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The American Dream Is Dead, And Now Even The Mainstream Media Is Starting To Admit It

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– The American Dream Is Dead, And Now Even The Mainstream Media Is Starting To Admit It:

Are you living “the American Dream”?  If so, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate, because most Americans are not.

In fact, as you will see below, a new survey has found that there is nowhere on the entire planet where the average wage earner is making enough money to live “the American Dream”.  Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now the middle class makes up a minority of the population, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year, and poverty is growing rapidly.  The American Dream is essentially dead, and even the mainstream media is starting to figure this out.

Read moreThe American Dream Is Dead, And Now Even The Mainstream Media Is Starting To Admit It

Venezuela Prepares To Liquidate Its Remaining Gold Holdings To Pay Coming Debt Maturities

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– Venezuela Prepares To Liquidate Its Remaining Gold Holdings To Pay Coming Debt Maturities:

Last Thursday when we recounted the story of how Venezuela is now literally flying in paper money (using three dozen cargo Boeing 747s), we wrote that “Venezuela’s hyperinflation, already tentatively estimated at 720%, will likely add on a few (hundred) zeroes by this time next year. It is also quite likely that Venezuela the country, as we know it now, will no longer exist because once any nation is swept up in hyperinflationary rapids two things occur like clockwork: social uprisings and political coups.

But before it gets there, Venezuela’s president Maduro will be busy liquidating the nation’s roughly $12 billion in gold reserves, which his late predecessor fought hard in 2011 to repatriate back to Caracas. Sadly that gold was never meant to stay in Venezuela after all.“

And sure enough, just a day later, Reuters writes that Venezuela’s central bank has begun negotiations with the suddenly troubled Deutsche Bank to carry out gold swaps “to improve the liquidity of its foreign reserves as it faces heavy debt payments this year”, payments which it won’t be able to fund unless it manages to “liquify” its gold.

Read moreVenezuela Prepares To Liquidate Its Remaining Gold Holdings To Pay Coming Debt Maturities

Iran Says No Thanks To Dollars; Demands Euro Payment For Oil Sales

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– Iran Says No Thanks To Dollars; Demands Euro Payment For Oil Sales:

Iran enjoys trolling the United States. In fact, it’s something of hobby for the Ayatollah, who has maintained the country’s semi-official “death to America” slogan even as President Rouhani plays good cop with Obama and Kerry.

The ink was barely dry on the nuclear accord when Tehran test-fired a next-gen surface-to-surface ballistic missile with the range to hit archrival Israel, a move that most certainly violated the spirit of the deal if not the letter. Two months later, the IRGC conducted live rocket drills in close proximity to an American aircraft carrier and then, on the eve of President Obama’s final state-of-the-union address, Iran essentially kidnapped 10 American sailors in what amounted to a truly epic publicity stunt.

Read moreIran Says No Thanks To Dollars; Demands Euro Payment For Oil Sales

Ron Paul Slams Cruz And Hillary: They Are Both “Owned By Goldman”

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– Ron Paul Slams Cruz And Hillary: They Are Both “Owned By Goldman”:

Now that Rand Paul is out of the race for the White House, Politico’s Eliza Collins reports that his father Ron Paul, who ran in 2008 and 2012, isn’t impressed by Ted Cruz’s attempts to pick up the “free market” libertarian banner.

“You take a guy like Cruz, people are liking the Cruz — they think he’s for the free market, and [in reality] he’s owned by Goldman Sachs. I mean, he and Hillary have more in common than we would have with either Cruz or Trump or any of them so I just don’t think there is much picking,” Paul said of the Texas senator on Fox Business’ “Varney & Company” on Friday.

Read moreRon Paul Slams Cruz And Hillary: They Are Both “Owned By Goldman”

Madeleine Albright Stunner: “There’s A Special Place In Hell For Women Who Don’t Help” Hillary

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– Clinton PANIC – Madeleine Albright Says “There’s a Special Place in Hell for Women Who Don’t Help Each Other”:

In its endorsement of Hillary, the New York Times editorial board did such a sloppy job I can’t help but think it may have done permanent damage to its brand. Upon reading it, my initial conclusion was that the editorial board was either suffering from Stockholm syndrome or merely concerned about losing advertising revenues should they endorse Sanders. Then I thought some more and I realized my initial conclusions were wrong. Something else is going on here, something far more subtle, subconscious and illuminating. The New York Times is defending the establishment candidate simply because the New York Times is the establishment.

Read moreMadeleine Albright Stunner: “There’s A Special Place In Hell For Women Who Don’t Help” Hillary

Saudi military intervention in Syria amounts to war: Russian deputy

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– Saudi military intervention in Syria amounts to war: Russian deputy:

A Russian deputy has warned Saudi Arabia that any military ground operation in Syria without the Damascus government’s consent amounts to a declaration of war.

“Syria has to give official consent, to invite, otherwise it will be a war. The same applies to international law,” Pavel Krasheninnikov, the head of the State Duma committee, told Interfax on Friday.

Read moreSaudi military intervention in Syria amounts to war: Russian deputy

Week Seventeen of the Russian Intervention in Syria: Does Erdogan want war with Russia?

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– Week Seventeen of the Russian Intervention in Syria: does Erdogan want war with Russia?:

This article was written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-seventeen-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-does-erdogan-want-war-with-russia/

The situation with Turkey is rapidly getting out of control: not only have the Turks conducted artillery strikes across the Syrian border, Turkey has refused to comply with its obligations under the Open Skies Treaty and refused to let a Russian surveillance aircraft overfly Turkey.  The Russian military has now declared that it had detected signs of Turkish preparations for an invasion.    The Turkish refusal to abide by the Open Skies Treaty is an extremely worrisome development, especially when combined with the Russian warnings about the preparation for an invasion of Syria, and the Russians are not mincing their words:

Read moreWeek Seventeen of the Russian Intervention in Syria: Does Erdogan want war with Russia?

Turkey Planning Military Invasion in Syria – Russian Defense Ministry

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– Turkey Planning Military Invasion in Syria – Russian Defense Ministry:

What is happening on the Turkish-Syrian border gives grounds to think that Turkey is preparing a military invasion in Syria, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

“We have good reasons to believe that Turkey is actively preparing for a military invasion of a sovereign state – the Syrian Arab Republic. We’re detecting more and more signs of Turkish armed forces being engaged in covert preparations for direct military actions in Syria,” Konashenkov told media.

Read moreTurkey Planning Military Invasion in Syria – Russian Defense Ministry

Donald Trump At Debates: “I’d Bring Back Waterboarding And A Hell Of A Lot Worse Than Waterboarding”

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– ‘I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding’ – Trump at debates:

The Republican debates have wrapped up in New Hampshire, with some formidable bickering, topped by poll leader Donald Trump’s comment that he would “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”

Trump is also the person who recently in November said he does not care if torture doesn’t work, because “they deserve it anyway.”

On Saturday, he continued in the same vein. “I’ll tell you what, in the Middle East, we have people chopping the heads off Christians. We have people chopping the heads off many other people. We have things that we have never seen before, as a group…  I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”

His opponent, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, went as far as saying he does not believe the notorious practice of simulated drowning to be torture. “It is enhanced interrogation… It does not meet the generally recognized definition of torture.” He later added, however: “I would not bring it back in any sort of widespread use.”

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False Flags Are Just a Conspiracy Theor … Admitted Fact

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– False Flags Are Just a Conspiracy Theor … Admitted Fact:

Presidents, Prime Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks, Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag Terror

In the following instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admit to it, either orally, in writing, or through photographs or videos:

(1) Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is known as the “Mukden Incident” or the “Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International Military Tribunal found: “Several of the participators in the plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese army officer], have on various occasions admitted their part in the plot and have stated that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the Kwantung Army ….” And see this.

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Vienna, Austria: 20-Year-Old Iraqi Refugee Rapes 10-Year-Old Boy In Indoor Aquatic Centre

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… because he did not have sex for 4 months.

… enjoys himself afterwards at the diving board as if nothing happened.

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Theresienbad Wien

Original article in German:

– Iraker (20) vergewaltigte 10-Jährigen in Wiener Hallenbad

Google translation:

Because he did not have sex for 4 months

Iraqis (20) raped 10-year-olds in Vienna indoor pool:

Epoch Times, Saturday, February 6, 2016 15:15

A 20-year-old Iraqi refugee assaulted in a Vienna indoor pool on a ten year old boy. After the fact, he amused himself, as if nothing had happened, the springboard. After the weeping boy had informed the lifeguard, the police was informed that arrested the perpetrators still in the bathroom.

The act took place on 2 December 2015 a Vienna indoor swimming pool in the district Meidling. The police were “out victim protection reasons” not yet gone public, explained the spokesman of the State Police, Thomas Keiblinger that delay.

Read moreVienna, Austria: 20-Year-Old Iraqi Refugee Rapes 10-Year-Old Boy In Indoor Aquatic Centre

‘The People Who Cast The Votes Don’t Decide An Election, The People Who COUNT The Votes Do.’

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– “The People Who Cast The Votes Don’t Decide An Election, The People Who COUNT The Votes Do.”:

Stealing Elections Is Easier Than You Can Imagine

Princeton University scientists showed how easy it is to steal elections by tampering with voting machines:

Here’s a summary:

Read more‘The People Who Cast The Votes Don’t Decide An Election, The People Who COUNT The Votes Do.’

Will A Turkey Related Event Spark A Much Wider Regional War?

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Many have foreseen (20 or even 60+ years ago) a conflict between Greece and Turkey to be a precursor for WW3, with Russia totally destroying Turkey after Greece and Turkey are engaged in acts of war.

We’ll see.

– Will a Turkey Related Event Spark a Much Wider Regional War?:

I haven’t commented on the Middle East in a while, but a lot has been going on. In particular, Turkey continues to concern me the most, as president Recep Tayyip Erdo?an appears increasingly unstable, paranoid and tyrannical. The latest example came last month, when his government went ahead and arrested academics merely for signing a petition. Here’s what we learned from the post, U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition:

Hundreds of Turkish academics are waiting to find out whether they will be prosecuted or sacked for spreading “terrorist propaganda”, after they signed a petition calling for violence to end in Turkey’s southeast, where government forces have been fighting Kurdish separatists.

Turkey’s government has previously clamped down on scientists and students who question its policies, imprisoned scientists charged with terrorism offenses, and restricted the freedom of funding agencies and scientific academies. But the number of arrests and investigations makes the current episode one of the larger Turkish attacks on freedom of expression in recent years, prompting outrage among human-rights advocates.

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Thirteen Years Ago My Life Changed Forever

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– Thirteen years ago my life changed forever:

Thirteen years ago my life changed forever.

Colin Powell, then US Secretary of State and the most credible person in George W. Bush’s cabinet, made the case for war in Iraq on February 5, 2003.

As a young military intelligence officer at the time, watching from a makeshift army base in Kuwait not far from the Iraq border.

Back then I was a true believer, trusting that the government was a force for good “making the world safe for democracy. . .”

But that night it all changed.

Read moreThirteen Years Ago My Life Changed Forever

The Number Everyone’s Been Waiting For: Chinese Reserves Plunge By $100 Billion – What Does It Mean For Markets?

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– The Number Everyone’s Been Waiting For: Chinese Reserves Plunge By $100BN – What Does It Mean For Markets?:

As it stands now what is really happening with the biggest risk factor to commodity, credit and capital markets, remains a mystery, and instead of getting some much needed clarity from China’s January reserve number, the world’s traders and investors will now have to wait for the February reserve update one month from now to learn if China has managed to slay its capital outflow demons, or if these were just getting started.

Iceland Monitor – “We’re totally snowed in”

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– Iceland Monitor – “We’re totally snowed in”:

“I am tall but the snow reached up to my waist.”

5 Feb 2016 – All schools are closed in Patreksfjörður in the West Fjords due to heavy snowfall last night. An avalanche alert is still on in the small town. “We’re totally snowed in,” says director of the town council Ásthildur Sturludóttir. “I am tall but the snow reached up to my waist.”

Read moreIceland Monitor – “We’re totally snowed in”

300 Scientists Accuse NOAA of Using Contaminated Data

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– 300 Scientists Accuse NOAA of Using Contaminated Data:

They claim that NOAA solved the 15-year pause in global warming by “adjusting”  the temperature record from 1998 to 2012, thus suddenly showing more than twice as much warming as other data sets indicate. 

Approximately 300 scientists, engineers, economists, and other climate experts sent a letter to U.S. House Science Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) in support of his investigation of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

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Snowfall In China Has Broken All Records Of Previous Years

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– Snowfall in China has broken all records of previous years:

“This is according to a Pakistan news agency,” says reader Argiris Diamantis. “No specific numbers are given and this is not (yet) confirmed by other media. It could very well be true, but we have to be careful.”
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Snowfall in China, which has continued for several days, has broken all records of previous years and has increased problems for millions of people returning to their homes for Chinese new year ceremonies, says abbtak.tv.

Aerial operation and trainschedule have been affected badly due to bad weather and snowfall, while six thousand policemen have been deployed to control the people.

http://abbtakk.tv/en/heavy-snowfall-affects-routine-life-in-china030216/