Ex-CIA Agent, Whistleblower John Kiriakou Sentenced to Prison While Torturers He Exposed Walk Free | Democracy Now!

Ex-CIA Agent, Whistleblower John Kiriakou Sentenced to Prison While Torturers He Exposed Walk Free | Democracy Now!

"I believe I’m going to prison because I blew the whistle on torture," said former CIA agent John Kiriakou.

"I’ve been a thorn in the CIA’s side since that interview in 2007, in which I said that waterboarding was torture and that it was official U.S. government policy. And I think, finally, the Justice Department caught up with me."

Kiriakou's appearance on Democracy Now! in January ranks #8 on our list of the most-viewed interviews of 2013.

Kayapo Courage - Gallery: Two Worlds

Kayapo Courage - Gallery: Two Worlds:

Two Worlds

From shotguns and motorized aluminum boats to Facebook pages, Kayapo have shown a canny ability to adopt technologies and practices without compromising the essence of their culture.

Africa’s conflicts: Back in the news - 2013 IN REVIEW - Al Jazeera English

Africa’s conflicts: Back in the news - 2013 IN REVIEW - Al Jazeera English

It was a year that seemed destined to be shot through with the ‘Africa rising’ debate. Much of the world’s media had over the last couple of years moved from one simplistic narrative when covering the continent: war and famine. To another: booming economies and a newly confident middle class.
 
It was a story that was written so often that, though many African countries were and are growing impressively, it started to look like an apologia from mostly Western correspondents for years of coverage perceived by some to be overtly dark.
 
Many Africans, initially pleased that the foreign media was telling the good news, had started to question the impact – on policy, on aid, on the poorest - of replacing one distorted and reductive narrative with another. Still, though, there is hope in growing economies and Africa’s as a whole grew by 4% this year.
 
That debate about Africa is now often of the economic variety is a sign of a burgeoning continent – giddy on its potential – and changing at speed.
 
In January, however, France went to war with al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mali and a different major news theme for 2013 appeared: conflict. The rebels were chased across the Sahara but, despite a recent election, the situation in the country is still very volatile and will continue to be so into 2014.  

Amid conflict, there is hope in growing economies in Africa [Reuters]

California prisons sterilized female inmates without permission - Banoosh

California prisons sterilized female inmates without permission - Banoosh:

Prison doctors in California sterilized nearly 150 female inmates during the course of four years without ever obtaining proper approval from the state, a new investigation reveals.

According to The Center for Investigative Reporting, at least 148 women at a pair of state penitentiaries received tubal litigations during the period of 2006 through 2010, yet officials in charge of authorizing those surgeries neglected to sign off in approval.

Since 1994, the sterilization surgery has required the signature of a medical official from the state capital for each and every instance. According to documents obtained by journalists, however, no such records exist.

 

What do Bosnia, Bulgaria and Brazil have in common? | ROAR Magazine

What do Bosnia, Bulgaria and Brazil have in common? | ROAR Magazine

 Reflections on 2013: "What do a park in Istanbul, a security chief in Sofia and bus tickets in São Paulo have in common? However random the sequence may seem at first, a common theme runs through and connects all of them. Each speaks to a deepening crisis of representation at the heart of the capitalist nation state. And each has, as a result, given rise to local protests that have in turn sparked nationwide popular uprisings."

 

Once again, it’s kicking off everywhere: from Turkey to Bosnia, Bulgaria and Brazil, the endless struggle for real democracy resonates around the globe.

The Turkish protests and the genie of revolution | ROAR Magazine

The Turkish protests and the genie of revolution | ROAR Magazine

 Reflections on 2013: This was the year people across Turkey rose up against authoritarian neoliberalism. "The revolutionary spirit of 2011 has resurrected itself — and today it is the brave young Turks who are carrying it forward. Whatever world leaders may try, the rebellious genie that animated the global uprisings of the past two years just won’t go back into its suffocating neoliberal bottle."

 

 

While the outcome remains uncertain, a closer look at the Turkish uprising reveals its intimate connection to the global struggle for real democracy.

Good news/bad news: a manifesto for independent media | ROAR Magazine

Good news/bad news: a manifesto for independent media | ROAR Magazine

"The mainstream media have caught us in their web of ideological control. Only by collectively breaking out and replacing the never-ending flow of mind-numbing nonsense with our own alternative channels of counter-information and critical analysis, can we truly begin to take control of our own lives. The realization has come that it’s up to us to report and reflect upon the dramatic changes taking place in our world today; the 1% clearly won’t do it for us!"

The bad news is that the 1% and the mainstream media have caught us in their web of ideological control. The good news is that there’s still a way out.

Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot | Reuters

Insight: Evidence grows for narcolepsy link to GSK swine flu shot | Reuters:

(Reuters) - Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she's often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day she can barely stay awake, and often misses school or having fun with friends. She is only 14, but at times she has wondered if her life is worth living.

Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunized with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline in 2009.

 

1 of 13. Emelie Olsson falls asleep as he watches television in her apartment in Stockholm, January 17, 2013. Emelie is one of around 800 children in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe who developed narcolepsy, an incurable sleep disorder, after being immunised in 2009 with the Pandemrix H1N1 swine flu vaccine made by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline. Picture taken January 17, 2013. 

 

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Swine Flu Vaccines Cause 17-Fold Increase in Narcolepsy, Horrified Scientists Discover | The Liberty Beacon

Swine Flu Vaccines Cause 17-Fold Increase in Narcolepsy, Horrified Scientists Discover | The Liberty Beacon

The long-term health damage caused by the great H1N1 swine flu scam “pandemic”  of 2009 — and particularly the mass vaccination campaign that accompanied it –  is already becoming apparent in the form of an autoimmune disorder. A  review  published in the journal Public Library of Science ONE confirms that  Pandemrix, a swine flu vaccine produced by drug giant GlaxoSmithKline  (GSK), is responsible for causing an up to 1700 percent increase in narcolepsy  among children and teenagers under 17 years of age.

 

 

Volgograd railway station blast LIVE UPDATES — RT News

Volgograd railway station blast LIVE UPDATES — RT News:

A blast ripped through a railway station in Volgograd in Russia’s south, killing at least 13 people. It was reportedly caused by a suicide bomber, who set off the bomb just before it could be discovered at a checkpoint.

Explosion at the train station must have been quite powerful, because it was clearly heard form a considerable distance, Aleksandr Kornev, a Volgograd resident living in the station area, told RT. The assessment is consistent with the visible damage to the building, where the blast wave broke many windows on both floors and damaged a heavy wooden door.

 

 

▶ Deadly blast rips through railway station in Russia's Volgograd - YouTube

▶ Deadly blast rips through railway station in Russia's Volgograd - YouTube

 DEVELOPING: At least 18 people were killed in a blast at a railway station in Russian city of Volgograd, according to the regional government. A female suicide bomber is suspected to have carried out the attack, says the National Anti-terrorism Committee.

Swartz, Fracking, Manning, GMO: 13 most underreported news stories of 2013 — RT News

Swartz, Fracking, Manning, GMO: 13 most underreported news stories of 2013 — RT News:

From Aaron Swartz to Assange, Monsanto to Manning, fracking fears, Iraq carnage and more, here are RT’s "Top 13 of 2013." These vastly underreported stories are some of the biggest ones to fly under the mainstream media’s radar this year.

 

 

Caught on CCTV: Moment of Volgograd railway station deadly explosion - YouTube

Caught on CCTV: Moment of Volgograd railway station deadly explosion - YouTube

 LATEST: A nine-year-old child is among the people injured by suspected suicide attack, local government reported. It cited an updated casualties report, saying the bombing killed at least 15 people and injured some 27 others.

 

Internet-Aktivisten rufen zum Widerstand auf | Aktuell Welt | DW.DE | 27.12.2013

Internet-Aktivisten rufen zum Widerstand auf | Aktuell Welt | DW.DE | 27.12.2013

For years, the organizers of the four-day meeting, the Chaos Computer Club warns, before escalating state ‪ ‬ # Monitoring and dwindling Privacy Policy. Now pointed prelude speaker Tim Pritlove in the packed hall in the Congress Center Hamburg (Product Image) out: "We woke up from a nightmare into a reality that is even worse. We must invent the new Internet, we need to think more beautiful web."

 

 

Sister/Doctor Teresa Forcades Warns Against Flu Vaccine | Truth is Beauty

Sister/Doctor Teresa Forcades Warns Against Flu Vaccine | Truth is Beauty:

Sister Teresa Forcades is a Benedictine nun who also happens to be a physician specializing in internal medicine. She also has a Ph.D. in Public Health as well as a degree in theology from Harvard. So she’s obviously an extremely intelligent and well-educated woman, highly qualified to speak out against a medical crime against humanity. She herself admits that if she were still practicing medicine in a hospital setting (in other words, for money) she might not be brave enough to speak out against the medical/pharmaceutical cartel. But as a nun, she has no personal stake in maintaining the status quo (in other words, money) and can use her medical knowledge as a spiritual work of mercy. I think it’s of paramount importance that anyone considering getting the flu vaccine listen to what Sister (Doctor) Teresa has to say. As she says in the video “money cannot buy health or life.”

 

Sister/Doctor Teresa Forcades Warns Against Flu Vaccine | Truth is Beauty

Sister/Doctor Teresa Forcades Warns Against Flu Vaccine | Truth is Beauty:

Sister Teresa Forcades is a Benedictine nun who also happens to be a physician specializing in internal medicine. She also has a Ph.D. in Public Health as well as a degree in theology from Harvard. So she’s obviously an extremely intelligent and well-educated woman, highly qualified to speak out against a medical crime against humanity. She herself admits that if she were still practicing medicine in a hospital setting (in other words, for money) she might not be brave enough to speak out against the medical/pharmaceutical cartel. But as a nun, she has no personal stake in maintaining the status quo (in other words, money) and can use her medical knowledge as a spiritual work of mercy. I think it’s of paramount importance that anyone considering getting the flu vaccine listen to what Sister (Doctor) Teresa has to say. As she says in the video “money cannot buy health or life.”

 

How To Feed The World With Biodynamic Farming | Watch Documentary Free Online

How To Feed The World With Biodynamic Farming | Watch Documentary Free Online:

 The film, narrated by Peter and produced and directed by Tom and Barbara Burstyn, features Peter Proctor of New Zealand, the father of bio-dynamic agriculture. The documentary highlights his journey throughout India helping farmers revive their poisoned soil. Various activists, politicians and farmers are interviewed about the deep economic, social and environmental consequences in the aftermath of the 'green revolution', which left hundreds of thousands of farmers in debt, or drove them away from their farms and into the overcrowded urban centres in India. Set in the magnificence of rural India with beautiful cinematography and music by Mercan Dede, the film is stimulating, inspiring and educational.

 

A Year of Delightful Egalitarian Imagination

A Year of Delightful Egalitarian Imagination:

 Nurses, philosophers, and trade unions have over the past 12 months all shared some fascinating ideas on how we can make our societies more equal — and much better — places to live.

Economic inequality, we suspect, may have crept into more conversations in 2013 than ever before. But people aren’t just talking about how unequal we’ve become. They’re talking about antidotes to the avarice all around us.

The year’s boldest move to limit inequality? That may have been the November bid in Switzerland to cap via referendum CEO compensation at 12 times worker wages.We’ve assembled out of those discussions a list that samples 2013′s most promising and provocative inequality-busting ideas, proposals, and campaigns.

Some of these notions seek to make an immediate, politically practical impact. Others raise hopes that many might deride as pure “pie in the sky.” We like practical. We also like pie. We think you might, too. Read ‘em and think!

Republished from inequality.org

Now online: the historic Chomsky-Foucault debate | ROAR Magazine

Now online: the historic Chomsky-Foucault debate | ROAR Magazine:

 In 1971, with the Vietnam war in full swing and radical social movements destabilizing the social, political and cultural order throughout the Western world, Dutch philosopher Fons Elders invited two of the world’s leading thinkers — the American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky and the French social theorist Michel Foucault — to debate a thorny and perennial question: is there such a thing as an “innate” human nature, and if so, what are its implications for our ideas about power, justice, revolution, and the shape of the ideal human society?

 

Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright | ROAR Magazine

Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright | ROAR Magazine:

 We are terribly sad to announce that the YouTube video of the legendary Chomsky-Foucault debate that we shared on our website on Wednesday has been removed following a copyright claim by the New York-based distribution company Icarus Films. ROAR never claimed ownership over the video; we just helped to provide proper subtitles to a full version that had already been circulating online for months. The video had been brought to our attention by a group of Dutch anarchists who also assisted in its translation.

 

Excerpts from the Foucault-Chomsky debate on human nature and power have circulated online for years — now it’s available in full for the first time.

"The signing of the EU-US Transatlantic Treaty. Trading is a cold war with China" – RT

"La firma del Tratado Trasatlántico UE-EE.UU. será una guerra fría comercial con China" – RT:

U.S. seeks to gain international support for its high standards in areas such as labor laws, health and respect for the environment, and take action against companies that steal patents and restrict government support for state enterprises. "China has been the main objective of these rules, and has been criticized by the U.S. and the EU for not obeying them," said Zhang Xiaotong, associate professor in Wuhan University in China, quoted by The Hill professor agencies. Once the transatlantic community establish its rules, even more difficult access to markets to Chinese exports These negotiations have resulted in a negative reaction from China believes that the U.S. seeks to promote changes in the internal laws of the Asian giant. "Now they are talking about measures related to sovereign national decisions," said Huo Jianguo, president of the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, which advises the Ministry of Commerce of China. "There are many new rules whose meaning we must understand, as if all these rules apply to everyone," he said.

Huo relató que inicialmente China se mostró muy preocupada por las negociaciones sobre el Acuerdo Transpacífico, que incluyen a 12 países de Asia-Pacífico pero no a China.

Aung San Suu Kyi: 'There is no rule of law' - Talk to Al Jazeera - Al Jazeera English

Aung San Suu Kyi: 'There is no rule of law' - Talk to Al Jazeera - Al Jazeera English

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Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi explains why she seeks to become Burma's next president - http://aje.me/1ehPg5w

 

 

 

Snowden Leak - Two NSA / CSS (Central Security Services) Slides in NSA

Snowden Leak - Two NSA / CSS (Central Security Services) Slides in NSA

#Snowden Leak - Two #NSA / #CSS (Central Security Services) Slides in NSA:

  These slides, from an internal presentation in the first week of october 2001, show how critical the NSA sees
electronic eavesdropping.

 The WikiLeaks Supporters Forum

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"

December 28, 2013, 06:09:33 PM

 

Greenwald: US, British media are servants of security apparatus — RT News

Greenwald: US, British media are servants of security apparatus — RT News:

Journalist Glenn Greenwald condemned the mainstream media during an address at a German computer conference on Friday and accused his colleagues of failing to challenge erroneous remarks routinely made by government officials around the globe.

Thousands of attendees at the thirtieth annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg packed into a room to watch the 46-year-old lawyer-turned-columnist present a keynote address delivered less than seven months after he started working with former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Revelations contained in leaked documents supplied by Snowden to Greenwald and other journalists have sparked international outrage and efforts to reform the far-reaching surveillance operations waged by the NSA and intelligence officials in allied nations. But speaking remotely from Brazil this week, Greenwald argued that the media establishment at large is guilty of failing significantly with respect to accomplishing its most crucial role: keeping governments in check.

 

Glenn Greenwald (AFP Photo / Evaristo Sa)

Did the NSA conceal Fukushima meltdown from military sent into area? | Washington Times Communities

Did the NSA conceal Fukushima meltdown from military sent into area? | Washington Times Communities:

WASHINGTON, December 24, 2013 — More than 50 U.S. Navy sailors who served aboard ships that responded to the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan report falling ill to cancer and other radiation-linked diseases.

The reported illnesses among sailors who served on the USS Ronald Reagan and other Navy ships make it imperative to ascertain whether the Navy knew or should have known the conditions into which it was sending personnel. To that end, it is critical to know whether the NSA intercepted telephone and email communications from the Tokyo Electric Power Company, and whether the spy agency knew that TEPCO was covering up the multi-reactor meltdown at the time the Pentagon ordered sailors into harm’s way during “Operation Tomodachi.”

It would be hard to imagine that the NSA, the embattled spy agency which has been caught eavesdropping on the German and Brazilian heads of state, as well as on the pope, was not using all available surveillance technology and Japanese translators to monitor the unfolding TEPCO catastrophe. It would be highly unlikely that it failed to provide the Obama Administration with frequent updates on the situation.

 

 

Photo: USS Ronald Reagan / Associated Press

 

NSA can easily find individuals hidden in metadata - study in NSA

NSA can easily find individuals hidden in metadata - study in NSA

In defending the NSA's surveillance policies, many have cited the agency's claim that it merely collects phone numbers dialed, lengths of calls, and other metadata. Yet researchers now say the NSA can identify individuals in that vast collection of data.

The WikiLeaks Supporters Forum

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"

December 28, 2013, 06:00:07 PM

 

 

The WikiLeaks Supporters Forum

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"

December 28, 2013, 06:00:07 PM

The WikiLeaks Supporters Forum

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"

December 28, 2013, 06:00:07 PM

The WikiLeaks Supporters Forum

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams"

December 28, 2013, 06:00:07 PM

TPP after the filtration of Wikileaks « Digital Rights

TPP after the filtration of Wikileaks « Digital Rights

“There is a growing sense throughout the world that capitalism isn’t working; and that the cracks we create in it may really be the only way forward.”

The only real transparency mechanism that citizens have had throughout years of TPP negotiations has been Wikileaks. In this context, considered unacceptable under any democratic view, we can find out about the hard intellectual property standards that the U.S. wants to demand from its commercial partners.

Talking about a revolution with John Holloway | ROAR Magazine

Talking about a revolution with John Holloway | ROAR Magazine

 Reflections on 2013: Earlier this year, ROAR sat down with John Holloway, known as 'the philosopher of the Zapatistas', for an interview on today's crises and rebellions: “There is a growing sense throughout the world that capitalism isn't working; and that the cracks we create in it may really be the only way forward.”

 

“There is a growing sense throughout the world that capitalism isn’t working; and that the cracks we create in it may really be the only way forward.”

Thatcher’s zombie ideology preying on our collective imagination | ROAR Magazine

Thatcher’s zombie ideology preying on our collective imagination | ROAR Magazine

 Reflections on 2013: "Thatcher once stated that those trying to end apartheid in South Africa were "living in cloud-cuckoo land". For her, there was no alternative to white racist rule. Luckily, it only took a few years for the Iron Lady to be proven wrong. Now, with global capitalism and neoliberal ideology running on their last legs, the time has come for us — those silly leftists living in “cloud-cuckoo land” — to prove her wrong once more."

 

 

SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION -- Ara toca segrestar la història - Opinió contundent - VilaWeb

Ara toca segrestar la història - Opinió contundent - VilaWeb

Now we kidnap story

The unique Wert has perpetrated a curriculum that requires 100% of history and the humanities to the regions. It is the policy of the Minister questioned over the government, but Mariano Rajoy. Now it's time to open that front. The year that has just touched tongue.

Luisa Fernanda Rudi, the inventor of Lapa, has begun to make statements to the effect that the Catalans want to take the history of Aragon, and has organized a symposium that long journey starts with a paper that says it all: ' Ferdinand II of Aragón y el nacimiento de España '.

The story is, needless to say, the structure of state and we are facing a new project coordinated by the FAES preclares minds. Aznar & Co. are obsessed to prove that Catalonia was a nation not legal, but an appendage of espanyolíssim Aragon. Three scholars like Bottle, Aguirre Cospedal and insist at this point in history.

The ambassador in London, Federico Trillo, Parsley hero, I wanted to proclaim urbi et orbi in a letter to the Financial Times (7/XI/2012): Scotland was an independent nation and has been part of the United Kingdom since The Scottish Parliament decided freely join him in the eighteenth century. By contrast, Catalonia was part of the wider Kingdom of Aragon and has been an integral part of Spain from the beginning, more than five centuries. " If Trillo knew English would realize that said 'United' and 'Crown', which is like confusing the current Aragon Spain. The level.

We live in times historicist. Artur Mas greetings with a picture of the Austrian siege of Barcelona 1705, which ended in victory Catalan: a message. Some have accused of anachronism, but there is no tradition. Frank waited three days to come to Barcelona on 26 January 1939 for the parade along the Diagonal coincide with the anniversary of the defeat suffered by the army of Philip IV in the hands of the Government at the Battle of Montjuïc, the in 1641. They argue unequivocally: 'The Spanish Army has to glorious memory'.

This year we will start in a tip. The spanish is constantly lambasted the tercentenary events and reiterated that this was a war and not a dynastic international conflict freedom Catalan. Another scholar, Henry Miller, said that 'in 1714 the Catalans fought for independence and were defending a way of understanding Spanish. " Forgotten, among other details, that peace of Utrecht was signed in April 1713 and the first Bourbon continued until the war ravaged Barcelona and Catalonia as a whole. And for decades, and even today.

His books were banned, others-have always said that Philip V was saved Catalans decay. We had hoped that Albert Garcia Espuche go to the root, the acts of notaries Barcelona to see Barcelona in 1700 was a city rich, dynamic and cosmopolitan.

The issue is not trivial because if Catalonia had a state and lost by force and illegally, international law must recognize him. Do not try to win sovereignty but to recover it, which is quite different. The issue may go even further, positing Albert Bridge: If recovery 300 years later, the state Catalan Who would be the heir of the current Spain? Who would leave assets? With what arguments? Russia succeeded the Soviet Union in international forums, but it was so old the fifteen republics as agreed. But the troubled Spain had agreed not to decomposition.

It is therefore necessary that the Catalans explain the facts from his point of view. This requires platforms to disseminate the story, like the Cultural Center Born or symposia as Spain against Catalonia. ' In fact, it is quite the story: this is misrepresenting himself, just out of Madrid to the media or to messages that come from the establishment. Just Wert.

If they do before our eyes, which can be thought of archival documents, mostly copies of copies? Pulling, for example, was for centuries a 'classic Spanish anonymous', until Marian eagle discovered a copy in Catalan and published in 1873. Before, the original edition that was published in Valladolid in 1511 had anonymously and without mentioning that it was a translation. Philology Glory Sabate said in a study that 'the translator to act on all aspects related to the' pulling ' a different culture and alien to the Spanish '. This novel was a bestseller, so it saved a copy. How many times can he repeat the move? The philologist Pep Solervicens test many of the works published in the time of Charles I disappeared during the reign of Philip II.

¿No one has ever considered, such as Ferdinand II may yield rights to the New World in Castile, where he finished excluded 'catalanote'? It was irresponsible? He was very generous? But inspired 'The Prince' by Machiavelli! Was the Treasurer of Santàngel Louis, who had financed Columbus. The scholar James Ramon Vila explained a century later (1602) he had seen in the Royal Archives documents Barcelona signed him to prove it. Then they disappeared.

This file, heir of Barcelona Barcelona and been always, happened to be called Bourbon New Plant General Royal Crown of Aragon and otherwise ended up in the Archive of the Crown of Aragon '. Now Aragon in the corresponding claims 'that the Catalans have taken.' Closing the circle once more.

 

▶ Arctic 30 return home: Phil's thank you message - YouTube

▶ Arctic 30 return home: Phil's thank you message - YouTube:

Shortly after arriving back in the UK - over three months after taking action against Gazprom's oil rig - Phil Ball explains how support from around the world helped the Arctic 30 during their detention.

Idle No More @ Ya-Native.com

Idle No More @ Ya-Native.com

Bill Gates Admits Vaccines Are Used for Human Depopulation

Next are two short excerpts from a recently filmed TED presentation (Feb 2010) by none other than Bill "Microsoft" Gates.

At the heart of Gates' address lies the central Global Warming dogma, which dictates that Co2 emitted by human beings are the primary culprit for the unwanted heating of the globe. Since this artificial alleged human-induced heating effect allegedly stands to devastate the planet if left unabated, Global Warming dogma proponents therefore argue that human Co2 emissions must be drastically reduced. As Gates casually addresses the issue, he goes on to state that one way to accomplish this goal is to reduce the global human population.

ERRATUM: To be completely fair and accurate, I should have stated that Gates seeks to reduce the anticipated growth of the human population rather than that he seeks to reduce the current population. I admit that the latter slogan, that is contained in the video, is a bit misleading and I do not want to insinuate that Gates seeks to kill off currently living people. He rather seeks to lower the projected population growth.

He postulates the central equation, giving an estimation of the humanly emitted C02 load per year, to be:

Co2 = P times S times E times C

Where P stands for the population number, S the average number of services per person, E the average amount of energy units per service, and C the average Co2 emitted load per unit of service, per year; Co2 stands for the projected total humanly emitted carbon-dioxide load by the entire population per year.

In the first clip you will hear him state in plain language that he considers VACCINES to be desirable to bring down the future population number P and so reduce Co2. You will also casually hear him promoting HEALTH CARE and REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, to accomplish that same C02 reducing goal.

Here are Bill Gates' verbatim words [square parentheses additions for clarification purposes are mine though]:
"The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that [number of 9 billion] by perhaps 10 or 15 percent. But there we see an increase of about 1.3 [billion]."

Let's focus on the vaccines. Gates is stating that he considers vaccines to be useful in contributing to bring the projected population growth of 2.2 billion down to 1.3 billion, roughly one billion. What kind of properties can thus reasonably be deduced that vaccines are to have according to Gates? Well, basically all the properties that impede people to either have children, or successfully rear them. In other words, Gates implicitly advocates the definition of his favorite kind of vaccine to be one that fosters infertility, sterility and (early onset) senility (autism) alike. Note that Gates does not mention a word on the much touted purported intention of vaccines: to offer protection against relevant diseases and therefore as such, precisely prolong life. Given the abundance of toxins in vaccines (see my blog for some links of simply Google "toxin ingredient vaccine"), the position that vaccines contribute to decrease mortality rates, is kind of hard to maintain.

So Gates proves to be quite the humanitarian there huh?

In the second excerpt you hear Gates explain what he considers to be the single most important thing that he would choose to see become a reality in the future time span of 50 years. He again confirms his "love" for the vaccine.

 

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: “Vaccines Reduce Population Growth” | The Liberty Beacon

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: “Vaccines Reduce Population Growth” | The Liberty Beacon:

 Right from the horses mouth, Bill Gates states that “vaccines reduce population growth.” Few can now deny what anti-vaccine advocates have been saying for years, specifically that vaccines directly and negatively impact fertility. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will only be too willing to oblige future generations.

 

 

 

Occupy the SEC: Former Wall Street Workers Defend Volcker Rule Against Banks’ Anti-Regulatory Push | Democracy Now!

Occupy the SEC: Former Wall Street Workers Defend Volcker Rule Against Banks’ Anti-Regulatory Push | Democracy Now!:

 The latest offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Occupy the SEC, has submitted a 325-page comment to the Securities and Exchange Commission that calls on regulators to resist the financial industry’s lobbying efforts to water down the Volcker Rule, a section in the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, that aims to prevent large banks from making certain kinds of risky, speculative investments. The group is made up of former Wall Street professionals who once worked at many of the largest financial firms in the industry. We’re joined by Alexis Goldstein, who worked as a computer programmer for seven years at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank. She left Wall Street in 2010 and joined the Occupy Wall Street movement soon after the encampment began. "Banks shouldn’t behave like a hedge fund," Goldstein says. "Hedge funds are there to make money and take risky bets, and their clients tend to be these really wealthy clients. And the Volcker Rule sort of says, 'Well, wait a minute. These big banks that enjoy all this government support shouldn't be in that business." [includes rush transcript]

The Other 98% Urges Wall Street to Donate $91 Billion in Bonuses to Victims of Financial Crisis | Democracy Now!

The Other 98% Urges Wall Street to Donate $91 Billion in Bonuses to Victims of Financial Crisis | Democracy Now!

 If you had the ability to distribute the $91 billion in Wall Street end-year bonuses differently, how would you spend the money? Hear one plan put forward by The Other 98%.

PROJECT CAMELOT: INTERVIEW WITH KAREN HUDES - WORLD BANK WHISTLEBLOWER - YouTube

PROJECT CAMELOT: INTERVIEW WITH KAREN HUDES - WORLD BANK WHISTLEBLOWER - YouTube:

This is my interview with Karen Hudes the Whistleblower from the World Bank. This is a wide ranging discussion covering her time at the World Bank and what led her to blow the whistle on the corruption she found there. In the process her view of the worldwide corruption widened to include governments and the overall monetary system.

We discuss the 'backwardization' of gold, the manipulation of the dollar and the need to replace the current fiat system with a gold or asset backed currency and the plans of the cabal to create chaos and institute the NWO.

 

Reflections on 2013: from Thatcher to Taksim | ROAR Magazine

Reflections on 2013: from Thatcher to Taksim | ROAR Magazine

 "This was the year Thatcher died — yet her zombie ideology lives on. It was the year Chávez passed on as well, but the grassroots revolution of ordinary Venezuelans continues unabated. This was also the year Mandela moved on, but the social struggle against economic apartheid remains in full swing. Most of all, however, this was the year that the indomitable spirit of resistance resurfaced around the globe — and still no one really seems capable of jamming the genie back into its bottle just yet."

 

 

The year 2013 gave both reasons to hope and to despair. Here’s a selection of our most widely read essays, from Thatcher’s death to the Taksim Commune.

Turquie : de Soliman à Erdogan, par Samim Akgönül (Le Monde diplomatique)

Turquie : de Soliman à Erdogan, par Samim Akgönül (Le Monde diplomatique)

 Déjà fortement ébranlés par les manifestations de Gezi, le gouvernement de M. Recep Tayyip Erdogan et l’AKP traversent une nouvelle crise d’une extrême gravité. L’inculpation pour corruption de personnalités liées au régime et la démission de plusieurs ministres ont contraint le premier ministre à un important remaniement, à quelques semaines des élections municipales de mars 2014. La contestation ne vient pas cette fois-ci seulement de la rue, ni de l’opposition traditionnelle qui reste faible, mais aussi d’une influente confrérie, dirigée par un intellectuel musulman réfugié aux Etats-Unis, Fethullah Gülem, jusque-là alliée au régime, et qui s’inquiète des dérives de celui-ci.
« Manière de voir » n°132 : « Turquie, des Ottomans aux islamistes », en kiosques.

 

CATALONIA ---- Nació Digital: Putin analitza amb lupa el procés català

Nació Digital: Putin analitza amb lupa el procés català

Putin closely examines the process Catalan The service broadcasting Moscow International notes that Brussels favors independence Several papers warn of "Balkanization" and "bloody clashes" Bernat Ferrer | Updated 12/18/2013 at 23:59 pm Filed under: Politics, 9 November 2014 consultation process Catalan, Russia

 

 The process is generating Catalan separatist movements and positions the main centers of global decision. And attempts to explain what is happening. Thus, analytical articles appear regularly in major U.S. media, British, Germans and Israelis, just as the French press that tries to minimize it the most. All in all, a symptom of what mood can have in each of these countries towards the referendum of November 9. In all this context, opinions circulating Russia usually a big question. But a few days ago, the international service of the Russian Federation and heir station Radio Moscow, The Voice of Russia, with a specific service in Spanish for Spain and throughout Latin America from socialist tendency, La Voz Russian- has devoted a series of articles analyzing the Catalan independence, and try to give them some explanation. In general, suggest that both the process and the Scottish and Catalan flamenco are encouraged by the European Union (EU) to try to weaken the major countries to limit them influence within the continent. In the article separatism, secret weapon Brussels, Andrei Smirnov maintains that "in Brussels, the aspiration of nations to self-determination does not produce unpleasant sensations. Officials from the EU already pledged support for the Catalans 'ls the Union if they overlap in Madrid. Same pledges received Scottish flamingos eager to secede from Belgium, the inhabitants of the cities of northern Italy. " Smirnov in no doubt that "European officials want to tear springs to control the majority of the leading countries of the EU." "With the current proportional system of decision making just four of the five" major "European (Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Spain) are able to impose their will on other twenty-three states EU. these great division in several states 'historical' children can increase the governance of a united Europe. In this case, the apparatus of the EU was finally a real role in the pan-European policy, "argues Smirnov, who does not hesitate to point out that Corsica can also be a problem for the French Republic, as well as "Elsacia and Lotaringia" and that Germany "has its own reason for concern" in Bavaria. "The division of Europe 'feudal principalities' may be appropriate for Brussels," stresses. 

 

In another article, Madrid Catalunay separatist referendum is illegal, says Alexander Sudníshnikov the manifestation of September Eleventh 2012 was "implausible by the number of runners", citing "well-known Russian political scientist and sociologist "Boris Kagarlitski writes:" Actually, the slogan behind the referendum hides a big political game. flying this slogan just those at the bottom of your soul did not expect to happen, and not win the referendum. " Finally, he explains that "last week, Brussels shared position on the Madrid illegitimate referendum is Catalan, aware, apparently, that in Spain you can expect the" Balkanization "or the complete disintegration of the state. "  

The same journalist, in another article, the centrifugal tendency persists in the EU Sudníshnikov Alexander explains that "the old world long since broken all four sides in various regions" and includes statements Manel Parra, leader of the small group D ' Spanish and Catalan, who appears as "well-known political scientist and president of the Movement for the Wave Country." Finally, he concludes: "One of the basic principles of the creation of the EU was the desire to minimize the barriers to interstate, as shown in the history of Europe, not only impede the normalization of economic relations and mutual penetration cultures of its many peoples, but leading to bloody clashes with territorial claims. "

 

Vladimir Putin's telephone conversation with Angela Merkel on Monday. Photo: kremlin.ru

CATALONIA ---- Nació Digital: «Catalunya demana el divorci», avisa l'agència russa RIA Novosti

Nació Digital: «Catalunya demana el divorci», avisa l'agència russa RIA Novosti

"Catalonia demands a divorce," warns the Russian agency RIA Novosti Madrid quotes a diplomatic source, who believes that "supporting separatism decrease while Spain out of the crisis" Special referendum on independence for Catalonia on November 9, 2014 B.F. | Updated 12/27/2013 at 17:40 pm Filed under: Politics, Russia, Catalan process, international press The Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti begins to echo in the Catalan process. If a few days ago, the international broadcasting service of Moscow, The Voice of Russia, spent all articles analyze the Catalan independence is now the official agency reports that the independence referendum announced by Artur Mas 9 November, ensuring that "Catalonia demands a divorce." "The separatists must persuade the central authorities, who claim that the referendum is unconstitutional," says the piece, especially that highlights the fact that TV3 issued the Christmas message of the King of Spain. Artur Mas RIA Novosti described to be "a strong supporter of the independence of Catalonia" and citing a diplomatic source in Madrid, said the Spanish government "rejects the initiative of the Catalan nationalists. USSR constitution only provided for the right free to leave the Union, and we all know how that ended., the Spanish constitution does not provide any of that. " The same diplomatic source "is convinced that support for separatism decrease while Spain out of economic crisis," said the agency, which also reported that Mas has decided to open "a new permanent representation" in Washington.

 

US judge rules NSA phone surveillance program is legal — RT USA

US judge rules NSA phone surveillance program is legal — RT USA:

A United States federal judge said Friday that the National Security Agency’s controversial bulk phone data collection program doesn’t violate the law.

That ruling came courtesy of US District Judge William Pauley, who decided in favor of the NSA early Friday in a case filed this past June by the American Civil Liberties Union against Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Judge Pauley admitted in a decision penned in the Southern District of New York court that the NSA "vacuums up information about virtually every telephone call to, from, or within the United States,"but that no evidence exists that the spy agency abuses this program to spy on people without ties to terrorism organizations.

“There is no evidence that the government has used any of the bulk telephony metadata it collected for any purpose other than investigating and disrupting terrorist attacks,” Pauley wrote towards the end of his 54-page ruling.

 

 

Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disease than unvaccinated children

Vaccinated children have up to 500% more disease than unvaccinated children:

(NaturalNews) Suspicions have been confirmed for those wary of vaccinating their children. A recent large study corroborates other independent study surveys comparing unvaccinated children to vaccinated children.

They all show that vaccinated children have two to five times more childhood diseases, illnesses, and allergies than unvaccinated children.

Originally, the recent still ongoing study compared unvaccinated children against a German national health survey conducted by KiGGS involving over 17,000 children up to age 19. This currently ongoing survey study was initiated by classical homoeopathist Andreas Bachmair.

However, the American connection for Bachmair's study can be found at VaccineInjury.info website that has added a link for parents of vaccinated children to participate in the study. So far this ongoing survey has well over 11,000 respondents, mostly from the U.S.A. Other studies have surveyed smaller groups of families.

EXCLUSIVE: Owner of Snowden’s Email Service on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov’t | Democracy Now!

EXCLUSIVE: Owner of Snowden’s Email Service on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov’t | Democracy Now!

"I think if the American public knew what our government was doing, they wouldn’t be allowed to do it anymore, which is why I’m here in D.C. today speaking to you," said Ladar Levison, the owner of Lavabit, an email encryption provider believed to have been used by Edward Snowden.

This exclusive interview ranks #12 in our list of the 20 most-viewed segments of 2013 at democracynow.org.

If you are curious to see the full list, follow us on Pinterest at http://www.pinterest.com/democracynow.

12 Christmas crackers from IIED | International Institute for Environment and Development

12 Christmas crackers from IIED | International Institute for Environment and Development

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

What were IIED's 12 most downloaded publications of 2013?

Funny you should ask: from Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, via Vietnam, we've helpfully compiled a list --> http://buff.ly/J93Gv7

 

 

 

Palestine:a Zionist settlers ran over a 7 years old Palestinian child near Salfeet.

Palestine:a Zionist settlers ran over a 7 years old Palestinian child near Salfeet.

#فلسطين:صورة لمستوطن يدهس طفل فلسطيني يبلغ من العمر 7 سنوات في واد قانا ..

Palestine: In 2008 war on #Gaza

Palestine: In 2008 war on #Gaza, occupation forces used the white phosphorus which is an Internationally prohibited weapon against #Palestinian civilians homes and people whom Refuge to UN schools.
#فلسطين: استخدمت قوات الاحتلال في حربها على غزة اسلحة الفسفور الابيض المحرم دوليا ضد المدنيين ومدارس الامم المتحدة التي لجأ اليها المواطنون طلبا للحماية.

ROAR Magazine 2.0: Independent Media for Real Democracy | Indiegogo

ROAR Magazine 2.0: Independent Media for Real Democracy | Indiegogo

We are very excited to announce the start of a new era for ROAR! In 2014, we will be building a revolutionary new platform for independent media. But to do this, we need your support. Check out our IndieGoGo campaign to find out more about the new ROAR Magazine — and how you can help bring it into existence. It's time to ROAR for real democracy!

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, December 27 - YouTube

Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Friday, December 27 - YouTube

CATALONIA -- Quel rivoluzionario in abito grigio che vuole liberare la Catalogna (CONCITA DE GREGORIO). | Triskel182

Quel rivoluzionario in abito grigio che vuole liberare la Catalogna (CONCITA DE GREGORIO). | Triskel182

That revolutionary in a gray suit who wants to liberate Catalonia (Conchita DE GREGORIO).

12/27/2013 of triskel182

Talk Artur Mas, President of the autonomous region: "We are tired to Spain because we gave more than he has given us."
Divorce.

BARCELONA-THIS is an interview with a revolutionary in a gray suit. A man outside Spain know in a few. It's called Artur
Mas, is the president of the autonomous region of Catalonia and is going to trigger an earthquake. Initiated a process of no return, wants an independent Catalonia from Spain.

This is an interview with a revolutionary in a gray suit. A man outside Spain know in a few and there is a reason, he explains: "If I was a footballer I played halfback. That was my role, as a boy: midfielder. Run, run. I do not like politics. It's a necessary evil. I do it because there is no other way to accomplish what you can do. " His name is Artur Mas, is the president of the autonomous region of Catalonia and is going to trigger an earthquake. For Spain and for Europe, for us. Initiated a process of no return, the Catalonia wants independence from Spain, set for November 9, 2014 the date of the referendum among the seven and a half million citizens who governs and patience Madrid says that if you can not do, never mind if Mariano Rajoy takes the baton and said absolutely not, is unconstitutional. "We're going to vote anyway," he says quiet. If it will not be a referendum - "but it will be, will be ..." - he is ready to drop his council before the deadline, 2016, and immediately hold early elections by turning them into a vote for or against independence. And if Europe is not to say you will do the same. His name is Artur Mas, and should get to know it in time, listen to him.

It's Christmas Eve. A moment before entering his study comes out that door Jordi Pujol, 83, founder of the party Mas - Convergence - and for 23 years president of Catalonia. A giant of Spanish politics of the twentieth century. Pujol, in perfect Italian, stops for a moment to talk about the non-election of Mr Prodi. Accurately indicates the name of who in his opinion has orchestrated the ambush. He smiles, tells anecdotes about the alleged principal. He knows the story in subtle details. Then inquires about Renzi. He smiles again. "Well, good luck to his country. Remember, talking with President Mas, which we do not know Catalan xenophobia. In Italy, yes, I think. Not here. The issue of independence, contrary to what happens elsewhere, even from you in the past with the League, it has nothing to do with the contempt of the stranger nor of the weakest is a reason only economic. On the contrary. Justice and Charity, this is inspired by my policy from the beginning. We have a long tradition of hospitality, service. The Catalan nationalism is a story of generosity, therefore, quite alien to the Lega. But do not wait for the president, please. I'm here right now for the good wishes, we rarely talk about but I am sure that his words will be mine. " Last smile. Mas is 57 years old, is a patient man and coached expectation, has twice won the election but political alliances have left him in opposition to the third victory ruled. Now rules. A 'director', says almost shyly, "Catalan however," those who occasionally also mark. Type Xavi, intends, or Iniesta. Pep Guardiola has spent his recent words of enthusiasm. More than for Renzi, to understand each other. On the other hand look at Mas Renzi with attentive interest: "I think that we would understand well, I hope to meet him soon." President, because he wants the independent Catalonia? "I do not want it, the citizens want. Look at the balconies at the windows, watching the flags on display. In the city and in the countryside, in the center and on the outskirts, in the homes of those who vote and those who vote on the right to the left. It is a transversal movement and collective. Two million people took to the streets on September 11, they made a human chain. There was no anger in the streets, there was hope. It was a feast. The Catalans want to go to vote, no one can stop us from doing so. Going to vote is a defining trait of democracy. " Why now? The reasons are not the same as ten or twenty years ago? "For tiredness, fatigue. Why just now. We gave Spain a lot more than it has given us, always. For too long, too. Too long. The marriage is over. There can be separated with civilization, remaining good neighbors. " It is therefore an economic issue, it is the giving and receiving? It's like trying to get rid of a father that when you're already an adult pays you monthly and also tells you what to do with it? "He's a father who loves his son, the one that forces him to a subordinate relationship beyond the time allowed. We live in a condition of tenants of a hostile owner. Simply: we no longer accept those conditions are unjust. Our range is in conditions of great weakness, it all depends on the central government which historically pay taxes to an extent vastly superior to what we are then redistributed to the needs of our people. This is the origin of the serious fiscal deficit that last year put us in a position to apply for a loan that we're giving back, we will return everything. But enough. " More and tax revenues, autonomy in the management of taxes, always of money we're talking about. "No, we're talking about our history. I have 57 years, I have not been able to study Catalan, my tongue in school. In the Franco regime was forbidden. Today, the entire population is bilingual. Our traditions, our identities have never pretended to overwhelm anyone. Our policy is one of inclusion, acceptance, as always, and respect. But we want to be respected, and this government does not. Relations with the People's Party have become very difficult, really. " The historical leader of his party, Jordi Pujol, has been in prison under the Franco regime. Manuel Fraga, one of the historical leaders of the PP, was minister of Franco. Perhaps the story was the fact that the PP is in very conservative positions on today and Convergence, his party, closest to the left, an ally of Esquerra republican? "It is not a question of right or left. It is true that the Spanish People's Party positions today, also on the right, very conservative. And it is true that in itself keeps Convergence components liberal, social democratic, Christian Democrat and even communist. Zapatero has lost, in Spain, hence the PP won the elections by a large majority. But in Catalunya is all very different. Here the instances are really cross-independence, and I think to get to the break with the central government would cause difficulty for conservatives and socialists Catalans with outcomes, even at the national level, unpredictable. " She was not born independently Tista, it has become in recent times. Some might be wary, think of a convenience election. She goes where the wind blows. "Personally, I only disadvantages. Only major problems. I do not think of me, in fact I think I'll leave early in the policy. I will make the most of another term, if the conditions will be, to take the project forward. I want to go back to my life. What do I do for a collective project of the future in which I am engaged. Politics, like I said, not my thing. I am tiring but it is necessary. " He is ready to bring down his government if they say no to Madrid referendum? "They are going to vote anyway, yes. But I think the referendum will be. " And if they won the no to independence? The Catalans want to go to vote but polls say that with respect to the question, yes or no, are divided in half. "I think they will win the yes. However, at issue in the first place to go is the right to vote to express themselves. Member States are made of citizens. Must be able to decide. Then of course I will take the political responsibility of the result, in any case. " If Europe is to say no to the referendum? "The pressures are strong. Sovereign states do not want problems if you can avoid them. There will be the precedent of Scotland, who will vote before us. Then will come Catalonia. I also considered that in the initial moment, between the referendum and the proclamation of independence, we could stay out of Europe. Not the euro: the Union. It would be a shame, because we want to stay. We should find a transitional arrangement to avoid expulsion from the Union. We would however request to return. We want to stay in the euro, the Union, Schengen and NATO. " He believes that the banking system would support you? "Banks are not interested in politics, what we seek is solvency. The Catalans have 28 thousand euro per capita income, like the Germans. Spanish banks have 20 percent of their market here. In the business world the ideals do not exist, there is an interest. " Catalonia is really ready to break away from Spain? It is not just one way, this, to cash in on the outcome of the vote and go to Madrid to negotiate a different tax system and greater autonomy? "No. The political season of intermediaries, underhand tricks, of those who have different words for different interlocutors is over. The twentieth century is over. Of course, after a referendum must be handled is obvious. It discusses. But as we discuss in part with prejudice of good neighborly relations. Just this. Do not let the break, let's empowerment. On this there will be no reverse gears. " It seems very optimistic, most of the newspapers in the morning. "I'm an optimist down to earth. I am a realist. " They say that she does not have enough charisma to lead a revolution. "Charisma? At school I did well in all subjects but excelled at none. I have always done my duty. At one point I chose the policy, after the entrepreneur. It 'was a choice and honor. I do not know if I love it, I think I respect. In the end I prefer it. " Guardiola estimation and claims. She, in turn, thinks it might cheer Bayern Monaco? "You must be joking. My team is the boat. Bayern is my rival. Pep Guardiola is my friend. " If Catalonia can not go to a vote do you expect to happen? "The referendum will take place, and the Catalans win. You will see. instead we're going to early elections. I think for a little later, I'll still remain. It will not be easy, but nothing has been easy for us. Never. "

From The Republic of 27/12/2013.

CATALONIA -- El Punt Avui - Notícia: Mas afirma que davant el “no” a la consulta l'alternativa són eleccions anticipades

El Punt Avui - Notícia: Mas afirma que davant el “no” a la consulta l'alternativa són eleccions anticipades

Mas says that despite the "no" to the query are the alternative elections

The President of the Government is convinced in an interview with Italian newspaper 'La Repubblica' that will win the referendum and "yes"

Reiterates that will retire "soon" and that "at most" endure "another term"

27/12/13 11:01 - Barcelona - Efe

Artur Mas, a recent picture Photo: REUTERS.

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The President of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, has said that early elections are called alternative arises if Spain does not permit consultation held on 9 November 2014. However, Mas

In an interview published Friday in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, which is defined as "a revolutionary gray suit Catalonia wants to release" Mas is convinced that there will be consultation and will win "yes." "The referendum and the Catalans will win. You will see. Alternatively, go to early elections. I think for a short time, then I will follow. It will not be easy, but nothing has been easy for us. Never, "said the president in an interview done on Christmas Eve in Barcelona.

The article begins by ensuring that Mas cause "an earthquake" and has "begun a process of no return, wants an independent Catalonia in Spain."

In the interview, Catalonia Mas believes that we need to find a "transitional arrangements" that would allow it to leave the European Union if independence and ensures that your intention is to leave "early" policy.

"Personally I have only disadvantages. Only major problems. Do not think of me. Moreover, I believe that soon leave politics. I'll be at most one term, if the conditions to carry out the project. I returned to my life. What do I do for a collective project for the future in which I committed. I love not politics. I am tired, but it is necessary, "he adds.

Mas says that the Catalans want to be "respected" and that the executive Mariano Rajoy does not, and acknowledges that the idea of ​​holding the query is a question that uncomfortable in the EU.

"The pressures are strong. Sovereign states if they do not want problems be avoided. There will be a precedent for Scotland that before we vote. It will be Catalonia. I have also considered that in initial among the referendum and the proclamation of independence, could keep us out of the EU. Not the euro, the EU, "he says.

"It would be a shame, because we want to follow the EU. It would be necessary to find a transitional regime to prevent the expulsion of the European Union. However, requesting a reinstatement. We want to be the euro in the EU (the area of ​​free movement without borders) Schengen and NATO. "

The President believes that independence does not cause a loss of support from the banking system, as Spanish banks have 20% of their market Catalonia and "Catalans have 28,000 euros per capita income, as the Germans."

"We live in a condition of tenants of a hostile owner. Just because we do not accept such conditions are unfair. Our range is capable of great weakness "said Mas.

"Everything depends on the central government historically paid taxes to an extent greatly exceed that returns us to the needs of our people," and adds: "This is the origin tax last year led us to we're going to borrow, which will return in full. But now enough. "

Last Updated (Friday, 27 December 2013 11:34)