Gold in the vaults - conspiracy theory in which politicians believe

The theory about the disappearance of U.S. treasuries gold ceased to be merely fodder for conspiracy theorists. Today you can hear similar opinions also with many influential people.

Over a year ago, in the text of "Mysterious disappearance of U.S. gold" discussed about the global gold reserves located within the United States. I suggested then that there are a number of reasons, which seem to indicate that the famous vaults in New York are in fact empty and all the gold bars have been exported from there. As it turns out, despite the passage of time this story is gaining a growing number of supporters of the so-called supporters. conspiracy theory that the more pessimistic investors to live, but also among influential politicians.

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Barack Obama won the last presidential election in the United States resulted in a sharp increase in the price of gold on world markets. It seemed that they are very skeptical of the promises of the American president talking about the healing powers the global economy limping. A sudden rise in gold prices seems to be a sign of growing concerns of many people about the future and what will happen in the coming months. Among other things, it just became a source of growing concern and bars of gold coins, which slowly began to acquire the ordinary citizens who want to protect themselves against possible hyperinflation.

Where the risk of sudden hyperinflation? One of the reasons seems to be primarily a still declining confidence in the dollar, as well as more serious concerns about whether the U.S. treasuries is actually any gold.

Since the end of World War II in the U.S. hit most of the world's reserves of this extremely precious metal. This was due to the fact that during the war (as well as after its completion, for fear of the Warsaw Pact), many European countries feared that within their territory of the gold resources can be looted by the enemy. For this reason, substantial amounts of staff have been transported by the Atlantic Ocean, straight to New York.

Years passed and the confidence of U.S. treasuries remained consistently high, everyone knows where the gold is, but few people interested in the status of these reserves to even check. Why, when others also do not have doubts? In this context it is worth mentioning repeated many times in the history of the situation when the greedy banker, firmly convinced that all the stores in the vault custodian is not present themselves at the same time for their gold, he decided to invest some of the reserves held and reap the substantial profits. Unfortunately, the reported stories almost always end up in the same way - at some point someone was losing confidence in the banker and began to undermine his credibility, took their gold and moved them to safer place. Opinion about this event reaches the other, and thus slowly crumbled resources in a vault until it turned out that it is willing to select more than gold, which in the meantime by the bankers in different places, "invested".

The first suspicious

In the case of American gold can act very similar mechanism, first signals come to us for some time. Just remember a few years forced on the idea of ​​an audit in the vault of the Federal Reserve and thus verify if in fact there is gold. At the same time, however, skeptical voices are raised outside of the U.S.. The loudest and most consistent at the same time proved to be, in this case the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.

He requested for return by the United States entirely owned by the state reserves, which has so far kept in U.S. treasuries. The decision to return was made of gold in the autumn of 2011, as reported to the Central Bank of Venezuela, the country had to go back almost 160 tons with a value exceeding $ 11 billion dollars. It is worth noting that this act not only undermined the credibility of the Federal Reserve, but also the Bank of England, where he also kept substantial reserves of gold. In a commentary for television RT Adrian Salbuchi said that this gesture is primarily symbolic, because it undermines the credibility of Western banks as places where the state can confidently hold their reserves in gold.

In this case, vaults opinion, however, has not been tarnished so much as it probably was counting on Hugo Chavez. The President of Venezuela has in fact adventurer opinion and the person is not a declaration should always be taken seriously. Moreover, his decision very quickly justified, inter alia, the fact that Chavez is needed gold to get guarantees for further loans from China, and to boost the integration promoted by the Latin American countries.

German gold

Undermining the credibility of such a respected institution like the Fed or the Bank Of England by the likes of Chavez's policies do not have to compromise especially those institutions. Moreover, even if in fact they have less gold than declare on paper, it still would be able to accumulate the 160 tons of gold and give them Venezuela. Definitely worse if the state requests the return of gold with much larger reserves and at the same time of good repute. Such a state may be Germany, which since the beginning of the year are treated seriously and demands the return of reserves back into the country. Germany amazingly well to cope with the crisis in the euro area over the years also are considered to be the country in which will not be taken lightly, and the spur of the moment. In Germany in the near future audit will be conducted of the local central bank (Bundesbank) and therefore will be subject to verification of the huge amounts of gold outside the country (mainly in France, England and the USA). Audit is to be a prelude to initiate the transfer of German gold back to the country. Therefore, the recovery of more than 3,000 tons of reserves (according to the World Gold Council) may be an important signal to other countries. From there it is only a step to panic.

Al-Qaeda - the world's terrorists or global conspiracy?

Global network of Al-Qaeda accused of conduct or direct inspiration worst terrorist attacks in recent years. It is against the Al-Qaeda has been terminated already lasted eleven years war on terror. But do we know against whom is the struggle?

Global terrorism and al-Qaeda are the words that appear hand in hand with virtually no interruption. This organization since the attacks on the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 has become a global symbol of the threat of terrorist attacks and militant Islamic fundamentalism. Despite announced by President George W. Bush more than 11 years ago, a great war against terrorism, it is difficult to clearly say whether at the time of Al-Qaeda in any way weakened, or on the contrary, is as strong as ever.

Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist network with global reach focusing primarily Sunni. Established in 1988 during the Soviet-Afghan war. Its founder was a significant member of the Saudi family of Osama Bin Laden focused around each other radical Muslims who want to lead the world to establish a universal caliphate and Islamic law. The purpose of the organization was the centralization and coordination of activities as well as training fighters and improving their skills. In an interview in October 2001, Bin Laden said much the name of the organization:

Name al-Qaeda formed a long time ago quite by accident. Abu Ebeid El-Banashiri (one of the prominent members of the grid - note. VO) set up training camps for Mujahideen fighting against the Russian terrorism. We used to call these camps of Al-Qaeda (Arabic base). Name is adopted.

At the beginning of the group was funded primarily by the Bin Laden (the rest he was for a long time supported by the CIA), but after the attacks of September 11, most of the accounts were blocked and Al-Qaeda have to find other sources of money. According to reports, among other U.S. government agencies, but also to WikiLeaks, later drew profit organization mainly heroin trade and the support of sponsors from the rich Arab countries (especially Saudi Arabia).

The most famous attacks carried out:

1992 bombings at hotels in Aden, Yemen (killed 2 persons),

1993 attack on the World Trade Center (killed 6 people)

1996 failed assassination attempt on President Bill Clinton

1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in East Africa,

2000 attack on the destroyer U.S.S. Cole

2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

The real al-Qaeda

In a recent analysis by Stratfor, the private resort experts intelligence undertook to define what in fact is this mysterious organization, which in some has become synonymous with the greatest evil and the source of the greatest threats to deal with what must be the modern world, others and its members recognized as great fighters are fighting for a just cause. In fact, it is difficult to speak of a well-defined grid of Al-Qaeda. You can talk about the strict "core" centered around its current leader, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, and the smaller, often independent of each other and do not know about the networks of small organizations also operating under this name. In fact, that's what they are today, according to Stratfor most serious threat. Sam Al-Zawahiri and other members of the "core" of the organization even though it has not been captured in relative isolation is hiding somewhere on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, but the legend of Al-Qaeda remains strong enough that a group of radical Muslims decide to use their name and yourself put up a fight, which aims to establish a global caliphate. What's more, as shown by the events of recent years, the overthrow of the current leaders of Islamic countries often leads to a situation where the construction of new power structures involved militant Islamists, which in many cases ideologically very close to Al-Qaeda, so the main threat comes not from the same organization (or rather the "core"), but from an anonymous fascinated by the achievements of Muslim Bin Laden and his followers.

Al-Qaeda does not exist

A completely different opinion is quoted frequently in the blog "Code Authority" James Corbett. He recently published a documentary about the self-explanatory title. "Al-Qaeda does not exist" ("Al-Qaeda does not exist"), in which he examines the materials on this organization until its beginnings in the late 80's in Afghanistan. On the video page, you can view a number of sources, film footage, and interviews with individual statements attest to the fact that all the activities of the world's most famous terrorist organization is nothing but one big false flag operation.

Corbett has long been skeptical about the nature of Al-Qaeda and its founder, presented by the mainstream media, he pointed to a number of uncertainties associated with the death of Bin Laden and the fact of his cooperation with the CIA. In the opinion of the Saudi millionaire Corbett was nothing more than just a regular contributor to American intelligence (code name "Tim Osman") and scare designed to justify the terrorist attacks carried out in the United States and a substantial tightening of safety regulations in the United States. Ultimately, the main objectives pursued by U.S. elites to limit civil rights and to seize and maintain control over Afghanistan, the location of which is by all means strategic. The country is situated on the old Silk Road, is a natural gateway to the heart of Eurasia and the U.S. military dangerously closer to Russian borders.

New attacks

In recent times there has been a series of re-terrorist attacks, primarily against the United States. The aim of the attacks have become the American embassy lying among others in Libya, Egipicie, Yemen and Tunisia. Wherever he is looking for influences and inspiration from Al-Qaeda. Is that really true? Is hiding somewhere in the mountains of Pakistan-Afghan fighters are actually able to incite the crowds are thousands of miles away? Or maybe it is a completely different active terrorist cell? One thing is certain, in published in early October, the survey results show that Americans support the war on terror, again increasing.

Lost secrets of Tesla

The biggest problem of our time is supposedly shrinking supplies of raw materials and increasing the risk of a huge increase in energy prices. The effect of a possible increase in prices will be a huge crisis that could lead to the withdrawal of our civilization for hundreds of years. Scientists frantically looking for alternative solutions, but they may have been exposed long ago?

Few scientists as fascinating and mysterious as Nicola Tesla. This was born July 10, 1856 the Serbian scientist has become synonymous with genius, but unsung inventors whose discoveries of the world chose to forget. Around the fruits of his research, much of the rest of its history and has grown a huge number of theories, speculations and insinuations.

Young Tesla has excelled in school, intelligence and outstanding technical skills, after finishing university in Graz for a short period of time he worked in Budapest and eventually moved to France, where he joined the Continental Edison Company. Working for the CEC was the beginning of a lot of controversy waking relationship with another famous inventor Thomas A. Edison, who quickly drew attention to the Serbian engineer who soon after arriving in the United States got the task of raising the efficiency of power plants owned by Edison. After one year, Tesla raised their productivity by nearly 50%, suggesting the fact that it is able to raise it even more, but the transition condition is AC power. For unknown reasons Edison officially idea is not to the liking and Tesla not only slowed, but did not pay him a promised salary of $ 50,000 saying that this amount was to be the only "American joke".

The period following release by Edison was one of the very heavy in the life of Tesla, but eventually he was able to find investors (Western Union Telegraph), who founded the establishment of the Tesla Electric Light Company. For Tesla's first tasks was to develop a power supply for Western Union telegraph network. These networks have to rely on Edison previously proposed the use of alternating current that can be transported for long distances at a significantly lower cost. Tesla, however, soon came into conflict with his former employer, who was trying to discredit the new technology. The case ended in an agreement under which Tesla was forced to sell his patent.

In subsequent years, Tesla claimed the study of electromagnetism, in which, inter alia, has developed a special coil, which was later used to construct Giullermo Marconi radio. Same radio waves were used by the rest of the Tesla to build the first robot controlled using radio waves.

Important, however, are other, much more mysterious aspects of Tesla's research, which unfortunately we know very little. This is due to the fact that, according to the relationship of his nephew, Sava Kosanovicia inventor disappeared out of the room all the notebooks and papers full of his writings. Kosanovic had come to the apartment the day after the death of his uncle, so someone may have turned out to be faster and previously had to take from the hotel room in which he died Tesla all the best materials. In the last years of his life for he was fascinated by the question of universal and free energy. Even in 1931, the Brooklyn Eagle wrote: "The cosmic rays tamed and made to serve as a drive (...).He worked hard on this for over 25 years, and today I can say that it worked." Why even have passed since the publication of more than 80 years, we still do not know what really managed to Tesla's discoveries?

Serbian scientist for years even obsessively searching for methods of generating energy directly from space, he believed that if electricity is present all around us, and the quantities are unlimited people can take advantage of this potential, and thus completely independent from fossil fuels. The same was with another supposedly developed by the technology, namely, the death rays. Tesla had to discover a special type of coil, which allowed the concentration of power at one point and then direct it in the direction you doing the same massive damage from a distance.

Who wanted him dead?

In connection with the technicians working on what he had learned Serbian theories emerged that his sudden death in 1943, could be a third party. The first suspects seem likely to be able to representatives of the U.S. government, with whom he had the work Tesla, but this theory seems to have a fundamental flaw - if the inventor actually worked with American intelligence is the same, they do not need access to the results of his research. There are reports saying anything about the fact that Tesla tried to hide from the U.S. government, on the contrary it moves freely throughout the territory of the country. Keep in mind, however, that there was a war, and access to new technologies could weigh on its fate. Who knows, therefore, that the case of the theft of the documents could not afford Tesla Germans or Russians?

The rest of the murder is just a theory, in the end, Tesla had the time of his death 87 years.

Myth mad scientist

Despite his enormous contribution to the development of science Nicola Tesla also became a prototype of the negative image of the mad scientist who created with their death rays seeks to take over the world (or the destruction of the world). There are even theories that the stereotype was created on purpose, just to discredit the great achievements of Tesla and his discovery of free energy. Even if it is true that similar action ended in complete failure, his scientific achievements is still under investigation and we do not know who came into the possession of the key to Tesla's notes, however, who knows if soon there will be information about the discovery of new, free sources of energy. The first mention who wanted similar technology for humanity.

Finally, it is worth noting that the initiative of the owner of the website moved Oatmeal.com comic crowdfunding project, which aims to finance the construction of a museum in his former Tesla's laboratory located in the state of New York. Internet users were able to gather so far for this purpose close to $ 850,000

I'm not going to give satisfaction at that, limited, jealous individuals that try to thwart my efforts. They are not for me nothing more than some disgusting disease germs. The world is not ready for my project.

Nicola Tesla

The U.S. government experimented on its own soldiers. The case is proved.

American veterans managed to access documents proving that some medical experiments were carried out during the Cold War. Mysterious research and experiments conducted on American soldiers and veterans from Vietnam? Certainly it won’t be a surprise if the communist authorities of Ho Chi Mihn were accused of similar actions. In this case, however, it was the U.S. government that was responsible for everything. Few days ago, a group of veterans from Vietnam won the lawsuit with the U.S. government. They forced the Department of Veterans Affairs to give them the documents about the research conducted on soldiers. Experiments were conducted during the Cold War by the CIA which received aid from former Nazi scientists working for the agency. The estimated number of veterans used for experimentation was 7 800 on whom about 400 types of tests were conducted, including LSD, psychedelic substances, mescaline, as well as mustard gas. 

The operation under the codename "Paperclip", aimed to investigate the effects of various substances on the human mind, some also wanted to develop a new recipe for truth serum. The former members of SS and Nazi party participated in these experiments. After the Second World War they received amnesty for their help. The operation name is related to the fact that many personal files of the project participants were clipped with immigration documents. 

Veterans won the lawsuit, because, according to what the judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said, the government didn’t inform the veterans neither about the chemicals administered nor about the influence on the body. It is worth mentioning that those research programs took place long before the outbreak of the war in Vietnam. In the 50’s of the 20th century, there were projects with code names such as "Bluebird," "Artichoke" and "MK Ultra". 

The "MK Ultra" project seems to be the most interesting one. Its aim was to develop effective techniques of mind control and to program people’s brains so that they would be able to unconsciously commit a planned attack. Successful completion of the project would create great opportunities for infiltration and carrying out false flag operations. Nobody knows whether it was successful or not, but we can find a few reports on people whose minds were totally controlled. The assassin from the Aurora cinema James Holmes could be such a person?

Al-Qaeda is responsible for the Syrian revolution

Al-Qaeda has the support of the West, and it has the main power over the rebellion control. 

The Al-Qaeda is responsible for the Syrian revolt - said Tony Cartalucci from Blacklistednews. He bases his opinion on many reports and information coming from Syria. 

Information that points out this fact concerns an article published in the Wall Street Journal. It’s about rebels who receive help from many subjects form Near East and North Africa. There is a statement that members of Al-Qaeda have limited influence among the opponents of the president Bashar Al-Assad. However, as Cartalucci states, these influences are bigger than it seems. 

Another evidence in this case is the Christians’ relation to the authorities in Damascus. For fear of religious persecution by fundamentalist "rebels" they supported the Assad’s government. 

WSJ (Wall Street Journal) reports that most of the trails serving for arm transport start from southern Turkey and they are supported by CIA. However, as mentioned by the New York Times: 

According to reports given by the U.S. representatives and Arab secret service, a small group of CIA officers secretly operates on the territory of southern Turkey. Their task is to indicate which group of Syrian militants will receive arms. Weapons, including automatic rifles, grenades, ammunition and anti-tank arms are smuggled across the border by using a network of agents, among whom we can find the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. All this is financed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. 

Funnily enough, these countries are the closest U.S. allies in the region and the overthrow of the existing government in Damascus perfectly harmonizes with the doctrine of constructing the great Near East and expanding the U.S. influences. 

Let us remind that Muammar Gaddafi, in an interview in March 2011, claimed that it is Al-Qaeda that is responsible for the protests against the Libyan government and, what is more, the eastern part of Libya (Cyrenaica) is also a region in which this organization recruits most of its members. 

Given these facts, does anyone else claims that Al-Qaeda is an independent organization?

What they found on the Moon? The mystery of the Apollo 20 mission

It’s hard to count all the theories related to what we can find on the Moon or to the final results of the Apollo missions. Even if there’s a theory that the Americans have never landed on the Moon and all this is a mystification, it is still worth to know some other points of view.

In recent years the subject matter of the Moon has come into prominence. On the one hand, there’s the Moon motive in popular culture with the “Apollo 18” and the “Iron Sky” films, while on the other hand, the question of coming back to our satellite is once more considered by governments and private companies. It seems that the most developed projects are those financed by the Japanese government which claims that in 2030 we’ll have a fully robotic space center on the Moon. There’s also a competition named Google Lunar X Prize where the winner (a private group of people) who will put an efficient space vehicle on the Moon and will send some high quality photos wins 20 million dollars.

It is possibly the reason why NASA wants to create the so called “no fly zones” – areas where nobody can fly. The official reason for it is providing potential protection on places where a man first stood. However, the truth seems to be more suspicious. Some say that the government agencies want to hide the presence of some alien structures on the Moon.

On 16th of August 1976 a lander touched down the unseen part of the Moon (near the Delporte crater). It had three members of a common Soviet-American “Apollo 20” mission: William Rutledge, Leon Synder and Aleksiej Leonov. The mission’s object was to explore a cigar-shaped object photographed by the Apollo 15 team. Discovering this mysterious construction was so significant that the USA’s government decided to invite USSR to take part in Apollo missions and make some essential researches.

The Apollo missions numbering seems to be a little surprising. Officially, the whole project was terminated on the flight number 17 which left the Moon on 14th December 1972. It was the last official flight as we know today. Due to the budget cutbacks the next flights were cancelled and the Apollo project was closed. However, according to the Apollo 20 commander, William Rutledge, the project was simply made secret and there were 3 more flights: Apollo 18, 19 and 20. Rutledge was probably a member of the last one.

Mona Lisa EBE

As Rutledge claims, the explored object was a huge spaceship whose estimated age was 1,5 milliard years. There was also a “city” around the spaceship – a mysterious, almost totally ruined construction. Project members found some plant traces and corpses of two extraterrestrial beings inside the spaceship. The body of one of them was called “Mona Lisa EBE” (Extraterrestrial Biological Entity). It was a female humanoid with 1,65m height. Probably she was a pilot due to some different devices attached to her hands and feet. In spite of the age, her body was in such a good condition that it was possible to take some indispensable measurements. The corps of the second crew member was more destroyed, but they managed to take its head on the Earth.

Rutledge’s revelations were about to be revealed by him in an interview that he gave in May 2007. He also put some records form the journey where, among others, we can see the “Mona Lisa”. According to Rutledge, the USA’s government would reveal the information about the spaceship before September 2007. He also warned against the year 2012 when “the weak will die and governments will save the rest of their heritage (...), everybody needs to be prepared for the year 2012”.

How should we treat Rutledge’s words? Is he just another liar wanting to be famous? Those who criticize his revelations point out that the Apollo missions are hard to hide – it’s because every flight of such type requires at least 300 people working on it. It would be even harder to hide the Saturn V rockets’ start putting the Apollo landers into orbit. What is more, the film showing the Mona Lisa’s examination seems to be a fake – according to the “Movies Online” author, people who are on this video are subject to gravitation. On the other hand, there is gravitation on the Moon, however a bit weaker than the Earth’s one.

Rutledge indicates that many members of secret missions died in unknown circumstances. Yet, some of them are still alive – both Americans and Russians who were directly involved in these flights. He clearly wants to convince everybody about his own version by publishing materials associated with the journey and discoveries. Does he have any benefits from it? If not, why would he do this?

Cyberwar – it’s happening now!

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Hacking skills and grabbing important information become more and more popular because of the growing development of the Internet. Recently, the number of cyber attacks increased significantly and one of the highest priorities of many companies is to protect their information networks. There is a new frontline in the battle for power and influences – the world is facing a new type of war – the cyberwar.

Only a month ago the Pentagon informed that every form of computer sabotage from any other country will be treated as a declaration of war. These Internet strikes became a serious danger and soon other countries will follow the United States’ decision.

Assaults of he information networks begun many years ago. There was a well known story about the Soviet monument and cemetery placed in the Estonian capital Tallinn. The Estonian government decided to move them on the suburbs despite the Russia’s objection. After that, somebody launched the attack from the Russian territory on the Estonian administration which stayed paralyzed for some time.

Another well known assault was launched in 2011 during the civil war in Libya. When the NATO countries declared their support for the Libyan rebels, the United States stroke the Libyan information networks.

Cyber attacks without the Internet

The U.S.A. is an unquestionable leader in this domain. Only in 2012 this country plans to spend 3.4 milliard dollars on cyber technologies. Half of this amount will be intended on a special project organized by a military agency DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). Generally, in the event of attacking an enemy’s computers, there was at least one condition to be fulfilled – the computers needed to be connected to the web. Today, thanks to the new cyber weapon – this condition will be no more important. The new revolutionary technology will enable assaulting a computer network which is disconnected from the global one.

The American media speculate about the preparations for a war with Syria and Iran. Its application was about to be used during the war in Libya, but according to an anonymous official’s words in the interview for “The Washington Post”, the army wasn’t ready for it. He also stated that they are not ready to participate in the Near East conflict. Maybe this is one of the reasons why the West hasn’t intervened yet.

As far as the law regulations are concerned, the Associated Press agency informed that Barack Obama signed some specific orders determining the actions scope of the military commanders during the cyber attacks and spying operations. In some of the situations the president’s approval will be indispensable.

On the other side of the barricade.

We shouldn’t think that other countries are not preparing for the cyber war, especially those countries which are a potential victim of the Pentagon’s operations. During a phone interview on 14th December 2011, Michael Maloof, a former employee of the Pentagon, informed that countries such as Iran, China and Russia remain the main target, despite the fact that the United States monitors every country using the global network.

The governments of these three countries are well aware of the situation and they’re trying to find their own solutions. According to the Reuter’s Agency, the biggest Iranian telecommunication company bought a monitoring system from their Chinese counterpart. This system is able to follow the ground, mobile or the Internet communication. Barack Obama criticized this action saying that Iran is putting an “electronic curtain” on its citizens.

This statement is actually very close to the reality because the Iranian authorities have a special technology which enables blocking some websites on the Internet.

Iran has already performed some spectacular actions. The most know is the one about taking over “The Beast of Kandahar” – the Sentinel type American spy drone. This drone is considered as one of the most modern machines of this type. Another Iranian attack was launched this year on February – the “Iran Cyber Army” group blocked the website of Azeri television the AzTV. One month earlier somebody assaulted the government websites and left a message “Jewish servants”.

Iran was somehow forced to improve its cyber technology because of the attacks launched by the Stuxnet virus. The industrial infrastructure was highly damaged especially in the nuclear complex. It was the first known virus which could cause such enormous loss. The Stuxnet was totally removed in 2010. As the “New York Times” states, this virus was elaborated by the U.S.A. and Israel services.

Other groups

We need to remember that countries constitute only one of the groups fighting in cyber space. Along with the big corporations, the independent groups of hackers also play a significant role. In such events, one of the most important things is motivation – hackers attack not only for money but also in order to show their power and capabilities.

The most famous group – the Anonymous hacks and attacks on a regular basis and then publishes its accomplishments on the Internet. For example, they hacked the Stratfor company, which takes up geopolitical analyses and white secret service, and published its correspondence by the Wikileaks portal. They also threatened the Polish government with publishing compromising documents in case if the authorities sign ACTA. Finally, the Anonymous published a list with potential scandals which the Tusk’s government could be responsible for.

Apart from the Anonymous, there are also many other groups, even some of “freelancers” acting on their own. For example, a hacker in China assaulted the servers of the biggest Chinese programmatic sites and revealed the data of millions of its users. What is more, in January 2012, the Saudi hackers launched the attack on the Tel Aviv’s exchange and doing so they began an unofficial little war between the Israel and Arabian groups. It consisted on publishing detailed data from thousands of credit cards.

At the beginning of this year there were several assaults in Lithuania, Brazil and India and the Anonymous promised to hack more often and on a regular basis, i.e. every Friday.

Internet police?

Nowadays, the cyber war has an egalitarian character – the authorities in many countries are forced to admit the superiority of single hackers able to control the government websites and steal important information. We can assume that in the majority of countries their information networks will be restructured, but also we should expect a serious discussion on the Internet police. Now it’s a question of future, but if we take the growing number of cyber attacks intoconsideration, the forthcoming creation of such institution is more than possible.

Kony2012: More soldiers going to Africa

Famous Kony2012 campaign seems to inspire public opinion and make it to force Western governments to interfere in Uganda.

Whole campaign looks as a big manipulation prepared to legitimize several Western governments to take control over mineral-rich part of African continent. This immediate rise of compasion to local children looks grotesque when we consider the fact, that similar events took place during other wars in region (Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, Kongo) where USA were involved. 

Even if Kony2012 campaign was initiated more than 3 weeks ago, Pentagon had already informed that American marines will be sent to Uganda to train local soldiers. According to Michel Chossudovsky from Global Research.ca after the training Ugandian army will be fighting Kony and para-militant group Al-Shabaad ("The Youth") of Somalia. 

Mayor Charles Baker, marines spokesperson had stated that: "“The genesis of this mission was operations in Mogadishu, Somalia, where African Union peacekeepers experienced IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and other complex obstacles, which exposed them to ambushes by al Shabaab,"

It looks that the campaign is just a preparation, a pretext for much bigger action, as a result of which control over this part of Africa will be taken. 

Terrorism and conspiracy - what is behind French events?

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French terrorist is dead. He died in an attempt to escape from his flat, which was being sorrounded by the police yesterday. Is looks that instead of the terrorist from Norway he didn't like the perspective of spending many years in prison, so Mohamed Merah decided to risk and jump from the window. 

Let's have a look on what events followed the actions of "Tolouse killer". Firstly, when his identity remained unknown some speculations showed up that this can have something in common with the actions taken in Norway by Anders Breivik a year ago. He claimed that even if he was alone, there were more people like him in Europe and soon we will hear about them. There were no information about it in media but we can expect that intelligence services of several European states didn't left the case alone. 

Soon we learned that the French terrorist is Momamed Merah, a 23-year-old French citizen of Algerian descent. During police negotiations he said that he regrets that he didn't kill more people and that his major motive was to avenge Palestinian children and to response on French presence in Afganistan. Police didn't confirm his alleged membership in Al-Quaeda, but there are suspicions that the killer had been contacting with the organisation while visiting Afganistan and Pakistan. 

Nicolas Sarkozy/fot. EPP

Now, let's see the background. Soon (April, 22) we are having elections in France. President in office, Nicolas Sarkozy is being followed in polls by the socialist candidate, Francoise Holland. Both candidates are fighting for the support and the elections just after the attacks will only make the atmosphere warmer, like it hapenned in Spain in 2004. According to Richard Cottrell from IntelHub after the attacks Sarkozy can count on stronger French Jews community support as well as on those French citizens who are against Muslim immigration.

We didn't have to wait long for French president to answer. On the press conference on Thursday, 22 he announced that the people who regulary visit websites where the authors "justify terrorism" or "call for hatred and violence" will be prosecuted. When we consider the fact, that it is Sarkozy, who was one of major European politicians calling for Internet control we can expect that these are not only declarations.

Is it another false flag operation similar to operation "Gladio"?

Secret documents reveal: almost 9 thousand nazis fled to Argentina

After several decades Chilean and Brazilian authorities agreed to reveal documents about Third Reich fugitives who managed to escape into South America.

According to the documents, there are about nine thousand registered people who used to cooperate with nazi regime. "Daily Mail" informs, that about 5 thousand people stayed in Argentina, another 1,5 to 2 thousand in Brazil and from 500 to 1000 people harboured in Chile. Much smaller groups escaped to Paraguay and Urugway. We should not forget that South America wasn't their only destiny - many nazis escaped also to the Middle Eastern Countries.

Juan Domingo Perón (1895-1974)

So many nazi fugitives in Argentina can be explained by the fakt, that president Juan Perón had sold about 10 thousand unnamed passports to ODESSA organisation. This helped them to gain new identity. The historians claim that revealing these documents can be a turning point in many investigations. Brazilian documents reveal for example that there were about 20 thousand Germans settleing in the country between 1945-1959.

Many South-American governments were not interested in helping to find former nazi officials. There is not much chance to get them still living and take them to the court. Many of Third Reich mysteries remain unsolved, like for example speculations about Adolf Hitler's place of death.

Former Polish minister accused in CIA secret prisons case

Polish media are informing today about a new plot in the CIA prisons case. According to Polish daily "Gazeta Wyborcza" former chief of Intelligence Agency, Zbigniew Siemiątkowski was accused of "overwhelming his rights, infracting international law by illegal arrest and use of corporal punishment against war prisoners.


While the documents remain secret, there are theories that also Siemiątkowski's assisant col. Andrzej Derlatka will be accused. There are rumors that also an accusation against former prime minister Leszek Miller will be prepared.


News about CIA's secret prisons in Europe are blowing regulary from time to time. Today we know about such places in Poland, Lithuania and Romania, there were some scandals also in Denmark and Finland but local politicians managed to hush it.


Still, many secrets in the CIA "passangers" remain unsolved, new strains and proofs are still showing up. In my book "Code of Power" ("Kod Władzy") I have suggested that these secret flights are just a small piece of bigger conspiracy. Now this conspiracy comes to daylight.

Google's doubtful independence

Google at the beginning of its existence was a phenomenal project which revolutionized Internet. Just like in the case of Microsoft and Facebook there are many suspicions that the company can be connected with American intelligence. 

 

Why is that?

 

There are theories that Google is being connected with NSA (National Security Agency), Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) had even sued NSA to prove that they are cooperating with Google. 

 

There is some point in their personal policy, especially when we consider the fact, that on of "high operative positions" was taken by Regina Dugan, former director in DARPA. Maybe this transfer from Pentagon to Google is nothing more than just a take over but if we consider all these suspicions whole case puts whole company in a bad light.

source: TheIntelHub

 

Secret Turkish-American meetings

According to AFP, chief of CIA, David Petraeus  had a closed-door meeting with Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the head of Turkish intelligence, Hakan Fidam. They were probably discussing the situation in Syria.

 

Petraeus' visit is being connected with the debate in the USA discussing possible ways of solving Syrian conflict. There are many senators who claim than one of the solutions is to support the rebels, there are also ideas to bomb governments objects.

 

Turkey would play a crucial role. Ankara is still one of the closest US allies in the region, there are also rumors that it is supporting Syrian rebels. After the officials meeting American embassy's spokesperson has commented that the perspectives of further cooperation are very "fruitful". 

 

It's getting more and more interesting. The conflict in Syria doesn't seem to end and the new war with Iran is also very possible. In the meantime we can notice quiet negotiations, new allies and hidden games to get some support. 

 

Does it remind you Europe in 1930's?

Small robot swarms - it's not sci-fi

Are you being horrified by the perspective of an attack of non-human flying robots? The news about their activity are getting more and more often and drones can be seen not only in such an egzotic countries for us as Pakistan, Afganistan or Somalia. Their effectiveness and low costs had convinced police services (i.e. USA and UK) and European institutions.

Until now drones still remained relatively large devices rarely operating in large groups. This can change with the project created in the Pensilvania Uniwersity laboratories.

Its scientists had managed to create whole group of small robocopters operating as a swarm of insects.What can such devices be used for? Just imagine you are being chased or even attacked by these machines. Armed in a proper way they can be very dangerous.

Great arming in Africa's Corner

Google Maps is a great tool to be used in the intelligence activity. I wouldn't be suprised if even some states' agencies are using it against in spying.

DefenseTech journalists had noticed recently, that something has changed in the US Army base Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti.

 

 

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They have recognized full arsenal of many different military vehicles: powerful Hercules transporters as well as battle drones station. It is the largest quantity of such devices in whole Africa!

It can be a sign, the United States are getting more interested in Africa, especially when we consider the influence of China in many African countries.

 

Gold coming back to Europe

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What is going on with this crisis? It has ended or not? Or maybe we are somewhere in the middle and soon a new wave of growth will return? There are many who think so, but it seems that there is still not much trust on the market.

There are more and more signals that many states want to reclaim their control over the gold reserves stored almost 80 feet underground 33 Liberty in NY.


Firstly ZeroHedge had informed about the actions of the German government and soon after that another news that also Switzerland declared that they want to reclaim their gold reserves. The initiative came from four members of local parliament who proposed that:

1) Swiss gold will remain phisically in Switzerland,
2) SNB (Swiss National Bank) will be forbidden to sell its gold reserves,
3) their central bank will be obliged to have at least 20% of their commodities in gold,

It seems that more and more governments are going to take actions taken earlier by Hugo Chavez who orderd to take all Venezuelian gold back to the country.

What is it doing in space?

It was supposed to stay on Earth's orbit only for about nine months and then return. Before that it was to make some tests and return with data necessary to continue further production of similar devices. Finally X-37B is staying in space for more than a year and now there are another doubts showing up if the whole mission was only a scientific one.

Two months ago some astronomy fans had noticed that experimental shuttle is moving on the same orbit as chineese space laboratory Tiangong 1. The have shown a hypothesis, that the space drone's scientific mission is just a cover up and its main purpose is a spying activity.

Not only that. As Eric Sterner from Marshall Institute qouoted by Wired.com claims X-37B can be used even as space bomber - the only thing needed are proper arms which we don't know nothing about at the moment.

Now, when we have found out that the drone can stay on orbit much more than it was expected another speculations occur - if this new shuttle would convince American government for further investitions? 

source: AIAA/Grantz/Boeing

 

"The Hum" - new theories about what the "strange noises" are

It seems that even the mainstream media started to notice the news about so-called "strange noises". On Daily Mail website they have linked a record from Germany where we can notice that the sound had made the car alarm turned on!






This is what newspaper's journalist Ted Thornhill had found out:

• prof. Jean-Pierre St. Maurice from University of Saskatchewan claims that the main cause of the sounds is electromagnetic field from auroras,
• according to seismologist Brian W Stump from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, earthquakes can also be the source of these sounds,
• David Deming from the University of Oklahoma had named these phenomenon "The Hun" and defined it as "a mysterious and untraceable sound that is heard in certain locations around the world by two to ten per cent of the population"
• according to NASA whole phenomenon can be explained by the fact, that the Earth has natural radio emissions’

Even if it is happenning of natural causes, why are they being heard now and were not heard in the past?

Stratfor: Ground Zero mosque controlled by FBI

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

 Another interesting information from Stratfor emails published by Wikileaks. Between the email we could find a message, that imam connected with controversial mosque in Ground Zero (area close to destroyed World Trade Center towers) called Park51 is FBI asset. His name was not mentioned but we can guess that it is Kuwait-born Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf who had initiated a whole project to open a mosque in Ground Zero. 

The controversial mosque had started a great discussion and many Americans seem to be against it in WTC close neighbourhood even today. It may be somehow logic, that the FBI would rather have this mosque under control.

 

 

This is the email:


Re: [CT] Untangling the Bizarre CIA Links to the Ground Zero Mosque
Email-ID 373982
Date 2010-09-13 14:38:35
From burton@stratfor.com
To ct@stratfor.com
The Imam is an operational asset of the FBI.

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T



We need to notice, that this is the same person, Fred Burton, who informed Stratfor about what hapenned with Bin Laden's body.

Bin Laden's body taken to the US?

According to official version, Osama Bin Laden was shot during the Navy SEALS attack in a compound in Pakistani city of Abbottabad. Then his body was drowned in the ocean in order to avoid pilgrimages to his grave.

This scenario from May 1st 2011 was, as we can expect, many critics, who doubted that Bin Laden had died that day.

Now we can learn from the private Stratfor email revealed by Wikileaks, that Bin Laden's body was not buried in the ocean but it was taken to military medical institute in Bethesda.

In Polish blogosphere, the first person who had informed about it was Fox Mulder who recognized email author as Fred Burton, former chairman of anti-terrorist department in American Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).

This what was written in the email:


[alpha] Body bound for Dover, DE on CIA plane

Email-ID 1102718
Date 2011-05-02 05:51:12
From burton@stratfor.com
To alpha@stratfor.com
List-Name alpha@stratfor.com
Than onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda.

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

FBI: Cyberattacks worse than terrorism

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Suprisingly FBI had informed that the main threat to the United States has changes. For recent 10 years it was terrorism which was considered as the main danger, now it has changed we have something new - cyberattacks.

FBI director Robert Mueller has stated during the conference about cybersecurity, that today once single and isolated hackers had joined their powers in order to create a real crime sindicate. What is more he claimed that as the result of their activity governmental agencies are "bleeding out" loosing data and money.

New strategy will need new rhetorics - according to Mueller such organisations as Al-Quaeda are very active in the web and FBI started to recognize a new kind of terrorist activity - cyberterrorism.



This change of priorities and a declaration to start fighting in the web seem to go be a bit out-of -reality, especially when we consider the fact, that on of Anonymous attacks victims was FBI website.

Israel arms Azerbaijan

 I was suggesting on this blog more than one, that a potential conflict between Israel and Iran can easily spread itself to other countries in the region and finally move to the new great war, which can be the beginning of the World War III.

According to Vladimir Zhirinovsky the conflict with Iran will be the beginning of a Third World War. As one of the first stages of such war Zhirinovsky suggested joining neighbouring Azerbaijan which is in conflict with Armenia for years. During the war with Iran Azers can take a chance to take control over the province Nagorno Kharabach.

On February 26 Israeli officials had confirmed the information about a new contract with Azerbaijan to sell drones, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-missile defence systems. The contract was worth about 1,6 milion dolars.

The officials had confirmed earlies speculaltions of israeli media which had already in autumn were informing about selling 60 drones. What is more in September 2011 in the conflicted area a drone was shot down. It was marked as Azerbeijani but it was constructed in Israel. Why they are arming them? Caucasus was an important region for a long time and countries over there remain in contant conflict. What if somebody wants to start a wide-scale war and this is one of the best places to start it?

Be careful what you are writing - these key word can make you some trouble

Great electronic Big Brother machine worth billions of dolars is spying on what topics are the internauts talking about in the web. Instruction published by Electronic Privacy Information Center contains the list of key words which alow services to search for suspicious chats amd localize a threat to national security.

How did these documents get to the Internet?

Electronic Privacy Information Center is an organisation focused on defending privacy, they have requested for the document and when it was given to them they have published it on their website.

This 39-pages-long instruction was published for 2011 by Departament of Homelad Security and it contains a list of words categorized in groups (see below). The list should be studied by all English-speaking users but how can we be sure that it doesn't work also in other languages?

Domestic Security

Assassination Attack Domestic security Drill Exercise Cops Law enforcement Authorities Disaster assistance Disaster management DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office) National preparedness Mitigation Prevention Response Recovery Dirty bomb Domestic nuclear detection

Emergency management Emergency response First responder Homeland security Maritime domain awareness (MDA) National preparedness initiative Militia Shooting Shots fired Evacuation Deaths Hostage Explosion (explosive) Police Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT) Organized crime

Gangs National security State of emergency Security Breach Threat Standoff SWAT Screening Lockdown Bomb (squad or threat) Crash Looting Riot Emergency Landing Pipe bomb Incident Facility

HAZMAT & Nuclear

Hazmat Nuclear Chemical spill Suspicious package/device Toxic National laboratory Nuclear facility Nuclear threat Cloud Plume Radiation Radioactive

Leak Biological infection (or event) Chemical Chemical burn Biological Epidemic Hazardous Hazardous material incident Industrial spill Infection Powder (white)

Gas Spillover Anthrax Blister agent Chemical agent Exposure Burn Nerve agent Ricin Sarin North Korea

Health Concern & H1N1

Outbreak Contamination Exposure Virus Evacuation Bacteria Recall Ebola Food Poisoning Foot and Mouth (FMD) H5N1 Avian Flu Strain Quarantine H1N1 Vaccine

Salmonella Small Pox Plague Human to human Human to Animal Influenza Center for Disease Control (CDC) Drug Administration (FDA) Public Health Toxic Agro Terror Tuberculosis (TB) Tamiflu Norvo Virus Epidemic

Agriculture Listeria Symptoms Mutation Resistant Antiviral Wave Pandemic Infection Water/air borne Sick Swine Pork World Health Organization (WHO) (and components) Viral Hemorrhagic Fever E. Coli

Infrastructure Security

Infrastructure security Airport CIKR (Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources) AMTRAK Collapse Computer infrastructure Communications infrastructure Telecommunications Critical infrastructure National infrastructure Metro WMATA

Airplane (and derivatives) Chemical fire Subway BART MARTA Port Authority NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center) Transportation security Grid Power Smart Body scanner

Electric Failure or outage Black out Brown out Port Dock Bridge Cancelled Delays Service disruption Power lines

Southwest Border Violence

Drug cartel Violence Gang Drug Narcotics Cocaine Marijuana Heroin Border Mexico Cartel Southwest Juarez Sinaloa Tijuana Torreon Yuma Tucson Decapitated U.S. Consulate Consular El Paso

Fort Hancock San Diego Ciudad Juarez Nogales Sonora Colombia Mara salvatrucha MS13 or MS-13 Drug war Mexican army Methamphetamine Cartel de Golfo Gulf Cartel La Familia Reynosa Nuevo Leon Narcos Narco banners (Spanish equivalents) Los Zetas Shootout Execution

Gunfight Trafficking Kidnap Calderon Reyosa Bust Tamaulipas Meth Lab Drug trade Illegal immigrants Smuggling (smugglers) Matamoros Michoacana Guzman Arellano-Felix Beltran-Leyva Barrio Azteca Artistic Assassins Mexicles New Federation

Terrorism

Terrorism Al Qaeda (all spellings) Terror Attack Iraq Afghanistan Iran Pakistan Agro Environmental terrorist Eco terrorism Conventional weapon Target Weapons grade Dirty bomb Enriched Nuclear Chemical weapon Biological weapon Ammonium nitrate Improvised explosive device

IED (Improvised Explosive Device) Abu Sayyaf Hamas FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia) IRA (Irish Republican Army) ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) Basque Separatists Hezbollah Tamil Tigers PLF (Palestine Liberation Front) PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization Car bomb Jihad Taliban Weapons cache Suicide bomber Suicide attack

Suspicious substance AQAP (AL Qaeda Arabian Peninsula) AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan) Yemen Pirates Extremism Somalia Nigeria Radicals Al-Shabaab Home grown Plot Nationalist Recruitment Fundamentalism Islamist

Weather/Disaster/Emergency

Emergency Hurricane Tornado Twister Tsunami Earthquake Tremor Flood Storm Crest Temblor Extreme weather Forest fire Brush fire

Ice Stranded/Stuck Help Hail Wildfire Tsunami Warning Center Magnitude Avalanche Typhoon Shelter-in-place Disaster Snow Blizzard Sleet

Mud slide or Mudslide Erosion Power outage Brown out Warning Watch Lightening Aid Relief Closure Interstate Burst Emergency Broadcast System

Cyber Security

Cyber security Botnet DDOS (dedicated denial of service) Denial of service Malware Virus Trojan Keylogger Cyber Command

2600 Spammer Phishing Rootkit Phreaking Cain and abel Brute forcing Mysql injection Cyber attack Cyber terror

Hacker China Conficker Worm Scammers Social media

Whole document can be read here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/82701103/Analyst-Desktop-Binder-REDACTED

Fukushima is still dangerous

It is a year since the great tsunami wave had destroyed Japanese east coast and had started another great disaster - in Fukushima power plant.

Soon after the catastrophy the situation was so serious, that Japanese authorities were considering to evacuate whole Tokyo. While the scenario of evacuating whole 13 milion citizens metropolis was being discussed.

That's not all. New York Times has informed, that the officials were also considering the risk of a great explosion in Fukushima as well as possibility to close down few other nukes. This could start a chain reaction and to force the authorities to evacuate the capital.

What is more, the situation still remains out-of-control, while Japanese authorities had announced that the no-fly-zone around Fukushima will be 3 kilometres now. As it may seem that the situation gets better, the journalists claim that this action can be provided only to calm the public opinion.

New Fukushima's plant manager, Takeshi Takahashi had claimed that what is still remaining after the the explosion is still worrying:

We still can’t say the facilities are trouble free yet - said Takahashi

Honey – let’s make a … country!

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Global terrorism, global challenges, global tax and global country taking care of all these things. Nowadays, when the plans to unite the Earth in one organism are getting closer and closer, we need to take a look on the alternative conceptions i.e. the conceptions of making every country independent.

The political reality is dynamic, some countries fall and some new are growing on their places. The formation of some of them is quite peaceful whereas others need to fight for their independence in long and brutal wars.

According to the law there are three basic elements which constitute a country: society, territory and the highest power. Those three criteria are a foundation on which one area can build its own independence and try to be considered as independent by other countries.

According to the Montevideo convention (in 1993) about the country’s rights and responsibilities, a fourth essential element has appeared – it is the capability to hold relations with other countries. Nowadays, a country is considered independent when it is internationally recognized.

For example, there are many states which are considered independent only by some societies. In Europe there are at least several controversial territories.

The most popular case is the one of Kosovo – even the members of the EU aren’t unanimous about its independence (countries such as Romania, Slovakia, Greece, Cyprus and Spain do not accept it). The opponents of the autonomy of Kosovo say that it’s an artificial creation which came into being after the initiative of NATO that wanted to weaken and defeat Serbia (which was always a pro-Russian bastion on the Balkans). Also Russia is accused of similar actions – they support such quasi-countries as Transnistria or South Ossetia.

This situation often complicates international relations and agreements as, for example, in case of Cyprus joining the EU. The northern part of Cyprus is occupied by the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus supported by Turkey but rejected by the eastern Greek part of the island.

The criteria of the international law

A set of conditions, that need to be fulfilled by a country wanting to be autonomous, was brought into being in order to avoid legal conflicts between countries and territories searching for independence.

One of them is the method consisting in separating from already existing subjects of the international law, their connection or creation of so called “res nullius”.

The interesting option is that several territories can make one independent country – that’s what happened with Poland one hundred years ago. Now the Kurdish people have the same aspirations.

The question of separation is the most controversial thing as we already mentioned while speaking about Kosovo, Cyprus and Transnistria. Many countries don’t want to accept their independence for fear of a dangerous precedent. Spain has been trying to deal with the Catalonian and Basque’s aspirations; Romania and Slovakia need to take into consideration the aspirations of the Hungarian minority. The national criterion is very significant and the minority question is difficult to deal with. However, sometimes the separatist movements can have a totally different ground like in two Italian cities Seborga and Filettino. Although the independence of Seborga is only symbolic, they have a monarchy existing since 1954. They also have 304 citizens, its own army and ducal authority. The Filettino community proclaimed its independence and decided to introduce its own currency “fiorito” as a protest against the economical plans of the government.

While the above declarations can be treated lightly, the statements of the Texas governor are more than serious. This state is the only one in U.S. having the possibility to leave the Union. Since the separatist tendencies in the southern part of the U.S are still vivid, the Rick Perry’s declaration of the secession of Texas certainly stroked many politicians in Washington. This entire situation ended up on verbal pronouncements but there’s still a possibility that some influential politician will raise this question again.

From no-man’s land

The most interesting subject matter is about the countries that rise on the “res nullius” territories i.e. on no-man’s lands ready to be appropriated. Even though there are few areas like this, it is still possible that somebody will create his/her country on the Moon, Mars or on a floating atoll. As for the latter – we already have some attempts to make it real.

Some may already know the story about Sealand – a principality created on a platform located near the seashore of Great Britain. The Seasteading Institute, which is popularizing the creation of countries on old drilling platforms, wants to introduce similar outcomes. Here’s a quotation from their website: “At The Seasteading Institute, we work to enable seasteading communities — floating cities — which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for government. The most successful can then inspire change in governments around the world.”

The Institute can count on the big sponsors such as the PayPal founder – Peter Thiel who donated 1,25 million dollars for their activities. The money will help to make the idea of sea colonies more popular and will also constitute the Poseidon Award which will be given to the first successful society created on the sea platform before 2015. For all those who do not believe in living on a platform we have another possibility – you can get the citizenship of the Free State of Caroline by registering yourself online.

Some pieces of advice

The future country creators also need to remember about the political system on their new areas. It turns out that monarchy is more practical than republic. The latter requires more complicated procedures such as introducing the parliament and the rules of cadence and choosing the candidates. Consequently, all the citizens in such micro country will become the members of parliament! The monarchy, on the contrary, is easier to set up – there’s only one monarch ruling usually till the end of his life.

An important privilege and asset of an independent country is the possibility of coinage. Maybe after Seborga and Filettino we will have some other micro countries with their own currency. It could even cause a huge scandal like in Poland few years ago when the Polish Mint produced money for the Republic of Transnistria; the transport was then stopped by the Ukrainian border control and the whole issue was presented to diplomats.

The separatist tendencies seem to grow stronger and stronger – we can see it by the actions of Scotland or Catalonia trying to become independent. The international relations and dominant crisis are even more favorable for this kind of behavior. Local societies need to use their own alternative currencies and who knows; maybe the more courageous people will take few steps forward.

GMO – another attack of the big companies

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Crowds on the Polish streets and the attacks of Anonymous were the reason for the Polish government to find a scapegoat who will be responsible for the actions which took effect in signing an unfortunate agreement.

However, it seems to be a gimmicky activity which aims to save the government and the Prime Minister’s reputation after ACTA has been already signed.

In spite of the fact that ACTA was broadly discussed much earlier, the Polish government was withholding the moment of drawing up the agreement till the last minute. Even though the internauts’ reaction was more than unexpected, the government did nothing to speak with the basic segment of this treaty – the Internet users.

Nevertheless, we need to take a wider look on the ACTA agreement. As we already know, it was elaborated in secret in participation of the big concerns which will probably earn the most on it.

We need to note that it doesn’t mean that only phonographic and movie companies will have the biggest benefits. It actually turns out that this treaty can have something in common with...GMO.

Three words about GMO

Let’s start with a definition of GMO - the Genetically Modified Organisms are living organisms whose genetic material was modified by genetic engineering methods. We can have modified bacteria or plants. Today, when we speak about the GMO we rather think about artificially altered plants whose genetic code is protected by the patent rights belonging to some big biotechnological concerns.

The GMO issue is very controversial. Its followers claim that it gives bigger crops and the plants remain fresh for a long time. Its opponents say that the influence on human body and local ecosystems wasn’t precisely investigated (it is connected with the process of absorption by the genetically modified plants).

What thing can link ACTA and GMO?

People interested in GMO know that the GMO seeds are sold and cropped on license of rights – it means that every farmer must pay a relevant amount of money to the company which created a particular type of tillage. This obvious thing can be although very confusing.

Let’s take the Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser as an example. He was accused by the biotechnological concern Mosanto of illegal cropping of genetically modified colza. Schmeiser stated that the GMO appeared on his field by coincidence – it was probably a self-sown plant which came from the neighbor field with genetically modified colza. The judge wasn’t satisfied with those arguments – hence, the farmer was forced to pay the patent fee to Mosanto. Apparently Schmeiser should have done everything in order to avoid self sowing or to weed those GMO plants.

The problem is serious because thanks to ACTA which protects the patent rights and after introducing the GMO tillage the big corporations will be able to sue those people who do not even know that their tillage was pollinated by GMO.

Let us imagine a situation after signing ACTA and introducing the GMO tillage – there’s a farmer in a small village who starts to crop genetically modified plants, buys seeds, pays the patent fees and pollinates his field. After some time the pollen is spread by the wind, bees or other animals which pollinate the crops of another farmer having an ecological tillage on his field. Not only he looses the ecological status of his tillage but also he is subject to a potential visit of a biotechnological concern’s representative wanting him to pay the fee for growing GMO. Even if our farmer doesn’t want to grow the GMO and to make the biotechnological concern’s wallet bigger – he has no choice.

ACTA with its vague content and terms can treat the GMO patens as the same subject of copyrights as the Internet files. What is more, every farmer can be a potential criminal pursued by an international institution called up after the treaty enters into force. Interesting concurrence: an international institution pursuing the violation of copyrights and international corporations being the owner of the license for crops. Coincidence?

On the 8th of February the social consultations will be held in the Presidential Palace. There will be 6 followers of GMO and only 3 of its opponents – the supporters of common sense and healthy food. It is possible that it will cause the same scandal as ACTA. Poland will become a rubbish bin full of genetically modified food whose real usefulness is hard to find by an every-day man. Our shops are full of powder products which increase the financial benefits of producers and businessmen as well as the number of allergies and patients financed by the National Health Fund.

Who will take advantage of the genetically modified food? Would it be a step towards the elimination of the ecological agriculture, the fall of the small and medium enterprises and the disappearance of our precious ecological brand?

Is ACTA really connected with GMO? I encourage the lawyers to analyze this question and the internauts to take a wider look on this problem till it’s too late.

I believe that the Internet society can become a barometer of unconsidered politics where people’s interest is no more a fundamental value.