Month: May 2015

Ireland gay marriage: The Church’s decision not to lead the No campaign marks a new reality

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FYI.

– Ireland gay marriage: The Church’s decision not to lead the No campaign marks a new reality (Independent, May 24, 2015):

In 1987, the plain people of Ireland were asked in a referendum whether or not they wanted divorce to be made legal in their country. They overwhelmingly voted No. Hardly surprising, everyone said, since Ireland was the most Catholic country in Europe. No more.

The massive vote in favour of legalising gay marriage in the same country charted the profound transformation undergone by Irish society in a single generation.

Read moreIreland gay marriage: The Church’s decision not to lead the No campaign marks a new reality

Warren Buffett thinks the poor should stop blaming inequality on the rich

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– Warren Buffett thinks the poor should stop blaming inequality on the rich (Independent, May 23, 2015):

People need to stop blaming the rich for income inequality in America according to the third richest man in the world, Warren Buffett

In an opinion piece written for the Wall Street Journal Mr Buffett, who is estimated to be worth $71.3bn by Forbes magazine, claims that the depressing fact is that “the poor are most definitely not poor because the rich are rich”.

Citing the likes of Henry Ford and Steve Jobs as examples of innovation, Mr Buffett goes on to say that the rich are not undeserving and that “most of them have contributed brilliant innovations or managerial expertise,” to America’s economy.

Read moreWarren Buffett thinks the poor should stop blaming inequality on the rich

Putin enacts law banning ‘undesirable’ NGOs

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 – Putin enacts law banning ‘undesirable’ NGOs (AFP, May 23, 2015):

Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin officially enacted a controversial law banning “undesirable” non-governmental organisations, the Kremlin said Saturday, in a move condemned by human rights groups across the board.

The law allows authorities to bar foreign civil society groups seen as threatening Russia’s “defence capabilities” or “constitutional foundations” and go after local activists working with them, the Kremlin statement said.

Supporters presented the law as a “preventative measure”, necessary after the wave of Western sanctions put in place over the Ukraine conflict.

Read morePutin enacts law banning ‘undesirable’ NGOs

10 Tools Needed By Globalists To Finally Get Their One World Government

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H/t reader squodgy:

“This little list should be a mantra…..”

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– 10 Tools Needed By Globalists To Finally Get Their One World Government (Activist Post, May 24, 2015):

We all know that to build a house you need to have the right tools. Not having the right tools makes the difference between success and failure. So, then, what tools might the globalists be using right now to advance their plans for a one world government, the so-called new world order of global enslavement?

Understanding the necessary tools the controllers need and are currently using to meet their goals might allow us to figure out where we should focus our energy; and it may show us what things we might be able to do to slow down, derail or even stop their new world order plans altogether.

So here are ten powerful tools being used by the controllers, ten tools without which there will be no new world order.

Read more10 Tools Needed By Globalists To Finally Get Their One World Government

Unprecedented Mass Die Offs as Pacific Ocean “Turning Into a Desert” Off California Coast

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– Unprecedented Mass Die Offs as Pacific Ocean “Turning Into a Desert” Off California Coast (SHFTplan, May 24, 2015):

“Ocean’s dying, plankton’s dying… it’s people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They’re making our food out of people. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!”

It was the dying cry of Charlton Heston in the creepy 1973 film Soylent Green… and it could resemble our desperate near future.

The ocean is dying, by all accounts – and if so, the food supply along with it. The causes are numerous, and overlapping. And massive numbers of wild animal populations are dying as a result of it.

Natural causes in the environment are partly to blame; so too are the corporations of man; the effects of Fukushima, unleashing untold levels of radiation into the ocean and onto Pacific shores; the cumulative effect of modern chemicals and agricultural waste tainting the water and disrupting reproduction.

A startling new report says in no uncertain terms that the Pacific Ocean off the California coast is turning into a desert. Once full of life, it is now becoming barren, and marine mammals, seabirds and fish are starving as a result. According to Ocean Health:

Read moreUnprecedented Mass Die Offs as Pacific Ocean “Turning Into a Desert” Off California Coast

FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked Via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying

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– FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked Via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying (ZeroHedge, May 23, 2015):

“FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law operating... Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said that between 2004 and 2009, the FBI tripled its use of bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows government agents to compel businesses to turn over records and documents, and increasingly scooped up records of Americans who had no ties to official terrorism investigations.”

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Related info:

– Former CIA Agent: ‘Every Single Terrorist Incident We Have Had In The U.S. Has Been A False Flag’ (Video)

Traders Are Buying Gold & Silver At Fastest Pace In Over A Decade

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–  Traders Are Buying Gold & Silver At Fastest Pace In Over A Decade (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):

The last time large speculators were as aggressively buying silver as last week was September 1997. The net long non-commercial positioning in Silver futures, according to the CFTC rose almost 22,000 contracts last week to a 3-month high (which is closing in on the ‘longest’ since 2005). Gold, not be out-precious’d also saw major buying. Net speculative longs in gold added over 45,000 contracts – the most since July 2005 – lifting net long positions to their highest in 3 months. Perhaps, just perhaps, as Alhambra’s Jeffrey Snider notes, this is due to Yellen putting the ‘dollar’ back on suicide watch.

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Grexit “Disaster” Looms As Greek Hospitals Run Out Of Sheets, Painkillers

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– Grexit “Disaster” Looms As Greek Hospitals Run Out Of Sheets, Painkillers (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):

“Greek hospitals have run out of supplies such as painkillers, scissors and sheets as budget cuts have left the health service unable to provide even basic provisions for operations and medical procedures,” The Independent reports. With Tsipras still refusing to compromise on campaign “red lines,” the end game is quite clearly approaching.

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“It’s A Coup D’Etat,” David Stockman Warns “Central Banks Are Out Of Control”

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– “It’s A Coup D’Etat,” David Stockman Warns “Central Banks Are Out Of Control” (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):

We’re all about to be taken to the woodshed, warns David Stockman in this excellent interview. The huge wealth disparity is “not because of some flaw in capitalism, or Reagan tax cuts, or even the greed of Wall Street; the problem is central banks that are out of control.” Simply put, they have “syphoned financial resources into pure gambling” and the people that own the stocks and bonds get the huge financial windfall. “The 10% at the top own 85% of the financial assets,” and thus, thanks to the unleashing of almost limitless money-printing, which has created a massive worldwide financial inflation, “the central banks have created and exaggerated the wealth gap.” Stockman concludes, rather ominously, “it’s a coup d’etat, the central banks have taken over – unconstitutional domination of the entire economy.”

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: “Our Soldiers Died For The Profits Of The Bankers”

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– Paul Craig Roberts: “Our Soldiers Died For The Profits Of The Bankers” (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):

Memorial Day commemorates soldiers killed in war. We are told that the war dead died for us and our freedom. US Marine General Smedley Butler challenged this view in 1933: “War is just a racket… our soldiers died for secret agendas of which they knew nothing. Capitalists hid their self-interests behind the flag, and our boys died for the One Percent’s bottom line. Our Soldiers Died for the Profits of the Bankers.” It appears 82 years later – nothing has changed.

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World stands up against Monsanto: Over 400 cities protest GMOs

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– World stands up against Monsanto: Over 400 cities protest GMOs (RT, May 24, 2015):

Thousands of people across the world have joined together in a global movement, protesting against American biotech giant Monsanto. Activists from over 400 cities are speaking out against GMOs and Monsanto’s monopoly over the food supply.

Saturday marked the third global annual March Against Monsanto (MAM). According to the organizers, 48 countries were scheduled to participate in a massive global turnout.

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Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS As A “Tool” To Overthrow Syria’s President Assad

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Related info:

– Former CIA Agent: ‘Every Single Terrorist Incident We Have Had In The U.S. Has Been A False Flag’ (Video)

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– Secret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS As A “Tool” To Overthrow Syria’s President Assad (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):

From the first sudden, and quite dramatic, appearance of the fanatical Islamic group known as ISIS which was largely unheard of until a year ago, on the world’s stage and which promptly replaced the worn out and tired al Qaeda as the world’s terrorist bogeyman, we suggested that the “straight to beheading YouTube clip” purpose behind the Saudi Arabia-funded Islamic State was a simple one: use the Jihadists as the vehicle of choice to achieve a political goal: depose of Syria’s president Assad, who for years has stood in the way of a critical Qatari natural gas pipeline, one which could dethrone Russia as Europe’s dominant – and belligerent – source of energy, reaching an interim climax with the unsuccessful Mediterranean Sea military build up of 2013, which nearly resulted in quasi-world war.

The narrative and the plotline were so transparent, even Russia saw right through them. Recall from September of last year:

If the West bombs Islamic State militants in Syria without consulting Damascus, LiveLeak reports that the anti-ISIS alliance may use the occasion to launch airstrikes against President Bashar Assad’s forces, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Clearly comprehending that Obama’s new strategy against ISIS in Syria is all about pushing the Qatar pipeline through (as was the impetus behind the 2013 intervention push), Russia is pushing back noting that the it is using ISIS as a pretext for bombing Syrian government forces and warning that “such a development would lead to a huge escalation of conflict in the Middle East and North Africa.”

But it’s one thing to speculate; it’s something entirely different to have hard proof.

Read moreSecret Pentagon Report Reveals US “Created” ISIS As A “Tool” To Overthrow Syria’s President Assad

China Establishes World’s Largest Physical Gold Fund

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– China Establishes World’s Largest Physical Gold Fund (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):

Overnight Xinhua also reported that a gold sector fund involving countries along the ancient Silk Road has been set up in northwest China’s Xi’an City during an ongoing forum on investment and trade this weekend. (read more about the “New Silk Road” which could change global economics forever here). The fund, led by Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE), is expected to raise an estimated 100 billion yuan (16.1 billion U.S. Dollars) in three phases. The amount of capital allocated to nothing but physical gold purchases (without plans for financial paper intermediation a la western ETFs) will be the largest in the world.

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Under Shadow of Trade Deal, US Pesticide Lobby Pressured EU to Dump Toxic Pesticide Rules

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– Under Shadow of Trade Deal, US Pesticide Lobby Pressured EU to Dump Toxic Pesticide Rules (Common Dreams, May 22, 2015):

Report details how corporate lobbyists mobilized to stop the EU from regulating hormone disrupting chemicals known to have significant health and environmental impacts

Under pressure from the U.S. and agrochemical industry lobbyists and amid ongoing negotiations for a controversial trade deal, the European Union dropped planned rules that could have led to the banning of 31 pesticides containing hazardous chemicals, a new investigative report has revealed.

The probe, led by the Brussels-based research and watchdog group Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and French journalist Stephane Horel, exposes how corporate lobby groups like the American Chemistry Council, CropLife America, and the American Chambers of Commerce, mobilized to stop the EU from taking action on hormone (endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—known to have significant health and environmental impacts.

Read moreUnder Shadow of Trade Deal, US Pesticide Lobby Pressured EU to Dump Toxic Pesticide Rules

Game Theory Pioneer John Nash, Wife, Killed In Taxi Crash

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– Game Theory Pioneer John Nash, Wife, Killed In Taxi Crash (ZeroHedge, May 24, 2015):

The world lost one of its truly beautiful minds this Saturday, when a taxi carrying John Nash, 86, and his wife of nearly 60 years, Alicia, crashed on the New Jersey Turnpike. The two were killed on the spot when the driver of the Ford Crown Victoria lost control as he tried to pass a Chrysler in the center lane, crashing into a guard rail according to NJ.com.John Forbes Nash, Jr, was best known recently for the 2001 movie starting Russell Crowe”A Beautiful Mind” which depicted his struggles with schizophrenia. His biggest accomplishment was his groundbreaking and pioneering work on game theory. His thesis contained the definition and properties of what is now known as the “Nash equilibrium” – a crucial concept in non-cooperative games, it won Nash the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
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