Month: September 2013

How Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Sells Post Office Real Estate To His Friends On The Cheap

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– How Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Sells Post Office Real Estate to His Friends on the Cheap (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Sep 25, 2013):

The county records allow for comparing the assessed value of the postal properties before they were sold to the final sales prices negotiated by CBRE on behalf of the Postal Service: And the comparisons reveal that CBRE has sold the bulk of this public real estate at prices under their assessed values — and apparently at far below fair market values.

CBRE is also charged with appraising the fair market value of these properties and listing a reasonable sales price. It is important to point out that real estate appraisals are not customarily performed by the agent marketing the property. To avoid conflicts of interest, property appraisals are normally performed by professionals not involved in negotiating the sale.

– Peter Byrne from his book Going Postal

We’ve all heard about how the Russian oligarchs amassed their tremendous fortunes in the wake of the collapse of the former Soviet Union by purchasing valuable assets for pennies on the dollar using shady insider deals. The oligarchs in the USA have learned their lessons in crony capitalism well, and unsurprisingly, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in this case. Dianne Feinstein is one of the most shameless, authoritarian, undemocratic Senators we have, so it is no surprise that the Princess of Darkness’ husband would be involved in schemes to rip-off public assets to benefit friends and his commercial real estate firm C.B. Richard Ellis.

The following excerpts are from an article published in the East Bay Express and consists of passages from the introductory chapter of a new e-book, Going Postal, by investigative journalist Peter Byrne. There is some epic fraud going on here:

Read moreHow Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Sells Post Office Real Estate To His Friends On The Cheap

Nuclear Experts: Fukushima Reactor No. 4 Spent Fuel Pool Shows Signs Of Collapsing

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– Nuclear Experts: Fukushima Unit 4 has shown signs of collapsing — Underneath buildings it’s becoming saturated — “Known fractures in soil” — Large structure already went down at plant after ground was super-saturated and had mudslide in March 2011 (PHOTO & VIDEO) (ENENews, Sep 25, 2013):

Tepco’s video tour of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Sept. 2013 (At 1:00 in) – The power line tower of units 5 & 6 fell over due to a collapse of the embankment. Consequently, the whole site lost its outside power source. 20-minute video here

WERU’s News Report interviews Dean Wilkie, nuclear reactor operations at a U.S. Department of Energy test reactor in Idaho (At 28:50 in) – When the accident happened back in March 2011 there was a power pole, one of these huge power poles, inside of the Daiichi facility, inside the area there, and the ground that it was set on became super-saturated with water and they had a mud slide and that whole tower went down […] At Fukushima now, what we’re seeing, all of this work that they’ve been doing with these walls and then it’s causing the water to back up, it’s starting to saturate soil that’s underneath the buildings and in adjacent areas around the buildings. Couple that with the fact that there are known fractures in that soil — it was very obvious during the earthquake.  Full broadcast here

Nuclear Expert Gordon Edwards interview on the Green Power Wellness Show (At 32:00 in) – The worry with Unit No. 4, even though there was no fuel in the core of the reactor, there’s a spent fuel pool very precariously perched up above 5 floors. If the plant were to collapse — which it’s been showing signs of doing — then that fuel would be all over the place and it would be impossible to cool. And that would be a real… you could get far greater emissions than we did initially. Full interview here

Related info:

– Tokyo Professor: Japan Is On Verge Of Collapse – Osaka Professor: If You Don’t Take Action Right Now, You Have No Future

And here is what … “you could get far greater emissions than we did initially” … really means:

– ‘The Greatest Threat Humanity Has Ever Faced’: Fukushima Reactor No. 4 SFP ‘An Immediate Problem’ – Building Is Sinking, Over 30 Inches In Places:

The leakage of water from these cores is bad enough but the most dangerous thing is the cooling pool of unit 4. Now it is terribly dangerous because the entire hot core of reactor 4 had been removed and put in this cooling pool shortly before the tsunami. So, there was a hot core in this cooling pool the entire superstructure building was blown off in a hydrogen explosion.

The entire area is weakened and there is a great risk of an aftershock. Now this pool contains something on the order of 400.000 kg of hot plutonium. So, the thing that people should be aware of is that TEPCO is going to begin attempting to remove these rods from this pool to some other type of storage. This has never been done with plutonium rods that have been out of a core for such a short period of time.

There is a great danger of a thermonuclear reaction if these rods become exposed to the air and the cooling pool itself is just barely containing the temperature levels of the core as it is.

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The media coverage of the situation has been almost non-existent. The public must become engaged and the governments must become engaged because this is a global threat. They say that one microgram of plutonium could theoretically kill a person.

There are billion micrograms in a kilogram and there are 400.000 hot kilograms in this pool. So, if these rods combust, if the set of rods begins a thermonuclear reaction, it will vaporize the water in the pool and the entire pool can become an uncontrolled nuclear reaction open to the air. These particles will be spread through the northern hemisphere.

This is perhaps the greatest threat humanity has ever faced. And I think you would acknowledge there has been far too little attention given to this at this point and the measures that the Japanese government is discussing at this point are not sufficient, I believe. Other governments must become engaged in this.

A collapse of Fukushima reactor no. 4 SFP would mean the end of humanity as we know it.

US Intelligence Chiefs Lobby To Prevent Congress Curbing Surveillance Powers

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– US intelligence chiefs lobby to prevent Congress curbing surveillance powers (Guardian, Sep 26, 2013):

NSA director and director of national intelligence to appear before Senate committee a day after senators propose reform bill

Two US intelligence chiefs will begin a public lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill on Thursday, as they try to dissuade Congress from dismantling any part of the vast surveillance apparatus constructed in the aftermath of September 11 terrorist attacks.

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Senate Bill Would Eliminate Mass Collection Of Phone Records, Reform FISA Court

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– Senate bill would eliminate mass collection of phone records, reform FISA court (RT, Sep 25, 2013):

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers has introduced legislation that, if approved, would attempt to strengthen civil liberties and curb the power of the secret FISA courts that approved widespread foreign and domestic NSA surveillance policies.

The bill, dubbed the Intelligence Oversight and Surveillance Reform Act, bundles a number of ideas proposed in roughly 12 other bills drafted in the wake of the leaks by NSA contractor-turned  whistleblower Edward Snowden, which first began in June.

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Peter Schiff Was Right – ‘Taper’ Edition (Video)

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When Ben Bernanke announced that the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee was going to continue its monetary expansion program it calls Quantitative Easing, almost everyone in the financial media was taken by complete surprise. According to the mainstream media, the non-taper “surprised almost everyone out there.” Well it did not surprise me, nor anyone who had been paying attention to what I had been saying. As I said repeatedly over the past several months, the Fed knows that the appearance of economic health would evaporate if its stimulus were withdrawn, or even diminished. The Fed understands, as the market seems not to, that the current “recovery” could not survive without the continuation of massive monetary stimulus. In fact, the Fed’s next big move will likely be to increase, rather than taper, its monthly QE dosage! One reporter on this video said that its time for the Fed to take the training wheels off the economy. As I have been saying for years, QE is not the training wheels, its the only wheels the economy has. Take it away and the economy stalls. However, as the economy is now headed toward a cliff, taking the wheels off is much better than leaving them on and going over that cliff.

For more on how I knew the Fed wouldn’t taper, here’s an oped I released after the decision was announced http://www.europac.net/commentaries/t…

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Cancer Officially Number One Cause of Childhood Death in U.S.

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– Cancer Officially Number One Cause of Childhood Death in U.S. (Activist Post, Sep 24, 2013):

The number one reason blamed for childhood deaths in America used to be accidents; now it’s cancer.

ABC News is reporting today that cancer has officially outranked every other cause of childhood death in this country:

Cancer is the leading cause of childhood death in the United States, with 13,500 new diagnoses each year according to the American Cancer Institute. One out of every 300 boys and one out of every 333 girls will develop cancer before their 20th birthday, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Cancer in America has seen a sharp increase over the last 100 years across all age groups. Data from the U.S. Public Health Service estimates that cancer death rates in 1900 were around 64 per 100,000; that number has increased almost threefold to 188.7 per 100,000 in 2005.

Read moreCancer Officially Number One Cause of Childhood Death in U.S.

Prescribed Deletion – The Truth About Antidepressants – Testimonies Of The Destroyed

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FYI.

– PRESCRIBED DELETION – the truth about antidepressants. (Jim Stone):

This is a massive subject, and I am living a very difficult life at this time which is interfering with my writing. So, I have to rough this out. This report is based mainly upon information I gathered during a study of antidepressants I did in 2008/09. This was the study that netted the classified documents from GSKThis is the first section of this report.

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Secretary Of State John Kerry Signs UN Arms Treaty

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“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”
– Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991


President Obama walks past Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York.

– Secretary of State Kerry signs UN arms treaty, senators threaten to block it (FOX News, Sep 25, 2013):

Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday signed a controversial U.N. treaty on arms regulation, riling U.S. lawmakers who vow the Senate will not ratify the agreement.

Read moreSecretary Of State John Kerry Signs UN Arms Treaty

Sen. Ted Cruz Ends His ‘Defund Obamacare’ Senate Floor Speech After Having Spoken For 21 Hours And 19 Minutes

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– Ted Cruz continues speech throughout the night (The Daily Caller, Sep 25, 2013):

Update, 12:04 p.m.: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his “defund Obamacare” Senate floor speech Wednesday at noon, having spoken for 21 hours and 19 minutes.

Read highlights from earlier in the morning below:

While most other senators were sleeping Tuesday night, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz continued his extended speech from the floor of the U.S. Senate in protest of President Obama’s health-care law. He’s now been speaking for more than 21 hours.

Cruz has been speaking since about 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday. He started his speech by saying, “I plan to speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand.”

Read moreSen. Ted Cruz Ends His ‘Defund Obamacare’ Senate Floor Speech After Having Spoken For 21 Hours And 19 Minutes

Fukushima Doom Confirmed? France Hit By Iodine-131 Cloud While New Radiation Plume Expected To Hit West Coast Of America On Sep 24, 2013

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Wish I would have seen and posted this earlier.

– Fukushima Doom Confirmed? France Hit By Iodine-131 Cloud While New Radiation Plume Expected To Hit West Coast Of America On Tuesday (Before It’s News, Sep 22, 2013):

A cloud of Iodine-131 has reached France while the recent 5.3 Fukushima earthquake is sending a new radiation plume around the world according to a recent story from Bobby1?sBlog. This latest plume is expected to arrive on the West Coast of America on Tuesday, September 24th. With radiation now spreading across the entire Northern hemisphere and no end in sight, are we reaching the ‘beginning of the end’? Two videos below confirm the severity of this ongoing doomsday situation.

An earthquake that rocked Japan just south of the Fukushima area shortly after midnight on September 20 (Japan time) sent a new plume of radiation across the Pacific Ocean. Apparently radiation measurements in this area have temporarily spiked.

This new plume would arrive on the west coast around Tuesday, Sept. 24. Previous earthquakes have also generated plumes. I remember that the one that arrived after the Jan. 1, 2012 quake was really nasty.

In a previous discussion Iodine-131 from latest criticality it was noted that the iodine spike in Chiba prefecture sludge was deposited in the period August 7 through August 20. According to CRIIRAD, Montélimar, France had spikes in alpha and beta atmospheric radiation on September 4-7. Rhône river water in Avignon showed a spike in iodine-131 on Sept. 7. The iodine cloud must have widened and dispersed quite a bit in its journey across the northern hemisphere… and 75% or more of it would have decayed by the time it reached France. So it must have been quite a substantial radioactive cloud.

Fukushima not only affects Japan, but the Pacific ocean, North America, and Europe too. Australia has had average radiation levels increase substantially, also.

New Updated Fukushima Report (PDF)

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H/t reader SQUODGY:

“I have monitored this constantly. It is yet another example of a cover up whereby both the stupid Japanese Gov & the incompetent Power Company have now joined up to admit they haven’t a clue what to do and from all the evidence available (see jimstonefreelance.com) the disaster has manifested into Armageddon with two reactors in meltdown with the cores somewhere unknown, one reactor totally vapourised and the dismantled one’s rod pool about to collapse with the biggest dirty bomb ever.

Worldwide media have downgraded it to well below even the BP oil spill. Then again, seeing as the Mainstream Media is jew owned, and as Jim Stone concludes (with good reason) that israel did Fukushima, in retaliation for Japan offering to re-process Iran’s spent rods, it adds up the Mainstream don’t publish it. We can really just hope that Fukushima’s alter ego China Syndrome is israel itself

An iodine 131 cloud landed in France last week, but, as usual, everyone was told not to worry as its strength would be weakened by travel. In Japan the ‘safe’ levels of radiation have been adjusted upwards by 200%, and I believe the same now applies in US, the first port of call for anything sinister. Kids in Japan are suffering from Thyroid issues, the whereabouts and condition of the FUKUSHIMA 50 sacrificial lambs is now secret, and immediately after the first wave, newborn babies in Philadelphia started dying. Milk from the pastures of the West Coast started showing high levels of Caesium 137.

All this is exactly as Doctor Helen Caldicott and Prof Chris Busby predicted, yet nothing was done.”

FYI.

PDF: NEW UPDATED FUKUSHIMA REPORT

– 3/11 was Japan’s 9/11. It’s all documented folks! (Jim Stone)

– I got hunted down by an American intelligence agency (Jim Stone, Sep 24, 2013)

World Record Solar Cell With 44.7% Efficiency

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– World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency (PhysOrg, Sep 24, 2013):

German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin announced today that they have achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells. Surpassing competition after only over three years of research, and entering the roadmap at world class level, a new record efficiency of 44.7% was measured at a concentration of 297 suns. This indicates that 44.7% of the solar spectrum’s energy, from ultraviolet through to the infrared, is converted into electrical energy. This is a major step towards reducing further the costs of solar electricity and continues to pave the way to the 50% efficiency roadmap.

Back in May 2013, the German-French team of Fraunhofer ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin had already announced a solar cell with 43.6% efficiency. Building on this result, further intensive research work and optimization steps led to the present efficiency of 44.7%.

Read moreWorld Record Solar Cell With 44.7% Efficiency

Empty F-16 Jet tested By Boeing And US Air Force

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– Empty F-16 jet tested by Boeing and US Air Force (BBC News, Sep 24, 2013):

Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones.

It said that one of the Lockheed Martin F-16 made a first flight with an empty cockpit last week.

Two US Air Force pilots controlled the plane from the ground as it flew from a Florida base to the Gulf of Mexico.

Read moreEmpty F-16 Jet tested By Boeing And US Air Force

Robots May Revolutionize China’s Electronics Manufacturing

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– Robots May Revolutionize China’s Electronics Manufacturing (Wall Street Journal, Sep 24, 2013):

A new worker’s revolution is rising in China and it doesn’t involve humans.

With soaring wages and an aging population, electronics factory managers say the day is approaching when robotic workers will replace people on the Chinese factory floor.

A new wave of industrial robots is in development, ranging from high-end humanoid machines with vision, touch and even learning capabilities, to low-cost robots vying to undercut China’s minimum wage.

Over the next five years these technologies will transform China’s factories, executives say, and also fill a growing labor shortage as the country’s youth become increasingly unwilling to perform manual labor. How the transformation plays out will also go a long way in deciding how much of the electronics supply chain remains in China.

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Kenya: Off Duty Soldier Armed With Handgun Saves 100 Lives During Mall Siege

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Hmmh.

– Off Duty Soldier Armed With Handgun Saves 100 Lives During Mall Siege (Infowars.com, Sep 24, 2013):

Another pro-gun story you won’t see covered by the US corporate media

Here’s a positive story about guns that you’re not likely to see the US corporate media pay much attention to – an off-duty SAS soldier armed with just a handgun saved 100 lives during the terrorist siege on the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya.

The soldier was having a coffee with friends inside the mall when the attack began. His gun tucked inside his waistband, the soldier returned to the building at least a dozen times to rescue hostages.

“He went back in 12 times and saved 100 people. Imagine going back in when you knew what was going on inside,” a friend told the Daily Mail, labeling the soldier a “hero”.

Read moreKenya: Off Duty Soldier Armed With Handgun Saves 100 Lives During Mall Siege

Linux – Who Rooted Kernel.org Servers Two Years Ago, How Did It Happen, And Why?

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See also:

– Linus Torvalds Talks Linux Development at LinuxCon (eWeek, Sep 18, 2013):

NSA Backdoor

Torvalds was also asked if he had ever been approached by the U.S. government to insert a backdoor into Linux. Torvalds responded “no” while nodding his head “yes,” as the audience broke into spontaneous laughter.

– Who rooted kernel.org servers two years ago, how did it happen, and why? (Ars Technica, Sep 24, 2013):

Maintainers of Linux still haven’t delivered promised autopsy of serious breach.

More than two years after unknown hackers gained unfettered access over multiple computers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel, officials still haven’t released a promised autopsy about what happened.

The compromise, which began no later than August 12, 2011, wasn’t detected for at least 16 days, a public e-mail and interviews immediately following the intrusion revealed. During that time, attackers were able to monitor the activities of anyone using the kernel.org servers known as Hera and Odin1, as well as personal computers belonging to senior Linux developer H. Peter Anvin. The self-injecting rootkit known as Phalanx had access to a wealth of sensitive data, possibly including private keys used to sign and decrypt e-mails and remotely log in to servers. A follow-up advisory a few weeks later opened the possibility that still other developers may have fallen prey to the attackers.

Read moreLinux – Who Rooted Kernel.org Servers Two Years Ago, How Did It Happen, And Why?

Senator Ted Cruz: ‘I Intend To Speak In Support Of Defunding Obamacare Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’ (Video)

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– Cruz says he’ll talk until ‘I am no longer able to stand’ (CNN, Sep 25, 2013):

Washington (CNN) — Republican Ted Cruz of Texas was still on the Senate floor talking Wednesday– a dramatic step in defense of his high profile and controversial plan to prevent any funding for Obamacare.

“I intend to speak in support of defunding Obamacare until I am no longer able to stand,” he said Tuesday.

“All across this country, Americans are suffering because of Obamacare. Obamacare isn’t working.”

Read moreSenator Ted Cruz: ‘I Intend To Speak In Support Of Defunding Obamacare Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’ (Video)

Tokyo Professor: Japan Is On Verge Of Collapse – Osaka Professor: If You Don’t Take Action Right Now, You Have No Future

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“If you don’t educate yourself now and fast, you’ll die.”
– Prof. Hayakawa of Gunma University

– Tokyo Professor: I want to stress that Japan is on verge of collapse after Fukushima — Osaka Professor: If you don’t recognize health risks and take action right now, you have no future (VIDEO) (ENENews, Sep 24, 2013):

Title: 0.23?? – Fukushima: Is There a Way Out?
Source: Arirang TV
Date: Sept. 9, 2013

Fukushima: Is There a Way Out? […] What kind of tomorrow awaits Japan? […] The Japanese public spends every day in fear and anxiety, as the repercussions of the nuclear crisis can be felt everywhere, and there is no end in sight yet. […] Where is Fukushima headed? Will Japan be able to find a way out?

At 42:00 in

Professor Taisei Namura, Ph.D., National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (Under jurisdiction of Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, located in Osaka): Cancer doesn’t happen immediately. If you don’t recognize it and take action right now, you have no future. We must raise public awareness. We can’t rest assured just because it’s a small amount. The symptoms will not appear until decades later.

At 46:00 in

Professor Eiji Makino, Hosei University (“One of the most traditional private universities based in Tokyo”): This tragedy has revealed that Japan’s political, social, economic, and moral standards are falling apart. I think we’re facing a big crisis. I want to stress one more time that Japan is on the verge of a collapse.

Watch the 48 minute broadcast here

Why Is Obamacare So Unaffordable? Because It Was Conceived As A Political Weapon Of Mass Economic Destruction

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– Why is Obamacare so unaffordable? Because it was conceived as a political weapon of mass economic destruction (Natural News, Sep 25, 2013):

Right now, all across America, employees are receiving notices that their insurance coverage is being dropped because it isn’t “compliant” with Obamacare. Simultaneously, employers everywhere are slashing jobs, cutting hours and downsizing their operations just to stay afloat by avoiding the most punishing requirements of Obamacare. Across the economy, Obamacare is devastating American workers and casting tens of millions of people into a state of despair.

Why is Obamacare — the “Affordable Care Act” — so unaffordable? Why is it causing jobs, hours and insurance policies to be gutted all across America? Because it was designed as a political weapon to destroy private sector jobs so that more people would become dependent on government entitlements, food stamps and welfare programs.

Mass victimization is a political strategy, and Obamacare is the weapon

It’s time you learned the truth about Obamacare and how victimization is a political “weapon of mass destruction.” The Democratic party thrives primarily on victimization. The more destitute workers become, the more they demand handouts from politicians, and no party is more willing to widely distribute handouts than the Democratic party. Ensnaring people in a cycle of poverty and dependence is the democrats’ long-term re-election strategy. The more people who live in poverty, in other words, the more powerful the Democrats become.

(In fairness, the Republicans’ long-term re-election strategy is to ensnare nations in endless wars, conflict and engineered terrorism. But that’s another article altogether. For the record, I endorse the platform of the Canary Party.)

Read moreWhy Is Obamacare So Unaffordable? Because It Was Conceived As A Political Weapon Of Mass Economic Destruction

The Dentistry Holocaust: How America Has Been Mercury Poisoned

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– The dentistry holocaust: How America has been mercury poisoned by an industry in denial (Natural News, Sep 24, 2013):

Last Friday, the city council of Berkeley, California, voted to keep mercury hidden in dental fillings, keeping consumers in the dark on the fact that they are all being poisoned with a deadly neurotoxin that causes permanent brain damage. This decision to keep consumers in the dark was, of course, supported by dentists and doctors — both of which have a long history of covertly poisoning their own patients while refusing to disclose the damaging effects of the deadly chemicals or toxic heavy metals they routinely (and profitably) use.

It turns out that “amalgam fillings” are intentionally and deliberately misnamed for the express purpose of misleading consumers. Those fillings are actually more than 50 percent mercury, and once installed in mouths, they off-gas mercury vapor which is then inhaled by the patient, entering their bloodstream and causing permanent cellular damage to heart, kidneys, liver and brain. Click here to see a video of mercury fillings off-gassing deadly mercury vapor.

There’s also a stunning video from the University of Calgary that provides visual proof of mercury damaging brain neurons. If you’ve never seen this video, click here to watch it now.

Here’s why so many dentists are clinically insane

Read moreThe Dentistry Holocaust: How America Has Been Mercury Poisoned

Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Now Starting To Happen All Over The Globe

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– Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Now Starting To Happen All Over The Globe (Economic Collapse, Sep 24, 2013):

Now that “bail-ins” have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again.  In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world.  As you will read about below, private pension funds were just raided by the government in Poland, and a “bail-in” is being organized for one of the largest banks in Italy.  Unfortunately, this is just the beginning.  The precedent that was set in Cyprus is being used as a template for establishing bail-in procedures in New Zealand, Canada and all over Europe.  It is only a matter of time before we see this exact same type of thing happen in the United States as well.  From now on, anyone that keeps a large amount of money in any single bank account or retirement fund is being incredibly foolish.

Let’s take a look at a few of the examples of how Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is now moving forward all over the globe:

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The Credit Bubble Is Not Only Back, It Is 94% Bigger Than In 2007

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– The Credit Bubble Is Not Only Back, It Is 94% Bigger Than In 2007 (ZeroHedge, Sep 23, 2013):

If the Fed was worried about ‘froth’ in the markets earlier in the year, then this chart should have them panicking. Of course, as Jim Bullard noted Friday, there is no bubble because everyone knows there is no bubble but judging by the massive surge in covenant-lite loan issuance, there is a bubble in forced demand for leveraged loans. At $188.7 billion, the 2013 issuance of these highly unsafe loans (which have seen huge inflows since the Fed started talking taper back in May) is almost double that of the peak of the last credit bubble in 2007 and is five times the size of 2012 YTD issuance at this time. As Reuters notes, Covenant-lite loans used to be reserved for stronger companies and credits, but are now so common in the U.S. leveraged loan market that investors are becoming wary of some credits with a full covenant package. With corporate leverage at all-time highs, what could go wrong?

Read moreThe Credit Bubble Is Not Only Back, It Is 94% Bigger Than In 2007