– Wisconsin Commando team raids shelter to kill Al Qaeda fawn (Veterans Today, Aug 4, 2013)
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Americans Now Traveling Overseas For Surgery
– Americans are Now Traveling Overseas for Surgery (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 6, 2013)
BBC News Video On Massive Fukushima Radioactive Water Leak ‘Emergency’ (A MUST-SEE!)
– Fukushima radioactive water leak an ’emergency’ (BBC News, Aug 6, 2013):
From the video:
“Fukushima plant sits smack in the middle of an underground aquifer.”
“At least 400 tons of new water pours into the site every day. It’s going to continue for years and years.”
“Fukushima’s water crisis has only just begun.”
Google’s Sergey Brin Is The Money Behind First Lab-Grown Synthetic Beef Hamburger
– Google’s Sergey Brin is the Money Behind Test-Tube Synthetic Burgers (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 6, 2013):
While I share Sergey Brin’s concerns about meat production and the completely cruel way in which we treat our animals, I can’t say I’m looking forward to biting into a test tube hamburger any time soon. This story has received a lot of press in the past few days following the synthetic meat’s taste testing in London yesterday. I have to admit, I’d take the entire thing a lot more seriously if Sergey wasn’t wearing those creepy and idiotic Google Glasses while discussing it (watch video):
From The Guardian:
The man who has bankrolled the production of the world’s first lab-grown hamburger has been revealed as Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The internet entrepreneur has backed the project to the tune of €250,000 (£215,000), allowing scientists to grow enough meat in the lab to create a burger – as a proof of concept – that will be cooked and eaten in London on Monday.
“It’s really just proof of concept right now, we’re trying to create the first cultured beef hamburger,” said Brin in a film to mark the tasting event in London. “From there I’m optimistic that we can really scale by leaps and bounds.”
Read moreGoogle’s Sergey Brin Is The Money Behind First Lab-Grown Synthetic Beef Hamburger
New York Times Admits: Al-Qaeda Terror Threat Used To ‘Divert Attention’ From NSA Uproar
– NY Times Admits: Al-Qaeda Terror Threat Used to “Divert Attention” from NSA Uproar (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 5, 2013):
Some analysts and Congressional officials suggested Friday that emphasizing a terrorist threat now was a good way to divert attention from the uproar over the N.S.A.’s data-collection programs, and that if it showed the intercepts had uncovered a possible plot, even better.
– NY Times article from August 2, 2013: Qaeda Messages Prompt U.S. Terror Warning
Nothing about the above quote should surprise any of my readers, we all know the sick, twisted mindset of those involved in the Military-Industrial-Wall Street complex. What’s more shocking is the fact that these folks so openly admit it to the New York Times, albeit in a typical anonymous and cowardly fashion. Let’s not forget what Robert Shapiro, former Clinton official and Obama supporter told the FT in July 2010:
The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership. He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.
I discussed the above quote and related topics in my 2010 piece: The Dangers of a Failed Presidency. Well, if Mr. Shapiro thinks President Obama didn’t have credibility in 2010, one can only imagine what he thinks today. That is precisely what makes the current moment so extraordinarily dangerous.
From the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — The United States intercepted electronic communications this week among senior operatives of Al Qaeda, in which the terrorists discussed attacks against American interests in the Middle East and North Africa, American officials said Friday.
It is unusual for the United States to come across discussions among senior Qaeda operatives about operational planning — through informants, intercepted e-mails or eavesdropping on cellphone calls. So when the high-level intercepts were collected and analyzed this week, senior officials at the C.I.A., State Department and White House immediately seized on their significance. Members of Congress have been provided classified briefings on the matter, officials said Friday.
Read moreNew York Times Admits: Al-Qaeda Terror Threat Used To ‘Divert Attention’ From NSA Uproar
Billionaire Issues Chilling Warning About Interest Rate Derivatives
– Billionaire Issues Chilling Warning About Interest Rate Derivatives (Economic Collapse, Aug 5, 2013):
Will rapidly rising interest rates rip through the U.S. financial system like a giant lawnmower blade? Yes, the U.S. economy survived much higher interest rates in the past, but at that time there were not hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of interest rate derivatives hanging over our financial system like a Sword of Damocles. This is something that I have been talking about for quite some time, and now a Mexican billionaire has come forward with a similar warning. Hugo Salinas Price was the founder of the Elektra retail chain down in Mexico, and he is extremely concerned that rising interest rates could burst the derivatives bubble and cause “massive bankruptcies around the globe”. Of course there are a whole lot of people out there that would be quite glad to see the “too big to fail” banks go bankrupt, but the truth is that if they go down our entire economy will go down with them. Our situation is similar to a patient with a very advanced stage of cancer. You can try to kill the cancer with drugs, but you will almost certainly kill the patient at the same time. Well, that is essentially what our relationship with the big banks is like. Our entire economic system is based on credit, and just like we saw back in 2008, if the big banks start failing credit freezes up and suddenly nobody can get any money for anything. When the next great credit crunch comes, every important number in our economy will rapidly start getting much worse.
Read moreBillionaire Issues Chilling Warning About Interest Rate Derivatives
Study: U.S. Debt Six Times Greater Than Declared
– US debt six times greater than declared – study (RT, Aug 6, 2013):
The United States has accumulated over $70 trillion in unreported debt, an amount nearly six times the declared figure, according to a new study by University of California-San Diego economics Professor James Hamilton.
The unique aspect of Hamilton’s study is that he examines federal debt that has not been publicly released, specifically the government’s support for “housing, other loan guarantees, deposit insurance, actions taken by the Federal Reserve, and government trust funds.”
Russian Migration Service Wants ‘Network’ of Deportation Facilities
– Russian Migration Service Wants ‘Network’ of Deportation Facilities (RIA Novosti, Aug 5, 2013):
MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s Federal Migration Service says it wants to create a “network” of 83 detention facilities for foreigners awaiting deportation, just days after it set up a tent camp for hundreds of labor migrants detained in Moscow last week.
About 1,400 foreigners, most of them Vietnamese nationals, were detained last week during raids on local markets, the police said. A tent encampment set up for them in Moscow’s eastern Golyanovo district housed more than 600 of them by Sunday.
Read moreRussian Migration Service Wants ‘Network’ of Deportation Facilities
China’s Slow Economy Forces College Grads To Live In Illegal ‘ANT COLONIES’ (CBS Video)
– China’s slow economy forces college grads to live in “ant colonies” (CBS News, July 11, 2013):
(CBS News) BEIJING — Twenty-one-year-old Yang Le thought finding a job would be the toughest part about moving to Beijing. He was wrong.
His $600 monthly salary left him $150 for rent, not enough to afford a room with a window.
“You cannot tell if it’s day or night,” he told us. “The kitchen stove and shower are broken. I hand wash laundry. There’s no air conditioning, I only have a fan.”
His roommate couldn’t stand the heat and moved out.
Despite having a college degree, wages are low for job seekers. At a recent Beijing job fair, graduates know the odds: only 35 percent have found work.
More than a million recent graduates have ended up crammed into cheap subdivided apartments. They’re packed in so tight, they’re nicknamed “ants.”These apartments — “ant colonies” — are illegal. CBS NEws took a hidden camera to see one with 20 beds and one bathroom. Another unit we saw slept 30.
“‘Ant tribes’ refers to a group of people who come to big cities from small towns and strive for their dreams,” Song Xiahui told us. “(We) live in cheap and shabby places and have a hectic life.”
Song, a 23-year-old journalism graduate, is another member of the ant tribe. She works at a magazine making $400 a month — no more than a supermarket cashier.
Read moreChina’s Slow Economy Forces College Grads To Live In Illegal ‘ANT COLONIES’ (CBS Video)
Obama’s Abuse Of The Espionage Act Is Modern-Day McCarthyism
Shame on this president for persecuting whistleblowers with a legal relic, while administration officials leak with impunity
Senator Joseph McCarthy, chief ideologue of the cold war witch-hunts, takes the pledge as a witness in 1954 hearings about alleged communist infiltration of the US army. Photograph: Associated Press
– Obama’s abuse of the Espionage Act is modern-day McCarthyism (Guardian, Aug 5, 2013):
The conviction of Bradley Manning under the 1917 Espionage Act, and the US Justice Department’s decision to file espionage charges against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden under the same act, are yet further examples of the Obama administration‘s policy of using an iron fist against human rights and civil liberties activists.
President Obama has been unprecedented in his use of the Espionage Act to prosecute those whose whistleblowing he wants to curtail. The purpose of an Espionage Act prosecution, however, is not to punish a person for spying for the enemy, selling secrets for personal gain, or trying to undermine our way of life. It is to ruin the whistleblower personally, professionally and financially. It is meant to send a message to anybody else considering speaking truth to power: challenge us and we will destroy you.
Only ten people in American history have been charged with espionage for leaking classified information, seven of them under Barack Obama. The effect of the charge on a person’s life – being viewed as a traitor, being shunned by family and friends, incurring massive legal bills – is all a part of the plan to force the whistleblower into personal ruin, to weaken him to the point where he will plead guilty to just about anything to make the case go away. I know. The three espionage charges against me made me one of “the Obama Seven”.
Read moreObama’s Abuse Of The Espionage Act Is Modern-Day McCarthyism
Veterans Today’s Jim Fetzer: US Betrays Its Own Soldiers (Video)
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– US ‘betrays’ its own soldiers (PressTV, Aug 4, 2013):
The US government’s treatment of wounded and ill American soldiers who return to their country is “a betrayal”, says James Henry Fetzer, an editor at Veterans Today.
The Colorado Springs Gazette published a comprehensive account in May which showed a growing number of wounded and mentally ill American soldiers are being kicked out of the service for misconduct related to their wartime injuries, often with no benefits.
“It’s a betrayal by the government of our young men and women,” said Fetzer in a phone interview with Press TV on Sunday.
“As a former Marine Corps officer, I’ve been profoundly disturbed by this report of the Army improperly discharging wounded and ill soldiers from its conduct which is or appears to be a strategy or policy for depriving them of lifelong medical treatment,” he added.
Read moreVeterans Today’s Jim Fetzer: US Betrays Its Own Soldiers (Video)
Big Oil’s Central Asian Mafia
– Big Oil’s Central Asian Mafia (Veterans Today, Aug 6, 2013)
(Excerpted from Big Oil & Their Bankers: Chapter 17: Caspian Sea Oil Grab)
According to Kurt Wulff of the oil investment firm McDep Associates, the Four Horsemen, romping in their new Far East pastures, saw asset increases from 1988-1994 as follows: Exxon Mobil- 54%, Chevron Texaco- 74%, Royal Dutch/Shell- 52% and BP Amoco- 54%. Big Oil had more than doubled its collective assets in six short years.
This quantum leap in global power had everything to do withthe takeover of the old Soviet oil patch and the subsequent impoverishment of its birthright owners.
While the Four Horsemen gorged on Russian and Central Asian oil, Wall Street investment bankers were facilitating the oil grab and ripping off the Russian Treasury.
Salomon Smith Barney’s Phibro Energy oil trading subsidiary set up shop in Moscow. Goldman Sachs was hired by Yeltsin to lure foreign capital to Russia. Heading the Russian Goldman Sachs team was Robert Rubin, later Clinton Secretary of Treasury & Citigroup CEO. CS First Boston took a 20% stake in Lukoil, in partnership with BP Amoco.
Requiem For The Children Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq And Afghanistan
… and Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and …
– Requiem For The Children of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan (Veterans Today, Aug 6, 2013)
Glenn Greenwald: ‘FISA Report Calls NSA Spying Unconstitutional And Illegal’ (Video)
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Japan Finally Admits The Truth: ‘Right Now, We Have An Emergency At Fukushima’
– Japan Finally Admits The Truth: “Right Now, We Have An Emergency At Fukushima” (ZeroHedge, Aug 5, 2013):
Tepco is struggling to contain the highly radioactive water that is seeping into the ocean near Fukushima. The head of Japan’s NRA, Shinji Kinjo exclaimed, “right now, we have an emergency,” as he noted the contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier and is rising toward the surface – exceeding the limits of radioactive discharge. In a rather outspoken comment for the typically stoic Japanese, Kinjo said Tepco’s “sense of crisis was weak,” adding that “this is why you can’t just leave it up to Tepco alone” to grapple with the ongoing disaster. As Reuters notes, Tepco has been accused of covering up shortcomings and has been lambasted for its ineptness in the response and while the company says it is taking actions to contain the leaks, Kinjo fears if the water reaches the surface “it would flow extremely fast,” with some suggesting as little as three weeks until this critical point.
Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country’s nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters.
Read moreJapan Finally Admits The Truth: ‘Right Now, We Have An Emergency At Fukushima’
Greece: Uncollected Taxes Rise To Record €60 BILLION, One Third Of Greek GDP
– Uncollected Greek Taxes Rise To Record €60 Billion, One Third Of Greek GDP (ZeroHedge, Aug 5, 2013):
While Europe, and especially Germany has been understandably “displeased” with having to provide billions in bailout upon bailout funding to Greece every year starting in 2010, all the more so following recent news that Greece has already spent some 75% of its bank bailout cash with no discernible improvement in its economy to show for it, Europes’ taxpayers will unlikely be any more pleased to learn that as of the end of June, a whopping €60 billion in past due taxes (an all time record) was owed by Greek businesses and individuals to the state. This is an amount that is 20% greater than the entire external cash handed over by the Troika to keep Greek banks afloat, and represents nearly 30% of imploding Greek GDP.
Perhaps instead of spending money on trips by its premier and/or think-tanks on how to mutually assure itself another few billion in Troika cash to plug this budget hole or that, Greece should invest a few grand to buy the ink it needs to print tax forms, streamlining its tax collection department (on those days it is isn’t on strike of course) and generate some real IRR.
Kathimerini has the full story:
Taxpayers’ and businesses’ outstanding debts to the state increased by 3.7 billion euros this year to reach a record 59.77 billion euros at the end of June.
There was an increase of 613 million euros between May and June alone, the general secretariat for public revenues said.
Read moreGreece: Uncollected Taxes Rise To Record €60 BILLION, One Third Of Greek GDP
Jeff Bezos To Buy Washington Post Newspaper And Its Publishing Assets For $250 Million
– Jeff Bezos To Buy Washington Post Newspaper And Its Publishing Assets For $250 Million (ZeroHedge, Aug 5, 2013):
A few months after investing some pocket change into the slideshow-focused “Business Insider”, Jeff Bezos has decided to buy the Washington Post newspaper publishing business, including the WaPo paper itself for $250 MM. The headline blast:
Jeffrey P. Bezos to purchase Washington Post, Express, Gazette, other Greater Washington, DC papers — deal valued at $250 million #breaking
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) August 5, 2013
It is unclear if the online version of WaPo goes with it, but most likely the answer is yes. It is also unclear just what Bezos’ strategy is for the hard-version of the WaPo: maybe instead of selling 450,000 daily copies at $1.25, Bezos will sell 450,000,000,000 at -$1.25?
So long-overdue consolidation in the media space by rich, bored billionaires, or just the imminent arrival of even more slideshows, and even more epic losses to be “made up with volume”? Only time will tell.
The full press release, for now not in slideshow format, and precisely zero kittens:
The Washington Post Company (WPO) announced today that it has signed a contract to sell its newspaper publishing businesses, including The Washington Post newspaper, to Jeffrey P. Bezos.
The purchaser is an entity that belongs to Mr. Bezos in his individual capacity and is not Amazon.com, Inc.
Read moreJeff Bezos To Buy Washington Post Newspaper And Its Publishing Assets For $250 Million
40% Of U.S. Workers Make Less Than What A Full-Time Minimum Wage Worker Made In 1968
– 40 Percent Of U.S. Workers Make Less Than What A Full-Time Minimum Wage Worker Made In 1968 (Economic Collapse, Aug 4, 2013):
Are American workers paid enough? That is a topic that is endlessly debated all across this great land of ours. Unfortunately, what pretty much everyone can agree on is that American workers are not making as much as they used to after you account for inflation. Back in 1968, the minimum wage in the United States was $1.60 an hour. That sounds very small, but after you account for inflation a very different picture emerges. Using the inflation calculator that the Bureau of Labor Statistics provides, $1.60 in 1968 is equivalent to $10.74 today. And of course the official government inflation numbers have been heavily manipulated to make inflation look much lower than it actually is, so the number for today should actually be substantially higher than $10.74, but for purposes of this article we will use $10.74. If you were to work a full-time job at $10.74 an hour for a full year (with two weeks off for vacation), you would make about $21,480 for the year. That isn’t a lot of money, but according to the Social Security Administration, 40.28% of all workers make less than $20,000 a year in America today. So that means that more than 40 percent of all U.S. workers actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968. That is how far we have fallen.
Read more40% Of U.S. Workers Make Less Than What A Full-Time Minimum Wage Worker Made In 1968
Radioactive Fukushima Groundwater Rises Above Barrier Being Built To Contain It
From the article:
“Last month Tepco reversed months of denials and acknowledged that radioactive water has been leaking into the ocean.”
After only 2 1/2 years!!!
– Radioactive Fukushima groundwater rises above barrier being built to contain it (The Raw Story, Aug 3, 2013):
TOKYO (Reuters) – Radioactive groundwater at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has risen to levels above a barrier being built to contain it, highlighting the risk of an increasing amount of contaminated water reaching the sea, Japanese media reported on Saturday.
Read moreRadioactive Fukushima Groundwater Rises Above Barrier Being Built To Contain It
AND NOW: The Obama Regime’s ‘Behavioral Insights Team’ (Video & Document)
Because we can!
– Gov’t Knows Best? White House creates ‘nudge squad’ to shape behavior (FOX News, July 30, 2013):
The federal government is hiring what it calls a “Behavioral Insights Team” that will look for ways to subtly influence people’s behavior, according to a document describing the program obtained by FoxNews.com. Critics warn there could be unintended consequences to such policies, while supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient.
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– White House creates ‘nudge squad’ to shape behavior (FOX News, July 31, 2013):
The federal government is hiring what it calls a “Behavioral Insights Team” that will look for ways to subtly influence people’s behavior, a…
Government document on the creation of a so-called ‘Behavioral Insights Team’:
Drones Inside The United States To Be Armed With ‘Non-Lethal’ Weapons (Video)
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“In a recent letter to Paul, published on the senator’s website Thursday, the FBI acknowledges that it has used drones domestically in 10 cases in response to a ‘specific, operational need.’ The bureau says that, since late 2006, it has used unmanned planes for surveillance to support missions related to kidnappings, search and rescue operations, drug interdictions, and fugitive investigations. On eight occasions the drones were used as part of criminal cases, and two in national security-related operations.
In none of these cases, the bureau says, did it apply for a warrant to conduct the drone surveillance.”*
Cenk Uygur breaks it down
*Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_ten…
Per New EPA Rules You Can Now ‘Safely’ Eat 30 Times More Roundup!!!
In other words, they want you dead!
More important information on Monsanto’s Roundup (containing Glyphosate):
– Illinois Illegally Seizes Bees Resistant To Monsanto’s Roundup; Kills Remaining Queens
– Study: Roundup And Glyphosate Toxicity Underestimated
– GMO And Monsanto Roundup: Glyphosate Weedkiller In Our Food and Water?
– Glyphosate In Monsanto’s Roundup Inhibits Natural Detoxification In Human Cells: Study
– USDA Received Dire Pathogen Warning BEFORE Deregulating GM Alfalfa
– Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Linked To Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteria
– Study: GMO Toxins Found In Nearly All Pregnant Women, Unborn Babies
– GMO Technology, Glyphosate Toxicity Leaving Men Sterile
– Jeffrey Smith’s Full Presentation On Deadly GMO’s (Video)
– FIRST LONG-TERM GMO STUDY: Monsanto GMO Corn & Roundup Cause Massive Tumors In Lab Animals (Video)
– Shocking GMO Study: Rats Fed Lifetime Of GM Corn Grow Horrifying Tumors, 70% Of Females Die Early
– Study: Roundup Herbicide 450-Fold Diluted Is Still Genotoxic
– ROUNDUP: Birth Defects Caused By World’s Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say
– Roundup, GMOs linked to emergence of deadly new pathogen causing spontaneous abortions among animals
– Monsanto’s Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health
– Study: Monsanto’s Roundup Kills Human Cells (Flashback)
– Scientist: Monsanto’s herbicide could cause brain, intestinal and heart defects in foetuses
Battle Royale On Piers Morgan: Glenn Greenwald, James Risen And Jeffrey Toobin (Video)
– Battle Royale on Piers Morgan: Glenn Greenwald, James Risen and Jeffrey Toobin (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Aug 3, 2013):
“That’s the thing I don’t understand about the climate in Washington these days. People want to have debates on television and elsewhere, but then you want to throw the people that start the debates in jail.”
– James Risen, New York Times Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist (he now faces jail time)
The above quote occurred during an excellent discussion between Glenn Greenwald, James Risen and Jeffrey Toobin on Piers Morgan’s show. While pretty much everyone on planet earth knows who Glenn Greenwald is at this point, most people do not know who James Risen is. This is a situation that must change. Mr. Risen is at the center of another very important case that threatens the future of freedom of the press in these United States.
In his book State of War, James Risen published information leaked to him by former CIA agent Jeffrey Sterling, who is currently being charged under the Espionage Act by President Transparency, Barrack Obama. While a lower court had previously ruled Mr. Risen should be afforded reporter privilege to not testify against Mr. Sterling, a federal appeals court last month saw it differently in a 2-1 decision.
Read moreBattle Royale On Piers Morgan: Glenn Greenwald, James Risen And Jeffrey Toobin (Video)
America: Where Hard Working, Productive Members Of Society Pay For The Health Care Of Everyone Else
– America: Where Hard Working, Productive Members Of Society Pay For The Health Care Of Everyone Else (Economic Collapse, Aug 4, 2013):
Everybody in America wants health care – but most Americans seem to want someone else to pay for it. In the United States today, the way that our system works is that the hard working, productive members of society pay for the health care of everyone else. At least under socialism everyone gets the same benefits. Our system of health care is a very twisted version of socialism where millions upon millions of very hard working people are forced to pay for the health care of others, but often can’t afford to purchase decent health insurance for themselves. Personally, I don’t have a big employer paying for my health care so I have to buy it myself, and I just got a letter from my health insurance company telling me that I have another massive rate increase coming up. Have you gotten a similar letter? Health insurance premiums are going up all over America, and this is just the beginning. In fact, the CEO of Aetna says that health insurance rates for many Americans will double when the major provisions of Obamacare kick in next year.
It would be bad enough if hard working Americans just had to pay for their own health insurance. But no, they are also expected to pay for the health care of members of Congress, employees of the IRS and other federal agencies, state and local government employees, their adult kids (because they can’t afford health insurance), the elderly, the poor, and now under Obamacare they will also be expected to subsidize the health plans of tens of millions of other Americans that are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.