Irish people still mad as hell over fat cats

Ireland Calling by John Spain

Fianna FAILure

There was a very minor, very brief, but also very interesting court case here last week.  It involved a journalist I happen to know, a work colleague of mine for many years.

My friend, the former Irish Press reporter Des Nix, had been caught by the Gardai (police) in Dublin driving at a little above the speed limit, and he had been issued with the usual €80 automatic fine.

Dozens of these fines are issued every month for parking violations and minor speeding offenses.  You get the penalty notice in the post and if you pay on time you don’t have to go to court.  That’s what most people do.

But Des, a law abiding, solid citizen in every way like the vast majority of people here, decided that he was not paying.  Instead he wrote back to the Garda office and said that he was returning the speeding ticket and that he was refusing to pay the fine.

He was refusing to pay, he explained, not because he was denying that he had unintentionally exceeded the speed limit, but because money going to the state was now being used as “a slush fund to pay gangster bankers.”

He said in his letter to the fines office that his refusal to pay was “an act of civil disobedience.”
Having failed to pay the fine on time, he was summoned to court. He appeared before the judge last week, but the prosecuting Garda (police officer) failed to turn up in court on the day so the case was dropped.

After his court appearance Des told reporters that he thought it was unacceptable that the government should act as the “bag men” for the bankers and bondholders who are taking money from “people who never had any dealings with them.”

Which is precisely how the vast majority of people here feel. They deeply resent the fact that ordinary taxpayers here are now being saddled with the vast bill for the IMF-EU bailout, and that most of the money is being used to pay back the foreign banks and bondholders who gambled on the Irish property market and lost.

A huge chunk of the money that is raised in taxes here — and in all other sources of state revenue like my friend’s speeding ticket — will in the future be going to pay back the massive bailout from the IMF-EU.  Even paying the interest on the bailout money each year is going to take a significant amount of state revenue.

As we have pointed out here before, the primary reason for the €85 billion euro bailout is to prevent an Irish default and to enable our now state guaranteed banks to repay all the money that was pumped in here by the German and French banks and the bondholders who all wanted a piece of the action in the Irish boom.

Most ordinary people here feel that this is unjust and unfair.  They deeply resent the fact that so much of their tax money in the years ahead will be used in this way instead of being spent on schools, hospitals and all the other services provided by the state which are in need of improvement.

They deeply resent the fact that so much money is going to be sucked out of the Irish economy every year at a time when we desperately need it at home to get things moving again.

In fact resentment is far too mild a word to describe the feelings of the majority of people here about what is happening.  A better description would be seething with anger.

People here mistakenly believed that the new government would be able to offer an alternative solution to the deal negotiated by the previous administration.  Now they have woken up to the truth.

Now they realize that the new government is not able to offer any alternative to the economic crucifixion of the country.  And they are boiling with rage as a result.

Talk to anyone here right now and that fury comes pouring out.  Some people talk about leaving the country rather than staying and seeing their taxes being used to pay off the billions the banks owe.

But others — a small but growing minority — talk about staying and refusing

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PROOF!!! Obama Birth Certificate Fraud

As we originally noted and has been mentioned by a number of electronic image experts, one of the most glaring details demonstrating Obama’s purported birth certificate is a fraud is the presence of digital artifacts.

Digital images often contain unwanted information known as artifacts. In the blow up below of Obama’s supposed birth certificate, we can see digital artifacts as areas of white outlining text and graphical elements on the page. I brought a capture of the original PDF into Photoshop and enlarged it and increased the contrast in order to show the artifacts.

Artifacts are created as the result of lossy compression techniques. So-called “lossy” compression is a data encoding method which compresses data by discarding or losing some of it in order to reduce image file size.

Alternately, the white areas may be the result of a sloppy effort to eliminate a white background on the scanned image of the certificate and drop it over the green textured background. In Photoshop and similar image editing programs, it is possible to select areas based on color or contrast and eliminate those areas and make them transparent so a background image shows through. The process is far from perfect, especially when attempted by an inexperienced Photoshop user. It can leave behind telltale artifacts or jagged areas of original pixels, in this case white pixels from the original background.

As a long time user of Photoshop and Illustrator, I believe the second explanation is the likely reason there are white areas around the text and lines. It is a sloppy effort to eliminate a background.

As previously noted, the document is problematic in other ways. There are obvious text font inconsistencies, most notably in regard to the date in the “Date Accepted by Local Reg.” field near the bottom of the document. The number “1″ in the year “1961″ is darker than the rest of the date.

The letter “e” at the end of “none” in the “Type of Occupation Outside Home During Pregnancy” is also darker and slightly slanted, which is different than the same letter elsewhere in the document, indicating it was either added later with a typewriter of computer. This letter is included in one of the layers when the PDF is imported into Adobe Illustrator.

The date and state registrar stamps at the bottom of the document also break out in separate layers, indicating they were likely added and are not part of an original document as one would expect of an official document.

Other oddities add to the mystery of the document, including “X” marks above the “Twin” and “Triplet” in “This Birth” box. As far as we know, Obama is not a twin or triplet.

Finally, the document does not contain an official imprint seal, as we see on other certificate of live birth documents (see the example from an article we posted yesterday).

Although intended to be sarcastic commentary on the “birthers,” BuzzFeed has a list of most of the document’s anomalies.

Now that we have established that the document is an obvious forgery, we should ask why Obama’s people would release as definitive proof of his citizenship such an easily debunked fraud.

Is it possible Obama’s people are so incompetent and lazy as to release a document that was torn apart soon after it was released by people who know what to look for?

Or was this obvious fraud released simply to keep the debate and the political circus sideshow going?
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The Obama administration finally laid to rest all the rumors of the place of his birth with the release of his long form birth certificate. But closer inspection has prompted more questions than answers. For starters there are numerous layers. Some of the numerical characters look as if they were added after the fact by a printer rather than a typewriter. Alex Jones and Rob Dew demonstrate that the Obama team is keeping with the trend of being transparent as a brick wall.

Obama’s Birth Certificate: The “copy” the White House released is not a copy. It is manufactured. This video goes through the proof, and it’s much more than the Illustrator “breadcrumbs” that others have found and talked about.

You’ve been had America, and the White House was dumb enough to stick proof of it on their own web server.

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If We Can’t Unite To Topple Fed Dictator Ben Bernanke, Our Complete Collapse Into Neo-Feudalism Is Assured

The fact that millions of Americans aren’t demanding Ben Bernanke’s immediate resignation proves how horrifically propagandized and unaware the American public is.

As someone who spends 60 hours a week analyzing the news, chronicling every step down in America’s decline, it has become incredibly depressing to see Bernanke maintain his position of power and continue his reign of terror. I can’t even sleep through the night anymore. Colleagues say that they try not to let it get to them too much by telling themselves that there is only so much you can do, and ultimately people get what they deserve. I have always refused to buy into that line of thinking. I know how effective the mainstream media is in propagandizing people, and unless you have significant time to research these issues, there is no way for the average working American to truly grasp the information that they need to.

All that being said, I’m quickly losing faith in the people who do know what is going on. There are millions of people who read independent news reporting daily and know exactly what is happening. There are millions of people who understand that we now live in a banana republic that is systematically looting the country to enrich one-tenth of one percent of the population. There are also millions of people who understand that Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve banking system is the central planning force behind this looting.

Almost every day there is more evidence of the outright corrupt actions of the Federal Reserve and their primary dealers on Wall Street. Their campaign of economic shock and awe is so overwhelming, there have been so many corrupt actions that it is hard to list them all, or even pick out which ones to highlight as the most egregious. Here are just a few off the top of my head; the audacity of it all, and knowing the obvious consequences that these actions entail, is enough to make your head explode from complete frustration:

Trillions of American taxpayer dollars were given, in secrecy, to the banks/people who were most responsible for causing the crisis in the first place.

After causing the crisis, they took our tax dollars and gave themselves all-time record-breaking bonuses.

They gave American taxpayer money to foreign banks and corporations, with billions going to places like Libya.

They funneled hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into to the Cayman Islands, robbing us some more by directly subsidizing tax evasion.

They also added to the deficit by lending American tax dollars to their primary dealer banks, so the banks could then lend that same money back to the government at higher interest rates, leading to significant profits for the banks, at the further expense of the American public.

Through bailout programs they gave sweetheart deals to their friends, which socialized any loses and privatized all the profits.

They aid and abet trillions of dollars in accounting fraud.

They routinely manipulate the stock market.

And now, to top it all off, they are deliberately causing inflation in food, gas and basic necessities, while devaluing the dollar.

As I said, the list goes on, and you are probably grinding your teeth thinking of other egregious examples that I haven’t mentioned.

All of this can be summed up by the fact that we now have the most severe inequality of wealth in American history. The Fed’s policies have strategically and deliberately impoverished tens of millions of people to enrich what amounts to a small group of global bankers. They have aided and abetted trillions of dollars in fraudulent activity. This is not a conspiracy theory! This is the unfortunate reality of our crisis.

It is not hyperbole to call Ben Bernanke a financial terrorist who is committing crimes against humanity. This is a bold and blatant fact. At this point, no one can seriously debate against this anymore.

Watching Bernanke stride to the podium, smiling for his scripted press conference on Wednesday, was yet another depressing moment in our downfall. People keep debating why it was that Bernanke gave the press conference. Some say that it was a defensive tactic, an acknowledgement of the need to increase the propaganda campaign and cast the “illusion of transparency.” Perhaps, but I feel he also gave the press conference for the same reason that terrorists release video statements. He wants to show the world that he is still a free man who can terrorize tens of millions of people in broad daylight and get away with it. He wants to show us that he can shove our face into the dirt while smiling for the cameras. The main message of the press conference wasn’t anything that Bernanke had to say, it was to show the people of America that he can rob us, set our future on fire and still be walking the red carpet with fawning reporters and cameras flashing in his imperial presence – a way of demonstrating that the financial terrorists are still in charge, running the show.

We’ve been trying to bring people together to call for Bernanke’s removal and to break up the Federal Reserve banking system. With all the evidence that is now a matter of public record, you would think it would be easy to get people down to Wall Street on June 14th to demand this. Yet, sadly, it is still incredibly difficult to unite people on even this common sense common ground.

What does that tell you about our future prospects?

If we can’t even unite to topple Bernanke, our complete collapse into neo-feudalism is assured.

If you are interested in defending your family and future against Bernanke’s genocidal economic policies, send me an email: David[@]AmpedStatus.com

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Scientist Leuren Moret: Radiation war intensifies with HAARP tornadoes in USA

In an exclusive interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre on April 17, 2011, independent scientist Leuren Moret has stated that the radiation war against the populations of the United States, Canada, and Mexico has intensified with the intentional distribution of radiation from the March 11, 2011 Fukushima event over the southern, south-west and west coast regions of the U.S. through a record 241 HAARP-triggered tornadoes and associated rainfall.

In her interview Ms. Moret states that it was discovered in World War II that the most lethal form of nuclear warfare would be to release radiation in rainclouds.  Ms. Moret indicated that the controllers of the HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails weapons systems that triggered the tectonic nuclear attack at Fukushima are employing the weather warfare capabilities of the HAARP weapons system to steer the radiation across the Pacific, onto food growing areas of western Canada, USA, and Mexico, and now throughout the southeastern, southwestern and west coast USA.

Fukushima radiation, Ms. Moret states, has now reached the Northern Hemisphere, and is being recorded as well in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia and New Zealand

View exclusive interview with independent scientist Leuren Moret

Readers can view this interview in the video embedded in the article above, or at the URL below:

VIDEO: Scientist Leuren Moret – Radiation war intensifies with HAARP tornadoes in USA

http://youtu.be/pgRlYt5DjJY

Barack Obama and Canadian PM Stephen Harper continue radiation war cover-up

Independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD (ABT) has stated 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.

On April 4, 2011, Ms. Moret stated in an interview with reporter Alfred Lambremont Webre that the effects of the tectonic nuclear war against the populations and breadbaskets of North America (Canada, United States, Hawaii, and Mexico) are being intentionally covered up by the administrations of Barack Obama in the United States and Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Canada.
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