The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
– Seymour Hersh Slams Establishment Media: “I Am Not Backing Off Anything I Said” (ZeroHedge, May 14, 2015):
“...if anyone didn’t think the president was going to f##k [the Pakistani military] they are out of their mind. He was always going to f##k them…. The White House has been very clever about this. They have gone after me personally. They don’t like me boo hoo hoo.… Don’t turn this into some sort of profound anti-American statement.“
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– Obama Becoming Global Joke? King Of Bahrain Snubs US President, Meets Horse Instead (ZeroHedge, May 14, 2015):
Having been ‘snubbed’ by the new Saudi King Salman, it appears the uneasy relationshipo with our ‘allies’ in The Gulf is ebbing. In what the State Department will, we are sure, just brush off, Politico reports that the king of Bahrain has apparently also snubbed President Barack Obama, preferring instead to attend a horse show with Queen Elizabeth
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– China requests IMF recommend renminbi as a reserve currency (Government Slaves, May 14, 2015)
– Senate Passes Obama’s TPP Fast-Track Trade Proposal (ZeroHedge, May 14, 2015):
Two days ago there was some rejoicing and much surprise when the “Warren-faction” of Senate liberals turned against Obama, and failed to vote for a fast-track approval of the TPP. That surprise lasted for about 48 hours when moments ago, in a 65-33 vote, the Senate finally advanced a measure allowing Obama to expedite approval of trade agreements, a bill with bipartisan support in that chamber which however according to Bloomberg may run into strong opposition from House Democrats.
The vote followed separate votes sought by Democrats to pass proposals curbing currency manipulation and boosting imports from sub-Saharan Africa. The Senate plans to consider amendments to the fast-track trade proposal next week.
Read moreSenate Passes Obama’s TPP Fast-Track Trade Proposal
– China Goes “Unconventional” In Effort To Tackle Trillions In Debt, Rescue Economy (ZeroHedge, May 13, 2015):
China has officially entered the realm of “unconventional” monetary policy, joining the Fed, the ECB, the BoJ, and a whole host of other global central banks in an attempt to bring the supposedly all-mighty printing press and the unlimited balance sheet that goes with it to bear on subpar economic growth. We suspect the results will be characteristically underwhelming (at least in terms of lowering real interest rates, although in terms of boosting risk assets, the results may be outstanding) meaning it’s likely only a matter of time before LTRO becomes QE in China just as it did in Europe.
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– 45% Of US Voters Are Worried The Government Will Use Military Training Exercises For Power Grab (ZeroHedge, May 13, 2015):
Mainstream media reporting on the controversy over the Jade Helm 15 military exercises, set to take place over eight weeks across several U.S. states, was primarily about characterizing and demonizing Texans concerned about the exercises as backwater, paranoid rednecks with wild fantasies about an imminent government takeover. While exercises like these will always cause the imagination of some to run amok, the key point here is this: concerns that U.S. military exercises will be used to exert more power over states is not a fringe view.
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H/t reader M.G.:
“More on Clinton corruption…..she only cares about getting her fat ass back into the White House…..Ugh.”
– Hillary Clinton’s worries mount (Washington Post, May 13, 2015)
H/t reader M.G.:
“More on congressional corruption……………….this crap has to be stopped.
Taking funds from foreign nations…….this used to be illegal.”
– 10 members of Congress took trip secretly funded by foreign government (Washington Post, May 13, 2015)
H/t reader M.G.:
“This article is full of foolish diversions, but the trade deal was defeated.
YES!”
– Senate Democrats Knock Down Obama’s Trade Bill (Huffington Post, May 12, 2015)
H/t reader squodgy:
“And NOW…….drum roll…….
AGENDA………..22.”
– In September, the UN Launches a Major Sustainable Development Agenda for the Entire Planet (The Daily Sheeple, May 12, 2015)
– ‘We the People’ Need to Circle the Wagons: The Government Is on the Warpath (Rutherford Institute, May 12, 2015):
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Have you ever wondered why the Constitution begins with those three words “we the people”? It was intended to be a powerful reminder that everything flows from the citizenry. We the people are the center of the government and the source of its power. That “we” is crucial because it reminds us that there is power and safety in numbers, provided we stand united. We can accomplish nothing alone. Unfortunately, we have been ousted from that protected circle, by the courts, the politicians, and the corporations – replacing us with yes-men, shills who dance to the tune of an elite ruling class. To put it a little more bluntly, stop thinking like mindless government robots and start acting like a powerhouse of citizens vested with the power to say “enough is enough.”
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H/t reader squodgy:
“Doh….like “THAT’S A SURPRISE”.
Surely as a close tie with Venezuela will show him, you just cannot trust America, both commercially and politically.
Just ask the Economic Hit Man.”
– Raul Castro: Cuba’s president accuses US of “illegally training” dissidents inside its diplomatic compound in Havana (Independent, May 12, 2015)
H/t reader squodgy:
“And now it starts. Free speech is now officially under scrutiny.”
– David Cameron to unveil new limits on extremists’ activities in Queen’s speech (Guardian, May 13, 2015)
“Greece tapped emergency reserves in its holding account at the IMF in order to make a 750 million euro payment to the Fund on Monday meaning that, as predicted, the IMF is now paying itself. Athens has one month to replenish the account. Meanwhile, the Fund has indicated it wants no part of another Greek bailout. And just to confirm how terminal the situation for Greece is, MarketNews just reported that Greece now has a paltry €90 million in cash reserves left. The end of the world’s most drawn out tragicomedy is finally nigh.”
– Greece Effectively Defaults To IMF Using SDR Reserves To “Repay” Fund; 1 Month Countdown Begins (ZeroHedge, May 12, 2015):
When Monday’s Eurogroup meeting concluded without an agreement between Greece and its creditors, it should have been game over for Athens. With pensioners at their breaking point and with local governments reluctant to comply with a decree mandating a sweep of excess cash reserves, the idea that Greece would somehow be able to scrape together €750 million euros to make a scheduled payment to the IMF today seemed far-fetched at best which is why we asked the following question Monday afternoon:>
H/t reader M.G.:
“Another interesting twist of events. Russia asked Greece to join their BRICS bank…….
That Greek port must be quite valuable…”
– Russia invites Greece to join BRICS bank (RT, May 12, 2015)
– War Threat Rises As Economy Declines (Paul Craig Roberts, May 11, 2015)
– How The US Military Is Paying NFL Teams Millions To “Honor the Troops” At Sporting Events (ZeroHedge, May 11, 2015):
Like everything else in America, faux patriotism is also for sale.
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H/t reader M.G.:
“Clinton’s view on the debacle of a trade deal is well established……she advocated and promoted it as Secretary of State…..
Now, she hides…..”
– On trade deal, Hillary Clinton keeps her distance from Obama and her past (Washington Post, May 12, 2015)
– White House Denies It Fabricated bin Laden Killing, Says Hersh Report “Riddled With Inaccuracies And Falsehoods” (ZeroHedge, May 11, 2015):
If anyone expected the Obama administration to admit that, as Seymour Hersch alleged last night, it had openly lied and fabricated the entire account of Osama bin Laden killing – perhaps the most defining narrative of Obama’s entire first term, we have some bad news: it won’t.
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“The White House’s story might have been written by Lewis Carroll: would bin Laden, target of a massive international manhunt, really decide that a resort town forty miles from Islamabad would be the safest place to live and command al-Qaida’s operations? It was inevitable that the Obama administration’s lies, misstatements and betrayals would create a backlash... High-level lying nevertheless remains the modus operandi of US policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, Special Forces night raids, bypassing the chain of command, and cutting out those who might say no.”
– Seymour Hersh
– Seymour Hersh: Obama’s Entire Account Of bin Laden’s Death Is One Big Lie; This Is What Really Happened (ZeroHedge, May 11, 2015):
The last time famed US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh made news in the global media was with his massive, 5000-word expose from December of 2013 “Whose sarin?” revealing the true motives behind the Syrian near-war of 2013 including what we had said from the very beginning: the very professionally created YouTube clips showing the consequences of what was said to have been an Assad poison gas attack, were nothing but a fake (subsequent reports identified the propaganda source as Rami Abdul Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, whose entire operation has been funded by an unidentified European country.)
H/t reader M.G.:
“More on the debacle of a trade deal.
– TPP, Fast Track, Will Drive Consumers to China for Affordable Medicines (Huffington Post, May 9, 2015)