Campaigner tells of Israel arrest

Mairead Maguire was arrested along with a group of campaigners

Veteran Northern Ireland human rights campaigner Mairead Maguire has been speaking about her arrest by Israeli special forces.

Ms Maguire was detained on Tuesday with a group of campaigners, including ex-US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, onboard a boat bringing aid to Gaza.

“Specially trained Israeli forces, complete with balaclavas and guns, came onboard our ship,” she said.

“They took our ship from Gazan waters to Ashdod completely against our will.”

The Nobel Laureate is expected to be deported in the coming days.

Israeli forces boarded the ship which was trying to carry aid and pro-Palestinian activists to the Gaza Strip in defiance of Israel’s blockade of the territory.

Ms McKinney described it as “an outrageous violation of international law”, as the boat was on a humanitarian mission and was not in Israeli waters.

The ship left the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Monday

The Israeli military said the boat was trying to enter Gaza illegally.

The US-based Free Gaza Movement has breached the blockade five times since August 2008.

Two other attempts by the activist group were stopped by Israeli warships during Israel’s three-week military offensive in Gaza in December and January.

Israel keeps a tight hold on Gaza, which is ruled by the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

The Israeli military said the passengers and crew of the Greek-registered ship Arion would be handed over to immigration authorities in Ashdod, and its humanitarian aid cargo would be taken to Gaza by road after a security check.

“An Israeli navy force intercepted, boarded and took control of the cargo boat Arion… as it was illegally attempting to enter the Gaza Strip,” a military spokesman said.

Mairead Corrigan co-founded Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, along with fellow Belfast woman Betty Williams.

The two women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for their efforts in trying to encourage a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

US Marines are in a “hell of a fight” as they storm into Taliban strongholds in a major assault in Afghanistan, their commanding officer said on Friday.

Nearly 4,000 Marines launched the operation Thursday in parts of the southern province of Helmand, suffering their first fatality in a pivotal test of President Barack Obama’s aggressive new strategy against the Taliban.

The 1/5 Infantry Battalion met only light resistance in their push south and had already been able to meet locals at shuras (councils), Brigadier General Larry Nicholson said, speaking to a convoy with which AFP was travelling.

But “for 2/8 there is a hell of a fight going on in the southern quarter of the sector,” the top Marine said on arrival at Garmsir, a town along the Helmand River that was a key objective for the offensive.

“2/8 are going to face some challenges,” he said. The Marines were in an area called Toshtay about 25 kilometres (16 miles) south of Garmsir.

Commanders said they would persuade locals that the Afghan security forces — backed by Western troops — offered them a better long-term future than the fundamentalist Taliban militia as Afghanistan braces for elections next month.

On Thursday, Marines were inserted into Garmsir and Nawa with little resistance, and quickly overran Khanishin further south where the Taliban had set up a proxy government and justice system.

But they also recorded their first death in an air and land assault that is the Marines’ biggest operation since in Fallujah in Iraq in November 2004.

“We lost a man yesterday,” Nicholson confirmed. “Any Marine casualty is a terrible thing.”

Troops had on Thursday destroyed a militant position in Garmsir, the commander said after a nearly two-hour drive through the desert from Camp Dwyer.

“An enemy-controlled baseline just south of Garmsir was crushed yesterday but that doesn’t mean all the enemy have gone,” he said.

“In the next few days the enemy will observe us to see what we are doing. Then they will come back with a vengeance,” he said.

Nicholson later told AFP separately: “Garmsir is three-quarters quiet but there is fighting in Toshtay. We intend to clear that up today. This doesn’t mean it is over. The enemy may be reassessing the situation.”

On the launch of Operation Khanjar before dawn on Thursday, Nicholson told his group that 4,000 Marines had been inserted in nearly eight hours, about half of them by helicopter.

Helmand Governor Gulab Mangal was “giggling with excitement” at the progress, Nicholson said. “I know the governor and I have never seen him like this.”

Mangal was planning to visit the recaptured town of Khanishin, he said, adding no Afghan official had visited the place in five years.

On Nawa, another key objective, Nicholson said: “Nawa is quiet, too quiet. Something is eerie. The enemy has gone to ground, shuras are being set up.”

The Marines, teamed up with nearly 600 Afghan forces, are spearheading Obama’s new war plan against the Taliban’s bloody insurgency with an emphasis on protecting the population ahead of elections on August 20.

They pushed deeper into Taliban strongholds in opium-producing areas along the Helmand River on Friday.

“Today Marines are continuing to move towards those objectives that are still out there and they are going to work to stabilise security in these areas,” Marine spokesman First Lieutenant Kurt Stahl said.

“When Marines go out into towns, they are always looking for opportunities to talk to village elders and explain why they are here,” Stahl said.

“The intention is to understand each other, elders can express their concerns and an open flow of communication is secured.”

The forces are operating in areas where foreign troops have failed to establish a presence despite ousting the Taliban from power nearly eight years ago.

A key objective is to secure the area to allow Afghan to vote in the second-ever presidential election on August 20, a major test of US-led efforts to install democracy in a country wracked by war and conflict.

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Letter Written by: Grant Hall
Date of Letter: 2009-07-03
Subject: Federal Reserve

Irresponsible Monetary Policy

Monetary policy will create a stable currency or cause money to lose value. Without sound, responsible money supply controls in place, an oversupply of dollars issued in paper or digital entries causes the same result—currency devaluation.

Elected representatives have the responsibility of making certain that dollar values remain constant, through oversight and monitoring of Federal Reserve monetary policy.

Dollars printed or issued only when there is “value” behind the currency assures dollar price stability, as measured against competitive foreign currencies and the costs of goods and services.

Responsible borrowing occurs only when a debt repayment plan has been structured and available cash flow is available to service the loan. A plan to liquidate assets to pay debt can serve as a back-up plan if cash flow (recession or depression for government; earnings reduction by businesses) decreases.

These fiscal and solvency rules are the same when applied to private entities or sovereign nations.

Why do government officials not insist on sound fiscal policies and make certain your currency is strong rather than creating money from debt? Why do government officials follow a perpetual tax-and-spend scheme designed to

destroy wealth over time? Do they benefit from your loss of purchasing power by gaining wealth from newly created dollars without assets backing this money?

Huge Tax Increases and the Great “Inflation” Lie

People want their dollars’ value preserved, and a “hard currency” will prevent savings from eroding when retirement funds must provide the means for living expenses.

The same value, supply, demand, and stability rules apply to any means of exchange, whether that “currency” is buckskins, gold and silver coins, wheat, beans, ivory, or U.S. dollars. Flood the marketplace with an over-abundance of any commodity, and the increased supply and lack of scarcity drives down the value.

The devaluation of the dollar becomes the most expensive “tax” of all taxes. Reduced purchasing power of dollars earned and saved produces hidden consumption taxes on all dollars spent, thereby reducing wealth and middle class living standards.

Inflation is a falsehood—a lie created by those who want the public to believe the loss of their dollars’ value over time is a normal market phenomenon. Indeed, the public has been deceived into believing the great inflation lie—arguably the greatest lie ever told—and created by the privately owned Federal Reserve System.

While the current money system is less than a hundred years old, few people understand how money is created. Today, paper dollars are issued not as receipts for assets on a one-to-one ratio—as was the original method of early “bankers” known as goldsmiths who stored gold for customers—but through the whims and desires of relatives and agents of controlling families who own the central bank of the United States of America—a private corporation known as the Federal Reserve System.

Private Federal Reserve Controls Money

The Federal Reserve is a privately owned banking cartel (Griffin, 2002) and is no more a federal government entity than is Federal Express.

Purposely called the “Federal Reserve System” rather than a bank-related name, (Mullins, 1983) the Fed is a mysterious private corporation whose true controllers remain a secret.

Bankers and Business People Do Not Understand the Federal Reserve System

Most bankers cannot define the Federal Reserve (Hall, 2006) and do not understand the source of their money credits. (Grant Hall is the author of Privacy Crisis: Identity Theft Prevention Plan and Guide to Anonymous Living, and articles on business and privacy matters.)

Many business executives seemingly do not understand that monetary policy is dictated by a private banking group rather than the Federal Government.

Chairman and founder of Investor’s Business Daily, William J. O’Neil, wrote the following concerning “the Fed”:

“The bear market and the costly protracted recession that began in 1981, for example, were created solely because the Fed increased the discount rate in rapid succession on September 26, November 17, and December 5, 1980. Its fourth increase, on May 8, 1981, thrust the discount rate to an all-time high of 14%. That finished off the U.S. economy, our basic industries, and the stock market.”

“Such actions and their result starkly demonstrate how much our federal government, not Wall Street or business, may at times influence our economic future.”(O’Neil, p.72)

Does Mr. O’Neil—whose firm, William O’Neil + Company, owns New York Stock Exchange seats and advises institutional money managers—not know the Federal Reserve is a private corporation?

Public Ignorance of Federal Reserve

If many business leaders and bankers do not understand the Federal Reserve System, it goes without saying that most of the public remains ignorant about the true source of money. This deception is by design from the originators of the Fed, as it was a secret created to empower a few to gain control of the money (Mullins, 1983).

The Federal Reserve System was created secretly on Jekyll Island, Georgia, in 1910 by agents of international bankers (Mullins, 1983, publisher’s note 1.)

The Federal Reserve functions as the central bank of the United States of America and is under contract with the United States Treasury to set monetary policy as per the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 (Mullins, 1983, p. 29).

Elected Officials and the Fed

Why do elected officials bow and cow to the Fed? Is it not their job as your servants to provide oversight and assure your currency remains a stable store of value?

By certain polls, Congress recently had a low double digit approval rating of about 14 percent, and virtually no one—not even one in ten citizens—wanted the recent “bailout” to occur. But the now-departed Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, and the Federal Reserve have begun the biggest heist in the history of the world by literally printing money out of thin air, issued by the Federal Reserve.

Taxpayers will be raped for generations to come. The bailout scheme was purposely created without oversight or possibility of prosecution, in the event

powers were abused by the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, and his crew. And elected officials went along with it. They carried out this robbery of your future purchasing power against your will.

Fascism is the partnership of government and private corporations to create a ruler over the mass population known as a dictatorship. Is the current “partnership” between the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Government a dictatorship in the purest form?

References

Griffin, G. Edward, The Creature From Jekyll Island, American Media, Fourth Edition, 2002.

Hall, Grant, Federal Reserve Bank Kills U.S. Dollar, James Clark King, LLC, March 27, 2008, http://www.privacycrisis.com/.

Hall, Grant, Identity Theft Prevention Plan and Guide to Anonymous Living, James Clark King, LLC, 2006 http://www.privacycrisis.com/.

Mullins, Eustace,The Secrets of the Federal Reserve, Bankers Research Institute, First Edition, 1983.

O’Neil, William, J., How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Source: The Virginian-Pilot

A just-amended lawsuit alleges six additional instances of unprovoked attacks on Iraqi civilians by Blackwater contractors.

Three people, including a 9-year-old boy, are said to have died.

Also added to the suit is a racketeering count accusing Blackwater founder Erik Prince of running an ongoing criminal enterprise involved in, among other things, kidnapping and child prostitution.

The latest charges, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, bring to more than 60 the number of Iraqis allegedly killed or wounded since 2005 by armed Blackwater contractors guarding U.S. diplomatic personnel in Iraq.

The Moyock, N.C.-based security company, since renamed Xe, earned more than $1 billion under that contract before the State Department, under pressure from the Iraqi government, let it lapse in May.

One of the new plaintiffs is the estate of Akram Khalid Sa’ed Jasim, 9, who died when Blackwater shooters allegedly opened fire on a minivan returning from the Baghdad airport on July 1, 2007. The boy was traveling with his extended family, who had gone to the airport to apply for passports.

The Blackwater guards also shot the boy’s mother in the back as she bent over trying to shield her 3-month-old daughter, who nevertheless was shot in the face, according to the lawsuit. The boy’s father, uncle and cousin also were wounded.

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Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com

Recent revelations concerning the U.S. importing Taliban members into Iraq to foster false flag terrorism is merely the tip of the iceberg when compared to the U.S. intelligence complex’s multi-decade history in sponsoring Sunni Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups around the world.

Wayne Madsen recently revealed how Taliban fighters were being imported from Afghanistan into Iraq to attack civilians and U.S. soldiers, as well as how Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army was being allowed to import materials to make IEDs.

However, this is just one aspect of how the U.S. has used terrorist groups as pawns on the global chessboard, moving them around the globe in line with their geopolitical objectives.

As is voluminously documented, the U.S. first worked covertly with Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan from 1979-1989.

HOUSTON, TEXAS - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF) agents are in the midst of  fanning out across Texas in order to conduct house by house investigations into what the agency deems numerous  “suspicious” firearms transactions and as a means to combat “narco-terrorism” along the U.S. /Mexican border.

In fact, the “suspicious” transaction searches are so loosely defined, that BATF agents ended up questioning a Houston area pastor who previously purchased two handguns for target practice, which is then flippantly chalked up as “hard to believe”. Additionally, interagency cooperation between the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the BATF have led to  warrantless airplane surveillance of vehicles along the border.

After speaking to five offices within the agencies and being told by several agents they felt “uncomfortable” with my line of questioning, Special Agent, Public Information Officer Perot of the BATF, indicated that aerial surveillance does not require a warrant due to it taking place with the “public sphere” thereby meaning individuals should have no expectation of privacy.

Perhaps even more alarming to Constitutionalists and civil libertarians than an “eye in the sky” with carte blanche authority to surveil, is the fact that the door to door firearms checks come at the behest of a foreign government. In 2008 alone, the Mexican government requested the BATF track down the original owner of 7,500 firearms used in drug crimes at American taxpayer expense.

“Ever turning up the heat on cartels, our law enforcement and military partners in the government of Mexico have been working more closely with the ATF by sharing information and intelligence,”

Kenneth Melson
Acting Director
BATF

Moreover, federal agents lament the tedious difficulty in conducting door to door firearm checks due to a current federal law prohibiting the use of a centralized database for gun owners. Alternatively, Mr. Eric Pratt of “Gun Owners of America” believes that a centralized database would only end up further infringing upon the inherent rights of law abiding gun owners. He goes on to state that criminals will still develop and expand avenues in order to arm themselves regardless of a behemoth centralized registry, just as they have after each previous “needed” addition to the nation’s gun laws. Further, by his analysis this is merely another attempt by federal authorities to scapegoat lawful gun owners when the crux of the issue is really one of border control, or lack thereof.

• By David Hambling

Troops and unmanned aircraft could be the first to benefit from a new smart, ultra-slim camera technology which combines the images from many low-resolution sensors to create a high-resolution picture. Known as Panoptes, it promises lightweight, flat cameras with the power of a big lens in a device just five millimeters thick. It’s being developed by Marc Christensen, a professor at Southern Methodist University, with funding from Darpa. Planned applications include sensors for miniature drones and helmet-cams for soldiers.

A key feature of the system is that is made up of a large number of tiny imagers. These are small, simple cameras, each directed independently by a MEMS-controlled micro-mirror. Because there is no large lens, Pantoptes can be made flat, unlike other cameras.

A central processor combines the images into a single picture, producing a higher resolution than the individual imagers. The intelligence is in the way that the system identifies areas of interest and concentrates the sub-imagers on the relevant part of the scene. Christensen gives the example of the Panoptes system looking at a building in a field.

“After a first frame or two was collected, the system could identify that certain areas, like the open field, had nothing of interest, whereas other areas, like the license plate of a car parked outside or peering in the windows, had details that were not sufficiently resolved,” he tells Danger Room. “In the next frame, subimagers that had been interrogating the field would be steered to aid in the imaging of the license plate and windows, thereby extracting the additional information.”

As well as concentrating on areas of interest, the smart software will combine the overlapping images in a way that will give a clear image without the ‘noise’ associated with low-resolution imagers like camera phones. This sounds like it might require a tremendous amount of processing power. But it’s possible to achieve good frame rates — 30-60 per second — using a normal digital signal processor.

“Our defense partners tell us a typical image only contains 10-15 percent of interesting features,” says Christensen. “Non-adaptive cameras therefore waste 85-90 percent of their resources — resolution, bits, power, etc — forming detailed images of regions that are not of interest.”

The project’s name is derived from Argus Panoptes, a hundred-eyed watchman in Greek mythology. According to Christensen, Panoptes stands for “Processing Arrays of Nyquist-limited Observations to Produce a Thin Electro-optic Sensor.”

The current goal is to demonstrate an imager five millimeters thick, weighing tens of grams. Because the cameras are flat, the professor says, they can be carried where other sensors cannot -– such as all over the surface of an unmanned aircraft. Because the system is adaptive and can focus on areas of interest, it combines a very wide field of vision with high resolution, without the need for a bulky zoom lens.

Panoptes builds off previous work in this field. The original inspiration comes from the compound eyes of insects. A few years ago, a German and Swiss team demonstrated a “paper thin” camera, based on a compound eye. More recently, researchers from the University of Osaka developed a button-sized camera called Tombo (Thin Observation Module by Bound Optics); using nine lenses, it could recreated three-dimensional scenes. Panoptes goes beyond these; its individual imagers are active elements that can be trained on any part of the scene.

The other way of approaching the task is by having a single imager but with variable resolution: Use high-resolution for the interesting part, and keep the rest fuzzy. This saves a huge amount of processing power, and it’s the approach used by many vertebrates, including humans. Only the fovea, the small area at the center of your field of vision, has high resolution. Machine vision can be designed either with a fixed fovea or like the Air Force-funded Variable Acuity Superpixel Technology system. In it, the software-defined fovea can be trained to follow a point of interest. This speeds up processing so much that the high-resolution “window” of the VAST camera can follow speeding bullets in flight.

It’s also the approach taken by Darpa’s 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS flying camera and the Air Force’s Gorgon Stare. These use wide-angle cameras to catch the whole scene, but only render small, user-selected areas of interest in high resolution – 12 windows for Gorgon Stare, 65 for the bigger and more advanced ARGUS-IS. Panoptes is aiming for the same effect, using a lot of scanning imagers that can be directed to grab more detail.

Eventually, the project could lead to a kind of wide-angle helmet cam. Linked to the right image-processing software, it could be a life-saver, keeping a constant lookout in all directions for possible threats. Darpa is already pursing a similiar approach to try to spot RPGs before they are fired.

But the first customer for Pantoptesmay be a robotic plane. The current stage of the program is due to be completed next year when the system will be passed to a defence company for integration with an unmanned aerial vehicle. Who knows what the drone might see, with its new eye in the sky?

Let’s call him Mr. B. He was a very auspicious Texas businessman and Mr. B planned to stay that way. His success had come hard, taking the highest risks, and no half pint politician was going to pass some bleeding heart law to thwart his achievements. Mr. B volunteered to serve as Republican Fund Raising Chairman and consistently rolled in the donations. He was highly respected by Texas candidates because he sucked in the bucks. With no small shock to many, here he is on TV, at a Democratic rally, right next to the podium by the featured speaker. What is going on? To cover all bases, he was also the leading contributor to the Democratic party. Mr. B. said, “I must know for certain that when I need special things, no matter who wins, I can make one phone call and — I own them.”

As business giants find politicians invading their inner most profit sanctuaries, control and cost of control is the universe. The closer one stands to the guillotine, the higher the purchase cost. The longer one’s hand is on the rope, is even better.

Mike Johanns, politicking in Nebraska, was elected governor in 1998. His millions for election funding came from interesting names such as ConAgra Foods, Farm Bureau, Kellogg Co., Tyson Foods, Monsanto Co., Archer Daniels Midland, and Cargill Inc. When President Bush was advised to tapped him for US Secretary of Agriculture his big donors from the agriculture world were pleased. He was already a “friend.” In less than four years he abruptly walked away from the cushy head job at USDA to campaign and become a Nebraska Senator. When Cargill contributes to a Johanns campaign, it may be a good buy, but also has proven to be a moving and unpredictable target.

Johanns left USDA and was replaced by Ed Shafer who served only a year. The Obama appointment, Tom Vilsack hasn’t lasted a year yet. With one bad call the top man’s head can roll and a new shirt fills the throne. As agriculture giants like Perdue, Allflex, and Monsanto consider “contributions” the lack of longevity is an investment decision issue. No matter how influential the “gift” it is not a wise purchase if the recipient heads out of Dodge for greener pastures the first time his feet touch the fire.

Neil Hammerschmidt, Coordinator, NAIS, USDA/APHIS Enforcement Services has placed his Kansas boots on the USDA marble halls since Nov. 2003. Prior to APHIS he was Executive Director of Marketing & Dairy Herd Services for the Holstein Assn. of the USA. He was with the Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium starting in April, 2002 where he received from USDA a research grant for $653,000. He has also retained “business” connections with the Angus Association since speaking at their National Conferences.

When Hammerschmidt was employed at APHIS his excellent recommendations and resume from previous jobs was a compelling factor. Once he was on the job, the Holstein Assn. USA Inc. received over $1,754,400 in special grants from USDA. The National Milk Producers Federation, “udderly connected” was kindly rewarded with $1,027,000. Wisconsin Identification Consortium and the Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture divided up a sweet $10,223,995 grant. After he spoke at the American Angus Assn., that organization was also provided a $594,585 grant from USDA to help with premises enrollment in NAIS.

A trend is now in place. Established bureaucrats are a better investment than those who may evaporate with the next election. Bureaucratic bean counters can be bought for less money and have proven to provide more longevity for muscle organizations. And, how convenient, the hired help doesn’t have the election fund raising oversight requirements. Their career forges on from Republican or Democratic control, training newly elected novices, writing speeches for the appointed leaders and continuing the global plan. The bureaucratic team must hold down the fort while those with the uncertainty of four year jobs spend their waking hours working on reelection funding.

A good purchase would be Jerry R. Gillespie, DVM, Ph.D. (Unlike many USDA veterinarians, he spent a full year in veterinary practice.) He was tapped for the U. S. House of Representatives to testify about the positives of NAIS, May 5, 2009. He was one of five hand picked DVM’s financially prepared to shellac the suited elite with high dollar quasi barn yard verbalization well above their heads. His lifetime career of administering millions of dollars in grants through Kansas State University, and University of California at Davis could be near the top for federal money rivers. His authority of dispensing Homeland Security coins in over 34 states may be a record. His current lair, U of C has enjoyed grants of more than $5,000,000 direct from the NAIS budget of USDA. Kansas State has enjoyed more than $4,000,000, with almost no oversight. With two years of his indoctrination spent in USDA world headquarters, he has been a target investment for years. When ask to leave U of C and fly to Washington for a Congressional briefing, he was obligated to oblige.

The first USDA listening session on May 13, 2009 was observed by L to R. Neil Hammerschmidt, Jere Dick and Dr. John Wiemers, all staff of USDA. Their lack of appreciation of over 95% of the speakers in opposition to NAIS mandatory was obvious.

Other “connected” ones are a cast of thousands: Dr. John C. Wiemer, Dr. David C. Smith, Dr. John Clifford, Tom McGinn, Jere Dick, Dr. Ron DeHaven, Dr. David Morris, etc.

As NAIS funds were “invested” now totaling more than $150,000,000, they were sanitarily named “cooperative agreements.” USDA’s trusted staff cut deals with states, tribes, universities, associations and state government branches to enroll regional NAIS premises with the utmost fervency. Many of the above mentioned employees “did the deals” and passed out millions like a Vegas dealer would shuffle the cards. Could this picture resemble hungry dogs watching other dogs eat chickens—with no master in sight?

Federally speaking, some things just don’t make sense. In that case, there is hidden money involved. What is it worth to the world’s leading ear tag manufacturer for the USDA to force NAIS mandatory and a hundred million cattle would be, by law, required to wear a $3 tag? What would the manufacturers of NAIS compliant computers earn if it were the law for over four million livestock facilities to purchase a computer, and readers, and programs? Then, after the USA sets the example, the whole world would have to follow; more purchases around the world?

Is it time for a self defense recommendation? The restaurants have a proven method that works. Start now, and hire bureaucrats, Senators and Congress members for $1 per hour…..plus tips!

More on NAIS, www.naisSTINKS.com.

‘The government of Iran arrested 9 members of the British Embassy accusing them of taking part in anti-goverment demonstrations after they were filmed by a secret camera that had been placed, unbeknownst to embassy members, inside the British embassy, Last week Iran and Britain each expelled two diplomats and Iran has recalled its ambassador to Great Britain, an act considered extremely serious in diplomatic circles.

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah  Ali Khamenei issued a statement calling the British government the most treacherous in the world. According to sources at the Daily Mail, photos obtained by another British newspaper, the Evening Standard, showed pictures of British embassy staff taking part in the demonstrations. The camera, pictured here, was placed in an attic window and trained on the street.’

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