Month: October 2013

We Are 90 Days Away From The Total Loss Of US Sovereignty

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– We Are 90 Days Away from the Total Loss of US Sovereignty (Activist Post, Oct 1, 2013):

As America races toward her date with destiny, there is yet another “fundamentally transforming” event coming her way and that event is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Many of us in the alternative media believe that some of the effects of the TPP will be felt before the coming war and martial law crackdown. However, after careful analysis, I am convinced that the brunt of the TPP will be felt after the America we know has been totally taken over in a post-war and post-economic collapse scenario.

At the end of the day, it does not matter when the implementation of the TPP comes, because when it does, America will no longer be recognizable to anyone who has grown up in this once great country.

Read moreWe Are 90 Days Away From The Total Loss Of US Sovereignty

FLOTUS Announces Twitter Updates ‘Limited’ Due To Shutdown

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So Michelle Obama was not writing all those tweets herself?

Imagine my absence of shock.

– FLOTUS Announces Twitter Updates ‘Limited’ Due to Shutdown (National Review, Oct 1, 2013):

First lady Michelle Obama tweeted on Tuesday afternoon that her Twitter account will see fewer updates due to the government shutdown.

In 2009, FactCheck.org found that the first lady had a staff of 24 people. It is unclear whether any of the first lady’s staff have been furloughed as a result of the government shutdown.

Obama Waives Ban On Sending Military Aid To Countries With Child Soldiers

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– Obama Waives Ban on Sending Military Aid to Countries With Child Soldiers (Antiwar, Oct 1, 2013):

Ask any policymaker in the White House or Congress, what’s more important than human rights? Their response: “Our government, of course.”

The Obama administration yesterday issued blanket waivers exempting three countries from a federal law banning U.S. military aid to countries that use child soldiers. Think Progress:

Read moreObama Waives Ban On Sending Military Aid To Countries With Child Soldiers

Another ‘Radioactive Spill’ At Fukushima: Tons Seeping Into Ground; Tanks Failing; Nitrogen Injection For Preventing Explosions Temporarily Halted

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– ‘Radioactive Spill’ at Fukushima: Tons seeping into ground; ‘Widespread structural problems’ indicated with tanks — Nitrogen injection for preventing explosions at reactors temporarily halted (ENENews, Oct 1, 2013):

Voice of America, Oct. 1, 2013: Another Radioactive Spill Reported at Fukushima Nuclear Plant […] The cleanup effort at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered another setback Tuesday when workers spilled four tons of radioactive water into the soil. […] TEPCO said on Tuesday that the accident occurred during the transfer of polluted rain water from one of the plant’s concrete gutters to an empty storage tank. […]

Read moreAnother ‘Radioactive Spill’ At Fukushima: Tons Seeping Into Ground; Tanks Failing; Nitrogen Injection For Preventing Explosions Temporarily Halted

NYTimes: Human crisis unfolding in Fukushima — Many now realizing “we’re being lied to, they can’t fix things” — “Lies… They can’t handle it… Many here have given up” (VIDEO)

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– NYTimes: Human crisis unfolding in Fukushima — Many now realizing “we’re being lied to, they can’t fix things” — “Lies… They can’t handle it… Many here have given up” (VIDEO) (ENENews, Oct 2, 2013)

WSJ: Huge Spike In Dogs Attacking Humans In Fukushima Town

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… caused by Fukushima radiation.

– WSJ: Huge spike in dogs biting humans in Fukushima town; Some attacked without aggression, 70% to upper body — Study: May be associated with nuclear disaster — Gundersen: Research on animal defects hidden from public (VIDEO) (ENENews, Oct 1, 2013):

Wall St. Journal, Sept. 30, 2013: The Japanese study found that the number of dog bites was almost 30 times as great in one small city in the weeks following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster as in the previous year. […] About 70% of bites were to the upper body. […] A number of dogs attacked people without displaying any signs of aggression, the study found. This behavior may be due to hormonal changes or mental stress caused by intermittent aftershocks, researchers said. […] It isn’t known if dog bites were related to radiation exposure.

Read moreWSJ: Huge Spike In Dogs Attacking Humans In Fukushima Town

Japan: Thousands Report Massive And Recurring Nosebleeds – Doctors Know Their Patients Have Radiation Sickness But Forced To Keep It Secret

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– Thousands in Japan reported to be suffering massive and recurring nosebleeds in recent days — Gundersen: Japan doctors tell us, “We know our patients have radiation illness” but forced to keep it secret (VIDEO) (ENENews, Oct 1, 2013):

Title: Over 3,000 ppl mostly of age under 30 are suffering from recurring massive nosebleeding in Japan
Source: Takahiro Katsumi (Foreign Policy Aide to Senator Tadashi Inuzuka, a member of the House of Councillors of the Japanese National Diet –Source)
Date: Updated Oct. 1, 2013
h/t Anonymous tips

  1. FACT: Over 5,000 ppl were reported of tweeting “nosebleed”?hanaji) over the past two-day period from 9/22-9/23 http://togetter.com/li/567445
  2. FACT: Over 3,000 ppl were reported of tweeting “can’t stop my nosebleed” (hanaji ga tomaranai) during the week of 9/20-9/30 (as of 12am 10/01/2013 JST) http://togetter.com/li/568710
  3. FACT: Over 2,500 ppl were reported of tweeting “I’m nosebleeding” (hanaji ga deta) during the short days of 9/28-9/30 (as of 12 am 10/01/2013 JST) http://togetter.com/li/570016

[…] WHAT YOU CAN DO:

For Japanese Facebook and Twitter users, I’ve been asking for assistance to help spread the survey to as much of the affected people as possible using the list shown above. For users overseas, I would like to ask the following: Help me create a database out of this massive list; Help me find reliable statistics on nosebleeding in general vis-a-vis abnormal nosebleeding; and Help me devise a way to bring in the international civic community’s attention on the matter.

See the complete report here

Fairewinds Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen, Oct. 1, 2013 (At 5:10 in): The problem right now is that Japanese researchers are afraid to tell the truth. We’ve got doctors calling us at Fairewinds saying, “We know our patients have radiation illness and the hospital isn’t allowing us to tell the patients that.” […] So the last piece of this is transparency. And frankly if you leave it to the Japanese government we’re never going to get transparency. We’ve got get the people involved with an oversight panel made up of civilians who have nothing to gain, or nothing to lose from telling the truth.

Watch TRNN’s interview here

About 40% Of All Food In The United States Is Thrown In The Garbage

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About 90% of what is called ‘food’ and sold as ‘food’ in the U.S. (and/or Europe) is really ‘garbage’ and is not able to sustain a healthy human body.

– About 40 Percent Of All Food In The United States Is Thrown In The Garbage (Economic Collapse, Oct. 1, 2013):

Could that headline actually be true?  Do Americans waste about 40 percent of all the food that we produce?  That sounds like an absolutely crazy number, but it is actually quite accurate according to a study conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council.  What the NRDC discovered is that approximately 40 percent of our total food supply is either thrown into dumpsters by grocery stores, is discarded by restaurants, never gets harvested on our farms, or is thrown into the garbage by consumers in their homes.  Even though 47 million Americans are on food stamps and millions of children go to bed hungry in this country every single night, we continue to waste approximately 263 million pounds of food every single day of the year.  One day people will look back and regard us as probably the most wasteful society in the history of the planet.So where does all of that food go?

Well, according to a recent Seattle Times article, “food waste” takes up more space in our landfills than anything else does:

Read moreAbout 40% Of All Food In The United States Is Thrown In The Garbage

World Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World (Video)

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Karen Hudes: We’re Running Out of Time! We’re Dealing with Whether We Can Continue as Humanity

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– World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World (Economic Collapse, Sep 30, 2013):

Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years.  In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel.  She was in a unique position to see exactly how the global elite rule the world, and the information that she is now revealing to the public is absolutely stunning.  According to Hudes, the elite use a very tight core of financial institutions and mega-corporations to dominate the planet.  The goal is control.  They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns.  Since the elite also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works.Remember, this is not some “conspiracy theorist” that is saying these things.  This is a Yale-educated attorney that worked inside the World Bank for more than two decades.  The following summary of her credentials comes directly from her website:

Read moreWorld Bank Whistleblower Reveals How The Global Elite Rule The World (Video)

Jamie Dimon And Lloyd Blankfein Visit Obama

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– Jamie And Lloyd Visit Obama (ZeroHedge, Oct 2, 2013):

Five years ago today, the CEOs of the big banks visited one US president with one goal in mind: get billions in taxpayer dollars to get bailed out. Today, the same bank CEOs are once again at the White House, this time invited by a different president, “as part of the Obama Administration’s ongoing efforts to mend relations with the financial services sector and woo their support for White House policy.” One can assume that in addition to the trite generalities surrounding the shut government and the debt ceiling, one topic of conversation is how Wall Street can accentuate the severity of the ongoing governance crisis and most certainly includes such demands by Obama as “stop sending stocks higher when the only catalyst is my inability to create any sort of compromise.”

So here they are:

Jamie

And Lloyd

Jellyfish Shut Down Massive Nuclear Power Plant

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One of the easiest things to do is to send a nuclear power plant into shutdown.

Most people won’t believe how easy it is.

– Jellyfish Shut Down Massive Nuclear Power Plant (Popular Science, Oct 1, 2013):

Get out of my coolant intake pipes!!! *shakes fist at jellyfish*

In southeastern Sweden, the three reactors that make up the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant provide about a 10th of the nation’s total power. One of the three reactors is the largest of its type in the world. And, temporarily, the reactor was felled by jellyfish.

The Oskarshamn plant is a boiling-water reactor, just like the Fukushima plants in Japan that failed so disastrously two years ago. (For more on what a boiling-water reactor is and how it works, check out our explainer.) In brief, a boiling-water reactor uses thousands of thin tubes full of fuel, commonly known as fuel rods, which contain the little pellets that feed the nuclear reaction. These rods are absurdly, dangerously hot, and so are kept submerged in cooling water. Water has to be cycled in and out of the plant continuously as it heats up, which is why nuclear plants are so often near large sources of water like lakes, rivers, and oceans. But you know what also likes large sources of water? Marine life.

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EVERY Bluefin Tuna Caught Off California Coast Is Radioactive

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– Radioactive Bluefin Tuna Caught Off California Coast (Liberals Unite, Aug 24, 2013):

Every bluefin tuna tested in the waters off California has shown to be contaminated with radiation that originated in Fukushima. Every single one.Over a year ago, in May of 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported on a Stanford University study. Daniel Madigan, a marine ecologist who led the study, was quoted as saying, “The tuna packaged it up (the radiation) and brought it across the world’s largest ocean. We were definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.”

Read moreEVERY Bluefin Tuna Caught Off California Coast Is Radioactive

Libya In ANARCHY Two Years After NATO Humanitarian Liberation

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– Libya in Anarchy Two Years After Liberation (Veterans Today, Sep 27, 2013):

Libya in anarchy two years after NATO Humanitarian Liberation

By F. William Engdahl

In 2011 when Muhammar Qaddafi refused to leave quietly as ruler of Libya, the Obama Administration, hiding behind the skirts of the French, launched a ferocious bombing campaign and a “No Fly” zone over the country to aid the so-called fighters for democracy. The US lied to Russia and China with help of the (US-friendly) Gulf Cooperation Council about the Security Council Resolution on Libya and used it to illegally justify the war. The doctrine, “responsibility to protect” was used instead, the same doctrine Obama wants to use in Syria. It’s useful top look at Libya two years after the NATO humanitarian intervention.

Chaos in oil industry

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The Washington Post Now Fully Belongs To Billionaire Jeff Bezos, The Founder And Chairman Of Amazon.com

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– Washington Post finalizes $250 million sale to Bezos (USA Today, Oct 1, 2013):

Washington Post finalizes $250 million sale to Bezos, a deal that was announced in August.

The Washington Post now fully belongs to billionaire Jeff Bezos.

The Washington Post Co., which had owned the paper, said Tuesday that it has finalized selling that part of the company to the founder and chairman of Amazon.com, a deal that was announced in early August and shocked the media industry.

In paying $250 million in cash for the paper, Bezos gains control of the fabled but struggling publication that had been controlled by four generations of the Graham family.

Read moreThe Washington Post Now Fully Belongs To Billionaire Jeff Bezos, The Founder And Chairman Of Amazon.com

Obamacare Exchanges Hit With Over 50% Fail Rate

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– Obamacare exchanges hit with over 50 percent fail rate; feds claim the worse the glitches, the bigger the success! (Natural News, Oct 2, 2013):

All across America yesterday, people were running into frustrating technical problems because the online Obamacare exchanges are full of glitches. Over fifty percent of the exchanges demonstrated critical failures, CNN reported. This is astonishing because CNN has long taken a pro-Obamacare stance.

“The CNN medical team branched out. We tried in about 20 different state states. In 12 of them we hit glitches,” CNN reported. “Sometimes it made it impossible to sign up. There were error messages or that little annoying kind of twirly thing.” (SOURCE)

The Obamacare websites are broken because people tried to use them

Read moreObamacare Exchanges Hit With Over 50% Fail Rate

Foods That Are Most Alkaline

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Green smoothies & juices are a real blessing for your health (and you can really make them taste good.)

If you cook spinach it becomes poison, especially for children, because the organic oxalic acid turns inorganic.

– Foods that are most alkaline (Natural News, Sep 28, 2013)

An alkaline diet maximizes people’s vitality, since the tissues become supple and inflammation is lessened. There are many people who suffer from inflammations these days because of a non-alkaline diet. These inflammations cause diseases such as arthritis, cancer, irritable bowel disorders and fibromyalgia. When the body is alkaline, the bones become stronger, preventing osteoporosis.

There are a variety of alkaline foods that should be consumed regularly:

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The Human Genome Project Suffers An ‘Epic Fail’: Human DNA Incapable Of Storing Complete Blueprint Of The Human Form

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– The big lie of genetics exposed: human DNA incapable of storing complete blueprint of the human form (Natural News, Sep 28, 2013):

The curse of being a critical thinker is that you can’t turn it off, I’ve discovered. So you become a critical thinker about everything you’ve been told or taught, and as it turns out, most of what we’ve all been taught about genetics is a lie.

But don’t take my word for it. Join me as we take an honest, critical look at genetics using the same kind of skepticism scientists demand we invoke when looking at medicinal herbs or acupuncture.

Read moreThe Human Genome Project Suffers An ‘Epic Fail’: Human DNA Incapable Of Storing Complete Blueprint Of The Human Form

Next ‘Subprime Crisis’ Expands As Student Loan Defaults Hit $146 Billion, Highest Default Rate Level Since 1995

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– Next “Subprime Crisis” Expands As Student Loan Defaults Hit $146 Billion, Highest Default Rate Level Since 1995 (ZeroHedge, Oct 1, 2013):

Almost exactly one year ago we wrote “The Next Subprime Crisis Is Here: Over $120 Billion In Federal Student Loans In Default” in which we took the latest (2009 three year cohort) loan default data on Federal Student Loans released by the Department of Education and applied it to the total amount of student loans outstanding, which back then was $914 billion. Yesterday, ED.gov provided its annual update – this time to the 2010 three year and 2011 two year cohorts – and to nobody’s major surprise, learned that things just got even worse. To wit: “The national two-year cohort default rate rose from 9.1 percent for FY 2010 to 10 percent for FY 2011. The three-year cohort default rate rose from 13.4 percent for FY 2009 to 14.7 percent for FY 2010.” Putting this in context, according to Bloombergdefaults have risen to the highest level since 1995. The irony that this is happening in the aftermath of Bernanke’s disastrous ZIRP policy is not lost on anyone.

Quantifying this percentage, recall the NY Fed reported in its second quarter household credit update that the amount of total outstanding student loans has now risen to $994 billion, or $80 billion more in just one year:

… one can calculate that the current amount of non-performing loans originated in 2010 is now a whopping $146 billion (the full total amount of student loans owed is $1.2 trillion when including private loans from the likes of Sallie Mae – this sum surpasses all other kinds of consumer borrowing expect for mortgages). Unfortunately, as the economic situation has only deteriorated since then especially for student-age Americans, the real blended amount of student loans in default is almost certainly substantially higher as of this moment.

The Education Department had this commentary:

Read moreNext ‘Subprime Crisis’ Expands As Student Loan Defaults Hit $146 Billion, Highest Default Rate Level Since 1995

Government Shutdown: 800000 Workers Go Without Pay, And It Doesn’t Stop There

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In other news:

– Government shutdown begins; Senate expected to reject latest House proposal (Washington Post, Oct 1, 2013)

– Congress misses deadline, sending government into partial shutdown (Fox News, Oct 1, 2013)

– Government shuts down after Congress fails to pass spending bill (USA Today, Oct 1, 2013)

– Government shutdown: 800000 workers go without pay, and it doesn’t stop there (CNN, Oct 1, 2013):

The game of chicken failed. Neither side blinked. Now millions will pay the price.Americans watched a colossal failure by Congress overnight and the shutdown of their government.

For weeks, the House and the Senate blamed and bickered, each claiming they’re standing up for what the public wants.

In the end, it led to the one outcome nobody wanted — one that will stop 800,000 Americans from getting paid and could cost the economy about $1 billion a week.

Read moreGovernment Shutdown: 800000 Workers Go Without Pay, And It Doesn’t Stop There

Swiss War Game Envisages Invasion By Bankrupt French

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Hordes of bankrupt French invade Switzerland to get their hands on their “stolen” money — such is the imaginary scenario cooked up by the Swiss military in simulations revealed over the weekend.

A Swiss Army honor guard stands 22 March 2006 during a welcoming ceremony for Czech President Vaclav Klaus in Bern.
The current number of recruits in the Swiss army stands at around 155, 000 — the biggest army in Europe relative to population size.

– Swiss war game envisages invasion by bankrupt French (Telegraph, Sep 30, 2013):

Carried out in August, the apparently outlandish army exercise was based on the premise of an attack by a financially stricken France split into warring regions, according to Matin Dimanche, the Lausanne-based daily.

One of these, “Saônia,” corresponding to the existing Jura region, was preparing attacks on Switzerland to retrieve money it had apparently swiped from France.

Operation “Duplex-Barbara” went as far as imagining a three-pronged invasion from points near Neufchâtel, Lausanne and Geneva, according to a map published in the Swiss newspaper.

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Blackstone’s Private Equity Head Warns: “We Are In The Middle Of An Epic Credit Bubble”

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– Blackstone’s Private Equity Head Warns: “We Are In The Middle Of An Epic Credit Bubble” (ZeroHedge, Sep 30, 2013):

Blackstone Group have arguably been at the center of inflating the new echo bubble in real estate by bidding (all cash) for property across the US. So it is somewhat ironic that just two months after we noted that “the smartest money is selling,” the head of Blackstone’s Private Equity Group had the following words for an audience at a Dow Jones Equity conference in New York:

“We are in the middle of an epic credit bubble, in my opinion, the likes of which I haven’t seen in my career in private equity.”

Joseph Baratta had plenty more to say including “the good times are not going to last forever,” and “we are not leveraging US GDP,” as he expects a ‘mean reversion’ in multiples and “that largesse goes to the seller.”

Via Dow Jones,

The U.S. is “in the middle of an epic credit bubble,” according to Blackstone Group’s global head of private equity, Joseph Baratta , and that bubble is affecting how one of the world’s largest private equity firm’s invests its billions.

Read moreBlackstone’s Private Equity Head Warns: “We Are In The Middle Of An Epic Credit Bubble”

Fukushima Cover-Up: Extraordinary Amount Of Children Have Thyroid Cancer

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– Fukushima Cover-Up: Extraordinary amount of kids have thyroid cancer — Officials say NOT caused by Fukushima since Chernobyl’s cancers took 4-5 yrs to appear — Yet data shows it started soon after ’86 meltdown… number of cases still rising 25 years later (ENENews, Sep 29, 2013):

Kyodo, June 5, 2013: Researchers at Fukushima Medical University […] said they do not believe that the most recent cases are related to the nuclear crisis. They point out that thyroid cancer cases were not found among children hit by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident until four to five years later. […]Asahi Shimbun, August 21, 2013: A Fukushima prefectural government official said, “It is likely (the 44 children) developed tumors or lumps before the nuclear accident.” […] In the case of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, thyroid cancer cases started to soar four to five years later […] A number of residents have expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Fukushima prefectural government over its interpretation of the effects of radiation exposure, the accuracy of its thyroid testing and the way it discloses information.

Read moreFukushima Cover-Up: Extraordinary Amount Of Children Have Thyroid Cancer

The Evisceration of Yugoslavia Part II: Nazis, Bilderbergers and Clinton Liars

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FYI.

– The Evisceration of Yugoslavia Part II: Nazis, Bilderbergers and Clinton Liars (Veteranws Today, Sep 29, 2013)

Related article:

– The Evisceration of Yugoslavia, Part 1: BNL, Yugo, and Eagleburger (Veteranws Today, Sep 22, 2013)