War Promises - the documentary

Millions of people believe that evidence proves that Western intelligence services organised the hideous attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001. Even the mainstream media have stopped defending the official version and now prefer to ignore the issue altogether.

Distrust in Western governments grows as the wars of aggression waged by the USA and NATO continue to be justified with these false flag operations. Ever harsher domestic laws are being passed to crush all outrage and resistance in Western populations; at the end of the day they aim to unleash the German military on German civilians, instead of allowing morality and ethics to flow into day-by-day policymaking.

That morality and ethics long ago stopped playing a part in political decision-making is shown by the use of internationally outlawed weapons in all the wars NATO has started. At best, one has heard of depleted uranium after seeing the film Deadly Dust by award-winning Frieder Wagner. But even that film is systemically blocked out and banished, although, or perhaps because, it shows the horrific consequences of the use of these uranium weapons.

Among those aghast at the actions of NATO and the complicity of Germany in such internationally illegal wars of aggression is Christoph Hörstel, for many years foreign correspondent and editorial head of the German public broadcasting network ARD. Of like mind is Giullietto Chiesa, a Member of the European Parliament, who slams the ignorance and disinterest of most of his fellow Members.

What they don't know is explained in the film War Promises by insiders and whistleblowers. Annie Machon was a spy with the British MI5 and reports on false flag operations, as do Andreas von Bülow and Jürgen Elsässer, who possess enormous insider knowledge from their membership of the parliamentary committee supervising the secret services, and want to bring it to the public.

Eight years after 9/11 millions of people have linked up through the Internet to jointly rebel against this criminal system. What was still dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory until just a few month ago is now regarded as proven, raising the question how we, the people, handle this situation, in which those who govern us have on their minds anything but our wellbeing.

The Mexican Fuenteovejuna - Residents of Ascensión, Chihuahua Expel the Local Police

By Fernando León, Special to The Narco News Bulletin

On Thursday, September 22, the Mexican press reported on an event that could show a little of the future that awaits many cities overwhelmed by the violence generated by president Felipe Calderón's drug war. Residents of the town of Ascensión, Chihuahua decided they had enough with the lack of governmental response to the security problems that they have been facing for several months, along with the constant threat of the military and the impunity it enjoys. The residents organized themselves and decided that from now on their security would depend on themselves.

The town of Ascensión, Chihuahua, based in the municipality of the same name and located 192 kilometers south east of Ciudad Juárez, has been hit by a wave of kidnappings in the last few months. Last week, the last one ended with the death of two kidnappers at the hands of the people. Before the kidnapping of a 17 year old, the residents overtook the agressors and managed to free the young man while making a citizen's arrest of five of the eight alledged kidnappers. Three of the kidnappers were later arrested by military personnel. However, the other two became the target of the residents' helplessness with the constant threat that they face. The two kidnappers died in the custody of the Federal Police, as they were prevented from receiving medical attention after the people tried to lynch them.

The case is relevant in that the Mexican population suffers mainly in the northern border region of the country—although that is not to say that the violence from Calderón's war has not affected other regions and states in the country. And that's why, with the collusion of the "authorities" with criminal organizations—which is the same but not equal to that in the North—opting for community autonomy does not seem so outlandish. The war that the country suffers from doesn't have support from anyone other than the governmental class, big business, and the criminal groups benefiting from it. And this is demonstrated when cases like Ascensión explode.

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Brzezinski: "It's easier to kill a million people...than it is to control them"

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Obama Adviser Brzezinskis Off-the-record Speech to British Elites


Written by William F. Jasper
Friday, 21 November 2008

Zbigniew Brzezinski, a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama on matters of national security and foreign policy, was the featured speaker at Chatham House in London on November 17, 2008. The title of his lecture was Major Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next US President. Although Chatham House events are known to attract the great and the good of Englands political, financial, and academic elites — as well as many of its top media representatives — there has been virtually no word as to what Brzezinski had to say in any of the worlds press.

This is but the latest example of the hermetic seal known as the Chatham House Rule, which states:

When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

Chatham House, in St. James Square, London, is the headquarters of the powerful Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), founded in 1920 as the principal front organization of the secret Round Table network of Cecil Rhodes, famous for his fabulous wealth from Africas gold and diamond mines. The RIIA was founded in conjunction with its sister organization in the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which is headquartered at the Pratt House in New York. Pratt House also has formally adopted the Chatham House Rule, as has the U.S. State Department (which has been dominated by CFR members for seven decades) and other U.S. agencies.

Thus, we frequently have top U.S. officials speaking privately to audiences of American and foreign elites concerning matters of great importance to the American people, but the content of those talks is off-limits to the American public. This especially should be a matter of concern if the matters these elites are discussing involve plans that will dramatically impact our society, our economy, and our political system.

Brzezinski and his friends at the RIIA and CFR assure us that nothing of the sort ever happens at these gatherings. However, I did attend one of Brzezinskis lectures at a globalist conference, where the content certainly was disturbing. It was Mikhail Gorbachevs 1995 State of the World Forum in San Francisco, and Brzezinski was one of the key speakers. He was frustrated that the new millennium was only five years away, but his long-sought goal of world government was still far off. We do not have a new world order, he told the audience, a veritable Whos Who of world finance, business, politics, media, and academia. We cannot leap into world government in one quick step, Brzezinski noted. Attaining that objective, he explained, would require a gradual process of globalization, building the new world order step by step, stone by stone through progressive regionalization.

Through his writings — as well as his policies while President Jimmy Carters national security adviser — Brzezinski has demonstrated that he is committed to the globalist world view of the RIIA/CFR and the Trilateral Commission (which he helped found, becoming its first director) rather than the constitutionalist view of our Founding Fathers. Rather than a sovereign, independent, constitutional republic, he is committed to a new world order that proposes steadily encroaching international controls and institutions, leading gradually, steadily to an America that is submerged and subsumed in a world government.

Those familiar with the writings, speeches, policies, and public records of the many public figures who attend (and speak before) these globalist gatherings understand that Brzezinskis views on these matters are not his alone; they are shared by many (if not most) of those in attendance. They are the people who set policies and determine the course our nation will take. They prattle regularly about their commitment to transparency in government. Yet they themselves speak at off-the-record gatherings such as the recent Chatham House event where Brzezinski was the featured speaker.

Freedom to Fascism in 10 Steps

From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all.

End of America Photo montage.

Self-Organization in Hanoi Traffic

"hanoi, vietnam, 24feb2009. this is a nice example of self-organization as described by complexity theory. there are no fixed "top-down" laws (i.e. traffic lights), and yet the incredible traffic flows continuously.

in complexity terms, the collective motion emerges from the multiple local interactions between the "agents" (drivers and pedestrians), mediated by horn sounds, eye contact, body gestures etc."

Field Consciousness and the Global Consciousness Project with Roger D. Nelson

Roger D. Nelson, Ph.D., is the director of the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), an international, multi-laboratory collaboration founded in 1997 to study collective consciousness. From 1980 to 2002, he was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University.

His professional focus is the study of consciousness and intention and the role of mind in the physical world. His work integrates science and spirituality, including research that is directly focused on numinous communal experiences.

Building on years of laboratory experiments studying the effects of human intention on sensitive engineering equipment, Nelson began using random event generator (REG) technology in the field to study effects of special states of group consciousness. This led to the GCP, a globally distributed network of REGs around the world sending data continuously over the Internet to a server in Princeton, NJ. The network is designed to register indications of a hypothesized global consciousness responding to major world events such as 9/11/2001, the beginnings of war, or New Year's Eve.

Roger Nelson's professional degrees are in experimental cognitive psychology. His work in design and analysis is supplemented by a background in physics, statistical methods, and multi-media production. Until his retirement in 2002, he served as the coordinator of experimental work in the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR), directed by Robert Jahn in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering/Applied Science, Princeton University.

A Video Introduction To Trespass: A History Of Uncommissioned Urban Art

A video introduction to Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art featuring interviews by Marc and Sara Schiller (Wooster Collective) Carlo McCormick, WK Interact, Anne Pasternak, Martha Cooper.

Musical Innerlube: 'The fight ain't over'

Uploaded by Birontho: 'My father never got a lot of recognition for his service so I am posting this for him and all WW 2 Veterans. He was also an Ojibway Warrior and pretty talented guitar player so I remixed this original song and renamed it "The fight ain't over" because of all that is going on today after the many years his generation struggled with Naziism and fascism (terrorism on a global scale).'

Modern art was CIA 'weapon'

By Frances Stonor Saunders, The Independent

For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.

The connection is improbable. This was a period, in the 1950s and 1960s, when the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern art - President Truman summed up the popular view when he said: "If that's art, then I'm a Hottentot." As for the artists themselves, many were ex- communists barely acceptable in the America of the McCarthyite era, and certainly not the sort of people normally likely to receive US government backing.

Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.

The existence of this policy, rumoured and disputed for many years, has now been confirmed for the first time by former CIA officials. Unknown to the artists, the new American art was secretly promoted under a policy known as the "long leash" - arrangements similar in some ways to the indirect CIA backing of the journal Encounter, edited by Stephen Spender.

The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.

The next key step came in 1950, when the International Organisations Division (IOD) was set up under Tom Braden. It was this office which subsidised the animated version of George Orwell's Animal Farm, which sponsored American jazz artists, opera recitals, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's international touring programme. Its agents were placed in the film industry, in publishing houses, even as travel writers for the celebrated Fodor guides. And, we now know, it promoted America's anarchic avant-garde movement, Abstract Expressionism.

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Jota Ramos: when music is stronger than weapons

During the nineteenth century, there was a large migration of slaves to Latin America, especially to Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. To this latter nation came a group from the Congo, to a town known today as Villa Rica, close to the coast and 36km from Cali (Colombia).

Interview: Pablo Sabugo
Photos: Eddie-Lee Lawrence

From that moment onwards these Africans, and later their descendents, have had to fight against a series of problems that have presented themselves throughout their history and which are today more apparent than ever. One of the descendents of these slaves is Jota Ramos, a young man of 24 years who, through hip-hop, is speaking out against the injustices that his people are suffering. A student of political science at the University of Santiago de Cali, Jota started to sing and protest from an early age against the inequalities that existed in his town, and together with friends created the group 'Soporte Klan'.

As time went on they became famous in the local area and nationwide.  This situation started to create problems with the people and groups who were blamed in the band's message, so much so that even Jota Ramos began to receive death threats. In light of these threats, he decided to leave his country with the intention of telling the world about what is happening in Villa Rica.  He began a tour in March this year called "Haga que pase" ('Make it Happen') that has taken him to diverse countries such as Argentina, Uruguay and Spain, amongst others.

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Without doubt the music has been very effective at reaching the youth. A while ago the Catholic Church had a priest who sang reggaeton, and got closer to young people this way.

Exactly, it's a good medium. Now, with regard to the Church, it makes me laugh, because previously they said that hip hop and rap were the work of the Devil, but when they realised the power of this music, there began to appear many Christians with huge followings making religious hip hop.

Another of your criticisms is that young people absorb everything that the mass media shows them.

Today the media is controlled by capitalism, a model that I don't agree with. Through this strategy the media influence the youth and control them. The people hang off the media's every word, and end up losing their own customs and culture. In Villa Rica you can sometimes see fashions and you don't know where they've come from.  For this reason we have a programme where we give cameras to young people, telling them, "Record your reality, record what is happening to you".

In this way we take advantage of technological advances and we are educating more. While before kids used to play outside, what happens today is they're now addicted to Playstations or some other type of video game.  Before, kids used to make up games and play in the street more.  It's even worse in the cities.

Have any of you been victims of paramilitary violence?

In 2007 I was at a party in a place called "paso de la bolsa" near Villa Rica, in an area controlled by the paramilitaries, which I didn't realise at the time.  On the way back I was leaving to take my car, and when I was walking in the street I found myself in front of a paramilitary group, and I was scared.

They stopped me and started to ask me a lot of questions, like who I was, where I was going, etc.  I'm very well known in the area and told them I was Jota Ramos from Villa Rica and that I didn't want any problems. They carried on asking what I was doing at that time of night.  Suddenly, one of them appeared with a machete and started to attack me with it.

I managed to dodge the first blow, but the second cut my fingers. I didn't lose them, but I was left with injuries, and even now I have mobility problems in some of them, and on one finger they had to attach a wood extension.  I was also left with scars on other parts of my body.

How did you survive?

Luckily their boss arrived and they stopped abusing me. I told them I was from Villa Rica, and they told me to leave straightaway or they would kill me.  Totally confused (because they'd also hit me with the butt of a pistol), I ran away hearing shots; later I reached a bridge a kilometre away, in an Army-controlled zone. There they helped me and called an ambulance.

They also asked who had done it to me. I told them what happened, but they didn't do anything. The truth is that I don't understand why they didn't kill me – normally you don't come out of that type of situation alive.

After this I started a campaign called "Youth Not War", because the people who'd done this to me were adolescents, as young as me, and through this I met people from War Resisters International. I travelled throughout Colombia, with big concerts in Cali, Medellín, etc. I'd recently had an operation and did the concerts wearing bandages and everything. The tools I used to carry my message were art and culture.

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