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Fascism & Gold
http://www.silverdoctors.com/jim-willie-fascism-gold/
The ultimate patriotic act is to invest the life savings in Gold & Silver, which does honor to real money, shows disdain for paper merchants who rule the central banks, and forces nations to put forth honest sound money in usage. It is important to recall the 9/11 event, however based in reality, not the official story. Honor should be given to the 2500 victims of the mass murder event. The official story makes far less sense than the Kennedy assassination, while the two events appear to be front and back bookends of the same Fascist takeover of the United States Govt.
The Patriot Act was a fascist manifesto, much like the Enabling Act installed in Germany over seven decades ago. The two acts have a 90% correlation and overlap, yet the American public remains largely in the dark on the similarity in template. The USCongress passed the controversial Patriot Act, which has totally opposite direction to patriotism, under threat of anthrax in their ventilation system (rumored to be engineered by the FBI). The creation of the Homeland Security Agency should ring loud gongs about the Gestapo similarities. That the US & London & Swiss bankers are fascists with roots to 1930 fascists should also be brought to public attention. The US bankers on Wall Street actually had loans extended to the German Nazis, a fact the public seems to overlook. Operation Paperclip, which opened the US gates to the several hundred bankers, scientists, and industrial captains should have been a wakeup call to Americans, but they remain asleep. Imagine a nation that makes a mockery of citizens seeking the truth on the event, calling them disparagingly the Truthers. Recall that truth is the enemy of fascist regimes, and the early victim of any war.
The 9/11 event was the coming out party for the American Fascists. It was also a complex sequence of criminal events, to abrogate $230 billion in Russian bonds, to wipe clean the Black Eagle Fund on gold obligations. But in the immediate, it was a bank heist. Few Americans realize that the World Trade Center housed the largest bank in the Western world. Thus the object of the bank robbery, where $100bn in bearer bonds were stolen, $100bn in diamonds were stolen, and $100bn in gold bullion was stolen. For reasons tied to national security, no investigations or claims are permitted. It was also an opportunity to test out some nano-technology and extreme micro nuclear demolition methods. Over 2000 people perished on that day. Around 200 police, firemen, and emergency medical professionals also died on that day. The event sealed the fate of the nation, to become a fascist enclave, the exceptional nation, the home of the new brown shirts.
Much credit is due to the courageous and diligent scientific groups like AE1000, the Architects & Engineers, who have contradicted the official nonsensical silly reports which serve as the Official 9/11 Commission report, far more vacant and illogical and baseless than the Warren Report of 1963. Both were hastily produced under political pressure, both with Papa Bush fingerprints at the crime scene. The group of scientists have produced a powerful body of evidence in dispute, yet over half the US nation believes the fairy tale in the official USGovt story. It was a fascist takeover of the USGovt and establishment of the banking system as the power center.
All manner of war and sanctions cannot prevent the removal of the USDollar from its global currency reserve privilege. Too much abuse from violent war, sponsored terrorism, $trillion gifts to bankers, backdoor bailouts to bankers, has caused a global upheaval and resistance. Sanctions are the device used against nations which oppose the USDollar in usage, primarily in crude oil payments. The USGovt has refused to liquidate the big banks, which have served as the Western seat of power and pilferage. The series of sanctions have backfired badly. The obstacles to gas pipelines cannot be maintained. The movement against the corrupt toxic USDollar has gathered tremendous momentum. It has an African monetary policy attached, an incredibly destructive policy, and worse, it is called stimulus. The return of the Gold Standard is inevitable. The big question is how much destruction the USGovt, its powerful military, and its subversive security agencies will permit before the legitimate monetary system is put in place. The path seems clear, that the legitimate system will first arrive on the trade front, deposing the USTreasury Bill in back pressure like excrement from the global bowels.
Nestle Inc. Apparently Exempt From California Water Control Laws
Nestle Continues Pumping California Dry to Sell Public Water for Outrageous Profits
Drought-shaming in California – the calling out, usually via social media, of neighbors and others who break water-use rules – has become quite prevalent as the state continues to suffer through a historic drought. But not everyone is getting shamed equally.
As reported by TheAntiMedia.com, one company that is getting less than its fair share of shame is Nestle, which, though the giant company has drawn some of the public's ire, has not received nearly enough "to have spontaneously sprouted a conscience."
The drought-shaming phenomenon worked well enough for Starbucks to end its bottling of Ethos Water in California altogether, with the coffee company moving its entire operation to Pennsylvania instead.
However, Nestle has simply shrugged off any public outrage of its water-bottling operations in the arid state and has even doubled down by boosting its draw of water from natural springs, even in threatened areas like the San Bernardino National Forest, and despite the fact its permit is grossly out of date.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2168088/arrowhead-letter-1987.pdf
No current permit
Profit, it seems, is more important to Nestle than doing the civic-minded thing in a state where water resources are fast dwindling.
As TheAntiMedia.com further reported:
Nestle has somehow managed the most sweetheart of deals for its Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water, which is ostensibly sourced from Arrowhead Springs — and which also happens to be located on public land in a national forest.
In 2013, the company drew 27 million gallons of water from 12 springs in Strawberry Canyon for the brand — apparently by employing rather impressive legerdemain — considering the permit to do so expired in 1988.
However, as the company says, that's no big deal, really, as it has promised to be a good steward of the land, and because the expired permit's annual fee has been dutifully paid – to the tune of just $524.
TheAntiMedia.com went on to note that Nestle is not merely collecting spring water; the company also used some 51 million gallons of ground water from the same area over the same period of time.
Further, there is an additional site where the company is draining water for profit as the state's punishing drought endures: Deer Canyon. In 2014, Nestle drew 76 million gallons from springs there, a sizeable increase over 2013's draw of 56 million gallons, "and under circumstances just as questionable as water collection at Arrowhead," the alternative news site reported.
http://www.naturalnews.com/051166_Nestle_bottled_water_California_drought.html
Kamilah Brock Gets `Obamacared´
Kamilah Brock, a former New York banker, has filled a suit against the city after she was detained for eight days in a mental health facility against her will. Brock says she was committed after trying to pick up her BMW, which skeptical police did not believe she owned, after it had been impounded when she was arrested the previous day.
"Then [emergency medical services] approached me. And they said we're gonna take you to your car. And I'm like, in an ambulance?" Brock told PIX11. "I'm going to my car in an ambulance? I was just so confused."
The story began when Brock was stopped at a traffic light in New York's Harlem neighborhood on Sept. 12, 2014. Officers of the New York Police Department questioned Brock, who is black, about why she had her hands off the steering wheel. Brock, waiting at the light, replied she was "dancing." According to Brock, the officers promptly detained her in New York's local 30th police precinct.
She was ultimately released several hours later without charges and told to pick up her car the next day from another location. When she did, officers on the scene refused to believe that she was the rightful owner of the 2003 BMW 325CI. "I just felt like from the moment I said I owned a BMW, I was looked at as a liar," she told PIX11.
Before she knew it, she was on her way to Harlem Hospital Center's psychiatric ward, where she was injected with lithium and numerous powerful sedatives against her will.
In an interview with PIX11, she recalled her experience: "He held on to me, and then the doctor stuck me in the arm, and then I was on a stretcher, and then I just woke up to them taking my clothes off."
This lasted eight days.
Brock was ultimately left with a $13,000 medical bill from the hospital.
Harlem Hospital did not deny that Brock had been been committed. Her medical file, which her lawyers released to PIX 11, indicated she was suffering from bipolar disorder and that she was "manic," exhibiting "psychiatric behavior." Brock, who is now suing the city for "unspecified damages," has no prior history of mental illness.
David Duke Debates Alex Jones (8-8-2015)
David Duke Debates Alex Jones
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=28274
On August 18, popular Internet powerhouse Alexander Emerick “Alex” Jones and Euro-American rights activist Dr. David Ernest Duke squared off in what will eventually be recognized as one of the most important debates in the history of alternative media.
Jones is the colorful and popular radio host and founder of Infowars.com. He is perhaps best known for his bombastic criticisms of the global power elite, warnings of an impending New World Order (NWO) and global government, and exposure of government corruption. He is arguably the most influential figure in the entire alternative media. He has built a media empire centered around his syndicated talk radio program and news website and has produced countless documentaries over the years covering a wide range of issues ranging from the dangers of vaccines to a thorough investigation of President Barack Hussein Obama.
In recent years, Jones has expanded his operation to include a nightly television news program—“Infowars Nightly News”—as well as a monthly magazine called Infowars Magazine.
Following his rise to prominence in the alternative media, American patriots and dissidents have criticized Jones for obfuscating the true nature of the much ballyhooed NWO, a theme he has popularized and mainstreamed over the years, along with the actual forces comprising the global power elite. Critics of Jones argue he has obscured and concealed critical information about the global ruling elite and their international agenda of world domination.
On multiple occasions, callers to the Alex Jones Show have pointed out the pro-Zionist origins of the NWO agenda, which is commonly understood as global government and the destruction of national sovereignty. Additionally, critics have charged that Jones has failed to identify pro-Israeli control over the American mass media, Hollywood and the banking and financial system as well as their domination of America electoral politics and foreign policy.
Jones very rarely discusses the overwhelming evidence pointing to Jewish and Israeli involvement in planning, orchestrating, covering up and eventually benefiting from the false flag attacks on 9-11, an event that has been central to the advancement of the NWO agenda he spends so much time railing against. In short, critics argue, Jones has deceived the millions of listeners who tune into his syndicated radio program as well as the millions of readers of his website by failing to openly and frankly confront the true nature of power in the world today.
Jones’s decision to invite Duke, the former congressman, radio host and best-selling author of My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding and Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question, came as a direct result of pressure from Internet activists challenging and criticizing Jones over his treatment of the Jewish question as well as other important topics.
DHS Stops Library From Offering Anonymous Net Browsing
DHS Stops Library From Offering Anonymous Net Browsing
Since Edward Snowden exposed the extent of online surveillance by the U.S. government, there has been a surge of initiatives to protect users' privacy.
But it hasn't taken long for one of these efforts — a project to equip local libraries with technology supporting anonymous Internet surfing — to run up against opposition from law enforcement.
In July, the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire, was the first library in the country to become part of the anonymous Web surfing service Tor. The library allowed Tor users around the world to bounce their Internet traffic through the library, thus masking users' locations.
Soon after state authorities received an email about it from an agent at the Department of Homeland Security.
"The Department of Homeland Security got in touch with our police department," said Sean Fleming, the library director of the Lebanon Public Libraries.
After a meeting at which local police and city officials discussed how Tor could be exploited by criminals, the library pulled the plug on the project.
"Right now we're on pause," said Fleming. "We really weren't anticipating that there would be any controversy at all."
He said that the library board of trustees will vote on whether to turn the service back on at its meeting on Sept. 15.
Used in repressive regimes by dissidents and journalists, Tor is considered a crucial tool for freedom of expression and counts the State Department among its top donors. But Tor has been a thorn in the side of law enforcement; National Security Agency documents made public by Snowden have revealed the agency's frustration that it could only identify a "very small fraction" of Tor users.
The idea to install Tor services in libraries emerged from Boston librarian Alison Macrina's Library Freedom Project, which aims to teach libraries how to "protect patrons' rights to explore new ideas, no matter how controversial or subversive, unfettered by the pernicious effects of online surveillance." (The Library Freedom Project is funded by Knight Foundation, which also provides funding to ProPublica.)
After Macrina conducted a privacy training session at the Kilton library in May, she talked to the librarian about also setting up a Tor relay, the mechanism by which users across the Internet can hide their identity.
The library board of trustees unanimously approved the plan at its meeting in June, and the relay was set up in July. But after ArsTechnica wrote about the pilot project and Macrina's plan to install Tor relays in libraries across the nation, law enforcement got involved.
A special agent in a Boston DHS office forwarded the article to the New Hampshire police, who forwarded it to a sergeant at the Lebanon Police Department.
DHS spokesman Shawn Neudauer said the agent was simply providing "visibility/situational awareness," and did not have any direct contact with the Lebanon police or library. "The use of a Tor browser is not, in [or] of itself, illegal and there are legitimate purposes for its use," Neudauer said, "However, the protections that Tor offers can be attractive to criminal enterprises or actors and HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] will continue to pursue those individuals who seek to use the anonymizing technology to further their illicit activity."
CONFIRMED: Hollywood Blockbusters Officially Are CIA-scripted Propaganda
The widely-celebrated and iconic 2012 film, Zero Dark Thirty, which detailed “the most classified mission in history” — one the U.S. government reported resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden — was developed and manipulated by the CIA, according to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Vice News. The report also shows the CIA provided classified information to the filmmakers. Over one hundred pages of documents reveal a symbiotic relationship between the high-powered film producers and intelligence officials and raise particular questions about the depiction of torture in the film — which was heavily criticized for insinuating “enhanced interrogation techniques” were essential in tracking down Osama bin Laden.
The documents reveal that throughout the filmmaking process, filmmaker Mark Boal was in close contact with Leon Panetta, who was the head of the CIA when the film went into development and production. The documents include two reports, “Alleged Disclosure of Classified Information by Former D/CIA [Director of CIA]” from March, 2014 and a September 2013 report from the Inspector General’s office called “Potential Ethics Violations Involving Film Producers.”
The relationship between Boal and fellow filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow, who made The Hurt Locker in 2009, began a year before the raid on bin Laden in Pakistan, when the pair sought to make a film titled Tora Bora about the CIA’s failure to capture him. However, bin Laden died, nullifying the film’s premise. Only days after Obama announced bin Laden’s death in May of 2011, Boal was in contact with Panetta in the hopes of making a film about the killing. According to Vice News, “Less than three weeks after bin Laden’s death, Boal and Michael Feldman, a public relations representative for Tora Bora, met with CIA officials to discuss the new project.”
Further, “…the CIA gave Boal access to CIA personnel and facilities less than a month after bin Laden was killed in order to ‘further his research’ for the ZDT screenplay.” Boal was even invited to a CIA award ceremony around the same time, though the Inspector General’s report seemed unclear as to who had invited him — the CIA’s Office of Public Affairs or Panetta himself. Panetta denied any knowledge of his presence and said he would have been unable to recognize Boal, even though he sat at the same table as Boal and Bigelow at the 2010 White House Correspondents dinner and instructed them to contact him when they were ready to make Tora Bora.
The developing script for Zero Dark Thirty was continuously reviewed by CIA agents. Boal “‘[read] his script over the telephone’ to public affairs officers on October 26, November 1, November 18, and December 5 ‘so that [public affairs] could determine if the script inadvertently exposed any sensitivities.’” While some technical changes included removing a dog from an interrogation scene and cutting scenes of drunken parties for “accuracy,” more serious manipulation appears to have transpired.
According to Vice News, “Other concerns were raised about detainee debriefing scenes that depicted captives being ‘punched and kicked.’” Further, according to the documents, as well as a memo released in 2013 that also indicated the CIA’s involvement in the film, “It appears that an early version had Maya [the protagonist CIA agent] participating in the torture. But during their conference calls, the CIA told Boal that this was not true to life.”
Others have begged to differ, arguing the bigger picture was intentionally deceptive.
Former counterterrorism official for George W. Bush, Richard Clarke, said “The movie left the American people with the impression that torture worked and that without it we never would have been able to trace the trail back to Abbottabad and to find bin Laden.”
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14 Things You Must Do TODAY to Survive the Coming Economic Collapse
14 Things You Must Do TODAY to Survive the Coming Economic Collapse
Yesterday, The Common Sense Show issued a breaking news alert as to the possible use of multiple IED type of devices based upon the reports of a highly credible source(s). The Common Sense Show is pleased to announce that arrests have been made in conjunction with this event and eventually I will be able to provide more details.
If such an event ever came to fruition, it could potentially paralyze this nation and bring the economy to a standstill. Subsequently, the grocery store shelves could be empty within two days and food riots would likely commence by sundown of the second day. All Americans would instantly be in danger. Local law enforcement would be overwhelmed. What would be your chances of survival? Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that FEMA has conducted research studies on America’s level of preparedness and the news is not good. FEMA concluded that 72% of all Americans are not prepared to survive what is coming In other words, when society begins to fragment, you and your fellow preppers are outnumbered by a 3 to 1 margin.
Are you prepared for 3 out of 4 of your neighbors climbing through your windows in search of life-saving supplies?
The FEMA Preparedness Reports
In response to concerns about strengthening the nation’s ability to protect its population and way of life (i.e., security) and ability to adapt and recover from emergencies (i.e., resilience), the President of the United States issued Presidential Policy Directive 8: National Preparedness(PPD-8).
PPD-8 is a directive for the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate a comprehensive campaign to encourage Americans to practice national preparedness. Despite efforts by FEMA and other organizations to educate American citizens on becoming prepared, growth in specific preparedness behaviors has been limited. Government programs to this end are nearly nonexistent.
I have spent the past week illustrating how a coming economic collapse is unavoidable and how the elite have conspired to steal as many of your assets as possible prior to the collapse. This article presents some common sense things one can do which could increase the chances of surviving a major societal meltdown resulting from an economic collapse. If you have any doubts as to what is coming, I strongly encourage you to read what I have written about on this topic over the past several months. Even Ray Charles could see that our economy will not be around much longer in its present form. Your can read these stories here [1], here [2], here [3], here [4], here [5], here [6], here [7], here [8], here [9], and here [10].
It is always best to prepare for the worst and hope for the best. For the purposes of this article, it is possible that society will not totally collapse even if the dollar does. However, large segments of societies always collapse when an economic collapse happens. Surviving the worst case scenario is the purpose behind what will be covered here.
1. The Creation of a Pseudo-Identity
It may be necessary to become invisible in the event you think you believe that your name could be on a (Red) list because roundups will usually occur in dire situations. Therefore, the creation of a pseudo-identity could become very important.
Economic Crisis: How You Can Prepare Over The Next Six Months
Economic Crisis: How You Can Prepare Over The Next Six Months
http://www.infowars.com/economic-crisis-how-you-can-prepare-over-the-next-six-months/
I wouldn’t say that it is “never too late” to prepare for potential disaster because, obviously, the numerous economic and social catastrophes of the past have proven otherwise.
There simply comes a point in time in which the ignorant and presumptive are indeed officially screwed. I will say that we have not quite come to that point yet here in the U.S., but the window of opportunity for preparation is growing very narrow.
As expected, U.S. stocks are now revealing the underlying instability of our economy, which has been festering for several years. Extreme volatility not seen since 2008/2009 has returned, sometimes with 1000 point fluctuations positive and negative in the span of only a couple days. Current market tremors are beginning to resemble the EKG of a patient suffering a heart attack.
Stocks are a trailing indicator, meaning that when an equities crash finally becomes visible to the mainstream public, it indicates that the economic fundamentals have been broken beyond repair for quite a while. What does this mean for those people who prefer to protect themselves and their families rather than wait to be drowned like lemmings in a deluge? It means they are lucky if they have more than a few months to put their house in order.
The process of crisis preparedness is not as simple as going on a gear-buying bonanza or making a few extra trips to Costco. That is better than nothing; but really, it’s a form of half-assed prepping that creates more of an illusion of survivabilty rather than providing ample security in the event that financial systems malfunction.
Much of what’s listed in this article will include training and infrastructure goals far beyond the usual standards of beans, bullets and Band-Aids.
Market turmoil has only just begun to take shape around the globe; and as I explained in my last article, the situation is only going to become exponentially worse as 2015 bleeds into 2016. I certainly cannot say for certain how long our system will remain “stable,” primarily because our current collapse could easily move faster or slower through the influence of outside or engineered events (a slower progression without any black swan-style triggers would likely end in total breakdown within the span of a couple years, rather than a fast progression ending in the span of a few months). What I can do is give you a conservative timeline for preparedness and offer examples of actions anyone can accomplish within that period. For now, my timeline is limited to six months or less, meaning these preparations should be undertaken with the intent to complete them in half a year. If you get more time than that, thank your lucky stars for the extension.
Police Suicide Rising To Epidemic Levels In America
Police Suicide Rising To Epidemic Levels In America
The mainstream media often portrays the unfortunate random killing of police officers as analogous to a larger “war on cops.” The reality is that there is a concerted public relations effort underway, on the part of law enforcement, with the intention of stemming the growing public calls for more oversight and accountability.
If law enforcement were genuine about wanting to save the lives of cops, they would begin by attempting to put focus on the out of control epidemic of police suicides, which dwarfs the number of cops fatally shot the line of duty.
The last year on public record for police suicides was 2012, with a staggering 126 officers reported to have intentionally killed themselves. Compare that with the number of police fatally shot in the line of duty last year; 47.
Let that sink in for a moment. American police are 300% more likely to kill themselves than be shot and killed by another individual.
These statistics drive home the fact that the “war on cops” narrative is simplistic police propaganda, which utilizes the mainstream media as a mouthpiece in an effort to deliver the message to middle America.
The stark reality is that were 47 cops shot in the line of duty in 2014 and this year the number is estimated to be even lower, projected at 43 shooting deaths if the current projections hold steady through the end of the year.
The Next Tool of Tyranny and Enslavement Is Coming From Your Pastor and FEMA
The Next Tool of Tyranny and Enslavement Is Coming From Your Pastor and FEMA
Many who have followed the writings on this site are all too familiar with how the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA have turned your pastor into an agent of the state [1]. And as such, your pastor has been trained to invoke Romans 13 in order to enforce compliance with government edicts, no mater how draconian, in a time of national emergency.
Many of the nation’s pastors have been trained how to bring calm to incarcerated Americans being held in the proverbial FEMA camps in which the pastors are forbidden to quote the Bible and speak of Jesus. It would be wise to click on the link for the two aforementioned claims before proceeding with this article.
Your Church Is Likely An Agent of the State
From the previously referenced links, it is easy to conclude that most of our pastors are compromised along with their message. However, the Clergy Response Team has taken an even darker turn for the worse. In ONLY 120 days, 30 churches from around the world have turned their place of worship into potential pit of enslavement. In geographic locations from Indonesia to India and from Portugal to the United States, churches have started using facial recognition software called Churchix. The innovator and the man in charge of this unholy distribution of unwarranted surveillance technology, Moshe Greenshpan, the CEO of Israel- and Las Vegas-based company Face-Six, is leading the way in installing DARPA and DHS surveillance devices inside the sanctuaries of Christian churches. Make no mistake about it, this surveillance program is a clone of other products that Greenshpan’s company offers to clients, such as law enforcement, public venues, retail outlets and of course, the American Gestapo, DHS.
Implementation of Satan’s Surveillance System
The Churchix program is implemented in three phases:
1. Enroll People into Churchix’s Data Base.
2. Upload Videos or Photos of Members
3. Churchix Identifies their Faces
The Churchix uses CCTV footage or photos to match churchgoers against a database of high-resolution pictures that a church has to compile on its own. The software can be used to monitor attendance numbers, and alert church officials if some members stops coming to services. It can also screen for people banned from the church as pointed out in the company’s description of the operation features.
“In the beginning I was surprised. We never thought of churches as potential clients, but we now understand the need. Most churches do already keep track of their members,” Greenshpan told the IBTimes UK.
Churches are dependent upon their congregation’s generosity in remaining a viable entity. In the past, your church could often tell if someone was participating in the life of the church by monitoring their offering envelopes given to the church. This is where the real money is, not in the offering plate in which people drop in five dollar bills. Further, why would any church invest in such expensive and elaborate technology in which, for the majority of churches, the cost far outweighs increase in revenue that such a system could realize. This system of so-called revenue generating is flawed on its face unless the technology is being bankrolled from somewhere else.
Churchix Is Only Part of the Surveillance Movement That Is Targeting the Average Person
From April to June of 2015, a few reports surfaced about the introduction of the Churchix program. However, the reporting was one dimensional and did not look at the bigger surveillance picture. This system is only one part of a massive DHS data mining project designed to target Christians, people of interest and all Americans who are committing the crime of merely living in their homes and attempting to live an American middle class lifestyle. Most of you reading these words are considered to be enemies of the state (see the MIAC Report for an historical context).
It is not enough that your computer, or any electronic device, can be used as means to spy upon the owner of the device. DHS is seeking to gain access to ALL home surveillance videos. DHS is also seeking the ability to intercept digital signatures that come on your video camera devices as well. Your video and photos on your cell phones have long been the data base property of DHS.
News Hub previously reported [2] (please note the error code) that DHS was indeed seeking to intercept your home surveillance videos for all Americans. That information has been scrubbed. Initially, it could have been obtained through the use of the Wayback Machine. As of September 8, 2015, that, too, has been sanitized.
GOOD - California Assembly Nixes Eco-fascist Greenhouse Gas Bill
A focal point of California's fight to drastically curb greenhouse gases was shot down in the state Assembly late Tuesday and now its companion environmental bill is also in jeopardy.
Senate Bill 32, known as the Global Warming Solutions Act, was stymied by a lack of Democratic support and defeated in the Assembly with a vote of 30-35. The bill needed a supermajority to pass, and 15 Assembly members abstained.
The sweeping climate change bill aimed to cut greenhouse gases by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050, and would align state law with emissions goals set by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and current Gov. Jerry Brown.
Critics of Democratic Sen. Fran Pavley's bill hammered it for giving state regulators increased power over the implementation of the sweeping emissions plans, and questioned the impact it could have on California's agriculture industry.
Pavley included a late amendment giving the Legislature the ability to modify or reject the California Air Resources Board's emission plans, but couldn't sway a group of 14 moderate Democrats who withheld their vote.
A majority of the Democratic holdouts represent Southern California districts and none gave comment before the vote.
Pavley said she is still working on amendments to the bill and that it was rushed to vote Tuesday due to Friday's legislative deadline. Hundreds of bills must be heard on the Senate and Assembly floors before Friday's deadline.
The bill was motioned for reconsideration and will be heard again before Friday's deadline, Pavley said.
"Rather than rush ahead before members could review amendments, SB 32 will be reconsidered later this week," Pavley tweeted after the vote. "The fight continues."
SB 32 is tied to another ambitious climate-change bill awaiting vote in the Assembly, SB 350, which calls for a 50 percent reduction in gasoline consumption and massive expansion of the state's renewable energy programs.
The bill has also been met with skepticism from a mass of Democrats and an onslaught of oil industry ads touting the bill as the "California Gasoline Restriction Act of 2015."
"This law will limit how often we can drive our own cars," a Western States Petroleum Association advertisement claims.
The climate change cult has the support of Brown's office, which has been negotiating with the Democrat holdouts before Friday's deadline to sway votes. Brown has spent much of the summer campaigning for increased emissions standards and spent a week at the Vatican discussing climate change with the Pope.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/09/09/calif-assembly-nixes-greenhouse-gas-bill.htm
HOLY SHIT, SAUDI ARABIA WANTS RUSSIA AS AN ALLIANCE
CONFIRMED: Saudi Arabia Offered Russia Oil Alliance and OPEC Membership
Igor Sechin, the powerful head of Rosneft, Russia’s big state oil company, has now confirmed that OPEC - the Saudi dominated oil producers’ cartel - has offered Russia membership.
This comes on the heels of media reports that the Saudis have been pressing the Russians for an “oil alliance” whereby Russia and Saudi Arabia, the world’s two biggest oil producers, would coordinate their production so as to dominate the oil market together.
The Saudi proposal makes complete sense from Saudi Arabia’s point of view.
The Saudi decision last year to maintain oil production at existing levels rather than cut production in response to the oil price fall, was not directed at Russia but at US shale oil producers.
The Saudis know that there is no possibility of the shale oil producers cutting production in cooperation with OPEC.
If Saudi Arabia and OPEC had cut production last year in order to prop up the oil price the shale oil producers would simply have carried on producing even more oil in order to benefit from the higher price.
Saudi Arabia would have sacrificed its market share and profits simply in order to keep the US shale oil producers in business.
It therefore made total sense for the Saudis last year to maintain production at existing levels in order to price the US shale oil producers out of the oil market.
The Saudis know this will take time - two years at least - but they have calculated, surely rightly, that with their massive financial reserves and their highly liquid banking system they can outlast the heavily indebted US shale oil producers in what is now a price war.
Once the US shale oil producers have been priced out, oil prices will rise.
Some optimistic commentators say that when this happens the US shale oil producers will bounce back and simply start producing again where they left off.
This is a facile idea.
Shale oil technology is surely here to stay. However the creditors and investors (( ! WALL STREET BANKS ! )) who have poured money into the shale oil industry in recent years - and who stand to lose heavily if the industry falls into crisis because of the low oil price - are going to be very wary of investing in the industry on the same scale again.
Read more here:
Pirate Party Offers Uncensored DNS to Bypass Pirate Bay Blockade
UPDATE 12-31-2015: Hydra proxies no longer work. Go to thepiratebay.se for now.
Pirate Party Offers Uncensored DNS to Bypass Pirate Bay Blockade
The Norwegian Pirate Party has made a big statement by launching a free DNS service which allows Internet users to bypass the local Pirate Bay blockade. The party advocates a free and open Internet for everyone and believes that the recent website blockades set a dangerous precedent.
Last week Norway became the latest country to block access to The Pirate Bay.
A local court ordered Internet providers to block users’ access to several large ‘pirate’ websites in the hope that it will decrease online copyright infringement.
The local Pirate Party is now vigorously protesting the ruling and has decided to fight back. Since the sites will be blocked on the DNS level the party is countering by providing their own DNS servers.
https://www.piratpartiet.no/dns/
“We want a free and open Internet for everyone. The copyright industry’s fight for control over culture has put us in a situation where this is no longer the case in Norway,” Pirate Party co-chairman Øystein Middelthun tells TF.
“The censorship is easy to bypass, by simply changing your name server, so we decided to practice what we preach and offer such a service to all those affected by the problem,” he adds.
Indeed, since the sites’ IP-addresses are not blocked the blockade can be easily circumvented by changing the DNS settings on one’s device or computer. The Pirate Party is not the only company offering alternative DNS, OpenDNS and Google have a similar service.
The Pirate Party’s DNS has added benefits though, as it supports additional Top Level Domains including .geek or .pirate, and the Namecoin based .bit. In addition, it operates from Norway with minimal logging to guarantee users’ privacy.
Read the rest here:
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-offers-dns-to-bypass-pirate-bay-blockade-150907/
Russians Plot Economic Sovereignty, Neutralizing US-EU Sanctions
Сергей Глазьев представит "дорожную карту" экономического суверенитета России
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2805251
Translated into English via translate.google.com:
Sergei Glazyev will present a "road map" of the economic sovereignty of Russia.
Presidential adviser Sergei Glazyev September 15 must present the interdepartmental commission of the Security Council a report on additional measures to overcome the economic sanctions against Russia. The draft report, seen "b" has recipes that will satisfy the most zealous advocate of the economic sovereignty of the Russian Federation: the resolution of the companies do not pay the debt to creditors from hostile countries to non-repayment of VAT on the export of commodities.
As it became known "Kommersant" September 15, interdepartmental commission of the Security Council on security in the economic and social sphere in camera to hear a report of the Presidential Adviser Sergei Glazyev on "On additional measures to neutralize threats to the economic security of the Russian Federation in terms of international sanctions." The Commission, represented by deputy ministers and heads of relevant government agencies, in February 2009 by a decree of Vladimir Putin, a division of the Security Council, cooking suggestions for this advisory body. The draft report, "The competitive potential of Russia and ways of its implementation for national security" was able to read "b".
Today text - the most integrity of the report of the supporters of the "modernization breakthrough" mobilization type of circles close to the Office of Social Sciences. The objective of the document - to present "in addition to the Government's" measures to ensure a 5 percent GDP growth program of the government's actions to increase long-term competitiveness of the Russian economy. However, real problems to solve that offers Sergei Glazyev, a lot wider. This growth of industrial output by 30-35%, increase in the transition to a "knowledge economy" share of GDP spending on education, health care and Social Policy from 6.5% to about 40% (figures for the original source), increasing "the rate of accumulation (gross accumulation in VVP.- "b") "up to 35-45%. Program warns Sergei Glazyev, should be implemented over the next five years, ie until 2020. The only way to avoid the "stagflation trap" threats "economic security" and "external control over infrastructure management", to avoid the fate of the world "periphery" oppressed "unequal exchange" - and enter into a new "center of the world economic system" against the will of the current "core".
Work continues to develop in 80-90 years of XX century works of Academician Dmitry Lvov (died in 2007) in the framework of the theory of neo- schumperterians "changing technological structures" outside academia Soviet development which did not have. Mr. Glazyev work contains a number of additions to the original social democratic spirit. Thus, with reference to nobeliatov 2009 Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson (work on collective rights management) are invited to stimulate the creation in Russia of "national companies" (10% of the economy) and organizations in other sectors' workers councils, scientific Engineering Council, the Governing Council ", along with the owners. They bring the project to develop a "acceleration of scientific and technological progress of the USSR" in the 80s.
More interesting are suggestions Sergei Glazyev, focused on the sanctions against Russian current political situation. Passing through the "chain" of the Security Council, individual initiative (as it previously happened with the themes of information and food security) may be subject to orders of the president - despite the fact that the general logic of Mr. Glazyev with the ideology of the government of Dmitry Medvedev and Russian management's inconsistent.
Among Major Economies, Only the Chinese Numbers Are More Suspect
On the surface this report shows solid economic growth for the US economy during the second quarter of 2015. Unfortunately, all of the usual caveats merit restatement:
– A significant portion of the "solid growth" in this headline number could be the result of understated BEA inflation data. Using deflators from the BLS results in a more modest 2.33% growth rate. And using deflators from the Billion Prices Project puts the growth rate even lower, at 1.28%.
– Per capita real GDP (the number we generally use to evaluate other economies) comes in at about 1.6% using BLS deflators and about 0.6% using the BPP deflators. Keep in mind that population growth alone (not brilliant central bank maneuvers) contributes a 0.72% positive bias to the headline number.
– Once again we wonder how much we should trust numbers that bounce all over the place from revision to revision. One might expect better from a huge (and expensive) bureaucracy operating in the 21st century.
Among major economies, only the Chinese numbers are more suspect.
The campaign to smother the true state of the US economy with paper, both in terms of paper money and manufactured statistics, is an outgrowth of the credibility trap.
Having crippled the real economy with incompetent and corrupt policy decisions, the status quo of pampered privilege is going full out to try and save the day– for themselves.
Meanwhile, underneath the public relations campaign to persuade people that all is calm, the pressures of a decade or so of malinvestment and crony capitalism continue to build. The persuasion of the official numbers is becoming more and more ineffective, as people hear one thing but see another in their daily lives.
Yes, there are more jobs. And they are of an inferior quality with low pay and often little or no benefits such as basic healthcare, which despite assurances otherwise is becoming increasingly expensive, and as in the clear case of Big Pharma, unnecessarily so but supported by government policies.
And the urge is to spread this malicious monopolistic drug policy globally through secret trade deals such as the TPP and TTIP.
The public is rejecting the 'establishment' in increasing numbers, such that such voices of the privileged are now recognizing them, but dismissing them as a sociological phenomenon, expressive individualism.
The political and economic establishment has failed, again and again and consciously so, because it was to their short term benefit to do it. It is the failure of an oath, of personal morality, and of office.
But now that the consequences of their actions are becoming apparent, they cannot possibly admit to them because, after all, it was they who are responsible. And there is still plenty of money left on the table.
And so they must deny the problems, cover them and distract attention away from them, and continue to press on with what has been working all along, for them and their friends. The oligarchy has indeed become audacious. both in its lust for looting the system, and its bravura in the attempts to cover up the consequences of their decisions.
http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.ca/2015/09/among-major-economies-only-chinese.html
How Debian Is Trying to Make Software Trustworthy Again
In response to the Snowden revelation that the CIA compromised Apple developers' build process, thus enabling the government to insert backdoors at compile time without developers realizing, Debian, the world's largest free software project, has embarked on a campaign to to prevent just such attacks. Debian's solution? Reproducible builds.
In a talk at Chaos Communication Camp in Zehdenick, Germany, earlier this month (full text here), Debian developer Jérémy Bobbio, better known as Lunar, told the audience how the Linux-based operating system is working to bring reproducible builds to all of its more than 22,000 software packages.
Reproducible builds, as the name suggests, make it possible for others to reproduce the build process. "The idea is to get reasonable confidence that a given binary was indeed produced by the source," Lunar said. "We want anyone to be able to produce identical binaries from a given source."
"We are not discussing a hypothetical attack here."
A software package reproducibly built should be byte for byte identical to the publicly-available package. Any difference would be evidence of tampering.
"The great thing with free software is that we have the freedom to study the source code," he said. "That it does not contain any malware, malicious code, or security bugs."
But how, Lunar asked, do we know that the compiled binary was built from the published source? How do we know the CIA, or other malicious attacker, has not tampered with the build process?
"We are not discussing a hypothetical attack here," he said. "This is a real attack. We are talking about developers in totally good faith producing software, the binary they would give you, and even if they are of good faith, we could be totally owned."
Reproducible builds are already a staple of Bitcoin and the Tor Project. Many other free software projects, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenWrt, are moving in the same direction.
"This is a bad thing for the CIA and a good thing for us," Lunar said.
China Intends to Oust Dollar From Oil Trade
China Intends to Oust Dollar From Oil Trade
China is planning to launch its own oil benchmark in October, similar to Brent and WTI, striving for a more important role in establishing crude prices. Unlike the Western benchmarks, the Chinese contracts will be nominated in the yuan, not the US dollar.
Shanghai International Energy Exchange sent a draft futures contract to market players in August, Reuters reported quoting sources.
Oil futures will be the first Chinese contract to permit direct participation of foreign investors. However, this is not the first step for greater oil market openness in China. In July, Beijing allowed private companies to import crude. Previously importing was only done by state-run majors such as Sinopec, China National Petroleum Corporation and China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the Xinhua news agency reported.
A Shanghai-based contract will compete in the crude futures market, which is worth of trillions of dollars and is dominated by two contracts, London’s Brent, seen as the global benchmark, and WTI, the key U.S. price.
North Sea, Brent oil was first developed in the 1970s. The ICE Brent futures contract was developed in 1988. With an approximate output of only 1 million barrels per day, this blend is considered a benchmark and its contracts are now used to set prices for roughly 2/3 of the world’s oil.
China is one of the world’s largest oil buyers. Nearly 60 percent of its oil consumption comes from imports.
http://www.infowars.com/china-intends-to-oust-dollar-from-oil-trade/
Fascists Threaten Homeschoolers, Now Planning To Invade Homes
Homeschool families in two different states are facing increased scrutiny from local officials that critics are calling an invasion of privacy.
To make matters worse, local officials in Kentucky and Mississippi are making demands of homeschool families that could be in violation of state laws.
The director of pupil personnel in Gallatin County, Kentucky, sent out letters informing parents that “in the coming year, county officials would visit the home of every homeschool program,” said T.J. Schmidt, a staff attorney at the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA).
The letter demanded a wide variety of information, including attendance records and report cards, each of which are required. But it went beyond that.
“It asked parents to indicate whether they specifically intended to follow the local school calendar,” Schmidt wrote. “It also insisted that parents inform the school district about how they were going to keep attendance records and how their instructional days would be documented.
The requests, he said, “exceeded the school’s authority under Kentucky law.”
The director backed down after receiving a letter from Schmidt.
“Schmidt informed [the director] that the forms requested information well beyond that required under Kentucky law,” an HSDLA press release noted. “He also informed the county that home visits would violate each homeschooling individual’s privacy rights, and that HSLDA would challenge any attempt to carry out these visits. Schmidt requested that the county notify all homeschool families that they would be dropping these extra-legal requirements.”
The county agreed with Schmidt, and letters were sent to homeschool families telling them to ignore the packet they had just received.
llegal Demands in Mississippi
Meanwhile, a school official in Adams County, Mississippi (Natchez) also made illegal demands of homeschoolers, another HSLDA press release charges.
Mississippi state law requires homeschoolers to fill out a certificate of enrollment and turn it into an official called the attendance officer. When an unidentified mother in Natchez approached the local attendance officer for the certificate, she was told she would have to produce receipts indicating she had purchased textbooks and other educational materials, even though that is not required by the law.
Chinese Hedge Fund Manager Denies She Was Arrested
Last week, China decided that enough was enough with the stock selling.
Two months of (virtually) uninterrupted plunge protection amounting to some CNY1.5 trillion along with a series of directives and threats had failed to stop the market’s harrowing descent and so, perhaps fearing that its rather aggressive posturing wasn’t being taken seriously, Beijing started arresting people.
As documented exhaustively here, the crackdown on “subversives” led to more than two hundred arrests and forced confessions. There was Xu Gang, the CITIC executive. And CSRC official Liu Shufan. And let’s not forget poor Wang Xiaolu, the Caijing reporter who, clearly under duress, made the following public confession after suggesting in a story that China’s plunge protection team might be considering an exit from the market (which is of course true): “I shouldn’t have released a report with a major negative impact on the market at such a sensitive time. I shouldn’t do that just to catch attention which has caused the country and its investors such a big loss. I regret . . . [it and am] willing to confess my crime.”
The sweeping accusations so frightened one fund manager that, after being summoned by the authorities, he told a friend who works at CSRC the following: “If I don't come back, look after my wife.”
One high profile “summons” involved Li Yifei, chairwoman of Man Group’s China arm. Here’s what we said late last month:
"Chinese authorities took Li Yifei, chairwoman of Man Group Plc’s China unit, into custody to assist with a police probe into market volatility, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Li assisting with the investigation doesn’t mean she is facing charges or has done anything wrong. She has led Man Group in China since November 2011, according to her profile on LinkedIn. The person asked not to be identified because the probe isn’t public."
We suspect maybe this was the mistake:
In an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Stephen Engle in November, Li said investors and regulators in China were beginning to understand hedge funds.
"The Chinese investors and regulators are beginning to understand that actually hedge fund is about hedging."
Yes, "actually hedge fund is about hedging," which, as Citadel learned earlier this month, would "actually" be fine as long as by "hedging" Li means "buying" or any other activity which leads equities higher. Always higher. Never, ever lower.
ANTI-AGENDA 21: Russian Politicians Look To Grant Civilian Farmers FREE Land!
The Pacific Rim of Russia could soon see a mass migration of young people if a government scheme to repopulate this largely uninhabited area is successful. In an effort to promote self-reliance and good land stewardship, the Russian government is planning to grant every Russian citizen who wants it one hectare of land for free as long as these landholders use their land for farming, self-sufficiency, and/or other legal uses.
Russia's vast Far East territory is currently home to about six million people, but this number has been waning in recent years. The Russian government estimates that once the land grant program is initiated, 30 million more people could flock to the region, infusing new life into an area of Russia that would otherwise qualify as uninhabited Siberia.
"Free land grants [are] a powerful potential for developing our Eastern territories and an opportunity to radically – almost six fold – increase the far eastern population from 6.4 million to 36 million people," stated Alexander Galushka, the minister of development for this region, to the Siberian Times about the program.
If everything goes as planned, the program will come into effect on January 1, 2016, and run for 19 years. Russian citizens who take residency on these appropriated land plots will have to prove during the first five years that they're using them properly. After this five-year probationary period, land occupants will be given full ownership of their land in perpetuity.
Russia gives land to its citizens while US takes land away through Agenda 21
Some are skeptical of the plan, however, recalling a Russian land-voucher scheme from the 1990s that ended up granting large blocs of land to "a few spectacularly rich tycoons," to quote the Siberian Times. However, others believe this latest land grant plan is worlds apart from the earlier one and that it will greatly benefit the average Russian citizen.
In either case, it's a far cry from how the American government treats its citizens when it comes to land ownership. Rather than try to increase land ownership and spread the wealth around, federal bureaucrats in the U.S. are actually stealing land from rural citizens in an attempt to force all Americans into densely-packed urban enclaves.
It's all part of a plan known as Agenda 21 that aims to "rewild" the vast majority of U.S. territory by forcibly relocating people out of their homes and into government micro-managed cities. The federal government already owns nearly half of the land area in nine U.S. states, it turns out, and U.S.A. Inc. is progressively eating up more of it with each passing day.
While Russia is working towards putting measures in place to expand freedom and land ownership amongst its citizens, the U.S. is being radically transformed into a massive, government-owned prison, with cities as cell blocks and all of that increasingly unattainable open space swelling in scope outside the prison walls.
http://www.naturalnews.com/051068_Russia_Agenda_21_self-sufficiency.html
Gov-manufactured Refugee CrISIS / Syrian Conflicts
The Real Refugee Problem – And How To Solve It
Last week Europe saw one of its worst crises in decades. Tens of thousands of migrants entered the European Union via Hungary, demanding passage to their hoped-for final destination, Germany.
While the media focuses on the human tragedy of so many people uprooted and traveling in dangerous circumstances, there is very little attention given to the events that led them to leave their countries. Certainly we all feel for the displaced people, especially the children, but let’s not forget that this is a man-made crisis and it is a government-made crisis.
The reason so many are fleeing places like Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Iraq is that US and European interventionist foreign policy has left these countries destabilized with no hopes of economic recovery. This mass migration from the Middle East and beyond is a direct result of the neocon foreign policy of regime change, invasion, and pushing “democracy” at the barrel of a gun.
Even when they successfully change the regime, as in Iraq, what is left behind is an almost uninhabitable country. It reminds me of the saying attributed to a US major in the Vietnam War, discussing the bombing of Ben Tre: “It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.”
The Europeans share a good deal of blame as well. France and the UK were enthusiastic supporters of the attack on Libya and they were early backers of the “Assad must go” policy. Assad may not be a nice guy, but the forces that have been unleashed to overthrow him seem to be much worse and far more dangerous. No wonder people are so desperate to leave Syria.
'Craft Intl mercenaries carried out San Bernardino shooting' --Former NSA/CIA Contractor
'Craft Intl mercenaries carried out San Bernardino shooting'
Former NSA/CIA Contractor: “Craft Intl Mercenaries Carried out San Bernardino Shooting”
Yesterday, I reported on the fact that multiple outlets had reported three shooters in the San Bernardino massacre, including claims that they were white males. While we have been told that Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were the ones who were the killers, former National Security Agency/ Central Intelligence Agency contractor Steven D. Kelley says that it was a false flag operation that was carried out by a tactical training company for the US military, known as Craft International.
Kelley, who is a weapons expert, was interviewed on Press TV on Tuesday and said that the shooting "is just one in a long string of false flag events that I am afraid to say are not over."
"We'll probably be seeing several more before the end of the year, because of the events that are going on in the world, specifically with the NATO being implicated in the buying of oil from Daesh and other events," he added.
"So when these things happen they need to have a rapid response which requires a false flag attack. This was very obvious that this was going to happen," Kelley continued.
"The people that were on the scene and saw this happen also reported that three tall white men wearing black shirts, khaki pants and tanned combat boots were actually the shooters," Kelley told Press TV. "The description is almost exactly what the gentlemen from Craft International, the mercenary organization that was involved in so many other false flags, actually look like. This seems to be their standard uniform."
While Obama took advantage of the crisis to attack the rights of gun owners, Kelley said, "The people that are being implicated – the couple – first of all if they were planning something, if they were radicalized as this is being said, and clearly the NSA, the FBI will be right on the top of these people all the time, but rather than stopping them from doing something, they were nurtured to be used for this exact purpose."
Well, if that were the case, where is the FBI when it comes to at least 22 verified Islamic terror training camps on US soil? Why is the FBI not enforcing the laws against totalitarian Islamists consistent with the law?
"I do not suspect that these people have anything to do with the actual shooting," he said. "I suspect that these were patsies, no different than Timothy McVeigh or any of these other people who have historically been used to implement these terrorist acts."
Have You Bothered to Tell Your Children That They Have No Future?
Six years ago when this picture was taken of my son and myself, I still held out hope that the Independent Media could rescue this country from the tyrants that have hijacked our government. I had this picture made into a poster where it is now displayed just outside my office where I write and broadcast. The picture formerly symbolized the hope that I held out for the next generation. Today, this picture represents what has been lost and will never be recovered. It also serves as a reminder of my parental responsibility to adequately prepare my son for what lies ahead as he prepares to become a citizen in the New World Order.
Paradise Lost
When I became a parent, I mistakenly thought that I would raise my son just like my parents raised me. My parents instilled in me a fundamental respect for authority, how to honor the great traditions of our country and how to work hard to get what I wanted out of life.
I grew up loving the ideals of our country, the freedom and the opportunity. As a result, I have lived a good and prosperous life. I give thanks to my parents and to God everyday for my good fortune. However, I have learned that I was not fully prepared to be a parent because I do not know how to teach my teenage son about how he should live in the New World Order.
The America we knew is dead and gone and is running solely on momentum. Are any of you asking the same question that I am about how we tell our teenage children that they live under a hopelessly corrupt government and they are making plans to fully enslave all of us under REX 84, FEMA Camps, NDAA, etc? Do we teach our children to never criticize the government because free speech has been criminalized as an act of terrorism? How do we provide our children hope that if they work hard and go to college, that they will have a good life? And even if our kids graduate from college, most won’t find jobs when they get out of school and even if they do find work in their field, they will be debt slaves because of the cost of higher education. How do we encourage our children to learn the lessons of civics when we fully know that our vote, on a national level, does not make a darn bit of difference and that the Pelosi’s, Reid’s, Clinton’s, Bush’s and Obama’s are bought and paid for? How do we teach our children that our brave men and women who serve in the military have been turned into pawns of corporate greed and subsequent imperialism? How do we prepare to raise our children in a decadent society which dishonors the Christian principles that our country was founded upon?
The Questions a Parent Cannot Answer
My son is showing signs of asking questions befitting an adult perspective of our present political and economic situation. I am not bashful about identifying the misdeeds of our government when I am writing or broadcasting. Also, I know that I have the intellectual capacity to explain to my son how bad things have become in terms he can understand. However, I have found that I am lacking the skill and knowledge to explain to my son just how bad things are and that his generation has no future. I know that there comes the day when all parents realize that we have to tell our children that there is no Santa Claus.
I grew up in an America which was a republic interspersed with some corruption. Today’s America is a corporate criminal enterprise where there are no rules for the elite and the republic concepts underlying our laws are on life support. Subsequently, my son is growing up in a far different America than I did and to hear him talk about his future hopes and fears reflects these fundamental changes that we have experienced as a country.
Read the rest (of the tragedy) here:
The Fascist War Against Small Business Persists
The Fascist War Against Small Business Persists
Banks are sending notices of account closure out to small businesses across the country, to clients they've done business with for years, even decades. The reason? They often don't provide one.
But a growing number of business owners believe they know why they're being cut off from the financial system. It's Operation Choke Point, ostensibly an attempt to crack down on fraudulent businesses, but in reality a dragnet that has ensnared innocent entrepreneurs unfairly classified as "high-risk" players.
Earlier this year, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chairman Martin Gruenberg told Congress that Choke Point was over, but many business owners believe the FDIC and the Department of Justice have passed enforcement duties along to a newly created independent agency: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the brainchild of progressive senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). The CFPB operates under the guidance of the Federal Reserve and doesn't rely on Congress for funding, which critics say allows it to operate without any meaningful checks on its power.
Reason TV profiled two business owners who believe they've been targets of Choke Point and its legacy: a payday lender in Southern California and a hookah seller in North Carolina. Brian Wise of the U.S. Consumer Coalition, an organization that's been compiling Choke Point stories from across the nation, also appears in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcNV4PTjED8
Watch the video above for a deeper look into the covert financial regulation affecting small businesses across the nation.
http://reason.com/blog/2015/09/06/watch-the-governments-secret-war-on-smal
Renewed Calls for Gun Control Laws Spur Sales
Renewed Calls for Gun Control Laws Spur Sales … Yet Again!
Renewed calls for more restrictive gun laws, following a succession of fatal shootings in the United States, immediately appear to be generating a boost for the gun industry.
Newly released August records show that the FBI posted 1.7 million background checks required of gun purchasers at federally licensed dealers, the highest number recorded in any August since gun checks began in 1998. The numbers follow new monthly highs for June (1.5 million) and July (1.6 million), a period which spans a series of deadly gun attacks — from Charleston to Roanoke — and proposals for additional firearm legislation.
While the FBI does not track actual gun sales, as multiple firearms can be included in a transaction by a single buyer, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System's numbers are an indicator of a market upswing in the face of growing anxiety about access to guns.
"Whenever there is a call for gun control, sales increase,'' said Larry Keane, general counsel for the firearm industry trade association National Shooting Sports Foundation. "Unfortunately, this is a pattern that repeats itself."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/04/gun-sales-new-legislation-sales/71703118/
You Will Not Make It To The Election Booths Come 2016
Alright, here are three events that will unfold by the end of 2016 and carry out throughout many years to come:
(1) Severe rejection of the dollar all across the world has taken place. The US dollar is no longer accepted for trade. Major economies around the world have collapsed, including in China. China and Russia are leading a 'rebellion' towards initiating a new gold standard and setting up international trade once again, but with strong stipulations this time around: only countries with the gold or other commodities will be allowed to trade. When the new BRICS trade standards come into place and become the new de facto international trade laws, this is what to expect from then on:
No more bonds, no more debt obligations!
Only resources, commodities and gold-backed currencies … if not, you're country does not adhere to these new rules it will be isolated from trade in this 'New World Order.'
(2) Billions of people throughout the globe are going to starve to death. There will be die off EN MASS due to financial collapses all over the globe! Military occupation of countries, everywhere, will become the norm from now on. The most privileged nations of the past are also ripe for bloody gruesome civil wars (yes, that includes you America).
(3) WWIII is highly probable due to the fact many nations will not accept this 'New World Order' without a serious fight, and yes it could go nuclear. There is no way to say WWIII will or will not be nuclear … there is only chance. No one knows.
FACT: US T-bonds are being dumped now, en mass! It's happening!
FACT: Russian media has announced that the BRICS nations are going to set up a gold-backed alternative to the IMF's SDR while slamming the US Federal Reserve publicly and openly on their national media!
FACT: Western elites are not only pissed, they are running scared!
FACT: Jade Helm 15 is NOT just a drill! It's planned occupation against the Southern states that will not go along!
FACT: I have tried my best to warn people and have been shunned for it! Damn all you ignorant bastards may you too rot in hell!
NEVER DISARM. BE READY TO FIGHT. BE READY TO DIE.
IT'S ALL ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN REAL SOON! GOOD LUCK!
Disturbing Link Between Mass Shootings and Anti-depressants
Suboxone has a history of causing violent episodes in some users.
But there is much more. Back in 1989, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac, shot 20 workers in Louisville, Ky., killing nine.
Prozac maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors.
1999: 15-year old Oregon school shooter Kip Kinkel, who opened fire in his school cafeteria, had been on Prozac.
1999: Eric Harris, the Columbine killer, was taking Luvox.
1999: Conyers, Georgia school shooter T.J. Solomon was on Ritalin.
2005: Red Lake Indian Reservation shooter Jeff Weise was taking Prozac.
2007: Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui, who shot and killed 32 people, was on anti-depressants and taking Prozac.
2012: Colorado theater shooter James Holmes… was reportedly heavily hooked on the prescription painkiller Vicodin. And he took a cocktail of anti-depressants before his shooting spree.
2012: Conn. school shooter Adam Lanza’s uncle said the boy was prescribed Fanapt, a controversial anti-psychotic medicine.
And those are only a few examples. There have been no less than 26 cases of mass shootings in the U.S. where the shooter has been taking anti-depressant drugs.
Here are the side effects of these drugs:
Prozac: nervousness, anxiety, insomnia, inner restlessness, suicidal thoughts, self mutilation, manic behavior
Vicodin: confusion, fear, unusual thoughts or behavior; anxiety, dizziness, drowsiness; headache, mood changes.
Xanax: depressed mood, thoughts of suicide or hurting yourself, unusual risk-taking behavior, decreased inhibitions, no fear of danger; agitation, hostility, hallucinations.
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-disturbing-ink-between-mass.html
Statistician Finds Proof That Our Elections Are a Sham, Sues Government
Many of us have suspected for years that American elections are a sham. Not only does it seem like nothing changes no matter how many times we vote the bums out, but sometimes the votes themselves don’t seem to add up. Especially now that we have electronic voting machines, which don’t provide a whole lot of accountability and are notoriously easy to hack.
Fortunately, you can still tell when the votes don’t make sense, even with electronic voting machines. In states like Kansas, where in some counties they use electronic voting machines that also record the votes on paper tapes, there seems to be some blatant inconsistencies with the voting results from the past few elections.
Beth Clarkson, chief statistician for Wichita State’s National Institute for Aviation Research, said last week that she noticed results for the last several elections in the state failed to add up. “If we’re not being counted accurately, we’re losing our right to vote without even being aware of it,” she said at an event commemorating the 95th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
Clarkson has sued the state of Kansas for the power to examine the voter tapes, which record every stroke a voter casts on the machines. In Sedgwick County, for example, that amounts to 385 feet of tape stored in 42 boxes. Clarkson is eager to examine the records, claiming she noticed abnormalities in the numbers.
“I don’t understand why those patterns are there, the patterns are very definitely real. But we don’t know what’s causing them or why they’re there. They do fit what would be expected if election fraud is occurring, and that’s very concerning.”
“This is not just an anomaly that occurred in one place,” Clarkson said in April. “It is a pattern that has occurred repeatedly in elections across the United States.” She says the pattern routinely favors traditional Republicans — even over Tea Party candidates.
Well isn’t that a big surprise? What’s also not surprising is how the authorities in Kansas are reacting to her claims. After Clarkson sued the state of Kansas to view the tapes, State Secretary Kris Kobach asked the judge to block her case. I guess there’s nothing to see here folks.
Nope. There’s nothing suspicious about a Republican official trying to prevent a statistician from investigating a case of voter fraud that, if true, may have been committed by Republicans. It’s also not a hypocritical action for someone who was elected on a platform focused on preventing voter fraud, and who introduced legislation that would prevent illegal aliens from voting. I guess if voter fraud helps the Democrats you must change the rules, but if it helps Republicans you can just brush it under the rug.
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/09/statistician-finds-proof-that-our-elections-are-a-sham.html
http://theantimedia.org/university-statistician-suing-government-over-alleged-rampant-voter-fraud/
Kim Davis Arrest Conclusively Proves the Hard Left Wants Those They Disagree With Put in Jail
Kim Davis Arrest Conclusively Proves the Hard Left Wants Those They Disagree With Put in Jail
The first shots in the battle between cultural Marxists and American Christians has been fired with Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis being shipped off to jail for refusing to issue same-sex marriage certificates after the now infamous Supreme Court decision legalized gay marriage throughout the country.
That’s right, in a country where the vast majority of politicians on both sides of the aisle are corrupt to the core but remain free, a Christian woman who doesn’t want to be forced to do something that goes directly against her religious beliefs has been jailed.
For her part Davis seems to have accepted the fact that she would be jailed for her religious beliefs, telling Fox News contributor Todd Starnes before the ruling that, “I’ve weighed the cost and I’m prepared to go to jail, I sure am. This has never been a gay or lesbian issue for me. This is about upholding the word of God.”
While one can debate the merits of gay marriage ad nauseam (there is a legitimate libertarian belief that government should not be in the business of outlawing anything that involves nonviolent interaction between consenting adults) the fact that Davis has been arrested while Wall Street criminals and corrupt organizations like Planned Parenthood operate freely is a clear indicator of how far gone America actually is.
Although it is important to highlight the actual facts of the Kim Davis case, a larger, more important issue has emerged after the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning that sent Davis to jail. This fact is now stunningly obvious and proves, without a doubt, the authoritarian mindset of the new left.
Record 94,031,000 Americans Not in Labor Force
A record 94,031,000 Americans were not in the American labor force last month – 261,000 more than July – and the labor force participation rate stayed stuck at 62.6 percent, a 38-year low, for a third straight month in August, the Labor Department reported on Friday, as the nation heads into the Labor Day weekend.
The number of Americans not in the labor force has continued to rise, partly because of retiring baby-boomers and fewer workers entering the workforce.
In August, according to BLS, the nation’s civilian noninstitutional population, consisting of all people 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 251,096,000. Of those, 157,065,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one.
The 157,065,000 who participated in the labor force equaled only 62.6 percent of the 251,096,000 civilian noninstitutional population – the same as it was in July and June. Not since October 1977, when the participation rate dropped to 62.4, has the percentage been this low.
Taxpayers Fleeing Democrat-Run States for Republican Ones
In 2013, more than 200,000 people on net fled states with Democrat governors for ones run by Republicans, according to an analysis of newly released IRS data by Americans for Tax Reform.
"People move away from high tax states to low tax states. Every tax refugee is sending a powerful message to politicians," said ATR President Grover Norquist. "They are voting with their feet. Leaders in Texas and Florida are listening. New York and California are not."
That year, Democrat-run states lost a net 226,763 taxpayers, bringing with them nearly $15.7 billion in adjusted gross income (AGI). That same year, states with Republican governors gained nearly 220,000 new taxpayers, who brought more than $14.1 billion in AGI with them.
Only one-third of states with Democrat governors gained taxpayers, compared to three-fifths of states with Republican governors.
Top 5 loser states for Democrat governors in 2013:
• New York (114,929 people with $5.7 billion in AGI)
• Illinois (68,943 people with $3.8 billion in AGI)
• California (47,458 people with 3.8 billion in AGI)
• Connecticut (14,453 people with $1.8 billion in AGI)
• Massachusetts (11,915 people with $1 billion in AGI)
Top 5 winner states for Republican governors in 2013:
• Texas (152,912 people with $6 billion in AGI)
• Florida (74,094 people with 8.3 billion in AGI)
• South Carolina (29,176 people with 1.6 billion in AGI)
• North Carolina (26,207 people with $1.5 billion in AGI)
• Arizona (16,549 people with $1.5 billion in AGI)
http://www.atr.org/taxpayers-fleeing-democrat-run-states-republican-ones
Fascist Government of Venezuela Forces Farmers to Hand Over Food
Fascist Government of Venezuela Forces Farmers to Hand Over Food
http://www.silverdoctors.com/government-of-venezuela-forces-farmers-to-hand-over-food/
The government of Venezuela is playing Monopoly, but it isn’t the kind with those little plastic hotels.
They’re controlling essential goods like food, and putting the retail establishments of the country out of business.
According to a UK Telegraph report, the government is now forcing farmers and food manufacturers to sell anywhere from 30-100% of their products to the state, as opposed to stores and supermarkets.
There’s a pattern in collapses around the world
As countries around the world collapse, it’s very important that we take note of the ways that governments take steps to control their people. While no two countries have exactly the same situations, there are some very distinct patterns that we can identify, and this can help us to prepare for a similar scenario if it were to happen in the United States.
Products are already nearly impossible to acquire in Venezuela, with their mindblowing 64% inflation rate, and now those supplies will be even more limited.
There are 7245 government-run stores, mostly in cities. There are more than 113,000 privately owned stores. What are the ramifications of this?
• The government will control the prices
• The government will control the dispersal of the goods
• If you don’t live in the city, you may still be forced to go there to acquire supplies
• The already day-long lines to purchase goods will get even longer
Venezuela has made preparedness illegal, with strict laws against “hoarding,” and they’ve even instituted a fingerprint registry for the purchase of food and supplies, so that no one can quietly stock up for the future. Meanwhile, the government of Venezuela vehemently denies there are any problems whatsoever while simultaneously rationing electricity.
Known CIA Agent Leaks Startling Top-Secret Info–TERRORIST ARMIES Pouring Into USA Right Now Preparin
Known CIA Agent Leaks Startling Top-Secret Info–TERRORIST ARMIES Pouring Into USA Right Now Preparing For WAR
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PkYJFYVqiw [/youtube]
Tosh Plumlee, former CIA Agent, reveals startling information about our nation, and our government! This is jaw-dropping information that we are definitely not supposed to know about! He discusses covert operations, including what’s really going on at the ‘border’ and why we are being distracted! He also reveals information about drug cartels and government involvement, (coming martial law—next week, in part two), and the fact that Muslim terrorists are walking straight into our country, and a lot of them!
While they’re looking the other way at a created diversion, the terrorists slip right across the border! Then, they infiltrate and quietly set up safe houses in major cities! These people from the Middle East and South Africa have a plan, and we don’t even know what they are doing! We are wide open—literally sitting ducks—while they are building an entire army inside of the USA!
Some of these things have been going on since the 1950′s, but it’s only gotten worse, and the deception has grown much thicker. Folks, this is a must-hear! I urge you to listen to every bit of the below video and share this post! I promise that you will be completely blown away!
“These bones have been buried, but now they are starting to come out! There’s old operatives that are starting to talk about some of the operations that they were involved with that coincide and prove what I am telling you today!” —Tosh Plumlee
ARAB ARMIES FORMING INSIDE AMERICA.zip
VA Corruption! US Vets No Longer Get Proper Healthcare
Nearly 900,000 military veterans have officially pending applications for health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, the department’s inspector general said Wednesday, but “serious” problems with enrollment data make it impossible to determine how many veterans were actively seeking VA health care.
About one-third of the 867,000 veterans with pending applications are likely deceased, the report says, adding that “data limitations” prevent investigators from determining how many now-deceased veterans applied for health care benefits or when. The applications go back nearly two decades, and officials said some applicants may have died years ago.
More than half the applications listed as pending as of last year do not have application dates, and investigators “could not reliably determine how many records were associated with actual applications for enrollment” in VA health care, the report said.
The report also says VA workers incorrectly marked thousands of unprocessed health-care applications as completed and may have deleted 10,000 or more electronic “transactions” over the past five years.
Linda Halliday, the VA’s acting inspector general, said the agency’s Health Eligibility Center “has not effectively managed its business processes to ensure the consistent creation and maintenance of essential data” and recommended a multi-year plan to improve accuracy and usefulness of agency records.
Halliday’s report came in response to a whistleblower who said more than 200,000 veterans with pending applications for VA health care were likely deceased.
More than 300,000 dead vets still on VA’s active health care enrollment list
More than 300,000 dead veterans are still listed in VA computers as actively trying to sign up for health care — part of a massive 860,000-claim backlog that hasn’t been cleared up, according to an audit Wednesday that portrayed a department struggling with the basics of tracking benefits.
Veterans Affairs workers appear to have deleted another 10,000 benefit applications without ever processing them, and 13 percent on the rolls have been awaiting a decision for more than five years, the department’s inspector general said.
Many of those have died, but the VA never went back to delete their names, leaving a system so messy that the department can’t properly triage cases and figure out who needs help the most urgently, investigators said.
“Overstated pending enrollment records create unnecessary difficulty and confusion in identifying and assisting veterans with the most urgent need for health care enrollment,” the investigators said in the report. “Additionally, outreach efforts to obtain additional information for enrollment eligibility may have been frustrating and upsetting to family members of deceased veterans.”
Was the Turkish Government Caught Sending Weapons to ISIS in Syria?
If you have any interest in geopolitics whatsoever, you need to be paying very close attention to the complete and total shit show that is Turkey.
Turkey is a close U.S. ally that has been nevertheless caught supporting ISIS is various ways this year. Why would a close U.S. ally be supporting ISIS? Great question. I’ll let you come to your own conclusions, but before we go into today’s piece, let’s revisit a post from a couple of weeks ago: Turkey Bombs Kurds Fighting ISIS, Then Hires Same Lobbying Firm Supporting U.S. Presidential Candidates. Here’s some of what we learned:
On the same day that Turkey announced it would help fight the Islamic State, Turkish forces began an airstrike campaign against one of the very groups that has been crucial to stopping the advance of the Islamic State.
Since the July 24 announcement, Turkey has launched several waves of airstrikes against elements of a Kurdish separatist group known as the P.K.K., which is widely listed as a terrorist group. But that group and its allies in Syria, who have been closely working with American forces, are pushing Islamic State militants out of areas they once controlled.
Bizarre and concerning? Yes. As a result of that story, I began paying far closer attention to the goings on in Turkey. My attention was then piqued yesterday when I read that three Vice News staffers had been arrested for supposedly possessing encryption software used by ISIS. We learn from Al Jazeera:
Three staff members from Vice News were charged with “aiding an armed organisation” because one of the men was using an encryption system on his personal computer which is often used by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a senior press official in the Turkish government has told Al Jazeera.
Two UK journalists, Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, along with their Turkey-based Iraqi fixer and a driver, were arrested in front of their hotel in the province Diyarbakir on Thursday after filming clashes between security forces and youth members of the outlawed and armed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
On Monday, the three men were charged by a Turkish judge in Diyarbakir with “deliberately aiding an armed organisation”, the driver was released without charge.
This is strange. Charged with aiding an armed organization merely because they posses the same encryption software? Moreover, it’s the same terror organization Turkey itself is aiding.
Read the rest:
Hacker Threatens To Sell Hillary Clinton's ENTIRE UNRELEASED Private Emails
Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming to be a computer specialist has come forward with the stunning news that 32,000 emails from Hillary Clinton‘s private email account are up for sale. The price tag — a whopping $500,000!
Promising to give the trove of the former Secretary of State’s emails to the highest bidder, the specialist is showing subject lines as proof of what appear to be legitimate messages.
“Hillary or someone from her camp erased the outbox containing her emails, but forgot to erase the emails that were in her sent box,” an insider reveals to Radar of the Presidential contender’s latest nightmare.
Radar has learned that some of the topics discussed in the email appear to include everything from Benghazi to the Algerian hostage crisis — with subject lines such as:
“H Libya security latest. Sid” (with attachment)
“H FYI, best analysis so far of hearing Sid,’ about the latest security
in Libya”
“H Algeria latest French Intel on Algeria hostage Sid”
“H Latest French Intel in Algeria hostage Sid” (with attachment)
“H Latest Libya intel internal govt discussions high level” (with
attachment)
“H HIGHLY IMPORTANT! Comprehensive Intel Report on (with attachment)”
Warns the insider, “If these emails get out to the public domain, not only is Hillary finished as a potential Presidential nominee, she could put our country’s national security at risk.”
http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/hillary-clinton-hacked-emails-sale/
Obama's Mad Science Czar, a Forced-abortion Advocate, Hides E-mails
Obama's Mad Science Czar, a Forced-abortion Advocate, Hides E-mails
As if the embattled “most-transparent-in-history” White House needed more e-mail scandals, the Obama administration's “science czar,” John Holdren, an advocate of coercive population control and a one-time global-cooling alarmist, is facing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to access public information that he has been apparently seeking to hide by using a private e-mail account. In the case, the non-partisan Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a federal appeal aiming to pry loose Holdren's e-mails from his account after a federal judge sided with Holdren, protecting his e-mails from public scrutiny.
Critics, while praising the lawsuit, say it is time for an even broader examination of Obama's “czar,” his dangerous views, and how his extremism has impacted White House policy.
The latest shoe to drop in the ongoing saga surrounding Holdren's secret e-mails came this month, when the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. “There are a growing number of scandals concerning the use of private email accounts by top Obama administration officials,” said Sam Kazman, CEI general counsel, in a statement posted on the organization's website. “The court ruling that we are appealing will only add to those scandals, because it legitimizes private email accounts as way to evade FOIA. While President Obama claims his administration is the most transparent in history, his officers seem to confuse being transparent with being invisible.”
The CEI describes itself as a “non-profit public policy organization dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty.” In this case, the D.C.-based organization filed its original FOIA request against Holdren in October of 2013. It sought access to all “policy-related e-mails” that Holdren was keeping on his private e-mail account. The “science” bureaucracy Holdren leads, formally titled the “White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,” refused to comply with the demand. It argued that Holdren's private e-mail account was outside of its control, and therefore, beyond the reach of citizens and FOIA requirements.
U.S. judge Gladys Kessler, a far-left Bill Clinton appointee, sided with Holdren's bureaucracy in a March ruling — essentially giving any bureaucrat or official a green-light to evade government transparency laws by using private e-mail accounts. CEI, though, vowed to fight back against what it called the “plainly incorrect” ruling shielding Holdren's secret e-mails. In its opening 72-page brief in the appeal, the group noted that just because e-mails are in a personal account does not exempt them from FOIA requirements or place them beyond an agency's “actual control” for FOIA purposes. In fact, the brief says, federal agencies frequently search the personal e-mails of employees for work-related records, showing that agencies do have actual control over the accounts.
“It makes little sense to claim that an agency is not ‘withholding’ documents when it refuses to produce documents held by its own chief executive that relate to ‘agency business,’” continued the CEI in its initial brief. “Even if OSTP had demonstrated that these emails were not within its actual control — which it did not — its failure to search its director’s personal account would still violate FOIA because any agency records in that account fall within the agency’s ‘constructive control.’” Indeed, the CEI said that FOIA applies to work-related records of agency employees, “regardless of where they are stored.” Yet, according to a statement released by CEI, “Holdren has placed himself above the law and spirit of transparency that Obama fraudulently vowed to uphold.”
Read the rest here:
Dementia Now Striking People in Their 40s As Mercury From Vaccines Causes Slow
Dementia and other neurological brain diseases are striking people younger and younger, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Bournemouth University in England and published in the journal Surgical Neurology International. These diseases have reached levels that are "almost epidemic," the researchers said, and they reached them so quickly that environmental factors must be largely to blame.
"The rate of increase in such a short time suggests a silent or even a 'hidden' epidemic, in which environmental factors must play a major part, not just ageing," lead researcher Colin Pritchard said. "Modern living produces multi-interactional environmental pollution but the changes in human morbidity, including neurological disease is remarkable and points to environmental influences."
Death rates have more than doubled
The researchers compared the rates of neurological brain diseases in 21 Western countries from 1989 to 2010. They found that as of 2010, the average rate of onset for dementia was 10 years earlier than it was in 1989. In addition, deaths from neurological disease had increased significantly in people aged 55 to 74 and had nearly doubled in people aged 75 and older.
These changes were seen in all 21 countries, but the United States fared the worst by far. In the United States, neurological deaths in men older than 74 tripled from 1989 to 2010, and they increased nearly fivefold in women of the same age. More elderly U.S. women are now dying from brain diseases than from cancer for the first time in recorded history.
The researchers' analysis showed that the findings could not simply be explained by improved treatment of other diseases.
"Crucially it is not just because people are living longer to get diseases they previously would not have lived long enough to develop but older people are developing neurological disease more than ever before," Pritchard said.
Instead, a large part of the cause must be environmental changes that have taken place over the past two decades.
"The environmental changes in the last 20 years have seen increases in the human environment of petro-chemicals - air transport- quadrupling of motor vehicles, insecticides and rises in background electro-magnetic-field, and so on.
"These results will not be welcome news as there are many with short-term vested interests that will want to ignore them," he said.
Could mercury exposure from vaccines play a role in the rising rates of early onset dementia? Until 2001, mercury-containing thimerosal was used as a preservative in many childhood vaccines. Even today, the substance is still used in adult vaccines as well as in flu shots given to children and adults.
In a study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease in 2010, researchers reviewed 100 prior experimental and clinical studies looking at the effects of mercury on cells, animals and humans. They found that long-term mercury exposure produced many of the same changes seen in Alzheimer's disease, including confusion and impairments to memory and cognitive function.
"Mercury is clearly contributing to neurological problems, whose rate is increasing in parallel with rising levels of mercury," researcher Richard Deth said. "It seems that the two are tied together."
Aluminum, another common vaccine ingredient, has also been linked to dementia. For example, a 2009 study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that people with the highest aluminum content in their drinking water also had the highest risk of dementia. Clinical studies have also directly linked aluminum to brain damage.
Both aluminum and mercury are also widely found in the environment due to contamination from other sources. Coal-burning power plants are the world's foremost source of mercury pollution and a major contributor to mercury contamination of fish. Dental fillings are also a major source of human mercury exposure.
http://www.naturalnews.com/050994_Alzheimers_vaccines_mercury_exposure.html
FASCISM! Feds Are Trying To Destroy Small Business Owners
FASCISM! Feds Are Trying To Destroy Small Business Owners
Several franchisees urged members of Congress Monday to help reverse a recent federal rule change which could destroy many small businesses.
A federal labor case involving Browning-Ferris Industries has allowed the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to expand a critical franchising and contracting rule. Known as the joint-employer standard, the rule helps establish which company has responsibility over employees when multiple companies contract with one another.
“Simply put, I believe the NLRB is taking aim at the franchise model and trying to destroy it,” Edward Rothschild, owner of Alphagraphics, said on a call with reporters. “I think it will hurt the employee base.”
The call was organized by the Coalition to Save Local Businesses. The group consists of thousands of local businesses from across the country who are trying to stop the NLRB. Much of its efforts involve speaking with Congress and the American people about the labor board overreach. The coalition hopes Congress will help in reversing the decision.
“We must, we have to work together to stop this decision,” Mara Fortin, owner of Nothing Bundt Cakes, said. “The result for sure will hurt my employees.”
Franchising is a unique form of contracting. It allows a small business to contract with a large corporation, like McDonald’s, so that it can to use its brand name and sell its products. Though the small company has to accept its own risk, it gets to run its business the way it wants. This while having the backing of a well-known brand and products.
“The decision overrides contractual agreements,” Rothschild also noted. “The NLRB seems to be saying I am no longer my own business.”
The problem is, when a corporate brand name gets declared a joint-employer with the small business it contracts with it must accept responsibility for the actions of that operation. Critics argue this will likely result in corporations being less likely to participate in the franchise model or asserting more control over the small businesses they contract with.
“The last thing I thought was I would have to defend myself and business against the government,” Fortin said. “We will no longer be in charge of the business we worked so hard to build.”
Read more here:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/31/small-business-owners-feds-are-trying-to-destroy-us/
ALERT! Black Lives Matter Call For Race War!
In disgusting audio broadcast via blogtalkradio yesterday, an individual who admitted affiliation with the Black Lives Matter movement called for listeners to murder white people and police, declaring it “open season” for such executions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXKLwaGwrrU (404'd from youtube)
The host stated that there will be more killings of cops and white people in general by black people, who will kill one by one.
“It’s open season on killing whites and police officers and probably killing cops period. It’s open season. Picking them off. Today we live in a time when the white man will be picked off.“ the host stated.
Spewing racist hate-filled rhetoric, the host also lauded the execution of Texas Deputy Darren Goforth.
“It reminds me of a Bob Marley song “I shot the Sheriff,” he said, adding “It’s unavoidable, it’s inescapable, it’s funny.”
The host called for an all out race war, stating that “It’s about to go down, it’s open season on killing white people and crackers.”
The racist host compared black people killing whites to a pride of lions picking off Buffalo one by one, saying that the lions are outnumbered, but are much more deadly and cunning.
“Yes, they say it, there will be a race war.” the host stated, adding that “The Black Lives Matter movement isn’t enough,” yet admitting an affiliation with activists within that movement.
The host directly told white people that angry black militants “will get you when you least expect it.”
Two more cops were murdered yesterday, another in Texas, and one in Illinois, where a man hunt is underway.
Whistleblowers File $100 Million Suit Against NSA, FBI
Whistleblowers File $100 Million Suit Against NSA, FBI
In a $100 million lawsuit that has garnered virtually no public attention, five National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblowers are accusing the federal government of illegally retaliating against them for alerting the NSA and Congress to a waste of taxpayer funds that benefitted a well-connected contractor.
The lawsuit tells the story of the infancy of the NSA’s efforts to surveil the Internet. Back then, there were two programs for the spying agency to choose from — and the first was called ThinThread. It had been developed internally, was comparatively inexpensive, had been tested and proven to be effective, and included safeguards preventing the spying on Americans without a court warrant. The other was called Trailblazer. It did not include such safeguards, had not yet been shown to be effective, and cost 1,000 times more than ThinThread. Instead of being developed internally, it was to be outsourced to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a politically connected contractor.
https://cryptome.org/2015/08/klayman-3-001.pdf
The NSA chose Trailblazer.
In response, four NSA employees who had worked on ThinThread, as well as a congressional staffer, alerted Congress and the Office of the Inspector General of the NSA that the agency was wasting taxpayer funds. That is when their troubles began, according to the lawsuit.
It alleges that the defendants, which include the NSA, FBI, and the Department of Justice, as well as individuals associated with them, “knowingly and intentionally fabricated” a claim that the plaintiffs leaked classified information to New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen.
“[The defendants] used this fabricated claim for retaliation, illegal searches and seizures, physical invasion of their residences and places of business, temporary false imprisonment, the confiscation of their property, cancellation of security clearances leading to the loss of their jobs and employment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, harassment and intimidation,” the lawsuit alleges.
http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/09/01/whistleblowers-file-100-million-suit-against-nsa-fbi/
Even If You Don’t Like 3-D–Printed Guns, This Restriction on Them Should Worry You
Even If You Don’t Like 3-D–Printed Guns, This Restriction on Them Should Worry You
Remember Defense Distributed? That’s the group that, in 2013, posted files on the Internet that would allow anyone to 3-D–print a plastic single-shot pistol (with a metal nail for a firing pin). The files were downloaded more than 100,000 times in two days. Depending on who you are, you probably thought that was either extremely cool or terrifying.
The U.S. State Department got involved. It ordered Defense Distributed to remove the files from its website and submit them for an agency review of whether posting them without governmental approval violated export control laws. Two years later, the open-source organization is still waiting for an answer.
In May, tired of languishing in legal limbo, Defense Distributed sued the State Department for treading on several of its constitutional rights, including its First Amendment free speech protection. In response, the agency has made its position crystal clear by way of a proposal to make its prepublication authorization requirement explicit in the regulations. And if you make things for fun or profit, that requirement might affect you, regardless of whether you think 3-D–printed guns are a horrible idea.
But before we get to that, a bit more backstory.
Mass Layoffs To Hit Banking Industry As Consumers Ditch Big Box Banking
Mass Layoffs To Hit Banking Industry As Consumers Ditch Big Box Banking
The days of big banks are done. Million dollar buildings that double as empty fortresses will soon be empty, or conveniently turned into FEMA holding centers when the collapse hits.
The tide is turning and the banks know it. Mass layoffs have been announced by almost every major institution in the world and this is just the beginning. Unfortunately small town America will be hit the hardest as some of these jobs are the highest paying in the household. Also taking a major hit will be Charlotte, NC, the banking center of the US, where Wells Fargo has over 22,000 employees, Bank Of America 15,000 and most major banks have a presence. Be on the lookout for some great real estate deals in Charlotte soon.
Bank have many problems. They have over expanded at a rate that doesn’t support demand, consumers don’t trust them, the average american has no savings, there has been a drastic shift to online banking, and probably the most important, they lack innovation. But don’t worry, Capital One is here to change the game with their roll-out of 360 internet cafes according to a recent article in Boston.com
These bank guys aren’t too creative. The banking industry is old, outdated, and lacks any innovation that would warrant me to ever keep my money in a bank. The most successful roll out banks have ever had was the introduction of the ATM and that was over 36 years ago.
As Americans continue to distrust banks, have no money to save, and migrate to online banking, big banks will be taking big hits. This is just the begging of the bloodbath where I foresee 50% of the current workforce being laid off in 6 years. Below is just the start of a long list of bank layoffs and closures.
ANNOUNCED LAYOFFS
► HSBC to shed 50,000 jobs in quest for higher payouts
► RBS: Up to 30,000 Royal Bank of Scotland Layoffs Planned
► Barclays to Cut 30,000 Jobs by 2017
► Bank of America to layoff 16,000 in 2015
► RBS cutting up to 14,000 investment banking jobs by 2019
► J.P. Morgan Aims to Cut 5,000 Jobs
Wells Fargo Layoffs Just Getting Started?
TD Bank Warns Of Job Cuts As Profits Hit 2 Billion…
Read the rest here:
http://thomasdishaw.com/mass-layoffs-to-hit-banking-industry-as-consumers-ditch-big-box-banking/
Obama Regime Aiding Russian Spetsnaz Troops For War Against America
Russian Spetsnaz Arsonists Are Targeting Preppers In the West
On Sunday August 30, 2015, I attempted to conduct a radio interview with Rich Scheben a noted off-the-grid prepper. Along with experts, such as Bob Griswold, Rich is as skilled as anyone in this business and his message is not popular with this current administration. During the course of the interview, the studio radio equipment that I use to communicate with my satellite uplink failed to connect for the first time since I have been using the equipment.
Subsequently, I went to my backup system which is a Skype set up that is configured for use in radio interviews. It, too, failed as I was unable to connect to my source. I was reduced to using a poor quality land line in which I experienced echoes and drop outs. The moment my interview with Rich was concluded, all systems returned to normal. This was not an accident. In reference to yesterday’s publication, it is an easy conclusion to make that Russian Spetsnatz are targeting preppers in the western portion of the United States.
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The use of arson by Russian Spetsnaz to target preppers is a very logical conclusion to draw in light of recent events and history. Since the inception of the Obama administration, preppers have been targeted in a variety of ways.
In a relatively recent round of Agenda 21 insanity, we are witnessing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposing new heating rules designed to impact preppers.
The insane application of Agenda 21 policies knows no bounds when it comes to the EPA. The EPA has introduced new standards for wood stoves which dramatically reduces the amount of fine particle emissions for any wood stove sold beginning this year. The emissions must be reduced by 33% with more reductions scheduled for 2019.
At issue is the unsubstantiated claim that the EPA is making that if the use of wood stoves are reduced, the quality of health of the residents will increase. Yet, the EPA does not offer any peer-reviewed research, which has been replicated, as proof of this bogus claim. Are we just supposed to take their word for it? We might as well face the fact that the EPA is controlled by ICLEI and their United Nations puppet masters and this is, yet another case of attacking preppers.
The criminal enterprise known as the Obama administration is also quite insane.Their Agenda 21 policies seek to criminalize anyone who desires any degree of individuality and independence. I have reported on this insanity in Antelope Valley, CA., in which residents are being SWAT teamed by Nuisance Abatement Teams from LA County. This violation of the public trust comes at a time when LA County judges are accused of taking bribes and the Sheriff was recently under investigation for stealing confiscated drug money. It never fails, the horrific corruption of public officials and Agenda 21 implementation practices go hand in hand.
As far as can be determined, the only transgression committed by these Antelope, CA. residents, other than a few minor code violations, is due to the fact that they are living off the grid, prepper style. And if they are off the grid, they cannot be controlled as easily.
Former CIA Jim Garrow Details An American Coup, In Action
Former CIA Jim Garrow was contacted by several former high-brass military officials who confessed their knowledge about a coup d'etat not only planned against America, but in the works back in 2013. This information relates to major financial crimes and treason against the interests of the United States and goes into detail about the massive purge of military persons from the the highest ranks on down.
What was first a new litmus test became a way to single out dedicated patriots, who support the constitution, in order to fire them from their positions. Worse. Then it happened, and continued to happen. Military generals were asked 'if you were ordered, from the president of the United States, to demand troops to fire on American citizens, would you follow those orders? Would you order those under you to fire on American citizens?' Most of them said 'no.' That's when the dots were connected when those who swore an oath to obey the constitutions were terminated from their positions. In mid-2014, over 300+ high brass military officials were replaced, their job terminated. THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
Later, they figured out WHY this was occurring. Chinese interests have demanded on behalf of Obama, to disarm Americans due to the threat civilians pose when the Chinese demand collateral after the US defaults on their debts.
The Chinese hold a massive amount of US debts and have become the de-facto creditor.
"When a nation goes into debt, they have creditors, creditors demand collateral encase they either (1) default on the debts or two go bankrupt and cannot pay back in full (which is essentially another way of saying you paid half of what you owe, and assets will be seized if you cannot come up with the rest)."
NOW YOU KNOW THE TRUTH. HERE IS THE TRUTH, IN FULL!
Ex-CIA_Jim_Garrow__Planned_Coup_Against_America.zip
https://mega.nz/#!lMlWya4A!ljJbBtZCnjBndegyKcCjjTSfhuJ9437rUEoLeYU4fyk
IS THE DON A CON?
A bit old, but very very relevant news, and a shocker here.
The big joke Tuesday was that comb-over reality TV star Donald Trump announced that he’s running for president in 2016 as a Republican. As if it isn’t funny enough that he’s given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Foundation, he also said he wants Oprah Winfrey as his VP. And just in case you aren’t convinced of his conservative credentials, it turns out he’s left quite a liberal footprint of anti-gun, pro-abortion, redistribution of wealth, Obam-esque socialism.
Back in 2000 The Don was flirting with running for president as a Reform Party candidate. To get people jazzed about voting for the world’s biggest jackass, he published a book called The America We Deserve, which laid out his positions on a variety of subjects.
Here’s what he wrote about gun control:
"It’s often argued that the American murder rate is high because guns are more available here than in other countries. After a tragedy like the massacre at Columbine High School, anyone could feel that it is too easy for Americans to get their hands on weapons. But nobody has a good solution. This is another issue where you see the extremes of the two existing major parties. Democrats want to confiscate all guns, which is a dumb idea because only the law-abiding citizens would turn in their guns and the bad guys would be the only ones left armed. The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions. I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun. With today’s Internet technology we should be able to tell within seventy-two hours if a potential gun owner has a record."
>but I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun
Hidden $Trillion QE Monthly Volume
Hidden $Trillion QE Monthly Volume
The massive Quantitative Easing (QE) abuse by the USFed and steeped lies are centered on its volume, which in reality is an order of magnitude higher than admitted. The recent usage of certain REPO windows has been effective to disguise huge volume of bond purchases. The entire bond system is irreparably corrupted. The REPO window hides QE extras with naked bond shorting linked to a $1 trillion extravaganza that receives almost no publicity. While the public, and even more financial market participants, focus on the Dow Jones stock index, the Treasury Bond yield, the crude oil price, and very little else, they overlook the Reverse REPO window and the related Failures to Deliver data for USTreasury Bonds. The two work like a hand and glove.
The abuse is laced all through the USTreasury Bond market. These big banks never pay for their crimes, as they repeat them in other forms. Since JPM is the official USFed market agent, no consequence in criminal charges. It is given praise and more bond redemptions. When caught, the Wall Street and London Centre banks pay fines and penalties, sometimes even meager restitution, but they chalk it all up to a business expense. Criminal fraud is merely a cost of doing business in New York and London. The public is none the wiser. The American public by and large are in need of remedial education, lately showing no knowledge of money, capital, banking reserves concepts, the USDollar status, or economic meters. The greatest shortcoming is knowledge of how to grow an economy, since tin cupping with handouts aint the answer. The answer is found in business investment, something our Marxist leaders oppose unless they have personal investments involved. See Chertoff and airport devices. See Rumsfeld and Tamiflu programs. See Obama and Solari investments.
REVERSE REPO ABUSE
Focus on the Reverse REPO, which is highly innovative from two angles. Normally the USFed requires collateral to be placed at the REPO window, from companies seeking cash infusions on a temporary basis. Sometimes the USFed announces a ripe volume of Reverse REPO infusions into the system. They occasionally attract bad attention, but it wanes with the next fiction on strong markets and recovering economies, or even debate among fools who anticipate official rate hikes. The USFed uses the Reverse REPO to hide some of its QE volume. It is concealed QE volume, part of the biggest lie in US financial history since the USFed has generated multiple $trillions in hidden channel support, massive gushers. The key is no collateral placed on the opposite side of the window. It is neither stimulus nor minor in volume. The central bank helm is managing a gigantic volume, hidden in numerous ways. The John Q Public is none the wiser, reading the controlled fiction in financial press publications, about wondrous stimulus. In reality, QE kills capital and assures an economic collapse. It is happening before our eyes.
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Monsanto Kicked Out of Greece and Latvia: GM Bans Sweep Through Europe
Monsanto Kicked Out of Greece and Latvia: GM Bans Sweep Through Europe
First Scotland and Germany booted GMOs from their countries, citing fear of GMO crops contaminating their food supplies and concern over putting their food and beverage industries in jeopardy. Now, Greece and Latvia are telling Monsanto exactly what they can do with their genetically modified crops. The tide is turning. A tipping point just became evident through the actions of two additional European countries who have had enough of the Biotech strong arm.
Latvia and Greece have opted out of GMOs, as are Germany and Scotland, as part of the new allowances indicated in legislation that recently passed for EU countries.
The geographical opt-outs specifically target Monsanto’s MON810 GM Maize, which countries may choose to grow or refuse in the next several months. This is currently the only genetically modified crop allowed to be grown within the EU at present – but only when countries give specific permission.
As Sustainable Pulse explains, “while the European Commission is responsible for approvals, requests to be excluded also have to be submitted to the company making the application i.e. Monsanto for MON810.”
If additional member states deny Monsanto, we can be assured that the biotech company will try to find other ways to force their GM crops on the world (e.g. the Trans Pacific Trade partnership) but as we collectively say NO, upholding bans, and demanding labeling, we will rid this planet of the plague that is genetically modified food.
http://naturalsociety.com/monsanto-kicked-out-of-greece-and-latvia-gm-bans-sweep-through-europe/
Fascist NYT Correspondent Josh Barro Calls For Gun Confiscation En Mass
Give Josh Barro credit for candor. When it comes to guns, the New York Times correspondent makes no bones about the kind of draconian, Second Amendment-defying approach he thinks is necessary.
Forget about expanded background checks or other such measures. The only way to have a “big impact on violent crime,” according to Barro, is to emulate Australia and “really take away massive amounts of guns that people have, reduce the rate of gun ownership substantially.”
Barro made his comments on MSNBC’s Up With Steve Kornacki this morning [with Jonathan Capehart guest-hosting] during a discussion prompted by the on-air shootings of two TV station employees in Virginia.
JONATHAN CAPEHART: Hillary Clinton made her comments about gun reform. What do you make of that? I’ll start with you, Josh.
JOSH BARRO: It’s what I would expect a Democratic presidential candidate to say. But if Hillary Clinton becomes president, she’ll be a president facing a Republican House at least, possibly also a Republican senate. So I don’t think that there will be significant change in gun policy if Hillary Clinton is president. I mean, we already have a Democratic president now and we haven’t had significant change on it.
But I would also note, the things that we talk about in the United States are so at the margins on this stuff that I wonder how they would impact gun violence. If you did something like Australia did, where you really take away massive amounts of guns that people have, reduce the rate of gun ownership substantially in society, you could have a big impact on violent crime.
But, I mean, changes with background checks will help at the margin, but I wouldn’t expect that to have big impacts on the rate of violent crime in the country, which I think is part of the reason you haven’t had the knock down drag out fight from proponents that could have on this. Because I think there is a sense that while these changes would be positive changes, they would not be sea changes.
http://www.infowars.com/nyts-barro-massive-gun-grab-only-way-to-impact-violent-crime/
Venom used to Heal
Toxin into Brain to Heal it from Cancer
A study has found over a hundred proteins identified as possible anti-cancer agents in Centruroides tecomanus scorpion venom from Colima, south-west state of Mexico. The preliminary investigation was carried out by specialists of the faculty of chemistry at the University of Colima (UCOL), who have identified peptides that destroy cancer cells in vitro.
A study has found over a hundred proteins identified as possible anti-cancer agents in Centruroides tecomanus scorpion venom from Colima, south-west state of Mexico.
The preliminary investigation was carried out by specialists of the faculty of chemistry at the University of Colima (UCOL), who have identified peptides that destroy cancer cells in vitro.
Laura Leticia Valdez Velazquez, head of research, said that when the toxin, derived from scorpion venom, invades channels in the cells with this disease, it produces cellular damage and kills the cells.
"We have identified a highly selective group of peptides, which indicates that they could specifically bind to cancer cells and cause their death," she indicates.
Centruroides tecomanus species is one of the most poisonous scorpions in the country. The UCOL already has the genetic sequences of the protein components of the venom.
The scientific team took advantage of the great number of scorpions found in Colima. They began with the collection and extraction of poison, inoculating and immunizing rabbits.They studied the venom with the support of Lourival Possani, from the Institute of Biotechnology of the National Autonomous University od Mexico (UNAM).
The researcher explains that UCOL undertook the task of characterizing each component from the arachnid toxins, among the most poisonous on the continent. Currently, it has identified a group of 10 peptides in order to evaluate whether they have greater toxic effect against lymphoma cells.
"The venom toxins act on ion channels of the cancer cell damaging them. Our interest is for the cell to be selectively removed. We have found that these peptides have affinity with these cells, and could specifically bind to them and induce cancer death."
In parallel, the research team of the UCOL conducted a study on the effect of scorpion venom in models of Parkinson's disease.
People with Parkinson's are affected because neurons are damaged and dopamine production is inhibited. The team has tested the scorpion venom toxins in animal models, noting that these toxins are attached to receptors on dopaminergic neurons and increase the release of dopamine, with future promising effects for sufferers of this disease.
It’s been pointed out that while the paint helps during surgery, it’s the surgery part that needs to be replaced completely if possible. Surgery is always going to inflict damage even if it does remove the tumor completely and save someone’s life. However, if you’ve got a substance that makes its own way to the brain tumor through the blood stream, maybe it can be adapted in the future to also take some tumor-killing drugs along with it and remove surgery from the equation.
The advantage of exploring specific toxins is how selective they are when attaching to their targets within the body – minimizing the potential for unwanted side effects.
"Toxins have evolved for millions of years to target a specific receptor," says Manjunatha. Also important is their potency, as just a small amount can have fatal effects.
Austrian Economics Equated To ‘Terrorism’ Thanks To Latest Islamic State Gold Standard
BANKSTER DESPERATION: Austrian Economics Equated To ‘Terrorism’ Thanks To Latest Islamic State Gold Standard Propaganda Clip
What better way to mute demands for a return to sound money and the gold standard, than by making them equivalent to jihadist terrorism? Why, there are none, which is why some were thoroughly amused to see that yesterday the Islamic State's so called media center, the al Hayat, released a video whose production qualities are nothing short of Hollywood (or San Fernando valley at worst), in which the latest and greatest "jihadist terrorist group" that was a byproduct of US intervention in the Middle East, announces it is preparing to take on the Fed itself with, drumroll, "the return of the gold dinar."
As Bloomberg reminds us, the Islamic State’s Shura Council last year tasked its Beit al Mal, or treasury, with minting the coins, which come in several denominations made of gold, silver and copper.
The coins may not be there, but instead ISIS released a 55-minute propaganda video with the latest in straight to YouTube special effects, in which the ISIS voiceover actor says, in perfect English, "as history repeated itself, one of the great forms of corruption that the earth came to witness was the dark rise of bank notes, borne out of the satanic conception of banks, which mutated into a fraudulent system of enslavement orchestrated by the Federal Reserve in America - a private corporation and system that would, through the use of deceit and force, deprive people of their due, by imposing upon them the usage of the piece of paper that came to be known as the dollar bill."
"It is the Federal Reserve bank note that they alone print, and that would go on to replace gold and silver which Allah created as the standard mediums of exchange for the purchase of goods and services. Allah blessed the songs of the Khilafah and gave them the ability and foresight to break from the shackles of the Federal Reserve system and to restore the gold dinar, and the silver dirham as the ultimate measure of goods and services beginning in the birth place of the Islamic State."
The punchline: "the currency is meant to break the shackles of “the capitalist financial system of enslavement, underpinned by a piece of paper called the Federal Reserve dollar note."
It just gets better from there and for the next hour, the video basically goes through the failings of not only the dollar as the Fed's currency of choice, which since 1971 is no longer backed by any hard asset, but does a surprisingly good job of explaining the pitfalls of fractional reserve banking (30 minutes into the clip), which as many have witnessed first hand, nearly resulted in the collapse of capitalism, then several years ago, the Lehman failure showed that should financial counterparties fail, there is not nearly enough underlying assets to satisfy existing credit claims. It gets so funny, ISIS even bashes the petrodollar system (38 minutes in), and quotes Jim Rickards (39 minutes into the clip) as supportive of its "evil" observations.
What is implied, is that it does all this by making such observations and thoughts indicative of affiliation with ISIS, and hence, terrorism.
As Bloomberg adds, "the group first announced its intention to issue its own money in November 2014, about five months after it seized the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced a caliphate. In the video released Saturday, it gave no reasons for the delay in issuing the coins. It didn’t explain where the coins were being minted, nor how they’ll be distributed or replace currencies circulating in the territory the group occupies in parts of Iraq and Syria."
"Minting the coins is relatively easy … as goldsmiths in Mosul imported machines from Italy in recent years, each one able to produce about 5,000 coins a day. The metals probably come from banks the group seized, ransoms, the homes of Christians and other minorities who fled, he said.
In the video, Islamic State refers to Caliph Abd al Malik ibn Marwan, who introduced the first Arabic-script coinage of the Islamic empire, free of figural representation, in around 696 AD.
The militant group said its 21-carat 1-dinar coin weighs 4.25 grams, while the 21-carat five-dinar coin weighs double that. Three dominations of silver dirhams and two of copper coins were minted for smaller transactions, it said."
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And just like that, Austrian Economics has been reduced to a terrorist ideology, and anyone harboring the same "evil" misconceptions as those spread by the "Islamic State's" media propaganda outlet have become an enemy of the US state.
Plastic Casting: The Next Step For Homebuilt Firearms?
Plastic Casting: The Next Step For Homebuilt Firearms?
Hognose at his home website WeaponsMan.com takes a look at the fascinating process of plastic casting utilizing a 3D printed plastic pattern to create, over and over again, firearms receivers that hopefully should last longer than existing 3D printed lowers:
There are still several technologies open to us, like metal injection molding (which probably made the fiddly bits inside your carry handgun, unless you’re old school). But even that has some complexities, even though it shows signs of integrating really well with 3D printing. Basically, you can do the prep work, but someone with an industrial setup needs to do the actual MIM for you.
How about plastic casting? There are plastics that are a pain to 3D print, but that can be cast at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. Fosscad experimenter FP gave it a shot, and produced some gratifying results: plastic AR lowers that appear to be superior in strength to 3D printed versions.
The difference between plastic casting and plastic injection molding which is how your Smith or Glock frame is made is that injection molding is done under pressure, and casting is done in atmospheric conditions. That means that casting will usually be less dense and will be done with materials that are poured and set at lower temperatures, as a rule of thumb. Molding is commonly used on Hollywood sets and props, for example, but it also has architectural and industrial applications. Both the silicon “rubber” for the mold and the plastic for the castings come in parts that react and solidify when mixed.
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Hognose sure knows his oddball manufacturing techniques. Polymer casting is a natural conclusion for anyone with a 101-level knowledgebase in manufacturing, but recognizing something is an interesting idea and getting it to work well are two entirely different things. It may be that polymer casting doesn’t work, or that it works only as a way to produce better components with cheaper 3D printers and media, but if it does shake out, that could be the push the home-grown polymer AR lower market needs to become truly practical.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/08/23/plastic-casting-the-next-step-for-homebuilt-firearms/
EPA Acting As A Rogue Criminal Agency Refusing To Obey Court Orders
Federal Judge Blocks Obama’s Water Control EO
A federal judge in North Dakota acted late on Thursday to block the Obama regime’s controversial water pollution rule, hours before it was due to take effect.
Judge Ralph Erickson of the District Court for the District of North Dakota found that the 13 states suing to block the rule met the conditions necessary for a preliminary injunction, including that they would likely be harmed if courts didn't act and that they are likely to succeed when their underlying lawsuit against the rule is decided.
The decision is a major roadblock for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers, who were planning on Friday to begin enforcing the Waters of the United States rule, expanding federal jurisdiction over small waterways, like streams and wetlands.
But the Obama regime says it will largely enforce the regulation as planned, arguing that the Thursday decision only applies to the 13 states that requested the injunction.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/252140-judge-blocks-obamas-water-rule
UPDATE: Criminals At EPA Defy Federal Judge, Impose Fascistic Water Control
A defiant Environmental Protection Agency on Friday put into effect controversial new water regulations, despite a federal judge's decision to place a temporary hold on the rule for fear it would harm states.
The EPA says it is interpreting Thursday's injunction as applying only to the states that sued in the North Dakota district court, according to a spokeswoman. The Clean Water Rule, also known as the Waters of the U.S. rule, goes into effect Friday as planned, except in the 13 states that filed the North Dakota lawsuit.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/epa-defies-judge-imposes-water-rule/article/2571022
redpill thread
>US will spend 43 million dollars on a gas station in the middle of nowhere in the desert in afghanistan
>$7000 coffee makers
>$600 toilet seats
>$37 for A screw
>$435 for a hammer
>$285 screwdriver
>$387 flat washer
>$469 wrench
>$214 flashlight,
>$437 tape measure
>$2,228 monkey wrench,
>$748 pair of duckbill pliers
>$74,165 aluminum ladder
>$659 ashtray
>$1,118.26 for a spare plastic cap for a navigator’s stool on a B-52 bomber (worth about two cents)
>Defense Accounting Finance Service writes $22 billion in checks every month
>Mark Krenik (pentagon officer) created a phony company and then billed himself $504,000. He had to repay the money, but was not sentenced to prison. Probation only, and a $495 fine. He told the federal judge that he did it because everyone else in his section was doing to the same, but he was not required to name names.
>Sgt. Robbie Miller convicted and sent to prison for stealing $1 million. would not have been caught but was involved in affairs with female co-workers. Agents say they got Miller when he was hauling evidence out of the office to burn it.
>Contractors were billing $300 a night hotel rooms, private jet flights, meals at five star restaurants and bar bills to the government.
>Air Force non-commissioned officers like Miller, who handle giant
accounts at Dayton, call any vendor account that is less than $100,000
“budget dust” and say it’s not worth the time or effort trying to
recover.
>hundreds of billions into stupid wasteful trash every year
>monsanto claims it needs to genetically modify our crops and use pesticides because it helps make the world a better place
>has the biggest and most expensive military and military budget in the entire world that makes the nasa budget look like pocket change in comparison
>claims space travel is too expensive
>claims they can't afford a living wage
>claims they can't give war veterans all the help they need as t.v. commercials go on and on with sad country music with vets missing arms and legs "help the veterans!"
>claims they can't cure Cancer/HIV/Ebola/ as the pink ribbon shows up on KFC chicken buckets everywhere that contain cancer causing ingredients
>claims they can't afford universal health care
>claims they can't house every homeless person
>claims they can't grow all crops organically
>claims they can't feed the poor unless the people themselves donate food, time, and money.
>claims people absolutely must pay taxes because otherwise they would go to jail for making the country crumble apart in failure.
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=96;t=000012;p=0
http://www.wnd.com/2000/10/4314/
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-30/news/vw-18804_1_nut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
DailyFail: https://archive.is/RnMCc
BostonHerald: https://archive.is/ojJ6p
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EU Intentionally Collapsing European Countries With Illegals
EU Intentionally Collapsing European Countries With Illegals
Illegal Muslim refugee trafficking is now creating chaos at the Greece-Macedonia border and the constant flood of boats arriving from Libya reveal a network that uses structured routes that seem unstoppable as they generate money for the mafia and the terrorist organizations involved like ISIS.
This scenario seems to fit perfectly with a secret plan of the New World Order known as the Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan that some people in European right-wing circles say was created for the systematic genocide of the people of Europe.
This plan was apparently devised by an Austrian diplomat and Freemason named Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894- 1972). The Kalergi family roots can be traced back to Byzantine royalty via Venetian aristocracy. Coudenhove-Kalergi was actually the first proponent of a unified Europe back in the 1920s and for this reason Coudenhove-Kalergi is recognized as the founder of the first popular movement for a United Europe.
The Coudenhove-Kalergi European Prize is awarded every two years to European leaders who have excelled in promoting what is beyond any political or religious ideology. Angela Merkel and Herman Van Rompuy, two of the top pawns in the Bilderberg Club, have received this award in recent years.
Coudenhove-Kalergi’s father, initially an anti-semite, later became a close friend of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, but his son, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, also has strong connections with the Catholic elite due to his aristocratic status.
In 1922, he co-founded the Pan-European Union (PEU) with Archduke Otto von Habsburg, a staunch Catholic who was the head of the Habsburg dynasty and former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. He became involved with the Pan-European Union after becoming Grand Master and Sovereign of the highly influential Order of the Golden Fleece in 1922. Otto became International President of the PEU in 1973, after Coudenhove’s death.
According to Coudenhove-Kalergi’s autobiography, at the beginning of 1924 through Baron Louis de Rothschild he was in contact with Max Warburg, who offered to finance his movement for the next 3 years giving him 60,000 gold marks.
The Coudenhove-Kalergi Plan becomes evident in 1925 when he writes in Practical Idealism (Praktischer Idealismus): “The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today’s races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.”
This book is very hard to get a hold of today. In Germany the book is practically censored, although it isn’t present on the official list of books censored by the German government. In 1990, the publishing company, “Independent News,” [Unabhängige Nachrichten], published a summary of the book and contemplated printing it in it’s entirety, but the government initiated a police search of the premises and the only copy of Praktischer Idealismus was confiscated. The book is not mentioned on the official internet pages of the Pan-European Movement, which is understandable because its content is directly in opposition to the movement’s official program.
Coudenhove-Kalergi suggested Beethoven’s hymn as the EU’s national anthem and was very active in connection with the design of the EU logo which contains masonic symbols. He was initiated in Freemasonry in the Humanitas Lodge in Vienna in the early 1920’s but left in 1926 to avoid the heavy criticism which occurred as a result of the relationship between the Pan-European movement and Freemasonry. Some say later, in 1947, he founded the powerful Ur-Lodge Pan-Europa that is still active to this day and draws members from the political and economic elite.
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15 Percent Of Wireless Users Now Tracked By
15 Percent Of Wireless Users Now Tracked By Stealth Headers and Zombie Cookies
Earlier this year AT&T and Verizon were caught modifying wireless user traffic to inject unique identifier headers (UIDH). This allowed the carriers to ignore a user’s privacy preferences on the browser level and track all online behavior. In Verizon’s case, the practice wasn’t discovered for two years after implementation, and the carrier only integrated a working opt out mechanism only after another six months of public criticism. Verizon and AT&T of course denied that these headers could be abused by third parties. Shortly thereafter it was illustrated that it was relatively easy for these headers to be abused by third parties.
While the fracas over these “stealth” or “zombie” cookies has quieted down since, a new study suggests use of such stealth tracking is increasing around the world as carriers push to nab their share of the advertising pie. Consumer advocacy group Access has been running a website called AmiBeingTracked.com, which analyzes user traffic to determine whether or not carriers are fiddling with their packets to track online behavior. According to a new study from the group(pdf) examining around 200,000 such tests, about 15% of site visitors were being tracked by the carriers in this fashion all over the globe.
Globally, the report notes that AT&T, Bell Canada, Bharti Airtel, Cricket, Telefonica de España, Verizon, Viettel Peru S.a.c., Vodafone NL, and Vodafone Spain are all now using stealth headers. In many of these instances there’s no opt-out mechanisms in place for users, or the opt-in mechanisms that exist don’t actually work. Most regulators meanwhile don’t even realize this technology exists, much less have any plan to protect user privacy via hard opt-out requirements. The practice itself, and the stored data, the group’s authors note, makes a delicious target for hackers and the intelligence community alike:
“Using tracking headers also raises concerns related to data retention. When “honey pots” of sensitive information, such as data on browsing, location, and phone numbers, are collected and stored, they attract malicious hacking and government surveillance. This kind of collection and retention of user data is unsustainable and unwise, and creates unmanageable risks for businesses and customers alike.”
The W3C Consortium recently agreed, noting that stealth carrier tracking header injection is basically a privacy nightmare in the making that undermines user trust in the entire Internet:
“The aggregate effect of unsanctioned tracking is to undermine user trust in the Web itself. Moreover, if browsers cannot isolate activity between sites and offer users control over their data, they are unable to act as trusted agents for the user. Notably, unsanctioned tracking can be harmful even if non-identifying data is shared, because it provides the linkage among disparate information streams across contextual boundaries. For example the sharing of an opaque fingerprint among a set of unrelated online purchases can provide enough information to enable advertisers to determine that user of that browser is pregnant — and hence to target her with pregnancy-specific advertisements even before she has disclosed her pregnancy.
This is what has been happening while the marketing, tech and telecom industries bickered, prattled and grandstanded over do not track protections — that this technology makes irrelevant anyway. And while companies like Verizon have repeatedly claimed that no privacy or transparency guidelines are necessary because “public shame” will keep them honest, keep in mind that it took security researchers two years before they even realized that the telco was doing this. It took another six months of pressure for Verizon to heed calls for basic opt-out mechanisms most Verizon users don’t know exist. It makes you wonder: just how long will it take the press and public to realize future iterations of stealth tracking technology are being used?
BOOM! China Admits Their Dumping US T-bonds!
It's Official: China Confirms It Has Begun Liquidating Treasuries, Warns Washington
On Tuesday evening, we asked what would happen if emerging markets joined China in dumping US Treasurys. For months we’ve documented the PBoC’s liquidation of its vast stack of US paper. Back in July for instance, we noted that China had dumped a record $143 billion in US Treasurys in three months via Belgium, leaving Goldman speechless for once.
We followed all of this up this week by noting that thanks to the new FX regime (which, in theory anyway, should have required less intervention), China has likely sold somewhere on the order of $100 billion in US Treasurys in the past two weeks alone in open FX ops to steady the yuan. Put simply, as part of China's devaluation and subsequent attempts to contain said devaluation, China has been purging an epic amount of Treasurys.
But even as the cat was out of the bag for Zero Hedge readers and even as, to mix colorful escape metaphors, the genie has been out of the bottle since mid-August for China which, thanks to a steadfast refusal to just float the yuan and be done with it, will have to continue selling USTs by the hundreds of billions, the world at large was slow to wake up to what China’s FX interventions actually implied until Wednesday when two things happened: i) Bloomberg, citing fixed income desks in New York, noted "substantial selling pressure" in long-term USTs emanating from somebody in the "Far East", and ii) Bill Gross asked, in a tweet, if China was selling Treasurys.
Sure enough, on Thursday we got confirmation of what we’ve been detailing exhaustively for months. Here’s Bloomberg:
China has cut its holdings of U.S. Treasuries this month to raise dollars needed to support the yuan in the wake of a shock devaluation two weeks ago, according to people familiar with the matter.
Channels for such transactions include China selling directly, as well as through agents in Belgium and Switzerland, said one of the people, who declined to be identified as the information isn’t public. China has communicated with U.S. authorities about the sales, said another person. They didn’t reveal the size of the disposals.
The latest available Treasury data and estimates by strategists suggest that China controls $1.48 trillion of U.S. government debt, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That includes about $200 billion held through Belgium, which Nomura Holdings Inc. says is home to Chinese custodial accounts.
China has cut its holdings of US Treasuries this month to raise dollars needed to support the yuan in the wake of a shock devaluation two weeks ago, according to people familiar with the matter.
Channels for such transactions include China selling directly, as well as through agents in Belgium and Switzerland, said one of the people, who declined to be identified as the information isn’t public. China has communicated with US authorities about the sales, said another person. They didn’t reveal the size of the disposals.
The People’s Bank of China has been offloading dollars and buying yuan to support the exchange rate, a policy that’s contributed to a $315 billion drop in its foreign-exchange reserves over the last 12 months. The $3.65 trillion stockpile will fall by some $40 billion a month in the remainder of 2015 because of the intervention, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey.
China selling Treasuries is “not a surprise, but possibly something which people haven’t fully priced in,” said Owen Callan, a Dublin-based fixed-income strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald LP. “It would change the outlook on Treasuries quite a bit if you started to price in a fairly large liquidation of their reserves over the next six months or so as they manage the yuan to whatever level they have in mind.”
The PBOC and the US Embassy in Beijing didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Bill Gross, who manages the $1.47 billion Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, tweeted Wednesday “China selling long Treasuries ????”.
Two-year Treasuries erased an earlier advance, with their yield little changed at 0.67 percent as of 11 a.m. in London. It fell as much as two basis points. The 10-year yield declined three basis points to 2.15 percent, near to its average for the past month.
Chinese sales of US government debt may have kept yields from falling this month as a selloff in global stocks prompted investors to favor the safest assets.
Germans Spied On Their Civilians For NSA XKS Access
Internal documents show that Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the BfV, received the coveted software program XKeyscore from the NSA – and promised data from Germany in return.
The agents from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, were deeply impressed. They wanted to be able to do that too. On Oct. 6, 2011, employees of the US intelligence agency NSA were in the Bavarian town of Bad Aibling to demonstrate all that the spy software XKeyscore could do. To make the demonstration as vivid as possible, the Americans fed data into their program that the BfV had itself collected during a warranted eavesdropping operation. An internal memo shows how enthusiastic the German intelligence agents were: Analyzing data with the help of the software, the memo reads in awkward officialese, resulted in "a high recognition of applications used, Internet applications and protocols." And in the data, XKeyscore was able to "recognize, for example, Hotmail, Yahoo or Facebook. It was also able to identify user names and passwords." In other words, it was highly effective.
It was far beyond the capabilities of the BfV’s own system. In response, then-BfV President Heinz Fromm made a formal request five months later to his American counterpart, NSA head Keith Alexander, for the software to be made available to the German intelligence agency. It would, he wrote, superbly complement the current capabilities for monitoring and analyzing Internet traffic.
But fully a year and a half would pass before a test version of XKeyscore could begin operating at the BfV facility in the Treptow neighborhood of Berlin. It took that long for the two agencies to negotiate an agreement that regulated the transfer of the software in detail and which defined the rights and obligations of each side.
The April 2013 document called "Terms of Reference," which ZEIT ONLINE and DIE ZEIT has been able to review, is more than enlightening. It shows for the first time what Germany’s domestic intelligence agency promised their American counterparts in exchange for the use of the coveted software program. "The BfV will: To the maximum extent possible share all data relevant to NSA's mission," the paper reads. Such was the arrangement: data in exchange for software.
Read the rest here:
http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-08/xks-xkeystore-document
http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2015-08/xkeyscore-nsa-domestic-intelligence-agency
Environmentalists Getting Murdered in Brazil
The killers came from the forest, the very same forest Raimundo Santos Rodrigues so loved.
The environmentalist had spent years defending one of the last pristine swathes of the eastern Amazon rain forest from loggers, miners and farmers. But his activism had earned him enemies in Brazil’s northern state of Maranhão.
And on Tuesday afternoon, those enemies pounced.
Santos Rodrigues and his wife were riding their motorbike from the market back to the Biological Reserve of Gurupi when two men suddenly emerged from the treeline, witnesses told local media. As the couple crossed a bridge, the gunmen opened fire, hitting both the environmentalist and his wife.
To ensure their objective, the assassins ran up to Santos Rodrigues and stabbed the injured man to death. His wife, Maria da Conceição Chaves Lima, was rushed to the hospital and is expected to live.
Santos Rodrigues had been a “marked” man because of his environmentalism, said a man who spoke to G1 anonymously for fear of also being targeted.
“Loggers hated him because he denounced them,” said a co-worker, also anonymously. “He was very active in the region, defending the community, attending the Union of Rural Workers of Bom Jardim.”
Officials have promised a thorough investigation and are treating the murder as an attack on a public official. Santos Rodrigues was a volunteer with the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, part of the Ministry of the Environment.
“It will be treated with top priority,” said Alexandre Saraiva, a federal police superintendent.
But that promise appears hollow against the bloody reality in Brazil, widely considered the most dangerous country on earth for environmentalists.
Between 2002 and 2013, at least 448 environmentalists were killed in Brazil, according to Global Witness. That equates to roughly half of all the environmentalists murdered worldwide during that period.
According to local watchdog CPT, the grim tally is even worse: More than 1,500 Brazilians have been killed over the past 25 years fighting deforestation, and another 2,000 have received death threats, Men’s Journal reported in 2012.
Last year, 29 Brazilian environmentalists were murdered, again more than any other country, according to Global Witness.
The reasons behind Brazil bewildering conservationist killing spree are simple. The country’s land ownership is “among the most concentrated and unequal in the world,” leading to conflicts between subsistence farmers or indigenous groups and “well-connected landowners over who has the legal right to forests and land,” according to Global Witness.
“Magnates buy off local politicians and policemen, and kill anyone who challenges their agricultural practices,” according to Men’s Journal.
As in the slaying of Santos Rodrigues, environmentalists are in most danger inside or at the edges of the Amazon. The giant rain forest — which some activists fear will be half gone by 2030 — is the site of 68 percent of all such murders, according to Global Witness. First the trees are cut down by loggers, which then opens the land up to cattle ranchers, soy farmers or miners.
“Many people from the logging and mining companies think the only way to solve problems is by killing the people who defend the forest,” federal prosecutor Felício Pontes told Men’s Journal.
Like the Amazon itself, the problem of violence against environmentalists is shared by many Latin American countries. Last year, at least 25 environmentalists were killed in Colombia, according to Global Witness. Honduras (12), Peru (9), Guatemala (5), Paraguay (3) and Mexico (3) also reported multiple murders of conservationists in 2014.
Although more than 80% of the killings were in Latin and Central America, Asian environmentalists are also at great risk. Fifteen Filipinos were killed in 2014, followed by Thailand (4), Indonesia (2) and Myanmar (2), again according to Global Witness.
Almost none of these murders are ever solved, the group says. A 2014 Global Witness report found that 908 activists were killed in 35 countries between 2002 and 2013, yet there were only 10 convictions.
“What feeds the violence is the impunity,” Isolete Wichinieski, national coordinator of the Brazilian group Commisão Pastoral da Terra, told the Guardian.
Texas Town Fires Police Dept, Hires Private Citizens For Security
Texas Town Fires Police Dept, Hires Private Citizens For Security, Guess What Happened to Crime
The community of Sharpstown, Texas decided that they didn’t need the police any longer. They made a controversial decision to fire the local police department and hire private citizens, granted no special rights that ordinary citizens do not have, to keep them safe.
That was back in 2012, and since then, Sharpstown residents say the private security company, SEAL Security Solutions, have done a much better job than the police used to. Crimes is down 61% in only 20 months.
James Alexander, the director of operations for SEAL Security Solutions says that, “Since we’ve been in there, an independent crime study that they’ve had done [indicates] we’ve reduced the crime by 61 percent,” according to Guns.com.
All of that and they don’t have any special rights that you or I don’t have. That means they can’t arrest for misdemeanor crimes… and why should people be arrested for them anyway? It also means that they are held accountable the same way as anyone else.
The SEAL security patrolmen don’t “receive the same protection, as we are in the private sector,” Alexander said. This, he explains, leads to constant accountability and vigilance of their employees making sure they don’t do something to get fired.
They don’t have special privileges, or lobbyist groups protecting them. If they break the law, if they murder someone, they will be treated like anyone else who committed the same crimes.
But so far, nothing like that has been a problem.
http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/08/seal-security-solution/
Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling 'Kids For Cash' To Prisons
Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling 'Kids For Cash' To Prisons
A Pennsylvania judge in Pennsylvania was just sentenced to 28 years in prison for selling “kids-for-cash.”
The bribery scandal made headlines when Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. was alleged to have taking $1 million in bribes from juvenile detention centers to fill their cells with children who came before him in court.
The Associated Press says the following:
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed about 4,000 convictions issued by Ciavarella between 2003 and 2008, saying he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles, including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea.
Ciavarella, 61, was tried and convicted of racketeering charges earlier this year. His attorneys had asked for a “reasonable” sentence in court papers, saying, in effect, that he’s already been punished enough.
“The media attention to this matter has exceeded coverage given to many and almost all capital murders, and despite protestation, he will forever be unjustly branded as the ‘Kids for Cash’ judge,” their sentencing memo said.
The Times Leader reports that the court house in Scranton was overflowing as over a dozen people who had been essentially “sold” to prisons by the judge turned out to exchange horror stories.
Jeff Pollins’ stepson was convicted by Ciavarella. He turned out to eagerly awaiting the judge’s sentencing.
“These kids are still affected by it. It’s like post traumatic stress disorder,” Pollins said to the Times Leader. “Our life is ruined. It’s never going to be the same… I’d like to see that happen to him,” he added.
http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/08/judge-sentenced-to-28-years/
5 Questions to Ask a Pro-Choicer to Make them Question Abortion
5 Questions to Ask a Pro-Choicer to Make them Question Abortion
In last week’s Louder with Crowder, Lila Rose of Live Action made suggestions as to how pro-lifers could get involved in the pro-life movement. If you’re not already involved, it can be daunting to get started, especially since pr0-choice people are bullies who use intimidation to “get their way.” They also like to use catchy phrases like “Keep your rosaries off my ovaries,” to which the pro-life movement hasn’t yet answered. Maybe “Your baby’s alive, let it thrive!” will catch on. Who’ll write the music?
Where a lot of pro-life people get hung up (no, that’s not an allusion to the fake wire-hanger myth) in an argument with a pro-choice person is accepting the premise of the pro-abortionist in the first place. But those same abortionists crumble to pieces when the argument is turned around on them. Because facts to a liberal are like a soap circle around an ant crawling on your counter. No, I never did that…
Because if you’re against abortion, you’re not extreme. It’s not extreme to think that babies should like, totally be born and stuff, and not get chopped to bits and auctioned off because…well for whatever reason. It’s the act of killing the baby (at any point in the pregnancy) that’s the evil problem. The problem is not you and your silly, narrow belief that babies are people too. You weirdo.
In a debate about abortion, reject the “pro-choice” premise. Always. Watch Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina reject the pro-abortion premise and hold firm to the pro-abortion bullies.
DANGEROUS: US Government SO BIG They Lost Track of Just How BIG
DANGEROUS: US Government SO BIG They Lost Track of Just How BIG
How big is the federal government? So big, it has lost count of just how many department and agencies it has, according to a federal watchdog group.
Quoting federal officials, the Competitive Enterprise Institute said the number given ranges from a mere 60 to a whopping 430.
In face, Clyde Wayne Crews, vice president of policy for CEI, found this gem of a quote inside the Administrative Conference of the United States source book. It lists 115 agencies in the appendix but adds:
"[T]here is no authoritative list of government agencies."
Don't laugh. Yet. [Don't worry, I'm not laughing.]
Digging through other counts offered by federal officials, he found an online Federal Register Index of 257.
United States Government Manual lists 316.
Then there was a 2015 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing during which a senator listed over 430 departments, agencies and sub-agencies.
"As bureaucracy sprawls, nobody can say with complete authority exactly how many federal agencies exist," blogged Crews on the CEI site.
Who Rules America?
Who Rules America?
President Barack Obama’s defense of secret government programs to spy not only on the American people but also countless millions all over the world has been followed by threats from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to prosecute those involved in leaking information about the massive surveillance operations.
In a statement issued Saturday, Clapper denounced the British Guardian and the Washington Post for publishing “reckless exposures” of programs run by the Pentagon-based National Security Agency (NSA). These programs spy on the US and world's population on a daily basis and capture hundreds of millions of Internet communications, including emails, chats, videos, photos and credit card receipts.
Reuters cited Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials who said the government is expected to open a criminal investigation into the leaks. As far as the Obama administration is concerned, the crime is not the flagrantly unconstitutional invasion of the privacy rights of the American people, but the exposure of these acts before the public.
Obama’s remarks last Friday in defense of the NSA programs, in which he characterized the media reports as “hype” and called pervasive state surveillance of the population a “modest encroachment” on the Bill of Rights, reflect a complete abandonment of any conception of democratic rights. This former professor of constitutional law articulates the outlook of a ruling class that has severed any serious connection to the constitutional framework upon which the United States was founded.
Obama presides over a country in which the president can—and does—unilaterally order the extra-judicial assassination of people all over the world, including US citizens; where entire cities, such as Boston, can be placed under de facto martial law; where the government seizes the phone records and emails of investigative journalists; where those who expose US war crimes, such as Private Bradley Manning, are tortured and prosecuted for treason; where the president can order alleged terrorists to be detained indefinitely and without trial in military prisons.
The question posed by these developments is: Who rules America?
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
The Way GCHQ Obliterated The Guardian’s Laptops May Have Revealed More Than It Intended
In July 2013, GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency, forced journalists at the London headquarters of The Guardian to completely obliterate the memory of the computers on which they kept copies of top-secret documents provided to them by former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden.
However, in its attempt to destroy information, GCHQ also revealed intriguing details about what it did and why.
Two technologists, Mustafa Al-Bassam and Richard Tynan, visited Guardian headquarters last year to examine the remnants of the devices. Al-Bassam is an ex-hacker who two years ago pleaded guilty to joining attacks on Sony, Nintendo, and other companies, and now studies computer science at King’s College; Tynan is a technologist at Privacy International with a PhD in computer science. The pair concluded, first, that GCHQ wanted The Guardian to completely destroy every possible bit of information the news outlet might retain; and second, that GCHQ’s instructions may have inadvertently revealed all the locations in your computer where information may be covertly stored.
Footage of Guardian editors physically destroying their MacBooks and USB drives, taken by Guardian executive Sheila Fitzsimons, wasn’t released until months later, in January 2014. The GCHQ agents who supervised the destruction of the devices also insisted on recording it all on their own iPhones.
The Guardian’s video reveals editors using angle-grinders, revolving drills, masks that GCHQ ordered them to buy, and a “degausser,” an expensive piece of equipment provided by GCHQ, which destroys magnetic fields and thereby erases data. The procedure eliminated practically every chip in the device, leaving almost no recognizable piece of machinery behind. The whole process lasted over three hours.
“Normally people just destroy the hard drive,” said Al-Bassam. But GCHQ took it several steps further. The spy agency instructed Guardian editors to destroy parts of multiple MacBook Airs’ track pad controllers, power controllers, keyboards, CPUs, inverting converters, USB drives, and more.
But in allowing The Guardian’s editors to destroy the devices themselves, and hold onto the remaining shards of computer dust, the British government essentially revealed those policies — by making it possible for people like Al-Bassam and Tynan to analyze just why they might have destroyed each part in such a specific way.
The track pad controller, they said, can hold up to 2 megabits of memory. All the different “chips” in your computer — from the part that controls the device’s power to the chips in the keyboard — also have the capacity to store information, like passwords and keys to other data, which can be uploaded through firmware updates.
Read the full (archived) report here:
13,000 Fall Into Homelessness Every Month in LA
About 13,000 people on public assistance tumble into homelessness every month in Los Angeles County, according to a new study that experts say provides the clearest picture yet of extreme poverty in the region.
Although many quickly find work or rely on family to get off the streets, the number experiencing "continuous, unremitting, chronic homelessness" continues to grow, even after 10,000 people were housed over the last three years, according to the report being released Tuesday by the Economic Roundtable, a nonprofit research group in Los Angeles.
The report recommended that the welfare system intervene to help children and young adults who become homeless before their condition becomes chronic.
"Prevention is critical for reducing the number of people who experience homelessness as well as the number who become chronically homeless," the study said. "Housing does not provide a solution until the pathways into homelessness are narrowed."
The group's analysis was based on records for 9 million county residents who received public assistance at any point between 2002 and 2010. The study said many systems, including disability screening, mental health, foster care and criminal justice, fed into the homelessness pipeline. The 2007 to 2010 recession also drove many out of their homes, it said.
Several homeless service providers said most of these factors had been discussed anecdotally for years, but the report is the first to capture the scale of the problem and predicted it could have a strong impact.
The latest official homeless count found 44,000 people living in county streets in a three-day period in January, a 12% increase in two years. The survey also found a 37% rise in chronically homeless people. But it has long been acknowledged that many more move in and out of homelessness throughout the year.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-homeless-pathways-20150825-story.html
The UN Plot to Confiscate American Guns Took a Giant Step Forward
The UN Plot to Confiscate American Guns Took a Giant Step Forward
Trapped within the fanfare Chinese Black Monday and the American stock market plunging almost 600 points yesterday, suspicious explosions in China and on an American military base, there has been a very important, but quiet development ,which is escaping the attention of both the American people and the Independent Media.
The Corker Bill Spells the End of the Second Amendment
We are safe from the ravages of the UN Small Arms Treaty, aren’t we? In fact, many Senators have openly stated that they refuse to ratify this controversial treaty. Well, that is not exactly true. There is a new process established by the new Corker bill may very well have changed the way treaties are passed from here on out.
Under our Constitution, a full two thirds vote from senators for ratification to approve any kind of a treaty. This provision of the Constitution is very clear on this point and it is designed to prevent a treasonous subversion of the Constitution. However when one is living under a criminal enterprise, such as the one presented by the present criminal enterprise in power, who worries about following the rules? As a case in point, under the Corker bill, in order to have stopped the Iran nuclear deal, a two thirds vote to stop it from being implemented by the White House. This is not what the Constitution says and this out and out treason against the people of the United States as the Corker bill is a back door to taking our guns while nullifying the second Amendment.
Under the Corker bill, the following paragraphs describe what we are in for.
The Plot to Disarm America Is Commencing
The evidence is mounting that Obama and his colleagues at the United Nations are preparing for complete gun confiscation of civilian owned American guns. There is a new document, previously held secret, which has surfaced and clearly signals the intention of the United Nations to engage in gun confiscation in the relatively near future. The document is damning, however, the existence of the document is not even needed to prove the point that there is a major confrontation brewing between the American people and an international peace-keeping UN force, and it’s coming right around the corner.
Another Nail In America’s Coffin
The following is a smoking gun document that presents seven sequential steps designed to culminate in the total disarmament of the American nation. For those of you that know your history, you will note that there were 17 genocides in the 20th Century and in each case, these genocides were preceded by gun confiscation by the host government. According to the Democide Project located at the University of Hawaii, governments killed far more people, an estimated 26o million victims, than even war. History shows that if we ever allow government, the UN, or the U.S., to ever be able to seize our guns, we are signing our death warrant!
Read the rest of the treason here:
TSA Gestapo Now Targets Amtrak Trains in Police State USSA
TSA Gestapo Now Targets Amtrak Trains in Police State USSA
The government is stepping up its plans to search EVERYONE, ANYWHERE, whether you’re travelling by air, rail, ferry or bus.
Beginning this week and almost four years since writers warned Americans that our government wants to search people on trains, its finally become a reality!
The Baltimore Sun reported Amtrak will begin searching all passengers: “Passengers failing to consent to security procedures will be denied access to trains.”
“I don’t know if that level of security we have at airports would be practical at train stations,” said Vernon Herron, University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security. “Washington DC and New York City—our financial district and our seat of power in Washington DC. Those types of targets are always going to be on their radar.”
What does this mean for anyone taking a government train (Amtrak)? It means EVERYONE will be subjected to airline style boarding procedures. In Europe, you won’t find pre-boarding ticket checks on any international intercity train line except Eurostar (between London and Paris, for border control purposes). By importing the security theater of air travel, DHS, sorry I mean Amtrak will treat EVERYONE like a suspected terrorist!
Just who will be conducting these security procedures? Why, Amtrak employees and police of course. If an Amtrak employee questions you, its because they’re trained to suspect EVERYONE.
Since 2010 Amtrak’s’ Blue Campaign‘ has been used as an excuse to identify suspected human traffickers.
Men — traveling with children will be subject to enhanced scrutiny. Perhaps Amtrak’s employees will engage children in conversation or demand a statement of their relationship status with the accompanying adults.
“Over 8,000 Amtrak employees overtly or covertly examine passengers for the validity of their identification, their level of stress, how they interact, and their conversations.”
On July 25, 2012, DHS held an event to update stakeholders on recent activities and to provide a platform for participants to offer individual feedback regarding the department’s Blue Campaign efforts. (This is all about profit & surveillance)
http://www.infowars.com/tsa-airport-style-searches-on-all-amtrak-trains/
EU Fascists Panic: Greece May Break From EU After All (UPDATE: NOPE, THEY WERE ENSLAVED)
EU Fascists Panic: Greece May Break From EU After All
The Popular Unity party is a breakaway group from current ruling party Syriza and is led by former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis.
The group of 25 left-wing MPs has three days from today to attempt to bring together a ruling Government after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned last week.
If the party is successful it would cancel Greece's recently-agreed bailout deal and rip-up the harsh austerity measures imposed by European Union creditors before leaving the single currency.
The far-left group now needs to find a coalition partner in Athens' parliament but has already pledged that it would not join forces with any of the parties that voted in favour of the Greek bailout.
The group formed after Mr Tsipras made a U-turn and agreed to drastic economic measures in return for €86billion (£61bn) in cash earlier this month.
Mr Lafazanis last month spoke out against Greece's third bailout deal since its economic collapse, which includes measures more brutal than those rejected in a vote by the Greek people in a national referendum at the beginning of July.
Last week, Mr Lafazanis said his party will express the spirit and substance of the 62 per cent of Greek people who voted 'no' to that deal.
If the Popular Unity party, dubbing itself as the 'anti-austerity' party is not able to form a Government, Greeks are expected to vote in a general election before the end of September.
Mr Tsipras hopes that he will be able to return to power with Syriza with an absolute majority, and with a mandate to carry out the economic measures demanded as demanded by the country's recently-signed bailout deal.
If the Internet Goes Down, Preppers Will Be the Last Ones Standing
These days the world is a scary place to live in.
If there's not an asteroid on its way to obliterate us or terrorists plotting our imminent downfall, there's the dangers of giant online data hacks or complete economic collapse.
But when the end does arrive, there are a few people who aren't just able to cope with the apocalypse - they've been actively preparing for it.
These people call themselves 'preppers' or 'survivalists' and they belong to a vast underground community. When the ATMs stop running or the internet goes down, they'll be the ones that make it out alive.
"Its a huge community, especially in the States. But in the UK it's becoming more and more recognised," explained Steve Hart, the man behind the UK's top prepping website: ukpreppersguide.co.uk
"Prepping itself is just another form of insurance. People have life, car or pet insurance for the "what ifs" - this is just looking at a "what if" from a slightly different perspective.
"What if a serious earthquake hits? Or a tsunami or a volcano or even a bio-terrorism attack," said Steve, whose website racks up around 100,000 hits a month.
Admittedly, those situations are a little unlikely - but 59-year-old Steve sets us straight pretty quickly.
"What if the government starts acting up? That's the number one fear among most preppers: economic collapse.
"The next thing you know the whole world is plummeting down to a position you can't get out of."
And technology?
"If anything to do with the internet goes down, half the planet will come to a standstill," Steve told Mirror Online, citing the fact that we work, bank and socialise online in the 21st century. "99% of your life relies on technology."
He recognises that many of these apocalyptic scenarios won't come to pass, but calmly suggests it's better to be safe than sorry.
Some of the hallmarks of prepping involve keeping stockpiles of food in your house - enough to last a week or so if the power goes out - and learning survival skills for how to cope in the natural world.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/if-internet-goes-down-half-6310887
Alibi Routing System to Give Internet Users More Control Over Their Data
Alibi Routing System to Give Internet Users More Control Over Their Data
Computer scientists have developed a novel method for providing concrete proof to Internet users that their information did not cross through certain undesired geographic areas.
The new system called "Alibi Routing" offers advantages over existing systems as it is immediately deployable and does not require knowledge of the Internet's routing hardware or policies.
Recent events such as censorship of Internet traffic, suspicious "boomerang routing" where data leaves a region only to come back again, and monitoring of users' data have alerted the researchers.
"We became increasingly interested in this notion of empowering users to have more control over what happens with their data," said project lead Dave Levin, assistant research scientist at University of Maryland in a statement.
Information transmitted over the Internet such as website requests or email content is broken into packets and sent through a series of routers on the way to its destination.
However, users have very little control over what parts of the world these packets traverse.
"Alibi Routing" works by searching a peer-to-peer network to locate "peers" - other users running the alibi routing software - that can relay a user's packets to its ultimate destination while avoiding specified forbidden regions.
The peer is called an "alibi."
The alibi provides proof that at a particular time, a packet was at a specific geographic location sufficiently far enough away from the forbidden areas that the data could not have entered them.
If successful, users receive proof that their information reached its desired destination and that it did not traverse the forbidden regions.
Alternatively, the response could indicate that the packets may have traversed forbidden areas.
"There is also a safety parameter that we use. Basically, it is a way for users to select a desired level of confidence that the packet absolutely does not traverse the forbidden region," Levin explained.
The larger the safety parameter, the harder it is to find an alibi. The smaller the safety parameter, the easier it is to find an alibi, he noted.
The Global Economy Is Officially Melting Down
As much as the financiers on Wall Street and the officials at the Fed would like the party to keep going, it looks it’s finally about to stop. Years of bailouts and monetary expansion have created one of the most inflated and artificial economic booms in history, and now it appears that this global economic bubble is deflating. Markets across the board are melting down as we speak, and the financial crash that supposedly “fringe” analysts have been predicting since 2008, is finally upon us. Take a look at what’s going down right now.
• The Dow has fallen 1300 points from its peak. On Friday alone, it fell by 530 points, making it the 9th worst stock market crash in US history.
• The Shanghai composite fell by more than 11% this week. All told, China’s stock market has lost a third of its value since its previous peak, and the only thing holding it up is their government’s intervention. It lost 4% of its value on Friday after it was revealed that their manufacturing activity had reached a 77 month low.
• 400 of the world’s richest people lost a total of $182 billion this week, amounting to 6.3% of their collective wealth. When the people who benefit the most from inflated markets are getting hurt, you know that the bubble is bursting.
• The dollar’s rally may be finally nearing its end. Its value has fallen slightly, but consistently for the past 2 weeks.
• Commodities have fallen to a 13 year low. The price of copper has reached a 6 year low while oil has suffered its longest decline since 1986.
That last one is very telling. You can always tell when the global economy is in bad shape based on the value of various commodities. It’s one of the strongest indicators for an economy, since it reveals how many real, tangible goods are being produced. Curiously, many of these commodities have been falling in value throughout the supposed recovery that we’ve been in since 2009.
The only commodity that is doing well right now is gold, which has reached a six week high, and just had its best week since last January. Given the safe haven status that gold holds, it’s clear now that confidence in the US dollar and the global economy, is slowly slipping.
With all of this information at hand, it would be hard to deny that we may be finally witnessing the same kind of crash that we endured in 2008. Anyone who thought that we’ve been in a genuine recovery for the past 6 years, was foolish. But anyone who thinks that global markets will simply bounce back from what has occurred over the past few weeks, is downright crazy.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-global-economy-is-officially-melting-down_082015
Huge Explosions at US Army Base in Japan
There have been huge explosions at a US army base in Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pr0qQzLomg
Helicopters have been spotted circling the area as emergency services rushed to the scene in Sagamihara city, south of Tokyo.
The military zone is part of a huge US complex that has three bases and terrorism experts have said it’s “plausible” it was a deliberate attack.
The site is part of a US army complex next to the capital where three deliberate explosions were reported in April, in what police suspect was an act of left-wing Japanese extremists.
The Wall Street Journal reported that a spokesman for police in Kanagawa Prefecture said two steel pipes were found planted in the ground with electric cables in the camp.
Japanese terrorist expert Michael Penn, who heads up Tokyo-based news agency Shingetsu News, said it is “plausible” the explosions have a similar explanation.
Pentagon spokesman US Navy Commander Bill Urban said: “We’re aware of the report, but we don’t have confirmation that the explosion occurred on the base.”
Social media users have been sharing dramatic photos and videos from the region.
The Sagamihara Fire Department told Fox News: “Fire from the American military base has occurred.”
The Sagami General Depot houses storage for petroleum products and ammunition, Japanese broadcasters are reporting.
Mr Penn said it is likely US military guards at the scene called Japanese firefighters but “restrictions were put on them”.
He said “water was not used to douse the fire”, perhaps because it was a chemical explosion.
He added that the warehouse contains oxide cylinders.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/huge-explosions-army-base-japan-6306696
Third Ashley Madison Dump
The hackers behind the Ashley Madison dump – “Impact Team” have released a new dump apparently fixing the zip file issue from the CEO’s emails from the 2nd dump release. TrustedSec is currently validating the zip and will update here shortly. It appears to be emails from the CEO as well as possibly other emails from the organization.
Ashley Madison hackers have released another batch of secret information and spoken out for the first time after the bombshell leaks.
In an interview with Vice, the group reveals they have naked photographs and private explicit chats between members among the 300GB of information they have stolen.
They said they would not share any naked or explicit photos but did not rule out making public private chats and other images posted through the 'cheaters' site.
'We were in Avid Life Media a long time to understand and get everything,' they said.
'Finally we watched Ashley Madison signups growing and human trafficking on the sites…We didn't blackmail users. Avid Life Media blackmailed them. But any hacking team could have. We did it to stop the next 60 million. Avid Life Media is like a drug dealer abusing addicts.'
Motherboard has accessed a partial archive of the latest dump, and the file does indeed contain a huge number of emails sent and received by Avid Life Media's CEO Noel Biderman.
https://www.trustedsec.com/august-2015/third-ashley-madison-dump-released/
Patients’ Mental Health Data Is At Risk, No Longer Private At All
Patients’ Mental Health Data Is At Risk, No Longer Private At All
When Julie (who requested that her last name not be used for reasons that will become obvious) went for a routine doctor visit in 2009, she found a nervous resident filling in for her regular physician, who was on maternity leave. He quickly told her that he’d read her psychiatric records, even though she wasn’t coming in for mental health issues, and that he wanted her to see a therapist. Immediately. In the aftermath of the visit, she discovered exactly what he’d been reading — “Uncovering past trauma. Sexual abuse by boy in preschool…. Patient is looking to change her job; problems with family continue. She and her mother are not talking….She has defaulted on student loans and has begun to deal with this including consulting an attorney.” In all, there were 200 pages of details from her therapy sessions, including issues that had taken years for her to disclose even to a professional.
Julie has bipolar disorder, which she and her doctors have managed successfully for two decades. She has a graduate degree, a good job and a child. But she didn’t have a true picture of what would happen to her mental health records as her provider, Partners HealthCare, transitioned to electronic medical records (EMRs). She had been seeing a primary care doctor, gynecologist and psychiatrist in the practice for many years. But, she says, “I thought I’d have to give permission for my regular doctors to see my psychiatry records.”
Nope. It turns out that all doctors in the practice could see all of her records when they logged in to the new system. Her primary care doctor regularly refilled her prescription for bipolar medication, something she’d expected during this visit, though it wasn’t her reason for coming. The substitute doctor refused at first, then agreed, but only after adding a note to her permanent medical record saying, “I counseled patient that she needs to see a psychologist immediately.” Julie was aghast. “The next time I have any kind of appointment that’s what they’re going see first.” Then she sighs, “I talked to him after. He was a resident. He wanted to do a good job, and he was trying to be diligent in reading all my records. It kind of backfired.”
Read the rest here:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/21/how-mental-health-care-data-may-get-exposed/
Torrent Trackers Ban Windows 10 Over Privacy Concerns
Torrent Trackers Ban Windows 10 Over Privacy Concerns
The level of Windows 10 paranoia reached new heights this week when reports suggested that Microsoft would wipe torrents and pirated software from people's hard drives. Nonsense, of course, but all the recent privacy concerns were enough to have the operating system banned from several torrent trackers.
Since the release of Windows 10 last month many media reports have focused on various privacy intrusions.
The WiFi password sharing feature, for example, or the extensive sharing of personal data and information back to Microsoft’s servers. The list goes on and on.
While we’re the last ones to defend these policies, it is worth pointing out that many other large tech companies have similar privacy violating policies. Reading rants about Windows 10 privacy on Facebook is particularly ironic.
This week things took a turn for the worse. Slowly but steadily reports started pouring in that Windows 10 has a built-in piracy kill switch. If we were to believe some of the reports, Microsoft would nuke all torrents downloaded from The Pirate Bay.
The truth is nowhere near as dystopian though. The controversy originates from a single line in Microsoft’s Service Agreement which allows the company to download software updates and configuration changes that may prevent people from “playing counterfeit games.”
This change isn’t limited to Windows 10 but covers many services. Also, there is no indication that this will ever be used to target third-party games, which is highly unlikely.
Still, the recent privacy concerns have some torrent tracker staffers worried. During the week TF received reports informing us that several private trackers have banned Windows 10, or are considering doing so.
The staffers at iTS explain that Windows 10 is off-limits now because of the extensive amount of data it shares. This includes connections to MarkMonitor, the brand protection company which is also involved in the U.S. Copyright Alert System.
“Unfortunately Microsoft decided to revoke any kind of data protection and submit whatever they can gather to not only themselves but also others. One of those is one of the largest anti-piracy company called MarkMonitor,” iTS staff note.
“Amongst other things Windows 10 sends the contents of your local disks directly to one of their servers. Obviously this goes way too far and is a serious threat to sites like ours which is why we had to take measures,” they add.
While this may sound scary, Microsoft has been working with MarkMonitor for years already. Among other things, the company helps to keep scammers at bay.
There is no evidence that any piracy related info is being shared. Still, the connection is raising red flags with other tracker operators as well. More trackers reportedly ban Windows 10 and others including BB and FSC are consider to follow suit.
“We have also found [Windows 10] will be gathering information on users’ P2P use to be shared with anti piracy group,” BB staff writes to its users.
https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-trackers-ban-windows-10-over-privacy-concerns-150822/
America's Gulags: Beyond the Size Soviet Gulags
America's Gulags: Beyond the Size Soviet Gulags
For decades, the Soviet Gulags under Joseph Stalin had been considered some of the worst prisons in all of history. But now things have changed.
The United States has far exceeded the horrific tolls of the gulags. In the Soviet example, there were more than 18 million victims during the gulags’ use over four decades.
Around a million people died in the gulags over the years.
Now, as of 2009, the United States tolls soar higher than 7 million in prison, on probation or in some way caught up in the American prison system.
On the surface that might sound like a lot less than the gulag total above. But when you factor in all who have been put through the US prison system, we find a total that is higher than 19 million. That’s more than the 18 million locked up in the gulag system over those forty years.
Just like the Soviet Gulag System, the American Prison-For-Profit industry sells itself with the pitch that it is about “rehabilitation.” The government even has the audacity to call the prison system the “U.S. Department of Corrections.”
In the former Soviet Union, they called this vospitaniye and perevospitaniye, meaning essentially: “re-education.”
Oddly, however, in the Soviet gulags, prisoners were forced to learn the arts – playing in orchestras and the like. In the United States Gulags, prisoners are forced to make uniforms for McDonald’s and Applebees, or to harvest produce for Whole Foods.
The private prison companies, well-known for profiting off of incarceration and crime, is now saying that the state’s they have contracted with aren’t keeping up their end of the bargain. The private prisons rely on a certain number of inmates for free and virtually-free slave labor.
That labor is used for a variety of trades, including making uniforms for popular restaurants like McDonalds and Applebee’s. But if the private prisons don’t have enough inmates locked up then production goes down correlative with the decrease in free labor (i.e. slavery).
It comes as a surprise to many Americans, but slavery was never actually abolished in the United States. That’s not a metaphor, it’s a matter of careful reading of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. That amendment – often lauded for abolishing slavery – actually makes an exception for prisons. Slavery is still completely legal as “punishment for a crime.”
Economic Collapse: World's Richest People Lose $182 Billion
The world’s 400 richest people lost $182 billion this week from their collective fortunes as weak manufacturing data from China and a rout in commodities sent global markets plunging.
The weekly drop for the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a group that includes Warren Buffett and Glencore Plc’s Ivan Glasenberg, was the biggest since tracking of the expanded list began in September 2014. The combined net worth of the index members fell by $76 billion on Friday alone, when the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of U.S. stocks ended its worst week since 2011.
“For them that’s a fractional percentage, even though $182 billion is a big number,” said John Collins, director of investment advisory at Aspiriant, which oversees more than $8 billion for high net worth clients. “A week like this feels really bad, but when you take a step back, in a big picture view it’s not a disaster by any means.”
Friday’s losses put the world’s richest 400 into the red for the year to date. They’re now down $74 billion in 2015, with a collective net worth of $3.98 trillion.
The week’s largest setback in dollar terms was experienced by Buffett, who saw his fortune drop by $3.6 billion as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. slipped more than 5 percent. The investor is the world’s third-wealthiest person, with a fortune of $63.4 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The slump in oil, which had its longest weekly losing streak since 1986 amid signs of an extended supply glut, contributed to $15.2 billion in losses for the world’s wealthiest energy billionaires. Continental Resources Inc. Chairman Harold Hamm saw $895 million, or 9 percent of his net worth, vanish this week.
Glencore’s Glasenberg
Glasenberg, chief executive officer of mining company Glencore Plc, lost $237 million during the week as commodity prices slid to their lowest levels in 13 years. Glencore reached a record low in London on Friday, down more than 8 percent from a week earlier, after the trading house reported its profit sank 56 percent in the first half of the year. Glasenberg’s fortune has decreased more than 40 percent in 2015, to $3.1 billion.
China’s 26 wealthiest people, pummeled by Hong Kong’s bear market and a weaker yen, lost $18.8 billion during the week. Wang Jianlin of Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties Co. was hit hardest, losing $3.5 billion.
Eleven billionaires added to their fortunes in spite of the market turmoil. The week’s biggest dollar gainer was Sun Pharmaceuticals’ Dilip Shanghvi. The world’s 39th-richest person became $467 million wealthier, elevating his net worth to $18.9 billion.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index takes measure of the world’s wealthiest people based on market and economic changes and Bloomberg News reporting. Each net-worth figure is updated every business day at 5:30 p.m. in New York and listed in US dollars.
HP Layoffs Will Exceed 55,000 People
HP Layoffs Will Exceed 55,000 People
HP's CFO Cathie Lesjak says the company will cut up to an additional 5% more people from its workforce than the 55,000 people it had planned to eliminate.
This is a long-running layoff that began in 2012 with an initial target of 25,000 jobs, but grew until the target became 55,000 people.
Now it's grown again. Lasjak didn't give a new total number although she said the additional job cuts won't force HP to spend more on restructuring than it had planned.
This is what Lesjak told Wall Street analysts on the quarterly conference call:
We are nearing the end of our 2012 restructuring program and 3,900 people exited in Q3. By the end of Q4, we expect to exceed our prior estimate of 55,000 people to exit the company by up to 5% but will not exceed the foretasted GAAP-only charges.
This particular layoff will be completed in October and HP expects it to cost $5.5 billion. In June, Lesjak said HP had eliminated a total of 48,000. Doing the math, that means HP has trimmed 51,900 people.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-layoffs-to-exceed-55000-people-2015-8
New US Draconian Laws Usher in the
New US Draconian Laws Usher in the New World Order
With his unprecedented number of oppressive executive orders bypassing both US Congress and constitutional rule of law, the ex-constitutional lawyer himself President Obama has become a bona fide dictator and traitor exercising tyranny over the people of the United States.
According to McLean and McMillan’s Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics, essential features present in tyranny and dictatorship are that “the abuse of the state’s coercive force operates in the absence of rule of law” but instead by “rule of the tyrant’s arbitrary treatment of citizens if not by outright systematic use of terror.” The latter application using terror against the populace more accurately describes the evolution of US dictatorship from one criminal regime (Bush-Cheney’s) to Obama’s criminal regime. On marching orders from the globalists, through both the neocons remain in charge.
Clearly mounting evidence blatantly exists in recent years that demonstrate a totalitarian police state power in America. The systematic militarization of police state USA has used terror to recklessly and maliciously abuse its own citizenry, particularly those of color in cities across this nation. The soaring rate of militarized police deploying lethal force to willfully murder unarmed Americans, calculatingly cause growing racial tensions and civil unrest with near complete impunity reflects the growing contempt that agents of US government increasingly harbor against the very citizens they took oaths swearing to protect and serve. This police state phenomenon has unfolded in parallel process with elected government leaders who treasonously plot and destroy America despite taking oaths to both uphold and protect the Constitution and the nation from both foreign and domestic enemies.
While cold-blooded murder of US citizens is skyrocketing now (over 70 times of other Western nations), federal agencies across the boards not even remotely related to either law enforcement or the military have been buying up billions of rounds of bullets that upon impact tear the human body apart. What does that say about a government that has its postal service, Social Security Administration and Department of Game and Wildlife arming themselves to the hilt with brutally lethal weapons? The answer is pathetically obvious. The federal government has embarked on waging an all-out war against its own hapless, law abiding citizens.
Clearly First Amendment rights to peaceful assembly and public protest in this country are also no longer upheld or recognized as rule of law. In recent years the Occupy Movement and Democratic National Convention protests have been marred by excessive police brutality, bloody street violence and unlawful arrest. In the war against American protesters, police attacking them with the chemical weapon of tear gas that in any other war is criminally outlawed by international law, is used in the US to systematically silence the people’s voice from ever being heard in the wake of totalitarian oligarchy.
Criminalizing dissent is redefining homegrown terrorism to include anyone willing to exercise their basic civil liberties guaranteed US citizens under this nation’s Constitution that for over two centuries was recognized as the ultimate rule of law in America. But now any Americans daring to even criticize and object to the federal government’s growing tyranny is conveniently labeled a belligerent and enemy of the state subject to assassination or indefinite imprisonment led by a dictator president who matter-of-factly proclaims his despotic right to kill fellow Americans on US soil.
How The Fascists Plan To Destroy America By The End of 2015
How The Fascists Plan To Destroy America By The End of 2015
Here is their overall plan:
(1) When the new FCC laws come into effect, this will set up
highly regulated (as well in many cases, restricted) access.
Many people will no longer be able to afford their service
anymore - which in fact, is the plan. To slowdown and choke
communication between the American people and the world.
Sadly this is only the first step.
(2) The Obama regime will force through (WITHOUT approval
from Congress which is treason and against the law) the Trans
Pacific Partnership (TPP). This will highly regulate and choke
off imported goods into the United States, and purposely triple
the cost of assets and commodities - including energy. This will
also set up a de-facto fascist corporate dictatorship void of law -
and that is just the tip of the iceberg - they plan to fully ban
ammunition imports, etc!
Under the TPP, corporations can demand governments change their
laws and impose massive sanctions on countries if they don't comply.
(3) The CIA is purposely starting proxy wars around the Middle
East - this is where World War III will begin. The Obama regime
has purged all the high-level brass from military leadership, a
now effective coup to bring about the end of our military strategy
and trust within the ranks. The Obama regime understands and knows
full well that the US has been set up to LOSE World War III.
(4) China and Russia are exempted from the fascist TPP. They
will not be strangled by this fascist corporate coup - in fact,
they have been set up to be the beneficiaries of such treason.
China and Russia are well prepared to go to war with the US and
have even been re-assured by Obama that they will World War III.
(5) When World War III plays out, and it gets hot, this overthrown
government of the United States has been preparing for war against
those who have warned about this - against the preppers - against
anyone who stands in the way of their planned World War and their
planned destruction of the United States.
The overall plan, I have been warned about, is to destroy the US.
The "New World Order" was the massive transfer of wealth to China,
therefore China and Russia are set to become the new super-powers.
In this "Brave New World" America will no longer exist … it will
become an isolated Third World country from which is to be exploited
without mercy by the next super powers which (you guessed it) will
also become united with these fascists. Prepare for guerrilla warfare.
In the meantime, print all the evidence out. The internet is doomed.
Thug Cop Slams Old Man To The Concrete For Singing In Public
A cop in Allentown Pennsylvania was caught on video brutally body slamming a 61-year-old man to the ground – his crime? Singing a Beach Boys song.
Jim Ochse is known in the community for his quirky joyful singing, but when he decided to break into a rendition of the 1965 classic, Barbara Ann, private security guards and a police officer decided he was being a nuisance.
The security guards and the cop approached Ochse, despite not recieving any complaints. Ochse can be heard telling each of them “You get out of here,” urging that it is not illegal to sing in public.
As Ochse turned to walk away, the cop grabbed him and slammed him down to the concrete in front of bemused diners at Shula’s Steakhouse.
Ochse can be heard yelling out in pain and appealing for help, saying “I have done nothing wrong.”
A witness who posted video of the incident, said that the guards claimed Ochse had “touched the officer,” prompting the body slam.
That claim seems to have been dropped in wake of the footage going public.
http://www.infowars.com/video-cop-slams-old-man-to-the-concrete-for-singing-in-public/
Second Ashley Madison Dump Released, Bigger Than First
Second Ashley Madison Dump Released, Bigger Than First
A second, even bigger, cache of files exposing details about the adultery website Ashley Madison has been released.
Hacking group 'the Impact team' at lunchtime on Thursday released another mine of documents and confidential information to back up their first 9.7 gigabyte leak, according to Vice.
The new documents were dumped with a taunting message to the adultery website's founder as exposed users began to publicly admit their involvement.
'Hey Noel, you can admit it's real now,' read the post - presumably directed at the company's millionaire CEO Noel Biderman, who has refused to admit the material is all legitimate.
The 20GB is focused on the inner workings of the website rather than individual subscribers but the release will do little to calm the nerves of the cheaters whose personal details have been exposed.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-dump-more-ashley-madison-data
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150820/us--cheating_website-229e9627bf.html
Chemical Weapons Being Used On American Citizens
Nearly 5 years after an international ban on geoengineering, and over 20 years after President Carter banned the use of weather modification techniques in America, we are left asking the United States Government, once again, to stop using chemical weapons against American citizens.
On August 11th, 2015, activists met with the EPA to provide a legally-binding testimony to discuss the intentional release of chemical terror agents into the atmosphere from aircraft, such as sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid, and bacterial agents.
This terrorist attack, using the euphemism “geoengineering,” is a violation of the Environmental Modification Convention, chemical terrorism laws, biological testing laws, and is even admitted as “genocide” by the IPCC.
With 40% of people dying from air pollution, one person every 1.3 seconds, we are left with one question: why does America use chemical weapons against their own citizens – knowingly and intentionally murdering their own population like a rabid dog that bites the hand that feeds?
Third world countries have a long history of using chemical weapons against their citizens. Now that America is behind China, what should we expect? Not only that, the Central Intelligence Agency, a funding source for geoengineering, has a long history of using chemical and biological weapons against Americans in projects such as Operation LAC, Operation DEW, Project 112, and Operation Ranch Hand – where soldiers were intentionally gassed with Agent Orange in order to “destroy Cuba’s crops.”
Obviously, there is a significant problem with our “intelligence” community in America; and there always has been. With an estimated 4% of the population falling into the “sociopath” category, we should have no question as to why someone would murder someone else for money. After all, isn’t the carbon credit scheme quite similar to the “men” on Forensic Files who murder their own wives for insurance money – shortly after taking out a life insurance policy on her unbeknownst soul?
Mentally ill people would poison their own family at the blink of an eye, without thinking twice. It should be no surprise that geoengineers have somehow obtained the gall to use these extremely toxic chemicals against American citizens which have now led us into the 6th mass extinction from sulfur dioxide already in progress.
Not only that, thinking that you can “control the weather” is a symptom of schizophrenia, and the desire of harm on another person requires an immediate 72-hour mental evaluation. An attempt to communicate with aliens is a symptom of a shared psychotic disorder. So, why do we allow NASA and the CIA to participate in geoengineering? The last thing that we need are a group of schizophrenics with weapons (especially biological and chemical agents). These so-called “climate scientists” even had the audacity to pretend that they were merely plotting chemical terror attacks on the United States, not actively performing them – in hopes to deceive the public into believing that it was a “condensation trail.”
With thousands of people complaining about the health impacts, while others are simply unaware of the chemical terror attack in progress – we are only left to assume that the attack is “working” by dumbing Americans down to the point of apathy – while their own family slowly succumbs to the rat poison that is released on citizens for “global warming.”
If the EPA did their job, this program would not exist. If the FBI did their job, geoengineers would be sentenced to death. If the military did their job, our country would be defended.
Read more here:
http://stopchemicalterrorism.com/epa-hearing-chemical-weapons-american-citizens/
China's Bilderberg - The Secretive Beach Retreat Where China Leaders Plot World Domination
China's Bilderberg - The Secretive Beach Retreat Where China Leaders Plot World Domination
Have you ever wondered how China’s stone-faced, dead-eyed leaders set their policies? How much debate takes place, who is involved, and whether it ever gets heated? Do the nation’s economic, scientific, and creative experts get to bend their ears, at least to some degree?
These are questions that have plagued Sinophiles and China-watchers for decades. The decision-making and operational mechanics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are a black box, but it is known that the CCP has its summer retreats at Beidaihe, a seaside locale in Hebei Province that is 180 miles from the nation’s capital. There, at the beach, they set policy goals each year.
Shrouded in the strictest secrecy, there’s no way of knowing what exactly is on the agenda at the Beidaihe meetings. Think of them as China’s Bilderberg meetings, where people of power meet regularly but nobody can say why.
What’s known about Beidaihe can only be expressed in the most general terms, that political leaders meet with experts in economic, scientific, and social science fields to form the grand strategies that steer the nation’s growth and development. Those meetings are the rare occasions when honest data on China’s economy are laid out on the table, putting to rest the legend of China’s recurring 7 percent GDP growth.
Normally held in mid-August, if the Beidaihe summit is convened at any other time, it provokes rife speculation by China-watchers. In 2002, when the meetings took place in late July, the rumor was that Jiang Zemin, China’s political leader at the time, resisted retirement and the issue of succession had become, well, an issue.
This year, the Beidaihe summit started on August 3, a week earlier than is the norm. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reported that the bump was due to China’s stock market meltdown, its economic cool down, and President Xi Jinping’s planned September visit to the United States.
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What takes place behind closed doors and in government villas isn’t part of their universe, and is met with a collective shrug. Expectations and street gossip still have their place; this year, people were worried about their decapitated stock portfolios, the slow economy, and the drama in the manhunt for corrupt CCP officials. Discussions and decisions made by China’s leaders, whose collective wealth is unimaginable for the average Chinese citizen, mean little. Behind their robotic façade, Chinese leaders simply don’t see themselves as answerable to the general public.
Chinese nationals are accustomed to being kept out of the loop, yet it is undeniable that these secret meetings have a big impact on Chinese life. It is almost surely that one of China’s most profound traits—its stalwart anti-Japan stance, or at least the propaganda that whips it up—was forged in meetings like those in Beidaihe.
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Surely, next year’s Beidaihe summit will have some intense discussions, fueling the grand schemes that will project Chinese geopolitical power for years to come. But we won’t hear about those plans, and that’s exactly how the CCP wants it.
Lyndon LaRouche Issues Warning: Obama Is War-hungry and Putin Is Angry
Lyndon LaRouche Issues Warning: Obama Is War-hungry and Putin Is Angry
NATO is conducting new, highly provocative maneuvers right along the Russian borders over the course of the next month, beginning Saturday, August 22. Swift Response 15 is the largest airborne military exercise on the European continent since the end of the Cold War, and involves the very “high-readiness forces” that NATO has created, specifically to conduct warfare against Russia. Early next month, NATO will be conducting Dynamic Manta naval maneuvers in the Ionian Sea, demonstrating NATO's anti-submarine warfare systems.
On Wednesday, Gen. Ben Hodges, the commander of the US Army Europe, told reporters that the US training program of Ukrainian national guard troops in eastern Ukraine is going ahead, and that the Ukrainian regular army is now a fully professional fighting force. Hodges made no mention of the fact that the so-called national guard forces he is training are dominated by outright Nazis from the Banderist Right Sector, who are prepared to trigger a war with Russia, into which US President Obama is prepared to intervene, using the pretext to start a general war against Russia.
Russian President Putin is fully aware of the imminent threat of war provocation coming out of President Obama. He is aware of the activation of Right Sector neo-Nazi brigades against eastern Ukraine. Putin will not start a war, but he is prepared to respond, with full strategic force, if President Obama goes ahead with his intended plans to launch war against Russia on the earliest pretext. Anyone studying how Putin handled the 2008 military provocations by Georgia, under US and NATO darling Saakashvili, should have learned the lesson of how Russia will spring the trap on any adversary—and then crush them totally.
The problem is that President Obama is oblivious to the nature of how Putin and Russia will respond. Obama is stuck on the idea that he can force Putin to back down by carrying out bluffs and provocations, including via surrogate Ukrainian Nazis. Obama is delusional, and his delusions now threaten the world with annihilation in a thermonuclear war that will be provoked by Obama.
Is there anything more insane than a US President who is prepared to run the risk of human extinction out of his obsession with starting a conflict with Russia? Isn't this precisely the kind of mental breakdown that the authors of the 25th Amendment had in mind when they spelled out procedures for removing a president from office—instantly—who is no longer mentally or physically capable of performing his Constitutional functions?
https://larouchepac.com/20150820/remove-obama-or-face-near-certain-extinction
The Town In Athens Greece That Is Keeping The Government Out And Starting Anew
The Town In Athens Greece That Is Keeping The Government Out And Starting Anew
As the economic and political systems continue to crumble and collapse in Greece, a district in Athens is growing in strength and independence after large numbers of individuals began to keep the government out and empower their own community.
Although Exarchia is in the shadow of the country’s capital city, it has become a hotbed of freedom and mutual aid programs during a dark time for the whole country. Due to the rising freedom in the area, people from all over have begun to move in and help to build the community.
The mainstream media has demonized the community and has painted it as a stronghold for anarchists, drug dealers, criminals and homeless people, and the community has become understandably resistant to the mainstream media as a result. The media, the police, and government officials are not welcome in the territory and are rarely brave enough to pass through, knowing that the community is united and defiant in their resistant to the establishment.
Exarchia is one of the most common areas where people will resist police brutality with force, and it is also one of the most active areas of the country in terms of activism. The walls of the streets are covered with posters, writing and graffiti that is distinctly political and anti-state.
Without China, The US Economy Will Fall ... and It's Now In Motion!
As ANP reported yesterday, central bankers have lost control and the manipulations they have been using to prop up the economy to give the illusion of "recovery" are failing across the spectrum as we see that 23 nations across the world are already suffering stock market crashes.
THE DOMINOES ARE FALLING
David Stockman at Contra Corner does an excellent job of explaining in detail how and why we have come to "the end of the line" and how the game now changes, significant quotes shown below but the whole article is recommended reading.
"China is the end of the line. It was the only economy left that until recently could boast actual growth on a scale that mattered to the global economy. Growth stopped when China, too, introduced stimulus measures. To the tune of some $25 trillion or more, no less.
The perhaps most pivotal importance of China is that it was the world’s latest financial hope. The yuan devaluation shatters that hope once and for all. The global economy looks a lot more bleak for it, even if many people already didn’t believe official growth numbers anymore.
Because we’ve reached the end of the line, the game changes. Of course there will be additional attempts at stimulus, but China’s central bank has de facto conceded that its measures have failed. The yuan devaluations, three days in a row now, mean the central People’s Bank of China has, openly though reluctantly, acknowledged its QE has failed, and quite dramatically at that. They just hope you won’t notice, and try to bring it on with a positive spin.
Central banks are not “beginning” to lose control, they lost control a long time ago. The age of central bank omnipotence has “left and gone away” like Joltin’ Joe. Omnipotence has been replaced by impotence.
This admission will reverberate across the globe. China is simply that big. It may take a while longer for other central bankers to admit to their own failures (though ‘failures’, in view of the wealth transfer, is a relative term here), but it won’t really matter much. One is enough."
Phoenix Capital Research states "The significance of these developments cannot be overstated. Central Banks will be increasingly acting against one another going forward. There will more surprises and more volatility across the board. Eventually it will culminate in a Crash that will make 2008 look like a picnic."
http://allnewspipeline.com/We_Have_Reached_The_End_Of_The_Line.php
Fascist Indonesian Govt Censoring Websites At ISP Level
After promising a strong response to piracy for several years, Indonesia has finally taken action against The Pirate Bay. Along with fellow torrent index IsoHunt.to, the site is among almost two dozen others now ordered by the Ministry of Communications to be blocked at the ISP level.
After being accused of doing little to stop piracy both on and offline, in 2009 Indonesia was placed on the USTR’s Priority Watch List for failing to protect US intellectual property rights.
In 2011 the Indonesian government announced that it would begin to take tough measures, including having local ISPs block the most-visited sites.
“The plan is to block famous sites, like 4shared for example,” Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring said at the time.
Four years later (and after blocking sites including Reddit, Imgur and Vimeo on decency grounds) Indonesia is finally taking action against sites that infringe copyrights.
Following the signing last month of a Joint Ministerial Decree intended to protect film producers, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has ordered almost two dozen domains to be blocked at the ISP level.
While there is a nod to U.S. concerns with a blockade of both ThePirateBay.se and Isohunt.to, the remainder (list below) are sites frequented mainly by locals. 4shared is not among them.
Read the rest here:
https://torrentfreak.com/indonesia-blocks-the-pirate-bay-isohunt-others-150820/
Rogue CIA Officer with Grudge - Terrorizing Pols Over Drugs
Rogue CIA Officer with Grudge
- BIDEN DROPS OUT OVER FOLLOWING BLOCKBUSTER SITUATION:
– CIA RECRUITER, STATION CHIEF OUTED, ASSASSINATIONS DECIMATE CIA NETWORKS
– IT’S PAYBACK TIME!
– CIA WHISTLEBLOWER CREDIBILITY BOOSTED 10,000% AS HE DECLARES VICTORY WITH IRREFUTABLE AGENT DESCRIPTIONS 
– SPECIAL FORCES, CIA FLEE EMBASSY
Joe Biden's decision not to seek the presidency and the resignation of Speaker Boehnor are directly linked to a huge new scandal enveloping Washington - a letter which is being posted online and which outs senior CIA agents and implicates much of the US political class in the drugs trade.
The letter, written by person claiming to be a rogue CIA agent who identifies the Mexico City station chief and a top CIA recruiter.
The letter follows:
This letter is from a rogue senior CIA officer to some of best-known names in US; who also happen to be some of the biggest names in the international narcotics trade.
So Dear POTUS, Bubba, Jeb, Kerry, McConnell and other kleptocrats who are complicit in this situation: this is your HASTERT MOMENT…when you get that phone call which makes your blood run cold.
This is a secret, coded message, just between me and you, and it’s likely that others won’t really understand what I’m talking about.
Here’s the point. I have dirt on the kleptocracy. Serious secrets.
I know all about Your Economy. Like Giffuni. Got your attention?
If you want another secret to prove I’m for real, I’ll out the identity of an undercover US agent: how about Tim Wade, working narcotics in Mexico and Colombia.
Aside to investigators: here’s a riddle for you. It’s not too hard, and it is the key to this situation: who was the tallest man in the US embassy in Mexico City in 2012? Figure that out and you’ll be on the right track. Ok, just to make it easier, I’ll tell you: THE CIA STATION HEAD. Also, THE RECRUITER (beard, short, fat) has my card. You try to DK me, but how do you explain that? Nazi Mike Moore-lookalike working with CIA in Mexico City in Sept. 2012 is the man who knows about the AI (believe me, he’s a guy you will REALLY want to find.) After interrogation, terminate them all. The Indian way. Slowly. Then turn them into chicken soup. The girls are so generic (drab versions of you, Valerie-BTW NEED YOUR HELP) that I can’t even describe them. But I or someone civilized will track them down and kill them, too.
Yes, that is correct. I have just outed several senior CIA agents (which could be construed aa serious federal crime) and many, many people will die because of it. But trust me, it was the right thing to do - I have inside information.
Reports are already coming in of a wave of assassinations taking out CIA networks worldwide and the cutting of CIA drug supply lines.
Back to the kleptocrats. Another big secret is that the Democrats have long used the MGM Grand Casinos in Vegas to launder CIA drug money from Mexico. Could Kirk Kerkorian’s death in June be a hit related to this situation on an old mobster who outlived his usefulness? After all, MGM Grand is Harry Reid’s biggest donor. Hard luck with the eye, Harry. Good thing it was just an exercise accident and not a beatdown over this situation! Another easy riddle: who is the one-eyed man in the Bible?
Want to talk about the SEALs and other special forces working for the CIA CARTEL at the US EMBASSY in Mexico CIty in 2012? I didn't think so.
Truly I say to you, there were those pictures sent to me by Bubba and Mr. Magoo, er, I mean Magog Bush, before I left to the Netherlands seeking political asylum after breaking up the CIA’s Mexico drug ring and being brutally tortured. Don’t worry, I discussed those photos in great detail with my new friends in the Dutch government.
Then there was the picture from that criminal genius, Jerry Brown. Funny guy! And smart, too! Words do not describe the desdain in which that man should be held. In short, a mobster who sends pictures of himself to threaten his victims is not only a sadist and a psychopath, but too stupid to be ringleader of anything, let alone a branch of SPECTRE.
It goes without saying that John Boehner resigned over this situation. I handed him the presidency a year ago, but the crybaby was unable to convert.
It is because of this situation that now I am again being threatened with being tortured to death. My family, including my 13 and 4-year old daughters, are also constantly threatened with torture by the Obama administration.
Sen. John McCain knows everything and does nothing; Demint offered me a cigar, but never delivered; on anything.
I could talk about Krispy’s visit to Mexico City to look into CIA drug trafficking last Fall, but I don’t want to pick on the fat kid (oops).
Another secret: a Secret Service advance team surveilled my residence in Costa Rica prior to Obama’s 2013 visit, creating a direct link between the White House and this situation.
AGENDA 21 In California: Eco-fascist Gestapo To Police Water Use!
AGENDA 21 In California: Eco-fascist Gestapo To Police Water Use!
As California's drought worsens and the availability of potable water continues to decline quickly, regulators in the state have become increasingly strict in imposing rules and fines in order to conserve what water remains.
To do so, state drought regulators have gone to the extreme in recent days, proposing a first-of-its-kind fine of $1.5 million on a group of farmers they insist took water illegally.
As reported by The Associated Press, the fine, announced July 20 by the State Water Resources Control Board, is the first time a fine would be levied against an individual or district that retained senior water rights that are more than 100 years old, and which have historically provided them with immunity from mandatory water conservation requirements.
In other words, the state board is now insisting that historic water rights – which these farmers have owned for a century – are no longer valid, and any use over what the board has imposed is now, suddenly, "illegal."
As the AP further noted:
The fine follows months of unprecedented cutback orders to communities, businesses and the powerful agriculture industry during the fourth year of the devastating dry spell in California.
The state is fighting off court challenges to its authority to control water use and doubts over whether it has the resources to enforce its orders.
http://www.naturalnews.com/050856_water_wars_California_drought.html
S Navy on Alert: China-Russia to Launch Largest-ever Joint Navy Exercise
US Navy on Alert: China-Russia to Launch Largest-ever Joint Navy Exercise
The Chinese and Russian navies are gearing up for their largest-ever joint exercises, slated to begin Thursday in the Pacific with more than 20 ships and featuring anti-submarine operations as well as a joint-beach landing.
The “Joint Sea 2015 II” exercises will run through Aug. 28 in the Sea of Japan and off the coast of Vladivostok.
While analysts say the operations have increased in size and sophistications during recent years, the Chinese and Russian navies have held five such joint exercises over the past decade.
But in the current round of exercises, Chinese frigates have reportedly made their first-ever visit to the Russian Novorossiysk naval base in the Black Sea.
President Vladimir Putin made headlines in the area Tuesday by joining a Russian navy team aboard a small vessel that plunged into the Black Sea along the coast of the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine last year.
The U.S. Naval Institute’s online news and analysis portal, USNI, said Tuesday that the coming China-Russia exercises will be the second series of joint drills in less than a year.
The first “Joint Sea 2015” operation played out in the Mediterranean Sea in April. The USNI report noted that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said late last year that the U.S. was a factor motivating increased China-Russia military training.
However, more recent comments by other top Russian officials suggest Moscow is generally in line — rhetorically at least — with U.S. calls for multilateral solutions to any territorial disputes in hotly disputed waters of the South China Sea, where Beijing has angered other countries in the region with aggressive sovereignty claims in recent months.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/18/china-russia-to-launch-largest-ever-joint-navy-exe/
What Will You Do When The Government Checks Stop?
What Will You Do When The Government Checks Stop?
Preppers talk about the day when paper currency becomes worthless and how they plan to barter when things fall apart. But, what will most people do when the government check they depend on stops forever more. Over 50% of the people in America now get some kind of government check every month. That is a question that I think many people have not come to grips with yet. At some point, the checks will stop.
Social security and Medicare are running dry fast and it is only a matter of time before they stop paying out in whole or in part. If someone relies on these payments then they likely do not have sufficient money stored away to survive on in the event payments stop.
Not only that, the many other entitlement payments sent out monthly that are keeping the population clothed, fed and housed will stop at some point as well. When that happens we already know what the result will be, especially in the cities. It is inevitable but many people still trust the government line and do not worry about it.
There are those that realize the threat but have not taken any action to mitigate the problems that will result when the fateful day comes. Many hope it will be forestalled for their lifetimes and some hope if they ignore it, it simply will not happen. If government checks stop it will also mean the destruction of retirement plans and savings accounts and if you do not hold it you will not have it.
One of the most vulnerable groups are the babyboomers that are now retiring at the rate of 10,000 per day. If this growing group suddenly looses their monthly check along with most or all of their savings, it is going to put a lot of pressure on society as these people suddenly try to return to the job market to survive.
With the job market shrinking on a daily basis it is now imperative to develop a backup plan to generate some type of income when you can no longer rely on past promises to be honored. If you can store away some real money or valuable items to utilize later that is great but that will not last you forever.
Anyone that survives the coming currency crisis will be someone that planned ahead and had some way to generate income after everything falls apart. If you can generate income to live on, be it money, food, medicine or some other item you need, you will be able to care for yourself for the duration.
That is going to be a critical element in any long range plan you come up with. This means you will need to have the ability to produce something of value that society will need on a daily basis. The first things people seek out are food, shelter and clothing. Having some abilities in one or more of these areas will be the closest thing to guaranteed sales potential that you can get.
Once these needs have been met by society other things will become important such as energy, security, transportation and medicine. Having some abilities in one or more of these areas will insure income for a long time to come as society rebuilds itself.
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It is important to keep in mind that retirement is a relatively new invention that came about in the 20th century. Until then, people worked until they literally dropped dead. When the current financial system breaks permanently, people will be forced to go back to work and keep doing so until the day they die. That is the reality many people will have to face in the near future. It is a reality that many have not considered and do not want to think about. You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. When the government checks stop and your savings are gone, what will you do?
https://projectchesapeake.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/what-will-you-do-when-the-government-checks-stop/
http://oathkeepers.org/oktester/what-will-you-do-when-the-government-checks-stop/
Windows 10 BUSTED, AND IT IS CREEPY
Windows 10 BUSTED, AND IT IS CREEPY
Yeah, I guess HILLARY'S E-MAILS PROVED THE NSA AS A SOURCE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, because using them can land you in jail. THE NEW CONSULTEE IS (PROBABLY) MICROSOFT, why have your goons infiltrate an old outdated battleship like the NSA when that can backfire?
Why does Microsoft have a right to ALL text I type, the first 35 megabytes of video from a web cam every time it is turned on, and everything that gets picked up by the microphone? Ha, they don't BECAUSE I DO NOT USE THEIR PRODUCTS, if you have not woken up yet and still do, here is what now happens:
All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
pre.footprintpredict.com
reports.wes.df.telemetry.microsoft.com
This will allow Microsoft and the greater Jewish community to have a way to steal every joke, every poem, every intellectual endeavor you ever create and have it copyrighted before you even stop typing.
Telemetry is sent once per 5 minutes, to:
vortex.data.microsoft.com
vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com
telecommand.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com
oca.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com
sqm.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
This allows them to track you very accurately.
23 Nations Where Stock Market Crashes Are Already Happening
23 Nations Where Stock Market Crashes Are Already Happening
You can stop waiting for a global financial crisis to happen. The truth is that one is happening right now. All over the world, stock markets are already crashing. Most of these stock market crashes are occurring in nations that are known as “emerging markets”. In recent years, developing countries in Asia, South America and Africa loaded up on lots of cheap loans that were denominated in U.S. dollars. But now that the U.S. dollar has been surging, those borrowers are finding that it takes much more of their own local currencies to service those loans. At the same time, prices are crashing for many of the commodities that those countries export. The exact same kind of double whammy caused the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s and the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s.
As you read this article, almost every single stock market in the world is down significantly from a record high that was set either earlier this year or late in 2014. But even though stocks have been sliding in the western world, they haven’t completely collapsed just yet.
In much of the developing world, it is a very different story. Emerging market currencies are crashing hard, recessions are starting, and equity prices are getting absolutely hammered.
Posted below is a list that I put together of 23 nations around the world where stock market crashes are already happening. To see the stock market chart for each country:
1. Malaysia
2. Brazil
3. Egypt
4. China
5. Indonesia
6. South Korea
7. Turkey
8. Chile
9. Colombia
10. Peru
11. Bulgaria
12. Greece
13. Poland
14. Serbia
15. Slovenia
16. Ukraine
17. Ghana
18. Kenya
19. Morocco
20. Nigeria
21. Singapore
22. Taiwan
23. Thailand
Of course this is just the beginning. The western world is going to feel this kind of pain as well very soon.
Read the rest here:
Russia Overtakes Germany In Economic Production
Russia Overtakes Germany In Economic Production
New data released by World Bank says that adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity Russia overtook Germany as world’s 4th economy in 2013.
China Overtakes US, Russia Overtakes Germany. At least according to the latest revision of the World Bank’s PPP-adjusted GDP estimates.
China has long been expected to overtake the US economy (one economist dated it to as early as 2010), and there had already been a flurry in the media when the IMF claimed the same thing in December last year.
The World Bank’s new figures just confirm the new reality and scaremongering about a bad night at the irrelevant casino that is the Chinese stockmarket is not going to materially change the fact. Annual growth continues at 7% per year, much the same as South Korea when it was at a similar stage of per capita development in the 1980s.
Russia’s PPP-adjusted GDP actually marginally overtook Germany’s back in 2013, and it managed to maintain this small lead into 2014 despite falling into recession. Of course with GDP expected to fall by around 3% this year, there will almost certainly be a reversal of this, but not by any radical amount – the hystrionical pronunciations of the Western media regardless – and will likely be temporary anyway import substitution really kicks in.
Financial, military, and cultural power are all ultimately functions, if lagging functions, of productive economic power. Although it would be a bad idea to go overboard with it, the spectacle of the same year (give or take) seeing both Russia overtaking the former biggest economy in Europe, and China overtaking the former biggest economy in the world, is really quite symbolic.
http://russia-insider.com/en/world-bank-russia-overtakes-germany-4th-economy/ri9272
Fascist EU Commission Refuses To Release Glyphosate Risk Assessment
EU Commission Says "None of Your Business" on Glyphosate Risk Assessment
The EU Commission is refusing to let independent researchers anywhere near a recent glyphosate risk assessment. Of course, it makes people wonder all the more when the Commission says there should be no overriding “public interest” and acts as though revealing the results were a matter of national security.
Unlike propagandists acting as scientism skeptics, who pretend it’s safe to drink glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide) – many other studies and observations prove that human exposure is hazardous. Sometimes it’s finding out that glyphosate can lead to breast cancer in parts per trillion, that it hijacks hormones and is found in breast milk and in rain samples. Sometimes it’s a farmer waking up to discover that his piglets are deformed and dying – so he sends them off to a lab. Sometimes you find out that the so-called experts who tell us to “trust science” as they pretend to drink glyphosate are actually getting funds from Monsanto.
Here, we actually have independent researchers ready to face the results of the assessment, come what may, and the Commission basically says, “you can’t look at that.” Even though parts of Europe are known for blocking GMO crops, restricting pesticides and labeling or restricting GMO food products, Monsanto et al. have been orbiting the EU strategically finding openings. Whether it’s by funding research projects to “help the bees,” pretending to help the bees, or better yet, getting super cozy with the commish.
>Here’s the kicker: it appears Monsanto et al. have already had access to the results. Sustainable Pulse noted “they reviewed an advanced draft of the report, dated January 2015. Soon afterward, industry quickly published a scientific paper claiming that glyphosate would not be carcinogenic. This was then promptly picked up by the German authority for the final version of its report.”
>Christoph Then of Testbiotech couldn’t help but notice the hypocrisy of allowing industry access but barring independent experts saying that it would undermine decision making.
The Ashley Madison Database
The leak of 10GB worth of personal user data from the Ashley Madison hack has revealed a deluge of email addresses associated with government employees, bankers, politicians and military personnel.
The popular cheating website with the slogan, “Life is short. Have an affair,” was hacked last month, but the team behind the hack just dumped the details of nearly 36 million users onto the dark web, meaning they are accessible to anyone with encrypted browsers.
“There have been instances of Bank of America, IBM, Raytheon defense company, and Tony Blair’s gov’t office emails spotted already and the data is still coming,” reports WTFMagazine. “This leak has the potential to implicate CEOs, bankers, celebrities, politicians, business owners, and many others in powerful positions.”
More than 15,000 emails revealed by the leak are hosted on US government and military servers, as well as numerous emails associated with individuals who work for the British government.
Controversial blogger Andrew Auernheimer has been busy naming names of powerful people exposed by the leak, including individuals from Naval Intelligence, the TSA, and the Attorney General’s office.
Numerous emails belonging to CNN employees have also been posted on Twitter. Weasel Zippers also highlights 11 emails of State Department employees that were allegedly using the website.
http://www.infowars.com/ashley-madison-leak-reveals-thousands-of-government-email-addresses/
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/adultery-site-ashley-madison-hacked-user-data-leaked-n394986
America Will Never Recover From The Treason And Treachery Of The
America Will Never Recover From The Treason And Treachery Of The Clinton's Betrayal
The Week's top story is called "Hillary Clinton: The Democratic Party's Ticking Time Bomb." Over at the Observer we see "The Countless Crimes Of Hillary Clinton: Special Prosecutor Needed Now." The Market-Ticker asks "Hitlery Toast?". It quickly sums up Hillary Clinton's latest scandal that could spell the end of her as the DOJ investigates the top secret emails found on her server and the very strong possibility that China, Russia and other adversaries of America have everthing that passed through that machine.
According to Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox News Insider, this new information raises the entire email scandal to a new level…possibly to that of a criminal conspiracy. "If 'top secret' was on there, we know she lied, and she committed a felony by possessing and storing top secret information on an insecure server. If 'top secret' was not there, we will know that someone removed it." Napolitano classifies Clinton's new legal problems as 'worse than grave'. In fact, most Americans now support a criminal probe.
If America's enemies have gotten US secrets through Hillary, it's not the 1st time enemies of America have gotten secrets from a 'Clinton'. A look back over the years shows clear evidence that the Clinton family has helped to provide our enemies with patents, trade and military secrets for many years now. A May 1998 story from Joseph Farah at WND tells us about a Clinton-Loral-China 'dirty deal' that sent US technology secrets to China. Farah told us that Clinton had nothing on Benedict Arnold. Are Bill and Hillary Clinton the 'most treacherous couple in the history of America'?
The sensitive technical data shared with the Chinese for simple greed and power has apparently enhanced the reliability of Beijing’s long-range nuclear missiles – missiles, by the way, targeted at the United States.
A much more recent story from the New York Times from April 2015 tells us that "Cash Flowed to the Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal." The 'untold story' behind the story is one that involved a former US president and the woman who wants to be the next one. We see a perfect example of Clinton profiting at the expense of America and Americans.
Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company’s assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show.
SHOCKING! China Now Owns 4 of the World's 5 Biggest Banks
SHOCKING! China Now Owns 4 of the World's 5 Biggest Banks
China has become a banking powerhouse.
Four of the five largest banks in the world are Chinese, according to SNL Financial’s latest global bank rankings. It’s a big change from the past few years when only two Chinese banks made the top five.
Beijing-based Industrial & Commercial Bank of China holds the top spot with assets valued at $3.5 trillion. That means the bank is worth more than the entire value of the British economy. The only non-Chinese bank remaining in the top five is HSBC, which is headquartered in London. It fell several spots to position No. 4 this year.
The top U.S. bank is JPMorgan Chase (JPM), which ranks sixth with $2.6 trillion in assets. SNL notes that American banks calculate the value of their assets a bit differently from international banks because of U.S. regulations, so it’s likely that JPMorgan would rank higher in a true apples to apples comparison.
China’s financial sector has been struggling in recent weeks after a major meltdown in China’s stock market. On top of that, the Chinese economy is slowing down this year. Even its large factory sector is shrinking.
But Chinese banks have still managed to grow, at least compared to their global peers. Two banks that fell out of the top this year were France’s BNP Paribas (BNPQF) and Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MBFJF). Both were hit by weakening currency in their countries — the euro and the yen have fallen substantially against the U.S. dollar in the past year. That makes their assets less valuable in dollar terms.
Top 10 banks according to SNL Financial:
1. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (China)
2. China Construction Bank (China)
3. Agricultural Bank of China (China)
4. HSBC (U.K.)
5. Bank of China (China)
6. JPMorgan Chase (U.S.)
7. BNP Paribas (France)
8. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (Japan)
9. Bank of American (U.S.)
10. Barclays (U.K.)
Couple Terrorized by Series of False Child-abuse Accusations by CPS Worker
Couple Terrorized by Series of False Child-abuse Accusations by CPS Worker
A young couple had their lives turned upside-down when a CPS worker decided to target them with a series of anonymous child-abuse accusations, each prompting a new investigation.
Corey Chaney, 25, and April Rodgers, 23, have come forward to expose their story after spending “every single dime” they had, even relocating their family, in order to escape the torrent of malicious attempts to separate them and put them into financial ruin.
It began with investigations in the middle of the night. The family was awoken, on multiple occasions, to police officers and social workers demanding entry to their home to check on their infant child. The child, of course, was sleeping peacefully in her crib.
The Courier-Journal documented the disturbing string of false allegations. First, the authorities were investigating a “drunken fight” that supposedly took place outside. Another time, they awoke the family to investigate a claim that Ms. Rodgers was holding her baby upside down over a balcony. Another night, Mr. Chaney was accused of being violent and high on methamphetamine. And yet another time, the father was accused of slammed his infant daughter into a wall.
Each time, the anonymous accusations were enough to put the family through humiliating and disruptive investigations in the middle of the night. The fact that each investigation came up as “unsubstantiated” did not matter when it came time to investigate each new, bizarre claim.
“We asked CPS, how many calls are you going to take before you realize this isn’t true,” Mr. Chaney told the Courier-Journal. “They said, ‘Oh, we have to respond to every call.’”
Aside from losing many nights’ sleep, the couple was put through significant disruption and anguish because of the ordeal. They lived in constant fear that the state would take their baby, despite having done nothing wrong. They were forced to miss work repeatedly to deal with meetings with social workers to prove their innocence. Finally, they used all their savings and moved away from the apartment where the situation had been occurring.
It was finally discovered that the anonymous accuser had been the couple’s downstairs neighbor, who turned out to be a CPS worker with a grudge. Using the anonymous CPS hot-line between April 1 and May 23, the sadistic public servant had made a total of six false accusations because her upstairs neighbors were “too loud.”
EPA To DE-industrialize America Into the Third World
Who granted the EPA authority to create and dictate their own made-up laws?
EPA To DE-industrialize America Into the Third World
The EPA claims its Clean Power Plan will end up saving lives from reducing air pollution, but a new report by a free market energy group warns the agency’s global warming rule will end up killing more than it saves.
“The EPA’s climate rule has no discernible impact on climate change and may cause thousands of premature deaths in the United States,” according to a recent report by the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER). “The EPA relies on faulty data to make exaggerated claims about the benefits of a rule that will cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars and plunge millions of families into poverty.”
“The loss of disposable income due to higher energy bills will leave families with less money to spend on health care, prescriptions, and other essentials. Therefore, EPA should withdraw its expensive and harmful carbon regulation,” according to IER’s report.
As part of [eco-fascist] Barack Obama’s global warming agenda, the EPA finalized the Clean Power Plan earlier this month. The rule aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and limit emissions from newly built electricity generating units. The rule is expected to have virtually no impact on global warming, but the EPA argues thousands of lives will be saved every year as coal plants are shut down and levels of air pollutants decrease.
“Our most vulnerable citizens, including children, older adults, people with heart or lung disease and people living in poverty are most at risk to the health impacts of climate change,” the EPA claims of its Clean Power Plant. “The transition to cleaner sources of energy, which is already underway, will better protect Americans from other harmful air pollution, too.”
But the Clean Power Plan will also raise energy prices as coal-fired power plants are forced to shut down and more expensive, new sources of electricity come online. IER notes that “EPA ignores the link between health and wealth.”
Read more here:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/17/report-epas-global-warming-rule-could-kill-thousands-of-people/
Hillary's Espionage Rar More Grave Than Anyone Realizes
Hillary's Espionage Rar More Grave Than Anyone Realizes
Early on (day one) I received insider information about Hillary's mail box. On day one they knew there were well over 10,000 classified documents that were deleted off of Hillary's hard drive, documents she was never supposed to have access to. And those E-mails constituted a revelation well worth nuking/rodding China over. Many people believe that China got the shaft because of financial decisions only, but I am going to explain just how grave the damage Hillary did to America is, and perhaps people will begin to understand why I think it had a lot to do with what happened in Tianjin.
First of all, they know the exact number of deletes Hillary did, because her "professional" was not so pro. How do they know? EASY: On the inside edge of any hard drive platter, there is a table which contains the location information for every file on the disk. When a delete is done, the table entries are flagged as deleted, (but the files are still on the disk, they are simply marked as writable space). Fine, her "pro" wrote and re-wrote that writable space, to do a hard erase, but the entries in the file table were still there, marked as writable space.
Normally you can't re-access these to see what the filenames were, unless . . . . . well, American intelligence has (and even I have) software that will simply command a hard drive to do a direct linear read of what is on it, and by doing this, they were able to dump the entire table to a readable file. They then sat down and read it line by line, deleted entries and all. And they found over 17,000 entries that had not been over written in this table. These entries did not contain the actual file they referred to, they only proved it existed, and when the files were wiped. This is how they knew, DAY ONE, AS I REPORTED HERE WITHOUT MINCING WORDS DAY ONE (almost a week ago now) that Hillary had THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of classified documents in her mail box.
All Out War As Russia Prepares To Deploy 50,000 Troops To Ukraine
All Out War As Russia Prepares To Deploy 50,000 Troops To Ukraine
The second Ukrainian ceasefire appears to have fallen apart as reports from around the country indicate that heavy fighting has resumed.
Though Western media has yet to report on activity that began Sunday, independent journalists and eye witnesses have been updating social networks with photos, videos and first-hand accounts.
It’s all-out war in the Ukraine with multiple Ukrainian cities now under attack by rockets, mortars and heavy artillery fire
Other sources note that as many as 50,000 Russian military personnel have massed either inside of Ukraine or directly on its border, with heavy armor, including T-90A tanks making their way to the hot zones:
Ukrainian activists on August 14-15 published photos of the Russian amour on their Facebook page. Military authorities in Ukraine believe the number of Russian troops within and close to its borders has risen to more than 50,000, raising fears of a substantial escalation in the conflict raging in Ukraine’s eastern regions.
Sources on twitter are confirming that Russian T90-A tanks are beginning to move into the Ukraine and heading for the city of Donetsk to reinforce rebel held (pro-Russian) positions.
Current intelligence suggests that once Russian military hardware reaches Donetsk, a battle for the strategic port city of Mariupol Ukraine will commence. Mariupol, steel-making city of 500,000 is the biggest, urban center in the conflict zone still controlled by Kiev.
Fighting and a major war resumption in Ukraine is underway, as noted by Mish Shedlock:
• Intense shelling from multiple positions started in #Donetsk
• South of #Donetsk very heavy combat, I see lots of explosions there, very scary
• Intense shelling started also in #Starohnativka.
• #Mariupol can hear heavy shelling from the east.
• Intensity of Ukrainian shellings on #Putilovka and #Spartak is increasing!
• Ukrainian shellings on #Sahanka and #Oktyabr (with MRLS Grad)! East of #Mariupol
Doomsday clock for global market crash strikes one minute to midnight as central banks lose control
Doomsday clock for global market crash strikes one minute to midnight as central banks lose control
China currency devaluation signals endgame leaving equity markets free to collapse under the weight of impossible expectations
When the banking crisis crippled global markets seven years ago, central bankers stepped in as lenders of last resort. Profligate private-sector loans were moved on to the public-sector balance sheet and vast money-printing gave the global economy room to heal.
Time is now rapidly running out. From China to Brazil, the central banks have lost control and at the same time the global economy is grinding to a halt. It is only a matter of time before stock markets collapse under the weight of their lofty expectations and record valuations.
The FTSE 100 has now erased its gains for the year, but there are signs things could get a whole lot worse.
Did Divine Intervention Save the USS Liberty?
Did Divine Intervention Save the USS Liberty?
Written by Ronald Kukal Created: 16 July 2015 Category: Breaking News
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A little over forty eight years ago off the coast of Gaza an American ship called the USS Liberty was in International Waters, doing what the US Government ordered them to do. Saying the ship was lightly armed would be an understatement to say the least. The well equipped IDF was out to put her to the bottom in any way they could, and they had all the weapons they needed to do so. As a crew member and survivor, I have looked back on this attack, and determined that it had to have been intervention such as we have never seen, that kept the Liberty from going to the bottom. Had I been one of the IDF, I would have been amazed at the fire power that was leveled on the Liberty, and still she remained afloat. I won't make this a long article, since it doesn't need to be. It should suffice to say that in normal circumstances the Liberty would have went to the bottom with all hands aboard, but those circumstances were not normal, and a power such as I have never seen kept the Liberty from going to the bottom. I will never take any credit for what I saw God do on that day, not one ounce, because it would detract from this story, and that not the reason I write it. For those that have asked me over the years about the attack, it is the very reason I am putting this out once more. Can you not see ladies and gentlemen the force that was thrown at us? Can you not see that every conceivable weapon was leveled on us that day? What you need to see is that nothing was going to put the Liberty to the bottom, I would venture to say not even an atom bomb. It was ordained that she would stay afloat, and indeed she did just exactly that. Maybe words are not enough to drive this home, but it happens to be the only tool I have. Please listen and understand. God did indeed save the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967. Had he not, I would not be here to tell this story. Ron Kukal USS Liberty Survivor Petty Officer in Charge of Body Recovery and Identification.
http://www.chiptatum.com/index.php/articles/51-the-grace-of-god
MARTIAL LAW AND GUN CONFISCATION PLANS IN THE WORKS!
Dave Hodges has allegedly gotten a hold of confidential information.
If what he says is true, the military is preparing for Martial Law:
>From what I was allowed to read, which totaled 16 pages, I have summarized the provisions for martial law under Jade Helm in the following points:
1. Control of all travel. The use of checkpoints to control exit and entry from neighborhoods and cities will be employed. LEO will enforce neighborhood quarantines with the assistance of loaned military vehicles. Military and National Guard will maintain checkpoints leading in and out of cities. This is why we saw the Idaho/Washington military checkpoint checking for ID’s two weeks ago.
2. The command and control of all martial law activities will fall under the Department of Homeland Security. The President retains all executive control.
3. Refugee and civilian support centers will be established for the purposes of offering protection from anticipated widespread violence, looting and food/water shortages. The “guests” will be screened for the suitability to remain in the center. Those deemed to be a danger or in some way unsuitable, will be transported to more secure facilities. Each guest will be screened for health conditions and essential job skills which would be necessary to maintain the area. Based on the judgment of the Area Director, more vulnerable people (elderly, chronically ill, women and children) may be moved to move secure facilities for their protection.
4. Military assets will protect vital infrastructure with heavy armaments (e.g. banks, power plants, etc). No travel zones will permitted around critical infrastructure.
5. Air travel of any type will be suspended pending approval of the designated authority in both the area of departure and the area of arrival.
6. In volatile areas, dusk to dawn curfews will be established.In home curfews could be imposed until the crisis subsides. Violators will be arrested and taken to a secure facility. Lethal force can be used against anyone caught looting.
7. All business entities are subject to search and confiscation of supplies deemed vital to the survival of citizens in the present crisis. Every effort will be made to utilize private resources in an equitable manner.
8. Anyone engaging in behavior which is deemed detrimental to safety and welfare of any community will be arrested. (Note: This is the end of free speech).
9. Public or private possession of any weapon is expressly forbidden. The document spoke of voluntary gun confiscation where people come and turn in their guns. Compensation for the guns will be offered. The type of confiscation was not mentioned, but I would suspect food and water.
10. In volatile areas, the Area Commander can order door-to-door welfare checks. Further, if field officer feels that any weapon is a threat to the safety and security of a community, that weapon shall be confiscated and destroyed.
11. Food and water storage by individual citizens is encouraged. However, if shortages within a designated area occur, confiscation of these resources may occur. No citizen shall experience food and water confiscation that leaves them with less than three days of supplies per person living in any given residence.
12. There is no doubt that massive civil unrest will occur and in these instances, travel outside a designated distance from one’s home can be limited. Proper paperwork can be required based upon the judgment of the Area Commander.
BOOM! Russia, China to Create Entirely Different Gold Market!
Russia, China to Create Entirely Different Gold Market
While key Western banks are artificially restraining gold prices to breathe life into the diluted and devalued dollar system, Russia, China and other emerging economies are involved in "the genial move" to establish an entirely different gold market, F. William Engdahl underscores.
Key central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve and Bank of England, and Western market players have long been accused of clandestine gold price manipulating aimed at preserving the dollar's role "as world reserve currency primus," American-German economic researcher and historian F. William Engdahl writes.
"The COMEX gold futures market in New York and the Over-the-Counter (OTC) trades cleared through the London Bullion Market Association do set prices which are followed most widely in the world. They are also markets dominated by a handful of huge players, the six London Bullion Market Association gold clearing banks — the corrupt JP MorganChase bank; the scandal-ridden UBS bank of Zurich; The Bank of Nova Scotia — ScotiaMocatta, the world's oldest bullion bank which began as banker to the British East India Company, the group that ran the China Opium Wars; the scandal-ridden Deutsche Bank; the scandal-ridden Barclays Bank of London; HSBC of London, the house bank of the Mexican drug cartels; and the scandal and fraud-ridden Societe Generale of Paris," Engdahl narrated.
Furthermore, Western banks are issuing numerous paper "gold-futures" and other speculative contracts which are in fact disconnected from real physical gold.
In a word, operations with the precious metal in London and New York are in questionable hands, the economic researcher noted.
The West's ultimate goal is to preserve the dollar's monopoly in the market thus breathing life into the US-led global financial system. But no one likes monopolists.
Predictably, the current state of affairs cannot satisfy rising economies, such as China, Russia and other emerging powers.
However, "[r]ather than scream and cry 'fraud' at the owners of the COMEX/CME or the London Bullion Market Association Big Six clearing banks, these countries are involved in the genial move to create an entirely different gold market, one that not JP MorganChase or HSBC or Deutsche Bank control, but one that China, Russia and others of a like mind control," Engdahl stressed.
This new approach is connected closely with the China-led New Silk Road project and the Shanghai-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
In May 2015 Beijing announced it had established a state-run gold investment fund, aiming to bolster China's role in global gold trade. The new initiative is a part of China's ambitious One Belt and One Road plan. The "Silk Road Gold Fund" will invest in mining projects in the regions along the New Silk Road encouraging central banks of its members to increase their holdings in the precious metal.
"As China has expressed it, the aim is to enable the Eurasian countries along the Silk Road to increase the gold backing of their currencies. That sounds very much like some clear-thinking and far-sighted governments are thinking of creating a stable group of gold backed currencies that would facilitate orderly trade free from Washington currency wars," the economic researcher elaborated.
India to Create Strategic Uranium Reserve
Concerned about running out of nuclear fuel, India is creating a strategic uranium reserve to ensure that its atomic reactors can keep producing electricity without interruption.
"The reserve pool could be anywhere between 5000 MT to 15,000 MT which can last for 5-10 years," The Times of India reported on Sunday, quoting a senior government official.
Nuclear represents a relatively small portion of baseload power for densely populated India. The country operates 20 mostly small reactors with a capacity of 4,780 megawatts or two percent of total electricity capacity, according to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited.
However the government is hoping to increase that to 63,000 MW by 2032 by adding 30 reactors, at an estimated cost of $85 billion, Aljazeera reported in 2014.
India is actively seeking agreements with foreign powers in order to reach that goal, on top of the nuclear agreements it currently has with 11 countries and deals to import uranium from Russia, France and Kazakhstan.
GET READY!!! WATCH YOUR PANTS!!! ITS GONNA GO HOTTTTT!!!! RETIRED FBI AGENT, NOW MINISTER, CHECKS IN
GET READY!!! WATCH YOUR PANTS!!! ITS GONNA GO HOTTTTT!!!! RETIRED FBI AGENT, NOW MINISTER, CHECKS IN- Truth is stranger than fiction
RETIRED FBI AGENT, NOW MINISTER, CHECKS IN :
Truth is stranger than fiction & people are blind and cannot face nor receive the truth. That is why we are marginalized and hated. You're right. . . they are going to be demonizing the Evangelical church next, esp after the PlanParent revelations. They got caught with they hinder quarters exposed.
Yes, time is short and judgment on USA has already begun.
For your consideration: Why have all deployments been halted? Why have those who have been deployed had their deployments cut short and returned to USA soil? Why has Mil moved heavy metal from east of the Miss to west of the Miss? Why had Canada set 1,000+ heavy metal items on the borders of ID and MT at the military railheads. Check your sources . . . the answers will be prove interesting.
I guarantee the Feds are waiting for riots/"civil disturbances" to start. Pacification will begin in the cities, then inner/surrounding suburbs, then out lying areas. Cities and inner suburbs have the majority minorities populations and EBT cards. Feds prepared bankers three-four years ago about what is expected to happen; from a friend, very scared friend, in the industry.
Blessing
Jul 30, 2015
Media Companies Panic as Customers Ditch Cable TV
Media Companies Panic as Customers Ditch Cable TV
This is a no brainer. Personally, we canceled our Comcast cable a few months ago, and now only pay for wifi and use Apple TV to watch movies, shows, etc. Apparently, we’re not the only ones.
Cord-cutting is gaining steam.
Pay-TV services recorded their biggest-ever quarterly drop in subscribers, losing 625,000 TV customers, according to a report Thursday from the research firm SNL Kagan.
While about 100.4 million households still pay for traditional pay TV, the report underscored investors’ fears that cord-cutting is gaining momentum and starting to fray the TV industry’s business model.
Those fears led to a sell-off in media stocks last week, with entertainment companies losing more than $60 billion in value over two days. Top program suppliers such as Walt Disney Co., Time Warner Inc. and Viacom Inc., which rely on subscriber fees and advertising for their revenue, were hard hit.
So-called cord cutters are dropping pay-TV packages that cost an average $87 a month in favor of online services from Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. priced at under $10. That’s led to falling viewership at many cable networks, hurting ad sales and threatening to reduce subscriber fees.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/08/14/media-companies-panic-as-customers-ditch-cable-tv/
More Proof That The US Govt Is Behind The Rise of ISIS
Pentagon Trained 'Rebel' Group in Syria Pledges Allegiance to ISIS-aligned Al-Nusra
Division 30, also known as the New Syrian Forces, was created by the United States as part of a propaganda campaign to counter the fact virtually all of the mercenaries in Syria have gone over to the Islamic State.
On May 8 Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced 90 mercenaries had begun training with the Pentagon and would be trained at camps in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan.
“These trainees are recruited, they’re vetted, and only then are they put into training,” Carter said.
In early July two-thirds of the Division 30 mercenaries, including the groups’s commander Nadim al-Hassan, were captured in Syria north of Aleppo by Jabhat al-Nusra fighters.
Jabhat al-Nusra is described by the corporate media as an al-Qaeda affiliate sworn to take down the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. In June, 2014, the group reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIS at Albu Kamal on the Syria-Iraq border.
The leader of al-Nusra, Abu Mussab al-Makdessi, said the ISIS fighters “remain our brothers” and the “ideological bond between us is stronger than anything. We are ready to fight by their side … our blood is their blood.”
Late Saturday it was reported seven members of Division 30 were released by al-Nusra and it was hoped Nadim al-Hassan would be released soon.
The Division 30 statement described al-Nusra as “brothers” and went on to declare the Pentagon trained group is on the “same page with all holy warriors in Syria.”
Read the rest here:
RIAA and MPAA Would Love Web Browsers to Block Pircacy Sites
RIAA and MPAA Would Love Web Browsers to Block Pircacy Sites
>Two weeks ago the RIAA wrote a letter to BitTorrent Inc, asking the company to block "infringing" downloads in its popular client uTorrent. While it's technically feasible the request treads on a slippery slope. Will the RIAA ask web browsers to block copyright infringing URLs next?
>Earlier this month the music group sent a letter to uTorrent’s parent company BitTorrent Inc. urging it to do something about this unauthorized use. Ideally, the RIAA would like infringing hashes to be banned so that users can no longer share these files.
>The RIAA’s request isn’t about the protocol or the technology. It’s about adding a piracy prevention mechanism to a neutral piece of software. Should BitTorrent be obliged to do that?
>Legally speaking BitTorrent Inc isn’t required to take any action. Browser developers don’t have to block infringing URLs either, even though hundreds of millions of people use their software to download or stream pirated content. However, the RIAA’s letter shows that the music group is trying to shift this obvious boundary, and they are not only focusing on BitTorrent.
>TF has learned that the RIAA and MPAA are pushing for automated pirate site blocking/warning technology. Outright takedown requests to browser vendors are not going to happen anytime soon, but subtle changes may appear.
>The RIAA previously noted that it would like Google to expand Chrome’s malware warning system to cover pirate sites. This would mean that users see a red warning screen when they attempt to visit known piracy sites.
>For its part the MPAA is actively lobbying for “site scoring” tools behind closed doors. A leaked copy of the group’s anti-piracy strategies lists site scoring services, which identify pirate sites, as a high priority.
https://torrentfreak.com/should-web-browsers-block-copyright-infringing-urls-150816/
World Banks Dominate while pretend enemies "war"
World Banks Dominate while pretend enemies "war"
He looks up in admiration at a portrait of Big Brother, Winston feels he has at least ended his "stubborn, self-willed exile" from the love of Big Brother
So do you believe the official narratives? That Russia is at some perpetual war with USA and that shifting alliances are real and that the wars are real?
Why do you think police get militarized and there is so much research into controlling peoples minds but so little curing common diseases?
Well of course those ppm of toxins that destroy your body are for your safety. Nevermind that these toxins could be removed to 0ppb in your food and water but are not.
It isn't even about profit. Why would it be? Who creates the money and prints the debt? Anyway. Here is some news about Oceania.
US military officials are loudly bragging about their latest initiative to reassure Europe, a program that was called, unlikely enough, the European Reeassurance Initiative (ERI), and which to this point has involved moving a lot of sand around, and building some roads in rural parts of several Baltic states.
ERI is nominally the latest in a long line of programs the Obama Administration has announced to “combat Russian aggression,” and which are meant to build up nations along the Russian frontier to support massive US military deployments to spite Russia.
The plans are often ill-conceived, as the US idea to deploy huge amounts of tanks into several of these countries ran into problems because the tanks are stored in swampy areas where the mud makes it virtually impossible to drive a tank, and NATO has taken to having to “ship” those tanks back and forth to their various anti-Russia photo ops.
In this regard, ERI is trying to be the solution for the military-created problem, hauling thousands of tonnes of sand into those swampy areas to build “tank trails” that they can drive the tanks through, along with roads to support the infrastructure for the NATO operations in the area.
The army sees it as a win-win, as the pricey construction involves the use of contractors, and is subsequently popular with the host countries, and also lets the army deploy people to not-war-zones, which is “good for morale.”
That the whole program is make-work to “reassure” European nations about the US commitment to take part in some unlikely, disastrous future war with Russia is just gravy for them, as the Pentagon sees talk of a new Cold War as a great excuse to push for bigger budgets, and if they can’t physically position forces in the Baltic swamps for this scheme, they’ll build up the swamps so they can.
The Marine Corps' mission in Eastern Europe is rapidly evolving in the face of Russian saber-rattling, according to the outgoing commander of the Romania-based Black Sea Rotational Force.
NSA Relies On One Major Telecom Corporation for Mass Spying
https://cryptome.org/2015/08/nsa-sso-fair-storm-blar-nyt-propub-15-0814.pdf
https://www.propublica.org/article/nsa-spying-relies-on-atts-extreme-willingness-to-help
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-trail-of-evidence-leading-to-atts-partnership-with-the-nsa
The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T.
While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed NSA documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and especially productive. One document described it as “highly collaborative,” while another lauded the company’s “extreme willingness to help.”
AT&T’s cooperation has involved a broad range of classified activities, according to the documents, which date from 2003 to 2013. AT&T has given the NSA access, through several methods covered under different legal rules, to billions of emails as they have flowed across its domestic networks. It provided technical assistance in carrying out a secret court order permitting the wiretapping of all Internet communications at the United Nations headquarters, a customer of AT&T.
The NSA’s top-secret budget in 2013 for the AT&T partnership was more than twice that of the next-largest such program, according to the documents. The company installed surveillance equipment in at least 17 of its Internet hubs on American soil, far more than its similarly sized competitor, Verizon. And its engineers were the first to try out new surveillance technologies invented by the eavesdropping agency.
One document reminds NSA officials to be polite when visiting AT&T facilities, noting: “This is a partnership, not a contractual relationship.”
The documents, provided by the former agency contractor Edward Snowden, were jointly reviewed by The New York Times and ProPublica. The NSA, AT&T and Verizon declined to discuss the findings from the files. “We don’t comment on matters of national security,” an AT&T spokesman said.
Happy 4th – We Are At War With China
Happy 4th – We Are At War With China
Happy 4th of July.
A Defacto State Of War now exists between the Nation of China and the US Corporation thanks to those in the White House.
(((Pray – Visualize – those trying to destroy Freedom and America are immediately paralized for life)))
For 8 years we have been trying to stop this coming war – stopping over 100 Nuclear Blasts and Presidential Assassinations around the world all planned to initiate a Nuclear World War through prior notification right here on this media outlet.
For 8 years the FBI (And certain segments of the CIA) have been trying to stop me through harassment, seizure of funds, etc. They simply desire this coming war.
For 8 years we have notified the Elite that their Underground Bases are set to “Blow” after they enter them – and some, like those set up for the US Congress, are set with Cyanide Gas others are set with Nuclear Weapons like those meant for the Chinese, Indian, and Russian Leaders.
We initially started by trying to stop the VA from selling military records around the world for grant money in violation of USC 8 – but the Supreme Court turned down the case in violation of the Constitution, the President ignored us and the Congressional Leaders ignored this AMBASSADOR.
Space-Based Nuke Produced Tianjin Downtown Crater
BLOCKBUSTER: LATEST IMAGES SHOW THE BLAST PRODUCED A THREE ACRE LAKE! The new lake in China proves a 5 kiloton blast, possibly nuclear or possibly from a space based "rod from God" (pictured to the left) weapon DEPLOYED BY THE SPACE PLANE, DING DING DING DING DING!.
At first I doubted the "rod from God" because I have no explanation for how one could drop out of orbit and actually fall, but evidently this system is real and they solved that problem. That would make the rod from God the prime candidate here, because the Chinese could easily trace down a nuclear blast.
UPDATE: ANOTHER BLOCKBUSTER: Blasts were NOT RELATED, blast 1, the small blast, happened on the West side of the container lot, and was the crater everyone first saw with containers laying in it, thinking that was from the big blast. It was not. Blast 2, the lake making nuke type blast, happened on the East side of the container lot. The fire happened to the South of both blasts, approximately centered between them, and was ONLY A FIRE, there is no conceivable way it could produce blasts on both sides of a container lot, separated by over 200 yards. The materials in question simply could not do it. The warehouse that was supposedly holding whatever exploded was erased by the large (rod from God or nuclear) blast, as was everything else around that blast.
The crater pictures people posted previously were from the small blast, not the big one, a new picture which clearly shows where the big blast went off just got released by China. After looking through the images of the soviet nuclear tests, the new lake in China appears to have been made by a slightly sub surface burst of at least a 5 kiloton nuclear bomb. There is no way the earthquake from this was in the 2's. Take a look at the pond made by a test of a small nuclear weapon ground burst in Russia and compare it to that new lake in China, which is many times as big as the pond made by a nuclear test in Russia!
46 Million Americans Depend On Food Banks, Long Lines for Dwindling Food Supplies
46 Million Americans Depend On Food Banks, Long Lines for Dwindling Food Supplies
Those that run food banks all over America say that demand for their services just continues to explode. It always amazes me that there are still people out there that insist that an “economic collapse” is not happening. From their air-conditioned homes in their cushy suburban neighborhoods they mock the idea that the U.S. economy is crumbling. But if they would just go down and visit the local food banks in their areas, they would see how much people are hurting. According to Feeding America spokesman Ross Fraser, 46 million Americans got food from a food bank at least one time during 2014. Because the demand has become so overwhelming, some food banks are cutting back on the number of days they operate and the amount of food that is given to each family. As you will see below, many impoverished Americans are lining up at food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning just so that they can be sure to get something before the food runs out. And yet there are still many people out there that have the audacity to say that everything is just fine in America. Shame on them for ignoring the pain of millions upon millions of their fellow citizens.
Poverty in America is getting worse, not better. And no amount of spin from Barack Obama or his apologists can change that fact.
This year, it is being projected that food banks in the United States will give away an all-time record 4 billion pounds of food.
Over the past decade, that number has more than doubled.
And that number would be even higher if food banks had more food to give away. The demand has become so crushing that some food banks have actually reduced the amount of food each family gets…
Food banks across the country are seeing a rising demand for free groceries despite the growing economy, leading some charities to reduce the amount of food they offer each family.
Those in need are starting to realize what is going on, so they are getting to the food banks earlier and earlier. For example, one food bank in New Mexico is now getting long lines of people every single day starting at 6:30 in the morning…
“We get lines of people every day, starting at 6:30 in the morning,” said Sheila Moore, who oversees food distribution at The Storehouse, the largest pantry in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and one where food distribution has climbed 15 percent in the past year.
Does that sound like an “economic recovery” to you?
Control Freaks Want to Implant Recipients of Welfare Assistance with Satellite-Tracked Chips
Control Freaks Want to Implant Recipients of Welfare Assistance with Satellite-Tracked Chips
Implantable RFID tracking chips. You know, to stop 'terrorism.'
And to keep tabs on all the welfare queens, in order to keep tax dollars accountable.
There will be other rationales, too.
But really, governments just want to do all the spying they can within their power – and right now, technology offers more power than ever before to carry out universal surveillance, track and trace every person and every thing, and put civil rights in the backseat where they belong.
The latest proposal from a politician in the Finnish government seems like a near-future dystopic film, but may not be far reality.
It's not much of a stretch to imagine that the U.S., Britain, or other governments in Europe would do this too, if they could get away with it.
In fact, an RFID chipped population could only be years away.
Sputnik News reports:
A politician from Finland's conservative Finns Party suggested implanting welfare recipients with satellite-tracking chips following news that some recipients continued receiving payments after leaving the country to join ISIL.
A member of Finland's right-wing Finns Party, Pasi Maenranta, has suggested implanting all recipients of government assistance with satellite-tracked chips if they choose to leave the country.
Maenranta made the proposal after Finnish media revealed that some recipients of government assistance continued to receive payments after leaving the country to join ISIL in Syria and Iraq.
"The law should be changed: To receive payments from Kela [the Social Insurance Institution], one has to tell exact data about your location using your personal code, read by a satellite. It is also possible to implant electronic chips to all going abroad, who for example receive medical welfare from Kela," Maenranta wrote on his Facebook page.
Texas Sheriff's Raid, Search, Seize, Arrest of INNOCENT Homeowner Police State
Texas Sheriff's Raid, Search, Seize, Arrest of Homeowner Who Refused Consent to Warrantless Search
The Rutherford Institute is challenging a warrantless raid carried out on a rural home by the Gillespie County (Tex.) Sheriff's Department, which allegedly resulted in the homeowner being seized by police officers, placed in handcuffs, thrown to the ground and subsequently arrested for refusing to consent to the search of his home. In coming to the defense of Huntly and Susan Dantzler, Rutherford Institute attorneys are investigating the extent to which the Dantzler's constitutional rights were violated by law enforcement officials.
"As SWAT teams and SWAT-style tactics are used more frequently to carry out routine law enforcement activities, Americans find themselves in increasingly dangerous and absurd situations," said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People. "What we are witnessing is an inversion of the police-civilian relationship. Rather than compelling police officers to remain within constitutional bounds as servants of the people, ordinary Americans are being placed at the mercy of law enforcement. In the process, Americans are rendered altogether helpless and terror-stricken as a result of these confrontations with the police. Indeed, as the Dantzlers can attest to, 'terrorizing' is a mild term to describe the effect on those who survive such vigilante tactics."
At 6:40 a.m. on May 3, 2015, Huntly and Susan Dantzler were awoken by the sounds of several vehicles approaching their home, which is located in a rural area of Gillespie County, and then a pounding on their door. Upon opening the door, the Dantzlers encountered two police officers, one wearing a badge indicating he was a "hostage negotiator." The officers demanded to see the Dantzlers' son. Although the Dantzlers informed the police their son was not at the house, the officers repeatedly demanded to speak with their son. The police officers then informed the Dantzlers that they believed their son was with an unnamed female who had a medical condition, and the officers wanted to check on the female. After the Dantzlers told the officers that no female was in their house, the officers demanded to be allowed to go in and search the house so they could determine for themselves whether the Dantzlers' son and the unnamed female were present. The Dantzlers refused to allow the police to enter and search their home
and indicated that they should get a warrant if they wanted to do so.
According to the Dantzlers, one of the officers then seized Huntly Dantzler, handcuffed him, pulled him away from the door and threw him to the ground. Alarmed by the treatment of her husband and the inherent coercion, Susan Dantzler allowed one of the officers to enter the house and look around. After searching the house and finding nothing, the officers left. Huntly Dantzler was compelled to seek medical care for deep gashes on wrists left by the handcuffs. Although the officers stated that the Dantzlers were not under arrest, Rutherford Institute attorneys contend that if you feel like you can't walk away from a police encounter of your own volition, then for all intents and purposes, you're under arrest from the moment a cop stops you, whether at your home, in a car or on the street.
Another Attempted Land Grab! Feds File Lawsuit Amid Armed Standoff With Montana Militia!
Another Attempted Land Grab! Feds File Lawsuit Amid Armed Standoff With Montana Militia!
The US government is suing two Montana miners who are backed by a gun-wielding militia, saying the group is illegally blocking a road in Helena National Forest in the western part of the state.
In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in US District Court in Helena, federal prosecutors say miners George Kornec and Phil Nappo illegally opened a road, cut down trees, built a garage and denied the public the right to access the White Hope mine.
"Currently the gate is closed with no trespassing signs posted and the public and Forest Service are being refused entry by armed persons," prosecutors said in the suit.
Prosecutors and the US Forest Service are asking a judge to declare the miners are acting illegally because they do not have surface land rights to their mining claims.
The miners argue that they indeed have surface rights because Kornec's family held the claim before rules took effect in 1955 that granted those rights to the Forest Service, the Associated Press reported.
Last week, days after the miners met with the Forest Service, more than 20 armed members of the Oath Keepers and other right-wing groups showed up at the defendants' request to serve as a roadblock.
On Tuesday, the day the suit was filed, a spokesman for the armed supporters said they achieved their objective, which was to ensure the miners have their day in court, KTVH reported. The group will remain at the mine, however, until a court date is set, the spokesman said.
As a part of the suit, prosecutors want the judge to issue an order requiring the miners to pay to fix the damage to public land, and for the miners and their armed supporters to stop interfering with public access.
Fascist UK Govt Plans 10 Year Prison Sentances for Online Piracy
The UK Government plans to increase the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement to ten years.
The current maximum of two years is not enough to deter infringers, lawmakers argue.
The new proposal follows a suggestion put forward in a study commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) earlier this year.
The study concluded that the criminal sanctions for copyright infringement available under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA 1988) could be amended to bring them into line with related offenses, such as counterfeiting.
Before implementing the changes the Government launched a public consultation, asking for comments and advice. While the responses have yet to be made public, TF has heard from two prominent groups that are speaking out against an extension.
The British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA) shared a copy of their recommendations with TF. The group’s main conclusion is that changes to the current law are not needed.
According to the group the prison term extension is not acceptable because the punishment would be too harsh.
“…legitimate means to tackle large-scale commercial scale online copyright infringement are already available and currently being used, and the suggested sentence of 10 years seems disproportionate,” the group writes.
In addition, BILETA argues that the proposal is not affordable, not feasible and incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights.
https://torrentfreak.com/legal-scholars-warn-against-10-year-prison-for-online-pirates-150815/
Michael Hastings Swiss Bank-Funded Terrorism Leaks
This is what got Michael Hastings whacked by the CIA, when they had his car blow up in San Diego– Rolling Stone was set to publish his article on all of the Swiss accounts funding terrorism in the Middle east on behalf of the US Government, DoD, & CIA. Military brass wanted him dead for his Stanley McChrystal article, (which was apparently never published by Rolling Stone) which brought down the general:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-runaway-general-20100622
MICHAEL HASTINGS TOLD HE WOULD BE HUNTED DOWN AND KILLED OVER MCCHRYSTAL STORY
Friends and family call for independent investigation into journalist’s obvious murder.
Kit Daniels
Infowars.com
June 27, 2013
U.S. Army brass told Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings that he would be hunted down and killed over his story that lead to General McChrystal’s downfall, according to Hasting’s closest friend in the June 26 bombshell interview on the Alex Jones Show.
Hastings died in Los Angeles on June 18 in an explosive single-car crash that left his fuel efficient Mercedes C250 engulfed in flames which towered above the heights of nearby houses.
First responders found the four-cylinder engine 100 feet away from the crash.
As we reported recently, Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that Hastings was working on his “biggest story yet” involving the CIA. The journalist is known to have made a number of powerful enemies.
Biggs also stated on Fox that it was completely out of character for Hastings to be driving at high speeds that early in the morning. But Biggs made even stronger revelations on the Alex Jones Show as he described how well he knew Hastings.
Biggs and Hastings met in 2008 when the journalist came to Afghanistan to cover the daily combat, an assignment only meant to last one week. That week turned into three months.
“You get to learn a lot about a person in one day of combat, let alone three months of being around them,” Biggs said.
Biggs stayed in touch with the journalist after the assignment, which culminated into a strong friendship.
“I remember when the story broke with General McChrystal and he [Hastings] gave me a call and he’s like ‘man, I’m pretty scared,’” Biggs said. “I told him, ‘You have a reason to be, brother. You basically just got a general of a war fired. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t sit too well with him right now.’”
Hastings’ fear was very well-founded as he received severe death threats over the McChrystal story.
“He had been told, if we don’t like what you write, we will hunt you down and kill you,” Biggs said. “For him to say something like that, those are his own words, that’s pretty intense.”
But Hastings continued on with his journalism career and recently began investigating a CIA story which apparently led to his death.
“So last Monday morning I wake up and I get this e-mail from Mike, and usually the e-mails start off ‘hey brother, how’s it going, how’s your family, how are you adjusting to the civilian life’ because I’m out of the military now,” Biggs said.
But in this particular e-mail, Hastings warned that the FBI would be investigating his colleagues and his friends. He also said that he was on a big story and would need to go “off the radar.”
“It just didn’t seem like something that he normally started his e-mail off with,” Biggs said. “When I read it, I just got this horrible feeling, like something’s not right.”
Biggs asked his friends for their opinions on Hastings’ latest e-mail. They all thought it was scary.
Then once Biggs heard about Hastings’ fatal crash, things just didn’t add up for him.
He knew that Hastings contacted a lawyer recently and questioned why an investigative reporter happened to be filming an empty street at four in the morning when he recorded Hastings driving by.
“All these alarms were going off and my gut feeling from day one, from before it happened, I knew that something wasn’t right,” Biggs said.
Alex asked Biggs if his years of combat honed his gut instinct.
“Yeah, I just… just anybody who knows someone and they act out of… out of reason, out of their normal behavior, that should send a red light off in anybody,” Biggs responded.
Alex also asked Biggs why he wanted to go public regarding the death of his friend. Biggs said he contacted the other recipients of Hastings’ e-mail but received little response.
“Somebody’s got to come out and say something,” Biggs said. “Someone’s got to… I can’t be the only person that thinks this is just weird.”
“Mike would do the same thing for me,” Biggs said. “He’s not going to sit back and roll over.”
“I’m not a journalist, I’m not an investigator, I don’t know what steps to take. All I know is that I lost a friend.”
http://www.infowars.com/friend-michael-hastings-marked-for-death/
Scott Bennett CIA ISIS Swiss Funding Leak.zip 589.0 MB
https://mega.co.nz/#!hFVCTAKK!AoiSgFtvazKasvJJLUe3cIP8S4yxOOriI_JnDSQxEqE
Fascist Sheriff Compares Constitutionalists to ISIS
Fascist Sheriff Compares Constitutionalists to ISIS
Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich linked “rhetoric” from supporters of the U.S. Constitution to violent anti-government groups and ISIS this week in an exposé on the officer’s fight against “homegrown extremists.”
Artist’s rendition of Sheriff Knezovich standing on “Don’t Tread on Me” flag in August issue of the Inlander / Click to enlarge (Note: Knezovich uninvolved in cover choice)
In an article featured in the August 2015 edition of the Inlander, the Washington state sheriff draws comparisons to the ISIS terrorist group while railing against everyone from Infowars’ Alex Jones to Washington State Rep. Matthew Shea.
“There are some of those folks that want to overthrow the government, period. They want to hit a reset button,” Knezovich said. “If they’re willing to lie to get that reset button — this is how ISIS starts.”
The Inlander piece highlights the sheriff’s ongoing campaign against local conservative groups who he feels are pushing dangerous rhetoric. When asked to specifically name those responsible, Knezovich pointed to both Rep. Shea and “all those folks that created the video about the Deputy.”
Knezovich’s statement refers to exclusive footage released by Infowars last December which highlighted unsettling comments made by a Spokane sheriff’s deputy as he stood next to the department’s mine-resistant ambush protected military vehicle (MRAP). After a local resident approached and questioned law enforcement’s need for military hardware, the deputy immediately used “constitutionalists” with “firearms” as justification.
“I mean, we’ve got a lot of constitutionalists and a lot of people that stockpile weapons, lots of ammunition,” the deputy said. “They have weapons here locally.”
The video brought about an immediate backlash after receiving nationwide attention, causing Knezovich to accuse Infowars of “hatemongering” and taking the deputy’s comments out of context.
“Instead of apologizing for the comments made by his deputy, Sheriff Knezovich essentially blamed Infowars for daring to report on the issue, claiming that the quote was taken out of context while failing to explain how such a brazen statement could be taken for anything other than its face value,” noted Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson at the time.
Speaking with Infowars, Rep. Shea expressed outrage at Knezovich’s latest comments and also the article’s analysis on a local pastor.
“I fought Islamic terrorists on the ground in Iraq face-to-face,” Shea said. “I lost a man – who was a Christian and who would have fit the Sheriff’s definition of a constitutionalist – under my command fighting Islamic terrorists.”
“It is outrageous to compare constitutionalists and Christians to ISIS! We believe in freedom. We believe in liberty. A value set that is rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition. ISIS is anathema to those things. I call on every Christian and constitutionalist in this country to demand an apology from this Sheriff for his outrageous comments and demand his immediate resignation.”
http://www.infowars.com/sheriff-compares-constitutionalists-to-isis/
Fetal Parts Sold for Scientific Research on Cosmetics, Flavor Enhancers
Fetal Parts Sold for Scientific Research on Cosmetics, Flavor Enhancers
A largely horrified public has watched five videos on the selling of aborted babies—sacrificed to the gods of “scientific research.” The heartless defenders of their dismemberment for profit, claim that it contributes to “life-saving research.”
Aside from the fact that scientific experimentation on murder victims is immoral, realize also that this is not just about real science. Aborted babies have been used for such things as testing flavor enhancers for food companies and creating anti-aging creams. Developing products such as cosmetics and flavor enhancers are to science as lemon drops and potato chips are to fruits and vegetables.
Read the rest here:
Wikipedia Deliberately Censoring Wiki(s)
The term "creeping fascism" was censored (removed) by Wikipedia moderators.
Wikipedia has also been accused of hiring government employees to help moderate their Wikis. Since then, some users have been complaining about the removal of topics of controversy.
This should be news-worthy and of interest to those at /realnews/ Here is a full backup of the "creeping fascism" wiki:
Creeping fascism is a political term that describes the circumstances where governments increase their legal powers and/or use illegal powers without censure, particularly when laws controlling social behaviour are introduced with popular support but without empirical evidence that they are effective, and are not subsequently revoked despite popular opposition. Leaders in government and society also harness propaganda and the media to "indulge in feverish rhetoric and stoke paranoia."[1]
Illegal search, illegal seizure, secret prisons, torture, state-sponsored murder, illegal wiretapping, manipulation of elections, etc. are at the extreme end as democracy devolves into fascism.[2]
The phenomenon - and the consequences - were observed by James Madison. He said in 1788, "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."[3]
This is the process that led to the successful rise of Nazism under Adolf Hitler, while Germany was still an otherwise healthy democracy[clarification needed] between 1930 and 1932. Naomi Wolf provides a detailed analysis of how fascism grows, in her presentation entitled "The End of America"[2], outlining both how it is done as well as why it works. She refers to the rise of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin and draws parallels with the abridgement of freedoms in modern-day America.
This is not to say that totalitarian fascism is the pre-determined outcome of the phenomenon of creeping fascism, nor that creeping fascism is always a tool of power-hungry individuals or organizations. However as Naomi Wolf describes, it becomes very difficult to reverse the course and may reach a tipping point.
Referring to events in America post-9/11, Charles Sullivan writes
As a result of decades of complacency created in part by the fog of television, and the ongoing corporatization of the government, the American people find themselves the victims of creeping fascism. Like the proverbial frog placed in a pot of warm water upon a lighted stove, we hardly notice the gradual loss of our freedoms. By the time we awaken to reality—if we ever awaken—we will find ourselves parboiled. By then it will be too late to extricate ourselves. One by one our basic freedoms are being stolen from us by those who purport to represent our interests.[4]
Ray McGovern has cited wiretapping accusations by George W. Bush as examples of creeping fascism.[5]
Postal Service Audit Shows Extent of Mail Surveillance
Postal Service Audit Shows Extent of Mail Surveillance
In what experts say is the first acknowledgment of how the United States Postal Service’s mail surveillance program for national security investigations is used, the service’s internal watchdog found that inspectors failed to follow key safeguards in the gathering and handling of classified information.
The overall program, called mail covers, allows postal employees working on behalf of law enforcement agencies to record names, return addresses and other information from the outside of letters and packages before they are delivered to the home of a person suspected of criminal activity.
The information about national security mail covers, amid heated public debate over the proper limits on government surveillance, was contained in an audit conducted by the Postal Service’s inspector general last year. Although much of the information was public, sections about the national security mail covers were heavily redacted. An unredacted copy of the report was provided to a security researcher in response to a Freedom of Information Act request this year. The researcher, who goes by a single legal name, Sai, shared the report with The New York Times.
In a June 8 letter to Sai, the Postal Inspection Service — the Postal Service’s law enforcement arm — said it could not “confirm or deny the existence” of the national security mail cover program, even though it was mentioned in the audit.
“The Postal Service does not provide public comment on matters which could potentially involve national security interests,” Paul J. Krenn, a spokesman, said in an email. The Postal Inspection Service did tell the auditors that it had begun training its employees on handling classified materials.
Experts said the unredacted report was the first to provide public details, although minimal, about the national security mail covers. The number of requests appeared small, about 1,000 from 2011 to 2013, and the report did not say which federal agencies made them.
It did disclose that the F.B.I., the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Homeland Security were the largest overall users of mail covers. Those agencies declined to provide The Times with data on their use of mail covers in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed last year.
… …
According to the audit, about 10 percent of requests did not include the dates for the period covered by surveillance. Without the dates in the files, auditors were unable to determine if the Postal Service had followed procedures for allowing law enforcement agencies to monitor mail for a specific period of time.
Additionally, 15 percent of the inspectors who handled the mail covers did not have the proper nondisclosure agreements on file for handling classified materials, records that must be maintained for 50 years. The agreements would prohibit the postal workers from discussing classified information.
Closing of EURO TUNNEL and Calais Crisis
Calais crisis far from over as thousands of immigrants head for the UK
The Channel Tunnel will be closed at night if the Calais crisis worsens under plans being considered by ministers - as it emerged that an African migrant walked almost its entire length.
Ministers have sought legal advice on what was described by Whitehall sources as the “nuclear option” of closing the tunnel to freight and passenger trains overnight.
The proposal, which has been discussed at meetings of the government’s emergency Cobra committee, follows concerns that the number of services at night is increasing the risk of migrants making it through the tunnel.
It comes as a Sudanese man was arrested by British police on Tuesday just steps away from the mouth of Eurotunnel in Folkestone, Kent, after dodging trains travelling at 100mph.
Haven't heard of the Calais crisis?
Don't worry the media tries to spam other non-stories to keep it out of the spotlight. You probably don't know as an American what the Calais Crisis is.
Thousands of migrants who are camped in Calais are attempting to reach the UK by crossing the Channel.
Some try to stow away on lorries bound for cross-Channel ferries. During recent strikes by French ferry workers, which closed the Channel Tunnel, migrants openly tried to board lorries stuck in traffic on the roads leading to the port. There have also been some reports of migrants attempting to stow away in people's cars.
Most recently, activity has shifted more to the Channel Tunnel. Migrants attempt to stow away on lorries headed for the Eurotunnel, or jump or cut security fences to try to hide on Eurotunnel trains themselves.
Eurotunnel has described "nightly incursions", with groups of up to hundreds of migrants attempting to breach security at once.
How long has this been going on?
While the number of migrants is currently at a high, the issue is far from new. In 1999, the controversial Sangatte refugee camp was opened in Calais, attracting thousands of would-be asylum seekers and people traffickers.
Its closure in 2001 and 2002 - on the orders of France's then minister of the interior, Nicolas Sarkozy - led to riots. Since then migrants have continued to arrive in Calais and build makeshift camps near the port. French authorities estimate there are about 3,000 people currently living in the camps known as "the Jungle", although other estimates put the higher.
The issue made headlines again in September last year after a ferry bound for the UK was stormed by about 235 illegal migrants.
The Home Office said Border Force and the French authorities together prevented more than 39,000 attempts to cross the Channel illegally in 2014/15 - more than double the number prevented the previous year, while Eurotunnel, which operates the Channel Tunnel says it has blocked 37,000 attempts since January.
And this leads to:
Mandatry ID cards (soon)
Identity cards are now "essential" in the wake of the Calais migrant crisis, campaigners have claimed.
The report said: "In the longer-term we must return to the introduction of ID cards.
"The French are right to point out that the absence of ID cards in the UK makes it far too easy for migrants to stay on illegally and find work in Britain."
"There are no ID cards. They can easily find work outside the formal economy, which is not really controlled."
ID cards were first mooted by the Labour government in 2003. However, the project was scrapped by the coalition in 2010.
TREASON! VA Officials Send Veterans' Medical Info to FBI, ATF to Facilitate Gun Grab
Not only are veterans struggling to get decent medical care … now this!
TREASON! VA Officials Send Veterans' Medical Info to FBI, ATF to Facilitate Gun Grab
As ironic as it sounds, the Obama regime's Department of Veterans Affairs is actually working to disarm veterans with an insane policy that treats America's warriors as threats.
As reported by The Daily Caller, the VA is assisting in the disarming process by ensuring veterans are placed on the FBI's criminal background check list. The VA transmits veterans' personal medical and financial information directly to both the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which can then seize veterans' guns in their homes.
The Daily Caller further reported:
Veterans deemed mentally incompetent or financially incapable are finally speaking out about the errors in the system and the fearful harassment they and their families face from the federal government. And it all starts when vets go to the VA to get medical help.
The news site's investigation found that VA medical information is being used (misused?) to ensure that veterans are no longer able to possess a firearm.
The DC was able to obtain a "MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS AND THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION REGARDING THE NATIONAL INSTANT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK SYSTEM."
That document, which was dated Feb. 27, 2012, makes it crystal clear that the VA has to send health information to the bureau so it can populate its firearms background check list.
"VA will provide an encrypted compact disc exchanged via mail to the FBI no less than quarterly for, inter alia, inclusion in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)," the memo reads.
"I'm a felon?"
Shockingly, the VA will put veterans on the FBI's list if they happen to state they are unable to handle their "financial affairs."
"…VA provides the Department of Justice a monthly list of individuals who have been rated by VA as being unable to manage their VA benefits," says a federal government frequently asked questions document obtained by The Daily Caller.
The VA information technology center located in Austin, Texas, kicks out "a monthly CD" to the FBI containing new names that need to be added to the FBI's NICS list. The number of vets who are summarily tracked "fluctuates," says the memorandum, but as of July 12, 2012, "there were 129,440 beneficiaries in the program…"
Simply changing the way in which a veteran banks will land him or her on the list as well.
"A [VA] counselor named Dr. Blair says, 'How are you handling your finances?'," veteran Henry Wrobel of Canton, Texas told The DC. "I said my wife suggested, to make it a little bit easier for me, maybe use the auto-debit instead of going to the post office because it's hard for me to drive" with injuries including two "made-up thumbs" as a result of a dozen hand surgeries, a wired-on shoulder, and other problems.
"I told him it's working very well," said Wrobel. The counselor "wrote down that I was unable to handle my own finances and that 'his wife handles his finances.' I got a letter saying that because I can't handle my finances I'm like a felon and I can't be around guns."
"I had a pistol permit in Connecticut at 21, and the only things against me are one speeding ticket and two parking tickets. My constitutional rights, my dignity, means nothing to" the counselor, Wrobel added. "I have no crimes whatsoever against me, and now I'm stripped of my constitutional rights as though I'm a felon."
Once a veteran is placed on the list, then federal SWAT teams likely will pay them a visit - to collect the veteran's guns.
http://www.naturalnews.com/050760_Second_Amendment_veterans_disarmament.html
hurches Now Being Taken Over By Government Propagandists
Churches Now Being Taken Over By Government Propagandists - TIME TO BOYCOTT THEM!
An irate man interrupted a Catholic meeting about global warming in California this past weekend to accuse the church of selling its soul – another indication of how many Catholics feel uneasy about Pope Francis parroting rhetoric about global government and climate change.
The event, organized by Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, featured a number of speakers, from relief workers to scientists, who parroted the official view that man is causing global warming and that anthropogenic climate change represents an environmental crisis.
Earlier this summer, Pope Francis wrote a letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics calling for a new global authority to tackle climate change – a form of world government. The very notion of a “world government” makes many Christians uncomfortable because the Bible makes indirect references to such an “Antichrist” system in the final days, notably in the Book of Revelation.
Entitled “Laudato Si: Engaging Pope Francis’ Encyclical on Ecology,” the program for the event featured a number of recommendations for how Catholics could help fight climate change, including eating less meat and reducing their carbon footprint.
A handful of protesters stood outside the Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, Orange County before the Saturday meeting making their opposition heard, but the action really kicked off when a man suddenly stood up in the middle of a presentation and began yelling.
Before the man spoke, a woman in the crowd is heard to remark, “I’m sorry I can’t take this anymore.”
“This is the biggest instance of heresy….Im here to advocate for traditional Catholicism….how dare you,” asserts the man, before accusing some of the speakers of advocating abortion.
After quoting a bible verse, the man states, “I am here to present my concerns to the bishop,” accusing the church of “selling its soul”.
After briefly trying to carry on with the event, the organizers hastily call for the whole audience to recite a prayer in order to drown the man out. The man first becomes angry with a security guard and is then escorted out by a police officer.
Pentagon Manual Calls for Treating Journalists as Unprivileged Belligerents
Pentagon Manual Calls for Treating Journalists as Unprivileged Belligerents
Pentagon manual calls for potentially treating journalists like ‘unprivileged belligerents.’
It’s well documented that President Barack Obama’s administration has been brutal in targeting whistleblowers who leak information to the press. The Department of Justice has spied on the Associated Press and Fox News to track down sources of information. It has slid down the World Press Freedom Index to 49th place, lower than several African and South American countries.
Now a new Pentagon document, a Law of War Manual, states that journalists can be treated like “unprivileged belligerents,” which is apparently the new term for “unlawful combatants,” which some may recall was the new term for “suspected terrorists.”
According to some media coverage of the manual, military leaders are insisting they’re not declaring that journalists are the enemy. Rather they’re pointing out that journalists just might be the actual enemy, as in terrorists, spies, and propagandists posing as journalists.
The Pentagon’s new thick book of instructions for waging war the legal way says that terrorists also can be journalists.
The description appears in a 1,176-page, richly footnoted “Department of Defense Law of War Manual” that tells commanders the right and wrong way to kill the enemy. It says it’s OK to shoot, explode, bomb, stab or cut the enemy. Surprise attacks and killing retreating troops also are permitted. But a U.S. warrior may not use poison or asphyxiating gases.
Going back decades, this is the Pentagon’s first comprehensive, all-in-one legal guide for the four military branches, who over the years had issued their own law of war pamphlets for air, sea and ground warfare.
The manual pushes aside the George W. Bush-era label of “unlawful enemy combatant” for al Qaeda and the like. The new term of choice: “unprivileged belligerent.”
An eye-catching section deals with a definition of journalists and how they are expected to stay out of the fight.
The manual defines them this way: “In general, journalists are civilians. However, journalists may be members of the armed forces, persons authorized to accompany the armed forces, or unprivileged belligerents.”
Lumping terrorist writers with bona fide scribes prompted one officer to call the paragraph “odd.” A civilian lawyer who opines on war crime cases called the wording “an odd and provocative thing for them to write.”
California Gov Bans Grand Juries In Fatal Shootings by Police
California Gov Bans Grand Juries In Fatal Shootings by Police
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday making California the first state in the nation to ban the use of grand juries to decide whether police officers should face criminal charges when they kill people in the line of duty.
The ban, which will go into effect next year, comes after grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York, made controversial decisions in secret hearings last year not to bring charges against officers who killed unarmed black men, sparking protests across the country. Calls for transparency also have come amid national concerns about disparate treatment of blacks and other racial minorities when encounters with cops turned deadly in Baltimore, Cincinnati and South Carolina.
"What the governor's decision says is, he gets it – the people don't want secrecy when it comes to officer-involved shootings," said retired judge and former San Jose independent police auditor LaDoris Cordell, the first African-American appointed as a judge in Northern California and a key supporter of the bill. "We're not trying to get more officers indicted. We're saying, 'Whatever you decide, do it in the open.'"
The governor Tuesday also signed a bill by state Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, that makes it clear it is legal to take a photograph or video of a police officer while the officer is in a public place or in a place the person photographing the action has a right to be. Both bills are the first of a wave of Ferguson-inspired criminal justice reforms now making their way through the Legislature.
The grand jury ban accomplishes officially what many California district attorneys, including in Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties, are doing already – deciding themselves whether to bring criminal charges against police officers rather than presenting evidence in a closed hearing to a grand jury and letting the panel decide. Only one other state – Connecticut – bans the use of grand juries for all criminal indictments, but that taboo dates back to the early 1980s and has nothing to do with the current protests over the treatment of people of color by police.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28621966/gov-brown-oks-nations-1st-ban-grand-juries
Small Modular Nuke Plant Proposed, This Time for Fusion
Small Modular Nuke Plant Proposed, This Time for Fusion
Despite frequent hopes to the contrary, Mr. Fusion still lives firmly in the realm of science fiction. The two primary methods of obtaining fusion—inertial confinement and tokamaks—date from the 1950s. While they've been refined and improved, we're still a long way off from generating power with it.
But the rest of the research world hasn't stood still, and developments in other areas of research have been gradually reshaping the fusion landscape. Now, researchers from MIT are claiming that high-temperature superconductors can produce magnetic fields that would allow a compact, modular fusion reactor. Because of its modular designs, researchers could easily swap out parts to try new configurations. Oh yeah—they also calculate it should work as a power plant as well.
The team is calling the new tokamak design ARC, for affordable, robust, compact. In fusion research, most of those terms are relative. Compact still allows a fusion chamber that's about four meters tall, making for a building-sized facility. "Affordable" in fusion allows for a cost estimate that runs in the neighborhood of $5.6 billion. The vast majority of that cost comes from the superconducting wiring, which is estimated to run at $4.6 billion. Mind you, that much money would buy you 5730 kilometers of superconducting wiring. A few of these reactors would probably float the superconductor manufacturing industry out of its infancy.
(The authors estimate that the REBCO ribbons would have a usable lifespan of about nine years in the radiation-heavy environment of the reactor. But so little is known about the response of this material to radiation that this is little more than an educated guess.)
Rather than metal, the wiring would be rare-earth barium-copper-oxide superconducting tape, or REBCO. (The formula for this material is (RE)Ba2Cu3O7-x, where RE is a rare-earth element, often Yttrium.) In a draft paper, REBCO wiring has been reported to produce magnetic fields over 35 Tesla; the ARC design only needs 20T fields. Even so, "The total stored magnetic energy in the [magnetic] coil system is approximately 18 GJ."
While REBCO can remain superconducting up to 80K, the authors plan on cooling the magnets to 20K. So, the design has a bit of headroom should things not work out quite as hoped for. And that's probably a good thing, given that lots of things about the plant haven't been tested yet. These include the shape of the containment field that holds the plasma in place and the method of transferring energy in to the plasma itself. All of this relies on things most of the fusion field is excited about, but they still need to be validated through experimentation.
Another major untested material will be a mixture of molten salts of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride. This will completely surround the fusion chamber, and serve multiple purposes. For one, it will transfer heat out, something that will be essential if this thing is ever used to generate power. It also acts as a shield for other components, absorbing some of the stray neutrons produced by the fusion reaction. And, because it's a liquid, the salt doesn't suffer from the structural decay seen in metal shielding.
Finally, some of those neutrons will induce atomic rearrangements that will result in tritium production. Tritium is a heavy, short-lived isotope of hydrogen, and acts as fuel in the fusion reaction. So, the ability to produce more of it is essential for keeping the reactor sustainable; the authors write about making sure "they do not jeopardize the world tritium inventory."
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http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/small-modular-nuke-plant-proposed-this-time-for-fusion/
Russian Scientists Create Spy-proof End-to-End Encrypted Cell Phone
Russian Scientists Create Spy-proof End-to-End Encrypted Cell Phone
Scientists at Russia’s National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in Moscow have developed this country’s first handset for smartphones which protects users against concealed tapping. The new solution was presented earlier this summer at Mobile World Congress, one of the world’s largest mobile products shows in Shanghai, China, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
The researchers at MEPhI’s Engineering Center are said to have come up with a wireless handset that not only wards off covert tapping but also enables secure text communication through a mobile app.
"In our technology, a closed communications channel is created between two handsets, using end-to-end techniques and other mechanisms to make sure hardware-level data protection systems are compatible. Thus the solution addresses the typical vulnerabilities of mobile devices and data transmission networks, and guards against attacks on telecom servers,” the project owners claim.
The MEPhI Engineering Center solution can be used with both Android- and iOS-powered gadgets, they add.
The developers are reportedly in talks now with mobile operators across Russia and with mobile device makers in an effort to commercialize their product.
America's Gulags: FOIA Request Shows Thousands Have Been Held Inside Secret US Prison, Homan Square
FOIA Request Shows Thousands Have Been Held Inside Secret US Prison, Homan Square
After filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department (CPD), The Guardian has discovered over 3,600 people have been detained at a secure facility known as Homan Square. Notorious for allegedly denying access to defense attorneys and committing human rights abuses, the officers at this CIA-style black site have been accused of coercing confessions, committing torture, and shackling detainees for prolonged periods. Although the CPD has denied these accusations, the department has been marred with a history of abuse and corruption.
On February 24, The Guardian exposed a police detention facility in Chicago where arrestees were kept out of official booking databases, denied legal representation, and endured hours of physical and psychological abuse. After the CPD ignored several FOIA requests regarding their facility at Homan Square, The Guardian filed a lawsuit against the department in April requesting further information, including the number of people detained at Homan Square and video evidence of interrogations at the site.
The CPD has recently revealed that at least 3,621 people have been detained at Homan Square for crimes ranging from drinking in public to murder. Although Chicago’s population is 33% black and 32% white according to the 2010 U.S. census, over 82% of the disclosed Homan Square arrests consist of black residents. Only 8.5% of the detainees were white, while 6.7% were Hispanic.
“When I was a detective, occasionally I would arrest a white person,” recalled Lorenzo Davis, a former police detective who commanded a unit at Homan Square, “and the white detectives would be overly interested in why I was arresting someone white.”
According to the CPD, only three arrestees received visits from their lawyers between September 2004 and July 2015. In its investigation, The Guardian documented an additional eight times that attorneys were present at Homan Square. In four instances, lawyers accompanied their clients to Homan to turn themselves in to authorities. Two lawyers were allowed interviews with their clients, while in at least two other cases, attorneys assert that they were refused access to their clients.
In January 2013, Eliza Solowiej of Chicago’s First Defense Legal Aid attempted to contact a client who had been detained at Homan Square. According to the attorney, officers changed her client’s name in the booking database before transferring him to the site at Homan Square. She finally located him after her client had been transported to a hospital with a head injury.
“He said that the officers caused his head injuries in an interrogation room at Homan Square. I had been looking for him for six to eight hours, and every department member I talked to said they had never heard of him,” Solowiej recalled. “He sent me a phone pic of his head injuries because I had seen him in a police station right before he was transferred to Homan Square without any.”
In September 2013, Chicago attorney Julia Bartmes was denied access to a 15-year-old boy detained within the Homan Square facility. After interrogating the teenager for at least 12 hours, the CPD released her client without charges.
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DARPA’s CAPP
DARPA’s CAPP’s current goal is to discover biotechnological methods that allow soldiers to function without food or sleep for up to 7 days
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), often known as the “mad scientist wing” (Gayle, 2012) of the DoD, has allocated an annual budget of $2 billion to several different projects all working towards building a supersoldier( Posel, 2013, para. 1). The main hope for accomplishing such a feat lies in genetic engineering,
DARPA’s Continuous Assisted Performance Program’s current goal is to discover biotechnological methods that allow soldiers to function without food or sleep for up to seven days (Seal, 2003).
Scientists have looked to the animal kingdom for these answers, with a particular interest in bottlenose dolphins and the sled dogs of the Iditarod. Sam Ridgway, Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of Cambridge and President of the National Marine Animal Foundation, is conducting research to discover how dolphins remain vigilant for extended durations of time.
Scientists have found that these mammals have to ability to practice unihemispheric sleep (Castro, 2003). The phenomena is that while one hemisphere of the brain is asleep, the other half remains alert.
When tired, the dolphin simply wakes up the now refreshed portion of its brain while the weary section goes to sleep. Studies starring two bottlenose dolphins have repeatedly demonstrated the animals’ ability to last five days in this state with no decrease in activity or attentiveness. By determining which genes make this inherent trait possible, DARPA hopes to trigger the same ability in its soldiers
DARPA is also attempting to alter the genes that control the body’s metabolism (Posel, 2013, para. 5).
By modifying the rate at which fat is converted into pure energy, soldiers could, in theory, go without food for days. The most promising avenue of inquiry is a project investigating the Huskies and Malamutes of the Iditarod and how they are capable of running thousands of miles without developing extreme debility. The head of the project, Dr. Michael S. Davis, professor of Veterinary Physiology at Oklahoma State University, has discovered that these dogs reserve their fat and glycogen stores by spontaneously changing their metabolic rates. This capability allows the animals to run 100 miles a day with a slowed metabolism similar to the one assumed when sleeping; in less than 24 hours, they are able to switch back to their usual metabolic rate, one that is similar to a man’s (Robson, 2008). If this genetic trait could be adapted to humans, soldiers would have insurmountable endurance and stamina on the battlefield.
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Massive Explosion Rocks Chinese Port City, Martial Law Declared
It appears that carry trades are not the only thing blowing up in China. A massive explosion, fireball, and mushroom cloud can be seen at chemical storage facility in the Chinese port town of Tianjin…
*DEATH TOLL FROM BLAST IN CHINA'S TIANJIN RISES TO 13: DAILY
*TIANJIN HALTS SUBWAY TO BLAST-HIT BIN HAI NEW AREA ON THURSDAY
*TIANJIN MAYOR URGES CONTROL OF SECONDARY ACCIDENTS AFTER BLAST
Huge explosions at a warehouse for dangerous materials in the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin killed at least 17 people, injured hundreds and sent massive fireballs into the night sky, officials and witnesses said Thursday.
China's state broadcaster, CCTV, said that at least 17 people were killed and that 32 were in critical condition in hospital. Hundreds of others were taken to hospital. The explosions late Wednesday knocked doors off buildings in the area and shattered windows up to several kilometers (miles) away.
"I thought it was an earthquake, so I rushed downstairs without my shoes on," Tianjin resident Zhang Siyu, whose home is several kilometers from the blast site, said in a telephone interview. "Only once I was outside did I realize it was an explosion. There was the huge fireball in the sky with thick clouds. Everybody could see it."
Zhang said she could see wounded people weeping. She said she did not see anyone who had been killed, but "I could feel death."
There was no indication of what caused the blasts, and no immediate sign of any large release of toxic chemicals into the air. Beijing News reported on its website that there was some unidentified yellow foam flowing at the site.
Police in Tianjin said an initial blast took place at shipping containers in a warehouse for hazardous materials owned by Ruihai Logistics, a company that says it's properly approved to handle hazardous materials. State media said senior management of the company had been detained by authorities, and that President Xi Jinping has demanded severe punishment for anyone found responsible for the explosions.
The official Xinhua News agency said an initial explosion triggered other blasts at nearby businesses. The National Earthquake Bureau reported two major blasts before midnight, the first with an equivalent of 3 tons of TNT, and the second with the equivalent of 21 tons.
The explosions took place in a mostly industrial zone, with some apartment buildings in the vicinity. Buildings of a half-dozen other logistics companies were destroyed in the blasts, and more than 1,000 new Renault cars were left charred in nearby parking lot, Beijing News said.
Syriza Agrees to Full List of EU Austerity Demands
Syriza Agrees to Full List of EU Austerity Demands
Greece’s Syriza government and European Commission officials announced a new draft austerity agreement Tuesday morning following negotiations lasting 23 hours.
Details of the agreement are still emerging, but it is clear that Syriza has accepted all of the main demands of the “troika” (European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund). A Syriza finance ministry official told Reuters, “An agreement has been reached. Some minor details are being discussed right now.”
Under the terms of the agreement, up to €86 billion will be loaned to Greece over the next three years, conditional on the imposition of a raft of new and savage austerity measures against the working class. The new cuts and privatizations will have catastrophic consequences for Greece’s already impoverished population.
According to the Greek daily Kathemerini, the agreement requires the Greek parliament to approve the immediate implementation of 35 “prior actions” before any money is disbursed. The passage of such legislation will trigger an initial €10 billion loan to Greece. All of this money will be used to begin the recapitalization of Greece’s banks, which have been cut off by the troika from external funding since Syriza came to power in January.
Last month, Greek Prime Minister and Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras repudiated the overwhelming anti-austerity vote in the July 5 referendum his government had called and accepted a package of social cuts, regressive taxes and public asset sell-offs that goes far beyond the austerity measures imposed by previous governments, while transforming Greece into a de facto economic colony of the German and European banks. This abject capitulation was endorsed by the Greek parliament, which voted to implement two sets of “prior actions.”
The additional “prior actions” now demanded, described by the Financial Times as “deeply unpopular measures,” include a review of the social welfare system, the phasing out of early retirement for workers in their 50s, the scrapping by the end of 2016 of lower sales tax rates for Greece’s islands, a hike in taxes for farmers, the implementation of product market reforms proposed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the deregulation of the energy market, and the implementation of the privatization programme Syriza has already signed on to.
By the autumn, the parliament must pass new collective bargaining, industrial action and collective dismissal legislation that favors big business.
The new bailout agreement conforms entirely to the terms demanded by Europe’s banks.
A privatization fund is to be set up in Athens, into which moneys obtained from the sell-off of state assets will be transferred. This is slated to raise €50 billion, three-quarters of which will go towards recapitalising the banks and paying off part of the nation’s €300 billion foreign debt.
Central to the deal is the calculation that it will enable Greece to pay off a €3.2 billion loan to the European Central Bank due on August 20.
Prime Minister Tsipras moved to obtain swift passage of the bailout deal, requesting the parliamentary speaker to prepare an emergency session for Thursday. He wrote in a letter: “The crucial nature of the situation requires the immediate convening of parliament to proceed with the deal’s approval and allow the disbursement of the first installment.”
The agreement is scheduled to be discussed at a summit of euro zone finance ministers on Friday.
America's Gulags: CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
America's Gulags: CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
Over 60 inmates at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
According to a New York Times report, they allege that the prison staff interrogated them by beating them, placing them in solitary confinement, and in at least one inmate’s case, throwing a bag over his head and threatening to waterboard him.
Hearing about the domestic use of tactics so similar to those used by the CIA on suspected terrorists during the Bush administration, the Reverend Ron Stief, executive director of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, made the obvious connection.
“Faith and human rights leaders who worked to stop the CIA’s torture program have long feared its corroding influence on our civilian authorities,” he said in a statement. “These events prove that we must fight the torture of Americans here at home just as we have fought the use of torture abroad.”
Stief told The Intercept that the New York State legislature should launch a comprehensive investigation into the behavior of its prison employees, modeled after the Senate’s investigation of the CIA.
“The Department of Corrections needs to stand in and say, ‘You cannot do this ever. Torture is always wrong,'” he said. “It’s not the kind of thing you can use under certain circumstances.”
The Senate recently voted to outlaw many of the specific tactics used by the CIA.
Stief said the use of solitary confinement — common in some prison systems — is another form of torture.
The National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union has sued many prisons and jails for inhumane treatment of prisoners, including “savage beatings” in Los Angeles County Jails, “grotesquely filthy” conditions in a Mississippi prison, and inadequate access to health care in many locations.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/12/cia-torture-tactics-reemerge-new-york-prison/
Oregon Bill Passes Expanding Background Checks for Gun Sales
Oregon Bill Passes Expanding Background Checks for Gun Sales
An Oregon bill expanding background checks to encompass nearly all gun sales in the state made it through the Legislature Monday, overcoming obstacles that stymied two previous attempts to pass similar laws.
The measure now heads to Democratic Gov. Kate Brown, who has indicated support. Her signature would make Oregon the eighth state to require screening before firearms could be transferred between private, unrelated owners. No other states have passed such legislation this year, advocates said.
Supporters have tried twice before to expand background checks, saying it closes a loophole that allowed people to purchase firearms online without a review. Neither attempt made it past a Senate vote, but Democrats managed to increase their majorities in both chambers after last year's election, partially because key candidates in the Senate were backed by billionaire Michael Bloomberg's gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety.
The bill requires background checks on most private sales and transfers, except those between close family members such as spouses or siblings. There are some exceptions, such as sharing a gun while hunting or handing over a firearm for use at a shooting range.
Once the measure takes effect, private sales would need to happen in front of a licensed gun dealer who would run the check through the Oregon State Police.
There is an exception for gun sellers and buyers who live more than 40 miles from each other. In that case, the seller could send the firearm to a dealer near the buyer, who would then run the check and hand over the gun to the buyer if they're cleared.
The bill has born intense opposition from gun rights' supporters and every legislative Republican has voted against it. Many cited law enforcement officials in their districts who said they wouldn't enforce the law or that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.
World Bank Critics Attacked and Jailed
Beginning in February 2015, 40-50 residents of Durgapur village in northern India, mostly women, sat in protest for more than a month. A state-owned company called the Tehri Hydro Development Corporation India Ltd. (THDC) was developing a hydroelectric power project near their community and some villagers believed that tunneling for the project endangered their homes and the overall well-being of their community. The women and their children sat all day in protest, singing folk songs that gave voice to their worries regarding the future, as well as songs of courage and hope.
One of the protestors, Sita (not her real name), a 30-year-old woman, told Human Rights Watch how THDC workers and contractors regularly threatened, intimidated, and insulted her and the other villagers while they protested. Company employees called the women “prostitutes,” subjected them to vicious insults referencing their caste, and warned them of “severe” consequences should they continue their protest.
Those threats and insults are part of what Sita and other community members described as a broader pattern of harassment. Some community members from neighboring project-affected areas say they have faced reprisals for objecting to how the hydroelectric power project is being carried out. Communities in the area say that the project prevents women from going about their daily lives freely and without fear. When Human Rights Watch asked THDC about these allegations, the company said that there have been no violations of human rights in the project area, that it has taken the issue of women’s safety seriously from the very start of project preparation, and that it was looking into the incidents that Human Rights Watch had raised “and will deal with them if necessary.”
While a majority of villagers in project-affected areas have accepted the project, a small number of families in Harsari hamlet continue to resist resettlement. In addition to those in Durgapur protesting a tunnel, scores of community members in nearby villages are opposed to the project because of broader concerns over environmental sustainability. These critics say they are facing threats due to their resistance.
Human Rights Watch says the World Bank critics were attacked by local governments, with almost complete impunity.
A report, by Human Rights Watch, entitled “At Your Own Risk: Reprisals against Critics of World Bank Group Projects” says that though the World Bank and many of the companies it invests in have “policies that require them to consult communities and safeguard against causing harm to them and the environment through their investments… in reality this often adds up to very little when communities come under attack.”
The organization says “people in Cambodia, India, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere have faced reprisals from governments and powerful companies for criticizing projects financed by the World Bank and the IFC [which] failed to respond meaningfully to abuses that make a mockery out of their own stated commitments to participation and accountability…the World Bank Group has failed even to take appropriate action when people have suffered reprisals specifically because they were involved in bringing human rights concerns to the attention of Group officials.”
Though the World Bank says it spoke out against some of these abuses and attempted to seek remuneration for the victims, their claims are contradicted by their subsequent choice to enable the perpetrators.
http://www.infowars.com/world-bank-critics-attacked-and-jailed/
Researchers Create New High-speed Onion Routing Protocol
Researchers Create New High-speed Onion Routing Protocol
Tor, the world's largest and most well-known "onion router" network, offers a degree of anonymity that has made it a popular tool of journalists, dissidents, and everyday Internet users who are trying to avoid government or corporate censorship (as well as Internet drug lords and child pornographers). But one thing that it doesn't offer is speed—its complex encrypted "circuits" bring Web browsing and other tasks to a crawl. That means that users seeking to move larger amounts of data have had to rely on virtual private networks—which while they are anonymous, are much less protected than Tor (since VPN providers—and anyone who has access to their logs—can see who users are).
A group of researchers—Chen Chen, Daniele Enrico Asoni, David Barrera, and Adrian Perrig of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich and George Danezis of University College London—may have found a new balance between privacy and performance. In a paper published this week, the group described an anonymizing network called HORNET (High-speed Onion Routing at the NETwork layer), an onion-routing network that could become the next generation of Tor. According to the researchers, HORNET moves anonymized Internet traffic at speeds of up to 93 gigabits per second. And because it sheds parts of Tor's network routing management, it can be scaled to support large numbers of users with minimal overhead, they claim.
Like Tor, HORNET encrypts encapsulated network requests in "onions"—with each layer being decrypted by each node passing the traffic along to retrieve instructions on where to next send the data. But HORNET uses two different onion protocols for protecting anonymity of requests to the open internet and a modified version of Tor's "rendezvous point" negotiation for communication with a site concealed within the HORNET network.
When sending a request to a site that isn't protected by HORNET, a more Tor-like "Sphinx" onion protocol is first used to set up the channel. "Each Sphinx packet allows a source node to establish a set of symmetric keys, one for each node on the path through which packets are routed," the researchers explained. Those keys, created via a Diffie-Helman exchange, are used to encrypt the "Forwarding Segment"—the chain of session state information for the stream of data packets that follow. "The [Forwarding Segment] allows its creating node to dynamically retrieve the embedded information (i.e., next hop, shared key, session expiration time), while hiding this information from unauthorized third parties," Chen et al wrote.
For the actual data packets, the sending system collects all of the forwarding segments from each node on the channel to the destination and combines them into what the researchers call an anonymous header (AHDR). "An AHDR grants each node on the path access to the [forwarding segment] it created, without divulging any information about the path except for a node’s previous and next nodes," they explained. The data itself is "onioned", encrypted with the keys for each of the nodes in the channel, until it reaches its destination. The upside of this approach, Chen et al said, is that it drastically reduces the cryptography work required for each packet, as well as the amount of session flow information the network has to manage.
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HORNET, like Tor, is not immune to targeted attacks on anonymity. If an attacker, such as a government agency or law enforcement organization, could control more than one of the nodes along a path selected for a HORNET channel, they would be able to perform "confirmation attacks"—the sort of timing analysis, flow analysis, and packet tagging that other security researchers have demonstrated could be used against Tor. "HORNET cannot prevent such confirmation attacks targeting individual users," the researchers concluded. "However, HORNET raises the bar of deploying such attacks for secretive mass surveillance: the adversary must be capable of controlling a significant percentage of ISPs often residing in multiple geopolitical boundaries, not to mention keeping such massive activity confidential."
Turkey Elections
We have witnessed the nationalists' enmity toward the HDP grow every day. They have even called on the Constitutional Court to close down the pro-Kurdish party. It is obvious that they do not want to discuss any aspect of the Kurdish question; they want to identify the HDP with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is a great injustice to the pro-Kurdish party.
I personally do not like to see a political party, which has a key position in Parliament, use all of its energy to attack another opposition party.
Obviously, they will not have anything positive to say about the Kurdish question, about the EU, or about minorities, etc. These are all problematic issues for the party and their electorate. However, some of their latest discourse resembles hate speech and has started to adopt quite a threatening tone.
As Today's Zaman reported yesterday, Devlet Bahçeli, the chairperson of the MHP, even uttered these words quite recently: “Those pathetic people who relax in their summer homes in İzmir or Marmaris, who refused to vote for the MHP to counter the [ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party)] but who instead have opened up the way for the HDP to enter Parliament, those without honor who live in Bosporus mansions, who sip their whisky and who voted for the HDP… You all can go and form a coalition with the HDP.”
As if this was not enough, one of Bahçeli's consultants said on a TV program that the party “has a list of 3,000 of these people without honor,” in an obvious threat to intellectuals, opinion makers and the like.
A political party has criminalized, stigmatized and demonized another party and those who support them. Do not forget that HDP headquarters and election campaign offices were attacked perhaps 200 times by those who used a hand gesture symbolizing a wolf's head to symbolize affiliation with the MHP. Their most recent words have the potential to provoke new attacks on the HDP and its supporters.
I have read in news reports that a group of human rights advocates have brought a complaint before prosecutors, saying that the MHP's words targeting the HDP constitute hate speech and incite people to hatred.
We know that cases have been brought against Selahattin Demirtaş after he was targeted by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who claimed that Demirtaş's statements had played a role in inciting violence during the Kobani protests.
A majority of Turks see Erdogan as the biggest obstacle to a coalition deal while almost two thirds see recent military action as part of an attempt to achieve different results at an early election, a poll by research company Gezici showed on Tuesday.
The survey showed 56.8 percent of those asked saw Erdogan as the main block in coalition negotiations. A quarter blamed the opposition for the lack of progress, while less than 20 percent saw Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as responsible.
If the June 7 vote were to be re-run this Sunday, little would change, the poll suggested. The AKP would still be unable to govern alone while the pro-Kurdish HDP, whose strong performance cost the AKP its majority, would stay in parliament.
The poll of 4,860 people, taken on July 25-26, put the AKP on 41.9 percent, up slightly from 40.9 percent in June. The main opposition CHP, which has been in coalition talks with the AKP, saw its support rise just over a percentage point to 26.3.
The MHP lost one percent to 15.3 percent, while the pro-Kurdish HDP slipped to 12.3 percent from 13.1.
The AKP held a final day of exploratory coalition talks with the CHP on Monday, but there were few signs of concrete progress.
Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc described the talks as "positive" but said the ball was now in CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu's court.
"If the day come when Kilicdaroglu says 'sorry, but we will not form a government [with you],' then we will alter our course to the MHP. I believe we can form a government [with the MHP] if we can reach a common understanding," Arinc told reporters.
Obama Regime and US State Department Endorsed Human Trafficking
Obama Regime and US State Department Endorsed Human Trafficking
This spring, investigators discovered mass graves of human trafficking victims in Malaysia. How did the U.S. State Department respond? By upgrading its assessment of Malaysia’s human rights efforts. According to Reuters, trafficking experts in the department had given the country a poor rating, but political appointees overruled them.
There’s only one reason why the State Department would change Malaysia’s status: to ease the country’s inclusion in the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP — a massive 12-country trade and investment pact currently being negotiated by the Obama administration.
Congress recently granted President Obama fast-track powers to complete negotiations on the TPP without opening it up to scrutiny by Congress or the public. But Congress did one thing right: It included trade restrictions on dealing with countries that have the worst records in combating human trafficking. Malaysia happens to be one of them.
Rather, Malaysia WAS (considered) one of those countries, until late July.
Read the rest here:
http://fpif.org/the-obama-administration-just-blew-off-human-trafficking-concerns-to-pass-the-tpp/
California To Throw Adults In JAIL If They Refuse Government-Mandated Vaccines
TYRANNY: California To Throw Adults In JAIL If They Refuse Government-Mandated Vaccines
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s an incremental push right now by the controlling elite to force vaccinations on all Americans, both young and old. And this agenda is gaining considerable traction in California, where legislators are now moving forward with plans to force childhood vaccines on all adults who work in daycare centers, both private and public.
Senate Bill 792, also known as the “Day care facilities: immunizations: exemptions” act, was presented quietly alongside SB 277, which eliminates personal, philosophical and religious vaccine exemptions for children who attend both private and public schools in the Golden State. The bill, as recently heard by the California Assembly Human Services Committee, reads as follows:
This bill, commencing September 1, 2016, would prohibit a day care center or a family day care home from employing any person who has not been immunized against influenza, pertussis, and measles.
If passed, SB 792 would represent the first adult vaccine mandate in the U.S. that disallows exemptions for personal reasons, and that threatens criminal penalties for those who fail or refuse to comply. Here’s how Vaccine Impact describes SB 792:
SB 792, would eliminate an adult’s right to exempt themselves from one, some, or all vaccines, a risk-laden medical procedure.
This bill would make California the first state to require mandated vaccinations for all childcare workers, including all private and public school early childhood education programs (Headstart, Private preK and preschools), family daycares, and daycare centers.
SB 792 represents medical violence against adults
An affront to both medical and religious liberty, SB 792 appears to be the wave of the future in New America, where the perceived health of the “herd” is now more important than the health of the individual. Never before in the history of the United States have legislators pushed this hard to literally force vaccine injections on the public under duress.
But why do they feel the need to do this if vaccines really work and are truly safe as claimed? The answer is that vaccines aren’t safe and effective, and more people than ever are acknowledging this truth and opting out of the “requirements” of the system through vaccine exemptions, hence the rush to eliminate these exemptions as quickly as possible, starting with California.
“This bill eliminates medical autonomy, crushes religious freedom, undermines personal freedom, and burdens quality providers with a non-optional series of medical interventions in the form of mandated vaccines that are not even 100% effective,” adds Vaccine Impact.
Contact California legislators and say NO to SB 792
Justice Heals
"I am of the view that terrorists, anti-national people, rapists, strongest possible punishment including death sentence, should be given,"
Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that strongest possible punishment, including death sentence should be given to terrorists, anti-nationalists and rapists.
"Glorifying terrorists and anti-nationalists is no good. Death penalty is an issue which can be debated upon. But surprisingly, some people come out openly as and when death penalty is given to a terrorist, anti-nationalist" he told reporters.
"Somebody is saying death penalty cannot take place. It may be their view. I am of the view that terrorists, anti-national people, rapists, strongest possible punishment including death sentence, should be given," he said.
Calling for a nation-wide debate on the topic…
"Some people are running stories of what he (Memon) had for breakfast on that day" he said. Noting that some people were trying to bring religion into the matter, he said, "terrorist is a terrorist. Does he have any religion? An anti-national is an anti-national. Why are you talking about his religion whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Christian?"
He claimed 37 persons had been hanged in the recent past.
"We were all in Rameswaram for the funeral of the great man, the great son of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam. But some of the (TV) channels were prominently showing and highlighting a remorseless terrorist. Are we serving the nation's interest?," he asked.
About rapists below the age of 18 not being given serious punishment, Naidu said, "Some people do not want people below 18 years to be given serious punishment. But when they (rapists) know how to rape, torture a woman, I do not have any sympathy for him (rapist) even if he is below 18 years. So the debate goes on in these issues.
Rapists. Anti nationalists. Terrorists.
No negotiation. No mercy. No comromise of any kind!
Shielded by Christian Love
Support for the young women. Options for adoption. Love and kindness.
Death cultists practice abortion as if human life was meaningless.
Is it trivial because it is small?
We were all so small once.
Too many young women are pressured into abortion. A traumatizing experience that causes great pain.
Hormone imbalances result from this corrupting practice.
If we can choose which innocent life dies and which lives. Are we still listening to our hearts?
I approach you like one human being to another. Would you want to live in a society that steps on the weak when it is convenient?
A society that gets rid of the downtrodden when they become inconvenient? That is not the society I want to live in. Look in your heart.
""As a child born to a 16 year old mother who was kicked out of her home for wanting to keep me I know the story.
They tried to abduct her and convince her how finishing school right now was more important than the life of her child.
I was there growing. The stress put on my mother was great. Her family was not very religious.
40 years later today I live with my own kids, graduates from college. My mother was able to finish school while having me due to the support of her local church.
People she had never met before who saw two lives in need. Years later my mother is a devout christian that listened to her heart when everything else in her life felt wrong.
Someone was guiding her to make the right decision before she even knew there was anyone out there.""
Oath Keepers Arrive in Ferguson To Protect Community From Riots
Oath Keepers Arrive in Ferguson To Protect Community From Riots
The Oath Keepers are in Ferguson to help protect local businesses and residents, the group says. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the presence of the organization primarily comprised of current and former police, military, and first responders, is both “unnecessary” and “inflammatory.”
The current Ferguson protests began on the anniversary of the Michael Brown shooting by police officer Darren Wilson. The former law enforcement officer was not indicted for any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting. As previously reported by the Inquisitr, the Oath Keepers went to Ferguson during the riots last year and were reportedly kicked off the rooftops where they had positioned themselves to help protect private businesses. The armed men have reportedly been threatened with arrest for their activities.
At least one dozen Ferguson businesses were burned to the ground in the wake of the Darren Wilson decision in the Michael Brown shooting case.
According to a report by NBC, both Ferguson police officers and protesters stated that they saw Oath Keepers carrying their rifles and related gear around the town on Tuesday morning. The city was placed under a “state of emergency” due to the ongoing protests of the Mike Brown shooting. Missouri state law respects the Second Amendment and does not prohibit the open carry of firearms as long as the act is not done in an “angry or threatening manner.”
“I’m happy that we’re able to defend ourselves,” a man identifying himself as an Oath Keeper said in footage from NBC affiliate KSDK. “It’s been our right for a long time.”
The St. Louis County Police Department said it would consult with the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorneys Office about the legalities of the issue. Social media photos and posts about the Ferguson Oath Keepers sightings often stated that the men are armed with “assault rifles.” That phrase is most commonly used by individuals unfamiliar with firearms or gun control supporters. While the label is not used on any rifle box or item description, it is often cast upon a vast array of semi-automatic rifles – particularly the extremely popular AR-15 or SKS rifles.
Cultural Nationalist TEXAS
TEXAS NATIONALISTS
Even though the Texas Nationalist Movement is only 6 cities in on its 21 city tour across Texas, the evidence is clear that the tour is having an effect.
Take Texas Back, a tour to engage TNM supporters and train volunteers, is doing just that. With supporters coming to meet the leadership and volunteers coming aboard at every stop, the tour is fulfilling its intended purpose.
But according to TNM President, Daniel Miller, something unexpected is happening on this tour.
“It’s been great to connect with our supporters in these areas and get them trained as field volunteers, but what has been the most surprising are the people coming in from off the street, that have never had any interaction with the TNM, who are ready to get to work for Texas independence.”
The organization’s Executive Director, Daphne Armour, sees this as a growing trend that shows no sign of letting up.
“Although we didn’t directly reach out to these Texans, they are seeking us out. Whether it’s on social media, traditional media or through friends, family and co-workers they are finding out about us. They’ve got questions. We’ve got the answers. They want an organization with longevity and credibility on the issue of independence and they know that is the TNM.”
There is no doubt that the media has fueled the fire over independence and the TNM. With recent articles on Politico, the Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman, the Drudge Report as well as other TV and radio outlets, many Texans who support independence are realizing that there is an organization that represents them.
Miller commented on the recent media articles and their impact on the tour.
“Although many of these reports are filled with half-truths or outright lies, the simple fact is that Texans who support independence are sharp enough to cut through the noise and realize this one simple fact - if the media is willing to take hits at us, then we must be doing something right. And what we are doing is reminding Texans that they no longer have to accept dictates that they don’t want from bureaucrats that they didn’t elect. Texas can do better.”
Cultural nationalism generally refers to ideas and practices that relate to the intended revival of a purported national community’s culture. If political nationalism is focused on the achievement of political autonomy, cultural nationalism is focused on the cultivation of a nation. Here the vision of the nation is not a political organisation, but a moral community. As such, cultural nationalism sets out to provide a vision of the nation’s identity, history and destiny. The key agents of cultural nationalism are intellectuals and artists, who seek to convey their vision of the nation to the wider community. The need to articulate and express this vision tends to be felt most acutely during times of social, cultural and political upheaval resulting from an encounter with modernity. Cultural nationalism often occurs in the early phase of a national movement, sometimes before an explicitly political nationalism has appeared. But it can also recur in long-established national states (see Hutchinson 2013).
The history of cultural nationalism begins in late eighteenth-century Europe. Several developments in the realms of ideas, culture and politics converge at this time, including the emergence of historicism and Indo-European linguistics, the rise of Romanticism in literature and the arts and a growing commitment to constitutional politics and the idea of ‘rule by the people’ (Leerssen 2014, 11). From this period of change, ‘emerged a polycentric Weltanschauung that presented a pantheistic conception of the universe, in which all natural entities were animated by a force that individualized them and endowed them with a drive for realization. The nation was one such life-force, a primordial, cultural, and territorial people through which individuals developed their authenticity as moral and rational beings’ (Hutchinson 2013, 76). As a part of this new world-view, the rise of a belief in the possibility of progress was crucial. According to Gregory Jusdanis (2001) intellectuals in central and northern Europe became aware of their ‘backwardness’ in the face of French dominance and sought prestige in their own cultures, while simultaneously also embarking upon a programme of progress. From Europe, cultural nationalism spread outwards, enjoying a renewed efflorescence in the decolonising efforts of the twentieth century. It is now a recurring phenomenon throughout the world.
ECONOMY: CRUDE OIL
CRUDE OIL AND THE ECONOMY
Companies without price protection in 2016 could be forced to cut back further on new drilling if prices remain below their break-even costs.
“I think it’s a fair assessment that just about nobody is putting on hedges at this point,” said Jason Wangler, an analyst at Wunderlich Securities. “Why lock in the bottom?”
The drop in later-dated prices surprised some analysts and investors. Oil trader Andrew Hall, who is known for making long-term bullish oil bets, wrote in an investor letter dated Aug. 3 that he didn’t foresee the “pessimism” in the oil market. Mr. Hall’s $2.8 billion hedge-fund firm Astenbeck Capital Management LLC fell 16.6% in July.
"A large part of the current inflation is temporary. It has to do with the decline in the price of oil; it has to do with the decline in the price of raw materials," he said. "We are in a situation with … nearly full employment but very low inflation."
Fischer was careful not to give any solid indication as to when he believed the Fed would hike rates.
The glimmer of hope comes after Friday's U.S. jobs report quashed confidence the Federal Reserve might delay an interest rate hike until 2016. Not only did the U.S. economy see another month of job gains above 200,000, but any weakness in earnings looked to have abated as well. Stocks sold off on fears that the jobs report had set the stage for a rate hike as soon as next month.
Crude oil bounced back from levels that hit a four-month low last week. West Texas Intermediate crude closed 2.5% lower to $44.96 a barrel as the dollar fell on speculation about when the Fed might raise rates. Oil prices have been under pressure on signs of extended weakness in the Chinese economy, the world's second-largest, and fears that Iran will soon have the green light to add its production to already-oversupplied markets. Oil prices lost 6.9% last week.
Major oilers Exxon Mobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), PetroChina (PTR) and BP (BP) also moved higher, while the Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) spiked 2.6%.
The U.S. dollar dropped against other major currencies, down 0.4% against the euro, 0.65% against the British pound, and 0.9% against the Canadian dollar. The dollar, considered a safe-haven asset, fell as equities looked more profitable in the face of a potentially extended period of near-zero interest rates.
Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A - Get Report) (BRK.B - Get Report) was also moving markets after it agreed to buy Precision Castparts (PCP), a manufacturer of aircraft components, one of its biggest deals ever. The deal is valued at $37.2 billion, with Berkshire offering $235 a share, a 21% premium to Precision's Friday close. Berkshire is one of Precision's largest shareholders with a stake of around 3%. Precision shares were jumping by 19.3%.
The Ability to Prevent a Crash No Longer Exists
The Ability to Prevent a Crash No Longer Exists
Financial writer and gold expert Bill Holter says the powers know that it physically can’t put off a financial crash much longer. Holter contends, “The system has gotten too big. The system has gotten bigger than the creators of the system, if you will. It is bigger than the sovereign governments collectively. It’s bigger than the central banks collectively. There’s too much debt. Too many sovereign governments have bumped up against debt saturation. In the U.S., we are over 100% debt to GDP. We are way over 100% debt to GDP if you include all debt. If you include all the off-book guarantees, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and all the other promises, we have blown up as far as debt to GDP ratios. So, the ability to prevent a crash no longer exists.”
For the people who think central banks can print money to infinity, Holter advises, “People have the belief in central banks because, to this point, it has worked. So, they extrapolate that it will always work. What they are not factoring in is many sovereign governments have reached debt saturation. In other words, many governments have gotten to the point of Greece or Puerto Rico. It can’t take more debt. The problem in Europe is the individual countries can’t print money. The U.S. can print money. The question is will foreigners accept what we print forever? The answer is no.”
Holter says the Fed will print more money. It will be forced to and it will not work the same as other money printing. Holter explains, “The next one, in my opinion, is going to be ‘QE Forced.’ It’s going to be forced on the Fed.”
The recent announcement the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will put off allowing the Chinese yuan to become part of the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket of currencies is a bad omen for the U.S. dollar. Holter thinks, “China being pushed off by the IMF until at least 2016 is a slap in China’s face. They publicly and officially requested to become part of the SDR. . . . The IMF, steered by the U.S., basically slapped them in the face. You’ve got to look at this as a financial war. This is a shot by the U.S. saying, no, we are not letting you in the club. It is inevitable that the Chinese currency will become part of the SDR or a reserve currency or ‘the’ reserve currency. It’s inevitable. The U.S. is trying to buy an extra year’s time, and it can’t.”
What can China do to retaliate? Holter says, “I think they have two potential moves. . . . The right time may be in a month or two during weakness in our markets. Remember, this was done by the IMF during very serious weakness in their markets. We kind of punched them on the way down. They have two real answers. They can tell the truth about how much gold they have. They can come out and say they have 10,000 tons or 15,000 or 20,000 tons or whatever it happens to be. The second is China has an awful lot of Treasuries. This is where I think they can force the Fed into monetizing their debt. They would be creating their own exit door. . . . Then, the Fed would have a big choice. Would the Fed buy them? There is your QE forced. Or, do they just let the interest rates go up and the bond market tank? It’s either option A or option B.”
Holter says, in the last year, there have been many big warnings from the Bank of International Settlements and the IMF about a coming financial calamity. Holter says, “I think they are trying to get out in front of this. I think they are telling the truth–the world is defenseless. The central banks, the sovereign Treasuries have fired all their bullets already, and they realize when this next crash comes, there’s nothing that can be done.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnJBo6buENI
http://usawatchdog.com/the-ability-to-prevent-a-crash-no-longer-exists-bill-holter/
India: Fighting Iodine Deficiency
REAL NEWS GETS NEWS FIRST
>Grey for Good teamed up with Talwar, a prominent bindi distributor, and Neelvasant, an NGO doing extensive work in rural areas of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, five months ago.
>The group came up with a standard scarlet bindi with a twist: Each bindi’s adhesive came covered with 150-200 micrograms of iodine. Throughout the day,
>a woman wearing the iodine bindi absorbs on average 12% of their daily requirement of iodine, a marked improvement from before.
>The Life Saving Dot uses the same technology and design as nicotine patches, and it’s cheap; production costs are minimal, Shabaz says, and are affordable
>at just two rupees per pack. (The rural Maharashtrian women Grey for Good worked with earned an average of 20-30 rupees per day.)
>Plus, wearing the iodine-infused bindi requires no behavioral change.
>The campaign hopes to spread awareness about iodine deficiency, a problem that even the most vulnerable populations don’t always know exists.
>Initial tests have been positive; of the approximately 150 women who have been given the bindis to wear,
>none have reported negative side effects and many have reported decreases in headaches, a common side effect of iodine deficiency.
>There are still some shortcomings. Since bindis are worn by the country’s dominant Hindu majority,
>rural women of other religions aren’t going to reap the benefits. And while women face the brunt of iodine deficiency—pregnancy and birth often exacerbate symptoms and effects, making women particularly susceptible to the consequences of iodine deficiency—
>men are affected by the lack of nutrient in their diets, too.
US Army Secretive Purchase of Riot Control Agent
US Army Secretive Purchase of Riot Control Agent
The U.S. Army is buying an undisclosed number of riot control CS gas canisters in order for troops to “become familiar with the effects of the agent,” as concerns grow about civil unrest inside the United States.
According to a solicitation posted on August 5, the U.S. Army is looking to secure a five year contract for the procurement of K765 CS Capsules.
“The CS (ortho-chlorobenzylidene malono-nitrile) Riot Control Agent Capsule is used in training scenarios for troops to become familiar with the effects of the agent,” states the solicitation.
The exact nature of the solicitation and the quantity of canisters being purchased remains secret as a result of the “Technical Data Package” that accompanies the order being classified.
“Distribution Statement D means that the TDP cannot be distributed on the Internet,” states the solicitation.
The equipment will be delivered to Army Contracting Command at Rock Island, Illinois, which hosts the largest government-owned weapons manufacturing arsenal in the country.
Read more:
http://www.infowars.com/u-s-army-in-secretive-purchase-of-riot-control-agent/
FBI Says Citizens Should Have No Secrets That Government Can't Access
FBI Says Citizens Should Have No Secrets That Government Can't Access
The police and surveillance state predicted in the forward-looking 1940s classic “1984” by George Orwell, has slowly, but steadily, come to fruition. However, like a frog sitting idly in a pan of steadily-warming water, too many Americans still seem unaware that the slow boil of big government is killing their constitutional liberties.
The latest sign of this stealth takeover of civil rights and freedom was epitomized in recent Senate testimony by FBI Director James Comey, who voiced his objections to civilian use of encryption to protect personal data – information the government has no automatic right to obtain.
As reported by The New American, Comey testified that he believes the government’s spy and law enforcement agencies should have unfettered access to everything Americans may store or send in electronic format: On computer hard drives, in so-called i-clouds, in email and in text messaging – for our own safety and protection. Like many in government today, Comey believes that national security is more important than constitutional privacy protections or, apparently, due process. After all, aren’t criminals the only ones who really have anything to hide?
In testimony before a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee entitled “Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy” Comey said that in order to stay one step ahead of terrorists, as well as international and domestic criminals, Uncle Sam’s various spy and law enforcement agencies should have access to available technology used to de-encrypt protected data. Also, he believes the government should be the final arbiter deciding when decryption is necessary.
What could go wrong there?
Top Chinese TV Star to Face Severe Punishment for Insulting Fascist Dictator Mao
Top Chinese TV Star to Face Severe Punishment for Insulting Fascist Dictator Mao
One of China’s best known television presenters is to face “severe punishment” after being caught on camera referring to his country’s Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, as an “old son of a bitch”.
As the host of “Star Boulevard” - a Britain’s Got Talent style variety show - Bi Fujian was one of the most recognisable faces on state broadcaster CCTV.
The 56-year-old had worked for the channel since 1989.
However, Bi’s future at the channel was cast into doubt in April after he was filmed at a private dinner mocking Chairman Mao, who founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and ran it until his death in 1976.
The video – which has been viewed more than 480,000 times on Youtube – shows Bi entertaining fellow diners with a rendition of a song from a Cultural Revolution era opera called Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.
The television host peppers his table-side performance with a series of sarcastic asides about Mao, including: “Don’t mention that old son of a bitch – he tormented us!”
Those “disparaging” remarks represented “a serious violation of political disciplines”, China’s media watchdog announced on Sunday. It called for CCTV, which had already suspended its star presenter, to impose a “severe punishment”.
In an editorial the China Discipline Inspection Daily, a state-run newspaper, said CCTV had been ordered to “educate its entire staff” in order to “combat behaviours that violate political disciplines and regulations”.
“There should be zero tolerance for such cases,” the newspaper added.
Senate Intelligence Authorization Act Allows Arrest of Journalists, Activists, Academics, Students
FASCISM: Senate Intelligence Authorization Act, Would Allow Arrest of Journalists, Anti-war Activists, Academics and Students
Freedom in America is being systematically destroyed: one police state law at a time – with most people ignorant and/or indifferent about what happening.
Washington’s criminal class is bipartisan – in lockstep against government representing everyone equitably and fairly, serving privileged interests only.
S. Res. 1705: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 compromises free expression and privacy rights already gravely eroded.
If enacted, Section 603 will require online companies to inform Washington of any “actual knowledge” of “facts and circumstances” related to undefined “terrorist activity” – meaning warrantless searches and seizures of personal electronic content will be authorized, potentially subjecting countless numbers of innocent people to unjustifiable scrutiny.
Vague language makes independent journalists, political, anti-war, and social justice activists, academics and students doing legitimate research, as well as others vulnerable to being called suspected terrorists.
The possibility could encourage self-censorship. Service providers may over-report to show compliance with the law. Online users could be flagged for using suspect words or phrases.
One definition of terrorist activity can be another’s way of describing freedom fighting. Legitimate government criticism could be misinterpreted and misused.
Anyone ideologically opposed to US policies could become vulnerable to arrest, prosecution, conviction and imprisonment for expressing their views online. Police states operate this way.
Provisions like Section 603 violate fundamental constitutional and international law guaranteed rights. At stake is further erosion of First and Fourth Amendment freedoms.
Senate members overwhelmingly support S. 1705. Before recessing until September, they were set to pass it by voice vote until Senator Ron Wyden objected.
He wants normal debate procedure followed. He noted valid concerns raised by Internet companies about Section 603.
The Internet Association representing dozens of technology companies said vague language about what constitutes terrorism creates “an impossible compliance problem.”
It’ll result in “massive reporting of items that are not likely to be of material concern to public safety.” Wyden said “Internet companies should not be subject to broad requirements to police the speech of their users.”
He knows of no law enforcement or intelligence agencies suggesting Section 603 will help identify terrorists. He urges revision or elimination of this section altogether.
Thirty-one civil liberties organizations and trade associations expressed opposition to Section 603 in a letter sent Senate leaders.
Plummeting Oil Price: Near-prophetic Words of Sheikh Yamani
Plummeting Oil Price: Near-prophetic Words of Sheikh Yamani
The price of oil is plummeting and it has lost its value almost by 50% of what it was a year ago, without a trace of an immediate reversal, despite the never-ending volatility in the Middle East, which used to push the price up in the past.
Those who think otherwise, while ignoring the strong facts that slowly contributed to the catastrophic culmination, are simply burying their heads in the sand, in the desert or elsewhere, in the hope of an onset of good old days by a miracle.
Up until November last year, investors, economists, and experts had been forecasting a healthy growth in the oil industry – and a steady increase in price too – based on mathematical models, over-optimistic growth charts of emerging economies and of course, matching rhetoric of the corresponding political circles.
Who on earth forecast a steep decline in oil price, let alone more than 50% drop in price, this time last year? I can’t think of anyone. Nor can anyone from our readership, I assume.
There was someone, however, who foresaw what we see now almost 15 years ago. Surprisingly, he was an Arab; a powerful oil minster too. It was Sheikh Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister who predicted a cataclysmic crash in the price of oil, in an interview in June, 2000, with Gyles Brandreth, a Member of Parliament in Britain, who was a columnist for the Telegraph newspaper too.
In the unprecedented interview, Sheikh Yamani said that within a few decades, vast reserves of oil would lie unwanted and “oil age” will come to an end.
Then, Sheikh Yamani, a Harvard-educated law graduate, went on elaborating what he really meant: "Thirty years from now there will be a huge amount of oil - and no buyers. Oil will be left in the ground,” said Sheik Yamani before going poetic to take Mr Brandreth, who by then may have been shell-shocked by the revelation, to the metaphorical zenith of his blunt prophesy: “The Stone Age came to an end, not because we had a lack of stones, and the oil age will come to an end not because we have a lack of oil."
Nationalism and Its Effects on Peace in Europe
With global crisis, unemployment, dissatisfaction, poverty and intolerance has increased and with it also nationalism. Political parties with nationalist platforms are rising and gaining more support around the world and Europe is no exception.
In Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom and across Europe we can see the rise of the right. The financial crisis in the Eurozone and beyond has triggered rising of nationalists and far-right political parties.
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) on 9th of July released a report about the dramatic increase in anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, online hate speech and xenophobic political discourse as the main trends in 2014.
Nationalism can be positive with legitimacy, promotion of nations and inspiration for citizens or negative by creating tensions between different ethnicity and groups in or outside the country. Some negative aspects of ideology or political movement can be seen in the latest football matches in the Balkans, where supporters of team groups have burned many national flags and hooliganism that is the result of long lasting hatred and nationalism on the ground. Every country has its own history and different positions, but still similarities could be found.
The country all news is regarding to in recent times is Greece. A known slogan “Greece for Greeks” is well known in its anti-austerity party. Attacks against minorities and immigrants with racism are seen in one of the European Union (EU) members. Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party is linked to hundreds of violent attacks against minorities.
It is known for anti-immigration, racist-nationalist worldview. With elections being held this year in January the party captured 6.3% of the vote and 17 senate seats in Hellenic parliament and become the country’s third largest party. In 2014 the party won 9.4% of votes in European parliamentary election and with it 3 seats out of 21.
The party has been put on a trial this year for its criminal activity.
Nationalism in Greece has divided citizens and noncitizens to us and them and created the gap between both. With the economic crisis, Greeks debt, overall economic meltdown, unemployment and increasing number of refugees from different countries, the party led by Nikos Michaloliakos has gained more support and caused even greater intolerance to foreign people in need. Unfortunately, they are not the only one spreading intolerance. Many politicians have a stance against immigrants, which shapes the Greeks’ attitude towards nationaIism.
QE Death Sentence & USTBond Black Hole
QE Death Sentence & USTBond Black Hole
Rather than stimulus, the USFed's Quantitative Easing is a death sentence for the USDollar. It might provide an ongoing backdoor bailout opportunity for Wall Street banks, and even a window for China to switch from long dated to short dated USTreasurys, but QE is death sentence. It guarantees that the USDollar will be removed from the global premises and placed in the dustbin of history. Foreign banking systems are largely devoted to USTBonds as the foundation for their entire reserves system. The African type of hyper monetary inflation blessed as good and fine stimulus is a sentinel signal by the US Federal Reserve itself, given to the Eastern producing nations who save in the $billions. They will start a caravan to exit the USDollar in their banking systems. They have great challenges in doing so, and must follow a prescribed path. That path is the Chinese RMB as an intermediary device, a transition tool. The goal is the return of the Gold Trade Standard, which will assure the return to the Gold Currency Standard and the Gold Banking Standard. The absent solution to the chronic global financial crisis has been the refusal to put Gold at the apex. Instead, the big banks have become zombies, the economies have become sclerotic, the financial structure have been control rooms, the bond platforms have been fracturing, while the USGovt has relied upon bond fraud, gold thefts, the printing press, and predatory wars to defend the King Dollar regime. It is due for the funeral pyre.
QE FACTORS
The QE initiatives are backfiring, adding incentive to the financial markets in a sick distorted manner, but at the same time killing the USEconomy from capital destruction. It has an equally destructive macro effect on the global economy. The USD is wrecking the world economic and financial system, even while the Petro-Dollar delivers equally powerful blows from its dismantling to the contract net foundation. The macro effect from QE is seen in hedging against the USD which is subjected to the African monetary policy. To praise it as adaptive and effective is intellectually criminal and abominable. Ironic that the White House has an African resident, and the USFed has an African monetary policy, and the USMilitary has hidden interests at the African Horn in Djibouti. But the Chinese have an African gold connection through Congo to Dubai and Hong Kong in return through the lower route on the distress road. The macro QE effect urges Eastern nations to divest USTreasury Bonds in favor of Gold bullion, mineral deposits, even energy deposits. The higher cost structure has killed working capital and put it on the sidelines, the retired capital concept that escapes the view of Western economists, mostly hacks and banker pimps. The Eastern nations also have embarked in numerous large capital projects, often called infrastucture deals. It is all hedging, diversifying, abandoning, done in preparation.
At the micro level, the continued Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) exerts a powerful force toward killing the USEconomy from the street level. It assures and delivers an inadequate income for pensions and insurance firms. The 0% rate has been in place since 2009, when the public was told it would be temporary. The Jackass warned it would be permanent. Pensions cannot meet their obligations any longer, and have resorted to selling their core holding assets, often called their nut. Not a single corporate or state pension fund has avoided serious problems. Insurance firms are more sprawling in their structure. They cannot meet their obligations any longer, and have resorted to selling their core holding assets, their nut. These are the strong detrimental micro effects on financial structures. The hundreds of thousands of private savers (like my father) have $billions stuck in bank certificates which earn paltry sums, unless they are old from the last decade or earlier. Worse, many banks forced older CD holders to convert to newer versions at much lower rates, using the contract fine print (font 4). In addition, the zero bound rate has resulted in harmful effects to entire financial market pricing and allocation of assets.
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Scotland to Outlaw Growing of GM Crops
No to GMO! Scotland to Outlaw Growing of GM Crops!
Scotland says it will ban genetically modified crops on its soil. According to officials, the move will protect the environment. They are also taking advantage of new EU laws, allowing member states to decide whether they want to grow the crops or not.
Although the EU imports large quantities of GM crops from abroad, it is less sure about growing them on their own soil. Some environmental groups are worried about the impact they could have on the countryside, while there are also concerns over health issues for humans, despite producers of the crops insisting they are safe.
Only Monsanto’s maize MON810, which is cultivated in Spain and Portugal, is currently on sale for human consumption within the EU.
"Scotland is known around the world for our beautiful natural environment - and banning growing genetically modified crops will protect and further enhance our clean, green status," Richard Lochhead, the Scottish government's minister for the environment, food and rural affairs, said in a statement.
The politician also added there was no public demand for introducing GM crops.
"There is no evidence of significant demand for GM products by Scottish consumers and I am concerned that allowing GM crops to be grown in Scotland would damage our clean and green brand, thereby gambling with the future of our £14 billion ($22 billion) food and drink sector," Lochhead added.
‘GM not the answer to food security’
The decision was taken by Scotland’s devolved parliament, with the UK’s legislative body in London having no say in the matter.
The move was welcomed by the Scottish Green MSP Alison Johnstone. In a statement on the party’s website, she said, “Opting out of growing genetically modified crops is the right move for Scotland. Cultivation of GM crops would harm our environment and our reputation for high quality food and drink."
“GM is not the answer to food security, and would represent further capture of our food by big business. Scotland has huge potential with a diverse mix of smaller-scale producers and community food initiatives, and we need to see those grow further.”
However, the decision has not proved to be universally popular, with farmers saying they will lose out to competitors due to the ban being introduced.
“There is going to be one side of the border in England where they may adopt biotechnology, but just across the River Tweed farmers are not going to be allowed to. How are these farmers going to be capable of competing in the same market?” the National Farmers Union of Scotland vice-president Andrew McCornick told the Scotsman newspaper.
Mumps Outbreak Strikes College Students Who Already Received TWO MMR Vaccines
Mumps Outbreak Strikes College Students Who Already Received TWO MMR Vaccines
Dozens of students attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have come down with the mumps virus in what authorities believe could snowball into an all-out epidemic. But once again, the vast majority of afflicted students were already twice vaccinated for mumps (MMR) prior to catching the disease, upending government claims about this dangerous and useless vaccine.
Reports indicate that some 69 cases of mumps have thus far been reported on the UIUC campus, and most of these, according to Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Nirav Shah, occurred among students who had previously received two rounds of the combination vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.
As you may recall, the efficacy of the mumps component of the MMR vaccine was called into question by two former Merck scientists who filed a False Claims Act complaint in 2010. They allege that the vaccine giant fabricated study data to promote this controversial vaccine as effective, when in reality it doesn't actually work as claimed.
The escalating mumps outbreak at UIUC further substantiates what these two fleshed out in their court filing – that despite getting vaccinated for mumps with MMR, individuals are still getting sick. And yet IDPH's Shah believes the solution is to push more MMR vaccines on students to supposedly curb the disease's spread.
He told the media that, even though the first two rounds of MMR apparently didn't work amongst the affected students at UIUC, they should still opt for a third round of the vaccine because it "could help control the outbreak," reports Fox News.
http://www.naturalnews.com/050712_mumps_outbreak_MMR_vaccine_University_of_Illinois.html
Vet Resisted VA Gun Grab Tyranny With Help Of Local Sheriff
Vet Resisted VA Gun Grab Tyranny With Help Of Local Sheriff
Idaho residents gathered outside Veteran John Arnold’s home in Priest River on Thursday to protest the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs decision to threaten seizure of Arnold’s firearms after labeling him “financially incompetent.”
Arnold claims that an error on paper work he filed with the VA shortly after having a stroke one year ago is the reason he received the label.
“If somebody else makes an error and they cause you grief they should fix it,” Arnold told KREM 2. “That’s all I want is that stuff to get fixed.”
Roughly 100 people gathered outside Arnold’s house on Thursday to show support for the veteran’s right to bear arms.
A VA inspector was set to visit Arnold Thursday but likely flaked due to the protest.
Among the protesters was State Representative Heather Scott and Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler.
“I took an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and uphold the laws of Idaho,” Sheriff Wheeler said. “This seemed appropriate to show my support. I was going to make sure Mr. Arnold’s rights weren’t going to be breached.”
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/08/idaho-residents-protest-vas-decision-to.html
Oathkeepers has reported that the VA was forced to stand down!
The VA goofed and had to back down. The Bonner County, Idaho, Sheriff sent the Feds packing. How did the VA goof? The VA wanted another Veteran’s guns. The People said “NO!” and the Sheriff backed them. Awesome.
I’m lovin’ it! All over the place people are beginning to stand up for their rights, and for all of our rights. I would like to invite all Oath Keepers to enjoy this brief video in which two State legislators and a solid good All American Sheriff stood up for a Viet Nam Veteran when the VA notified him that they were coming to inspect his house to remove any firearms he might have there. Here are three heroes:
Idaho Rep. Heather Scott, WA Rep. Matt Shea, and Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler.
http://oathkeepers.org/oktester/this-vet-is-not-a-threat-idaho-sheriff-stands-down-the-va/
Minnesota Expands Food Freedom in New Cottage Food Bill
Minnesota Expands Food Freedom in New Cottage Food Bill
Minnesota experienced a win for liberty recently when the state reformed regulations on in-home food businesses. According to the Institute for Justice, almost every state has regulations, called cottage food laws, that limit the sale of food out of the home. However, until last month Minnesota was one of the strictest states, allowing many bakers to sell their products only at farmers’ markets and events, and capping the amount they could earn annually to $5,000.
Under the new law, bakers can sell directly from their homes and even online to buyers in state. The annual sales cap was also raised to $18,000, a huge relief for many bakers who are reliant on the money they make from their home businesses and have been unable to expand because of the burdensome regulations.
The new law is not perfect. Though it “modif[ies] license exclusions for the direct sale of certain prepared food,” the bill still mandates that individuals register with the commissioner and pay a $50 fee every year unless they make less than $5,000 annually. Individuals must also take a course in handling food (up to eight hours long) every three years.
This is indicative of a mentality that the government ultimately owns its citizens and their property. Well intentioned people who are trying to make a living must pay the government off for permission to do so. However, this was a big step in the right direction for Minnesota, and those who worked on this bill should be congratulated.
Reform of small business regulation and licensure is picking up traction around the country. States including Texas and California have loosened their cottage food laws and seen booms in upstart home businesses. Wyoming enacted the Food Freedom Act this year allowing citizens to sell homemade and homegrown products (with the exception of meat products besides poultry) without a license or a state inspection. Just last week, the White House came out for occupational licensure reform, in an unexpected report by the Department of the Treasury Office of Economic Policy, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Department of Labor.
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/08/minnesota-food-freedom-law.html
EPA Causes Toxic Spill into Colorado River
EPA Causes Toxic Spill into Colorado River
Some of the major rivers and lakes of the Southwest, including the Colorado River, the San Juan River and Lake Powell, may turn polluted and dangerous after the Environmental Protection Agency badly managed a cleanup crew on Wednesday that was trying to drain water containing metals such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, aluminum, and copper from the Gold King Mine.
The operation was designed to force the water to flow into holding ponds, but the water surged, flowing into Cement Creek, then flowing into the Animas River. According to CNN, roughly one million gallons of wastewater spilled out on Wednesday. CNN reported the heavy metals released included iron, zinc, and copper.
The pellucid Animas, which supplies drinking water to the town of Durango, turned yellow as a result of the sludge, and was closed by EPA officials, who told local residents to start conserving water. Shocking pictures of the river showed how yellow it had become.
By Saturday, the sludge was traveling at 5 mph as it hit Farmington and Aztec, N.M., and threatened the San Juan and Colorado rivers and Lake Powell.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/08/09/epa-causes-toxic-spill-into-colorado-river/
A cloud of orange-brown, toxic mine water and sludge accidentally released by the US Environmental Protection Agency is flowing down the Animas River through the hearts of towns in Colorado and New Mexico, and ultimately toward a lake in a national park.
The water, described as an “unnatural” orange color and loaded with heavy metals, was flowing through a stretch of wilderness as of Friday afternoon from Durango, Colorado toward Farmington, New Mexico. It is flowing toward the western edge of the Navajo Nation and along the Glen Canyon national recreation area in Utah.
The same area of wilderness in Utah contains well-known red rock cliffs and terraces in Utah, such as Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
“It’s awful, it’s awful,” said San Juan County undersheriff Stephen Lowrance. “It’s [a] horrible, horrible accident.”
“It’s, like I said, an orange-ish brown. You wouldn’t want to drink it – that’s for sure,” said Lowrance. Lowrance and another sheriff’s deputy were at the site of the spill almost instantly when an estimated 1m gallons of mine wastewater was released into Cement Creek north of Silverton, Colorado, a tiny town with just more than 600 people.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/07/toxic-mine-water-epa-colorado-animas-river
Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use “Precrime” Statistics in Criminal Sentencing
Pennsylvania to Become First State to Use “Precrime” Statistics in Criminal Sentencing
Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges could soon consider a new dimension: the future.
Pennsylvania is on the verge of becoming one of the first states in the country to base criminal sentences not only on what crimes people have been convicted of, but also on whether they are deemed likely to commit additional crimes. As early as next year, judges there could receive statistically derived tools known as risk assessments to help them decide how much prison time — if any — to assign.
As technology generally continues to advance, one thing you can be sure of is the criminal justice system’s use of innovative new “tools” will grow exponentially. This can be a good thing, but it can also be a very dangerous thing. Pennsylvania’s new law that permits the use of data showing whether people are “deemed likely to commit additional crimes” in criminal sentencing, is a perfect example of how an over reliance on technology can be a threat to liberty and due process.
Rather than explaining my position on the matter right here, I think it best to make my points within excerpts from the article itself.
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Oregon State Police Collecting Data On Gun Sellers
Oregon State Police Collecting Data On Gun Sellers
Just a few days before the universal gun owner registration bill kicks in, it appears that the Oregon State Police are planning on collecting data on sellers of guns, not just buyers.
We’ve been telling you all along that SB 941 was never intended to be anything but a vast database of gun owners and now it’s being proven to be all too true.
Starting today, gun dealers are seeing a new interface on their computer screens when they log in to conduct a background check on a gun sale. Now there is a box they can check for “Private Party Through Dealer.” While not fully functional, it is clear that the Oregon State Police plan to demand, and database, personal information on the seller, or transferor, of the firearm.
As of today, if a dealer checks the “Private Party Through Dealer” box they cannot actually enter the personal info of the seller, but they do get an error message saying “Alert!!!Please adjust for the following errors and try again” It then lists all the info “not supplied.” This includes the seller’s name, address, city, state and zip and their phone number.
http://www.infowars.com/oregon-state-police-collecting-data-on-gun-sellers/
Psychologist’s Work for GCHQ Deception Unit Inflames Debate Among Peers
Psychologist’s Work for GCHQ Deception Unit Inflames Debate Among Peers
A British psychologist is receiving sharp criticism from some professional peers for providing expert advice to help the U.K. surveillance agency GCHQ manipulate people online.
The debate brings into focus the question of how or whether psychologists should offer their expertise to spy agencies engaged in deception and propaganda.
Dr. Mandeep K. Dhami, in a 2011 paper, provided the controversial GCHQ spy unit JTRIG with advice, research pointers, training recommendations, and thoughts on psychological issues, with the goal of improving the unit’s performance and effectiveness. JTRIG’s operations have been referred to as “dirty tricks,” and Dhami’s paper notes that the unit’s own staff characterize their work using “terms such as ‘discredit,’ promote ‘distrust,’ ‘dissuade,’ ‘deceive,’ ‘disrupt,’ ‘delay,’ ‘deny,’ ‘denigrate/degrade,’ and ‘deter.’” The unit’s targets go beyond terrorists and foreign militaries and include groups considered “domestic extremist[s],” criminals, online “hacktivists,” and even “entire countries.”
After publishing Dhami’s paper for the first time in June, The Intercept reached out to several of her fellow psychologists, including some whose work was referenced in the paper, about the document’s ethical implications.
One of the psychologists cited in the report criticized the paper and GCHQ’s ethics. Another psychologist condemned Dhami’s recommendations as “grossly unethical” and another called them an “egregious violation” of psychological ethics. But two other psychologists cited in the report did not express concern when contacted for reaction, and another psychologist, along with Dhami’s current employer, defended her work and her ethical standards.
A British law firm hired to represent Dhami maintained that any allegations of unethical conduct are “grossly defamatory and totally untrue.”
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2015/06/22/behavioural-science-support-jtrig/
Movie Theater Chain Looks To Hire TSA Gestapo
This may sound like a harmless bit of "doing something" in response to a few tragic incidents, but there's nothing really harmless about it.
First off, it subjects everyone to the same level of scrutiny – provided they're carrying a bag of some sort. If you have a purse or backpack or (god forbid) a fanny pack, you're a potential threat. Everyone else? Free to go. Weapons tucked into waistbands or shoved into pockets will go undetected.
And, like the TSA its emulating, the security measures will be easily thwarted and ultimately useless. For every weapon the TSA brags about seizing, many more end up on planes. A recent audit of the TSA's security efforts found it missed 95% of smuggled weapons and explosives. Anyone thinking Regal's security force is going to be better trained and more thorough than the TSA is kidding themselves.
Like the TSA's efforts, this will give moviegoers the illusion of safety, rather than actual safety. An illusion might be comforting enough for most moviegoers and it's all Regal can actually offer. This move is more about PR than reality.
According to a new survey conducted by consumer research film C4, following the Nashville incident, 48% of moviegoers are willing to pay $1 or more per ticket for the additional measures. Nineteen per cent of respondents said they would pay $3 or more.
And I'm sure Regal will be more than happy to take $1-3 more from every moviegoer in exchange for a hassling a few moviegoers. But Regal's move – while good-intentioned – is ill-advised. Offering your customers mostly-theoretical protection places responsibility for any future shootings almost solely on each individual theater. Now, if anyone shoots up a theater, Regal will very likely be successfully targeted in wrongful death suits. After all, it instituted additional measures to prevent further shootings… and then failed to prevent a shooting from happening. The additional measures seem unlikely to dissuade anyone but the most easily-deterred shooters from following through with their plans. In exchange for little more than a temporary bump in goodwill, Regal is assuming a great deal of liability.
And given what we know about the most recent theater shootings, a bag check wouldn't have stopped anything. James Holmes, who killed 12 and wounded 70 in Aurora, CO, stashed his weapons in his vehicle. The shooter in Louisiana may have had a backpack (reports are inconclusive), but it wasn't on or near him when police got to him, and a controlled detonation later proved there was nothing harmful inside it. The shooter at the Antioch, TN theater was carrying two backpacks – one of which was strapped across his chest. When police engaged him, he was also wearing a surgical mask. Most of what was in his bags weren't actually weapons, though. Pepper spray, a hatchet and an Airsoft gun were used in the theater attack. Only one of these is an actual weapon, and Regal's new policy doesn't make it clear what will happen to those who bring in legal items that aren't weapons but the theater decides could be deployed as one.
This focus on bags also makes it clear to potential attackers that security will be looking out for one thing – backpacks and bags. Avoiding scrutiny simply means not doing that one thing. So, while some moviegoers will be comforted by this security charade being performed on their behalf, many more will be irritated that attending a movie will be nearly as annoying as boarding a plane.
MPAA Behind Obama's New Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Gestapo
The MPAA has asked the U.S. Government for help in its efforts to reach private anti-piracy agreements with search engines, domain name registrars and hosting services. The Hollywood group believes that these three industries have shown "lagging progress" and should do more to deter online copyright infringement.
Following the failed SOPA and PIPA bills, entertainment industry groups have switched their efforts away from legislation and towards voluntary cooperation with various stakeholders.
This has resulted in several agreements in which Internet providers, advertising agencies, payment processors and other companies are more actively involved in deterring piracy.
These deals have been encouraged and facilitated by the Obama administration, often outside public view. The Copyright Alert System, for example, was negotiated with help from Vice President Joe Biden.
Despite various lobbying efforts the movie studios haven’t been able to strike a satisfactory deal with the domain name industry, search engines and hosting companies.
“…at least three areas have shown lagging progress: the use of domain names for unlawful conduct; the prevalence of piracy websites on the first pages of search results; and the use of data storage services to host websites trafficking in stolen content.”
To motivate various stakeholders to take action, the MPAA wants the U.S. Government to intervene. The Obama administration is currently working on a new Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement and the MPAA says that voluntary agreements should play a key role.
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https://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-asks-government-to-facilitate-private-anti-piracy-deals-151020/