mercoledì 3 settembre 2014

Weapons market here is those who produce and those who buy

WHO WE GET FROM THE WARS? 

Weapons market here is those who produce and those who buy 

In 2011, Amnesty International published a report entitled "Arms Transfers to the Middle East and North Africa: Lessons for an effective treaty on the arms trade," in which the non-governmental organization examines exports to Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen. Italy also appears, in this case, one of the main exporting countries: for example, is among the 10 countries that have authorized the supply of arms and munitions to the regime of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya. Unfortunately it is not the only one, and while on the one hand there are those who die, on the other hand someone makes money, and many more. The Italian Constitution art. 11 reads: "Italy rejects war as an instrument of aggression against the freedom of other peoples and as a means of settling international disputes." How to reconcile this principle with support for totalitarian regimes such as Libya? What is the point they are celebrating peace when economic interests are going in the opposite direction? 
The international production 
The turnover that revolves around the production of war materials is one of the most prosperous in the world. Suffice it to say that in the period 2008/2012 weapons trafficking has been an increase of 17% over the period 2003/2007. Who is selling? Who's buying? Think of the regions in which they are open conflicts in recent years seems obvious that the war in the East. This is a belief shared by many Westerners who see their countries as peaceful places. Yet it is precisely our "quiet" West to supply arms to any country torn by wars and tensions. The two cardinals sellers are obviously two of the major powers mon being fulfilled: United States (30% of world exports of weapons) and Russia (26%). 45% of American arms exports are directed to Asia and Oceania. It is interesting to note that Iraq and Afghanistan have become two of the main goals of American exports since the United States has ordered the withdrawal of armed forces from those same places. Russia, on the other hand, with an order book currently stands at around 46 billion dollars, following close behind the United States; the first goals are, even in this case, Asia and Oceania. Scrolling through the data, then, it is possible to reconstruct the performance of the five largest suppliers of weapons in the period 2007-2011. United States and Russia, alone, account for 54% of world exports. The other three are Germany (9%), France (8%) and the UK (4%). Lately, however, it was replaced by China. In the last two decades, the arms manufacturers have carried out absorption and alliances, including international, just to support the production difficulties and the rising costs associated with increasingly sophisticated means. BAE, Thales, EADS, Finmeccanica are the great European union trying to compete with the giants of the famous American Lockheed Martin and the like. 
Where do the weapons and forgotten conflicts in the world 
The States which import most of all weapons are: India, China, Pakistan, South Korea and Singapore. It is crucial to remember that they are sixty countries involved in conflicts. More closely: • In Africa, countries at war are 24 and you get to 115 armed groups; hot spots are found in Darfur, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Puntland, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Somaliland. • Asia has 15 states and 113 militia; areas of greatest tension are North Korea, South Korea, Afghanistan, Burma-Myanmar and Pakistan. • In the Middle East there are 8 g or 112 Governments and militancy that operate in Iraq, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Yemen. • Our continent, Europe, boasts 8 states embroiled in armed conflict, as well as 61 different organizations equipped; the affected areas are Chechnya and Dagestan. • The America involving 5 countries and 25 other organized groups involved in drug trafficking in particular. The hot spots are located in Colombia and Mexico. 
The immunity to crisis 
Returning to the Amnesty International report, the editors noted: "The world needs you rigorously assess each proposed arms transfer so that if there is a risk that these can be used to commit or facilitate serious human rights human, the government must show a red light. "However, as the field of armaments linked to the needs of domestic and international security, it offers a whole range of direct and indirect state subsidies that have preserved the crisis, including the terrorist threat, as well as the tensions between the different states often adjacent to each other (just think of the hostility and threats between the two Koreas). 
Made in Italy 
That weapon is, therefore, an international business that grinds billion each year, a market that, both as regards Italy that other producing countries, it is stable even in the midst of the economic crisis in some states this is an area even growing. And it was one of those states where you need to focus is exactly the Bel Paese. While in the world you could see the first alarming signs of the economic meltdown in 2009, in Italy we recorded a 64% increase in the trade of arms. According to data from SIPRI - the International Research Institute for Peace Stockholm, which deals with the study of the origins of the conflict, and of the reasons I will explore the possible solutions - Italy, in fact, is in fifth place in the rankings world as a producing country but terial war, how to export the eighth of this and eleven Italian companies, primarily Finmeccanica, fall within the top 100 preferential suppliers are the United States and Germany. On the export side, Italy has sold weapons for $ 3.2 billion over five years (2007-2011) in various countries, including Libya. Made in Italy of weapons acquired its obvious notoriety thanks to the notorious land mines and mines. Until the early nineties, mainly due to industry Oto Melara, we were one of the main producing countries of this kind of devices, the manufacture of which is now prohibited. In 1997 he had, in fact, in our country, a storage of 7 million anti-personnel mines, while in 2003 it was announced his definitive dismantling. The spearhead of the Italian Tecnova Spa and Fincantieri was represented by the TC6, a bomb from the devastating destructive power, a landmine that still takes its toll in the world. In Afghanistan, most of the weapons used are just mine TC6 changed, the Italian-built. Just these devices were responsible for the deaths among our own countrymen in a peace mission. Other manufacturers of these devices are Valsella meccano technique spa and SEISpA, both based in Brescia. "As long as there is war there is hope" Alberto Sordi titled his film "As long as there is war, there is hope." There is hope for entrepreneurs and for the taxes that the state must affix a trade of this kind. Italy in recent years has favored trade routes with areas of increased instability on the planet, not just Gaddafi, which was, in fact, the main supplier, but according to the survey carried out by Amnesty International, our government has helped provide material war in authority are classified as repressive in the Middle East and North Africa. Italy was the only country capable of exporting between 2005 and 2010 in the five countries most politically marked: Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen. As if to testify that the poorest places in the world are also the most armed. 
Finmeccanica is a sensation: the scandals affecting the defense industry 
The sections with the countries most in need are also represented by several "business strategy": a major scandal that hit in 2010 Finmeccanica, the corporate giant magnet that the majority of companies involved in the sector, is a clear example. On June 8 of that year, Lorenzo Cola, a consultant company, was arrested with a heavy accusation recycling 8 million and 300 thousand euro used to purchase shares in the company Digint important. Cola, along with his partner Gennaro Mokbel, intended to take advantage of that company to obtain contracts in the military. This strategy would have resulted in free access to the supply of armaments produced by the companies of the group, which would have then proceeded to sell the Asian market to secure the opening of a company in the Republic of Singapore. From this project the company was to become the central hub for the supply of armaments. Being a Finmeccanica industrial group belonging to the 35% to the public, the government decided to intervene, giving sweeping powers to the CEO Orsi, who was arrested a few months later with charges of miliarcorruzione International for the supply of military helicopters to the Indian Army, the proceeds of which would have been the lifeline of the Italian industrial group. 
The proposal: invest in the sector, the only safe haven economy 
On 11 April this year, the Fact Daily published an article which reported the testimony of Nicholas Perrotti, president dell'Anpam, the national association and weapons manufacturers. Perrotti proposes a new recipe out of the crisis: to start from the weapons, probably the most solid Italian industry at the moment. Arguing that there is a need to 'aid' by the State. It should only be limited to not apply any unnecessary obstacles to allow the war industry made ​​in Italy to finally be able to compare in a decisive way with the foreign competition. What naivety to believe that the made ​​in Italy was known for Gucci, Prada, Armani, or typical products ... Apparently we are the masters in the field of war. The best known brand in the world is that Beretta, not only is the oldest firm of weapons, but it is also a world leader in the production of the lighter ones. The police in the United States has its own use a special supply of Beretta pistols. The ISTAT points out that there is no crisis for the export of weapons Brescia: increased by more than 20% of arms exports from that area, which in 2012 reached a record figure of 316 million euro. The main recipients continue to be eg the United States (119 million euro), but among the largest buyers appears Turkey (over 36 million), India (10 million), Russia (nearly 10 million), and especially a new entry, Malaysia (5 million) and mark a clear decline in exports to the EU (-5.6%). 
A trade financed by banks 
The aforementioned Finmeccanica, during the last two decades, it has become increasingly concentrated in the military gradually withdrew from the civil (alternative energy, transport, etc..). The arms trade is, in fact, increased by 24% in 5 years, and fundamental to the achievement of this result, it was the intervention of the banks. Banks paid more in this kind of negotiations are BNL, BNP Paribas, followed by Unicredit and Intesa San Paolo Group, together with all groups between 2000 and 2009 were absorbed by them. Funding can occur in different ways, but one that is highlighted by some scholars in the field is that sometimes the client is not aware that within a given fund may appear shares of companies related to heavy industry. 
The diplomacy of lead 
Logical consequence, as immediate, is therefore to quantify the importance of the arms market plays in foreign policy agreements between states, which are beginning to shed their appearance diplomatic and economic. An example? The already well-known agreement between Greece and the European countries: all'elargizione behind the large sum given the eurozone to avoid economic meltdown there is an agreement for the supply of arms by France and Germany, which amounts to 7 billion euro , 3% of the GDP of the Hellenic nation. Another eloquent example is the recent supply of arms from Britain to Sri Lanka: the country is made ​​by exacerbating a few years out of a 30-year civil war that has pitted the army and the separatist central "Tamil Tigers". The "The Independent" reveals the commission of weapons by the British government for a bill of around £ 3 million. A pittance compared to the costs in the world weaponry, which, however, was worth the Tamil remission of all requests for political asylum in European countries. 
Arm Therapy 
Such conduct must be unmotivated and punished, the risk is to fall into the trap of the ARM therapy: that is, the economic distortion that a country in crisis can find economic relief army in the industry, who would like an increase in employment associated with a high monetary return. The demonstration of the inconvenience of this practice is, needless to say, just from Italy: the purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the United States, in front of 10 billion expenditure for the purchase of 131 vehicles (later reduced to 90 ) and 30 billion for maintenance during their life cycle, should have generated 10,000 jobs; in reality it was demonstrated that the expenditure of $ 40 billion can only generate 2,500 jobs (clearly disadvantageous agreement), in addition to the amount of defects in aircraft design that brought Turkey to consider cancellation of the order. An investment of 40 billion euro should be divided into public and private sectors in Italy that are most blamed the economic downturn for the creation, or at least the recovery of productive jobs in the true sense of the word (ie, that investment, generate an added value useful to the entire country). 
And human freedom? 
The arms market is not added value of a state, it can become rather affossante additional factor of an economic system. The same economic system that should be oriented policy toward the good of the citizens, not an asset subject to the claim for the purchase of arms for their defense. And it is also regrettable that this can create using a buzzword, the "mess-ups" with the United thesis to the violation of human rights. To avoid this you need a change of priorities in the regulation of trade and a real race to disarmament for the achievement of human freedom not just on paper, but real. 
http://www.educazioneliberta.it/2013/04/chi-ci-guadagna-dalle-guerre/

martedì 2 settembre 2014

Secret nuclear


"... And the secret is also the basis of nuclear power plants and the huge interest that you gravitate. The political power, the one that sends armies to kill each other, build nuclear power plants in the name of economy and progress and this is a big, shameful deception. Their greatest secret is that, in all parts of the world, have not yet managed to eliminate safely the radioactive waste produced by these plants. The bins thrown into the Pit of the Atlantic will poison the sea when, in a few years, they explode. But who cares? ... "(Anthropologist-theosophist Bernardino del Boca from the book" THE SECRET "PAG. 210 - ed., 1986)

"(...) But then why there is a nuclear race? nuclear power is also military and then, as the non-democratic societies are based on violence, and democratic societies are based on fraud and deceit, you have to convince people that the state operates only for good, not preparing for war and if there is a war only in response to external aggression. The civilian nuclear power is a way to conceal the nuclear weapons and also to see that our defense budget is small because much a part of defense expenditure is charged against the military budgets of other ministries, this is done in Italy, To do atomic bombs must have suitable technologies, have the explosive material ready, so that in case of need it is possible to construct a device in a week. (...). France having fewer resources than those of the United States and Russia has created central dual use when recovering part of the cost by selling the energy. So it is not true that nuclear energy is cheaper, the French nuclear energy is sold sottoscosto because it is the product of a military production. Now that the danger of war increases, the interests of various countries are moving back toward nuclear power, because they were invented new types of nuclear weapons different from previous ones that require new kinds of plants and here is the need to build these new plants. If you looked only at the energy problem the idea of ​​building nuclear plants is so absurd that it would not occur to anyone. (...) "

(Prof. Emilio del Giudice, a physicist, a researcher at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Institute of Biophisics of Neuss (Germany) - 03.02.2008 - Conference "Planet Earth - Ass. Saras Milan)

"" (...) The civil nuclear serves to the military. The design tools and the know-how for peaceful applications are derived from military know-how. Build nuclear power plants has always been a convenient way to recoup the costs of nuclear weapons. Not only the civil nuclear in turn promotes the horizontal proliferation of nuclear weapons. It calms the world with the stated aim of building a civilian facility and so you can work in peace to the construction of nuclear warheads (...) Thanks to civilian nuclear program will avoid many problems. Everything becomes easier ... ..The Nuclear power plants produce plutonium as waste. It is found, in varying percentages, in radioactive waste. 1 kg of plutonium -a ping pong- has the power of 20,000 tons of TNT, enough to destroy a city. For an H-bomb, it takes on average 5 kg. Plutonium: a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant produces about 250 kg of plutonium per year from which you can get 40-50 atomic bombs. The civilian nuclear power is a great screen that allows you to work undisturbed on nuclear weapons. Nuclear technology has enormous costs. Nuclear power plants are used to amortise, reducing the cost of weapons-grade plutonium. The fallout of the civil nuclear weapons reduce the huge deficit that the armaments lead in the state budget. That means the nuclear powers impose civilian nuclear energy even if it were less expensive-which not-, and even if it were completely safe not--which remains a solution ethically unacceptable

(Prof. Angelo Baracca, professor of physics at the University of Florence - Committee of "Scientists anti-war" relationship 15-10-2008)

"... Between 1943 and 1945, in Los Alamos- USA, the largest nuclear research center, 600,000 employees worked in a compartment (it also happens in medicine) so no one knew what they were building. The physicist Robert Oppenheimer was tried and sentenced to death because he wanted the research was known to all as they believed that science was a world heritage site. He was saved by the international scientific community that rose up against the government of the United States (...) Nuclear power plants have been built as well as bomb-making also to manufacture engines for use in nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers in enabling these means energy reserves of 2 0 3 years (...) then the civil nuclear power is a crutch for the military (,,,) more reactors will create more refined increase the risks. (...) The nuclear safety is a lie. "

(Prof. Luigi Sertorius, a professor of Ecofisica University of Turin, has worked 15 years at Los Alamos USA and 3 years in the environmental division of NATO Europe - Conference 04/26/2011 - Turin - Nuclear Lies)

SIPRI - Peace Research Institute Stockholm - www.sipri.org -

April 11, 2011, published data on the world's military spending YEAR 2010:

1 6 3 0 BILLION DOLLARS

(approximately 4.46 billion dollars per day or about $ 3 million per minute)

From the book "The Human Dimension" ed. 1971-theosophist anthropologist Bernardino del Boca:

pag. 272: "... There are scientific books that are an example of how the mind works similar: they seem to books written with seriousness and serenity but if you use your consciousness, that is, if instead of passively accepting the thoughts you think with your mind, you remains scared for the horrible implications they contain. There must therefore astonish the survey results of the experts of intelligence, according to which, despite the fact that over the past 50 years, science and technology have resulted in human life the most amazing and revolutionary changes that have imposed the culture at all, the average intelligence in the world is decreasing instead of increasing. Our concept of intelligence is also very limited by our current human dimension and we have an example in the way of acting of the great powers. For centuries, it is said that wars are being waged under the relentless pressure of need, but today the great powers spend astronomical sums on armaments that if used to meet the needs of the underdeveloped peoples and the poor from the earth every reason to be deprived of aggression ... "

pag. 66: "... As long as it will not be made ​​a synthesis of the various branches of science, and not this summary will be submitted in the light of spirituality, the human phenomenon can not be understood in its purpose and even in his individual expression"

pag. 239: "... .U Thant, a former US Secretary:" The truth, the great capital truth, with regard to the developed nations of the present day, is that they can have almost as soon as imaginable all resources they want. No longer are those resources that limit decisions. Decisions are those that determine the resources. And this is a revolutionary change-perhaps the most rivoluzionario- that mankind has ever known. "

To take new decisions you need to have a new mindset. Who is the slave of need or of wealth, power, or his social position, those who identify with the values ​​created by selfishness and injustice, can not take new decisions, since it is a slave to too many fears. But the thoughts that make possible the emancipation of man from ignorance, selfishness and fear have an irresistible force since they arise from the same slow flow of Life to the formation of the new plane of consciousness "

http://altrogiornale.org/aeoei-segreti-del-nucleare-e-le-spese-militariae%C2%9D-ae-nuovo-progetto-di-sviluppo-della-coscienza-umana/

 by: Paola Botta Beltramo - OTS - Biella

Who rules the world?

Who rules the world?


There is a shadowy group of obscenely wealthy elitists who control the world? Men and women with huge amounts of money really rule the world from behind the scenes? The answer may surprise you. Most of us tend to think of money as a convenient way to make transactions, but the truth is that it is also the power and control. And today we live in a neo-feudal system in which the super-rich pulling all the strings.

When I speak of the ultra-rich, do not talk to people who have a few million dollars. As you will see later in this article, the ultra-rich have enough money deposited in offshore banks, to buy all the goods and services produced in the United States in the course of an entire year and still be able to pay all the national debt the United States. It 'a sum of money so large as to be almost inconceivable.

According to this neo-feudal system, all the rest of us debt slaves, including our governments. Just look around - all are drowning in debt, and all that debt is making the ultra-rich even richer. But the ultra-rich are not just sitting on his wealth. We use a part to dominate the affairs of nations. The ultra-rich have virtually every major bank and every major company on the planet. They use a wide network of secret societies, think tanks and charitable organizations to promote their agendas and to keep their members in line.

Control the way in which we see the world through their ownership in the media and their dominion over our education system. They fund the campaigns of most of our politicians and exercise enormous influence on international organizations like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the WTO. If you step back and look at the big picture, there's no doubt about who runs the world. It 's just that most people do not want to admit the truth.

The ultra-rich are not going to deposit their money in a local bank like you and me. On the contrary, they tend to place their activities in places where they will not be taxed, as the Cayman Islands. According to a report that was released last summer, the global elite has more than 32 trillion dollars hidden in offshore banks in the world.

The GDP of the United States in 2011 was about 15,000 billion dollars, and the national debt of the United States has reached about 16,000 billion dollars, so that even if sommaste them together would not reach 32 trillion dollars.


And, of course, we're not even considering the money hidden in other places that the study did not calculate, nor all the wealth that the global elite has solid assets such as real estate, precious metals, works of art, yacht, etc

The global elite has really amassed an incredible amount of wealth in these difficult times. We read an article in the Huffington Post ...

Some wealthy individuals and their families have more than 32 trillion dollars of funds hidden in tax havens offshore, representing more than 280 billion dollars of loss in tax revenue, according to research published on Monday.

The study estimates the extent of global private financial wealth held in offshore accounts - excluding non-financial assets, such as real estate, gold, yachts and racehorses - and believes that it is between 21 and 32 billion dollars.

The research was conducted under the pressure group Tax Justice Network, which campaigns against tax havens, by James Henry, former chief economist of the consulting group McKinsey & Co.

He used data from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations and central banks.

But, as I said earlier, the global elite simply do not have a lot of money. He also bought practically every major bank and every major company around the world.

According to an excellent article in the NewScientist, a study conducted by ETH Zurich on over 40,000 transnational corporations has found that a very small core of large banks and massive looting companies dominate the entire world economic system ...

An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

The researchers found that this core group is made up of only 147 companies very closely linked ...

When the team further examined the properties of the network, found that largely went back to a "super-entity" of 147 even more tightly linked companies - all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity - that control the 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. "In effect, less than 1 per cent of firms are able to control 40 per cent of the entire network," says Glattfelder. For the most part, these financial institutions. Among the top 20 are Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group.

The following are the top 25 banks and companies in the heart of this "super-entity". Many of the names on the list are known ...

1 Barclays plc
2 Capital Group Companies Inc
3 FMR Corporation
4. AXA
5 State Street Corporation
6 JP Morgan Chase & Co
7 Legal & General Group plc
8 Vanguard Group Inc
9 UBS AG
10 Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
11 Wellington Management Co LLP
12 Deutsche Bank AG
13 Franklin Resources Inc
14 Credit Suisse Group
15 Walton Enterprises LLC
16 Bank of New York Mellon Corp
17 Natixis
18 Goldman Sachs Group Inc
19 T Rowe Price Group Inc
20 Legg Mason Inc
21 Morgan Stanley
22 Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
23 Northern Trust Corporation
24 Société Générale
25 Bank of America Corporation

The ultra-rich elite often hidden behind layers and layers of ownership, but the truth is that thanks to an interlocking business relationships, the elite controls nearly all the Fortune 500 companies.

The amount of power and control that this gives them is hard to describe.

Unfortunately, this same group of people running things for a long time. For example, the New York City Mayor John F. Hylan stated the following during a speech he gave back in 1922 ...

The real threat to our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus extends its slimy tentacles over our cities, states and nations. Doing simple generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil and a small group of powerful banking institutions generally referred to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually runs the United States government for their own selfish purposes.

Practically control both parties, write political platforms, using puppets as party leaders, use the leaders of private organizations, and resort to every means to put in nomination for high public office only those candidates who will subject to the dictates of the great corrupt enterprises.

These international bankers and Rockefeller-Standard Oil possess the majority of newspapers and magazines in this country. They use the columns of these journals to subjugate or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. They operate under the cover of a screen created by themselves [and] seize our executives, legislative bodies, schools, courts, newspapers and every agency created for the public safety.

These international bankers have created central banks around the world (including the Federal Reserve), and the central banks use to trap the governments of the world in endless cycles of debt from which there is no escape. The public debt is a way to take money from us all "legitimate", transfer to the government, and then transfer them into the pockets of the ultra-rich.

Today, Barack Obama, and nearly all members of Congress absolutely refuse to criticize the Fed, but in the past there have been some brave members of Congress who have been able to take a stand. For example, the following quote comes from a speech that Congressman Louis T. McFadden was held in the House of Representatives June 10, 1932 ...

Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a government commission, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States by such an amount of money that would be enough to pay off the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board has cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times. This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of the United States, fell into bankruptcy, and sent practically bankrupted our Government. He did this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Federal Reserve Board, and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

Unfortunately, most Americans still believe that the Federal Reserve is a '"federal agency," but absolutely not the case. The following quote is from the website factcheck.org ...

The shareholders of the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks are private banks within the Federal Reserve System. These include all national banks (protected by the federal government) and the state-owned banks that want to join and meet certain requirements. About 38 percent of the more than 8,000 national banks are members of the system, and then have the FED banks.

According to the researchers who have examined the properties of the big Wall Street banks that dominate the Fed, the same names appear over and over again: the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Lazard, the Schiffs and the royal families of Europe.

But the ultra-wealthy international bankers have not done this kind of thing only in the United States. Their goal was to create a global financial system dominated and controlled by them. Just read what the professor of history at Georgetown University Carroll Quigley wrote once ...

The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudal system by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements agreed in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations.

Unfortunately, most Americans have never even heard of the Bank for International Settlements, which is at the center of the global financial system. Here is a quote from Wikipedia ...



As an organization of central banks, the BIS seeks to make monetary policy more predictable and transparent among its 58 member central banks. When monetary policy is determined by each sovereign nation, it is not subject to the control of central banks and private and potentially to speculation that affects the exchange rates and especially the fate of export economies. The lack of maintenance of monetary policy in line with reality and monetary reforms in time, fixed as a policy simultaneously all 58 member banks, with the participation of the International Monetary Fund, historically, has led to losses in the billions as banks try to maintain a policy using open market methods that have proven to be based on unrealistic assumptions.

The ultra-rich have also played an important role in the creation of other major international institutions like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the WTO. In fact, the land for the UN headquarters in New York City was purchased and donated by John D. Rockefeller.

The international bankers are "internationalists" and I'm very proud of it.

The elite also dominates the education system in the United States. Over the years, the Rockefeller Foundation and other elite organizations have poured huge amounts of money in the schools of the Ivy League. Today, the Ivy League schools are considered to be the standard against which we measure all other universities in America, and the last four presidents of the United States were educated in the schools of the Ivy League.

The elite exerts enormous influence through various secret societies (Skull and Bones, Freemasonry, etc), some very powerful think tank and social centers (the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group, the Bohemian Grove, Chatham House, etc.), and through an extensive network of charities and non-governmental organizations (the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, etc.).

But for a moment, I want to focus on the power that the elite has on average. In a previous article, I described the way in which only six monolithic corporate giants control most of what we watch, hear and read every day. These companies have huge television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites.

Considering the fact that the average American watch 153 hours of television per month, the influence of these six giant corporations should not be underestimated. The following are just some of the media companies owned by these giant corporations ...

Time Warner

Home Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
TMZ
New Line Cinema
Time Warner Cable
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
TBS
TNT
America Online
MapQuest
Moviefone
Castle Rock
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
people Magazine

Walt Disney

ABC Television Network
Disney Publishing
ESPN Inc.
Disney Channel
SOAPnet
A & E
Lifetime
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Buena Vista Games
Hyperion Books

Viacom

Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Comedy Central
Country Music Television (CMT)
logo
MTV
MTV Canada
MTV2
Nick Magazine
Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon
noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
VH1

news Corporation

Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
The New York Post
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Beliefnet
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Net
Fox Television Network
FX
My Network TV
MySpace
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed ​​Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
STAR World
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
Times of London
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
20th Century Fox Television
BSkyB
DIRECTV
The Wall Street Journal
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Interactive Media
FOXTEL
HarperCollins Publishers
The National Geographic Channel
National Rugby League
news Interactive
news Outdoor
radio Veronica
ReganBooks
Sky Italy
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
STAR
Zondervan

CBS Corporation

CBS News
CBS Sports
CBS Television Network
CNET
Showtime
TV.com
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
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And, of course, the elite also owns the majority of our politicians. The following is a quote from the journalist Lewis Lapham ...

"The formation of the will of Congress and the choice of the American president has become a privilege reserved for the country's equestrian classes, aka 20% of the population owns 93% of the wealth, the happy few who run businesses and banks, have and manage the news and entertainment media, they write the laws and govern the universities, control the philanthropic foundations, policy institutes, casinos and sports arenas. "

Have you ever wondered why things never seem to change in Washington DC, no matter who we vote?

Well, it's because both sides are the property of the establishment.

It would be nice to think that Americans have control over who runs things in the United States, but that's not how it works in the real world.

In the real world, the politician who collects the most money more than 80 times out of a hundred wins in competitions at national level.

Our politicians are not stupid - they will be very good with people who can give them huge amounts of money they need for their campaigns. And the people who can do that are the ultra-rich and the giant corporations that control the ultra-rich.

Start to make you a picture?

There is a reason why the ultra-rich are called "the establishment". They have created a system that benefits them a lot and that allows them to pull the strings.

So, who runs the world?

They do them. To tell the truth even admit it.

David Rockefeller wrote the following in his 2003 book titled "Memories" ...

"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have taken advantage of well-publicized events such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the undue influence that according to their exercise on the American political and economic institutions. Some belief that we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, call me and my family as 'internationalists' and accuse us of conspiring with others around the world to build a structure more integrated global political and economic - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it. "

There is much more that could be said about all this. In fact, an entire library of books could be written about the power and influence of the ultra-wealthy international bankers who rule the world.
But we hope that this is enough to at least start a discussion.

So, what do you think of all this? Do not hesitate to leave a comment below with your opinions ...

Michael Snyder
Source: The Economic Collapse January 29, 2013

Why do these wars?


Why do these wars? 


Why do these wars? Let the word to President Clinton, in a speech to officials in Washington, USA, March 23, 1999, when he was about to unleash the bombing of Yugoslavia: "If we want to achieve stable economic relations, which allow us to sell in around the world, it is necessary that Europe is the key ... it is from there, from Kosovo (sic) that you have to act with respect to this situation. "in short, the war aims of the NATO install as gendarme necessary for the USA domination on the European continent. 
At the same time, this is confirmed by an editorial in the "New York Times": "Because globalization rotten, America must not be afraid to act like the almighty superpower what it is. The invisible hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. 
McDonalds can not flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the aircraft fighter F-15. 
And the hidden fist that provides a world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies, this punch is called the United States Army, with its Air Force, the Navy and the Marines. "
Who controls the oil, may continue to rule the world 
In fact, after the fall of the Berlin Wall all USA wars have occurred in the service of "globalization". Ultimately, for the right of corporations to continue to impose their unjust social and economic rules, the right not to pay for raw materials and plunder the whole world. 

And in the first place, the oil and gas. 
Who controls the streets of the oil can block the supply of its rivals (Europe, Japan ...), blackmail and continue to rule the world. This is the permanent goal of Washington. 
The war against Yugoslavia aimed to overthrow the workers' self-management and make a clean sweep in favor of multinational corporations. But also to control the strategic "energy corridor n ° 10" passing through Belgrade. 
What was the result for the workers? The government that NATO has imposed on Belgrade is one of the IMF. 
The price of bread has increased from 4 to 30 dinars, that electricity (via privatization) has been multiplied by four, the World Bank calls for the dismissal of 800,000 workers and the right to strike is going to be eliminated! 

Support for Ben Laden and the Taliban, then the overthrow of them, were designed to enable the construction of a gas pipeline in Afghanistan's US multinational Unocal intended to supply the whole of South Asia. 
The "President" Karzai of Afghanistan is an employee of Unocal and ten of his ministers passport USA. The result? The drug trade has increased! 

The support for the brutal and corrupt regime of Colombia certainly has the purpose of ensuring the rule on the strategic Panama Canal, but also to control the first Colombian oil, then the Venezuelan opposing any alliance between these two countries and the Equatorial. 
Those who seek to impose democracy in Iraq, did not hesitate groped in a coup against the President elected by the people, Chaves. 

The USA support to Islamic militants, in particular those of Ben Laden, active in Chechnya, and their arms procurement aims to weaken Russia and drive it from so lucrative oil routes in the region. 

Ultimately, anywhere, the oil multinationals USA seek to impose marked trails for pipelines are under their own control: Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Caucasus, Bulgaria - Macedonia- Albania, and currently we began to talk specifically Korea and several African countries. 
And in each of these regions, the United States maneuvered to install their military bases. Well, everywhere but in a clandestine, the United States cause or provoke conflict, supporting the worst racists, the worst terrorists, the worst fanatics. 

All this needs pretexts and mediamenzogne​​, that the left has not always been able to unmask! 
For example, in Kosovo, the KLA apply them protected with impunity their program announced: ethnic cleansing by expulsion of all minorities (Serbs, Jews, Roma, Turks, Muslims, Gorani ...) and trafficking mafia (drugs, weapons , prostitution). Under the eyes and with the blessing of the United States who took office at the side of the future pipeline, the huge military base Camp Bondsteel: the cross-bombers (!), Rent for 99 years, which allow you to immediately reach the Middle East, the Caucasus, Moscow. And one day, Europe? 

The cause of war is the economic system As the war for black gold has also targeted the deprivation of France and Germany of their outlets and supplies in Iraq, Iran, etc.. The same applies to the militarist strategy and the arms race that have the intention to impede the formation of the Euro-Army. This would lead to the same wars Army USA, but on behalf of the European multinationals. 

Militarism and the proliferation of wars do not fall from heaven, and do not depend just on the personality of this or that president. 
They US corporations that have decided to promote the election of Bush, the trickster is not elected. In fact, the cause of wars is due to the worsening of the economic crisis. Unavoidable in this system, since the "best boss", applauded by the exchange, is announcing a plan for layoffs of ten or fifteen thousand workers around the world. 
But if dismissed and lower wages as much as you can, to those who are going to sell? 

This absurdity undermines the economic basis of a harmonious whole. 
This contradiction does not circumvent imposes a growing battle for control of regions and strategic materials, with the aim of depriving the rivals. 
The world is divided like a pie. And how is it divided for a long time, the only way for a great power to improve his situation is grab pieces of the other domain. Through the war! 

The many wars announced by Bush (Iran, Syria, Korea, Colombia, Cuba, etc ...) are nothing more than the chapters of a global war. The brutal colonization of the entire planet corresponds to the imposition of a dictatorship even more extensive than dreamed of by Hitler. The prey consists decisive from China, with its huge market, and its phenomenal growth rate. Prior to conquer Europe one day? 

But supporting the European Army is certainly not the solution. When Chirac sends the French army in Africa to support and encourage the worst dictatorships Total or Bouygues, he does the same operation of Bush, only in a minor key. 
And if Bush had offered to TotalFina its share of the pie Iraq, we would not have heard of Chirac. 

An international front against war 
It is up to the workers and their organizations to define their own alternative: the solidarity of those who are down on those who are at the top. 
"When the rich wage war it is the poor who die," wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. Hence the urgency lies in the creation of an international front against war, for the right to self-determination, ie to the right of each nation to choose its own destiny, its own social system, its own way of economic development. Developing everywhere (factories, associations, districts and especially schools) Committees of information, discussion and mobilization. As humanity is running a terrible danger. 

So that's it! And I apologize for the schematic nature of this text. However, it was not possible to argue with facts and prove the thesis proposals in certain passages. Then this text is accepted as an appeal to keep alive the debate within the labor movement and progressive. 

Michel Collon 
Posted in "Contrastes" magazine of the "Teams" Popular

giovedì 28 agosto 2014

The walls

SECRETS FROM THE ARCHIVES (beyond the imagination of any film) presentation

by Paolo Barnard
I draw from my book "Perchè ci odiano" (Rizzoli BUR 2006), and put at the disposal of readers are most affected, some essential documents contained in the volume. Soon I'll add others as I can scan them. For now, in order:
- Dispatches former Top Secret State Department USA Holocaust ignored most of the twentieth century, what in Indonesia exterminated nearly two million innocent people in the name of American and British interests in the area. Who has the patience to read them, you will find not only valuable insights into the mindset of hegemonic empires and contemporary in their unimaginable cruelty, but also descriptions of horrific events that have nothing to envy to the Nazi exterminations, and that in this case were committed with the euphoric participation in London and Washington.
- A study called "Crude Designes," which reveals the long-term plans with which the United States will eventually steal their oil to the Iraqis. Followed by a very interesting account of a meeting at the highest level held at the National Press Club in Washington in 2004, where already the elders Americans and Iraq is were scores of made ​​the cake of Iraq's oil.
- Some of the infamous Ordinance with which the American proconsul Paul Bremer harnessed Iraq for years to come. It is true laws, embedded in the art in the alleged free laws that the puppet government in Baghdad has in these past 4 years. They, as I explain in detail in my book, they tear into the future, the economy and self-determination itself of that country in ways unexpected by even the wildest globalizzzatori Western neoliberals.
- Finally, an extraordinary document, although ignored by virtually everyone: the international ones judgment of the Court of Justice in The Hague in 1986, condemned the United States for terrorism ("unlawful use of force" in international legal parlance, nda) against the State of Nicaragua. In my book you will find all the details of the case. But it remains remarkable that the USA was internationally recognized 'rogue state' ten years before that term was coined between the walls of the White House in Washington.


http://paolobarnard.info/pb/dagli-archivi-segreti-oltre-limmaginazione-di-qualsiasi-filmpresentazione/

who is  Paolo Barnard
He is a  journalist, or maybe he has been, and as such he has worked for many national publications including newspapers and magazines, such as La Stampa, Il Manifesto, Il Corriere della Sera, Il Mattino, The Secolo of Genoa, La Repubblica, The Voce of Montanelli, Il Sabato, Chorus, Oggi, and other Events. For television RAI in Samarcanda with Santoro during the Gulf War (1991) and Report for ten years, having co-founded (1994-2004). For culture magazines as Micromega, Elsewhere, Golem of Sole 24 Ore, and for news agencies and online publications. He has written books on international terrorism, Palestine and Israel, and humanization of medicine. Never joined a political party, never belonged to interest groups linked to power, he is out of work and on the edge of notoriety for this principle. For him ideas and what he has done he is very unsympathetic to the system and even more at the Antisistema. 
But for me and many others like me who love to know the truth of the facts, always, and at all costs, Paul Barnard, is the icon of journalism.

mercoledì 27 agosto 2014

The masters of the world

The masters of the world

An exclusive club of a few thousand people, not elected democratically decide the fate of entire populations, able to manipulate the financial markets and to impose itself on the policy and the States. Who they are, how they act and what goals have bankers that drive the games central bank and live on the shoulders of the middle class? And how to get out? The proposal from the book of Luca Ciarrocca.

Megabanche con i piedi di argilla

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella when the sun is shining and I'll ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

Capitalism on the brink of implosion
Mid-September 2008 The world is on the brink of the abyss. Outbreak of the great global crisis, the worst in the last eighty years. We still talk about why the apocalypse could happen again. In the same terms. Another «cigno nero» as it is called, according to the theory epistemologist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a rare and unpredictable event that upsets the order of things. Almost nothing has changed with respect to those terrible days. Indeed, the scenario is worse. He missed a breath. For accuracy three hours. At the time no one had tools to understand, everything happened so frantic, but today we know. United States, Europe, the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the entire block of developed economies, from Tokyo to London, from New York to Singapore, he was one hundred and eighty minutes to watch the implosion. Then everything would burst, exploded, leaving only rubble and devastation. As in a catastrophic third world war.

The great crisis was staged on the screens of more than 300,000 Bloomberg terminals on five continents. The Sherpas in the service of the oligarchy that leads the world - corporations, banks, hedge funds, speculators - they were going to change the fate of billions of people. The prices were collapsing, the terrible virus «tossico» of illiquidity and insolvency which had attacked the banks in the world was going to explode.

It happened September 18, 2008, the event that only a few other times in economic history had such an impact: a great flight of capital from deposits of American banks (bank run) for a total of 5.5 trillion dollars. Lehman Brothers went bankrupt four days ago, Wall Street had lost -30 per cent in a few weeks, and now the equivalent of a third of the gross domestic product of the United States was evaporating from bank deposits. No queues at the counters, all electronic. Another three hours at that pace of capital flight, a witness later a Member of Congress, «e capitalism as we know it would finito».

The apocalypse was avoided because the government presented the first draft of a bailout of the banks. It was enough to stop at the last minute escape from the doors. In those days of September in Washington rumors absurd, the atmosphere in which he lived the superpower on the brink of a Great Depression was from a state of war. Some Members (all Republicans) wanted martial law, a measure ever approved in modern times which provides for the suspension of civil rights and the death penalty. Capitalism is collapsing and the scenario of a seizure of power by the generals in the Pentagon directly under the control of the White House became real. Like in a Hollywood movie.
The secret meeting of bankers
Not long after, October 13, 2008, in Washington was summoned to a political summit-banking emergency. The goal was not changed to avoid the collapse of the American economy. The scenario remained to the state of belligerency Stock Exchange in free fall, unemployment rising rapidly, four million people out of work in two months, the collapse in global GDP for the first time since the Second World War, after decades of development. It was in this climate that a small group of banksters, the heads of the largest banks in the United States (all shareholders «di peso» of the central bank, the Federal Reserve), were «comandati» by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson «Hank» (ex CEO of Goldman Sachs) for a top secret summit off the radar of the media. Meet at nine in the morning, at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, home of the Department of the Treasury, a few tens of meters from the White House.

Pulled faces for the sleepless nights, dresses or blue grigioscuri ordinance, nine of the banksters most influential of Western capitalism, their lenders on the brink of bankruptcy, came in dribs and drabs in the building where they would have decided the fate of the economy world. The neoclassical architecture of the building, the large statue of Alexander Hamilton, the first US Treasury Secretary in 1789, gave solemnity to the moment.

The boss of Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, State Street and Wells Fargo banker Paulson were welcomed by former colleague, now minister in the administration of George W. Bush, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, and the powerful head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Tim Geithner (who a few months later, with the victory of Barack Obama in the presidential elections of 4 November 2008, would take the place of the Paulson summit of the Department of the Treasury).
The tension was palpable, the news from the financial markets continuing to deteriorate. A day in the capital, as much as 17 September 2001, when Wall Street reopened after many days of closure following the attack on the Twin Towers.

The bank run and the market crisis had a «questione safety nazionale». So he considered President Bush. In contradiction to the principles of the free market to which, for a Republican, was always so rude, appealed. The White House, with the director of the Treasury former banker, was about to give way to a historic intervention of the state to save from death the banking system.

America to its knees, as though under a tremendous and unexpected military attack by a fierce enemy, preparing his defense through an maxipiano bank rescue. With taxpayers' money. He could have done any government statist or socialist.

"Here, sign '
Working day and night, the lawyers had prepared the Treasury bailout plan that the nine bankers would have to subscribe. Hank Paulson was very brisk, even brusque. Go straight to the point it was a must, out war raged. Each of them was given a single sheet of paper, a few lines, and no notes attached zero. It said that their respective banks accept the sale of their shares to the government of the United States. The minister, without wasting time, he said: «Ecco, firmate».

And the powerful CEO obeyed. In just a few seconds, and the soft coup was accomplished, the major American banks were safe. The government in Washington came into force in the capital of banking giants on the brink of bankruptcy. The system would not have collapsed, capitalism had won another battle, albeit with infamy, using public money of unsuspecting taxpayers. A dozen people, nine bankers, plus the heads of the Fed and the Treasury, October 13, 2008 that they had rewritten the economic history.

The agreement provided for the purchase of preferred shares by the government. That is, in practice, the United States Treasury to the banks lent money to an initial annual interest rate of 5 percent (much lower than that of the market, even though it was expected to go up to 9 percent after five years) for a period of time «perpetuo». The banks would not have to repay the loan, if they wanted to.

It was then a former banker at Goldman Sachs to create the monster that still dominates us and blackmails. In a jolt resulted in the emergence and survival instinct, just before the inevitable implosion of the system, Paulson, the highest political authority and monetary policy of the United States, under the direction of the Federal Reserve, with an unprecedented decided to save American capitalism and world rushing to the rescue of a super network of banks that were supposed to bring almost all the books in court. They were born the «Tbtf» (Too Big To Fail), a financial Frankenstein that continues to do damage, direct and collateral, of colossal proportions, which we all pay the consequences.

Since September of 2008, therefore, the banks, even if poorly managed, debt, and full of toxic assets have become large «troppo for fallire». For over five years, the abnormal creature and a monument to inefficiency, to risk, to moral hazard, all'antieconomicita, subservience to the powers and - let's face it - the sleep of reason. A juggernaut that mocks the patrol extremist supporters of the free market, for which it would have been better, in those days to apocalypse, the American banking system to collapse, leaving fail institutions now compromised. Darwinism in economics, even at the cost of altering forever the scenario and power relations. You could reset and start over. Instead TBTF and today the true means by which the banksters thrive and enrich themselves with impunity, while ordinary people suffer. A totem medieval rid of.


Luca Ciarrocca is a journalist who has lived and worked for many years in New York, where in 1999 he founded Wall Street Italy, site independent of economics, finance, politics and news. In 1997 he won the prize for journalism Premiolino. He published the book Investire in tempo di guerra .

If the political power falls into the hands of multinational corporations

If the political power falls into the hands of multinational corporations and the World Bank ...

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The White House has formally notified Congress on plans to start negotiations with the European Union to establish a free trade area, in order to create the most comprehensive business alliance and financial crisis to stimulate new economic growth. 

But some consumer organizations and environmental Americans, have revealed that in the treaty between America and the Old World, you'd be working on a clause in a position to put corporations on the same level of sovereign states. A return is the American version dell'Huffingtonpost. 

Under the spotlight of nonprofit organizations, it ended the "investor-state dispute resolution," a provision that would allow companies to appeal in court against international regulatory frameworks or standards. The Court has the power to impose sanctions against any country that violates its own judgments. In this role as a judge should be the World Bank. 

A spokesman for the Office of Foreign Trade of the United States, dall'Huffingtonpost contacted, confirmed that the agency "is considering the inclusion of procedures dispatched, fair and transparent resolution of disputes between states and investors" in the free trade treaty between the USA and EU, specifying, however, that this new mechanism will be "subject to appropriate safeguarding and protection of the legitimate interests of government regulations." 

The rules for resolving disputes between corporations and states are opposed by various public interest groups in America. "These rules elevate the corporation at the level of nation states and allow him to proceed against the governments for every law or policy that would reduce their future profits," said all'Huffingotonpost Ilana Solomon, an expert on trade for the Sierra Club, a environmental group. 

The clause on the settlement of disputes between the state and investors, it is a common practice in the bilateral agreements negotiated by the United States since the 1994 Trade Agreement, but is not allowed for the time being in the disputes between the USA and the EU governed, however, by the rules of the WTO , the World Trade Organization. 

In other agreements have been used by businesses. As in the case of Exxon Mobil and Dow Chemical who have used these clauses to challenge the Canadian rules on drilling off shore. [huffingtonpost.it].

martedì 26 agosto 2014

Nuclear and risk of accidents

Operationgreenrights: 

skeletons in the closet of Enel


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New action to Anonymous within the broader operation '#OperationGreenRights': the group of hacktivists has stolen and then made ​​public on the blog  anon-news a great deal of material on the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia, and the electric Torrevaldaliga north, both owned by Enel. 

From the emails and documents released by the network from Anonymoyus is learned that the construction of the two plants took place in the first case without complying with the most basic safety criteria and in accordance with shoddy materials, thus making the two plants harmful and very high risk of accidents. 

The claim of the hacker group's successful operation ends with a message of support to those who struggle daily against installations harmful and dangerous to the health of all and clearly reiterating the opposition to nuclear power and the criminal policies of exploitation Enel. 

The email that we are about to publish concerning the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia. The released material also contains documents relating to checks carried out on a wide variety of components. Premise that ENEL owns the plant through its subsidiary Slovenske Elektrarnestà completing the construction of two new reactors without, as the two existing minimum standards of security such as double containment walls of the fissile material. For the construction of two new reactors (3:04) will be used Soviet materials produced before the Chernobyl disaster (http://bit.ly/GJVBIF). Followed by detailed explanations of two different groups of documents in which the controls relating to the aforementioned reactors 3 and 4 carried out in a case by Ansaldo and another by STF controls on behalf of ENEL.

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This e-mail of 21 March 2013 (https://privatepaste.com/01eaa1cada/kostf) comes from those governing STF controls. 

It's sent by a member of STF to other members of the same company. He says that "from a test carried out at the site of Mochovce is clear that the inspector who has followed the work of editing has not managed quality processes and documentation in an appropriate manner," but "at present the documentation has been brought into conformity despite the immensity of inconsistencies, "but" were not done the necessary checks. "This means that no one has really checked that the work of installation of reactors 3 and 4 are correct, in fact there is a '"immensity of inconsistencies" with respect to the project agreed. These "inconsistencies" are works poorly executed. However, the documentation issued to ENEL "has been brought into compliance," that all the problems have been silenced by manipulating the data. As underlined by the same sender (member STF) "the situation is even found piu'grave when you consider that these are mounted component in a nuclear power plant." 

Followed by another email, from Friday, January 18, 2013 is those relating to Ansaldo. (Https://privatepaste.com/9f9c945757/koansaldo)

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A member of Ansaldo writes, with regard to the test results, "not to get lost in the calculation notes" and pander to the comments ENEL. As can be seen from the last part of the email indicated, the mathematical models prepared by Ansaldo did not include irregularities in the functioning of the central component of the A202, but the model actually turned out to be wrong because they say "support free up" , then ENEL noted with critical comments that there is a "non-linearity" (ie unpredictability) in the operation of nuclear reactors (https://privatepaste.com/9f9c945757/koansaldo). Among the documents released there are others dating back to December 20, 2012, where we report the results of checks carried out on the plant Mochovce. As you can see even from a first glance, the problems highlighted are numerous and many are listed as "critical" (very severe). Similar conclusions can be drawn by looking at the details of the projects of various pipes and components, these are loads of red arrows that indicate critical.

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Torrevaldaliga Nord power plant

Emissions (Source: carma.org)

name             emissions_kg             year
Carbon Dioxide     4,355,010,000.00     2000
Carbon Dioxide     4,338,770,000.00     2007
Carbon Dioxide     19,504,500,000.00     2020

With this second action, Anonymous wants to make its contribution to those who day-to-day struggles in the place where he lives, against coal burning power plants that pollute the air. And 'thanks to the work of the Committee of documentation "Fearless," which fight against Torrevaldaliga north, which today we can say with certainty that the plant operates with technologies cited poor burning of coal each year an amount greater than one million tonnes at maximum, for health reasons, by the laws in force. In addition, it was found that the amount of coal contains sulfur ina three times higher than what is allowed, what causes acid rain were widespread. The mayor of Civitavecchia has complained about the fumes and dust released from the plant, a veritable fog; he also pointed out the enormous increase of devastating cancers of various kinds. This is consistent with the assessments made by the agency of the European environment in 2012 which shows that systems such as those Torrevaldaliga un'impatto have on public health even higher than that of 'ILVA Taranto. This filthy factory of death is not limited to killing by poisoning the air, but engulfs the lives of the workers who work there, in fact the last serious accident at the aforementioned building dates from March 2013, a silencer broke out, and in the fall earth, could have hit some workers with tragic consequences. The plant has been featured in numerous accidents in the past, due to the reduction of expenditure on safety and maintenance. The dead that Enel's Torrevaldaliga North has caused are well 3.



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220 MB split archive files | ENEL coal Power Plant of Torrevaldaliga Nord :