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Another JPMorgan Banker Dies After Murder-Suicide: Chokes Wife, Stabs Himself To Death With A Knife

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– Another JPMorgan Banker Dies After Murder-Suicide: Chokes Wife, Stabs Himself To Death (ZeroHedge, Feb 9, 2015):

By now, there have been so many banker-related suicides that it has become a moot point of i) tracking them all or ii) trying to find a pattern. And yet, one name continues to stand out: JPMorgan. The bank which has been most prominent among the list of “suicided” bankers notched one more casualty over the weekend when “a JPMorgan Chase & Co. employee strangled and stabbed his wife to death before turning the knife on himself, according to police who are treating the couple’s death in Bergen County, New Jersey as a murder-suicide.”

Bloomberg reports the gruesome details according to which Michael A. Tabacchi, 27, and his wife, Iran Pars Tabacchi, 41, were found dead Friday about 11:30 p.m. in the bedroom of their Closter home after a 911 call placed by the husband’s father, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said in an interview. Closter is located in northern New Jersey, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from midtown Manhattan.

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It wasn’t a nail-gun this time. It was a knife:

Autopsy results on Sunday showed the wife died of strangulation and a stab wound to the chest while Michael Tabacchi died from a single self-inflicted stab to the chest, he said.

Read moreAnother JPMorgan Banker Dies After Murder-Suicide: Chokes Wife, Stabs Himself To Death With A Knife

National media wages psychological terror campaign against Americans to set stage for government destruction of medical choice

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– Ron Paul: “… The Republic Is No More. We Now Live In A Police State”

– National media wages psychological terror campaign against Americans to set stage for government destruction of medical choice (Natural News, Feb 7, 2015):

Following the staged terror attacks of 9/11, the national media whipped up the public’s anger and hatred against “terrorists” with a relentless psychological campaign of “news terror” against American citizens. This anger and hatred, of course, was necessary to garner public support for passage of the Patriot Act, arguably the most freedom-crushing piece of legislation ever signed into law in America.

It is under the Patriot Act that animal rights activists are now arrested and charged as “domestic terrorists.” It’s the Patriot Act that gave the FBI and NSA the authority to surveil all Americans’ phone calls, emails and web surfing behavior. The Patriot Act was claimed to be a weapon of law enforcement against evil terrorists, but just as many of us warned would happen, it was very quickly turned against the American people who are its main target today.

Read moreNational media wages psychological terror campaign against Americans to set stage for government destruction of medical choice

Over Half Of Young American Adults Live With Their Parents In These 12 States

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– Over Half Of Young American Adults Live With Their Parents In These 12 States (ZeroHedge, Jan 8, 2015):

In 12 U.S. states, over half of 25-year-olds lived with their parents in 2012-13.  The states: York are: New York, New Jersey, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Washington D.C.

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PM Alexis Tsipras Rejects EU Ultimatum, Demands Bridge Deal: ‘Greeks Can’t Take More Disappointment’

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–  Tsipras Rejects EU Ultimatum, Demands Bridge Deal: “Greeks Can’t Take More Disappointment” (ZeroHedge, Feb 8, 2015):

Speaking defiant tone on Sunday evening, Greece’s new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras showed no signs of backing away from the commitments and pledges he and his party made to the Greek people (and that so many staunch status-quo huggers believe he will back down from). Raging that Greece “won’t take orders by email” any more, Tsipras warned “Greeks can’t take any more disappointment, ” and pointedly stated that Syriza “will make Greece economically autonomous,” in about as strong a rejection of the EU’s ultimatum as is possible by not requesting a bailout extension and exclaiming unequivocally, “we will keep our pre-election promises. This is non-negotiable.” This is not just a Greek crisis but a European crisis “and the solution will be European.”

  • *TSIPRAS SAYS WILL BREAK OLIGARCHS’ HOLD OF POWER IN GREECE

His speech began aggressively:

Read morePM Alexis Tsipras Rejects EU Ultimatum, Demands Bridge Deal: ‘Greeks Can’t Take More Disappointment’

Rope Used To Hang Saddam Hussein On Sale For $7 MILLION

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– Rope used to hang Saddam Hussein on sale for $7mn (RT, Feb 8, 2015):

A piece of the rope that was used to execute former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein has been put up for auction with the latest bid standing at $7 million.

The current owner of the morbid object is Iraqi politician Dr. Mawaffak al-Rubaie, who led the dictator to his death.
Numerous people, including a rich Israeli family, a religious organization in Iran and two Kuwaiti businessmen have expressed a serious interest in buying it, Middle East news website, Al-Araby al-Jadeed, reported.

However, another current affairs website, Middle East Eye, says that Dr. Al-Rubaie wants more cash than the $7 million offered so-far.

Read moreRope Used To Hang Saddam Hussein On Sale For $7 MILLION

The End Of The American Dream (In 1 Uncomfortable Chart)

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– The End Of The American Dream (In 1 Uncomfortable Chart) (ZeroHedge, Feb 7, 2015):

The dream of life in the vassal state formerly known as America is fading fast. As The Bureau of Labor & Statistics (BLS) reported yesterday, there has never been a lower percentage of American men in the workforce. What is even more stunning – given the daily avalanche of “buy-and-hold” for a “safe-retirement” holding hands with your loved on as you stroll the beach at sunset – the percent of Americans aged 65 years or older has lamost doubled in the last 30 years and is near its highest since the mid ’60s.

So much for that dream retirement…

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And a close-up of the decoupling…

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Presstitute Brian Williams’ Lie: The Bigger Picture

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– Brian Williams Says “He’s Too Much Part Of The News” – Takes Himself Off Daily Broadcast

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– Brian Williams’ Lie: The Bigger Picture (ZeroHedge, Feb 7, 2015):

What should we make of Brian Williams’ admission that he lied about his helicopter being forced down in Iraq?

Initially, he may have lied about other things, as well.

But there’s a bigger story here …

Mainstream reporters are ALWAYS pro-war, acting as cheerleaders for the military-industrial complex and propagandists for the government.

Christian Christensen writes today:

Read morePresstitute Brian Williams’ Lie: The Bigger Picture

How Vaccine Hysteria Could Spark A Totalitarian Nightmare

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– How Vaccine Hysteria Could Spark A Totalitarian Nightmare (Zerohedge, Jan 6, 2015):

Authored by Lee Hieb, M.D., originally published at World Net Daily, via Alt-Market blog,

Gov. Chris Christie has been vilified for making a very simple statement – that parents (and presumably patients themselves) should have the freedom to choose whether to vaccinate their children. I have been asked for years what I thought about vaccination, so let me lay out the issues.

Before getting into the science, lets discuss the philosophy:

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A Very Disturbing and Powerful Post – “Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook”

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– A Very Disturbing and Powerful Post – “Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook” (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Feb 5, 2015):

“Oh yeah, I’ve been meaning to ask you why you’re getting off Facebook,” is the guilty and reluctant question I’m hearing a lot these days. Like we kinda know Facebook is bad, but don’t really want to know.

I’ve been a big Facebook supporter – one of the first users in my social group who championed what a great way it was to stay in touch, way back in 2006. I got my mum and brothers on it, and around 20 other people. I’ve even taught Facebook marketing in one of the UK’s biggest tech education projects, Digital Business Academy. I’m a techie and a marketer — so I can see the implications — and until now, they hadn’t worried me. I’ve been pretty dismissive towards people who hesitate with privacy concerns.

With this latest privacy change on January 30th, I’m scared.

– From Salim Varani’s blogpost: Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook

I never heard of Salim Varani before today, but when I came across his blogpost “Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook,” it immediately piqued my interest given my less than positive feelings toward the company. It took on an even greater degree of importance in my mind considering that I had just finished reading what appeared to be a Facebook puff piece at Fusion.net about how the company, guided by “privacy sherpa” Yul Kwon, was suddenly making user privacy a core focus. It read like a PR release. Here are a few excerpts:

Read moreA Very Disturbing and Powerful Post – “Get Your Loved Ones Off Facebook”

Greeks take to the streets to support government’s anti-austerity stance

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People gather for a pro-government rally outside the Greek parliament in Athens February 5, 2015
People gather for a pro-government rally outside the Greek parliament in Athens February 5, 2015. (Reuters/Kostas Tsironis)

– Greeks take to the streets to support government’s anti-austerity stance (RT, Feb 6, 2015):

Thousands have attended a pro-government rally in Athens to demonstrate their opposition to anti-austerity measures. The meeting passed off peacefully, and the public gave a collective thumbs-up to the newly elected Greek government.

Police estimated the gathering on Syntagma Square outside the country’s parliament at around 5,000. No unrest was reported, which was in stark contrast to 2012, when violent protests erupted at the height of the Greek economic crisis.

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An Uninvited Guest’s Speech At The UK Arms Industry’s Annual Dinner (Video)

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The UK arms industry’s Annual Dinner took place on 3rd February 2015 at the London Hilton on Park Lane. The £246-a-head banquet was attended by arms industry executives and more than 40 MPs.

This industry, which profits from selling arms to repressive regimes and conflict zones including Saudi Arabia, Israel and Bahrain, is supported and subsidised by the UK government.

Activists from Campaign Against Arms Trade were there to greet the arriving arms dealers and deliver an impromptu speech asking them to reconsider their choice of career…

Biggest Short Squeeze Since 2011 Sends Stocks Surging, USDollar Purging — The Death Cross Of American Society

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– Biggest Short Squeeze Since 2011 Sends Stocks Surging, USDollar Purging (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015)

– The Death Cross Of American Society (ZeroHedge, Feb 5, 2015):

Presented with little comment aside to ask (rhetorically of course), who is The Fed working for?

Wall Street vs Main Street

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As BofAML warns, if Main St. doesn’t recover this year on the back of the powerful cyclical combo of lower oil/rates/currencies then the specter of “policy failure” will haunt investors, and currency wars, debt default and deficit financing will become macro realities.

 

 

Venezuela Runs Out Of Condoms: A Pack Now Costs $755 (If You Can Find It)

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– Venezuela Runs Out Of Condoms: A Pack Now Costs $755 (If You Can Find It) (ZeroHedge, Feb 4, 2015):

Over the years we have had our fair share at the epic social(ist) experiment that is Venezuela. Below is a random selection of stories over the past years or two, which truly capture the essence of Venezuela’s socialist revolution:

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Unfortunately, the country whose president two weeks ago said that “Venezuela Must Deepen Socialism To Improve Economy“, which is the political equivalent of “we must do even more QE to fix record wealth inequality”, may have just hit rock bottom when Venezuelans, who already must line up for hours to buy the simplest of daily necessities (which they can obtain without being arrested in the process if they are lucky) now have to pay $755 for a pack of condoms.

“The country is so messed up that now we have to wait in line even to have sex,” lamented Jonatan Montilla, a 31-year-old advertising company art director. “This is a new low.”

Read moreVenezuela Runs Out Of Condoms: A Pack Now Costs $755 (If You Can Find It)

‘Awe-inspiring’ FCC internet protections could alter landscape for net neutrality

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– ‘Awe-inspiring’ FCC internet protections could alter landscape for net neutrality (The Guardian, Feb 4, 2015):

Tom Wheeler pens op-ed in Wired magazine to declare support for ‘strongest open internet protections ever’ in what could be titanic shift on hot-button issue

Proposing a titanic legislative shift on net neutrality after a years-long push from internet activists, the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is preparing to push through “the strongest open internet protections ever”.

“The internet must be fast, fair and open. That is the message I’ve heard from consumers and innovators across this nation,” FCC chair Tom Wheeler wrote in an editorial for Wired magazine published on Wednesday. “The proposal I present to the commission will ensure the internet remains open, now and in the future, for all Americans.”

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Little Oligarch Gone Wild – Paris Hilton’s Brother Yells: “I Will F*cking Own Anyone on This Flight; They Are F*cking Peasants”

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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

– Little Oligarch Gone Wild – Paris Hilton’s Brother Yells: “I Will F*cking Own Anyone on This Flight; They Are F*cking Peasants” (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Feb 3, 2015)

“If you wanna square up to me bro, then bring it and I will f*cking fight you,” he allegedly said as well as, “I am going to  f*cking kill you. I will f*cking rip through you,” and “I will f*cking own anyone on this flight; they are f*cking peasants.”

“I could get you all fired in 5 minutes,” he reportedly said while grabbing a flight attendant’s shirt at one point during the incident. “I know your boss! My father will pay this out. He has done it before. Dad paid $300k last time.”

– Conrad Hilton on an international flight

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Gallup CEO: ‘America’s 5.6% Unempoyment Is One Big Lie’

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– Gallup CEO: “America’s 5.6% Unempoyment Is One Big Lie” (ZeroHedge, Feb 3, 2015):

The biggest threat to a corrupt regime is when truth moves away from the “conspiracy theory” fringes and into the mainstream. Which is why we thank Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO of Gallup, for daring to tell the truth to those who care to listen.

Posted first on LinkedIn

The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment

Here’s something that many Americans — including some of the smartest and most educated among us — don’t know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.

Read moreGallup CEO: ‘America’s 5.6% Unempoyment Is One Big Lie’

Meet The 77th Battalion – The British Army Is Mobilizing 1,500 ‘Facebook Warriors’ To Spread Disinformation

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–Did CIA Director William Casey Really Say ‘We’ll Know Our Disinformation Program Is Complete When Everything the American Public Believes Is False’?

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– Meet the 77th Battalion – The British Army is Mobilizing 1,500 “Facebook Warriors” to Spread Disinformation (Liberty Blitzkrieg, Feb 2, 2015):

The British Army will revive one of the most contentious special forces units of the second world war, the Chindits, as a new generation of “Facebook” warriors who will wage complex and covert information and subversion campaigns.

– From the recent FT article: Army Revives Chindits as ‘Facebook Warriors’ for Smart Battle

Get ready, social media is about to get far more treacherous than it already is. Be extra careful jumping to conclusions, always think for yourself and use your best judgement. Government psy ops are about to go into overdrive.

Gizmodo reported the following:

A new group of soldiers, referred to as “Facebook Warriors” will ” wage complex and covert information and subversion campaigns,” according to the Financial Times. This unit will be named the 77th battalion, whose number also has a historical significance. FT says:

Read moreMeet The 77th Battalion – The British Army Is Mobilizing 1,500 ‘Facebook Warriors’ To Spread Disinformation

Disgraced Jewish ex-IMF chief goes on trial for ‘pimping’

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Where does he get his libido from….do they sell it or is it just viagra?”

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– Disgraced Jewish ex-IMF chief goes on trial for ‘pimping’ (The Ugly Truth, Feb 2, 2015):

Once considered a likely candidate for French president, Dominique Strauss-Kahn in court over alleged prostitution ring

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The sexual proclivities of ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn come under the spotlight again Monday when he goes on trial in France for “pimping” four years after a sex scandal cost him a shot at the presidency.

The disgraced 65-year-old economist finds himself back in the dock — this time in the northern French city of Lille — accused of being part of a prostitution ring used by his entourage to organize sex parties for him in Brussels, Paris and Washington.

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New Jersey Teenagers Just Learned What Happens When You Start A Business In America

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– Teenagers just learned what happens when you start a business in America (Sovereign Man, Feb 2, 2015):

When I was a teenager, it was pretty common for young people in my lower-middle class neighborhood to find work.

I was a waiter myself… though probably one of the worst in history, as I may still hold the record at Tippin’s Restaurant and Pie Pantry for the most cups of coffee spilled on patrons.

A lot of other kids would do odd jobs like cutting the grass and whatnot. And some of them were pretty successful at it.

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Alaska community officer accused of Tasering 2 young kids because they asked him to

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– Alaska community officer accused of Tasering 2 young kids because they asked him to (RT, Jan 31, 2015):

Alaska State Troopers are investigating allegations that a Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO) used a stun gun or Taser on two young boys after they asked the officer to do so.

The mother of one of the boys, Terry Ward, said the incident occurred last December when a group of about eight or 10 children were getting ready to play a game of kickball outside the Boys and Girls Club in Kake, Alaska, local media reported.

The club is situated next to the VPSO office. When one of the officers walked by the boys, Ward’s 11-year-old son and one of his friends reportedly asked the policeman to use his Taser on them.

Read moreAlaska community officer accused of Tasering 2 young kids because they asked him to

Sweden: Office Puts RFID Chips Under Staff’s Skin

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– Office puts chips under staff’s skin (BBC News, Jan 29, 2015):

Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We’re all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach – a chip under the skin.

Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier.

That’s all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they’re promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand.

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