Link: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=60651&s2=02

Elections Won't Resolve Political Crisis; Democracy Must Be Restored Before Free Elections Can Be Held. Elections conducted in a climate of fear, human rights violations, and international non-recognition won't resolve the political crisis in Honduras, said Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "Only a few governments that the U.S. State Department can heavily influence will recognize these elections," said Weisbrot. "The rest of the world recognizes that you cannot carry out free or fair elections under a dictatorship that has overthrown the elected President by force and used violence, repression, and media censorship against political opponents for the entire campaign period leading up the vote, including election day."

Link: http://uruknet.com/index.php?p=m60590&hd=&size=1&l=e

"U.S.-allied drug dealers are put in charge of the police and border patrol, while their rivals are placed on American hit lists." If you’re looking for the chief kingpin in the Afghanistan heroin trade, it’s the United States. The American mission has devolved to a Mafiosi-style arrangement that poisons every military and political alliance entered into by the U.S. and its puppet government in Kabul. It is a gangster occupation, in which U.S.-allied drug dealers are put in charge of the police and border patrol, while their rivals are placed on American hit lists, marked for death or capture. As a result, Afghanistan has been transformed into an opium plantation that supplies 90 percent of the world’s heroin.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112476&sectionid=351020605

European Union governments have given in to the pressure and appear set to make a last-minute agreement with the United States to allow its intelligence agencies to monitor bank accounts and transactions across the bloc. Actually, the EU has been clandestinely allowing US intelligence agencies to have access to these financial records since 2001, allegedly to fight terrorism. However, EU citizens were outraged when this invasion of privacy was revealed in 2006. Now, however, interior ministers and security officials of the 27-member bloc are going to meet on November 30 to make a decision on legally allowing the United States to have access to bank data across the EU.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businesslatestnews/6673264/Rothschild-appointed-to-help-sell-Dubai-World-assets.html

Bankers from Rothschild have been appointed to help restructure Dubai World with a mandate to dispose of some of the stricken conglomerate's famous assets. Paul Reynolds, head of Rothschild's advisory operations in the Middle East, was this week asked to work for the Dubai government's chief restructuring officer alongside Aidan Birkett of Deloitte, who was appointed on Wednesday. The team is tasked with assessing the group's assets, which is likely to result in a large scale sell-off of assets as varied as the QE2 cruise liner; Turnberry, the golf course that hosted this year's Open Championship; and a raft of properties. Business Insider: The Geopolitics Of The Dubai Debt Crisis: It's Iran vs. The United States.

Link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/01/2757965.htm?section=justin

The Danish Government says the world should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 from 1990 levels, with most of the reduction coming from rich countries. It is a figure that the G8 grouping of industrialised nations agreed to in principle last year. JacksonOnline: Global warming dealt a blow with climate science trickery. Another World Is Possible: On the credibility of climate research. + What You Should Know Before the Copenhagen Summit.

Link: http://www.climatedepot.com/a/4140/Geologist-appalled-at-NYTs-Krugman-Legitimate-scientists-do-not-doctor-datahijack-peerreviewsend-fraudulent-data-to-UN-that-is-used-to-perpetuate-greatest-hoax-in-the-history-of-science

Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook - November 29, 2009: "I've spent four decades studying global climate change and as a scientist I am appalled at [NYT's Paul] Krugman's cavalier shrugging off the Hadley email scandal as 'just the way scientists talk among themselves.' That's like saying it's alright for politicians to be corrupt because that's the way they are." "Legitimate scientists do not doctor data, delete data they don't like, hide data they don't want seen, hijack the peer review process, personally attack other scientists whose views differ from theirs, send fraudulent data to the IPCC that is used to perpetuate the greatest hoax in the history of science, provide false data to further legislation on climate change that will result in huge profits for corrupt lobbyists and politicians, and tell outright lies about scientific data." TimesOnline: Climate change data dumped: Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years. Another World Is Possible: The Dog Ate Global Warming. SPPI: Proved: There is No Climate Crisis.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRW5qMRnIU

Melting Watergate - Some facts and figures that oppose the prevailing hysteria about global warming / climate change.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8386456.stm

In Switzerland the soul-searching has begun following Sunday's nationwide referendum in which voters surprisingly backed a plan to ban the construction of minarets.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/11/2009113083115721105.html

During a recent visit to Tokyo, Timothy Geithner, the secretary of the US treasury, said that a strong dollar is "very important" to Washington, even as the American currency continued its noticeable depreciation. This is a very curious statement as it seems to indicate that the US treasury is going to defend the dollar from any further slide in the near future. But this is highly unlikely as the US treasury does not have a history of intervening in foreign exchange markets.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6937729.ece

A man wanted over the execution-style killing of four Washington State police officers has himself been shot and could well be dead, police said today. Officers were this morning surrounding a house in Seattle where it was thought that Maurice Clemmons, a 37-year-old convicted armed robber, was holed-up. Negotiators used loudspeakers and explosions to try to flush him out and at one point gunshots rang out through the neighbourhood. Kenny's Sideshow: 4 cop execution in Washington State...here we go again.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all

It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs. Virtually all have incomes near or below the federal poverty line, but their eclectic ranks testify to the range of people struggling with basic needs. They include single mothers and married couples, the newly jobless and the chronically poor, longtime recipients of welfare checks and workers whose reduced hours or slender wages leave pantries bare.

Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-honduras-election28-2009nov28,0,3032001.story

The de facto leaders appear to have gotten away with a military-backed coup. Not only have efforts to restore the ousted leader failed, but the U.S. has said it will recognize a new presidential vote. PressTV: Brazil, Venezuela condemn Honduras vote result. Al Jazeera: Conservative wins Honduran poll.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9mbotpeuJM

Fox anchor leaves stage after his government sponsored act gets nowhere when talking with Ventura.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8385870.stm

Iran's announces that it intends to build another 10 uranium enrichment plants after international demands for it to stop work on a previously-secret underground site. Al Jazeera: UN "rebuke" new Iran plans. AntiWar: Iran Cabinet Orders 10 New Natanz-Size Enrichment Sites.

Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Kill-enemy-children-Jewish-edict.html

A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel.

Link: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/climategate.php

The recent exposures of fraud coming from the Hadley Climate Research Unit, then followed by similar exposures at New Zealand's NWIA and Australia's climate center have only confirmed the doubts arising from the obviously NON-scientific methods employed by the Anthropogenic Global Warming supporters, hereinafter called the "Global Warming Cult". I call them a cult because of the abandonment of scientific method by many of the acolytes, together with a recent British Court decision that declared belief in Global Warming was accorded the status of a religion. [...] It is clear that government, the media, corporatized science, have quite literally bet the farm on selling the illusion of human cause global warming as justification for global taxes and global government. In order to bring about global government simultaneous with creating the illusion of a need they have to destroy the credibility of the regional governments and we have seen a great deal of this lately. Now the oligarchs face an awkward choice they have set the stage for a collapse of the national governments in the global government they wish to install in its place may be collapsing right along with the myth of global government.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/26/denmark-police-powers-copenhagen

Controversial legislation gives police sweeping powers of 'pre-emptive' arrest and extends custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience. The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of "pre-emptive" arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience. The "deeply worrying" law comes ahead of the UN climate talks which start on 7 December and are expected to attract thousands of activists from next week. Under the new powers, Danish police will be able to detain people for up to 12 hours whom they suspect might break the law in the near future. Protesters could also be jailed for 40 days under the hurriedly drafted legislation dubbed by activists as the "turmoil and riot" law. The law was first announced on 18 October.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6678469/Climategate-University-of-East-Anglia-U-turn-in-climate-change-row.html

The U-turn by the university follows a week of controversy after the emergence of hundreds of leaked emails, "stolen" by hackers and published online, triggered claims that the academics had massaged statistics. In a statement welcomed by climate change sceptics, the university said it would make all the data accessible as soon as possible, once its Climatic Research Unit (CRU) had negotiated its release from a range of non-publication agreements. Examiner: Michael Mann first of climate change scientists to be investigated.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112355&sectionid=351020202

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says that Israel is aiming to 'exterminate the Palestinian nation' and that he backs the establishment of East Jerusalem Al-Quds as capital of an independent Palestinian state.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/iraq-the-uwaru-was-illegal-1830508.html

Then Attorney General Goldsmith was 'pinned to the wall and bullied into keeping quiet' while the Prime Minister kept the Cabinet in the dark. The former PM is said to be furious that his reputation could be 'shredded' during the inquiry. Devestating official memo from top law officer warned Blair that the war *IS* illegal. Officer was bullied and ostracized.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=112421&sectionid=351020202

A Likud activist has accused US President Barack Obama of being anti-Semitic for his repeated calls for a settlement freeze in the West Bank.

Link: http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/820/42159

Israel's ongoing takeover of East Jerusalem shows it is trying to kill any hope of a negotiated settlement to Palestine’s struggle for self-determination. Israel approved plans to build 844 housing units outside the East Jerusalem Jewish-only Israeli settlement of Gilo on November 17. South of Jerusalem’s centre, Gilo is home to 40,000 residents.

Link: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/11/29/declassification_of_secret_documents_to_be_delayed/

President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials.

Link: http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/Warming-will-39wipe-out-billions39.5867379.jp

MOST of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate scientists has warned.

Link: http://pilotsfor911truth.org/american_77_hijack_impossible.html

Newly decoded data provided by an independent researcher and computer programmer from Australia exposes alarming evidence that the reported hijacking aboard American Airlines Flight 77 was impossible to have existed. A data parameter labeled "FLT DECK DOOR", cross checks with previously decoded data obtained by Pilots For 9/11 Truth from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) through the Freedom Of Information Act.

Link: http://www.resistnet.com/profiles/blogs/audit-the-fed-bernanke-and-the

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve mob boss, is running scared. He is deathly afraid an audit of his criminal organization. “These measures are very much out of step with the global consensus on the appropriate role of central banks, and they would seriously impair the prospects for economic and financial stability in the United States,” Bernanke wrote in the CIA’s favorite newspaper, The Washington Post. Bernanke penned his tribute to central banking and globalism prior to his scheduled testimony before a Senate panel on his renomination to serve a second four-year term as Fed mob boss.

Link: http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/business/44865-audit-would-hurt-us-economic-prospects-says-bernanke

The Fed is under fire over its emergency bailouts of major financial firms. — Reuters pic
WASHINGTON, Nov 28 — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said yesterday congressional proposals to audit the Fed and strip it of regulatory powers as part of post-crisis reforms could damage prospects for economic and financial health in the future.

Link: http://www.iceagenow.com/Phil_Jones_has_collected_$22_million_in_grants.htm

Excerpts from a post by Michael Shedlock - "It's now official. Much of the hype about global warming is nothing but a complete scam. The global warming thesis was completely fabricated. "Inquiring minds are reading Hacked: Hadley CRU FOI2009 Files on The Reference Frame by Luboš Motl, a physicist from the Czech Republic. "So far, the most interesting file I found in the "documents" directory is pdj_grant_since1990.xls which shows that since 1990, Phil Jones has collected a staggering 13.7 million British pounds ($22.6 million) in grants. Daily Telegraph: Climategate: the whitewash begins. WSJ: Rigging a Climate 'Consensus'. Another World Is Possible: The Dog Ate Global Warming. InfoWars: Climategate: The Silence is Deafening from the Corporate Media.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/26/denmark-police-powers-copenhagen

Denmark approves new police powers ahead of Copenhagen. Denmark approves new police powers ahead of Copenhagen. Controversial legislation gives police sweeping powers of 'pre-emptive' arrest and extends custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience 27 Nov 2009. The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of "pre-emptive" arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience.

Link: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100018034/climategate-%20%20e-mails-sweep-america-may-scuttle-barack-obamas-cap-and-trade-laws/

At this rate, Copenhagen is going to turn into a comedy convention with the real world laughing at these liars. Now is the time to mount massive resistance to the petty tyrants and hit them where it hurts – in the wallet. Further down the line there may be, in many countries, a question of criminal prosecution of anybody who has falsified data to secure funds and impose potentially disastrous fiscal restraints on the world in deference to a massive hoax. It’s a new world out there, Al, and, as you may have noticed, the climate is very cold indeed. Another World Is Possible: What You Should Know Before the Copenhagen Summit.

Link: http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/11/conflict-minerals-a-cover-for-us-allies-and-western-mining-interests/

As global awareness grows around the Congo and the silence is finally being broken on the current and historic exploitation of Black people in the heart of Africa, a myriad of Western based “prescriptions” are being proffered. Most of these prescriptions are devoid of social, political, economic and historical context and are marked by remarkable omissions. The conflict mineral approach or efforts emanating from the United States and Europe are no exception to this symptomatic approach which serves more to perpetuate the root causes of Congo’s challenges than to resolve them.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html

With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

Link: http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/27/pakistan-pm-us-escalation-in-afghanistan-will-destabilize-balochistan/

Speaking just days before President Obama unveils a massive new escalation in neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani warned that he is increasingly concerned that the escalation could imperil Pakistan’s Balochistn Province. Pakistan Nation: US troop surge to destabilise Balochistan: PM. Dawn: Pakistan's reform package 'peanuts': Baloch leaders.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/27/germany-afghanistan

The future of Germany's mission in Afghanistan was thrown into doubt today after a government minister resigned under growing pressure to admit his involvement in a campaign of misinformation over an air raid in which civilians were killed. Franz Josef Jung, defence minister at the time, quit as labour minister a day after the army's chief of staff, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, resigned over the incident with the deputy defence minister, Peter Wichert.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vBqyG6qYXE

European Parliament, Strasbourg, France, 25.11.2009. Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP Head of Delegation, Co-President of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in the European Parliament criticises Baroness Ashton, the newly selected EU foreign/security minister and vice-president of the Commission. This follows with a reprimand by the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek (EPP, Poland) for the "tone" Mr Farage used in criticising "important EU officials". Daily Telegraph: Van Rompuy wants the EU to run on CO2: Carbon taxes will provide the EU with its own revenue steram.

Link: http://inthesetimes.com/article/5203/assassinated_by_the_state

It is now clear that Hampton and Clark were victims of a plot hatched by the FBI and executed by the Cook County State’s Attorney and Chicago police officers. Nonetheless, conventional wisdom portrays the Panthers as the villains. In 2006, Chicago’s City Council, under pressure from the Fraternal Order of Police, voted down a routine city ordinance to name the block on which Hampton’s murder took place in his honor.

Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-talk-draft-dick-cheneynov28,0,2776939.story

An admirer of the former vice president filed papers Friday in Washington for a committee whose goal is to get Cheney to run for president in 2012. "The 2012 race for the Republican nomination for president will be about much more then who will be the party's standard-bearer against Barack Obama," says organizer Christopher Barron. "The race is about the heart and soul of the GOP."

Link: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/21289?

The Peasant Mentality Has Overtaken America, "You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit."

Link: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/27/the-australian-ets-vote-a-political-litmus-test-for-cap-and-trade/

Many here in the USA got their first inkling of the extraordinary events going on in Australia with the vote that was supposed to happen in parliament on Friday over “ETS” or Emissions Trading Scheme, with this WUWT post: "Ripples of Climategate? Liberal MP’s desert Turnbull in Australia over emissions trading scheme." On Friday, 12 Liberal members of parliament resigned their frontbench positions rather than be forced into a party line vote for ETS. That is quite a statement. The MP’s are hearing from their constituents in large numbers.

Link: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-morally-bankrupt-dictatorship-built-by-slave-labour-1828754.html

Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time. Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these accoutrements [accessories], there is a dictatorship built by slaves.