Iceland Shows How To Get Rid Of The Bankers

GLOBAL ELITES THROWN OUT OF ICELAND: Iceland Dismantles Corrupt Gov’t Then Arrests All Rothschild Bankers

Since the 1900′s the vast majority of the American population has dreamed about saying “NO” to the Unconstitutional, corrupt, Rothschild/Rockefeller banking criminals, but no one has dared to do so. Why? If just half of our Nation, and the “1%”, who pay the majority of the taxes, just said NO MORE! Our Gov’t would literally change over night. Why is it so hard, for some people to understand, that by simply NOT giving your money, to large Corporations, who then send jobs, Intellectual Property, etc. offshore and promote anti-Constitutional rights… You will accomplish more, than if you used violence. In other words… RESEARCH WHERE YOU ARE SENDING EVERY SINGLE PENNY!!! Is that so hard? The truth of the matter is… No other modern Nation on earth, except the Icelanders, have carried this out successfully. Not only have they been successful, at overthrowing the corrupt Gov’t, they’ve drafted a Constitution, that will stop this from happening ever again. That’s not the best part… The best part, is that they have arrested ALL Rothschild/Rockefeller banking puppets, responsible for the Country’s economic Chaos and meltdown. What does all this have to do with? The answer… AGENDA 21. If you’re not educated, about Agenda 21, please watch these short videos now: http://www.freedumbnation.com/?p=1130

Last week 9 people were arrested in London and Reykjavik for their possible responsibility for Iceland’s financial collapse in 2008, a deep crisis which developed into an unprecedented public reaction that is changing the country’s direction.

It has been a revolution without weapons in Iceland, the country that hosts the world’s oldest democracy (since 930), and whose citizens have managed to effect change by going on demonstrations and banging pots and pans. Why have the rest of the Western countries not even heard about it?

Pressure from Icelandic citizens’ has managed not only to bring down a government, but also begin the drafting of a new constitution (in process) and is seeking to put in jail those bankers responsible for the financial crisis in the country. As the saying goes, if you ask for things politely it is much easier to get them.

This quiet revolutionary process has its origins in 2008 when the Icelandic government decided to nationalise the three largest banks, Landsbanki, Kaupthing and Glitnir, whose clients were mainly British, and North and South American.

After the State took over, the official currency (krona) plummeted and the stock market suspended its activity after a 76% collapse. Iceland was becoming bankrupt and to save the situation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) injected U.S. $ 2,100 million and the Nordic countries helped with another 2,500 million.

Great little victories of ordinary people

The Icelandic Way. Let's Try It In Britain and the US.

While banks and local and foreign authorities were desperately seeking economic solutions, the Icelandic people took to the streets and their persistent daily demonstrations outside parliament in Reykjavik prompted the resignation of the conservative Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde and his entire government.

Citizens demanded, in addition, to convene early elections, and they succeeded. In April a coalition government was elected, formed by the Social Democratic Alliance and the Left Green Movement, headed by a new Prime Minister, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir.

Throughout 2009 the Icelandic economy continued to be in a precarious situation (at the end of the year the GDP had dropped by 7%) but, despite this, the Parliament proposed to repay the debt to Britain and the Netherlands with a payment of 3,500 million Euros, a sum to be paid every month by Icelandic families for 15 years at 5.5% interest.

The move sparked anger again in the Icelanders, who returned to the streets demanding that, at least, that decision was put to a referendum. Another big small victory for the street protests: in March 2010 that vote was held and an overwhelming 93% of the population refused to repay the debt, at least with those conditions.

This forced the creditors to rethink the deal and improve it, offering 3% interest and payment over 37 years. Not even that was enough. The current president, on seeing that Parliament approved the agreement by a narrow margin, decided last month not to approve it and to call on the Icelandic people to vote in a referendum so that they would have the last word.

The bankers are fleeing in fear

Returning to the tense situation in 2010, while the Icelanders were refusing to pay a debt incurred by financial sharks without consultation, the coalition government had launched an investigation to determine legal responsibilities for the fatal economic crisis and had already arrested several bankers and top executives closely linked to high risk operations.

Interpol, meanwhile, had issued an international arrest warrant against Sigurdur Einarsson, former president of one of the banks. This situation led scared bankers and executives to leave the country en masse.

In this context of crisis, an assembly was elected to draft a new constitution that would reflect the lessons learned and replace the current one, inspired by the Danish constitution.

To do this, instead of calling experts and politicians, Iceland decided to appeal directly to the people, after all they have sovereign power over the law. More than 500 Icelanders presented themselves as candidates to participate in this exercise in direct democracy and write a new constitution. 25 of them, without party affiliations, including lawyers, students, journalists, farmers and trade union representatives were elected.

Among other developments, this constitution will call for the protection, like no other, of freedom of information and expression in the so-called Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, in a bill that aims to make the country a safe haven for investigative journalism and freedom of information, where sources, journalists and Internet providers that host news reporting are protected.

The people, for once, will decide the future of the country while bankers and politicians witness the transformation of a nation from the sidelines.

Flying without Fuel

stefaniesara

An experimental solar-powered airplane completed its first successful journey on June 5th: a 20-hour transcontinental flight from Madrid to Rabat, Morocco’s capital city.

Morocco was the chosen destination of this soon-to-be-famous flight because of the country’s demonstrated interest in solar energy. Morocco recently launched a next-level solar energy program which will radically decrease their reliance on fossil fuels. The country aims to produce 2,000 megawatts of solar energy by 2020.

The aircraft is the first of a kind. It sports the same impressive wingspan of a Boeing 777 but with 12,000 solar cells arranged across them. These solar panels charge large batteries which allow the plane to fly at night as well as during daylight hours. Because the plane is so light, it can (so far) only fly in ideal weather conditions. That said, the plane has successfully climbed to 28,000 feet and reached speeds over 75mph, with its average cruising speed being just half of that.

The “new and improved” version of this airplane will debut by 2014 with an exciting round-the-world flight with five stops—and even more exciting is that all this will be done with a miniscule carbon-footprint, if any at all.

Image: “Aeroplane” by Vox Efx on Flickr courtesy of Creative Commons Licensing

Smoking Pot is better for Lungs than Tobacco !

Guess hippies have been saying this for a while now, smoking marijuana is healthier for your lungs as compared to smoking cigarettes. Finally we have an official study showing that this is in fact true.

Here is more about it ...

A NIH (National Institute of Health) funded study, published in the Journal of American Medical Association, measured air flow rate (how fast you can blow out air) and lung volume (how much air you can hold) in 18- to 30-year-old adults from Oakland, Chicago, Minneapolis and Birmingham.

When researchers studied 20 years of data from more than 5,000 adults, they found significant lung damage in the tobacco smokers. The more they smoked, the worse their air flow rate and lung volume became. But those who smoked up to one joint a day aced a lung function test. In fact the air flow rate slightly increased in the marijuana users, up to a certain level.

Not so long ago there was a woman in the news from Orissa, India. Fulla Nayak, a resident of Kanarpur village in the coastal district of Kendrapada, Orissa was about 125 years old and in reasonably healthy condition without any major ailments and used to walk around without any support. The secret to her good health she said was smoking ganja and drinking wine made from Palm leaves.

Pirate Bay Disarms BT Blockade Within Minutes

BT became the last major UK Internet provider to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay. The ISP has gone further than other providers since it also restricts access to the new IP-addresses added by the deviant BitTorrent site in recent weeks. Nevertheless, even these additional efforts were quickly neutralized. Immediately after the block kicked in Pirate Bay added a set of new IP addresses to allow BT subscribers access again – for now at least.

Following in the footsteps of Virgin Media, Everything Everywhere, Sky Broadband, TalkTalk, BE and O2, UK ISP BT has now blocked access to The Pirate Bay.

In addition to blocking domain names such as thepiratebay.se and thepiratebay.org, BT went further than expected. In response to earlier censorship attempts Pirate Bay added two new IP-addresses – 194.71.107.80 and 194.71.107.81 – but those are now also included in BT’s filter.

BT subscribers who try to access Pirate Bay through the addresses above get an “Error – site blocked” message.

However, The Pirate Bay is not giving up so easily. In an immediate response the site has enabled two new IP-addresses (.82 and .83) which kicked in just minutes after BT’s block was implemented. And so the whack-a-mole continues.

A Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak that they can continue adding new addresses for years to come. For them, it’s more a statement than anything else as there are already dozens of proxy sites that allow users to access The Pirate Bay just fine.

The most frequently visited proxy in the UK, operated by the local Pirate party, is already among the top 600 sites in the UK. With the new block by BT it is expected to attract even more visitors. In addition, the Pirate Party is picking up a few new members in the process.

The above shows once again that while these blockades may stop some people from accessing a site, the really determined have plenty of options. Also, of those who simply give up on accessing The Pirate Bay, many will simply switch to other torrent sites.

The futility of these censorship efforts is an issue also being raised by Pirate Bay’s domain registrar. The .SE registrar states in a blog post that it would not seize the domain without a court order, adding that even if one was granted the site would simply switch to a new domain.

The various anti-piracy groups, however, believe that censoring sites such as The Pirate Bay is better than doing nothing at all.

“These developments are good for content creators, workers in the creative industries, and, ultimately, for consumers. As courts throughout Europe move to shut avenues of illicit content, they are helping to ensure that consumers will continue to have access to the compelling, legitimate, and virus-free content they want,” MPAA commented earlier.

Interestingly, the MPAA and other copyright holders have yet to demand similar measures from US Internet providers. But maybe that’s coming up next.

When the Government Comes Knocking, Who Has Your Back?

EFF Charts the Privacy and Transparency Practices of the Internet's Biggest Companies

EFF

When you use the Internet, you entrust your thoughts, experiences, locations, and more to companies like Google, Twitter, and Facebook. But what happens when the government asks these companies to hand over your private information? Will the company stand with you? Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) releases its second annual "When the Government Comes Knocking, Who Has Your Back?" report – this time as a white paper and chart tracking some of the Internet's biggest service providers on their public commitments to their users' privacy and security.

Increasingly, federal law enforcement agents are demanding that Internet companies provide their users' data as part of government investigations – sometimes fairly, sometimes unfairly. EFF's report examines 18 companies' terms of service, privacy policies, public representations, advocacy, and courtroom track records, awarding them gold stars for best practices in categories like "tell users about government data demands" and "fight for user privacy in courts."

"This year, we saw a big increase in the number of companies making a public promise to their users to inform them whenever possible when the government comes knocking," said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "This notice gives users the chance to fight back against government overreaches and to defend themselves if investigators want to unfairly fish around in their personal information. It appears that promising to notify your customers of government data demands is on the way to becoming an industry standard for responsible companies."

EFF first published its chart last year to recognize exemplary practices by some companies. We were pleased to see that Facebook, Dropbox, and Twitter have each upgraded their practices in the past year. Sonic.net, an ISP based in Santa Rosa, California, earned a gold star in every category. Cloud storage sites Dropbox and SpiderOak and business networking site LinkedIn also fared well, earning recognition in three categories each.

"Online service providers are the guardians of some of your most intimate data – everything from your messages, to location information, to the identities of your family and friends," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann. "We wanted to acknowledge companies that are adopting best practices and taking exceptional steps to defend their users against government overreaches in the courts and in Congress."

In addition to upgrading their own practices, many Internet companies have joined with civil liberties groups into a powerful coalition working to clarify outdated privacy laws so that there is no question about when the government needs a warrant to access sensitive users data.

"This year, we saw a number of major Internet companies join the Digital Due Process coalition, which is aimed at getting Congress to make lasting improvements in the laws that protect our electronic privacy," said EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman. "This should be a wakeup call to Congress to clarify outdated laws so there is no question that government agents need a court-ordered warrant before accessing sensitive location data, email content, and documents stored in the cloud."

For the full report "When the Government Comes Knocking, Who Has Your Back?":
https://www.eff.org/pages/who-has-your-back

Last year's report can be viewed here:
https://www.eff.org/pages/when-government-comes-knocking-who-has-your-back-2011

Contacts:

Cindy Cohn
Legal Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
cindy@eff.org

Marcia Hofmann
Senior Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
marcia@eff.org

Rainey Reitman
Activism Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
rainey@eff.org

DMT, Creativity and a Philosophy of Psychedelics

Terra Celeste

Join the director of DMT: The Spirit Molecule on a co-creative journey into transformational film-making and learn how you can help mix the open-source code for a new planetary culture. This Evolver Intensives live, online video course, "DMT RMX: Transmedia to Transbeing," starts on June 24th.

A version of this interview appeared in Catalyst.

Following his first experience with DMT, Director Mitch Schultz was inspired to create a series of four documentary films beginning with DMT: The Spirit Molecule. The films go first to understanding our connection with heaven, dimensions beyond our 3D world, and realms wholly different from our everyday reality. Second is Ground of Being, focused on understanding how to harmonize our relationship with our natural environment. Next is Global Beat Fusion, examining music as the soul of culture. The whole project concludes with a film focused on communication -- how to relate about all these experiences with each other.

Terra: Mitch, thank you so much for taking time for this conversation. You Directed The Spirit Molecule, which follows Dr. Straussman's sanctioned study of a psychoactive substance found naturally in plants, animals and humans, dimethyltryptamine. Why did you decide to make a film about DMT? Had you heard of Dr. Strassman's work previously?

Mitch: The simple answer, a personal DMT experience in 2002. Prior to that experience, I had never heard about Dr. Strassman's research, but it was that experience that brought me to his work. A close friend was moving home to Brazil from NYC, and several of us gathered in a midtown apartment to see him off. One of the individuals brought a small amount of DMT, and as it turned out, he was the only one there that had ever heard of DMT. I considered myself an experienced psychonaut and explained to him that I knew what to expect from my past psychedelic explorations. He quickly laughed me off. I was the third one to take the DMT, and by the second inhalation things began to shift very quickly. He encouraged me to take two more inhalations (I'm still not sure how I pulled that off), and immediately went into what I can only explain as dying experience. I had never been so afraid, and did my best to hold on. After approximately one minute the fear passed, and it turned out to be one of the most beautiful experiences in my life. Almost immediately upon my return to consensus reality, I knew I would make this film. The 10-minute experience changed the core of my being, provided a drastically new outlook on life, and ultimately became the impetus for my psychedelic research and life direction.


What is the focus of your current psychedelic research?

Healing, personal growth and spirituality. Now of course all of these can intersect with the next, but without two of the three present it's not worth going there. Ultimately, I believe the core of what we search for as humans lays at the intersection of all three, so I put my focus on uncovering ways to make them overlap. I've always had a sense that psychedelic mindspace is fully integrated with a multi-dimensional matrix of "life" that can be mapped, navigated and shaped in unimaginable ways. Reality hacking.


In your experience, do psychedelics only act on the mind?

Right, is like, your brain on drugs or close encounters of the third kind? I've come to think it's a combination of both. The cathartic emotions, shifts in time and space, entity communication, physical healing, and the variety of other experiences that we just can't wrap a vocabulary around seem to be more than just an internal occurrence. Science (as spiritual philosophies) continues to discover ways that our entire being is networked on multiple levels of reality, which becomes very apparent with altered states of consciousness connected to an interactive biological matrix. My sense is that the brain opens up its range of sensory awareness bringing insight into our mind, but at the same time we experience a variety of other energetic forces that remain hidden in consensus reality and play a role in our everyday life.

Psychedelic immediacy gives an experience of life unbounded. Through the freeing of thoughts and mind, psychedelic experiences can reveal the mystery of human potential, which is infinite. Can you describe life in a psychedelic world? Is this a good idea?

Phantasmagoric.

The dream, the reality, the imagined, all are contributing to the conditions of daily life -- each of these arenas has influence in our thoughts, habits and decision making. Examined close up, even the most still parts of life are full of movement and dynamic change. Rocks erode. Everything is in a constant state of decay or rejuvenation. In considering a state of psychedelic cohesion, is a psychedelic state a more immediate and direct awareness of this actual and constant reality?

Through personal trials and tribulations, I've come to understand my journey as a way to offer help to humanity with the concepts that have been revealed to me. And although the last decade has allowed me to solidify my musings, it has been a lifelong process. The culmination of my 38 years on this planet has resulted in a tetralogy of projects that make up the four-part Manifesto, a manifesto that aims to redefine our connection to Spirit, however understood or represented by any individual or larger culture.

Many have seen your documentary The Spirit Molecule, the first part of this Manifesto. Please share with us how you see the whole manifesto taking shape.

It begins with DMT: The Spirit Molecule exploring a new paradigm for consciousness, quantum consciousness. At the center of awareness lies a simple, natural molecule that potentially exists in all living organisms. A molecule that consistently produces a mystical experience, and may be the seed to the ultimate connection to It. Viewed through the lens of Entheogens, consciousness encounters the quantum world, generating and fostering Gnosis, but this state of consciousness can also be explored via a variety of ancient and esoteric knowledge around the world.

The next film, now in editing, Ground of Being documents a thriving eco-village built as an effort of restoration, rehabilitating an exhausted bluestone quarry in Melbourne, Australia. The community of C.E.R.E.S. has created and now maintains an award winning, not-for-profit, environment and education centre and urban farm.

Ground of Being builds from the knowledge attained from quantum awareness, and addresses humanity's role and symbiotic relationship to the life force of Earth. Through food and general sustainability practices, our physicality, thought, emotions and behaviors directly relate to how we recognize and care for natural world. By acknowledging our connection to everything around us, we can create a successful realignment with Nature that begins with the individual, grows into local community, and blossoms into a well integrated whole, mimicking the life force that we exist in.

The third film, Global Beat Fusion (based on Derek Beres' book of the same title), examines the interpretation, and celebration, of Spirit through music (art). Music has always been a ritual and social activity, a personal connection and a communal art shared by many. Music is the soul of a culture. Global Beat Fusion uncovers the computer as the first global folk instrument that international musicians share their respective cultural soul via the electronic space, cross-germinating their mythologies to create a meta-mythology.

Your work on this Manifesto begins with a vision resulting from your first DMT experience. You became aware of a possible peaceful world -- a sustainable reality. This was brought to light by your experience of a well balanced realm -- so you were inspired to share this Vision through the creation of this Manifesto comprised of four documentary films, ultimately concluding with a re-view -- re-telling the story.

This work concludes with the communication component. Open Source Reality [a working title] asks for the evolution of consciousness, physicality and interpretation of Spirit. For this to take place we need to develop a new language of maps, models and metaphors to re-interpret the misguided mythologies that have directed humanity for millennia, and now plague the social fabric.

The DMTRMX project creates an opportunity for anyone interested to become engaged in the psychedelics conversation through experiencing a dynamic and audience participatory approach to film and editing. You've given access to The Spirit Molecule anthology to the global community via the Creative Commons license, allowing creative individuals global access to edit and create their own DMT on film experience. What are your thoughts on intellectual property vs idea sharing?

Rather than 'property' think abundance, an intellectual smorgasbord. Open source ideas, believing the source of inspiration is infinite. Through this open sourcing and idea sharing, we redefine our mythologies, incorporating the quantum physical realm. We are constantly connected and related to a heavenly presence and source. Additionally, data is prolific throughout the world and by the internet, all this information is now broadly accessible, allowing the (re)discovery of lost traditions and and illuminating a clearer understanding of new and emerging tribal beats, new stories, new technologies and innovations, new mythologies created and shared.

BBC Uses a 2003 Picture from Iraq to Incite War Against Syria

When it is time to justify the invasion of a country that is of no threat to Allied forces, mass media deception kicks into high gear to sway public opinion. Only a few years after the “Watch-out-Saddam-is-gonna-nuke-us-all-with-weapons-of-mass-destruction” fabrication, mass media is now being flooded with horrible stories from Syria to incite people in Western countries to think “I hope we go in there and clean up this mess”. However, as it is often the case in war propaganda, lies, fabrications and deceit are used to justify military action.

A recent example of this is the BBC using a horrifying picture from 2003 in Iraq to illustrate an alleged massacre that happened in Houla, Syria. When a “reputed” news source such as BBC gets caught using fake pictures to demonize a country, one can wonder what other fabricated BS appears in the news and goes unnoticed. Here’s an article on BBC’s “mistake”.

Oops, BBC: Iraq photo to illustrate Houla massacre?

With the shock of the Houla tragedy ringing across the world, the BBC has released a story with a harrowing picture of rows and rows of children’s bodies awaiting burial… But isn’t that post-Saddam Iraq?

­Photographer Marco di Lauro who took the shot grabbed by the BBC says he nearly “fell off his chair” after finding the picture on the network’s website with a caption reading: “Photo from Activist. This image – which cannot be independently verified – is believed to show bodies of children in Houla awaiting funeral.”

The picture was actually taken on March 27, 2003; it depicts an Iraqi boy jumping over dozens of white body bags containing skeletons found in a desert south of Baghdad. The image, which is published on Marco di Lauro’s website, is part of his story Iraq, the Aftermath of Saddam.

Marco di Lauro takes photographs for Getty Images picture agency, his works have been published across Europe and the US. But the indication that the BBC picked his image from the internet, not from official stock worries him somewhat.

“What I am really astonished by is that a news organization like the BBC doesn’t check the sources and it’s willing to publish any picture sent it by anyone: activist, citizen journalist or whatever. That’s all,” the photographer told The Daily Telegraph.

“Someone is using someone else’s picture for propaganda on purpose,” he added.

A BBC spokesman says the picture, illustrating Sunday night’s story “Syria Massacre in Houla Condemned as Outrage Grows,” was taken down “immediately” when the source was identified.

“We were aware of this image being widely circulated on the internet in the early hours of this morning following the most recent atrocities in Syria. We used it with a clear disclaimer saying it could not be independently verified,” he added.

These words about information “which cannot be independently verified” have become a trademark of media coverage of the 14-month conflict in Syria. Before UN special envoy Kofi Annan brought his peace plan to the troubled Arab country, the Syrian government had remained reluctant to open borders to most international journalists.

But even now the bulk of information comes from people calling themselves opposition activists – via amateur videos uploaded to YouTube or eyewitness reports.

But sometimes it looks that the mantra “cannot be independently verified” serves as a disclaimer to publish information which wouldn’t stand a chance of ever being verified.

- Source: RT

UK Pirate Bay Block Backfires, Easy To Get Around

The Pirate Bay blocked in UK

Brit Dee, Contributor
Activist Post

Shiver me timbers!

If like me you're one of Sky's four million UK broadband customers, yesterday you'll have found that you were unable to access legendary filesharing site The Pirate Bay. That's because they've blocked it following a court order obtained by BPI, the record industry trade association.

Sky's block follows Virgin Media's and Everything Everywhere's earlier this month, with O2 having until June 13th to deny their customers access to the site, and TalkTalk and BT likely to follow shortly after.

Unfortunately for the big corporations who are trying to censor the Web, the recent blocks seem only to have increased The Pirate Bay's popularity.

Earlier this month a spokesperson told Torrentfreak blog that the mainstream media's huge amount of "free advertising" had driven millions more visitors to the site. They gleefully claimed that,

Thanks to the High Court and the fact that the news was on the BBC, we had 12 million more visitors yesterday than we had ever had before...We should write a thank you note to the BPI (British Phonographic Industry).

Equally unfortunate for big businesses such as BPI is the fact that the block is incredibly easy to get around.

Anyone wanting to access the site can do so by using a proxy - general proxies can be found by simply searching for "proxy server" - or visiting the dedicated TPB proxy set up by Pirate Party UK.

Happy seafaring, me hearties.

This article first appeared at ResistRadio.com

Brit Dee's ResistRadio.com is an independent media website approaching global news, politics and conspiracy theory from a radical, but critical and rational perspective.