FBI Raids Across the U.S.

Days of action planned after FBI raids on activists

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 30 September 2010

Chicagoans protest against the FBI raids, 27 September 2010. (Maureen Clare Murphy)

Activists are planning new actions after rallies took place in dozens of cities across the United States to protest raids by the FBI on homes of anti-war and Palestine and Colombia solidarity activists in Minneapolis and Chicago last week. The FBI also subpoenaed at least 14 activists in Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan to testify at a grand jury.

Hundreds of protestors gathered outside FBI offices in Chicago and Minneapolis on Monday, 27 September and media reported on similar rallies in other cities including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Kalamazoo and Dallas. Organizers have announced a national call-in day to the US president and attorney general on 4 October and day of action on 5 October in order to maintain pressure on the US government to end the raids and grand jury proceedings.

“Those targeted [by the FBI raids] are well-known leaders in the anti-war movement and many helped to organize the huge protest against the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota in September 2008,” the newly-formed Committee to Stop FBI Repression said in a statement. It added that the targeted activists “are involved with many groups, including the Palestine Solidarity Group, Students for a Democratic Society, the Twin-Cities Anti-War Committee, the Colombia Action Network, Fight Back! newspaper, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the National Committee to Free Ricardo Palmera” (“Support Anti-war and International Solidarity Activists” leaflet [PDF])

No arrests or charges were made in the raids and the FBI has described there to be “no imminent threat” to the public, leading the targets of the raids and supporters to describe the FBI’s investigation as a “giant fishing expedition” intended to intimidate the anti-war and solidarity movements.

Just days before the raids, the US Justice Department Inspector General released a 289-page report in which it criticized the FBI for spying on activists between 2002 and 2006. The report found that “The FBI improperly spied on American activists involved in First Amendment-protected activities and mischaracterized nonviolent civil disobedience as terrorism which improperly placed activists on terrorist watch lists” (“FBI improperly spied on activists, says Justice Department Inspector General,” American Civil Liberties Union, 20 September 2010).

The Justice Department’s investigation, undertaken after a Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union, “uncovered evidence that the FBI was chilling political association and improperly investigating peaceful advocacy groups.”

The FBI claims that its latest raids in Chicago and Minneapolis are related to an investigation concerning “material support of terrorism,” and demands in the subpoenas any information the targets might hold related to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and Hizballah, all considered “terrorist organizations” by the US State Department.

In June of this year, the Supreme Court expanded the definition of “material support” to include “expert advice,” “training,” “service” and “personnel,” terms criticized by law groups as being vague, and threatening the constitutional right to free speech. This broad definition of “material support” could even include such activities as specifically advising a group considered “terrorist” by the US to abandon violence and use strictly nonviolent means to achieve its goals.

During a Minneapolis rally against the raids, National Lawyers Guild member Bruce Nestor illustrated the sweeping scope of the material support law. Nestor said that had the law been in effect during the South Africa anti-apartheid movement, when US President Ronald Reagan had declared Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress a “terrorist organization,” “the entire anti-apartheid movement would have been guilty of providing material support for terrorism” (Video available on YouTube).

Minnesota activist Tracy Molm, whose home was raided, told Al-Jazeera English that the FBI is “trying to intimidate us who are standing in solidarity with the people of Palestine and Colombia” (“FBI targets US Palestine activists,” 29 September 2010). Protesters in several cities carried signs reading, “From Colombia to Palestine, Solidarity is not a Crime.”

The Committee to Stop FBI Repression is calling for a national call-in day on Monday, 4 October to US President Barack Obama and US Attorney General Eric Holder. They are asking supporters to demand that the government stop the repression against anti-war and international solidarity activists, return all confiscated materials and call for an end the grand jury proceedings against the activists. The national committee is also calling for solidarity actions at FBI and federal buildings throughout the US on Tuesday, 5 October, the first federal grand jury court date. Activists in Chicago, where the first of the subpoenaed activists are to report to a grand jury, are planning a day-long vigil starting at 8:30am that day.

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“RULE OF LIE,” AMERICA’S “WINGNUT” PRESS

THE PHONY PRESS, SEX, SIN AND WAR

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

President Ahmadinejad of Iran has asked for a UN investigation of 9/11.  For this, he has been branded a “wingnut” and “evildoer” by the American press.

However, the 9/11 Commission itself asked for a criminal investigation, saying it uncovered a conspiracy and was prevented from getting the truth.  They were quickly silenced.

9 years later, top scientists from around the world, supported by engineers, architects, military and intelligence officials agree on one thing.  What thing is that?  We will never know.

Reporting that “one thing” would be the last thing any member of the press would ever do.  A day later, they would become unpaid bloggers and have their name on the “no fly” list.  Do things like this happen?  How long did CNN’s Rick Sanchez last after pointing out that Jon Stewart’s fanatic pro-Israel bias is a form of “bigotry?”

Let’s take a second to look at Ahmadinejad.  Nearly daily stories hit newspapers around the world, “Iran is 15 minutes from being a nuclear power.”  Ahmadinejad threatens to “wipe Israel off the map.”  “Ahmadinejad supports a new holocaust.”

The press, of course, continually reviles Ahmadinejad as a terrorist and mass murderer.  What he isn’t, however, is a liar.  Every time it comes down to checking on who is telling the truth, Ahmadinejad or the press, it turns out Ahmadinejad is telling the truth.  How can this be possible?

Well, a couple of things come into play.  First of all, the press purposefully distorts what is said.  The press lies, lies consistently.  There is no nuclear program in Iran, not a weapons program.  There is no credible information that varies from this fact, yet the press continually takes a line here and a statement there, out of context, and tries to build a case for war.  Why is the press doing this?  The answer is simply, Israelis control the American press and want the United States to destroy Iran, not because it is a military threat.  It is technically impossible for Iran to attack Israel, every military expert in the world knows that and all have said it.

That will never be reported either.

Why is Ahmadinejad reviled with such venom?  The answer is simple.  He is being made an example.  Anyone who speaks up, disagrees with reality as defined by the media, not any government, mind you, but the media that tells those in every government what they can and can’t say or think, risks destruction.  There is a clear methodology here.  Let’s look at some issues the press doesn’t like very much, starting with our favorite, the villain of all time, Mr. Adolf Hitler.

Hitler got his start, speaking up much like Ahmadinejad.  After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles opened up Germany for abuse by financial criminals.  However, it even started before that.  Germany tried to quit the war in 1916 when it was winning.  Britain and France refused, not on their own, but because the Rothschilds cut financial deals with them and promised to bring the United States into the war.  5 million more Europeans died along with nearly 200,000 Americans.

The Rothschilds got the Balfour Declaration, giving them a base to control Middle East oil, the Suez Canal and India, the things that the wars nearly a century later are being manipulated to bring about.

Communism took over Russia.  Nearly every communist leader was Jewish and Zionist.  Even today, every Russian “oligarch” is a Jew and Zionist.  Hitler said that “communism’ was the real Jewish religion.  He believes he saved Germany from communism when he was elected chancellor.  The country he took over had been economically destroyed through currency manipulation.  A loaf of bread cost billions of Marks at one point.  The currency was devalued by the Rothschilds supported by France and Britain, by force.  Cash smuggled out of the country by the ton and reimbursed at full value, at gunpoint, stripping Germany clean, starvation, humiliation and, eventually, that nasty “right wing” government the world had so much trouble with, the Third Reich.

During the 1920s, when the French and British, really the Rothschilds, were destroying Germany, 80% of the property was foreclosed on and bought by, well, do we say it?  Jews?  Bought for pennies.  This is the “billions” in property the Nazi’s seized.  Not a simple story when you get to hear all of it.  An excuse, Auschwitz, Gaza, are there excuses for inhumanity?

This is all true.  This is history.  This will never be reported.  Not only will this be kept secret but the fact that the Zionist groups that wanted Palestine settled by Jews supported Hitler and worked closely with him, not just in 1927 but as late as 1945.  This is also historical fact, not conjecture.

So, lets go back to Ahmadinejad.  Why would he have a “Holocaust Conference” in Tehran?  Serious students of history that don’t have to live off a university paycheck, telling the same myths and lies term after term all know what Ahmadinejad knows.  They also know that there are some nasty secrets about the holocaust.  The real reason, however, is to anger Israel.  Why?  Israel pretty much hates everyone, is arrogant, obnoxious and predatory.

Since Israel controls, not only the press but the world banking system, all major banks being “children” of the original Rothschilds banks, including and especially the Federal Reserve which controls the American economy, the idea that Israel may have “fictionalized” the holocaust in collusion with Josef Stalin of Russia, a mass murderer well beyond anything Hitler ever imagined, interested Ahmadinejad.  Ahmadinejad never said there wasn’t a holocaust.  He simply asked for an honest and accurate historical assessment of the facts.

Israel went into a total panic.  Israel was hiding a terrible secret about the holocaust.  They still are.  We don’t know what it is, I won’t even hazard a guess.  We do know that millions were spent, tens of millions in bribe money to have laws passed suppressing any study of the holocaust.  In 11 western nations, questioning the Israeli version, one that changes hourly it seems, is a crime.

So, what was Ahmadinejad’s game?  He was simply telling Israel that “he knew.”  Knew “what?”  We don’t know and may never find out but it is something horribly discrediting to Israel, so threatening that they would stage a nuclear attack to keep it secret.  We all agree there were camps.  We all agree the Nazis were bad.  What could it be?  It is something that Iran uses to blackmail Israel, that and the fact that China, a major military power, a massive nuclear power, quietly stands behind Iran.  Nobody is supposed to know it.  We all know it.

WHY SOME REALLY NEED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT WWJD, WHAT JESUS WOULD REALLY DO…

Let’s broaden things a bit.  How do you tell if a Christian is a total phony or not?  There is a standard question:

“Who was Mary Magdalene?

If the answer you get uses the word “whore,” you know you are dealing with someone whose religious education came from urban legends and comic books.  If you are told she was an associate of Jesus cured of “demons” you have a student of the canon gospels.  If you get a complex story of priest schools, a possible marriage of Jesus and Magdalene, Magdalene’s own gospel, her sainthood and death in France, you may have a religious scholar on your hands.

Yet today, you can turn on your radio and hear dozens if not hundreds of radio stations, all blaring the same tune, “nuclear Armageddon…Obama the Muslim….Ground Zero Mosque…….family values….and how Magdalene was the “whore of Babylon.”

The experts are all the same.  Their name starts with Doctor.”  They have a degree in “Divinity Studies” from a college that can’t be found on a satellite survey.  What their 8 years of religious education and decades of bible study, some claim over 12 hours a day, they continue to harp on about Magdalene and her sins.  Where did they get their ideas?  From a Mel Gibson movie perhaps?  Perhaps we could refer to the King James Version of the Bible as a reference:

Mt 27:56 Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.
Mt 27:61 And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Mt 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
Mr 15:40 There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
Mr 15:47 And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.
Mr 16:1 And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Mr 16:9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
Lu 8:2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils,
Lu 24:10 It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.
Joh 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene.
Joh 20:1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Joh 20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her.

This is every biblical reference to Mary Magdalene, quoting the gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  What do we prove?  Do we prove that the religious education of most Americans is based on Hollywood films?  Dozens of films have depicted Mary Magdalene as a whore.  Why would the film industry do this?  Who runs the film industry?  If I answer my own question, will I lose my job?

This week, dozens of stories of 9 year old brides in Yemen hit the papers.  In fact, stories of the sexual abuses of Islam fill the papers in Western Europe and America.  Sex sells papers and there is nothing that the same ethnic group that owns both Hollywood and America’s newspapers loves more than sex and that’s money.  Are we being unfair, perhaps even bigoted?  Yes, perhaps we might be with some exceptions.  One of these is that the other group constantly attacked is Christians.  Hardly a day goes by without the poor old German pope’s photo next to a headline describing child rape.

Do we see those same headlines in the same papers as stories about Israeli organ theft rings?  Oh, you mean you don’t know that Israel has a huge industry tied to the theft and trade of human organs?  Perhaps you might think this was an urban legend, you might think that, had you ever seen it reported.

Has anyone ever seen a news story about Jewish law and how it applies to pedophiles?  Nothing?  Curious.  One of the few to speak up is Reverend Ted Pike.  Here is some of what he has to say:

This year, top Israeli Rabbi Moti Elon was indicted by police for sex crimes against minors. “Far from being the rabbi of an obscure Hasidic sect, the charismatic Elon is a high-profile leader, educator and media personality, representing the more mainstream religious Zionists and former head of the renowned HaKotel (Western Wall) Yeshiva. He comes from a family of high achievers in law, politics and academia that has drawn comparisons with the Kennedy clan.”

In 2006, Elon was restricted by an organization of rabbis in his contact with students, after confessing to sexual relationships with male students. Yet he continued to act as the president of a Talmudic academy in Jerusalem and did not fully honor the agreement. One Ha’aretz commentary says Elon “managed to turn himself into almost a kind of saint” –a fate certainly to be envied by American religious figures turned pedophiles.

Dr. Aviad Hacohen, dean of the Sha’arei Mishpat College, in 2007 reported that “95% of sexual offenses in Jerusalem were performed by the religious and haredi.” “Several years ago, I began looking into the issue on a data-based level,” said Hacohen. “It turned out that the law enforcement authorities, both the police and the prosecutor’s office, were aware of the data but refused to expose it based on sectorial affiliation in order to avoid branding a certain group in the population…”

Since the following article was written in 2006, cases of Jewish leadership figures in Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism being involved in homosexuality or pedophilia scandals continue to mount not only in Israel, but in New York, where Ultra-Orthodox are strongest. The reason is simple: some of the very greatest rabbis who wrote the Talmud were pedophiles.

So, after a busy day reading the news, 9 year old brides in Yemen, women being stoned in Iran or the unending perfidies of the Catholic Church with its list of priest rape victims at 2 million and counting, reported much as though it were a sign counting “burgers sold” at a fast food restaurant, I find nothing in the “news” about such problems in the Jewish community, even though, as we read above, the scandals are real, pervasive and very noteworthy.  I would think the arrest of Israel’s top Rabbi for sex crimes would be reported.

It wasn’t.

We are told daily, nearly hourly, the the Koran supports sex crimes and is unique among religious works for its “impurity.”  News networks in America actually encourage Koran burning, networks owned by Israeli’s we admit, but American in some ways, at least some of the personnel are American citizens, still, at least.  So, is there a problem in the Talmud that is being covered up, a problem that has driven the media to continually attack Islam while failing to look closer to home?  Let’s take a look:

R. Joseph said: Come and hear! A maiden aged three years and a day may be acquired in marriage by coition and if her deceased husband’s brother cohabits with her, she becomes his. (Sanh. 55b)

A girl who is three years of age and one day may be betrothed by cohabitation. . . .(Yeb. 57b)

A maiden aged three years and a day may be acquired in marriage by coition, and if her deceased husband’s brother cohabited with her she becomes his. (Sanh. 69a, 69b, also discussed in Yeb. 60b)

It was taught: R. Simeon b. Yohai stated: A proselyte who is under the age of three years and one day is permitted to marry a priest, for it is said, But all the women children that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves, and Phineas (who was priest, the footnote says) surely was with them. (Yeb. 60b)

[The Talmud says such three year and a day old girls are] . . . fit for cohabitation. . . But all women children, that have not known man by lying with him, it must be concluded that Scripture speaks of one who is fit for cohabitation. (Footnote to Yeb. 60b)

Where, in our news, do we read that a 9 year old girl would be considered an “old maid” in the Talmud?  Have we proven bias and bigotry?  When is the last time Jon Stewart talked about sex with three year olds?  His audience would love hearing about it and I am sure he has some good “one liners” he could use.  Can you see his smirk as he describes the physiological aspects alone?  You are saying it would be in bad taste, something he would never do.  Have you really seen his show?

Let’s imagine Jon Stewart, “How about those rabbi’s, can’t you just picture it?  A 3 year old?  Like King Kong with a yamaka putting a move on Barbie.”

How about Howard Stern?  He has hour after hour attacking the sexual ills of Islam.  Can you imagine how popular he will be when he starts pulling in callers screaming about the Talmud and sex with three year olds or the sex crimes of the rabbis, even higher by percentage than priests.

Imagine where Howard Stern would go with this.  I’d rather not.  “What did the rabbi say to the kindergartener?”

Is an Islamophobe a bigot?  Is a Jew who rants about the sins of sex and Islam not only a bigot but a hypocrite as well?  Am I going to be fired for saying this?

It isn’t just that members of the press, our congress and 95% of our military are corrupt, moderate to severe, along with being functionally delusional.  They believe everyone else is even dumber.  When 300 billion goes missing in Iraq, they don’t think we know who got it and that they all got a piece of the action?  How could this much money disappear, news stories covering it, GAO accounting docs proving it but nobody notices that there are no hearings, no grand jury, no indictments.

The new rule in Washington, “if you steal it, you keep it.”

Years ago, congress was attacked for passing the Patriot Acts, laws filled with unconstitutional provisions, some already overturned even by our Hitleresque Supreme Court.  Here we sit, a new broom in the White House, freedoms restored, or are they?  Government police from unspecified agencies whose powers and mandates are clearly outside the scope of any law, can arrest and detain anyone and do, not only disregarding color, race or ethnicity but guilt or innocence also.  Anyone can be arrested, detained, shipped anywhere in the world, tortured, raped, murdered.  It is done every day.

Ask the press.  You say they don’t care?

Remember when we learned that Stan McChrystal and Dick Cheney were running death squads under something called the JSOC?  Now, years later, we find that our death squads are still out there, some official, some simply making it up as they go along.  If you want to throw a hand grenade under a school bus, go ahead.  If you want to open fire on civilians from your helicopter, simply mouth a few military sounding phrases, hit the button and sent a few hundred pounds of depleted uranium into a residential neighborhood.

Then again, you can fly into Pakistan and kill a few of their troops at a border checkpoint like was done last week, seemingly on a whim. Who needs Pakistan anyway?  Isn’t Peru still with us, part of the remains of the old Bush/Cheney coalition of the willing, the blackmailed, the bought and paid for?

Now no more gasoline for trucking the opium crop to the heroin processing facilities south of Kandahar or to the airfields in Balochistan for shipment to Western Europe or North America.  Ask the press about this?  Oh, you are saying they know, have written stories about this but were told they won’t be “embedded” anymore unless they tone down the “self righteousness.”

Remember the torture controversy?  How about this one, did you know that 95% of the “terrorists” arrested during the Bush administration were found “innocent?” How about Pat Tillman, the former football player who joined the Army but became disenchanted with what he was seeing in Afghanistan.  The press said nothing when he died a “war hero.”  Then he suddenly became a victim of an innocent and childish accident, not at all dissimilar to the accidents the Kennedy brothers suffered back in the 1960s.

The press is still buying the “accident’ story even though the closely grouped head shots that killed Tillman were a “one in 10 billion” accident.

Before the Army is done, Tillman will have shot himself in the head 4 times and then, as usual, disposed of the weapon.  You don’t want to know how many accidents like this the Army has.  You don’t have to worry, you’ll never find out about it anyway.

The press is still falling all over themselves for eventually figuring out that Tillman wasn’t killed by the Taliban.  All they had to do was read the coroners report, you know the one, it said “murder” on it.

What is the news?  Anymore, we might as well get press releases sent directly to our I-Phones and cut out the jokers in the middle.  Can you imagine, millions of Americans have Islam explained to them by a former Mossad public relations officer named Wolf Blitzer. (Jerusalem Press/CNN)

I wouldn’t trust Blitzer doing a weather report, certainly not sports scores.

Remember a week ago, Benjamin Netanyahu, former furniture salesman now running Israel, the “American hating” extremist, demanded that we release spy Jonathan Pollard?

Remember that Congressman Barney Frank immediately ran to his side?

The press reports that Pollard was jailed for life because he “gave Israel information on PLO locations, information America failed to share.”

Not one word of this is true.  OK, one word, there is a person named Jonathan Pollard.  Thus far, this is the only thing the press reported properly.

Pollard never gave anyone anything, he sold it.  Nothing went TO Israel, Pollard and the State of Israel were spying FOR the Soviet Union AGAINST the United States.

The information was:  (this has been confirmed)

  • The identities of all CIA agents and the full NOC list, agents of “non official cover” (A movie was made about this, Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible)
  • Full NATO defense plans in case of Soviet Attack
  • Full information including strategic vulnerability assessments on what would be needed to defeat the United States in a nuclear war
  • Design specifics on all American nuclear weapons and delivery systems
  • America’s military and diplomatic codes

This information was sold by Pollard to controllers in Israel who then sold it to the Soviet Union.  We have learned that because of this information a couple of things happened:

  • The Soviet Union came close to a nuclear “first strike” on the United States
  • Over 100 CIA agents were executed after extensive torture
  • Over 1500 “intelligence assets” were rounded up, tortured and interrogated, then killed behind the Iron Curtain
  • America lost all ability to use intelligence to defend itself from the Soviet Union
  • America’s strategic capabilities were diminished by over 50%, with many ‘capabilities’ totally unviable
  • 15 years of weapons research was lost
  • Several weapons systems were totally compromised including our stealth aircraft and nuclear submarines

However, when Barney Frank and his furniture salesman buddy, the one who continually brags about how stupid Americans are and how he can get them to do anything he wants, publicly demanded this monster, Pollard, be set free, the press was silent.  The furniture salesman was right, about the press anyway, he can get them to do anything he wants.

Netanyahu wasn’t serious about Pollard, he simply brings it up, from time to time, when he has a need to humiliate the United States, reminding them how naive and gullible they are as a people and how corrupt their military and government are.

There are no worries about the press.  In fact, even though military and intelligence sources have leaked, for years, how serious the Pollard disaster really was for America, the press loves telling the same old Israeli yarn, the poor country of holocaust victims trying to protect themselves from uncaring America, their “bestest friend” and ally that they have to keep on a “short leash.”

Can we think of something else the press has overlooked?  Back in 2007, the American economy imploded.  Prior to that, America ran up trillions of dollars of secret debt.  We call it secret because no news ever reported it or its consequences.  Debt is the clearest indicator of economic health.  The levels of debt during the Bush years, a president who took office with a budget surplus, reached beyond epidemic proportions yet nothing was ever reported, not in such a way as to make the public aware the nation was going bankrupt.

In 2007, America hit full default, totally broke, dead, gone, bankrupt.  Savings disappeared, retirement systems collapsed, markets plummeted and “blue chip” stocks became worthless.  How did the news respond?  They claimed that a small non-profit called ACORN, a group that worked registering voters, had caused the collapse.  Proving this, we were told, a Republican party operative trained at an Israeli intelligence school, had “debunked” the entire crisis.

ACORN did it.  According to America’s right wing, fronting for the pan-Israeli banking cartel, a few dozen $30,000 dollar home loans managed to run up $3,000,000,000,000 in debt.  Maybe it was extra fees or ‘handling charges?’

Then we learned that none of this happened and that trillions of dollars were stolen by a series of “banks” tied to the Rothschilds, run by Israeli Americans and long involved in massive criminal fraud in full collusion with the Bush administration, coordinating wars, defense fraud, bilking the economy and suspending constitutional rights, in a concerted effort, Bush, Cheney, Israel, the Rothschilds and their creature, the Federal Reserve System, permanently sinking America in a “Pearl Harbor” that made 9/11 tame in comparison.

So, where are these people, the “coalition of corruption,” the “banksters” and the corrupt politicians?  How many are in jail?  Thousands?  Bernie Madoff only?

What did the American press have to say?  Anything?  A story here, one there.

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Flames of anger: Strike fury over spending cuts sweeps Europe

By Tom Worden
30th September 2010  

  • Tens of thousands march on EU’s Brussels headquarters
  • Strikes and protests in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Slovenia and Lithuania
  • French government unveils budget cuts of £34 billion
  • Demonstrator drives cement truck into gates of Irish parliament

Strikes and demonstrations caused chaos across Europe yesterday as rioters clashed with police and cities were brought to a standstill.

Tens of thousands of people marched through Brussels in a protest against spending cuts in the European Union.

In Barcelona, a general strike turned violent, with officers firing rubber bullets after being attacked by a mob who set police cars on fire.

In flames: A police car burns during riots in Barcelona as Spanish  workers stage a general strike to protest austerity measures
In flames: A police car burns during riots in Barcelona as Spanish workers stage a general strike to protest austerity measures

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Target: Anti-capitalist protesters vandalize a police car during riots in Barcelona

Thousands of Britons were caught up in the chaos as the Spanish strikers grounded hundreds of flights.

Among those affected were Manchester United fans traveling to Valencia for their team’s Champions League clash last night.


Bleeding: A demonstrator reacts angrily after being hit by riot police during protests in Barcelona

Other left-wing demonstrations against austerity measures were held in Italy, Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Latvia.

Fears that widespread industrial action could spread to Britain are growing, with the Government intent on slashing spending by up to 25 per cent in some areas.

New Labour leader Ed Miliband insisted in his speech to the party conference this week that he would not back ‘irresponsible’ strikes. However, he has previously voiced support for the right to strike.

Yesterday’s Brussels march was organised by the European Trade Union Confederation, whose general secretary is John Monks, former leader of the TUC in Britain.

An estimated 100,000 demonstrators in bright red, green and blue union jackets marched through Brussels toward European Union buildings, aiming to reinforce the impact of Spain’s first nationwide strike in eight years. Shops and banks were barricaded and about 150 people were detained, some in scuffles with police.

In Athens, the metro system was shut down by a rail workers’ walk-out and doctors at state hospitals went on a 24-hour strike.

In Dublin, a 41-year-old man was arrested after blocking the gates of the Irish parliament with a cement truck to protest against the massive bailout of the Anglo Irish Bank.

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A protester shows a victory sign during a Solidarity trade union demonstration against budget cuts, in front of the Polish government office, in Warsaw

Mobilised: Picketers march through central Valencia during today's  nationwide general strike in Spain
Mobilised: Picketers march through central Valencia during today’s nationwide general strike in Spain

Civil unrest: Police officers coral picketers in Valencia on a  strike called by Spanish labour groups, including the two largest unions  CCOO and UGT
Civil unrest: Police officers coral picketers in Valencia on a strike called by Spanish labour groups, including the two largest unions CCOO and UGT

 Greek tragedy: Strikers clash with riot police during a rally in  Athens in April - more protests are expected today

Greek tragedy: Strikers clash with riot police during a rally in Athens in April – more protests are expected today

Greece has already been suffering from two weeks of protests by truck drivers who have made it difficult for businesses to get supplies.

Many supermarkets are seeing shortages, while producers complaining they are unable to export their goods.

Greece’s government has imposed stringent austerity measures, including cutting civil servants’ salaries, trimming pensions and hiking consumer and income taxes.

Several other EU nations are also planning actions.

Attack: The cement mixer didn't make it past the gates of the  parliament building in Dublin
Attack: The cement mixer didn’t make it past the gates of the parliament building in Dublin

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Written across the truck’s barrel in red letters were the words: ‘Toxic Bank’ Anglo and ‘All politicians should be sacked’

In Dublin, a man blocked the gates of the Irish parliament with a cement truck to protest the country’s expensive bank bailout.

Written across the truck’s barrel in red letters were the words: ‘Toxic Bank’ Anglo and ‘All politicians should be sacked.’

The union anger was fuelled by the EU’s proposal to penalise member states that have run up deficits.

Union leaders have pledged tough action against the austerity measures, claiming EU workers are becoming the biggest victims of the financial meltdown set off by bankers and traders.

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Demonstrators hold banners as they march down a main boulevard in Brussels

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A Spanish Civil Guard officer in full riot gear stands in front of a burning barricade blocking the A-8 highway in the northern Spanish village of Muros del Nalon

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A passenger sleeps on a luggage trolley at the airport after many scheduled flights were canceled as some air traffic controllers and ground crews honored the general strike call

The British Government is on a collision course with Brussels over the radical plans, with the Treasury saying the EU does not have the power to impose fines.

‘The UK is exempt from all sanctions by EU law,’ a Treasury spokesman said.

Mr Monks said: ‘There is a great danger that the workers are going to be paying the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.’

At least 40 people were arrested in Spain, where protesters set fire to a police car in Barcelona and tourists watched in horror as demonstrators clashed with riot police.

Ryanair axed 69 flights between the UK and Spain, while EasyJet canceled around half its flights.

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