Big Brother en de verborgen hand van de vrije markt

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas

Lees het gehele artikel van Tom Burghardt bij Global Research

CIA propaganda over Honduras en Venezuela

The details surrounding the recent Honduras coup are filled with lies and disinformation perpetrated mostly by the Regan era Chief Liar, Otto Reich and his Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, a consulting firm which provides the material for the media to form the perceptions of the American people.

Those same perceptions regarding Venezuela and their democratically elected president Hugo Chavez are manipulated to fit US government and Capitalist desires to allow for support for the overthrow of the Venezuelan anti-Capitalist government. Keep your eye on the news and don't believe much of what you read about Venezuela. The country and it's leader have made remarkable strides in human rights and the protection of the poor that even the US hasn't made, nor does it care to.

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Venezuela, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador: Media Lies and "Oversights"

It may be useful to assess the dangers of the systematically hostile attitude of the overwhelming majority of major European and North American media companies in relation to the current events taking place in Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. This hostility is only matched by an embarrassed, complicit silence with regard to those involved in the putsch in Honduras or the repression enacted by the Peruvian army against the indigenous populations of the Amazon.

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Nederland Belastingparadijs-Zembla

Nederland is een van de grootste belastingparadijzen ter wereld. In 2007 werd een bedrag van 8000 miljard euro, ongeveer een tiende van de totale wereldhandel, door Nederland gesluisd.

‘Nederland Belastingparadijs’ : zondag 18 oktober om 21.50 uur op Nederland 2.

Zembla

Maar de AOW is te duur?

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Nederland luilekkerland voor multinationals

HILVERSUM, 18 OKT 09 - Nederlandse multinationals betalen weinig of geen belasting over hun winsten. De schatkist loopt daardoor 16 miljard euro aan vennootschapsbelasting mis, ofwel 2200 euro per Nederlander.

Dit blijkt uit een onderzoek van de Universiteit van Utrecht op verzoek van het tv-programma Zembla. Grote ondernemingen moeten 25,5 procent van hun winst afdragen, maar volgens hoogleraar belastingrecht Geerten Michielse betalen ze gemiddeld slechts 6 tot 7 procent.

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Socialism Seems to be Working in Venezuela

In Venezuela the corporate media are still owned by the elites. The five major TV networks, and nine of the ten major newspapers maintain a continuing media effort to undermine Chavez. But despite the corporate media and continuing US taxpayer financial support to anti-Chavez opposition institutions from USAID and National Endowment for Democracy ($20 million annually), two-thirds of the people in Venezuela continue to support him and the United Socialist Party. The democracies of South America are realizing that the neo-liberal formulas for capitalism are not working for the people and that new forms of resource allocation are necessary for human betterment. It is a learning process for all involved and certainly a democratic effort from the bottom up.

Lees volledig artikel op Venezuelan Analysis

Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and War

Prof. Peter Dale Scott op Global Research:

Paulson’s Financial Bailout

It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.

The excuse for bypassing normal legislative procedures was the existence of an emergency. But one of the most reprehensible features of the legislation, that it allowed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to permit bailed-out institutions to use public money for exorbitant salaries and bonuses, was inserted by Paulson after the immediate crisis had passed.

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The Shadow Money Lenders: The Real Significance of The Fed’s Zero-Interest-Rate Policy (ZIRP)

Matthias Chang op Global Research:

Global Central Banks Acting In Concert-
Disinformation In Financial Dailies To Confuse The People
When The Truth Dawns On Hapless People, There Will Be Blood On The Streets.
This Is The Warning By IMF!

INTRODUCTION

The disinformation by the global financial dailies in the last twelve months as to the cause of the global financial tsunami, serve the same purpose as the global mass media when they perpetuated the lies that lulled the people to support the war criminals Bush, Blair and Howard to launch the barbaric war against Iraq and Afghanistan which resulted in the genocide of millions, the mutilation of hundreds of thousands, physically and psychologically, and the devastation of an entire nation.

The wars unleashed thus far, specifically the “War on Terror” were launched to preserve the shadow money-lenders’ political and military power.

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Het web van Bin Laden. En Bush.

"European intelligence provided to WMR confirms that Osama bin Laden has been a major kingpin in drug shipments to Europe and North America since 1991, when he established a major drug smuggling network in Sudan and Saudi Arabia.

"WMR can also confirm that the Bush administration's cozying up to the Sudanese government (which once provided Osama Bin Laden safe haven) is another indication that the Bush family continues to engage in joint financial activities with Osama Bin Laden.

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RAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy

The reports cite French media news sources as having uncovered the proposal, in which RAND suggested that the $700 billion dollars that has been earmarked to bailout Wall Street and failing banks instead be used to finance a new war which would in turn re-invigorate the flagging stock markets.

The RAND Corporation is a notoriously powerful NGO with deep ties to the U.S. military-industrial complex as well as interlocking connections with the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations.

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World Bank Secret Report confirms Biofuel Cause of World Food Crisis

A secret study by the World Bank, which reportedly has not been made public on pressure from the Bush Administration, concludes that bio-fuel cultivation in especially the USA and EU are directly responsible for the current explosion in grain and food prices worldwide. The US Government at the recent Rome UN Food Summit claimed that "only 3% of food prices" were due to bio-fuels. The World Bank secret report says that at least 75% of the recent price rises are due to land being removed from agriculture—mainly maize in North America and rapeseed and corn in the EU—in order to grow crops to be burned for vehicle fuel. The World Bank study confirms what we wrote more than a year ago about the madness of bio-fuels. It fits the agenda described in the 1970’s by Henry Kissinger, namely, ‘If you control the food you control the people.’

Volledig artikel van William F. Engdahl op Global Research

Olie-industrie VS legt ambtenaren in de watten

De Amerikaanse politiek is woensdag opgeschrikt door een schandaal bij een overheidsinstantie die vergunningen verschaft aan bedrijven om langs de kust van de VS naar olie te boren. Het schandaal komt aan het licht juist voordat het Congres volgende week moet stemmen over uitbreiding van de olieboringen.

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‘Multinationals hebben geen enkel normbesef’

Waarom lees ik nooit dat er in China nu twintig miljoen mensen op een elektrische scooter rondrijden? Waarom lees ik niet dat er in China vanaf 1994 miljarden bomen zijn geplant? Geen mens weet dat de Chinezen de grootste gebruikers zijn van zonnepanelen. Wat wij altijd zien, zijn foto’s van Chinezen met een doekje voor de mond tegen de smog. Hoe vrij is de pers eigenlijk, vraag ik me af als ik hoor dat Rupert Murdoch, eigenaar van 22 tv-stations in de Verenigde Staten, een documentaire over Monsanto laat schrappen omdat hij anders reclame-inkomsten misloopt. Blijkbaar kan in een vrij land als de VS de commercie bepalen wat je niet mag filmen of schrijven. En als je daar toch over bericht, word je meteen in de ‘linkse’ hoek gedumpt. Vanaf dat moment word je permanent gewantrouwd en in de gaten gehouden. Ik vind dat hoogst onbetamelijk.”

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Handvol multinationals controleert wereldvoedselhandel

Cijfers tonen aan dat echt vrije handel een utopie is. In diverse publicaties op internet tonen cijfers aan dat een handvol, voornamelijk Amerikaanse ’super multinationals’ hard op weg is de gehele wereldvoedselvoorziening, van zaad tot supermarkt, onder controle te krijgen.

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At Last, Some Truth About Iraq and Afghanistan

PARIS – After a sea of lies and a tsunami of propaganda, the ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally emerged into full view this week.

Four major western oil companies, Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP and Total, are about to sign US-brokered no-bid contracts with the US-installed Baghdad regime to begin exploiting Iraq’s oil fields. Saddam Hussein had kicked these firms out three decades ago when he nationalized Iraq’s foreign-owned oil industry for the benefit of Iraq’s national development. The Baghdad regime is turning back the clock.

Meanwhile, according to Pakistani and Indian sources, Afghanistan just signed a major deal to launch a long-planned, 1680 km long pipeline project expected to cost $ 8 billion. If completed, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline (TAPI) will export gas and, later, oil from the Caspian Basin to Pakistan’s coast where tankers will transport it to the west.

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No blood for ... er ... um ...

More than five years after the invasion of Iraq - just in case you were still waiting - the oil giants finally hit the front page ...

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Report Says Nike Plant Workers Abused by Bosses in Indonesia

'Workers at nine of Nike's contract factories in Indonesia have witnessed verbal and physical abuse by supervisors against co-workers, and female employees being coerced into sex, according to a report released today by a nonprofit group.

Employees also complained of being forced to work overtime and of seeing assembly-line workers fondled by managers, the report by the Global Alliance said'

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Of course Nike will start an internal 'inquiry', and the outcome will be that they are not the ones to blame...The contract factories are. So as a resolvement, NIKE will sign a new deal with a new abusive sweatshop holder. Welcome to the wonderful world of the free market!


Muslimfundamentalists are currently gaining strength and influence in Indonesia. Don't blame me for not being surprised...at all. If you have the chance, read this book by John Perkins, and you'll understand what I mean.- Johnito

No to Corporate Europe - yes to Global Justice!

February 21, 2008 9:50

Member organisations of the Seattle to Brussels Network (S2B) are calling for concerted efforts to roll back the strategy of the European Union called Global Europe: Competing in the World, the EU's exploitative bilateral trade agreements, and corporate power. The groups also reject what they call "the false solution of unfair multilateralism and the EU's proposals at the WTO."
S2B, which brings together civil society activists engaged in a wide range of peoples' movements and organisations in Europe, issued the statement below in order, they say, to "express our opposition and resistance to the neoliberal trade and investment policies that the EU governments and European Commission are implementing in our countries and worldwide. Simultaneously, we are also building the alternatives." Spectrezine applauds this vital initiative, the full text of which is set out below, along with links to information about how you can get involved.

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Independence in the Brave New World Order- NATO's Kosovo Colony

DIANA JOHNSTONE

February 18, 2008

Across this last weekend, the Western propaganda machine was working overtime, celebrating the latest NATO miracle: the transformation of Serbian Kosovo into Albanian Kosova. A shameless land grab by the United States, which used the Kosovo problem to install an enormous military base (Camp Bondsteel) on other people's strategically located land, is transformed by the power of the media into an edifying legend of "national liberation".

For the unhappy few who know the complicated truth about Kosovo, the words of Aldous Huxley seem most appropriate: "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall drive you mad."

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Clinton, Obama en McCain zijn corporate oorlogspimpende cocksuckers

Nog even volhouden mensen, nog een paar maanden en we zijn van hem af. George W. Bush, de absolute Titanic onder de Amerikaanse presidenten, is bijna opgerot. Na de Bush-catastrofe kan alles, letterlijk alles, gelukkig alleen maar beter worden, toch? Toch…..? Nou….ja, nee, niet echt. Voor ons Europeanen is het natuurlijk van belang wat de nieuwbakken Amerikaanse regering na Bush op buitenlands gebied gaat doen. Er liggen nogal wat losse problemen om opgelost te worden. Dus laten we eens kijken wie er bij Clinton, Obama en John „will make Cheney look like Gandhi“ McCain in de oren fluisteren.

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