP-aerosols/chemtrails expert Leuren Moret have publcly expressed their support for a Treaty banning the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons system worldwide.  This weapons system is carrying out war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity on a scale that is beyond the conventional human imagination.</p>
<p>Such a Treaty is in preparation, and will be announced in the near future at:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.peaceinspace.org/">www.peaceinspace.org</a></p>
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		<title>The horrible truth starts to dawn on Europe&#8217;s leaders</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The entire European Project is now at risk of disintegration, with strategic and economic consequences that are very hard to predict.</p>
<p>In a speech this morning, EU President Herman Van Rompuy (poet, and writer of Japanese and Latin verse) warned that if Europe’s leaders mishandle the current crisis and allow the eurozone to break up, they will destroy European Union itself.</p>
<p>“We’re in a survival crisis. We all have to work together in order to survive with the euro zone, because if we don’t survive with the euro zone we will not survive with the European Union,” he said.</p>
<p>Well, well. This theme is all too familiar to readers of <em>The Daily Telegraph</em>, but it comes as something of a shock to hear such a confession after all these years from Europe’s president.</p>
<p>He is admitting that the gamble of launching a premature and dysfunctional currency without a central treasury, or debt union, or economic government, to back it up – and before the economies, legal systems, wage bargaining practices, productivity growth, and interest rate sensitivity, of North and South Europe had come anywhere near sustainable convergence – may now backfire horribly.</p>
<p>Jacques Delors and fellow fathers of EMU were told by Commission economists in the early 1990s that this reckless adventure could not work as constructed, and would lead to a traumatic crisis. They shrugged off the warnings.</p>
<p>They were told too that currency unions do not eliminate risk: they merely switch it from currency risk to default risk. For that reason it was all the more important to have a workable mechanism for sovereign defaults and bondholder haircuts in place from the beginning, with clear rules that to establish the proper pricing of that risk.</p>
<p>But no, the EU masters would hear none of it. There could be no defaults, and no preparations were made or even permitted for such an entirely predictable outcome. Political faith alone was enough. Investors who should have known better walked straight into the trap, buying Greek, Portuguese, and Irish debt at 25-35 basis points over Bunds. At the top of boom funds were buying Spanish bonds at a spread of 4 basis points. Now we are seeing what happens when you build such moral hazard into the system, and shut down the warning thermostat.</p>
<p>Mr Delors told colleagues that any crisis would be a “beneficial crisis”, allowing the EU to break down resistance to fiscal federalism, and to accumulate fresh power. The purpose of EMU was political, not economic, so the objections of economists could happily be disregarded. Once the currency was in existence, EU states would have give up national sovereignty to make it work over time. It would lead ineluctably to the Monnet dream of a fully-fledged EU state. Bring the crisis on.</p>
<p>Behind this gamble, of course, was the assumption that any crisis could be contained at a tolerable cost once the imbalances of EMU’s one-size-fits-none monetary system had already reached catastrophic levels, and once the credit bubbles of Club Med and Ireland had collapsed. It assumed too that Germany, The Netherlands, and Finland would ultimately – under much protest – agree to foot the bill for a ‘Transferunion’.</p>
<p>We may soon find out whether either assumption is correct. Far from binding Europe together, monetary union is leading to acrimony and mutual recriminations. We had the first eruption earlier this year when Greece’s deputy premier accused the Germans of stealing Greek gold from the vaults of the central bank and killing 300,000 people during the Nazi occupation.</p>
<p>Greece is now under an EU protectorate, or the “Memorandum” as they call it. This has prompted pin-prick terrorist attacks against anybody associated with EU rule. Ireland and Portugal are further behind on this road to serfdom, but they are already facing policy dictates from Brussels, but will soon be under formal protectorates as well in any case. Spain has more or less been forced to cut public wages by 5pc to comply with EU demands made in May. All are having to knuckle down to Europe’s agenda of austerity, without the offsetting relief of devaluation and looser monetary policy.</p>
<p>As this continues into next year, with unemployment stuck at depression levels or even creeping higher, it starts to matter who has political “ownership” over these policies. Is there full democratic consent, or is this suffering being imposed by foreign over-lords with an ideological aim? It does not take much imagination to see what this is going to do to concord in Europe.</p>
<p>My own view is that the EU became illegitimate when it refused to accept the rejection of the European Constitution by French and Dutch voters in 2005. There can be no justification for reviving the text as the Lisbon Treaty and ramming it through by parliamentary procedure without referenda, in what amounted to an authoritarian Putsch. (Yes, the national parliaments were themselves elected – so don’t write indignant comments pointing this out – but what was their motive for denying their own peoples a vote in this specific instance? Elected leaders can violate democracy as well. There was a corporal from Austria … but let’s not get into that).</p>
<p>Ireland was the one country forced to hold a vote by its constitutional court. When this lonely electorate also voted no, the EU again disregarded the result and intimidated Ireland into voting a second time to get it “right”.</p>
<p>This is the behaviour of a proto-Fascist organization, so if Ireland now – by historic irony, and in condign retribution – sets off the chain-reaction that destroys the eurozone and the European Union, it will be hard to resist the temptation of opening a bottle of Connemara whisky and enjoying the moment. But resist one must. The cataclysm will not be pretty.</p>
<p>My one thought for all those old friends still working for the EU institutions is what will happen to their euro pensions if Mr Van Rompuy is right?</p>
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		<title>We begin a week where millions will march throughout the Continent</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radical European plans to fine governments that hide from painful cuts crash headlong into strikes and protests this week as labour leaders flag up the human cost of austerity. A bid to force the 27 European Union nations to deposit billions of euros with Brussels, that would be forfeited in the event of failure to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Radical European plans to fine governments that hide from painful cuts crash headlong into strikes and protests this week as labour leaders flag up the human cost of austerity.</p>
<p>A bid to force the 27 European Union nations to deposit billions of euros with Brussels, that would be forfeited in the event of failure to tighten national spending, will be laid out to finance ministers starting crunch talks on Monday.</p>
<p>Detailed proposals will be made public on Wednesday, when millions are expected to take part in a general strike across Spain and 100,000 protesters are tipped to march against &#8220;austerity&#8221; in Brussels.</p>
<p>After spring panic about government debts, fears are again rising about bank rescue costs in Ireland and a double-dip downturn in Spain, where one in five remain resolutely out of work.</p>
<p>But while Europe tries to clean up its post-recession books, a backlash has begun among voters focused on vast anticipated numbers of public sector job cuts.</p>
<p>It was clearly seen in Britain on Saturday, where Labour unions, MPs and party members handed their leadership to left-leaning Ed Miliband &#8211; in a surprise, last-minute defeat for his better-known, centre-right brother and former foreign secretary David.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will demonstrate to voice our concern over the economic and social context, which will be compounded by austerity measures,&#8221; John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, said of Wednesday&#8217;s mobilisation.</p>
<p>Further protests are planned in the Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Poland and Romania.</p>
<p>The strike in Spain, meanwhile, was called after cuts to public sector wages, retirement and family benefits, with the tipping point of relaxed employment law.</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s not focus too much on the size of the sanctions,&#8221; the spokesman for EU economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn, who is driving the bid to get tough, said as diplomats said of the plans&#8217; scope.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the effectiveness of the proposals we set out next week (that matter),&#8221; Rehn&#8217;s pointman said.</p>
<p>The idea is that states would deposit 0.2 per cent of national GDP with the bloc to underwrite moves to get back within deficit and debt ceilings of three and 60 per cent respectively.</p>
<p>Practically every EU state has now crashed through the deficit boundary (Spain hit 11.2 per cent in 2009).</p>
<p>Offenders would also be ordered to slash total debts by five per cent each year for three years, which an EU source warned represents &#8220;a considerable effort.&#8221;</p>
<p>Europe also wants to smooth out cross-border imbalances, with sources also talking of possible fines running to 0.1 per cent of GDP for countries that fail to meet targets aimed at bringing up the rear.</p>
<p>The panel has struggled on sanctions so far, with ideas for cutting future aid for poorer regions hitting opposition notably among ex-Communist eastern European states.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/europe-strikes-out-in-austerity-drive-20100926-15s09.html" target="_blank">Source</a>.
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		<title>The Fall of Greece &#8211; Yes, It Really is a Capitalist Plot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Europe’s poorest countries, European Union membership has long held out the promise of tranquil prosperity. The current Greek financial crisis ought to dispel some of their illusions. There are two strikingly significant levels to the current crisis. While primarily economic, the European Economic Community also claims to be a community, based on solidarity &#8212; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>For Europe’s poorest countries, European Union membership has long held out the promise of tranquil prosperity. The current Greek financial crisis ought to dispel some of their illusions.</p>
<p>There are two strikingly significant levels to the current crisis. While primarily economic, the European Economic Community also claims to be a community, based on solidarity &#8212; the sisterhood of nations and brotherhood of peoples.  However, the economic deficit is nothing compared to the human deficit it exposes.</p>
<p>To put it simply, the Greek crisis shows what happens when a weak member of this Union is in trouble.  It is the same as what happens on the world scale, where there is no such morally pretentious union perpetually congratulating itself on its devotion to human rights. The economically strong protect their own interests at the expense of the economically weak.</p>
<p>The crisis broke last autumn after George Papandreou’s PASOK party won elections, took office and discovered that the cupboard was bare. The Greek government had cheated to get into the EU’s euro zone in 2001 by cooking the books to cover deficits that would have disqualified it from membership in the common currency. The European Treaties capped the acceptable budget deficit at 3 per cent and public debt at 60 per cent of GDP respectively.  In fact, this limit is being widely transgressed, quite openly by France. But major scandal arrived with revelations that Greece’s budget deficit reached 12.7 per cent in 2009, with a gross debt forecast for 2010 amounting to 125 per cent of GDP.</p>
<p>Of course, European leaders got together to declare solidarity.  But their speeches were designed not so much to reassure the increasingly angry and desperate Greek people as to soothe “the markets” – the real hidden almighty gods of the European Union.  The markets, like the ancient gods, have a great old time tormenting mere mortals in trouble, so their response to the Greek problem was naturally to rush to profit from it.  For instance, when Greece is obliged to issue new bonds this year, the markets can blithely demand that Greece double its interest rates, on grounds of increased “risk” that Greece won’t pay, thus making it that much harder for Greece to pay.  Such is the logic of the free market.</p>
<p>What the EU leaders meant by “solidarity” in their appeal to the gods was not that they were going to pour public money into Greece, as they poured it into their troubled banks, but that they intended to squeeze the money owed the banks out of the Greek people.</p>
<p>The squeezing is to take the forms made familiar over the past disastrous decades by the International Monetary Fund: the Greek state is enjoined to cut public expenses, which means firing public employees, cutting their overall earnings, delaying retirement, economizing on health care, raising taxes, and incidentally probably raising the jobless rate from 9.6 per cent to around 16 per cent, all with the glorious aim of bringing the deficit down to 8.7 per cent this year and thus appeasing the invisible gods of the market.</p>
<p>This just might propitiate both the gods and German leaders, who above all want to maintain the value of the euro.  The financial markets will no doubt grab their pound of flesh in the form of increased interest rates, while the Greeks are bled by IMF-style “shock treatment”.</p>
<p>And what about that great theater of human rights and universal brotherhood, the European Parliament?  In that  forum everyone gets to speak for a carefully clocked 1, 2, or 3 minutes, but when it comes to the most serious matter, the budget, the authoritative voices are all German.</p>
<p>Thus the chairman of the EP’s special committee on the economic and financial crisis, Wolf Klinz, has called for sending a “high representative” of the EU to Greece, an “economies commissar” to make sure the Greeks carry out the austerity measures properly.  The Greek crisis can allow the EU to put into practice for the first time its “Treaty instruments” concerning “supervision of budgetary and economic policy”.  Interest rates may go up because of “risk”, but there is to be no risk.  The pound of flesh will be delivered.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=17937" target="_blank">Read the full article</a>.
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		<title>Norway Time Hole &#8220;Leak&#8221; Plunges Northern Hemisphere Into Chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian scientists are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that the high-energy beam [photo top left] fired into the upper heavens from the United States High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway this past month has resulted in a“catastrophic puncturing” of our Plant’s thermosphere thus allowing into the troposphere an “unimpeded thermal  inversion” [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Russian scientists are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that the high-energy beam [photo top left] fired into the upper heavens from the United States High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (<a href="http://www.haarp.net/" target="_blank">HAARP</a>) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway this past month has resulted in a<em>“catastrophic puncturing”</em> of our Plant’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosphere" target="_blank">thermosphere</a> thus allowing into the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposphere" target="_blank">troposphere</a> an “<em>unimpeded thermal  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_%28meteorology%29" target="_blank">inversion</a>”</em> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exosphere" target="_blank">exosphere</a>, which is the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere.</p>
<p>To the West’s firing of this ‘<em>quantum</em>’ high-energy beam we had previously reported on in our December 10, 2009 report titled “<strong><a href="http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1308.htm" target="_blank">Attack On Gods ‘Heaven’ Lights Up Norwegian Sky</a></strong>”.</p>
<p>To how catastrophic for our Planet this massive thermal inversion has been Anthony Nunan, an assistant general manager for risk management at Mitsubishi Corporation in Tokyo, is <a href="http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&amp;site=pakalert.wordpress.com&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessweek.com%2Fnews%2F2010-01-06%2Fnorthern-hemisphere-freeze-boosts-oil-hurts-crops-update3-.html" target="_blank">reporting today</a> that the entire Northern Hemisphere is in winter chaos, with the greatest danger from this unprecedented Global event being the destruction of billions of dollars worth of crops in a World already nearing the end of its ability to feed its self.</p>
<p>So powerful has this thermal inversion become that reports from the United States <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34702526/ns/weather/" target="_blank">are stating</a>that their critical crops of strawberries, oranges, and other fruits and vegetables grown in their Southern States, are being destroyed by record cold temperatures. The US is further reporting <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/01/04/ice-nuclear.html" target="_blank">record amounts of snowfall</a> in what they are now warning may be their<a href="http://www.accuweather.com/news-weather-features.asp?partner=&amp;traveler=0&amp;date=2010-01-04_1701&amp;month=1&amp;year=2010" target="_blank">worst winter in 25 years</a>.</p>
<p>Reports from the United Kingdom today are, likewise, showing a Nation in chaos as brutal cold temperatures continue to batter the British people suffering under the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6937854/Britain-braced-for-heaviest-snowfall-in-50-years.html" target="_blank">worst snow blizzards to hit them in almost 50 years</a>. So dire has it become in the UK that their National Grid yesterday issued only its second warning in its entire history stating that their Nation’s <a href="http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/149760" target="_blank">gas supply was running out</a>due to this unprecedented event.</p>
<p>Not just to the UK, but also to the entire European Union has this thermal inversion been affecting as <a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/180864/big-chill-continues-to-cause-chaos-in-europe" target="_blank">reports from that region</a> show continued chaos is occurring due to plunging temperatures and snows. In the UK, also, reports are showing that the <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/01/20101694354272675.html" target="_blank">military has been called</a> out to rescue over 1,000 stranded vehicles.</p>
<p>Though the Motherland, and its people, are some of the best equipped in the World to handle such severe winter conditions, the Russian island of Sakhalin was inundated this past week by a<a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/01/02/Russian-island-enduring-snow-cyclone/UPI-19541262458995/" target="_blank">rare Snow Cyclone</a> setting off no less than avalanches.</p>
<p>But to the worst affected region of the Northern Hemisphere no one has been hit harder than China, where in what is being described as a <em><a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115401&amp;sectionid=351020404" target="_blank">“soul-destroying snowstorm”</a> </em>this Asian Nation has been plunged into such havoc the entire country has been brought to a standstill. China further reports that the massive snowstorms hitting them are their <a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/180865/record-snow-in-skorea-china-1400-trapped-on-train-for-30-hours">worst in 60 years</a> and necessitating their military forces to save over 1,400 people trapped when their train became covered in snow. So overwhelmed by this unprecedented event has China become that they have <a href="http://www.sphere.com/world/article/china-mobilizes-after-record-snowfall/19303191" target="_blank">ordered all of their citizens</a> to help with snow removal too.</p>
<p>South Korea has not been spared either as reports from that Nation are reporting their <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100104/ap_on_re_as/as_asia_storms" target="_blank">worst snow storms in their modern history</a> of recording these events.</p>
<p>Reports from Japan are also reporting record snowfall in their Northern Regions, where according to one unnamed Kushiro resident, <em><a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=95400" target="_blank">“Snow falls hard here in Kushiro, but this is the most I have ever seen. The snow’s piling up and we’re running out of places to dump it.”</a></em></p>
<p>Canada, another Nation used to extreme winter events, reports that the storm that had hit their maritime provinces this past week was so powerful buildings were knocked off of their foundations in what one resident, Tom Jardine, described as being “<em><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h2Aw-Vl633ILY3XLgaczUfVwaPMw" target="_blank">worse than a hurricane</a></em>”.</p>
<p>To the long-term consequences of this thermal inversion caused by the West, these reports further warn that by the puncturing of our atmosphere by the HHARP radars our Planet has, also, been <em>“needlessly exposed”</em> to the growing threat posed to us by the giant mysterious object currently approaching us (named by NASA as G1.9) which we had previously reported on in our January 3<sup>rd</sup> report titled “<strong><a href="http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/earth-to-be-wiped-out-by-supernova-explosion/" target="_blank">Russia Prepares For Asteroid Strike As New Comet Nears Sun</a></strong>”, and which has been blamed for the <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news8917.html" target="_blank">rapid shifting</a> of our Earth’s North Pole that was first documented in 2005.</p>
<p>But to the most critical aspect of these events it surely lies with the Western World’s continued arrogance in regards to experimenting on both our Planets natural species and human beings, and though who may think that they are <em>‘gods’</em>, are continuing to give evidence that they are acting more like devils.</p>
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		<title>Israel warns EU over Jerusalem issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jerusalem: Israel today warned the European Union against its purported plan to recognise a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood by dividing Jerusalem, saying it would harm efforts to renew peace negotiations. &#8220;The process being led by Sweden harms the European Union&#8217;s ability to take part as a significant mediator in the political process between Israel [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Jerusalem: Israel today warned the European Union against its purported plan to recognise a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood by dividing Jerusalem, saying it would harm efforts to renew peace negotiations.</p>
<p>&#8220;The process being led by Sweden harms the European Union&#8217;s ability to take part as a significant mediator in the political process between Israel and the Palestinians,&#8221; the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement.</p>
<p>&#8220;After the important steps taken by the government of Israel to enable the resumption of negotiations with the Palestinians, the European Union must now exert pressure on the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table. Steps like those being led by Sweden only contribute to the opposite effect,&#8221; the statement said.</p>
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		<title>European Union celebrates first day of Lisbon Treaty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lisbon Treaty, signed by EU leaders in Portugal&#8217;s capital in December 2007, resurrected most elements of the controversial European Constitution thrown out by French and Dutch voters four years ago. It also survived a referendum rejection in Ireland last year when the Irish reversed their first decision in a second vote held in October. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The Lisbon Treaty, signed by EU leaders in Portugal&#8217;s capital in December 2007, resurrected most elements of the controversial European Constitution thrown out by French and Dutch voters four years ago.</p>
<p>It also survived a referendum rejection in Ireland last year when the Irish reversed their first decision in a second vote held in October.</p>
<p>The Labour government broke a 2005 general election promise to hold a referendum and last month the Conservatives withdrew a pledge for popular vote, effectively ending British debate on Lisbon Treaty.</p>
<p>Senior officials are relieved that a long period of political uncertainty surrounding the Lisbon Treaty is finally over.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted that we now have the right institutions to act and a period of stability, so that we can focus all our energy on delivering,&#8221; said José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission.</p>
<p>The Lisbon Treaty created a new EU President and foreign minister.</p>
<p>Appointees to the posts, Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton, joined other senior Brussels officials, for celebrations in Lisbon on Tuesday night.</p>
<p>EU officials are delighted with the treaty which has increased powers for the Commission, MEPs and the European Court of Justice.</p>
<p>Dozens of national vetoes, especially in the area of justice and home affairs, have been scrapped in order to &#8220;streamline&#8221; EU decision-making.</p>
<p>Jerzy Buzek, president of the European Parliament, marked the day by sending flowers to be placed on the graves of Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, the &#8220;founding fathers of the EU&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;This marks the beginning of a new era of European integration,&#8221; he said.</p>
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		<title>US Collapse: Economist Predicts Second Crises Wave Will Shatter U.S. in 2010, Shattered Union To Begin with Texas</title>
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