Germany to withdraw its ballistic missiles from Turkey

Just in time before ‘Turkey will explode’?


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Germany to withdraw its ballistic missiles from Turkey (RT, Aug 15, 2015):

The German Defense Ministry announced it is to end its border protection mission in Turkey and remove its missile-defense batteries from the country. The decision was taken due to “low ballistic missile threat” as well as the “high costs of the mission.”

The defense ministry confirmed that the contingent of the Bundeswehr, the German army, taking part in a NATO operation called Active Fence Turkey (AFTUR), along with its Patriot missile systems, would be withdrawn from the Turkish border by the end of January 2016, after its mandate ends.

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Airline Begins Weighing Passengers, Will ‘Exclude’ Heavy Flyers

Airline Begins Weighing Passengers, Will ‘Exclude’ Heavy Flyers (ZeroHedge, Aug 15, 2015):

In 2013, Samoan Air became the world’s first airline to charge passengers according to their their weight. Now, two years later, Uzbekistan Airways has gone one further than the pay-by-weight model. The Tashkent-based airline has installed special weighing machines in the departure gate zones to weigh people and their hand luggage, noting that some overweight people could be excluded from busy flights on smaller planes if limits are exceeded“We are not selling seats, we are selling weight.”

Caught On Tape: Hillary Clinton Explains Why She Loves Snapchat

Caught On Tape: Hillary Clinton Explains Why She Loves Snapchat (ZeroHedge, Aug 15, 2015):

Sometimes laughter is the best medicine, especially when you’re running a Presidential campaign that’s rapidly losing momentum thanks to an FBI investigation into your e-mailing habits and a suddenly popular socialist who is surging in the polls.

And while we appreciate a good joke now and again, we think this might come across as a bit sinister to some “everyday American” folks…

Bad Timing: Japan Opens First Nuclear Plant Since Fukushima As Neighboring Volcano Erupts

Bad Timing: Japan Opens First Nuclear Plant Since Fukushima As Neighboring Volcano Erupts (ZeroHedge, Aug 15, 2015):

In case last week’s deadly chemical explosion in the Chinese port of Tianjin wasn’t enough to satisfy your thirst for black swan-ish disasters that could serve to accelerate the ongoing global currency wars, Japan is now warning that Sakurajima, one of the country’s most active volcanos which sits just 50 kilometers from a recently restarted nuclear reactor, is poised for a “larger than usual” eruption.

Big Win for Animal Lovers: Judge Strikes Down Ag Gag Law in Idaho Calling the law unconstitutional

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Big Win for Animal Lovers: Judge Strikes Down Ag Gag Law in Idaho (Natural Society, Aug 14, 2015):

Calling the law unconstitutional

Activists who try to film animal abuse on Big Ag farms often face a fine of up to $5000 for whistleblowing on the industry. But just a few short weeks ago, a federal judge ruled that Idaho’s controversial ‘ag gag’ law was unconstitutional, and said that criminalizing undercover documentation violates both free speech and the equal protection clauses of the constitution.

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill made his decision crystal clear in a 28-page ruling:

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Bizarre Images of “Satan” Appear on Empire State Building (Video)

H/t reader squodgy:

“An insult, even to the intelligence of Joe BigMac.

A pathetic attempt at fear-mongering the simple religious sheep.”



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Bizarre images of what some said represented “Satan” appeared on the Empire State Building in New York, causing Christians to freak out about a ‘demonic ceremony’.

Alternative Media Under Attack! Someone Trying to Set-up Truthstream Media (Video)

This British gentlemen does not even have an internet connection, because he knows that the government can (and does!) upload child porn unto computers of unwanted people and then come knocking at their door:

Former MI5 Agent Dr. Barrie Trower: Technology Used By Intelligence Agencies Can Induce Pain, Illness, Even Heart Attacks And Cancer, They Can Program And Remote Control Humans (Video)

 – Former Royal Navy Microwave Weapons Expert: NWO TECHNOLOGY UPDATE – Deadly Mobile Phones & The Worst Genocide Ever Committed – The Dangers Of Wi-Fi To Women And Children (Video)

Former Royal Navy Microwave Weapons Expert And UK Intelligence Services Agent Dr. Barrie Trower: Dangers And Lethality Of Microwave Technology (Video)

Highly recommended to listen to what he has to say.



Nov 13, 2013

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Following reports that someone was trying to set-up WeAreChange’s Luke Rudkowski and OathKeepers’ Stewart Rhodes, as well as an eerie e-mail from a group calling themselves “Political Hackerz Squad” claiming that it was trying to set-up dozens of alternative media figures with child porn (and claiming credit for attacks on Rudkowski/Rhodes), Truthstream Media was alerted that email attachments are being sent to prominent people posing as “Melissa Melton” and appearing to request an interview before attaching alleged child porn sent out by unknown provocateurs. These agents declared that they were “soldiers in a digital war”; in the case of Truthstream, they used an e-mail that doesn’t belong to our site but appears to as it used Melissa’s name. Please know that we are under attack; we need your prayers and support.

The Corporate-State Media’s War Propaganda Exposed! (Video)

H/t reader squodgy:

Propaganda by US Gov……

Makes Goebells look an amateur.

Brainwashing by media manipulation for decades….or centuries….



Aug 9, 2015

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.

It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

– David Rockefeller, Bilderberg meeting 1991

Study: Germany made €100bn profit on Greek crisis

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Study: Germany made €100bn profit on Greek crisis (Keep Talking Greece, Aug 10, 2015):

What? I don’t believe it! Rea-lly? Germany made a 100 billion euro profit on Greek crisis? No, kidding? HA! And yes, so it is! A study conducted by a German Economic Institute has shown that every time investors got bad news about Greece, they rushed to Germany’s ‘safe haven’ with the effect that the interest rates on German government bonds were falling!

“Greece’s biggest creditor Germany has made a huge profit on the country’s debt crisis over the last 5 years as it saved through lower interest payments on funds borrowed amid investor “flights to safety.”

Each time investors got bad news about Greece, they rushed to the ‘safe haven’ of Germany, with the interest rates on German government bonds falling, according to the study from the private, non-profit Leibniz Institute of Economic Research, Agence France-Presse reported Monday.

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This Alarming Indicator Is Back At A Level Last Seen 10 Days Before The Bear Stearns Collapse


This Alarming Indicator Is Back At A Level Last Seen 10 Days Before The Bear Stearns Collapse (ZeroHedge, Aug 14, 2015):

One of the most disturbing and recurring themes highlighted on this site over the past year has been the ever greater disconnect between the worlds of equity and fixed income, whether in terms of implied volatility, or actual underlying risk.

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It turns out there is an even more acute, and far more concerning divergence, which was conveniently pointed out overnight by Bank of America’s Yuriy Shchuchinov, one which again looks at the spread between credit and equity. Specifically, BofA notes that in just the past two weeks, credit spreads from our HG corporate bond index have widened another 9bps to 164bps while equity volatility is down another percentage point (although technically BofA uses the 3rd VIX futures as its measure of equity volatility rather than VIX itself to get a smoother series that is less affected by the daily noises and seasonalities).

This is how the resulting dramatic divergence looks like:

Read moreThis Alarming Indicator Is Back At A Level Last Seen 10 Days Before The Bear Stearns Collapse

ISIS Unleashed Mustard Gas Attack In Iraq, US Officials Claim

ISIS Unleashed Mustard Gas Attack In Iraq, US Officials Claim (ZeroHedge, Aug 14, 2015):

A long time ago, in a proxy war far, far away, some YouTube videos (around 100 of them apparently) “proved” that Bashar al-Assad’s regime had unleashed a horrific chemical attack on its own people.

In a lengthy report subtly titled “Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013,” US officials laid out their reasoning for trusting the veracity of the clips, and while you can read the entire report here, the punchline is this: “We have identified one hundred videos attributed to the attack, many of which show large numbers of bodies exhibiting physical signs consistent with, but not unique to, nerve agent exposure. We assess the Syrian opposition does not have the capability to fabricate all of the videos.”

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Obamanomics – Union Pacific Cuts 100s Of Jobs On Coal Shipments Collapse

Obamanomics – Union Pacific Cuts 100s Of Jobs On Coal Shipments Collapse (ZeroHedge, Aug 14, 2015):

There will be more Americans tonight newly questioning President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, as NBCNews reports, Union Pacific will cut hundreds of management jobs as the amount of coal shipped by railroads continues to plunge.

Coal carloads down YoY 25 weeks in a row…

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As NBCNews reports,

 The Omaha company reported late last month that coal volume dropped 26 percent in its most recent quarter and said it believed that demand for coal would remain weak for the rest of the year.

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Visiting Eli Lilly Headquarters: Marketing Big Pharma Profits at the Expense of Public Safety

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Visiting Eli Lilly Headquarters: Marketing Big Pharma Profits at the Expense of Public Safety (Truthstream Media, 14, 2015):

We visited the headquarters of Eli Lilly in downtown Indianapolis where the power of Big Pharma has carved out Indiana’s political landscape, supplied its lobbyists and operatives, and created an empire of profits by (reportedly) treating the symptoms, hiding the risk and harm, and insisting on the safety of products – like Thimerosal and Prozac – without sufficient testing, and even less regard for the lives affected.

Driving up towards it, I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. What we know about this place was just enough to make me feel ill.

With the shameful record of having only one sham of a study on the safety of Thimerosal back in the 1920s, Eli Lilly has had the gall to insist upon the safety of their products – even as its mercury preservative remains a key suspect in increasing vaccine damage cases.

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46 million Americans go to food banks, and long lines for dwindling food supplies begin at 6:30 AM

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46 million Americans go to food banks, and long lines for dwindling food supplies begin at 6:30 AM (Econommic Collapse, Aug 13, 2015):

Those that run food banks all over America say that demand for their services just continues to explode.  It always amazes me that there are still people out there that insist that an “economic collapse” is not happening.  From their air-conditioned homes in their cushy suburban neighborhoods they mock the idea that the U.S. economy is crumbling.  But if they would just go down and visit the local food banks in their areas, they would see how much people are hurting.  According to Feeding America spokesman Ross Fraser, 46 million Americans got food from a food bank at least one time during 2014.  Because the demand has become so overwhelming, some food banks are cutting back on the number of days they operate and the amount of food that is given to each family.  As you will see below, many impoverished Americans are lining up at food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning just so that they can be sure to get something before the food runs out.  And yet there are still many people out there that have the audacity to say that everything is just fine in America.  Shame on them for ignoring the pain of millions upon millions of their fellow citizens.

Poverty in America is getting worse, not better.  And no amount of spin from Barack Obama or his apologists can change that fact.

This year, it is being projected that food banks in the United States will give away an all-time record 4 billion pounds of food.

Over the past decade, that number has more than doubled.

Read more46 million Americans go to food banks, and long lines for dwindling food supplies begin at 6:30 AM

US Military Uses IMF and World Bank to Launder 85% of Its Black Budget

H/t reader squodgy:

US Military Uses IMF and World Bank to Launder 85% of Its Black Budget (Anti Media, Aug 13, 2015):

Though transparency was a cause he championed when campaigning for the presidency, President Obama has largely avoided making certain defense costs known to the public. However, when it comes to military appropriations for government spy agencies, we know from Freedom of Information Act requests that the so-called “black budget” is an increasingly massive expenditure subsidized by American taxpayers. The CIA and and NSA alone garnered $52.6 billion in funding in 2013 while the Department of Defense black ops budget for secret military projects exceeds this number. It is estimated to be $58.7 billion for the fiscal year 2015.

What is the black budget? Officially, it is the military’s appropriations for “spy satellites, stealth bombers, next-missile-spotting radars, next-gen drones, and ultra-powerful eavesdropping gear.

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Hillary Clinton E-Mails Reveal “Top Secret Drone Talk” As She Hands Over “Blank” Server To Feds

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Clinton E-Mails Reveal “Top Secret Drone Talk” As She Hands Over “Blank” Server To Feds (ZeroHedge, Aug 14, 2015):

At this point it’s probably safe to say that Hillary Clinton wishes she had taken a page out of John McCain’s book and simply refused to use e-mail.

Bowing to pressure from GOP lawmakers, the former First Lady and, until recently anyway, presumed Democratic nominee, turned over her personal e-mail server to the FBI earlier this week.

Like the decision to make thousands of pages of e-mails public, the move was designed to show that Clinton has nothing to hide. Predictably, the exact opposite has happened. An attorney for the Colorado-based company that managed Clinton’s private e-mail said the server the FBI got “is blank and does not contain any useful data.” Here’s a bit more color from Bloomberg:

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American Food Banks Struggle to Keep Up Amidst “Surprising” Demand

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American Food Banks Struggle to Keep Up Amidst “Surprising” Demand (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 14, 2015):

Food banks across the country are seeing a rising demand for free groceries despite the growing economy, leading some charities to reduce the amount of food they offer each family.

U.S. food banks are expected to give away about 4 billion pounds of food this year, more than double the amount provided a decade ago, according to Feeding America, the nation’s primary food bank network. The group gave away 3.8 billion in 2013.

While reliance on food banks exploded when the economy tanked in 2008, groups said demand continues to rise year after year, leaving them scrambling to find more food.

Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Food Banks, who has been working in food charities since the 1980s, said that when earlier economic downturns ended, food demand declined, but not this time.

From the AP article: Food Banks Struggle to Meet Surprising Demand

It’s an economic recovery so robust, food bank demand has increased every single year during it.

It’s an economic recovery so robust, people running food banks say they’ve never seen food bank demand increase during a recovering economy. Ever. Except this time.

It’s a fraud. The entire thing. This recovery has been a mainstream media meme used to cover up what is really happening: oligarch theft.

But don’t take it from me. From the AP:

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Gold Jumps After China Reveals It Bought Another 19 Tons In July, … Then … Gold & Silver Suddenly Slammed As Dollar Surges

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Gold Jumps After China Reveals It Bought Another 19 Tons In July (ZeroHedge Aug 14, 2015):

Putting what China has just done in very simple context: China announces an increase in its gold holdings of over 58% (June and July)… and then it devalues its currency by nearly 5% in one week. 

Even the most brainwashed Keynesians should be able to figure out what is going on by now.

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F-35 slammed as ‘inferior’ to older American & foreign fighters incl. Russia’s Su-27, MiG-29

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F-35 slammed as ‘inferior’ to older American & foreign fighters incl. Russia’s Su-27, MiG-29 (RT, Aug 14, 2015):

The performance of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is inferior to foreign jets it is expected to outperform in engagements and barely justifies replacing with it the older models currently deployed by the Pentagon, a scalding report says.

With an estimated price tag of $1.4 trillion, the Joint Strike Fighter is among Pentagon’s most expensive weapons program. The 5th-generation multipurpose fighter jets are meant to become the backbone of America’s air power for decades to come and play a significant part in defense capability of its allies.

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More Than 25 Giant Whales Found Dead Up & Down Pacific NW coast

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Giant whales found dead up & down Pacific NW coast, scientists ‘baffled’ over surge — 25+ carcasses reported in past month — Gov’t: “Troubling… Definitely a pulse of deaths” — Experts: “Alarming spike… Exceptionally rare to see a dead humpback” — Concerns about unidentified pathogen (PHOTOS) (ENENews, Aug 13, 2015):

Vancouver Sun, Aug 13, 2015 (emphasis added): Four B.C. whale deaths in a week baffle scientists; Necropsies hope to provide answers as carcasses continue to pop up… four dead humpback whales in B.C. waters in a single week, just as Alaska is experiencing a surge of whale deaths, has scientists searching for a possible connection21 humpback and fin whales have been found dead in southeast Alaska during the past month, according to Paul Cottrell, Pacific marine mammal coordinator for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. “It’s definitely a pulse of deaths and something that we’re going to keep our eye on,” Cottrell said. No cause has been pinpointed for any of the deaths… “These samples are very important… to see if there’s any relationship — whether there’s a pathogen that may be causing this,” Cottrell said… Media reports have suggested [one]  died after becoming entangled in fishing gear, but Cottrell said it is far too early to come to that conclusion… The scientists also noticed wounds on the whale’s body… “if there’s anthropogenic or human-caused things affecting the recovery, those are things that we want to know about.”

Read moreMore Than 25 Giant Whales Found Dead Up & Down Pacific NW coast

New Poll Results Show – 37% of British Workers Think Their Jobs are Meaningless

New Poll Results Show – 37% of British Workers Think Their Jobs are Meaningless (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 13, 2015):

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Earlier this year, I highlighted an excellent article by David Graeber in the post: A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse – David Graeber on “The Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”. Here’s an excerpt:

Graeber’s argument is similar to one he made in a 2013 article called “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”, in which he argued that, in 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the century technology would have advanced sufficiently that in countries such as the UK and the US we’d be on 15-hour weeks. “In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn’t happen. Instead, technology has been marshalled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. Huge swaths of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they believe to be unnecessary. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.”

Read moreNew Poll Results Show – 37% of British Workers Think Their Jobs are Meaningless