What Americans Need to Know About Iran – Stunning Facts About Iran You’ve Never Heard Before

What Americans Need to Know About Iran (Washington’s Blog, July 12, 2014):

Stunning Facts About Iran You’ve Never Heard Before

Preface: I was born in the U.S., and have lived here my whole life.  I am a patriotic American, and put America first. I come from a Judeo-Christian background, and I am not a Muslim. I’ve never been to Iran, or anywhere in the Middle East or Northern Africa, or to any Muslim country. 

However, I believe that learning about other people and other countries builds bridges that prevent costly and unnecessary war.

If Americans knew the following facts about Iran, it would change their opinion:

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NSA Whistleblower Speaks: ‘The Ultimate Goal is Total Population Control’

Related infio:

Study Analyzing The Prevalence Of RFID Chips In 3 Geographically Discrete U.S. Populations Finds That On Average 1 In 3 Individuals Carry An RFID Chip

Those that are mcrochipped are already under control.

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
– George Orwell


NSA Whistleblower Speaks: “The Ultimate Goal is Total Population Control” (Liberty Blitzkrieg, July 11, 2014):

“At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”

– NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney

Long-time readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg will be no strangers to Bill Binney, one of the earliest NSA whistleblowers. Well before anyone had ever heard of Edward Snowden, in July 2012, I posted the following: NSA Whistleblower: U.S. Government Creating Dossiers on Millions of Citizens. In it, I noted:

Bill Binney is no joke. He worked for the NSA for 30 years before resigning because of concerns he had regarding illegal spying on U.S. citizens in 2001. It seems that the claim I and many others have made for years, that the “War on Terror” is a gigantic fraud used to instill fear and further the creation of an unconstitutional surveillance state in America is absolutely true. The “terrorists” they have declared war on are the American people themselves. 

Mr. Binney thankfully has never stopped fighting for The Constitution that he swore to defend, unlike most other government officials who happily stomp all over the basic civil liberties enshrined in our founding document. He had some very choice words recently and it would be wise for all of us on planet earth to pay very close attention.

We learn from the Guardian that:

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Trump Plaza To Close In September As Atlantic City Implosion Claims Fourth Casino

Trump Plaza To Close In September As Atlantic City Implosion Claims Fourth Casino (RT, July 12, 2014):

The Atlantic City casino industry implosion continues. Following the second, and final, bankruptcy of AC’s “state of the art” Revel Casino a month ago, as well as the shuttering of Atlantic Club hotel Casino and the Showboat hotel casino, the grim corporate reaper has come for one of the most prominent boardwalk casinos of all: Trump Plaza.

Trump Plaza

The casino which opened in 1984 as a JV between Donald Trump and Harrah’s AC, was for a long time the centerpiece of Donald Trump’s one-time Atlantic City empire, which however promptly escalated into a series of sequential bankruptcies, chipping away at Trump’s reputation and business model, as one after another of Trump’s properties sought Chapter 11 protection.

Read moreTrump Plaza To Close In September As Atlantic City Implosion Claims Fourth Casino

AND NOW: Blythe Masters’ Ex-Husband Launches Bitcoin Hedge Fund From The Island Of Jersey

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Blythe Masters’ Ex-Husband Launches Bitcoin Hedge Fund from the Island of Jersey (Liberty Blitzkrieg, July 11, 2014):

Blythe Masters is perhaps the most maligned human being on earth by silver investors due to suspicions of JP Morgan’s manipulation in the silver market. Well she’s back in the news, but it has nothing to do with silver. Rather, the news relates to the fact that her ex-husband and commodities traders, Daniel Masters, has just launched a Bitcoin hedge fund from the island of Jersey, a British Crown dependency.

We learn from Newsweek that:

Read moreAND NOW: Blythe Masters’ Ex-Husband Launches Bitcoin Hedge Fund From The Island Of Jersey

Amnesty International: UN Must Urgently Investigate War Crimes In Israeli-Gaza Conflict

UN must urgently investigate war crimes in Israeli-Gaza conflict – Amnesty Intl (RT, July 12, 2014):

Amnesty International (AI) has urged the UN to urgently mandate an independent international investigation into Israeli airstrikes on Gaza as well as Palestine’s indiscriminate shelling of Israel, and hold accountable those responsible for war crimes.

The UN questions the legality of Israel’s Gaza offensive, while Netanyahu is dismissive of international pressure

Despite claims by Israel that its operation “Protective Edge”, launched June 8, targets Hamas militants, most of more than a hundred Palestinians killed in airstrikes on Gaza are civilians, Amnesty says, adding that at least 24 children and 16 women were among the casualties.

Read moreAmnesty International: UN Must Urgently Investigate War Crimes In Israeli-Gaza Conflict

World’s First Climate-Controlled Domed City To Be Built In Dubai (PHOTOS)

Domed or doomed?


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A handout generated image released on July 6, 2014 by the press office of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai shows the “Mall of the World” to be built in Dubai. (AFP Photo/Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid)

World’s first climate-controlled domed city to be built in Dubai (PHOTOS) (RT, July 12, 2014):

Dubai has announced plans to build the first climate-controlled city on the planet. The area, constructed under a huge glass dome, will accommodate the world’s largest shopping center, over 100 hotels, and a wellness district for medical tourists.

The city of Dubai is the most populous in the United Arab Emirates, and the second-largest emirate by territorial size. Though it is a popular tourist spot, many are deterred from visiting due to the city’s scorching heat, with temperatures reaching 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) in the summer.

Read moreWorld’s First Climate-Controlled Domed City To Be Built In Dubai (PHOTOS)

‘Don’t Get Cynical … Hope Is A Better Choice’ (Humor)

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President Obama tells a crowd in Minneapolis:

“But I’m here to tell you, don’t get cynical. Despite all of the frustrations, America is making progress. Despite the unyielding opposition, there are families who have health insurance now who didn’t have it before. And there are students in college who couldn’t afford it before. And there are workers on the job who didn’t have jobs before. And there are troops home with their families after serving tour after tour. (Applause.) Don’t think that we’re not making progress.

“So, yes, it’s easy to be cynical; in fact, these days it’s kind of trendy. Cynicism passes off for wisdom. But cynicism doesn’t liberate a continent. Cynicism doesn’t build a transcontinental railroad. Cynicism doesn’t send a man to the moon. Cynicism doesn’t invent the Internet. Cynicism doesn’t give women the right to vote. Cynicism doesn’t make sure that people are treated equally regardless of race.

“Cynicism is a choice, and hope is a better choice. And every day I’m lucky to receive thousands of acts of hope — every time somebody sits down and picks up a pen, and writes to me and shares their story, just like Rebekah did. And Rebekah said in her letter — she ended it, she said, “I’m pretty sure this is a silly thing to do to write a letter to the President, but on some level I know that staying silent about what you see and what needs changing, it never makes any difference. So I’m writing to you to let you know what it’s like for us out here in the middle of the country, and I hope you will listen.”

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WSJ: In Japan, Idled Electronics Factories Find New Life in Farming … “Starting Tomorrow, You Are Going To Make Lettuce”

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In Japan, Idled Electronics Factories Find New Life in Farming (Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2014):

Struggling to Compete with Rivals in South Korea or China, Fujitsu, Toshiba and Others Try Selling Vegetables, Too

AIZU-WAKAMATSU, Japan—Haruyasu Miyabe used to oversee a computer-chip production line at a Fujitsu Ltd. 6702.TO -0.52% plant here. One day last year, the plant manager told Mr. Miyabe to prepare for a career change.

“Starting tomorrow, you are going to make lettuce,” he recalls being told.

Amid troubled times in the Japanese electronics industry, Fujitsu shut one of the three chip-making lines at the plant in 2009. Now, in a sterile, dust-free clean room that once built the brains of high-tech gadgets, Mr. Miyabe and a staff of about 30 tend heads of lettuce.

Read moreWSJ: In Japan, Idled Electronics Factories Find New Life in Farming … “Starting Tomorrow, You Are Going To Make Lettuce”

Moscow Warns To Retaliate Against Ukraine’s Violations Of Russian Borders

Moscow warns to retaliate against Ukraine’s violations of Russian borders (KUNA, July 12, 2014):

MOSCOW, July 12 (KUNA) — Russia warned Saturday it would take measures, which it did not specify, against Ukraine if Ukrainian forces continued what it considered as violations of Russian borders.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich directed a strongly-worded warning against the Ukrainian side against the cross-border shooting.
Russia, he added, reserved the right to take all legal measures to deal with the continuous violations of Russian borders by the Ukrainian forces.
Meanwhile, Interfax news agency quoted sources from the defense forces of the separatists in east Ukraine as saying they gunned down an Ukrainian Sokhoy 25 jet fighters.
They said fierce clashes were taking place between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatists to control Donyatsk airport.

‘Waiting For Armageddon’ – Say It Isn’t So?

“Waiting For Armageddon” – Say It Isn’t So? (Zerohedge, July 11, 2014):

Brent Johnson, of Santiago Capital, provides a brief but broad overview of the state of the state in the world’s precious metals markets (and monetary policy implications). Often accused of “waiting for Armageddon”, Johnson is quick to note that he would love to be wrong… “If I thought it possible to carry out the next 40 years the same as the last – by sticking to the status quo – I’d do it.” But it’s not… and no matter how many “say it isn’t so” you hear from the mainstream, it is inevitable (when not if). Simply put, he warns, if you do have to have capital markets exposure – make sure you have insurance – you need it now more than ever.

Gold is the best insurance....

Full presentation below…

Watch the presentation HERE.

Nestlé – Sucking The World Dry – Making A Profit Mark-Up Of 53,908,255% (Video)


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Nestlé’s unfair and inhumane tactics with regard to water have been brought to light in many excellent documentaries, e.g., For Love of Water, Blue Gold, Tapped and Bottled Life. This segment from Breaking the Set (11 June 2013) is good despite its brevity, but still does only scratch the surface.

Water Wars: Land Snatched From Syria Supplies Third Of Israel’s H2O (Video)


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Water is life, so they say, but rivalry over supplies can lead to bitter conflicts. You can see here that, since the mid-20th century, the planet’s seen nearly 180 conflicts connected to water resources. These include both small and large-scale clashes – a lot of them in the Middle East and Africa. So, it might surprise you to hear that it’s water – rather than oil – that could be what’s fought over in the coming years in the region. Paula Slier reports now from Israel.

Crap Cannon: Israel Sprays Putrid Liquid To Control West Bank Crowd (Video)


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Israel has given the green light for the construction of a further 300 homes in a West Bank settlement.The number of eviction incidents has risen sharply since a new Israeli government, with even stronger opposition to a 2-state solution, took office in March. And the Israeli defense force are ready to use almost anything to back their governments orders, including special anti-riot measure called ‘Skunk’.

Veterans Today’s Gordon Duff: STAGE BEING SET FOR ‘DIRTY BOMB’ FALSE FLAG

H/t reader squodgy.

Related info:

Breaking News: Nuclear Alert – Stolen Nuclear Material Heading Into U.S. (May 2, 2014):

US Forces On Nuclear ‘False Flag’ High Alert: Veterans Today’s Gordon Duff (March 28, 2014)

Israel Warns Of Suitcase Nuke Exploding In New York Or Madrid (Nov 24, 2013):

84 Russian Suitcase Nukes Missing (Video)

Mini Nukes: Who Owns All The Suitcase Bombs?

Still wondering what happened to this ‘baby’ …

German ‘Dolphin’ Submarine Loaded With A 500 KILOTON HYDROGEN BOMB ‘DISAPPEARS’ While Being Tracked By The NSA, MI6 And Every Sophisticated Device NATO Owns

All my readers know that I do NOT like dictators or any kind of dictatorship.

Yet, I am now quoting one of the most hated men in history.

This is a translated quote and it is 100% authentic:

“The struggle between the people (strife of nations) and the hatred between them is being nurtured by very specific interested parties.

It is a small rootless international clique that is turning people against each other that does not want them to have peace!

It is those people who are at home both nowhere and everywhere!

Who do not have anywhere a soil on which they have grown up but who live in Berlin today, Brussels tomorrow, Paris the day after, then Prague, Vienna or London and who feel at home everywhere!

They are the ones who can really be regarded as international elements because they conduct their business everywhere!”

– Adolf Hitler

The quote is not only authenthic, but it is also accurate and spot-on.

What a perfect description of the Illuminati (The Rothschilds and the other 12 elite [Jewish] families.)

“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none. “
– Gutle Schnaper, wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Update:

I forgot to mention the most important part and that is that those Illuminati Jewish elitists have planned the total destruction of Israel and WW3 for us.

They consider themselves to be a superior race (and their own people trash) and from that perspective they can be considered to be the ultimate racists.


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GORDON DUFF: STAGE BEING SET FOR “DIRTY BOMB” FALSE FLAG (Veterans Today, ):

“CHATTER” FLOWING IN FROM EVERYWHERE

“SUITCASE” NUKE SAID TO BE IN PLACE

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Rumors of an upcoming terror attack to be blamed on Iran are moving around the world, “backchannel chatter.”  The primary suspect is Israel who is said to have a number of small “suitcase” type nuclear weapons, some primarily “dirty bombs,” possibly supplied secretly by a previous US administration.  These devices are in the “40 ton” range, highly radioactive, extremely small and can be engineered to leave the signature of a primitive device.  They were originally designed for use against Soviet armor and troop concentrations in Europe if a massed attack on NATO were to occur.  Current conventional systems have made this type of weapon obsolete.

We have been told that federal authorities have interviewed, on video, a prominent individual with specific knowledge of the possession of this type of weapon.

This won’t be in the news.  All that “every day folks” will see is a story here or one there that don’t make sense.  Why would “ultra-Liberal” Senator Chuck Schumer, nightmare “anti-gun” nut, extreme lefty and staunch New York democrat turn on the president?  In fact, why are extreme liberals and conservatives all attacking President Obama and, less visibly, our military leaders, all at the same time?  Who is orchestrating this oddest turn of political events in recent history?  Why would the Pentagon ban Reverend Billy Graham’s son from a prayer breakfast as an “Islamophobe?”

Dad, the famous Reverend Billy Graham, primary spiritual advisor to every American president since Harry Truman held different views.

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Rev. Billy Graham openly voiced a belief that Jews control the American media, calling it a “stranglehold” during a 1972 conversation with President Richard Nixon, according to a tape of the Oval Office meeting released Thursday by the National Archives.

“This stranglehold has got to be broken or the country’s going down the drain,” the nation’s best-known preacher declared as he agreed with a stream of bigoted Nixon comments about Jews and their perceived influence in American life.  

“You believe that?” Nixon says after the “stranglehold” comment.  

“Yes, sir,” Graham says.  

“Oh, boy,” replies Nixon. “So do I. I can’t ever say that but I believe it.”  

“No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something,” Graham replies.

Consider this report as a form of “innocualtion,” meant to prevent an unseemly accident.

EVER WONDER WHY OVER 80% OF AMERICAN’S DON’T TRUST CONGRESS?


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FACE THE FACTS

Israel has never been in more trouble today, not from any imaginary Arab armies or a “holocaust” from Iran, a country with only minor defensive weaponry, a 4th rate military power, for those who really pay attention to these things.  Israel has gotten in trouble because of “chickens coming home to roost.”  Americans and Europeans have been conditioned by the press, yes, Israel controls the press in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, to ignore ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Palestine.  Years of news and “infotainment” along with movies and TV series, always depicting Palestinians as crazed murders has done its job, covered mass murder in ways that Josef Goebbels could never do for Hitler.

Things started to go wrong for Israel when top military leaders became increasingly suspicious of 9/11.  None will openly admit to it, but as years have gone on, and Iraq and Afghanistan could no longer be called real security issues for the US, an unspoken movement toward lending a suspicious eye to Israeli involvement in 9/11 has festered.  Israel’s hand in propagandizing our news has become too obvious for trained observers to miss, with the direction not “pro-Israel” but looking more like a country covering for crimes.

This is the potential list:

  • Possible complicity in some part of 9/11 with or without help from groups in the US and one other Middle Eastern nation known to secretly finance Israeli operations but pretending to be a “blood enemy” of the Jews
  • Israeli complicity in massive financial crimes in the US, including engineering of the sub-prime mortgage collapse as an operation meant to destabilize the United States.  That current financial reforms meant to prevent a repeat of this, pushed by President Obama (and military leaders) is opposed by groups financed by the Israeli lobby is a “smoking gun.”
  • Terrorist attacks in Iraq, Russia, Iran and Pakistan carry clear signs of involvement of one or more intelligence agencies being involved, among them Israel.
  • Israeli political machinations backed by a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign attempting to justify an unprovoked attack on Iran, disinformation including “holocaust” rhetoric and clearly falsified intelligence on Iran’s non-existent nuclear program are an almost perfect repeat of the same operation that pushed the Bush administration to mistakenly attack Iraq.  Note this classic example of disinformation propaganda, conditioning “the west” to expect a dirty bomb attack:  Debka/Israel Hoax and, more “cover” still from Israeli stooge Mikhail Saakashvili.
  • The “Israel Project” actually has run ad advertisement warning of exactly such an attack.  You can see an RT (Russia Television) video about this video, labeled “crazy” and “propaganda.”  A national survey mentioned indicates that 70% of the American people because of Israeli propaganda, now believe Iran currently has nuclear weapons.  Many prominent lawmakers advise “the Israel Project,” a group with no other purpose than to condition Americans to expect terror attacks and to “pre-blame” Iran.
  • Nuclear threats made by “extremists” in Israel against Western Europe went unheeded and the desired outcry of support for an attack on Iran never materialized.  Israel would never have allowed prominent sources in its defense establishment to voice “crazy threats” to “nuke Rome” unless some purpose were served.
  • Highly orchestrated attacks on the Obama administration, now finally working in close association with top military leaders, is meant to destabilize the US.  Moving threats against the US, the engineering of a new market collapse by Goldman Sachs, an ineffective attack by Israel on Iran, cutting off all oil to the west or attempts by Israeli controlled media giants to forment civil unrest in the US are all “on the table” and being pushed forward.

AMERICAN POLITICIANS, PRESIDENT OBAMA INCLUDED ARE “SWORN” TO KEEP ISRAEL’S VAST NUCLEAR ARSENAL THE WORLD’S “WORST KEPT SECRET”


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HOW AMERICA’S MILITARY HAS CHANGED

The deteriorating situation in Iraq and Afghanistan have tied down so many resources that our defense capabilities, the contingency response that our defense planners have spent years creating and over a trillion dollars financing is a shambles.  We are trucking supplies hundreds of miles through enemy territory to resupply in Afghanistan, that and flying everything thousands of miles across Russia followed by more trucking, hundreds of miles across enemy territory again.  In the process, we are paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to our own enemies, simply to keep ourselves in Twinkies and Ho Hos.

America is saddled with an incompetent and corrupt ally who has hopelessly embroiled us in his endless and ineffective plots, all with a massive subtext of drug dealing, selling weapons to the enemy and double dealing with foreign intelligence services.

How we got here is no secret and military leaders are unhappy.  America got herself led into these disasters for the good of, not Israeli security but a series of intrigues, more like a chess match, playing country against country, while raking in cash selling weapons to everyone, including the US and India, but, less overtly, to Iran and the Taliban as well.  These are some of the worst kept secrets in the world.  Even President Obama knows, heaven forbid.

ONLY A NEW 9/11 CAN BAIL ISRAEL OUT

With massive control of news organization, half our top retired military leaders taking regularly paid “junkets” to Israel and 363 members of congress indicating an “unbreakable bond” with Israel, no matter what they are caught doing, and they have been caught so many times, starting with the 1956 Suez/Sinai invasion, the 1967  USS Liberty attack,  which helped Israel sell the idea that they were attacked when quite the opposite is true, the belief is that that a new “false flag” attack can be covered easily.

Who could blame Israel, poor beleaguered country, the only “democracy” in the Middle East surrounded by vicious and dirty Arabs trying to sneak in and cut throats of small children in school?

We have already seen the stories about Iran’s planned “holocaust’ and how they are going to invade Israel, a technical impossibility” and set up gas chambers, start making soap and lamp shades out of Jews.  If anything warns America that an attack is coming, hearing both “holocaust” and seeing Charles Schumer attacking a democratic president should be warning enough.

The rumors are that the weapons are in place in Europe and the US.  “The usual suspects,” Arabs, Persians, Pakistanis, some kind of Islamic terrorist group has either been recruited, invented or is being thawed out.  News stories are in place and with 9/11, film crews are ready to be onsite.  Witnesses will be briefed, all to say, “yes it was an Arab dirty bomb, we saw them, Middle Eastern looking, they must have bought it from North Korea.”

That kind of story would hit the news within seconds from “stunned survivors” who will suddenly disappear, returning quickly to “you know where.”

Glenn Beck will cry.

LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES HAVE ALWAYS GOTTEN MARCHING ORDERS FROM TEL AVIV

Americans have the rare privilege of seeing the GOP, NRA, Fox News and the Tea Baggers aligned with 250 or is it 300 or 400, we aren’t sure, members of congress that have signed a letter promising to support Israel, in this case, against the interests of the United States.  The names of those involved is difficult to find.  A search of 100 stories on this subject has failed to give a list.  Blog after blog is requesting the list of those who signed the letter but even Israeli papers don’t print it.

Sites claiming to list the members signing now show “FORBIDDEN” or “NO LONGER AVAILABLE.”

What we do know is that congress’s most liberal members, those most outspoken for gun control and all of those listed by the Tea Bag movements and GOP as the most liberal and “unpatriotic” of our politicians are now lined up with the supporters of Goldman Sachs and all, the most conservative and most liberal, are signed up against the President and the Pentagon, aligned with Israel.

For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the entire “liberal” and “conservative” political hoopla of the last few years is turning out to be a subterfuge to keep Americans from uniting together to regain control of their own country, a control that, for awhile, ran our military, our intelligence services and even the oval office.

Now it runs only Congress, no party, just those addicted to AIPAC/Israeli funding more than allegiance to the United States of America.

What they may earn us through this “moral flexibility” and indifference to allegiance to their own country is another major terrorist attack.  These same members of congress will receive the call, be told how to vote, what to say and exactly what they get in return, same as with Iraq.

Ah, the foibles of living in a democracy for sale to the highest bidder!

CEO Of Europe’s Largest Insurer Pops The Utopia Bubble: ‘Nothing Is Solved And Everybody Knows It’

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–  CEO Of Europe’s Largest Insurer Pops The Utopia Bubble: “Nothing Is Solved And Everybody Knows It” (ZeroHedge, July 11, 2014):

It’s one thing for a tinfoil fringe blog to repeat, month after month, that nothing in Europe has been fixed, that Draghi’s disastrous policies are merely concentraing and stockpiling even more unresolved problems – for now ignored courtesy of the gentle sprinkle of ZIRP, or rather NIRP “fairy dust” – and that just like Portugal showed panic can grip the entire continent literally overnight because everyone knows this. It is something entirely different for the CEO of Europe’s largest insurer to make the same statement.

From Bloomberg:

When asking Allianz SE’s chief investment officer about the euro area’s sovereign debt woes, be prepared for an emphatic response.

The fundamental problems are not solved and everybody knows it,” Maximilian Zimmerer said at Bloomberg LP’s London office. The “euro crisis is not over,” he said.

While extraordinary stimulus from the European Central Bank has encouraged investors to pile into the region’s government bonds this year, that’s not a sufficient remedy for Zimmerer, who oversees 556 billion euros ($757 billion) at Europe’s largest insurer. Countries are still building up their debt piles, and that’s storing up trouble for the future, he said.

Read moreCEO Of Europe’s Largest Insurer Pops The Utopia Bubble: ‘Nothing Is Solved And Everybody Knows It’

AND NOW: Australian Judge Says Incest, Pedophilia ‘May Be Accepted’ By Society

Outrage as Australian judge says incest, pedophilia ‘may be accepted’ by society (RT, July 11, 2014):

An Australian judge has incurred the wrath of child protection and gay rights advocates after stating that incest and pedophilia may no longer be considered taboo – just as gay relationships are now more accepted than they were in the 1950s and 60s.

District Court Judge Garry Neilson was recorded as saying that sexual contact between adults and children or siblings may no longer be regarded by society as “unnatural” or “taboo.”

Read moreAND NOW: Australian Judge Says Incest, Pedophilia ‘May Be Accepted’ By Society

Germany Instructs Its Companies To Limit Cooperation, Procurement Orders With The US – Update: It Just Got Worse

Germany Instructs Its Companies To Limit Cooperation, Procurement Orders With The US (ZeroHedge, July 11, 2014):

Update: it just got worse. Moments ago Bloomberg followed up with the second, and expected, part of this story, namely that just like China cut off major US corporations from big procurement contracts leading to a collapse in CSCO and IBM Asian revenues, it is now Germany’s turn. Per Bloomberg, the German Interior Ministry reviewing rules for awarding govt contracts for computer, communications equipment and services as political rift w/ U.S. widens, people familiar with matter told Bloomberg News’ Cornelius Rahn, Amy Thomson.

  • Ministry will probably issue new purchasing guidelines in coming weeks to replace “no-spy-order” dated April 30
  • Details being worked out, may require suppliers of components of bidder’s goods or services to guarantee they don’t hand over confidential data
  • IBM, CSCO, MSFT may be affected by any tightening of procurement procedures: Forrester Research analyst Andrew Rose

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Congratulations America: after severing ties with Russia, crushing cordial relations with China (leading to this stunning announcement by China’s president), alienating France (which is now openly calling for an end to the petrodollar), the Obama administration – following not one, not two, but three spying scandals in just the past year – has managed to sour relations with Germany to a point where one wonders just who is a remaining US ally in Europe these days.

According to Bloomberg, the German chancellor’s office has issued instructions to national intelligence services to limit cooperation with U.S. following alleged U.S. spying case, Bild reports without saying where it got information.

The newspaper also says:

Read moreGermany Instructs Its Companies To Limit Cooperation, Procurement Orders With The US – Update: It Just Got Worse

Fire And Forget: DARPA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Self-Guiding Bullet (VIDEO)

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Fire and Forget: DARPA successfully tests revolutionary self-guiding bullet (VIDEO) (RT, July 11, 2014):

US military research agency DARPA says it is homing in on its long-term ambition of producing self-guided bullets, after staging a test in which a sniper was able to shoot at a target at a radically wrong angle, and yet still hit it perfectly.

“DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program recently conducted the first successful live-fire tests demonstrating in-flight guidance of .50-caliber bullets,” said the organization, which posted a recording of the trial on YouTube.

“This video shows EXACTO rounds maneuvering in flight to hit targets that are offset from where the sniper rifle is aimed. EXACTO’s specially designed ammunition and real-time optical guidance system help track and direct projectiles to their targets by compensating for weather, wind, target movement and other factors that could impede successful hits.”

But behind the dry description is a fascinating use of technology that the Pentagon has invested more than $25 million into since the program’s inception in 2008.

Read moreFire And Forget: DARPA Successfully Tests Revolutionary Self-Guiding Bullet (VIDEO)

CDC Finds Flu Virus Cross-Contamination, Closes 2 US Government Labs

And again, what could possibly go wrong?


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CDC closes 2 labs following safety breaches (Miami Herald, July 11, 2014):

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has closed two laboratories in Atlanta and stopped sending out infectious agents and other biological materials from its highest-level bio-security labs due to recent safety and security lapses.

The lapses include the accidental exposure of CDC lab personnel to anthrax and the previously unreported shipment of a deadly strain of bird flu to another government lab. No one has been found to have been infected.

Inquiry into US government labs finds flu virus cross-contamination (Guardian, July 11, 2014):

Two labs shut down as CDC reveals findings of inquiry prompted by anthrax exposure and discovery of insecure smallpox vials

Senior US science officials have shut down two government laboratories that were the subject of “serious and troubling” safety lapses, and suspended some transfers of potentially dangerous germs.

Dr Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control, revealed on Friday that in addition to the exposure of anthrax and the discovery of insecure smallpox vials, which had already been disclosed, inquiries had discovered the cross-contamination of flu viruses.

Frieden said the discoveries raised “serious and troubling questions” in announcing the new safety measures on Friday. “Fundamentally, what they revealed was totally unacceptable behavior,” said Frieden. “These events should never have happened.”

Read moreCDC Finds Flu Virus Cross-Contamination, Closes 2 US Government Labs

UK Economy “Boomerang’d” As Russians Shun $719 Bottles Of Cristal

–  UK Economy “Boomerang’d” As Russians Shun $719 Bottles Of Cristal (ZeroHedge, July 11, 2014):

The UK had feared whiplash from sanctions on Russian oligarchs but this ‘boomerang’ is too much to bear… As Bloomberg reports, “We’re seeing a lot less Russian surnames on the booking sheet,” at London’s Mahiki, a Polynesian-themed nightclub in upmarket Mayfair where a bottle of Cristal Champagne goes for $719 – and Russian customers are being supplanted by revelers from countries including China and Nigeria. “The Russian market was like a Champagne fountain,” notes on ereveler, “The money was coming into the top and flowing down…” but not so much anymore…

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Israel Is Bombing Gaza Back to the Stone Age to Get Hamas … But ISIS – NOT HAMAS – Claims Credit for Attacks Against Israel

Israel Is Bombing Gaza Back to the Stone Age to Get Hamas … But ISIS – NOT HAMAS – Claims Credit for Attacks Against Israel (Washington’s Blog, July 11, 2014):

Israel is currently bombing Gaza back to the stone age (MSM spin notwithstanding).

While Israel claims that Hamas was behind the murder of 3 Israeli boys which started this round of violence (and subsequent rocket attacks), the Times of Israel reported last week:

A new Palestinian jihadist group pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (formerly known as ISIL) [or “ISIS”] has claimed responsibility for the killing of three Israeli teenagers last month in the West Bank, as well as other recent deadly attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.

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Blackwater Awarded Over $1BILLION From State Dept. Since Threat On Investigator’s Life

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Blackwater awarded over $1bn from State Dept. since threat on investigator’s life (RT, July 11, 2014):

The US State Department has allocated more than a billion dollars in contracts to the security firm Blackwater and its later manifestations since a top official for the company threatened a government investigator’s life in 2007.

The Huffington Post reported that the notorious security contractor Blackwater, its subsequent incarnations, and its subsidiaries have received more than $1.3 billion since the fall of 2007 for training and operations the world over.

In August 2007, State Department investigator Jean C. Richter said a Blackwater project manager, Daniel Carroll, told Richter “that he could kill me at that very moment and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” where the investigator was observing – and criticizing – the company’s operations. The New York Times reported the details of the threat last month.

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