New British Ad Campaign claims Use of Cash to be an Act of Terrorism

March 11, 2010

InfoWars

By Paul Joseph Watson

A new government commercial currently running on one of Britain’s most popular radio stations is selling one thing – fear – by encouraging Londoners to report their neighbors as terrorists if they use cash, enjoy their privacy, or even close their curtains.

The advertisement, produced in conjunction with national radio outlet TallkSport, promotes the “anti-terrorist hotline” and encourages people to report individuals who don’t talk to their neighbors much, people who like to keep themselves to themselves, people who close their curtains, and people who don’t use credit cards.

“This may mean nothing, but together it could all add up to you having suspicions,” states the voice on the ad, before continuing “We all have a role to play in combating terrorism” (we’re all indentured stasi informants for the government).

“If you see anything suspicious, call the confidential anti-terrorist hotline….if you suspect it, report it,” concludes the commercial.

That’s right, if you are trying to stay out of debt by not having a credit card, you’re obviously a prime candidate to be a suicide bomber.

If you’re watching television or using a computer monitor and want to keep the sun off the screen by closing your curtains, you’re probably operating at the behest of Osama bin Laden.

If you’d rather not let the entire neighborhood know your business then you could be planning to hijack planes and crash them into buildings.

Of course, the sheer lunacy of this commercial on the face of it doesn’t need to be explained in any depth. What’s infinitely more disturbing is the deeper message the government is trying to force upon the public – that everyone has a responsibility to act as a citizen spy, a Stasi informant working for the state, and that everyone is under constant suspicion no matter how apparently benign their behavior.

This has nothing to do with catching non-existent terrorists and everything to do with creating the perception that anyone who attempts to live their life even marginally outside of the system, by not having a credit card for example, is a potential danger to the rest of the sheep who have chosen to remain firmly inside the confines of the pen.

This is about getting the other inmates to police any other prisoner who dares to step outside the boundary of the cell.

Another aspect is the accelerating attempt to create a cashless society where every transaction is tracked and recorded. To predominantly eliminate the use of cash, it has to be demonized as suspicious, dirty and criminal.

People who have been reading this website will know that we have tracked the evolution of these kind of campaigns with increasing horror at their resemblance to the darkest days of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany.

Similar previous “anti-terror” campaigns have featured posters that imply people who get refunds, live in apartments, or drive vans should be reported. Does that sound incredible? It’s true, the London Metropolitan Police actually ran a campaign encouraging people to report individuals as potential terrorists because they had a home, under the slogan, “Terrorists need places to live. Are you suspicious of your tenants or neighbors?”

As America and Britain sink deeper into militarized police states, society begins to parallel more and more aspects of Nazi Germany, especially in the context of citizens being turned against each other, which in turn creates a climate of fear and the constraining sense that one is always being watched.

One common misconception about Nazi Germany was that the police state was solely a creation of the authorities and that the citizens were merely victims. On the contrary, Gestapo files show that 80% of all Gestapo investigations were started in response to information provided by denunciations by “ordinary” Germans.

“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors,” wrote Robert Gellately of Florida State University.

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Infomercial pitchman denied OK to leave country

February 24, 2010

WREX

By Associated Press

A federal judge has refused to give infomercial pitchman and author Kevin Trudeau permission to visit Canada next month while he is appealing his 30-day contempt sentence in Chicago.

Judge Robert Gettleman said Wednesday an appeals court has set Trudeau’s bond – which requires that he surrender his passport – and he can’t interfere with the higher court’s order.

Trudeau sells books advocating “natural cures” for a variety of ailments. He is fighting the government over alleged misleading advertising.

Gettleman last week sentenced Trudeau to 30 days for getting his supporters to flood the judge’s computer with messages, locking up his e-mail.

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Judge denies Trudeau request to travel to Canada

February 24, 2010

Chicago Sun-Times

By Natasha Korecki

It’ll be “No, Canada” for Kevin Trudeau — at least for now.

A federal judge this afternoon wouldn’t grant the infomercial king, controversial author and radio host’s request to travel to Canada and other parts of the country for “business engagements.”

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said he thought the matter was out of his hands now that Trudeau, found in criminal contempt of court earlier this month and sentenced to 30 days in prison, has filed an appeal.

The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals put a temporary halt to the prison sentence, pending arguments before a three-judge panel there.

Gettleman penalized Trudeau after he urged his followers to deluge the judge’s email box regarding his ongoing civil case. Gettleman said Trudeau was trying to improperly influence the bench. Trudeau has said he believed he was exercising his First Amendment right.

Since his contempt finding, Trudeau, who continues to keep up a healthy tan, has been bound by a court order that doesn’t let him leave the Northern District of Illinois. Trudeau, who has a residence in Hinsdale, was ordered to give up his passport.

Trudeau sought to travel to Vancouver and Toronto as well as other parts of the country for “medical appointments and numerous business engagements,” according to a federal court filing.

Trudeau’s criminal lawyer, Thomas L. Kirsch, said he is still weighing whether to ask the appeals court if his client can travel.

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Here’s My Defense!

Here is what we filed today with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in my defense to the charge of criminal contempt. Read this and see for yourself. You may also read the emails by clicking here.

Here is what I filed yesterday about my request from the court to allow me to travel.

And here is the new order and new schedule of events. It shows who will be defending the court’s order.

Bottom line is no decision will be reached on this until after the 18th of March.

Prison Guards use Facebook to Brag about Prisoner Abuse

February 26, 2010

Omaha World Herald

By Paul Hammel

A man who identified himself as a Nebraska State Penitentiary guard posted a Facebook comment this month expressing glee at roughing up a inmate.

“When you work in a prison a good day is getting to smash an inmates face into the ground. … for me today was a VERY good day,” stated the Web posting on the Facebook social networking site page of Caleb Bartels.

Two other men identified in state records as prison guards, Shawn Paulson and Derek Dickey, posted responses that appeared supportive, including this one from Dickey: “very satisfying isnt it!!!”

Now all three find themselves in hot water, with former State Sen. Ernie Chambers calling for their dismissal.

In a letter this week to Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, Chambers wrote that such “reprehensible misconduct” discussed so brazenly makes the three unfit to serve.

“Given the nature of their work and the power they exercise over inmates, they have shown themselves to lack fitness to hold employment,” Chambers wrote.

Attempts to reach the three guards were unsuccessful Wednesday. Messages left for them through a prison public information officer and through their Facebook pages were not immediately returned. Their home phone numbers were either not listed or not in operation.

A spokesman for Bruning said Wednesday that the attorney general had seen Chambers’ letter and was taking the allegations “very seriously.”

Bob Houston, state corrections director, said his officers “do not abuse inmates.”

“We take anything that concerns inmate abuse very seriously,” Houston said. “It is not part of the character of our department to abuse inmates.”

He cautioned that so far the allegations had not been confirmed and that counterfeit Internet postings were possible.

Force is sometimes required by corrections officers, Houston said, although he declined to comment further because the incident described on the Facebook page had not been substantiated.

The case is reminiscent of another pursued by Chambers and Bruning: the dismissal of a Nebraska state trooper who had joined a white supremacy group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. The trooper had posted comments on the group’s Web site.

The Nebraska Supreme Court last year upheld the firing of Trooper Robert Henderson, and his certificate to work as a law enforcement officer was revoked by a state police council.

Houston said his department has disciplined, and even terminated, employees for inappropriate Internet postings.

He said the allegations raised Wednesday were the first involving possible inmate abuse.

Chambers said the allegation was forwarded to him by a caller to his Omaha cable television show.

An official of the Nebraska chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said that while employees have freedom of speech rights to post anything they like, the consequences of such postings are an unsettled area of law.

Facebook pages, which are available to anyone who signs up, make employees’ words much more public, said Laurel Marsh of the ACLU.

“Part of it is just going to boil down to good common sense,” Marsh said.

Proofpoint Inc., a California Internet security firm, reported last year that in a survey of companies with more than 1,000 employees, 8 percent had dismissed workers for improper posts on social networking sites, double the number during the previous year.

Facebook has gotten prison guards and other law enforcement officers in trouble elsewhere.

A British guard was fired last year for befriending 13 current and former inmates via Facebook.

A year ago, a Washington State Patrol cadet was asked to resign after posting pictures of himself drinking out of a pitcher of beer and waiting for a ride after a night of partying.

A Kennewick, Wash., police officer was fired last year for making disparaging remarks on a blog about his classmates at a police training academy.

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Bribes at the Center of Tomato Company

February 24, 2010

FoodNavigator-USA.com

By Caroline Scott-Thomas

Former owner and CEO of SK Foods Frederick Scott Salyer has been charged with running his company as a criminal racketeering enterprise for more than a decade and could face up to 20 years in prison.

According to federal authorities in Sacramento, Salyer is alleged to have ordered payment of $390,000-worth of bribes to company executives in order to ensure they bought tomato products from his company at above-market prices.

An ongoing federal lawsuit was filed against employees at SK Foods in August 2008, accusing them of distributing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, price fixing, and mislabeling offences, following a three-and-a-half year investigation. The California-based company supplied about 15 percent of the bulk tomato paste and diced tomatoes supplied to American manufacturers of salsa, ketchup and juices and it is alleged to have regularly paid bribes to the purchasing managers of many of its customers, including Kraft Foods, Frito-Lay, B&G Foods, and Safeway.

“The investigation has exposed a web of corruption and fraud in the tomato products industry – centered at SK Foods,” US Attorney Benjamin Wagner said in a statement.

Salyer has been charged with racketeering, wire fraud and obstruction of justice. His lawyer Malcolm Segal said that Salyer intends to enter a plea of not guilty and dispute the charges.

Salyer, 54, was arrested by FBI agents at JFK airport in New York on February 4 as he disembarked from a flight from Paris. According to the complaint that led to his arrest, Salyer left the United States in October 2009, after several former SK Foods employees had pleaded guilty, with the intention of relocating permanently overseas.

This is the first time Salyer has been indicted in connection with the case.

The complaint alleged that he had been seeking permanent residence status in Uruguay, Paraguay, Andorra, and France, in the belief that he would not be extradited from those countries, and that he had siphoned millions of dollars from former SK Foods’ accounts into offshore bank accounts in the Caribbean and Lichtenstein.

Salyer had booked a flight to return to Europe on February 5, but instead appeared in court where a federal magistrate denied bail, saying that he had been planning an elaborate scheme to flee the country.

Meanwhile, the company’s vice president of operations Steven King was charged last week with intent to defraud and mislead by mislabeling moldy tomato products and releasing them onto the market. He has pleaded guilty to one count of food adulteration and misbranding, the tenth person to plead guilty in connection with the case.

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Infomercial king Trudeau gets 30 days in prison

February 17, 2010

Chicago Sun Times

By Natasha Korecki

TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau, known as the infomercial king and best-selling author, was ordered by a federal judge to serve 30 days in prison and must turn himself in tomorrow.

“This was an attempt by Mr. Trudeau to harass, intimidate and influence the court,” said U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman, who was flooded with hundreds of “harassing, threatening and interfering” emails, locking up the judge’s email system and shutting down his Blackberry for part of the day.

Last week, Gettleman found Trudeau in criminal contempt of court and nearly threw him in jail after Trudeau asked his supporters to email a federal judge overseeing a pending civil case brought by the Federal Trade Commission.

The deeply-tanned Trudeau, who wouldn’t talk in court when given the opportunity, said after his hearing he believed it was a freedom of speech issue.

Asked if he had anything to say after Gettleman’s ruling Trudeau said: “I wish I could. I’ll have a lot to say on my radio show when I get out,” he said. “This is a First Amendment issue … I was exercising my First Amendment right.”

His lawyer then told him not to answer any more questions.

As Trudeau walked up Dearborn Street outside the courthouse, a woman in a fur coat shouted: “Hey, isn’t that the guy who wrote all the books? Let’s follow him.”

Trudeau’s lawyer, Kimball Anderson, said he would file an emergency appeal with the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and expected his client to be released.

Anderson argued that Gettleman couldn’t find his client in direct contempt because the offense didn’t happen in the courtroom.

“Mr Trudeau has committed no crime; he has violated no statute; and he has violated no court order,” Anderson said. “He believes that he was simply exercising his First Amendment rights and was permissibly encouraging others to do the same.”

But Gettleman said the world has changed because of technology and that having supporters email the judge was a disruption to the court. Reading from a transcript of a radio show where Trudeau asks his supporters to contact the judge, Gettleman said the pitchman was deceptive, wrongly telling his audience the judge sought to burn all his books.

Gettleman has now found Trudeau in contempt of court three times. He called him “undeterrable.”

“I can count the number of people I’ve held in contempt on one hand and three of those fingers have Kevin Trudeau’s name on them,” said Gettleman.

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Convicted Man Disputes HIV Risk

February 12, 2010

Winnepeg Sun

By Dean Pritchard

An HIV-positive man convicted of not disclosing his health status to his sex partners is seeking to overturn his 14-year prison sentence, arguing he posed no significant health risk to the victims.

Clato Mabior was convicted in 2008 of six counts of aggravated sexual assault in relation to six victims and one count each of sexual touching and sexual interference.

Mabior appeared Wednesday before the Manitoba Court of Appeal, where his lawyer Ian McNair argued Mabior’s “viral load” was so low his sex partners were at no significant risk of infection.

But what constitutes a significant risk, countered Crown attorney Liz Thompson.

“If one complainant is infected, can you say to them ‘Well, the chance was one in 100,000, so you’re out of luck?’

“We’re not criminalizing people with HIV,” Thompson said. “We’re saying as a person, you cannot put anybody in harm’s way.”

One of Mabior’s victims was 12-years-old at the time of the offences and three were 17. None of his victims have been diagnosed with HIV.

McNair said Mabior used a condom every time he had sex with two of the victims.

At the time of his March 2006 arrest, police believed as many as 45 girls and women may have been victimized by him. He stood trial in relation to 11 alleged victims.

Prior to his arrest, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority issued a public warning Mabior was defying medical advice about his HIV and knowingly having sex with unsuspecting partners.

Police said they believed Mabior had been luring runaways to his Sherbrook Street home with the promise of intoxicants and a place to stay. At his trial, court heard Mabior plied some of his victims with alcohol and drugs.

At his sentencing, Mabior was credited five years for time served. His remaining sentence is just under 71/2 years.

Mabior is from Sudan and is expected to be deported once he has served his sentence.

The appeal court reserved its decision.

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Texas Schoolkids Tagged With GPS Tracking Devices

January 22, 2010

Prison Planet

By Paul Joseph Watson

A judge has ordered 22 students at Bryan Highschool in Texas to carry GPS tracking devices in the name of preventing truancy, another example of how schools are now youth internment centers – preparatory camps for brainwashing kids to accept the prison planet.

“Bryan High students who skip school will soon be tracked 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” reports KBTX.

“It’s called the Attendance Improvement Management Program or AIM, and it has been used across Texas and the United States.”

Students who skip class are now forced to attend “truancy court” and be lectured by a judge before being mandated to carry a GPS tracking device.

“Students on the program are tracked with a hand-held GPS device between the time they leave for school in the morning and the time they check in for curfew at night.”
Not only are children being treated as criminals if they skip class, parents too are being targeted if they turn up late to collect their kids. A story we broke back in 2006 highlighted how a junior high school in Indiana threatens parents with police and child protective service involvement if they fail to pick up their child on time after mandatory Friday classes for missed homework.

The school stated that if parents didn’t arrive at the agreed time to pick up their child, “arrangements have been made with the Tell City Police Department to have them housed at the police station.”

The letter then states that intervention by the police will also necessitate involvement of the Perry County Office of Family and Children. In other words – get stuck in a traffic jam and you could get your kids snatched by the state and fed into the pedophile-infested government “care” system.
American public schools are being transformed into prison training camps set up to breed continuous generations of obedient slaves.

Schools across the country are routinely invaded by armed goons conducting “drills” whereby students are shouted at and have guns pointed at them. School lockdowns have also become a routine part of student life as kids are conditioned into thinking that they are constantly in danger and need to be protected at all times by the state.

Having armed men terrorize children is by design and it is intended to normalize the police state and train students to accept it as a routine function of society when they leave school.

Drug raids such as the one conducted in Goose Creek South Carolina, where armed police raided a high school with weapons drawn supposedly in search of drugs, are also routine. Shouting officers aimed guns at students heads as they were ordered face-up against the wall, then into Guantanamo style squats as they were handcuffed and K9 dogs sniffed their backpacks.

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Some Prison Food Better Than Hospital

January 22, 2010

Natural News

By David Gutierrez

Prisoners in British prisons get better nutrition than patients in the country’s hospitals, according to a study conducted by researchers from Bournemouth University.

“It’s incredible that so many hospitals are failing to serve healthy meals,” said Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb. “If prisons can serve good food, then so can hospitals.”

The study found that the primary problem in hospitals is that no one pays attention to make sure that patients eat the food prepared for them — as many sick and elderly people either have suppressed appetites or have physical problems that interfere with their eating. Yet no one is designated in most hospitals to assist patients who have trouble eating. A total of 11 million meals are thrown out uneaten every year, the report found.

Food is often prepared hot and then left sitting out until an orderly gets around to taking it to patients, at which point it is often cold and unappetizing. Food may be placed out of some patients’ reach, and other patients miss meals because they have tests or other procedures during a facility’s only designated meal times.

“Ward staff also don’t actually know how much patients are eating because it is domestics who clear the trays away,” researcher Heather Hartwell said. “This is an example of fragmentation in hospitals that does not necessarily happen in prisons.”

The report found that 242 patients died from malnutrition in British hospitals in 2007, higher than any year since 1997. More than 8,000 other patients were discharged under-nourished.

Hospitals also spend significantly less on each meal than prisons do, the report found. The food at prisons tends to be of higher quality — high in carbohydrates and low in fat — and prisoners are more likely to eat communally, which has been shown to increase food intake.

“If you are in prison then the diet you get is extremely good in terms of nutritional content,” researcher John Edwards said. ‘The food that is provided is actually better than most civilians have.”

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