Mar 9

Credit Crunch and Recession sparks protests and riots

Economic related protests and riots are occuring around the world from Iceland to China. The mainstream media in the U.S. gives relatively little or no coverage to these events. On January 23, 2009, the Prime Minister of Iceland, Geir Haarde resigned from office following several months of protests over the banking collapse and credit squeeze. The resignation of the Minister of Business Affairs followed two days later. Economic conditions in Iceland and other parts of the world continue to deteriorate as the effects of the credit crisis affect the general economy. The world economy appears to be sliding deeper into recession and possibly something worse. Read more on the economic downturn here. Protests in Iceland are happening on a near daily basis and are becoming edgier as tensions mount amidst the declining economy. You can see more about Iceland’s economic fallout and protests at the excellent blog (written and updated frequently by a native Icelander) here http://iceland-dori.blogspot.com/

Economic related rioting is also increasing in Eastern Europe. In particular, Latvia has seen some extremely violent rioting. Rioting has also been seen in Greece, Bulgaria and Lithuania.See videos below.

There is a great deal of unrest in China, as the recession in the United States and Europe is drastically reducing demand for factory produced goods made there. In particular, the city of Guangdong, has seen large scale rioting by recently unemployed factory workers who were left desparate and destitute after factory closures. Most economists agree that China requires a minimum of 8% economic growth just to provide enough jobs to keep pace with the huge numbers of new people entering the workforce due to population growth. Recently, the growth rate dipped to 6.8% and projections indicate that it may decline to 5% which indicates severe economic problems and increased social upheaval.

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Feb 28

civil unrest Fema Camps

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Feb 19

*****What could spark this civil unrest? Immigration? Rise of Islam in Britain? Recession? Multiculturalism? Whatever it is, it seems like the government already know about it, or are infact orchestrating it in typical NWO fashion*****

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Feb 3

New York shocked the city by cutting 23,000 jobs and raising sales taxes. Is this a dangerous mix or a smart governing?

U.S. GDP Shrank 3.8% Last Quarter, Most Since 1982

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aN1OnWuR4C4k&refer=worldwide

Blagojevich ousted as Ill. gov.; Quinn sworn in

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090130/D961EF180.html

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Unions condemn delegates on crisis

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5614520.ece

Mayor Bloomberg’s grim doomsday budget cuts 23,000 city jobs

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/01/29/2009-01-29_mayor_bloombergs_grim_doomsday_budget_cu.html

Hitachi forecasts $7.7B loss; to cut 7,000 jobs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_hitachi_1

NEC to cut 20,000 jobs worldwide as losses widen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earns_nec_2

After Q4 loss, Chartered to cut 600 jobs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090130/bs_afp/singaporecompanychipearningscharteredsemi_20090130074657

Bon-Ton Stores to cut 1,150 jobs, get rid of some bonuses

http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/564481.html

Schwab will cut 500-600 jobs, many in S.F.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/30/BULL15JLVN.DTL&feed=rss.business

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Jan 24

Police Brutality: PEKIN Three Tazewell County jailers accused of using excessive force against a female inmate last fall have been absolved of the administrative charges against them and ordered reinstated with back pay.

But Tazewell County Sheriff Bob Huston said Tuesday that he will fight that ruling in circuit court in an attempt to have correctional officers Jeffrey Bieber and Justin Piro and Sgt. Richard Johnston permanently removed from their positions at the jail.

All three have been on administrative leave since October, when Becky Behm was brought to the jail after her arrest on drunken driving charges in Creve Coeur shortly after midnight Oct. 17.

By 5:30 a.m., she had been swung into a concrete wall head-first by Piro, punched in the face by Bieber and pepper sprayed on Johnston’s order.

The incidents have been the subject of hearings before the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Merit Commission since late last year, though those hearings didn’t begin in earnest until May. Huston wanted the commission to allow him to terminate the jailers.

Attorneys for the officers were scheduled to begin presenting evidence for their clients Tuesday morning, but instead asked the commission to make a direct finding of not guilty and reinstate the jailers to their jobs with back pay.

The commission unanimously agreed.

“I felt after the prosecution was done that they didn’t prove their case – any of it,” commissioner Harvey Richmond said. “We all felt – what we saw in (the video), she would not do anything that they told her – they used only the minimal force that was needed to control her.”

Richmond, a former deputy, said the commission didn’t need to hear testimony presented by the officers’ attorneys to find them innocent of the charges leveled against them by the sheriff because of Behm’s behavior.

“If she at any time would have complied, she would have been out of there in half an hour,” Richmond said. “If I would have seen something that I think was way out of line with the situation, I would have gone the other way, but I didn’t see it.”

Richmond said the 30-minute portion of the video shown during Behm’s testimony in May needed to be examined very closely and in the context of the several hours before that footage to better understand the situation officers were trying to control.

But Huston maintained Tuesday that the 30-minute segment, which he released to media outlets after the ruling, was enough to justify the officers’ termination. In the first couple of days after the incident, he called it the worst case of unnecessary force he’d seen in a decade as sheriff.

“I can not understand how anyone can watch the video of that incident and just let them all go,” Huston said after the ruling Tuesday. “I believe that officers should be held to a high standard of conduct, but not to impossible or unattainable standards. Today, the merit commission refused to hold them to even the lowest standards of conduct or even to basic human dignity.”

Attorneys for the jailers couldn’t immediately be reached for comment later Tuesday.

Behm, who testified before the commission in May, said she couldn’t recall most of the night at the jail and had no specific recollection of the beatings in a segregation cell in the A-block of the jail.

She said she had drank four or five beers at Behmer’s Dugout, the Peoria bar she owns, over the course of about five hours before her arrest by a Creve Coeur police sergeant on suspicion of drunken driving.

Piro and Bieber claimed in their testimony before the commission that Behm was extremely intoxicated and belligerent and had to be transferred to the segregation cell to maintain order in the usual holding area.

Piro eventually swung Behm head-first into a concrete wall but testified that he was attempting to execute a sanctioned “takedown” technique and lost his balance. Bieber punched Behm in the face, but he claimed she attempted to leave the cell and lunged at him.

The merit commission’s rejection of Huston’s charges is the second such outcome for a high-profile Tazewell County case. The commission in December vetoed Huston’s request to fire Deputy Jeff Bass for neglecting his duties and intimidating his superiors, though Bass was found guilty of those offenses.

Huston said he will appeal Tuesday’s decision because he believes he was denied a fair hearing and the result was contrary to the evidence.

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Jan 11

Police Brutality: How does a law-abiding mom driving home with two kids end up being Tasered, handcuffed and arrested — while her children are left alone for 40 minutes in the car, waiting for someone to come get them?

Thats a question that Audra Harmon hopes will be answered by a lawsuit she has filed against the Onondaga County (N.Y.) Sheriffs Department. In the process, she and her attorney told TODAYs Meredith Vieira Friday in New York, they hope to spur a debate over whether police should be carrying Tasers at all.

The suit, seeking unspecified monetary damages on an array of charges including false arrest and police brutality, has been filed, said attorney Terrance Hoffman, to bring awareness not only that anybody can be a potential victim, but also awareness to the police officers who have the Tasers to be a little more judicious and think it out a little more before they use this kind of device. Then the overall picture is whether or not Tasers should be used in law enforcement.

See the whole story here:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32414436/ns/today-today_people/

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Jan 8

Glenn beck predicts the worst case scenario and hopes for the best. Mexico is falling apart, federal troops are being deployed in the USA and they are getting the population ready for martial law! No food on the shelves and chaos will shortly ensue. Be prepared people! Stock up.

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Dec 28

surveilannce society – like a frog in hot water

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Dec 18

Britain have had ID cards before. They were despised, and only contained a fraction of the information of today’s ID card and National Identity Register. The government have the power to demand any details of you, including your DNA, fingerprints, biometrics, among 50 other categories of personal data. This will be rolled out gradually from 2009, and is already estimated to cost over £15 billion.

Experts have already said, counter to government claims, that it will not reduce terrorism, it will increase identity fraud, and cause unnecessary grief for the ordinary man.

The question that is yet to be answered is “What is it for?”

This film is an excerpt from the feature length documentary “Taking Liberties – since 1997″
Written and Directed by Chris Atkins
Animation by Nexus Productions
Narration by Ashley Jensen

If you are concerned about the issues raised, take action! Pledge to write to your MP – do it with other people:
http://www.pledgebank.com/libertynotterror

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Dec 18

Sony Posts $390.5 Million Loss in the first quarter

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/business/global/31sony.html?hp

1,200 R.I. businesses face closure over sales tax

http://www.projo.com/news/content/BUSINESS_TAX_PROBLEM_07-30-09_HSF7JHN_v29.3c1d325.html

May-June joblessness up in 90 pct of metro areas

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jSFgkQM9c6vFtgVgX78SAwzQvKvwD99OEJMO0

U.N. program to save children failed

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32222438/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/

Durable goods orders tumbled in June

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32200846/ns/business-stocks_and_economy/

Governor’s cuts could be challenged in court
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/30/MNJG1911E2.DTL

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