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Al Jazeera has obtained video of the Taliban preparing to launch an attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost. Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder reports.
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James Holmes Is Not Alone: 20 More Examples Of Sickos Overrunning America
– James Holmes Is Not Alone – 20 More Examples Of The Sickos That Are Overrunning America (Economic Collapse, July 22, 2012):
There is much more to the collapse of America than just our economic problems. The truth is that the United States is like a beautiful house that may still look great on the outside but that has rotted and decayed very badly on the inside. In fact, the foundations of our country have rotted away so badly that our entire society is starting to collapse. Just look at James Holmes. It would be great if we could honestly say that James Holmes is an aberration, but we all know better than that. James Holmes is not alone. The cold, hard reality of the matter is that our degenerate society regularly produces sickos and monsters like James Holmes. As I wrote about the other day, we lead the world in a whole host of bad categories. We lead the world in child abuse, we lead the world in divorce, we lead the world in teen pregnancy and we lead the world in drug addiction. The basic building blocks of society that tie us together and help keep us grounded (such as the family) are breaking down, but we still seem surprised that we have hordes of “lone wolf individuals” running around doing crazy things. We are a sick, twisted society that is producing sick, twisted individuals. If we do not admit how deep our problems really are, then we are never going to find any real solutions and we are going to keep being shocked when another James Holmes pops on to the scene.Why didn’t this type of thing happen back in the 1950s?
Why are our young people so violent and so mentally unstable?
What has changed?
Read moreJames Holmes Is Not Alone: 20 More Examples Of Sickos Overrunning America
US Poverty Rate Projected To Hit Highest Level Since ’60s
– US poverty rate projected to hit highest level since ’60s (Boston Globe, July 23, 2012):
WASHINGTON — The ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.
Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections.
The Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks, and academics, both nonpartisan and those with known liberal or conservative leanings, and found a broad consensus: The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent. Several predicted a more modest gain, but even a 0.1 percentage point increase would put poverty at the highest level since 1965.
Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families to the poorest poor.
Read moreUS Poverty Rate Projected To Hit Highest Level Since ’60s
U.S. Marine Corps Creates Law-Enforcement Battalions!
From the article:
Durham said the Marine Corps plans to show off its new battalions in Miami later this month at a conference put on by the Southern Command that is expected to be attended by government officials from Central American countries, such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize.
– Marine Corps creates law-enforcement battalions (Seatlle Times/AP, July 22, 2012):
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — The Marine Corps has created its first law-enforcement battalions — a lean, specialized force of military police officers that it hopes can quickly deploy worldwide to help investigate crimes from terrorism to drug trafficking and train fledgling security forces in allied nations.
The Corps activated three such battalions last month. Each is made up of roughly 500 military police officers and dozens of dogs. The Marine Corps has had police battalions off and on since World War II but they were primarily focused on providing security, such as accompanying fuel convoys or guarding generals on visits to dangerous areas, said Maj. Jan Durham, commander of the 1st Law Enforcement Battalion at Camp Pendleton.
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Blast Rocks Egypt’s Gas Pipeline To Israel, Jordan
– Blast rocks Egypt’s gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan (Yahoo News/Reuters, July 22, 2012):
CAIRO – An explosion on Sunday rocked the Egyptian pipeline built to carry natural gas to Israel and Jordan, the 15th time it has been attacked since the start of the uprising in early 2011 that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
The blast occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning at al-Tuwail, east of the coastal Sinai town of al-Arish, at a point before the pipeline splits into separate branches to Israel and Jordan, security officials and witnesses said.
Gunmen in a small truck drove up to the pipeline, dug a hole and placed explosive charges under the pipeline that they detonated from a distance, a security official and witnesses said.
The ‘Blacklist’ – Ten Italian Cities On Verge Of Financial Collapse
– The “Blacklist” – Ten Italian Cities On Verge Of Financial Collapse (ZeroHedge, July 23, 2012):
Last week when we wrote about the imminent default of Sicily which Mario Monti tried to sweep under the rug by demanding the local governor resign for not masking the situation with lies, and doing all he can to prevent the advent of reality, we noted, rather sarcastically, that the “resignation of Sicily Governor Lombardo will somehow allow all those who care about the fundamentals of Italy to stick their heads in the sand… at least until Sicily is followed by Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Abruzzo, Tuscany, Lombardy, Umbria, Liguria, Veneto and so on. At least the governors of those respective provinces now have an advance warning what the endgame is.” Sure enough, now that this particular floodgate has also been opened, it is only fitting that in the aftermath of this weekend’s main news that a total of 6 Spanish regions will demand bailouts, that Italy follow suit with its own blacklist, and as La Stampa has reported, there are now ten major Italian cities at risk of an imminent financial collapse, yet another factor pushing Italian yields well on their way to the country’s own 7% rubicon, now at 6.34%.
From La Stampa, google translated:
There are ten major Italian cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants, who are a step away from the crash.
Naples and Palermo at the top of the “black list”, although a task force for weeks at Palazzo Chigi is doing everything possible to avoid the worst.
Read moreThe ‘Blacklist’ – Ten Italian Cities On Verge Of Financial Collapse
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Libor Banking Scandal Explained & GOP Talking Points Destroyed – Mystery Finance Theater 2012 (Video)
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PM Antonis Samaras Admits: Greece Now In ‘Great Depression’
This is the ‘Greatest Depression’ and the greatest financial/economic collapse in (known) world history is well on its way.
– Greece now in “Great Depression”, PM says (Reuters, July 22, 2012):
Greece is in a “Great Depression” similar to the American one in the 1930s, the country’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Sunday.
Samaras was speaking two days before a team of Greece’s international lenders arrive in Athens to push for further cuts needed for the debt-laden country to qualify for further rescue payments and avoid a chaotic default.
Athens wants to soften the terms of a 130-billion euro bailout agreed last March with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, to soften their impact on an economy going through its worst post-war recession.
Read morePM Antonis Samaras Admits: Greece Now In ‘Great Depression’
Doomed: Spanish 10 Year Trades On The Ugly Side Of 7.50%
– Spanish 10 Year Trades On The Ugly Side Of 7.50% (ZeroHedge, July 23, 2012):
The last time a sovereign bond issue was imploding at this rate without the ECB’s intervention, Silvio Berlusconi was about to be forcibly retired. This time, however, we fail to see what the assorted globalist elements will benefit by having Rajoy displaced: after all he has been a studious and versatile pawn of the status quo, who squawks repeatedly and whenever needed that Spain is solvent and that its banks are not in need of a bailout. That said, stick a fork in Spain, and all those newsletter writers who were saying to buy its bonds, or equities: at last check the IBEX was down nearly 5%, after falling by the same amount on Friday. This is the equivalent of the Dow Jones tumbling by just about 600 points. The catalyst – the 10 Year which touched on 7.565% minutes earlier, as virtually all hope is now lost – it is now every country and region for himself, and he who panics first, panics best.
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IMF Set To Kick Out Greece
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– No More Mr. Nice Guy As IMF Set To Kick Out Greece (ZeroHedge, July 22, 2012):
It appears that following the resignation letter fiasco from Friday, the venerable IMF is trying to regain some level of credibility in the world. In a note obtained by SPIEGEL, senior IMF officials patience has clearly come to an end and has decided that, with Greece likely to go bust by September, it is no longer willing to provide additional Greek aid (we assume in light of the push-backs on the promised cuts that the aid was based upon). Pointing to this now being a euro-zone problem, their cessation of Greek aid is even more critical since both Holland and Finland pledged support because the IMF was involved. August 20th marks an important short-term hurdle as Greece is required to pay back EUR3.8bn to the ECB – and with collateral being withdrawn, we wonder how long before the ECB pulls the plug entirely – even on Greek T-Bills. Whether this is sabre-rattling before the delayed TROIKA visit or the IMF (and the rest of the TROIKA) indeed deciding enough is enough and realizing finally that more debt (or even maturity extensions) does not solve the problem of too much debt – only default will do that!
Nearly 36 Percent Of Fukushima Children Have Abnormal Thyroid Growths And Are At Risk Of Developing Cancer
Japan, Tokyo: A girl holds her petition to ask the education ministry to protect children from radioactive contamination at Fukushima prefecture. (AFP Photo / Yoshikazu Tsuno)
– Over a third of Fukushima children at risk of developing cancer (RT, July 20, 2012):
Over a third of children in Japan’s Fukushima region could be prone to cancer if medics don’t apply more effort in treating their unusually overgrown thyroid glands and commit to international health aid and consultations, according to a new report.
The shocking new report shows that nearly 36 per cent of children in the nuclear disaster-affected Fukushima Prefecture have abnormal thyroid growths. This is an extremely large number of abnormalities – some of which, experts say, pose a risk of becoming cancerous.
After examining more than 38,000 children from the area, medics found that more than 13,000 have cysts or nodules as large as 5 millimeters on their thyroids, the Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey states.
In comparison, a 2001 analysis by the Japan Thyroid Association found that fully zero per cent of children in the city of Nagasaki, which suffered a nuclear attack in August of 1945, had nodules, and only 0.8 per cent had cysts on their thyroids, reports the Telegraph.
Hidden From Taxman By Global Elite: $21 TRILLION
– £13tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite (Guardian July 21, 2012):
• Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy
• Private banks help wealthiest to move cash into havensA global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore – as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together – according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network.
New GMO ‘Agent Orange Soy’ Silently Backed By USDA
– New GMO ‘Agent Orange Soy’ Silently Backed by USDA (Activist Post, July 20, 2012):
Millions of pounds of herbicides are applied to crops around the nation each year. In one single year, 2006, 96.7 million pounds of glyphosate was sprayed on soybeans alone; this is a 20-fold increase from the 4.9 million pounds in 1994, the year before Monsanto’s Roundup Ready seeds were introduced.
Well, now, biotechnology giant and creator of pesticides and herbicides, Dow AgroSciences is bringing forth brand new GMO soybeans and GMO corn to the market that will ultimately cause more herbicides than ever to be sprayed across the nation. What’s more, the USDA is all over the idea.
Floodgates Open As 4 More Spanish Regions Seek Bailout; German Nürburgring Faces Bankruptcy
– Floodgates Open As Four More Spanish Regions Seek Bailout; German Nürburgring Faces Bankruptcy (ZeroHedge, July 22, 2012):
Even as Europe has become an utterly dysfunctional experiment in everything relating to modern economics and monetary theory, it has one redeeming feature: it has proven that the Defection regime under Game Theory is 100% correct. It says that once the defections from an unstable Nash equilibrium begin, there is no stopping until the entire system collapses under its own weight. This is precisely what has happened in Spain, where first Catalunya, then Valencia on Friday, and now virtually everyone else is set to demand a bailout. From Bloomberg: The Balearic Islands and Catalonia are among six Spanish regions that may ask for aid from the central government after Valencia sought a bailout, El Pais reported. Castilla-La-Mancha, Murcia, the Canary Islands and possibly Andalusia are also having difficulty funding themselves and some of these regions are studying plans to tap the recently created emergency-loan fund that Valencia said it would use yesterday, the newspaper said, without citing anyone.”
“Spain created the 18 billion-euro ($23 billion) bailout mechanism last week to help cash-strapped regions even as its own access to financial markets narrows.” What Spain’s perfectly insolvent and highly corrupt regions also know is that the bailout money, like in the case of the ESM, will be sufficient for one, perhaps two, of the applicants. The rest will be out of luck.
Where the bailout money will come from? Ultimately from Germany of course. There is however one minor glitch. Some 80 millions Germans may soon be rather angry to learn that while they are working extra hours to fund the rescue of a few insolvent windmills, their own most legendary racetrack, the Nürburgring, is facing bankruptcy as soon as next week. From Spiegel:
Read moreFloodgates Open As 4 More Spanish Regions Seek Bailout; German Nürburgring Faces Bankruptcy
The Cost Of U.S. Government Regulation: $1.75 TRILLION
– The Cost Of Government Regulation: $1.75 Trillion (ZeroHedge, July 22, 2012):
The Cost Of “Intervention”
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is a small “think tank” in Washington DC which puts out an annual report called: “Ten Thousand Commandments”. The report deals with the regulatory agencies of the US federal government and the cost of the regulations they continually introduce – and enforce. This report would be typical of the regulatory function of pretty well every government in the world.
In all interventionist economies, regulations are not set by the “lawmakers”. The “lawmakers” merely pass the laws, their enforcement is left to the various bureaucratic departments of government. And in order to “enforce” the laws, the bureaucrats see it as their function to impose regulations – countless thousands of them. The cost of complying with these regulations is met by those being regulated. It does NOT show up in the annual budgets (funded or unfunded) of the government.
In their Ten Thousand Commandments 2012 report which was released in June, the CEI estimates the cost of US government regulation at $US 1.75 TRILLION. That is just under half (48 percent) of the budget of the federal government. It is almost ten times the total of all corporate taxes collected and almost double the total collected from individual income taxes. It is also one-third higher than the total of all pre-tax corporate profits. It is the hidden cost of doing business in an interventionist economy. The fact that the cost of complying with these regulations is substantially higher than the total of corporate profits is a stark illustration of the end result of economic intervention. That end result is capital consumption.
Read moreThe Cost Of U.S. Government Regulation: $1.75 TRILLION
On The Edge With Max Keiser And Gerald Celente: LIBOR Manipulation Is ‘The Crime Of The Century’ (Video)
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– New York PostWhen CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente.
– CNN Headline NewsThere’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.
– CNBCThose who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute.
– The Wall Street JournalA network of 25 experts whose range of specialties would rival many university faculties.
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Beijing’s Heaviest Rainfall In 60 Years Causes Chaos, Kills 10
Rainfall causing widespread chaos in the Chinese capital, stranding 80,000 people at the city’s main airport
Rescuers and residents stand next to a stranded car being pulled up from a flooded street under the Guangqumen overpass in Beijing. Photograph: Joe Chan/REUTERS
– Beijing’s heaviest rainfall in 60 years kills 10 (Guardian/Reuters, July 22, 2012):
The heaviest rain storm in six decades to hit Beijing killed at least 10 people and caused widespread chaos, flooding streets and stranding 80,000 people at the city’s main airport, state media reported on Sunday.
Read moreBeijing’s Heaviest Rainfall In 60 Years Causes Chaos, Kills 10
The Price Of Corn Hits Record High As Global Food Crisis Looms
– The Price Of Corn Hits A Record High As A Global Food Crisis Looms (The Economic Collapse, July 21, 2012):
Are you ready for the next major global food crisis? The price of corn hit an all-time record high on Thursday. So did the price of soybeans. The price of corn is up about 50 percent since the middle of last month, and the price of wheat has risen by about 50 percent over the past five weeks. On Thursday, corn for September delivery reached $8.166 per bushel, and many analysts believe that it could hit $10 a bushel before this crisis is over. The worst drought in the United States in more than 50 years is projected to continue well into August, and more than 1,300 counties in the United States have been declared to be official natural disaster areas. So how is this crisis going to affect the average person on the street? Well, most Americans and most Europeans are going to notice their grocery bills go up significantly over the coming months. That will not be pleasant. But in other areas of the world this crisis could mean the difference between life and death for some people. You see, half of all global corn exports come from the United States. So what happens if the U.S. does not have any corn to export? About a billion people around the world live on the edge of starvation, and today the Financial Times ran a front page story with the following headline: “World braced for new food crisis“. Millions upon millions of families in poor countries are barely able to feed themselves right now. So what happens if the price of the food that they buy goes up dramatically?
Read moreThe Price Of Corn Hits Record High As Global Food Crisis Looms
Japan’s Former PM Yukio Hatoyama Joins Anti-Nuclear Protests
Ex-premier Hatoyama joins antinuclear rally
– Ex-premier Hatoyama joins antinuclear rally near PM’s office (Kyodo News, July 20, 2012):
In an unusual move by a former prime minister, Democratic Party of Japan heavyweight Yukio Hatoyama joined an antinuclear rally on a street in front of the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on Friday, saying he believes it is premature to reactivate nuclear reactors in the country.
With a microphone in his hand, Hatoyama said, “I must play a role to change the political trends by conveying people’s voices to the prime minister’s office as a former prime minister.”
Hatoyama later called at the prime minister’s office and asked Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura to have Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda meet with antinuclear protesters. The top government spokesman responded he would convey the request to Noda.
16-Year-Old Boy Was Working At Fukushima Nuke Plant
– #Radioactive Japan: 16-Year-Old Boy Was Working at #Fukushima I Nuke Plant in May Last Year (EX-SKF, July 17, 2012):
TEPCO says the company found out about it only this month, this year.
But what’s more disturbing is what Jiji Tsushin reports in the article below: that the job application was submitted by the boy’s relative. The article doesn’t say what relationship this relative has to the boy.
From Jiji Tsushin (7/17/2012):
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16-year-old boy worked at Fukushima I Nuke Plant, against Labor Standards Law, says TEPCO
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Spain Is Out Of Money In 40 Days … And ‘Spain Has No Plan B’ (FAZ)
– ‘Black Friday’ Blame-Game Escalates As Spain Is Out Of Money In 40 Days (ZeroHedge, July 21, 2012):
With Valencia bust, Spanish bonds at all-time record spreads to bunds, and yields at euro-era record highs, Spain’s access to public markets for more debt is as good as closed. What is most concerning however, as FAZ reports, is that “the money will last [only] until September”, and “Spain has no ‘Plan B”. Yesterday’s market meltdown – especially at the front-end of the Spanish curve – is now being dubbed ‘Black Friday’ and the desperation is clear among the Spanish elite. Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo (JMGM) attacked the ECB for their inaction in the SMP (bond-buying program) as they do “nothing to stop the fire of the [Spanish] government debt” and when asked how he saw the future of the European Union, he replied that it could “not go on much longer.” The riots protest rallies continue to gather pace as Black Friday saw the gravely concerned union-leaders (facing worrying austerity) calling for a second general strike (yeah – that will help) as they warn of a ‘hot autumn’. It appears Spain has skipped ‘worse’ and gone from bad to worst as they work “to ensure that financial liabilities do not poison the national debt” – a little late we hesitate to point out.
Franfurter Allgemeine: Now Burns Spain
(Via Google Translate)
Spain has no “Plan B” more. The money will last until September. Then you have to spend the Treasury after a break in August and again fresh government bonds. However, if the interest and the risk premium on the record highs of the past “Black Friday” hold, is the fourth largest economy in the Euro zone – to Greece, Ireland and Portugal – the fourth rescue candidate.
Read moreSpain Is Out Of Money In 40 Days … And ‘Spain Has No Plan B’ (FAZ)
Once The Banksters Lose CONTROL, We’ll Live In A Different World (Video)
FYI.
Part 1: These Banksters Are Involved In Every Imaginable CRIME (Video)
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Here’s Part 2 of my dramatic interview with precious metals pundits Andy Hoffman and Bill Holter. We discuss the clear evidence of the international banking crimes, debate inflation VS deflation and conclude with this FACT: The collapse is happening, and once the Banksters lose what little control they have left, the world in which we live will change forever.
These Banksters Are Involved In Every Imaginable CRIME (Video)
FYI.
YouTube Added: 21.07.2012
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Here’s part 1 of a dramatic 2-part interview with precious metals pundits Andy Hoffman and Bill Holter. We discuss the clear evidence of the international banking crimes, debate inflation VS deflation and conclude with this FACT: The collapse is happening, and once the Banksters lose what little control they have left, the world in which we live will change forever.