Friday, April 25. 2008
'The human rights issue has become the centerfold of media disinformation. China is no model of human rights but neither are the US and its indefectible British ally, responsible for extensive war crimes and human rights violations in Iraq and around the World. The US and its allies, which uphold the practice of torture, political assassinations and the establishment of secret detention camps, continue to be presented to public opinion as a model of Western democracy to be emulated by developing countries, in contrast to Russia, Iran, North Korea and the People's Republic of China.' (Global Research article). media-underground.net
Monday, April 21. 2008
'In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.
'The administration’s communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo.' (New York Times article). media-underground.net
Thursday, April 17. 2008
'On March 11th a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE - French-German cultural TV channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According To Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.' (Google video stream). media-underground.net
Sunday, April 13. 2008
Monarch One tracks the history of the MKULTRA program from its inception up till today, and some of the key players involved in the program. The Documentary also details different Electro Magnetic Weapons, Trauma Based Mind Control, Microwave Weapons and testimony from victims of the different programs. Watch now: Monarch One. (Google video stream). media-underground.net
Tuesday, April 8. 2008
On 18th May 1958 Aldous Huxley, social critic and author of Brave New World, talked to Wallace about threats to freedom in the United States, overpopulation, bureaucracy, propaganda, drugs, advertising, and television.
Are his concerns still valuable? (University of Texas video stream). media-underground.net
Friday, April 4. 2008
'In the minds of the political, industrial, and intellectual elites of the overwhelming majority of nations of the world today, there exists a deadly dangerous myth: that the British Empire has disappeared from the face of the Earth; and that Great Britain, the United Kingdom, is of little consequence in world affairs.
'According to this fairy tale, Britain's royal family is a powerless relic of days gone by, collecting its modest pension, fulfilling its ceremonial obligations, and, perhaps, drawing in a few tourist dollars, to justify its upkeep. In the extreme version of this Big Lie, today's Britain is cast in the role of a benign force in world affairs, a "friend of the downtrodden,'' and "diligent defender of human rights.''' (American Almanac article). media-underground.net
Saturday, March 29. 2008
'Psychedelic drugs are to the human mind today what the discovery of the microscope was to medicine and biological science three or four hundred years ago. Psychedelic drugs expand and speed up consciousness. They are going to bring about a tremendous change in our society, in our view of man and our way of life in the future.
'When you take LSD you do go on a trip. It’s a voyage. It’s the most ancient voyage that man has ever known, the one beyond your mind and your current tribal situation into the incredible possibilities which lie inside. So it’s a fair statement to say an LSD voyage is a trip.' (Matrix Masters audio stream). media-underground.net
Tuesday, March 25. 2008
Broadcast a year before the Litvinenko murder, this fascinating BBC series lifts the lid on the struggle that still continues between Putin and his advesaries - the Russian Oligarchs. (The Pirate Bay torrent download). media-underground.net
Friday, March 21. 2008
'The scam that's playing itself out now began on June 18, 1815 with a courier working for Nathan Rothschild. The courier was reporting on events in the Battle of Waterloo, and he reported what he saw to Rothschild; which was that Napoleon was being beaten. The story of how Nathan Rothschild was able to take advantage of these circumstances is below. The result was that he created his own empire after he acquired ownership of the Bank of England (The principal bank among the twelve Central Banks of the World today). The Fed is the privately owned and controlled American Central Bank.' (Rense article). media-underground.net
Sunday, March 16. 2008
'A tiny chemical "brain" which could one day act as a remote control for swarms of nano-machines has been invented.
'The molecular device - just two billionths of a metre across - was able to control eight of the microscopic machines simultaneously in a test. Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say it could also be used to boost the processing power of future computers. Many experts have high hopes for nano-machines in treating disease.' (BBC News article). media-underground.net
Monday, March 10. 2008
'Little-noticed comments by a senior Justice Department official suggest Congress' fight over renewal of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act surround interception of email and Internet data.
'At a Monday breakfast sponsored by the American Bar Association, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Kenneth Wainstein remarked that the fight over the eavesdropping bill actually centers on US interception of email.
'"In response to a question at the meeting by David Kris, a former federal prosecutor and a FISA expert, Wainstein said FISA's current strictures did not cover strictly foreign wire and radio communications, even if acquired in the United States," the Washington Post reported Tuesday. "The real concern, he said, is primarily e-mail, because "essentially you don't know where the recipient is going to be" and so you would not know in advance whether the communication is entirely outside the United States."' (The Raw Story article). media-underground.net
Friday, March 7. 2008
'Gaza's humanitarian situation is at its worst since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, say UK-based human rights and development groups. They include Amnesty International, Save the Children, Cafod, Care International and Christian Aid.
'They criticise Israel's blockade on Gaza as illegal collective punishment which fails to deliver security. Israel says its military action and other measures are lawful and needed to stop rocket attacks from Gaza.
'Israel pulled its troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, but retains control over Gaza's airspace and coastline, and over its own border with the territory.' (BBC News article). media-underground.net
Friday, February 29. 2008
'Germany's highest court has ruled that spying on personal computers violates privacy, but governments across Europe are under pressure to help their security services fight terrorism and organised crime.
'Here, BBC reporters give a snapshot of the extent of surveillance across Europe.' (BBC News article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, February 27. 2008
'A few days ago I came across an Op-Ed submission that called for file sharing to be decriminalized. The editors here decided not to run it, but it intrigued me for a couple of reasons. First, the author, Karl Sigfrid, is a member of the Swedish Parliament from the Moderate party - a pro-business party that's akin to this country's Libertarians (except in Sweden they're more than just a fringe group). Second, although he covered much of the same ground earlier this year in a Swedish paper, Sigfrid's new piece added another provocative contention: that unauthorized downloading isn't actually theft.' (L.A. Times article). media-underground.net
Monday, February 25. 2008
'The full extent of government anxiety about the state of British-Israel relations can be exposed for the first time today in a secret document seen by the Guardian.
'The document reveals how the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial, now discredited Iraq weapons dossier. At the heart of it was nervousness at the top of government about any mention of Israel's nuclear arsenal in an official paper accusing Iraq of flouting the UN's authority on weapons of mass destruction.
'The dossier was made public this week, but the FCO succeeded before a tribunal in having the handwritten mention of Israel kept secret.' (Guardian article). media-underground.net
Saturday, February 23. 2008
'A recently unclassified report from the Pentagon from 1998 has revealed an investigation into using laser beams for a few intriguing potential methods of non-lethal torture. Some of the applications the report investigated include putting voices in people's heads, using lasers to trigger uncontrolled neuron firing, and slowly heating the human body to a point of feverish confusion - all from hundreds of meters away.
'A US citizen requested access to the document, entitled "Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons," under the Freedom of Information Act a little over a year ago. There is no evidence that any of the technologies mentioned in the 10-year-old report have been developed since the time it was written.
'The report explained several types of non-lethal laser applications, including microwave hearing, disrupted neural control, and microwave heating. For the first type, short pulses of RF energy (2450 MHz) can generate a pressure wave in solids and liquids. When exposed to pulsed RF energy, humans experience the immediate sensation of "microwave hearing" - sounds that may include buzzing, ticking, hissing, or knocking that originate within the head.' (Physorg article). media-underground.net
Sunday, February 17. 2008
'Machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US inventor has predicted.
'Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots implanted in people's brains to make them more intelligent, said Ray Kurzweil. The engineer believes machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health.' (BBC News article). media-underground.net
Friday, February 15. 2008
'It's time for our annual game: How much is really in the U.S. military budget?
'As usual, it's about $200 billion more than most news stories are reporting. For the proposed fiscal year 2009 budget, which President Bush released today, the real size is not, as many news stories have reported, $515.4 billion - itself a staggering sum - but, rather, $713.1 billion.
'Before deconstructing this budget, let us consider just how massive it is. Even the smaller figure of $515.4 billion - which does not include money for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - is roughly equal to the total military budgets of all the rest of the world's nations combined. It is (adjusting for inflation) larger than any U.S. military budget since World War II.' (Slate article). media-underground.net
Wednesday, February 13. 2008
'A device used to disperse congregating teenagers with a high-pitched whine only audible to the under-25s should be banned, according to children's campaigners.
'The £495 Mosquito, an ultrasonic deterrent, has proved popular with councils, shop keepers and police who use them to banish groups of youths engaged in anti-social behaviour.
'There are estimated to be 3,500 of the devices in use across the country, but critics claim they penalise innocent children and are an infringement of their human rights.
'A new campaign called "Buzz Off", led by the Children's Commissioner and backed by groups including Liberty, is calling for them to be scrapped.
'The organisations want to highlight the "increasingly negative" way society views and deals with children and young people.' (Telegraph article). media-underground.net
'People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering.
'A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who access pirated material via their accounts.
'But the government is stressing that plans are at an early stage and it is still working on final proposals.
'Six million people a year are estimated to download files illegally in the UK.
'Music and film companies say that the illegal downloads cost them millions of pounds in lost revenues.' (BBC News article). media-underground.net
Monday, February 11. 2008
'Whether it's her background at the Rose Law Firm, her role in the Clinton White House pardons, her little-known testimony at the Iran/Contra hearings, or her silence about the suspicious death of friend Vince Foster, Hillary's ability to keep secrets from the public has been her political currency. Secrets are the source of her power. With the candidacy of Barack Obama, Hillary has a real rival. One who didn't vote to unleash the US war machine in Iraq, and one who has beaten her in two major political primaries. It's time to take a comprehensive look at Hillary's greatest hits.' (GNN article). media-underground.net
Thursday, February 7. 2008
'Brains-on-a-chip, robotic rescue choppers, see-through displays - those are just a few of the projects that the Pentagon's mad science division has hatched up for next year.
'Earlier this week, DARPA, the Defense Department's way-out research arm, submitted its $3.29 billion budget for the 2009 fiscal year. In it are dozens of new programs - one more far-reaching than the next.
'"The Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE) program will develop a brain inspired electronic chip that mimics that function, size, and power consumption of a biological cortex," DARPA tells us. "If successful, the program will provide the foundations for functional machines to supplement humans in many of the most demanding situations faced by warfighters today" - like getting usable information out of video feeds, and starting tasks. The agency is looking to spend $3 million next year, to get started.' (Wired article). media-underground.net
Sunday, January 27. 2008
'An electronic contact lens has been developed that will enable maps and videos to be beamed before the wearer’s eyes.
'The bionic lens has microscopic circuits fixed to a flexible plastic. The scientists who created the device say the lenses could eventually provide computer-aided vision similar to that of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s robotic character in the Terminator films.
'Drivers and pilots would have essential information - their speed and direction, for example - superimposed in front of their eyes, in a massive advance on the kind of “wearable displays” now available, which are spectacles that have images displayed on the lenses.' (Aftermath News article). media-underground.net
'IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Monday evening at the inauguration ceremony of new head of National Center for Globalization Studies, "mankind's gravest need today is a global government."
'Appreciating the services rendered by the former head of that center (formerly called the International Center for Dialogue among Civilizations), Dr. Mohammad Nahavandian, the President said that choosing Esfandiar Rahim-Masha'ie was "based on precise calculations, and in accordance with a plan for the center."
'The president added, "The Center for Globalization Studies must be a very dynamic center, able to take long studies forward, thanks to the presence of thinkers and intellectuals from various academic fields, able to pursue globalization discussions throughout the world."' (IRNA article). media-underground.net
Saturday, January 19. 2008
'On July 12th 2007 Australian TV Channel 2 showed a documentary film entitled The Great Global Warming Swindle - produced by filmmaker Martin Durkin of Wag TV Productions in the UK and shown there last February. This was followed by an interview between ABC presenter Tony Jones and Martin Durkin, in London, which in turn was followed by a panel discussion in the ABC studio, led by Tony Jones, with studio audience involvement.' (You Tube video stream). media-underground.net
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