Robot Kills Worker At Volkswagen Plant

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Internet goes mad as Sarah O’Connor tweets news about killer robot at VW plant

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Whoops……..what could possibly go wrong……….just went wrong……….”

Terminator

It begins…


Robot kills a man at Volkswagen plant (RT, July 2, 2015):

A machine on an assembly line grabbed a worker and thrust him against a metal slab, causing lethal injuries.

Robot Kills Worker At German Car Factory (Liberty Blitzkrieg, July 2,  2015):

 

Robot kills a man at Volkswagen plant

Here’s an interesting story I came across last night. From the Guardian:

A robot has killed a contractor at one of Volkswagen’s production plants in Germany, the automaker has said.

The man died on Monday at the plant in Baunatal, about 100km (62 miles) north of Frankfurt, VW spokesman Heiko Hillwig said.

The 22-year-old was part of a team that was setting up the stationary robot when it grabbed and crushed him against a metal plate, Hillwig said.

Read moreRobot Kills Worker At Volkswagen Plant

Goldman “Conspiracy Theory” Validated As ECB Expands QE Program

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Goldman “Conspiracy Theory” Validated As ECB Expands QE Program (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2015):

The ECB has expanded the list of SSA securities eligible for purchase under PSPP. The updated list includes: 

Read moreGoldman “Conspiracy Theory” Validated As ECB Expands QE Program

Report: FBI Agents Telling Friends & Family To ‘Avoid July 4 Celebrations’

And the FBI should know:

Video: “The FBI is Responsible for More Terrorism Plots In the United States Than Any Other Organization. More Than Al Qaeda, More Than Al Shabaab, More Than the Islamic State, More Than All Of Them Combined”

Terrorism Manufactured By The FBI (Video)


Report: FBI Agents Telling Friends & Family To ‘Avoid July 4 Celebrations’ (SHFTplan, July 1, 2015):

Following warnings by the federal government that terrorists may be planning to attack Independence Day events, FBI agents are reportedly telling friends and family members to avoid major July 4 celebrations.

Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft cites an “inside source” who told him that, “FBI agents are telling their friends and family members to avoid “official celebrations.”

Hoft also claims that the FBI has canceled vacation for all its agents for the duration of the weekend.

Read moreReport: FBI Agents Telling Friends & Family To ‘Avoid July 4 Celebrations’

Since 2007 The US Has Lost 1.4 Million Manufacturers, Gained 1.4 Million Waiters And Bartenders

Since 2007 The US Has Lost 1.4 Million Manufacturers, Gained 1.4 Million Waiters And Bartenders (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2015):

Presented without comment.

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* December 2007 is when, according to the NBER, the recession started. The same recession which also according to the NBER ended precisely 6 years ago.

 

Factory Orders Scream Recession: Annual Drop Biggest Since 2008

Factory Orders Scream Recession: Annual Drop Biggest Since 2008  (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2015):

This has never happened outside of recession… Year-over-year, factory orders dropped 6.3% (adjusted) but 8% non-adjusted, the most since the financial crisis. Against expectations of a 0.5% drop MoM, manufacturers saw new orders tumble 1.0% and previous months were revised dramatically lower. Factory orders has now missed 10 of the last 11 months.

 

Varoufakis Will Resign If Referendum Passes, Says Would Rather “Cut Off Arm” Than Sign

Varoufakis Will Resign If Referendum Passes, Says Would Rather “Cut Off Arm” Than Sign (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2015):

“With banks shuttered and Greece’s economy hobbled by capital controls, Varoufakis said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Athens that he would “rather cut my arm off” than sign a deal that fails to restructure Greece’s debt.”

New Study Finds GMO Corn Makes Rats Infertile

Aaaaaand how many more “NEW” studies do we need to end this madness once and for all?


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New Study Finds GMO Corn Makes Rats Infertile (Natural Society, July 1, 2015):

Unlike GM corn, non-GMO corn doesn’t cause sterility

Still think GMOs and their non-GMO counterparts are equivalent? Think again. Unlike GM corn, non-GMO corn doesn’t cause sterility. A new study released by Egyptian scientists found that rats fed a GMO diet suffer from infertility, among other health issues.

Researchers from the Food Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, have found that several unsavory changes occur when rats were fed GM corn.

Read moreNew Study Finds GMO Corn Makes Rats Infertile

Debt-Ridden Illinois Heading Toward State Government Shutdown

Debt-Ridden Illinois Heading Toward State Government Shutdown (Government Slave, July 2, 2015):

(Emily Richards)  Illinois is heading toward a state government shutdown after the legislature adjourned Tuesday without closing a $6.2 billion gap and passing a budget by the July 1 deadline.

Illinois currently has the largest deficit and lowest credit rating of any of the 50 states. According to the University of Illinois, its current annual deficit is $9 billion, which is projected to grow to $14 billion by FY 2026.

“We’ve got a mess,” Gov. Bruce Rauner told workers at the Illinois Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday. “It’s going to take a little while to fix. I hope we can get it fixed promptly.”

Read moreDebt-Ridden Illinois Heading Toward State Government Shutdown

Beauty in ruins: abandoned places in Europe and Asia – in pictures

H/t reader M.G.:

“I had to send you these pictures……Beauty in ruins, frozen in time…..I don’t know what to say, except they are Amazing! What a gift from the photographer.
I know you will appreciate them.”

Thank you for that.


Linnahall is a former concert hall in Tallinn, Estonia

Douglas DC-3 aircraft

More photos and description here:

Beauty in ruins: abandoned places in Europe and Asia – in pictures (Guardian, June 30, 2015)

‘Yankee go home!’ Hundreds stage anti-US protest in front of embassy in Kiev

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‘Yankee go home!’ Hundreds stage anti-US protest in front of embassy in Kiev (RT, July 1, 2015):

Demonstrators have gathered in front of the US embassy in Kiev to protest against what they call US meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs, including the military conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Several hundred protesters held a rally in front of the US embassy in Kiev on Wednesday, Ruptly reports. The demonstrators held placards with signs: “Shame on the US” and “Yankees go away from Ukraine.”

Some carried photos depicting the destruction and casualties in the country’s restive east, while others held signs reading “The blood of Donbass kids is on Obama’s hands.”

Read more‘Yankee go home!’ Hundreds stage anti-US protest in front of embassy in Kiev

The “Smartest Money” Is Liquidating Stocks At A Record Pace: “Selling Everything That’s Not Bolted Down”

The “Smartest Money” Is Liquidating Stocks At A Record Pace: “Selling Everything That’s Not Bolted Down” (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2015):

Buyout firms conducted 97 stock offerings in the second quarter, more than in any other three-month period. “It’s clear that we are currently in an environment of frothy valuations,” said Lise Buyer, founder of IPO advisory firm Class V Group. Her disturbing punchline: The insiders – those with the most knowledge – are finding this a very good time to take some money off the table. In an echo of Leon Black, Frank Maturo, vice chairman of equity capital markets at UBS AG, said, Private equity is selling everything that’s not bolted down.”

US Police More Concerned About “Anti-Government” Domestic Extremists Than Al-Qaeda, Study Finds

From the article:

The real enemy of the corrupt corporate state is none other than, “we the people.”


Study Shows U.S. Police Far More Concerned About “Anti-Government” Domestic Extremists than Al-Qaeda (Liberty Blitzkrieg, July 1, 2015):

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U.S. law enforcement agencies rank the threat of violence from anti-government  extremists higher than the threat from radicalized Muslims, according to a report released Thursday by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS).

The report, “Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat,” was based on survey research by Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and David Schanzer, director of TCTHS and associate professor of the practice at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.

The survey — conducted by the center with the Police Executive Research Forum — found that 74 percent of 382 law enforcement agencies rated anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction. By comparison, 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations as a Top 3 terrorist threat.

– From Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy

Since September 11, 2001, the frightened and emotionally pliable American public has gullibly relinquished its civil liberties and free heritage in order to allow the U.S. government to wage unaccountable and unconstitutional war again Al-Qaeda and radical Islamic terrorism across the world.

Read moreUS Police More Concerned About “Anti-Government” Domestic Extremists Than Al-Qaeda, Study Finds

EPA Forced to Study Impact of Atrazine and Glyphosate on US Endangered Species

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 – EPA Forced to Study Impact of Atrazine and Glyphosate on US Endangered Species (Sustainable Pulse, June 28, 2015):

The Environmental Protection Agency will analyze the impacts of atrazine and glyphosate — the two most commonly used pesticides in the United States — on 1,500 endangered plants and animals in the United States under the terms of a settlement reached today with the Center for Biological Diversity. The EPA will also analyze the impacts of propazine and simazine, two pesticides that are chemically similar to atrazine. It has committed to completing the assessments by June 2020.

“This settlement is the first step to reining in the widespread use of dangerous pesticides that are harming both wildlife and people,” said Brett Hartl, endangered species policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Atrazine, for instance, chemically castrates frogs even in tiny doses, is an endocrine disruptor, and likely causes birth defects in people. The EPA should have banned this years ago.”

Read moreEPA Forced to Study Impact of Atrazine and Glyphosate on US Endangered Species

Greens warn: German breast milk unsafe after Glyphosate findings

There is NO alternative to breast milk!


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Greens warn: German breast milk unsafe after Glyphosate findings (Feed The World, June 27, 2015):

The Green Party warned on Friday about the health risks of breast-feeding after traces of a substance found in weed-killer were found in breast milk.

Source: www.thelocal.de

The Green party made their warning after testing the breast milk of 16 women from a variety of German regions.

Traces of glyphosate, a chemical used in weed-killers, amounting to between 0.210 and 0.432 nanograms per mililitre (PPB) were recorded.

For breast milk testing results for Glyphosate from the U.S. in 2014 click here

In drinking water a quantity of no more than 0.100 nanograms of the substance is allowed.

Read moreGreens warn: German breast milk unsafe after Glyphosate findings

China Crash Accelerates, Drags Composite Under 4000; US Futures Flat Ahead Of Nonfarm Payrolls

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China Crash Accelerates, Drags Composite Under 4000; US Futures Flat Ahead Of Nonfarm Payrolls (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2015):#

If it was Greece’s intention to crush the Chinese stock market instead of Europe’s, well – it succeeded.  Because despite the PBOC and politburo throwing everything but QE at the stock market, China stocks closed down sharply on Thursday after another wild trading day as investors shrugged off regulators’ intensified efforts to put a floor under the sliding market, by cutting trading fees and easing margin rules, which has now crashed 25% in about two weeks wiping out $2.5 trillion of the peak $10 trillion in Chinese stock market cap as of June 14. This ultimately resulted with the Shanghai Composite closing under 4000 for the first time since April.

Cameron warns of ‘terrible’ ISIL attack on Britain

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Cameron warns of ‘terrible’ ISIL attack on Britain (PressTV, June 29, 2015):

British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of “terrible” attacks on the UK and the West by militants from the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.

“There are people in Iraq and Syria who are plotting to carry out terrible acts in Britain and elsewhere and as long as ISIL exists in those two countries, we are at threat,” Cameron told the state-run BBC.

“It is an existential threat because what is happening here is the perversion of a great religion and the creation of this poisonous death cult is seducing too many young minds,” Cameron added.

Read moreCameron warns of ‘terrible’ ISIL attack on Britain

With Sweden’s QE Officially Broken, The Riksbank Doubles Down: Lowers Rates Even More Negative; Boosts QE

With Sweden’s QE Officially Broken, The Riksbank Doubles Down: Lowers Rates Even More Negative; Boosts QE (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2015):

Overnight the Riksbank confirmed that it neither learns from its own mistakes, nor reads BIS reports when at 9:30 CET, it shocked central bank watcher all of whom were expecting no rate change from the bank, and announced it is not only engaging in yet another rate cut, taking the key rate even further into record NIRP territory, from -0.25% to -0.35% but adding insult to broken QE injury, it would expand its QE by a further SEK 45 billion starting in September. The reason? Sweden is realizing it is losing the currency war (to a great extent due to its failed QE which is pushing bond yields higher and with it, its currency) and it needs to soak up even more collateral… which can barely be found.

Train Carrying Toxic Gas Derails In Tennessee, Catches Fire; Thousands Evacuated

Train Carrying Toxic Gas Derails In Tennessee, Catches Fire; Thousands Evacuated (ZeroHedge, July 2, 2015):

Remember when oil pipelines were at risk of spilling and as a result the progressive movement decided it would be far safer to transport US oil by train, because supposedly trains are so much safer for the environment, only to lead to a record surge in oil-carrying train accidents and derailments? Well, not even the most hardline of environment-friendlies could have anticipated what happened overnight in Blount County, Tennessee after a freight train derailed carrying flammable and poisonous material caught on fire on Wednesday night, leading to the evacuation of as many as 5000 residents from their homes.

GMO Wheat Trial Failure Puts Global Biotech Industry in Spotlight

Rothamsted GM Wheat Trial Failure Puts Global Biotech Industry in Spotlight (Sustainable Pulse, June 25, 2015):

GeneWatch UK today responded to Rothamsted Research’s admission that its field trial of GM wheat failed to repel aphids by highlighting the shocking waste of taxpayers’ money used to promote GM.

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“With GM crops it’s always jam tomorrow and never jam today” said Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch UK, “We have had more than 30 years’ of promises of useful traits but they have not been delivered, despite massive promotion of GM technology by governments and PR companies. There is a big opportunity cost because billions in R&D funding could have been spent in better ways. GM has consistently been shown to be a distraction away from developing real solutions to real problems”.

Read moreGMO Wheat Trial Failure Puts Global Biotech Industry in Spotlight

The Powerful Aspirin Alternative That Grows On Trees

Willow bark:

The bark of white willow contains salicin, which is a chemical similar to aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid). In combination with the herb’s powerful anti-inflammatory plant compounds (called flavonoids), salicin is thought to be responsible for the pain-relieving and anti-inflammatory effects of the herb. In fact, in the 1800s, salicin was used to develop aspirin. White willow appears to bring pain relief more slowly than aspirin, but its effects last longer.

Once you have successfully detoxified your body, headaches will be virtually non-existent and migraine will no longer bother you.


The Powerful Aspirin Alternative That Grows On Trees (GreenMedInfo, Dec 30, 2014):

Aspirin’s long held promises are increasingly falling flat. A natural, safer and more effective alternative to this synthetic drug has been known about for at least 15 years!

In a previous article titled “The Evidence Against Aspirin and For Natural Alternatives,” we discussed the clear and present danger linked with the use of aspirin as well as several clinically proven alternatives that feature significant side benefits as opposed to aspirin’s many known side effects.

Since writing this article, even more evidence has accumulated indicating that aspirin’s risks outweigh its benefits. Most notably, a 15-year Dutch study published in the journal Heart found that among 27,939 healthy female health professionals (average age 54) randomized to receive either 100 mg of aspirin every day or a placebo the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding outweighed the benefit of the intervention for colorectal cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention in those under 65 years of age.

Read moreThe Powerful Aspirin Alternative That Grows On Trees

These 3 Countries Worry Corporate America the Most

H/t reader squodgy:

“Looking at these figures merely confirms the economic slump we’re all in.
Nobody wants anything because they’re correctly prioritising.
Low demand = reduced prices, low commodity prices, suppressed wages and on and on and on.

The timing is perfect for an economic collapse, but the war hasn’t been declared yet to hide the reality in the matrix of bullshit.”


These 3 Countries Worry Corporate America the Most (Wolf Street, June 26, 2015):

So how much exactly are the largest US corporations, those in the S&P 500, worried about Greece? The horrific damage that a Grexit might do to the EU economy, global financial markets, the euro, and even, it seems, the survival of the species?

You’d think they’d be quaking in their boots, given the mutual extortion racket carried out via the media through leaks, rumors, and contradictory announcements. You’d think they’d be fretting over every final-final-final-last-chance-deadline for Greece to accept the fine print that comes with more money that will eventually be extracted from strung-out taxpayers in other countries. You’d think US corporations, at a minimum, would start blaming Greece and its side effects for things gone wrong. So…

Read moreThese 3 Countries Worry Corporate America the Most

Gold & Silver Smashdown – Mining Industry Collapse

H/t reader squodgy:

“Interesting that the actual paper Gold &Silver is being suppressed while it looks like hard metal prices are hardened slightly higher.

This renders the mining industry as marginal at best and a total rock bottom liability at worst, pointing to cheap sell offs for the benefit of the moneyed few who can then mothball them causing the price hike they can benefit from.”

With the price for an ounce of silver being below the cost of production, how can silver not be called a bargain?


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Gold & Silver Smashdown – Mining Industry Collapse (Level9News, April 29, 2015):

As we’ve seen the price of gold and silver smashed down in order to drive people out of their physical and paper holdings, we are seeing a buying frenzy towards the acquisitions of physical gold and silver, not only by private investors and individuals, but a massive push towards acquisition by leading BRICS nations while simultaneously dumping US Treasuries. This is creating, or at least we are being told, a physical shortage of these metals in the market.

There appears to be an orchestrated attempt to relieve private holders of their gold and silver physical and paper assets at the focal point of the power centralization structure to consolidate these holdings in the hands of the few elite who are manipulating the markets.

Read moreGold & Silver Smashdown – Mining Industry Collapse

Internet goes mad as Sarah O’Connor tweets news about killer robot at VW plant

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Internet goes mad as Sarah O’Connor tweets news about killer robot at VW plant (RT, July 2, 2015):

When a German VW robot killed a car worker in a tragic accident, “Terminator” devotees began to wonder if the machines were really taking over. The paranoia grew when the reporter tweeting the news was Sarah Connor – sorry, Sarah O’Connor of the FT.

The Twitter frenzy started when Sarah O’Connor, employment correspondent at the Financial Times, tweeted the news of a robot killing a human being. The similarity of her name to that of the character Sarah Connor, played by Linda Hamilton in the original Terminator movie, wasn’t lost on the fans.

The real-life tragedy occurred at a plant belonging to German automaker Volkswagen (VW) in Baunatal, on Monday, where robot’s manipulator grabbed a maintenance worker and thrust him against a metal slab, causing fatal injuries.

Read moreInternet goes mad as Sarah O’Connor tweets news about killer robot at VW plant