Brit Government Creates about One New Crime per Day

By creating a multitude of obscure laws, the government makes it possible to snare more and more people in the Control Grid—people who may be unaware that they’ve even committed a crime.

Thanks to Labour, it is now illegal to swim in the wreck of the Titanic or to sell game birds killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day – eventualities overlooked by previous governments.

Labour has made 4,289 activities illegal since the 1997 election, at a rate of about one a day – twice the speed with which the previous Conservative government created crimes.

Read more at The Telegraph.

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Criminal Complaint Filed against Bush, Cheney, et al.

Sure it’s just a symbolic gesture, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

Champaign, U.S.A./The Hague, Netherlands (19 Jan 2010). — Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings.  This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture.  This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.

Read more at Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.

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Scandal over Swine Flu Hoax Broadens

Raise your hand if you were among the suckers who rolled up their sleeves to have the pharmaceutical poison injected into their veins.

For makers of the swine flu vaccine, 2009 was a year to remember. By June, CSL Limited’s annual profits had risen 63 percent over 2008. GlaxoSmithKine’s 2009 earnings spiked 30 percent in the third quarter alone, to $2.19 billion. Roche made a stunning 12 times more in the second quarter of 2009 than of 2008. But in 2010, drug companies may get their comeuppance.

On Tuesday, the Council of Europe launched an investigation into whether the World Health Organization “faked” the swine flu pandemic to boost profits for vaccine manufacturers. The inquiry, held in Strasbourg, France, vindicates a worldwide movement of insiders, experts, and elected officials who accuse the United Nations organization of misleading the world into buying millions of unnecessary vaccines.

Read more at The Huffington Post.

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President Can Order Murder of U.S. Citizens Abroad

The neocons might say, “well, if they’re terrorists, they deserve to be killed!” To say as much is to miss the point. It’s bad enough that the U.S. has adopted assassination as a matter of foreign policy. In approving the assassination of U.S. citizens, regardless of their affiliations, the Federal government has crossed a horrifying line.

Both the CIA and the JSOC maintain lists of individuals, called “High Value Targets” and “High Value Individuals,” whom they seek to kill or capture.  The JSOC list includes three Americans, including [New Mexico-born Islamic cleric Anwar] Aulaqi, whose name was added late last year. As of several months ago, the CIA list included three U.S. citizens, and an intelligence official said that Aulaqi’s name has now been added.

Read more at Salon.

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Tea Partiers Are Jumping Ship in Droves

The Tea Party movement had great promise when it was truly a grassroots phenomenon. But now that it has been thoroughly co-opted by the establishment right, people who are fed up with the full spectrum of the political establishment are ditching it.

Will Sarah Palin’s Tea Party dinner be a bust?

Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips likely assumed that scoring a dinner speech by the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate would guarantee a huge turnout for his National Tea Party Convention, scheduled to start Feb. 4 at Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Hotel. But according to Tea Party insiders, the tickets for the Palin banquet aren’t selling—and some conservative activists who have already paid to attend are now demanding refunds. With the controversial event shaping up to be a potential flop, some Tea Partiers are urging Palin to cancel her speech to avoid a humiliating public relations disaster.

Read more at Mother Jones.

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House Condemned When Owner Heats with Solar

In the headline, I use the word “owner” loosely, because when a city can do this to you, you aren’t truly the owner.

An Avondale woman who spent 11 days sleeping in her car said the city treated her unfairly when her home was condemned in December for lack of electricity.

But city officials said Christine Stevens violated building codes, a health and safety concern because Avondale homes are required to have heating systems and a running refrigerator.

Stevens, 47, was trying to make ends meet by powering her home with solar panels and batteries for several months before Avondale code enforcement officials visited her on Dec. 10.

“We explained to her that the panels weren’t enough to sustain a quality of life there,” said Pam Altounian, code enforcement manager for Avondale.

Stevens said she was not given adequate notice before officials gave her 24 hours to contact Arizona Public Service Co. to reconnect electricity or her home would be condemned.

Read more at the Arizona Republic.

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Man Who Was ‘Sick of Being Poor’ Robs Bank

It’s hard to fault this guy. After all, the banks have robbed us. Or, more accurately, Congress has robbed us on behalf of the banks that own it. Can’t you just hear the teller? “Thank you for dropping by. Would you like some totally debased coins to go along with those fiat Federal Reserve notes?”

An Erie man who was “sick of being poor” took a bus to Meadville, where he robbed a bank Tuesday afternoon, the FBI said. He rode home in a taxi.

Cameron S. Minniefield was arrested Tuesday night at the Intermodal Transportation Center, 208 E. Bayfront Parkway. Authorities said he was trying to board an 8:50 p.m. bus to Cleveland.

Minniefield, 23, of 516 Raspberry St., admitted to the robbery, the FBI said. He told investigators that he entered the First National Bank at 837 Park Ave. at 1:13 p.m. with a blue scarf over his nose and mouth. He told a teller to give him money, police said. He did not show a gun.

Read more at GoErie.com.

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EPA Suppressed Internal Global Warming Study

Of course they want the truth about “global warming” suppressed, because it’s all about expanding the power of the bureaucracy, enriching the carbon-trading industry, inflating a new derivatives bubble, and creating a new carbon tax.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that a senior official of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency actively suppressed a scientific analysis of climate change because of political pressure to support the Administration’s policy agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.

As part of a just-ended public comment period, CEI submitted a set of four EPA emails, dated March 12-17, 2009, which indicate that a significant internal critique of the agency’s global warming position was put under wraps and concealed.

The study the emails refer to, which ran counter to the administration’s views on carbon dioxide and climate change, was kept from circulating within the agency, was never disclosed to the public, and was not added to the body of materials relevant to EPA’s current “endangerment” proceeding. The emails further show that the study was treated in this manner not because of any problem with its quality, but for political reasons.

Read more at Globalwarming.org.

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Profit of Swine Flu Vaccine Manufacturer Soars

We may be in depths of a global recession, but the makers of the swine flu vaccines wouldn’t know it. Novartis made most of the swine flu vaccine doses distributed in the U.S. All out of the goodness of their heart, mind you.

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss drug maker Novartis AG on Tuesday reported a 54 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit to $2.32 billion on strong sales and favorable exchange rates, and announced the appointment of Joe Jimenez as its new chief executive.

Earnings per share rose 53 percent to $1.01 from $0.66 in the same quarter of 2008, when Novartis posted a net profit of $1.51 billion.

Results met analysts’ expectations and Novartis shares rose 2 percent to 56.80 Swiss francs ($54.21) on the Zurich exchange.

Read more at Chicago Tribune.

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Record Number of Young Americans are Unemployed

They’re young, they’re pissed off, and they’re waking up to the reality of who’s trashed their future. The Feds had better beef up their domestic army, and fast. A revolution is brewing. Don’t be surprised to see the Feds manufacture a war to solve the problem.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. economic recession has taken a particularly heavy toll on young Americans, with a record one out five black men aged 20 to 24 neither working nor in school, according to research released on Tuesday.

Teenagers have found it significantly harder to get a job since the recession began in late 2007, with black youths and young people from low-income families faring the worst, wrote Andrew Sum of Northeastern University in Boston, a employment researcher commissioned by the Chicago Urban League and the Alternative Schools Network.

“Low-income and minority youth, who depended on part-time jobs as a significant stepping stone to future employment, have been forced out of the job market and economically marginalized,” Herman Brewer of the Chicago Urban League said in a statement.

Read more at Reuters.

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