You Tube Admits To Freezing View Count
You Tube Admits To Freezing View Count On Biden Impeachment Video
By both Biden’s and Obama’s own admissions, they should be removed from office
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
March 23, 2011
Youtube has admitted to freezing the viewcount on a viral video of Vice President Joe Biden that highlights the hypocrisy of the Obama administration as it engages in military aggression against Libya.
The video (below) dates from 2007 and shows Biden, then preparing for a presidential run, appearing on the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC.
In the video Biden is asked if he sticks by comments that bombing Iranian interests without Congressional approval would be an impeachable offense, to which he replies he absolutely does.
The video was posted at the top of The Drudge Report earlier today, a website that conservatively receives 36 million visits per day, making it the most highly ranked news website on the web.
Under the headline Could Obama be Impeached over Libya? Let’s ask Biden, the video has been drawing thousands of hits as viewers have drawn the comparison to the subversion of Congressional authority by Biden and Obama via US involvement in UN sanctioned attacks on pro-Gaddafi forces and buildings.
While such activity would normally send the video to the top of searches and to the front pages of Youtube.com, where many millions more would see it, the viewcount on the video is stuck firmly at just 301 views.
Suspecting foul play, CNS News contacted Youtube to seek an explanation and received the following reply:
“YouTube employs proprietary technology to prevent the artificial inflation of a video’s viewcount by spam bots, malware and other means,” said the statement. “We validate views to ensure the accuracy of the viewcount of all videos beginning with the first view. This validation process becomes publicly visible when the viewcount reaches 300.”
“At this point, the viewcount may slow or temporarily freeze until we have time to verify that all further views are legitimate,” said the statement. “Rest assured that the views system is working as intended, and that the viewcount will update as soon as the system has verified the legitimacy of the views.”
Or as soon as the link on Drudge is removed and people stop clicking through to the video perhaps?
We wouldn’t want Americans to understand that the action in Libya is completely unconstitutional and represents a violation of the oath that both Biden and Obama swore to protect.
Perhaps Obama and Biden put in a call to their soon to be Commerce czar, the outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Google is, of course, the parent company of Youtube.
In another video dating from 2007, Biden explains that at the time then president Bush was considering military action against Iranian nuclear facilities he sought expert opinion from five leading constitutional scholars. Biden says he had them draft a treatise outlining beyond a shadow of doubt that engagement in an act of military aggression without any authority from Congress is an impeachable offense:
Where are those constitutional scholars and where is that treatise now?
In 2007, Obama also made the exact same comments as Biden, noting that “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,”
“As President, I will not assert a constitutional authority to deploy troops in a manner contrary to an express limit imposed by Congress and adopted into law.” Obama also stated.
I guess things are different when you’ve got an election to win.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
Gates: Up to Libyans to Settle Own Fate
Gates Says up to Libyans to Settle Own Fate
CAIRO- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday it was ultimately up to Libyans to settle matters in their country, where rebels are fighting an insurgency against Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade rule.
"It seems to me that if there is a mediation to be done, if there is a role to be played, it is among the Libyans themselves. This matter at the end of the day is going to have to be settled by Libyans. It's their country," Gates told reporters during a visit to Cairo.
Gates said he was unsure if there would be any value in trying to bring the rebels and Gaddafi together for talks.
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Gaddafi vows to fight 'to the end'
Gaddafi vows to fight 'to the end' as airstrike missiles blast Tripoli
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Health Authorities on Potassium Iodide
U.S. Health Authorities Urge Americans Not To Take Potassium Iodide
Baffling response given the fact that Fukushima is still spewing black radioactive smoke as Japanese authorities refuse to confirm radiation levels
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Despite the fact that Fukushima nuclear reactor is still spewing black radioactive smoke as the crisis shows little sign of abating and Japanese authorities refuse to give accurate radiation readings, U.S. health authorities have gone from ambivalently telling Americans not to worry about the situation, to actively discouraging them from obtaining potassium iodide at all.
After it was confirmed that traces of radioactivity had reached Colorado, Dr. Chris Urbina, chief medical officer and executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, said in a statement today, “There is no need for people to seek potassium iodide,” before going on to list numerous side-effects as a way of actively discouraging Americans from taking the drug.
“Using potassium iodide when it is unnecessary could cause intestinal upset (vomiting, nausea and diarrhea), rashes, allergic reactions, soreness of teeth and gums, and inflammation of the salivary glands. Pregnant women and the developing fetus are particularly sensitive to the health risks of taking potassium iodide,” said Urbina.
Urbina’s statement is baffling because it leaves Americans open to developing thyroid cancer should levels of radiation being emitted from Fukushima worsen, which is a distinct possibility given reports yesterday about how deadly radioactive spent fuel rods were “boiling” the water they are contained in having already reached temperatures in excess of 100 degrees celsius.
The statement also completely fails to explain the fact that potassium iodide has innumerable health benefits when taken in smaller doses, such as the weaker liquid form, potassium iodine, or in the form of Kelp vitamin tablets.
A decrease in iodine intake has caused, “an epidemic of iodine deficiency in America,” according to Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD, who notes that incidences of breast cancer in Japan, where diets are rich in iodine, are amongst the lowest in the world, whereas they are the highest in America. Studies show that iodine helps protect against developing numerous types of cancer.
Merely having a small amount of potassium iodide pills on standby in a country that has a number of almost identical nuclear plants to the one at Fukushima makes perfect sense, so why is a government that constantly lectures Americans about preparing for imaginary terror attacks now telling them not to prepare at all when a real threat arises?
A report commissioned by Congress “recommended that everyone under 40 near a nuclear power plant should have the pills on hand,” and yet health authorities are now openly badmouthing something that even the FDA said was “effective in reducing the risk of thyroid cancer in individuals or populations at risk for inhalation or ingestion of radioiodines.”
World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl made similar remarks to Urbina when he warned people that potassium iodide could cause “substantial health damage,” again failing to make the distinction between high grade potassium iodide pills and weaker potassium iodide supplements.
Meanwhile, media talking heads like Ann Coulter have even gone a step further, suggesting that nuclear radiation is in fact healthy and nutritious.
The U.S. government has taken a stance that seems to go beyond containing panic to actively preventing Americans from obtaining potassium iodide.
As we reported last week, anecdotal evidence suggests that doctors are being told by the CDC to withhold potassium iodide from patients who try to get it on prescription as a way to circumvent exhausted supplies caused by panic buying.
The U.S. government has refused to stockpile supplies of the drug despite numerous experts warning that Fukushima could represent a crisis worse than Chernobyl.
“The federal government has never purchased enough to meet that standard,” reports CNN. “There is currently only enough of the medication available for populations living within 10 miles of nuclear reactors in the United States, according to U.S. officials.”
As Mike Adams writes, “If you leave the fate of your own health up to a bunch of state bureaucrats, you’re a fool. Everybody needs to have some potassium iodide on hand to protect themselves from radiation poisoning caused by nuclear accidents or nuclear terrorism.”
Japanese authorities were forced to admit their mistake earlier this week in not distributing potassium iodide pills to the public until days after the Fukushima plant started spewing radiation into the atmosphere.
President Barack Obama encapsulated the official policy to badmouth the drug last week when he all but insulted Americans for preparing themselves for fallout by purchasing potassium iodide pills.
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health experts do not recommend people in the U.S. take precautionary measures beyond staying informed,” said Obama, which is precisely what those affected by both Chernobyl and the 3 Mile Island accident were told, trust your government, a mistake that led to nearly a million deaths in the case of Chernobyl and a dramatic rise in cancers in the case of 3 Mile Island.
It was also what ground zero workers heard in the days after 9/11, that the air was “safe to breathe,” a contrived cover-up on behalf of the EPA and the White House that led to thousands of crippling illnesses and deaths of firefighters, police and first responders.
Given the fact that Japanese authorities are brazenly covering-up the scale of the disaster at Fukushima and the true radiation levels being emitted from the still-smoking plant, it would be moronic for Americans not to at least have potassium iodide pills on standby, which makes you wonder why the U.S. government has aggressively encouraged them not to make such preparations.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
Egypt Warns Israel Against Gaza Action
Egypt Warns Israel Against Military Action in Gaza
CAIRO — Israel should not rush into carrying out any military operations in Gaza, Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby said in a statement on Wednesday.
Elaraby "asked Israel to exercise self restraint and warned it against rushing into a military operation in Gaza".
He also warned others -- an apparent reference to Palestinian groups -- from giving Israel any excuse to use violence, adding that Egypt rejected and condemned violence against civilians.
Israel has launched air strikes and shelling in the Gaza Strip from where militants have increased the firing of rockets into Israel in recent days.
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