Due to travel and other commitments, disgrunt has not been updated for the past three weeks. I intend to return to my daily update schedule in the upcoming week, but I am planning a format change. This format change will come in the form of fewer news updates and more editorial content. It is to give me some breathing room so that when work and family related commitments conflict with disgrunt updates, I will still have enough hours in the day to contribute to disgrunt in a meaningful way (if you can call it that). So instead of 20-30 news stories from around the world, I may only select 5-10 stories that I feel are important and then offer a more indepth take on them.

I also have plans to setup a forum here at disgrunt, so that disgrunt readers can discuss the numerous topics covered here, as well as anything else you have on your mind. More on that later.

That being said, I am still looking for others interested in contributing to disgrunt. So if you’re at all interested, let me know. I would also be interested in hearing any thoughts or ideas you might have in regards to disgrunt.

In the meantime, I hope you’ll check out Jason Miller’s thought-provoking editorial, Man Fuel: Is it in you? Be sure to let him know what you think by leaving a comment.

No terror attack over holidays proves one of two things

Do miracles really happen? Jesus turned water into wine, but do the spooks that staff the hierarchies of the British and American intelligence establishment possess the same divine powers? Or were they simply lying again when it was sternly reported that only a “miracle” would prevent London from being attacked by terrorists over the holiday period?

British Home Secretary John Reid, former hardcore Stalinist, member of the Scottish Communist Party and an alcoholic bully with a penchant for thumping people in the face, reiterated the threat that it was “highly likely” that terrorists would attempt an attack before the first of the year.

“It will be a miracle if there isn’t a terror attack over the holidays in London,” a senior American law enforcement official told ABCNews.com on December 21st.

By that logic, the fact that a terror attack did not happen proves one of two things - that miracles really do happen in the modern world or governments are lying to us about terrorism in order to scare populations into accepting the deliberately engineered drift towards authoritarianism.

Which do you think it is? (more…)

First session of Congress sees re-introduction of federal hate crime, anti-bullying acts

A new piece of legislation set to be re-introduced in Congress by the Democrats under the guise of anti-bullying would reprimand schoolchildren for verbal criticism of their peers in any context, including sexual orientation, religion or simply expression of an opposing idea. The bill echoes federal hate crime legislation about to be debated as Congress enters its first session tomorrow.

The Antibullying Campaign Act of 2005 was rendered obsolete after the recent expiration of Congress but Fox News radio reports that its most ardent champion, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, is set to initiate its reintroduction.

The bill outlines a $300 million dollar federal program to target bullies who harass other kids about their sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. (more…)

Our Commentary on the year past and the year ahead

2006 was the year that the United States died. Over the course of a year, just a few seconds in the span of a country, it’s civilization and their way of life, we have witnessed the premature death of America. The underpinnings, the basic canons and the tenets of the United States, as well as it’s physical borders, are gone.

But they can be brought back.

The problem is denial. You cannot put something right until you identify it as a wrong. The New World Order has won a major victory, but because the country is made up of living tissue, each and every one of us out there, every man woman and child, it can rise from the dead. We can revive the country by passing electricity through its heart.

Until recently Europe was deep in the EU but as the final steps were being implemented, the people pulled back and voted down EU expansion in every country. The same has happened in South America. So we do see whole regions, countries and areas rising from the dead in this sense. (more…)

Fluoride, added to the water supply of many cities and counties and sold by WalMart in its nursery water, has a tendency to accumulate not only in developing teeth causing discoloration, and in bones making them brittle. The mineral is associated with cancer and it also accumulates in the pineal gland, an important hormone control center, where it wreaks considerable havoc. Paul Connett of Fluoride Action Network comments on Jennifer Luke’s research which was part of her PhD thesis and had just been published in Caries Research under the title: Fluoride Deposition in the Aged Human Pineal Gland.

Fluoride is a poison, yet we add it to our water and toothpaste and even call it a supplement, although it has no nutritional value. Its medicinal value - the prevention of tooth decay - is the official explanation for adding the toxic mineral to the water supply. But that value is far outweighed by its toxic side effects - amply documented by Paul Connett in his Statement of Concern.

Recent European Union legislation on food supplements lists fluoride as an essential element to offer for supplementation. This is somewhat ironic when contrasted with the European legislators’ feigned concern over the putative toxicity of vitamins and their efforts to limit dosages of these vital nutrients in order to “protect public health”. (more…)

The number of Iraqi civilians killed in political violence hit an all-time high in December, according to official government figures.

The figure of 1,930 for the month is up from 548 in January, before a huge increase in violence following the destruction of a major Shia shrine in February.

The Interior Ministry figures showed a total of 12,320 civilian deaths in what officials called “terrorist violence” in 2006.

The figures are seen as an important, if partial, indicator of levels of violence in Iraq.

All casualty figures for the country have been disputed. A figure of 3,700 civilian deaths in October, the latest tally given by the United Nations based on data from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue, was branded exaggerated by the Iraqi government. (more…)

False Flag 2007 No. 1

The most striking thing about New Years Eve in Bangkok was despite the Bombing Bloodbath just around the corner Pad Pong the Sex Bar lined Market Place in Silom was opened for business, packed with party revelers and its usual trade of men looking for cheap Asian intimacy. The only place emptied by the Army Coup directed Police was a much more innocent part of this multi faceted city. “Coincidently” the very place that the second round of bombs exploded just after Midnight, injuring no one. Hurray for the coup leaders, hurray for a very Thai Terrorist Act, can’t stop the Ping Pong shows!

The Authorities in Bangkok were also immediately sure this had nothing to do with the Muslim insurgency in the south of the country, before any substantial investigation had taken place. We don’t want the people getting “off message”. No the official word is these bombs were planted by forces opposed to the coup.

What a strange message for these people to push, I’m sure that the bombing will get a lot of Thais on to the pro democracy band wagon. Or maybe there is a very obvious logic at work here. Lets join the dots. (more…)

The Iraqi government Monday ordered the closure of the Baghdad office of a Dubai-based television station whose newscaster wore black mourning clothes while reporting on the hanging of Hussein.

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the Al-Sharqiya station, owned by a former chief of radio and television for Saddam, had incited violence and hatred in its coverage and had ignored warnings to stop.

Brigadier Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the spokesman, said the order was issued after an allegedly false report by the news channel about the abduction of three Sunni Arab female students from a university.

But the order also followed criticism of the tone of Al-Sharqiya’s coverage of Saturday’s execution, which struck some as sympathetic to the ousted dictator.

In contrast to state-run television reports that described Saddam as a “tyrant” and “criminal,” a newscaster on Al-Sharqiya - which means “The Eastern One” - referred to him Sunday as “president.” (more…)

NEW YORK — Small groups of Americans opposed to the Iraq war and the death penalty decried Saddam Hussein’s execution, and the centre headed by one of the former dictator’s lawyers said the hanging was part of a plan by President George Bush to escalate the war.

The small rallies on Saturday in New York’s Times Square and in Boston, led by a group affiliated with former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, were among several condemnations of Saddam’s hanging.

Activists in Detroit also planned their own demonstration. Clark, who leads the New York-based International Action Center and was one of Saddam’s defence lawyers, predicted during the Iraqi leader’s trial that a bloodbath would follow if he was executed.
In a statement, the center said his hanging was part of a plan by Bush to escalate the war. (more…)

The Iraqi government has launched an inquiry into unofficial mobile phone footage showing the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
The mobile phone footage showed he exchanged taunts and insults with witnesses at his hanging on Saturday.

The grainy video showed the former leader being told to “go to hell” by someone attending the hanging.

One of the trial prosecutors who saw the execution said he threatened to halt it if the jeering did not stop.

Munkith al-Faroon - who can be heard appealing for order on the unofficial video - said that he had threatened to walk out.

This could have halted the execution, as a prosecution observer must, by law, be present. (more…)

On the morning of January 1, 2007, Chinese authorities arrested over 200 protesters on Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen public security, armed police and plainclothes officers were on the scene to interrogate and arrest demonstrators.

Voicing a variety of complaints, the majority of these protesters came from all across China. Demonstrators were arrested in several groups near the exit of an underground tunnel leading to the Square. Police hauled off five vehicles full of protesters.

Tiananmen Square was not the only location where New Year’s dissidents have been apprehended. Laying bait for attests, authorities infiltrated several villages, circulating rumors of a planned protest at Shijing Hill on New Year’s Day. Caught in this trap, individuals later found at Shijing Hill were taken into police custody. Beijing human rights advocate Liu Anjun believes that a dozen people were arrested at Shijing Hill and are being kept by local authorities.

Just before the New Year, several groups of demonstrators protesting outside of Chinese primer Wen Jiabao’s house were apprehended by authorities. Their whereabouts are currently not known. (more…)

The Institute for National Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University said in its annual report, released Tuesday, that Iran will possess nuclear weapons unless military action is taken against it, and Israel would be capable of carrying out such an attack

“Time is working in Iran’s favor, and barring military action, Iran’s
possession of nuclear weapons is only a matter of time,” the institute said in a statement distributed at a news conference where it released its annual assessment of the Middle East’s strategic balance.

Israel considers Iran to be its most serious threat. It dismisses Tehran’s claims that its nuclear program is designed solely to produce energy and is worried by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s repeated calls to wipe the Jewish state off the map.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has not ruled out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program, but has said he hoped other ways could be found to keep Tehran from becoming a nuclear power. In 1981, Israel destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor in a surprise air attack. (more…)

Israel on Tuesday will test, for the UN, an underground installation in the Negev desert designed to monitor any attempt by arch-foe Iran to test nuclear devices, the daily Yediot Aharonot reported.
The test will consist of three strong explosions Israel will deliberately set off in the northern Negev using 15 tonnes of liquid explosives, to see how they register on equipment at the underground site.

Each blast will be equivalent to a seismic tremor of 2.4 on the Richter scale, the report said.

The facility is equipped with seismographs and other equipment able to detect earth tremors and transmits the data directly to the International Atomic Nuclear Agency (IAEA) in Vienna via Israel’s nuclear research facility at Nahal Sorek, the paper said.

The new underground testing center is in the mountains near the Red Sea beach resort of Eilat.

“The station will assess earth tremors, and ways to predict them and other underground and surface activity, such as nuclear tests,” the paper quoted Rami Hofshteter of the Lod Geophysics Institute near Tel Aviv as saying. (more…)