Month: March 2015

Ben Bernanke Pens First Blog Post, Defends Fed, Says He ‘Was Concerned About Seniors’

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From the article:

“When I was chairman, more than one legislator accused me and my colleagues on the Fed’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee of “throwing seniors under the bus” (to use the words of one senator) by keeping interest rates low. The legislators were concerned about retirees living off their savings and able to obtain only very low rates of return on those savings.”

And the punchline:

“I was concerned about those seniors as well.”

Yes, deeply concerned on how to wipe them (the middle class and the poor) out best.

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– Ben Bernanke Pens First Blog Post, Defends Fed, Says He “Was Concerned About Seniors” (ZeroHedge, March 30, 2015):

It would appear the $250,000/hour speaking opportunities for Ben Bernanke have ground to a halt, and as such, the former Chairsatan has decided to dispense his wisdom for free to anyone who cares, by becoming a blogger at Brookings. And, not surprisingly, in his first post, the person who less than a decade ago said the following, in exactly those words…

Well, I guess I don’t buy your premise. It’s a pretty unlikely possibility. We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s gonna drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.

Read moreBen Bernanke Pens First Blog Post, Defends Fed, Says He ‘Was Concerned About Seniors’

Big Brother: Facebook Reveals Its Master Plan – Control All News Flow

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– Facebook Reveals its Master Plan – Control All News Flow (Liberty Blitzkrieg, March 24, 2015):

In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content inside Facebook rather than making users tap a link to go to an external site.

The new proposal by Facebook carries another risk for publishers: the loss of valuable consumer data. When readers click on an article, an array of tracking tools allow the host site to collect valuable information on who they are, how often they visit and what else they have done on the web.

And if Facebook pushes beyond the experimental stage and makes content hosted on the site commonplace, those who do not participate in the program could lose substantial traffic — a factor that has played into the thinking of some publishers. Their articles might load more slowly than their competitors’, and over time readers might avoid those sites.

– From the New York Times article: Facebook May Host News Sites’ Content

Last night, I came across an incredibly important article from the New York Times, which described Facebook’s plan to provide direct access to other websites’ content in exchange for some sort of advertising partnership. The implications of this are so huge that at this point I have far more questions than answers.

Let’s start with a few excerpts from the article:

Read moreBig Brother: Facebook Reveals Its Master Plan – Control All News Flow

Swiss Billionaire Felix Zulauf: ‘Global Financial Markets Are More Distorted Than Ever Before’ – ‘The Risks Are Very High’

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– An Interview with Felix Zulauf – Financial Markets Are More Distorted than Ever (Acting Man, March 26, 2015):

Risks and Opportunities

Investors started off 2015 with a slow global economy, low oil prices, a strong Dollar, and a deflationary Europe with great uncertainties on the progress of the US economy and the recent launch of Europe’s quantitative easing. The question is, what opportunities lie ahead? This article highlights the main topics covered in an interview between Mr. Frank Suess, CEO and Chairman of BFI Capital Group, with the globally renowned Swiss fund manager, Mr. Felix Zulauf. Mr. Zulauf currently heads Zulauf Asset Management, a Switzerland-based hedge fund and has forty years of experience with global financial markets and asset management. He has been a member of the Barron’s Roundtable for over twenty years.

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Felix Zulauf, Swiss fund manager and long-standing member of the Barron’s roundtable

Frank Suess: Felix, first I would like to thank you for taking the time to speak to us. You are a renowned investor and fund manager with a solid track record over the past 40 years. In those 40 years, you’ve encountered many highs and lows in financial markets and business cycles. What do you think about the current cycle we are in?

Felix Zulauf: The current cycle is very unusual, because never before have we seen authorities, central banks in particular, intervening on such a large scale and pumping so much money into global financial markets. Hence, global financial markets are more distorted than ever before and accordingly, the risks are very high. Investing becomes very difficult in such an unprecedented environment, as it can’t be compared to previous situations.

Read moreSwiss Billionaire Felix Zulauf: ‘Global Financial Markets Are More Distorted Than Ever Before’ – ‘The Risks Are Very High’

Isn’t it obvious? If Operation Jade Helm were happening in any other country, it would be immediately labeled a military drill for martial law

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– Isn’t it obvious? If Operation Jade Helm were happening in any other country, it would be immediately labeled a military drill for martial law (Natural News, March 30, 2015):

I’m always amazed at how people can be programmed by the mainstream media to ignore the obvious reality happening right in front of their eyes. Right now, America is being lulled into a hypnotic sense of denial while military training for martial law is happening right in their own neighborhoods and city streets. Yet, strangely, no one is allowed to refer to this exercise as training for martial law… even though that’s obviously what it is.

Most Americans remain totally unaware of the fact that a massive military drill spanning 10 U.S. states will soon put military troops, helicopters, armored transports and military weapons directly on the streets of communities across the nation. “Operation Jade Helm begins in July and will last for eight weeks,” reports the Daily Mail. “Soldiers will operate in and around towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado where some of them will drop from planes while carrying weapons loaded with blanks in what military officials have dubbed Realistic Military Training.”

Read moreIsn’t it obvious? If Operation Jade Helm were happening in any other country, it would be immediately labeled a military drill for martial law

AND NOW: Australia To Start Taxing Bank Deposits

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– Australia To Start Taxing Bank Deposits (ZeroHedge, March 29, 2015):

Up until now, the world’s descent into the NIRPy twilight of fiat currency was a function of failing monetary policy around the globe as central bank after desperate central bank implemented negative and even more negative (in the case of Denmark some four times rapid succession) rates, hoping to make saving so prohibitive consumers would have no choice but to spend the fruits of their labor, or better yet, take out massive loans which they would never be able to repay. However, nobody said it was only central banks who could be the executioners of the world’s saver class: governments are perfectly capable too.  Such as Australia’s.

According to Australia’s ABC News, the “Federal Government looks set to introduce a tax on bank deposits in the May budget.”

Read moreAND NOW: Australia To Start Taxing Bank Deposits

Vladimir Putin Says Russia Will Fight For The Right Of Palestinians To Their Own State

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– Vladimir Putin says Russia will fight for the right of Palestinians to their own state (Independent, March 29, 2015):

Vladimir Putin has said Russia will fight for an independent Palestinian state, and called for the issues of the Middle East to be resolved through peaceful means.

Despite international criticism over Russia’s own role in the Ukrainian crisis, Mr Putin was hailed last week by a St Petersburg Cossack group for his ability to “bring order and stop wars”.

In an address to the Arab League summit in Egypt on Saturday, Mr Putin spoke against foreign intervention in countries’ internal disputes and spoke of the role Russia can play in diplomatic channels.

While Russia openly opposes the stance of US-backed Israel on the Gaza crisis, its position in the Middle East is complicated. Mr Putin is one of Iran’s key allies, but as he spoke on Saturday the core nations of the Arab League engaged in air strikes on the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Read moreVladimir Putin Says Russia Will Fight For The Right Of Palestinians To Their Own State

The Times: Japan Faces 200-Year Wait For Fukushima Clean-Up – Plant Chief: “No idea” how to decommission reactors… “the technology does not exist”; “No viable method” to deal with melted fuel

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– Times: 200-year wait faced at Fukushima — Plant Chief: “No idea” how to decommission reactors… “the technology does not exist”; “No viable method” to deal with melted fuel; “So many uncertainties… we don’t have accurate information” — Engineers declared problems ‘insurmountable’ (ENENews, March 29, 2015):

The Times of London, Mar. 27, 2015 (emphasis added): Japan faces 200-year wait for Fukushima clean-up — The chief of the Fukushima nuclear power station has admitted that the technology needed to decommission three melted-down reactors does not exist, and he has no idea how it will be developed. In a stark reminder of the challenge facing the Japanese authorities, Akira Ono conceded that the stated goal of decommissioning the plant by 2051 may be impossible without a giant technological leap. “There are so many uncertainties involved. We need to develop many, many technologies,” Mr Ono said. “For removal of the debris, we don’t have accurate information (about the state of the reactors) or any viable methodology… [The rest of the article is only available to Times’ subscribers]

Read moreThe Times: Japan Faces 200-Year Wait For Fukushima Clean-Up – Plant Chief: “No idea” how to decommission reactors… “the technology does not exist”; “No viable method” to deal with melted fuel

The Crash: Coming Into Focus (Veterans Today)

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FYI.

Related info:

– Hacked: Did You Really Think The Airbus A320 Cockpit Door Was Locked?

– Hard Proof Germanwings Crash Is A Hoax

– Germanwings Airbus A320 Remote Recovery System Used To Crash German A320, FINAL ANSWER – Why The Cockpit Lock Out Story Is A LIE

– Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Airbus A320, French Prosecutor Says – German Newspaper Die Welt Reported The Crash Before It Happened

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– The Crash: Coming into Focus (Veterans Today, March 28, 2015):

Among the fabricated rumors, real intel inquiries emerge

by  Gordon Duff,  with VT Resources

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“You just can’t make this stuff up!”

Intelligence regarding the unintended altitude loss with incumbent loss of life related to Lufthansa 9525 from Barcelona to Dusseldorf is coming to light. 

The plane may have been downed to end an investigation of massive banking fraud died to the CIA, Mossad, Crypto AG, Siemans and the Vatican Bank. 

This event also gives us need to take a new look at the downing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. In the world of fax machines, Crypto AG had developed a hardware hack that created a backdoor on all encrypted fax communication, giving their “clients” virtual control of not only the world banking system but almost all diplomatic correspondence as well.

Read moreThe Crash: Coming Into Focus (Veterans Today)

Hacked: Did You Really Think The Airbus A320 Cockpit Door Was Locked?

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Did You Really Think Cockpit Door Was Locked

– Hacked: Did You Really Think Cockpit Door Was Locked? (Veterans Today, March 27, 2015):

In the interest of humiliating the lying press

By Gordon Duff and Jeff Smith, Editors

In all likelihood, the cabin crew of the ill fated GermanWings flight could simply have entered the cockpit at any time.  If the plane were programmed specially to disallow this normal capability of the Airbus320 series, the airline has failed to inform the public of this.This information is “confidential” as it would be a theoretical aid to hijackers.  Problem is, there are no hijackers, only security agencies that seem to enjoy stealing planes, shooting them down or taking control of their guidance systems.  The hijack scenario makes for good TV and convenient cover stories where “dead men tell no tales” and crash scenes are always quickly secured and “seeded” as needed.Our suicide story is just a new twist on an old tale.

In order to add to the explosion of information about the recent air event over France, we have done some simple research on the operation of the cockpit door of an A320.  We have published, below, the operations manual.  We also have the following language, taken from the flight crew manual used by Royal Jordanian Airlines, an organization kind enough to have passed this on:

Ident.: DSC-25-11-10-00001006.0001001 / 09 OCT 12
Applicable to: MSN 2649-3685, 4670-5367

A forward-opening hinge door separates the cockpit from the passenger compartment. It has three electric locking strikes, controlled by the flight crew. In normal conditions, when the door is closed, they remain locked. When there is a request to enter the cockpit, the flight crew can authorize entry by unlocking the door, that remains closed until it is pushed open.
When the flight crew does not respond to requests for entry, the door can also be unlocked by the cabin crew, by entering a two to seven-digit code (programmed by the airline) on the keypad, installed on the lateral side of the Forward Attendant Panel (FAP).

Read moreHacked: Did You Really Think The Airbus A320 Cockpit Door Was Locked?

First Europe, Now The Gulf’s Leaders Agree To Form United Arab Military Force

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– First Europe, Now The Gulf’s Leaders Agree To Form United Arab Military Force (ZeroHedge March 29, 2015):

Just a week after Jean-Claude ‘I am not a hawkish warmonger’ Juncker pressed for the creation of a Unified European Army to combat the ‘looming’ threat of their massive trade partner Russia; RT reportsArab leaders have agreed to form a joint military force from roughly 40,000 elite troops and backed by warplanes, warships and light armor at a Sharm el-Sheikh summit. Egyptian President Abdel Sisi has announced a high-level panel will work out the structure and mechanism of the future force. The work is expected to take four months.

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Europe’s got one…

The president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, who leads the EU’s executive arm, said an EU army would let the continent “react credibly to threats to peace in a member state or a neighbour of the EU”.

And now, as RT reports, The Gulf is getting one too…

Read moreFirst Europe, Now The Gulf’s Leaders Agree To Form United Arab Military Force

California Democrat Predicts Surge In Hookers, Blames “Global Warming”

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Just nuts. The bloody lot of them.”

– California Democrat Predicts Surge In Hookers, Blames “Global Warming” (ZeroHedge, March 28, 2015):

Ripped from the pages of The Onion, this is not.California Democrat Barbara Lee proposed a resolution in the House of Representatives that claims women will eventually be forced into prostitution since they face “disproportionately harmful impacts from climate change.” So, first ‘we’ blame weakness in economic growth on excess cold, and now excess global warmth – according to Lee’s House Concurrent Resolution 29 – will drive women to “sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage.”

California Democrat Barbara Lee

Here’s some key excerpts from the happy clappy lady’s Resolution…

“Women will disproportionately face harmful impacts from climate change,” – we are not really sure why?

Climate change will turn women into hookers?

Read moreCalifornia Democrat Predicts Surge In Hookers, Blames “Global Warming”

The Gaza fisherman who built his own reef – and was shot dead there by an Israeli gunboat

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Palestinians say increasing restrictions on the water they use have led to economic collapse – and deadly assaults

– The Gaza fisherman who built his own reef – and was shot dead there by an Israeli gunboat (Independent, March 29, 2015):

The underwater rock formations provide the best fishing grounds off Gaza, but they are just beyond the limit set by the Israelis for local boats. Tawfiq Abu Riyala dreamt up an ingenious plan to solve this problem; but it may have ended up costing him his life.

The 32-year-old fisherman had built up his own artificial rock with planks of wood, tyres, and bits of metal, seemingly well within the area in which he and his colleagues are allowed to operate. It was while he was adding to this pile that an Israeli gunboat opened fire, wounding him fatally.

Read moreThe Gaza fisherman who built his own reef – and was shot dead there by an Israeli gunboat

JADE HELM 15: Massive Military Drill Identifying ‘Hostile’ US States Sparks Alarm

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– JADE HELM 15: Military Drill Identifying “Hostile” US States Sparks Alarm (The Daily Sheeple March 29, 2015):

Editor’s Post: Is this why so many people, especially in the below-mentioned states, are reporting such a heavy increased military presence in the skies over their homes?

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A massive U.S. military drill dubbed “Jade Helm 15” lists Texas, Utah, and part of California as “hostile” or “insurgent pocket” territory. The unclassified information about this drill is causing widespread alarm nationwide, with more than a few analysts suggesting it may be some sort of exercise practicing to impose martial law on Americans fed up with an out-of-control federal government. During the exercises, which will take place over the summer, Special Forces from various branches of the military will work with local law-enforcement in scenarios that, to critics at least, sound suspiciously like they are aimed at subduing rebellious American civilians and states amid a civil war or large-scale unrest. The federal government issued a response dismissing the concerns and saying that the training is to help U.S. forces prepare for overseas missions, but not everyone is convinced.

Read moreJADE HELM 15: Massive Military Drill Identifying ‘Hostile’ US States Sparks Alarm

Operation JADE HELM: U.S. Special Forces Set To Swarm Southwest And Operate Undetected Among Civilians In massive Military Exercise

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Special ops: Operation Jade Helm will involve Green Berets and SEALs and special forces from the Air Force and Marines starting in July and lasting 8 weeks

– Special forces set to swarm Southwest and operate undetected among civilians in massive military exercise (Daily Mail, March 29, 2015):

Seven Southwestern states will soon be infiltrated by 1,200 military special ops personnel as part of a controversial domestic military training in which some of the elite soldiers will operate undetected among civilians.

Operation Jade Helm begins in July and will last for eight weeks. Soldiers will operate in and around towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado where some of them wil drop from planes while carrying weapons loaded with blanks in what military officials have dubbed Realistic Military Training.

But with residents of the entire states of Texas and Utah dubbed ‘hostile’ for the purposes of the exercises, Jade Helm has some concerned the drills are too realistic.

Headlines like Freedom Outpost‘s ‘Operation Jade Helm—military trains for martial law in American South-west’ abound across the Right-leaning blogosphere and Info Wars warns that Jade Helm is simply ‘an effort to test the effectiveness of infiltration techniques’ on the American public.

Read moreOperation JADE HELM: U.S. Special Forces Set To Swarm Southwest And Operate Undetected Among Civilians In massive Military Exercise

Florida Martial Law Drills: JADE HELM 15 (Video)

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Video: FLORIDA Martial Law Drills – JADE HELM

HUGE MILITARY EXERCISE IN FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA #JADEHELM 2015 

public liaison said one of the reasons the jade helm op was being conducted was to judge ‘how efficiently they could maneuver through the public without being detected.’


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JADE HELM   15 is REAL & Here’s the Proof

Video ‘Special Forces Invade Appalachian Trail’

Read moreFlorida Martial Law Drills: JADE HELM 15 (Video)

Kyle Bass Warns “The Fed Is Backed Into A Corner… Equities Are My Biggest Liquidity Worry” (Video)

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– Kyle Bass Warns “The Fed Is Backed Into A Corner… Equities Are My Biggest Liquidity Worry” (ZeroHedge, March 28, 2015):

While Kyle Bass is usually the smartest man in the room, among this crowd he is Einstein as he carefuly explains – while sitting politely during status quo interruptions – the real state of the world “the unintended consequence of QE has been to widen the income gap,” what is behind the Potemkin Village of the stock markets, how The Fed is “backed into a corner” of raising rates against their will, and why bond yields (at the long-end) will drop further. Currency wars are net positive, as Greg Ip suggests, and will not end well, as he concludes in one section, “why haven’t all the Yen left Japan already?”

“How many rich people do you know today that are poorer than they were at the peak in 06/07 (apart from Dick Fuld), I don’t think I know any.. QE has been distributive to the rich… but now that the world has started this policy it is unable to end it…

the next recession will be a hard one because the tools in the toolbox are not there to avert a severe downturn…”

Read moreKyle Bass Warns “The Fed Is Backed Into A Corner… Equities Are My Biggest Liquidity Worry” (Video)

Bill Nye: ‘We Need Carbon Tax To Redistribute Wealth … Need Gov’t To Run Things … Everyone Else Should Shut Up’ – ‘We Need To Reduce The Human Population’

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– Bill Nye: ‘We need carbon tax to redistribute wealth…need gov’t to run things…everyone else should shut up’ (Activist Post, March 26, 2015):

Bill Nye The Science Guy gave a speech showing him to be the latest cheerleader for authoritarians.

The final moments of the ‘climate change’ awareness speech to promote his new book were captured on the video below. There’s no description in the video of where the event took place, but it seems to be from the National Science Teachers Conference earlier this month.

Some of the featured quotes he said to roaring cheers, “we need carbon tax to redistribute wealth…we need government to run things…everyone else should shut up” .

This may seem shocking to some (especially the cheering part), but Bill Nye has also recently called for heavy population reduction in line with eugenicists’ “solution” to alleged climate change.

In a Google Talk from December 2014, Bill Nye said the following

We’re at 7.2 billion people. And that’s it. You’ve more than doubled the number of humans burning and breathing the atmosphere in the last two decades. That’s your problem.

So we need to reduce the human population (nervous laughs). We do. But I mean, this is – you guys, we don’t do it.

By the way, war is completely ineffective.

Ebola will not do it. No.

And you can see it historically. The scale of the problem is huge.

He’s a ranting lunatic through the entire talk, but the bit about killing off humans begins around the 52:00 mark. This time he struggles to get the crowd to cheer for hating humans.

Bill Nye has become a leading preacher for the new climate cult that views humans as the enemy. Beware.

Finally The “Very Serious People” Get It: QE Will “Permanently Impair Living Standards For Generations To Come”

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– Finally The “Very Serious People” Get It: QE Will “Permanently Impair Living Standards For Generations To Come” (ZeroHedge, March 28, 2015):

When “very serious people” (even if it is those who once ran now defunct Bear Steanrs) announce it, with a 6 year delay, they make the Financial Times.

On the other hand, when Zero Hedge said precisely this 6 years ago, it was cast as a tin-foil clad group of conspriators who see the worst in every situation.

What is “it”? This:

The long-term consequences of global QE are likely to permanently impair living standards for generations to come while creating a false illusion of reviving prosperity.

In this case, it was said this week by Guggenheim’s Chairman of Investments and Global Chief Investment Officer, Scott Minerd. We are happy that increasingly more “serious people” come to the same conclusion which we posited first a 6 years ago.

Read moreFinally The “Very Serious People” Get It: QE Will “Permanently Impair Living Standards For Generations To Come”

The Only Truly Compliant, Submissive Citizen In A Police State Is A Dead One

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– The Only Truly Compliant, Submissive Citizen in a Police State Is a Dead One (The Rutherford Institute, March 24, 2015):

“Do exactly what I say, and we’ll get along fine. Do not question me or talk back in any way. You do not have the right to object to anything I may say or ask you to do, or ask for clarification if my demands are unclear or contradictory. You must obey me under all circumstances without hesitation, no matter how arbitrary, unreasonable, discriminatory, or blatantly racist my commands may be. Anything other than immediate perfect servile compliance will be labeled as resisting arrest, and expose you to the possibility of a violent reaction from me. That reaction could cause you severe injury or even death. And I will suffer no consequences. It’s your choice: Comply, or die.”— “‘Comply or Die’ policing must stop,” Daily KOS

Americans as young as 4 years old are being leg shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held at gun point for not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e., not being compliant enough.

Americans as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an order, hesitating in the face of a directive, and mistaking a policeman crashing through their door for a criminal breaking into their home—i.e., not being submissive enough.

And Americans of every age and skin color are being taught the painful lesson that the only truly compliant, submissive and obedient citizen in a police state is a dead one.

Read moreThe Only Truly Compliant, Submissive Citizen In A Police State Is A Dead One

Psychiatric medications found in home of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz, who underwent 18 months of psychiatric ‘treatment’

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Here’s another mainstream “scoop”.

There’s no way a highly disciplined outfit like Lufthansa would permit anyone with this history to fly. Period.

More proof this was a hoax.”

Related info:

– Hard Proof Germanwings Crash Is A Hoax

– Germanwings Airbus A320 Remote Recovery System Used To Crash German A320, FINAL ANSWER – Why The Cockpit Lock Out Story Is A LIE

– Germanwings Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Airbus A320, French Prosecutor Says – German Newspaper Die Welt Reported The Crash Before It Happened

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– Psychiatric medications found in home of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz, who underwent 18 months of psychiatric ‘treatment’ (Natural News, March 28, 2015):

Just as Natural News publicly predicted in a widely-circulated article entitled Germanwings jetliner catastrophe: The first antidepressant drug-induced mass murder of the skies?, psychiatric drugs have now been located and identified by law enforcement authorities searching the home of the murder-suicide co-pilot.

As the Straits Times now reports:

Read morePsychiatric medications found in home of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz, who underwent 18 months of psychiatric ‘treatment’