Extensive Cell Phone Use Can Triple Brain Cancer Risk

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– Extensive cell phone use can triple brain cancer risk (Natural News, May 17, 2014):

Questions continue to arise about cell phones and their contribution to certain cancers. Even the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has raised some concern about extensive cell phone use. The NCI explains that cell phones emit radio frequency energy in the form of non-ionizing radiation. In other words, a cell phone basically lets off radio waves which are absorbed by the nearest tissues of the body. If a person carries a phone in their pocket all day long, energy can be absorbed into the person’s side and midsection.

How does this energy affect the cells over time?

Does this constant exposure disrupt cellular processes, especially when held up to the brain?

Read moreExtensive Cell Phone Use Can Triple Brain Cancer Risk

U.S. N.Y. Occupy Wall Street Activist Faces 7 Years In Prison

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N.Y. Occupy Wall Street activist faces 7 years in prison
Cecily McMillan shows the hand-shaped bruise on her right breast, which she testified was made by NYPD Officer Grantley Bovell when he accosted her from behind.
Justice for Cecily

– N.Y. Occupy Wall Street activist faces 7 years in prison (Al Jazeera, May 18, 2014):

An Occupy Wall Street protester could be sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday after being convicted of second-degree assault against a New York City police officer. Cecily McMillan maintains she elbowed NYPD Officer Grantley Bovell in the eye in a reflexive reaction to having her breast grabbed.

McMillan, 25, said Bovell grabbed her right breast from behind as he led her out of Zuccotti Park on March 17, 2012, a charge Bovell denies. Her legal team has vowed to appeal her conviction.

“As soon as the sentence is imposed, we plan to appeal,” said Martin Stolar, McMillan’s attorney. “The appellate process takes some time, but that’s certainly something we plan to pursue. There are number of questions, a number of legal errors that we think the judge made.”

The NYPD did not return calls to Al Jazeera, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office declined to comment.

A jury of eight women and four men convicted McMillan on May 5. Barred from conducting research during the four week trial, some of the jurors have since said publicly that they were “shocked” to learn the felony conviction carries a two-to-seven-year prison sentence. Nine of the jurors have since written to Justice Ronald Zweibel and asked for leniency in her sentencing.

Read moreU.S. N.Y. Occupy Wall Street Activist Faces 7 Years In Prison

Russia Dumping US Treasuries? But Why the Heck in Belgium?

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– Russia Dumping US Treasuries? But Why the Heck in Belgium? (Testosterone Pit, May 15, 2014):

Belgium is known for its surprises. For example, it got by amazingly well for a couple of years without a national government, and without breaking apart, to the endless chagrin of a lot of people. And it has a great variety of delicious beers, which I amply tested during the three years I was there. But now, that tiny country with a tiny economy is suddenly piling up a mountain of US Treasuries.

In March, according to new data from the US Treasury Department, it added another $40.2 billion to its existing mountain of Treasuries, now at the dizzying height of $381.4 billion, or 79% of GDP!

It put the country in third place, behind the second and third largest economies in the world, export machine China ($1.27 trillion) and former export machine, now money-printer Japan ($1.20 trillion). From August last year, Treasury holdings in Belgium have ballooned by 129%!

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What the heck is going on?

Read moreRussia Dumping US Treasuries? But Why the Heck in Belgium?

Record Balkan floods: Over 20 Killed, Tens Of Thousands Forced To Flee (PHOTOS) – Serbia’s PM: ‘This Is The Greatest Flooding Disaster Ever’

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– Record Balkan floods: Over 20 killed, tens of thousands forced to flee (PHOTOS) (RT, May 17, 2014):

More than 20 people have been killed in what has been branded the worst flooding on record across the Balkans. Tens of thousands have been evacuated and 250,000 homes are without power.

The death toll has reached 19 in Bosnia alone, including nine people found on Saturday when waters receded from the northeastern town of Doboj, Reuters reported. Authorities have warned that more bodies could emerge as waters recede in dozens of cities flooded over the past three days. Serbia has seen eight deaths, AP reported.

“This is the greatest flooding disaster ever. Not just in the past 100 years; this has never happened in Serbia’s history,” Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told a news conference on Thursday.

“More rain fell in one day than in four months,” he added.

Read moreRecord Balkan floods: Over 20 Killed, Tens Of Thousands Forced To Flee (PHOTOS) – Serbia’s PM: ‘This Is The Greatest Flooding Disaster Ever’

NATO Chief ‘No Longer Trusts’ Russia After Ukraine

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Trust us …

– Russia’s Ambassador To The UN: US Behind Ukraine Crisis After Investing $5 BILLION In ‘Regime Change’

– ‘Fuck The EU’ Victoria Nuland Says US Spent $5 BILLION To Back ‘DEMOCRACY’ In Ukraine

– German Press Reports: 400 Blackwater Mercenaries Deployed In Ukraine Against Separatists

– U.S. State Department Confirms Authenticity Of Intercepted Ukraine ‘FUCK THE EU’ Phone Call, Accuses Russia Of Dirty Tricks

– Washington Orchestrated Protests, ‘Invested’ $5 Billion To Destabilize Ukraine

 – Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: US, EU Paying Ukrainian Rioters, Protesters

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– NATO chief ‘no longer trusts’ Russia after Ukraine (PressTV,  May 17, 2014):

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said he could no longer trust Russia’s assurances on the territorial integrity of nations in the region after developments in Ukraine.

Rasmussen made the comments at a press conference on Friday during an official visit to an alliance member, Romania, which shares borders with Ukraine.

“After what we have seen in Ukraine, no one can trust Russia’s so-called guarantees on other countries’ sovereignty and territorial integrity,” said Rasmussen.

The NATO chief also said in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine the alliance has reinforced the collective defense of its members and “will not hesitate to take further steps” in that respect “if needed.”

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Spot The Difference: Brazil’s World Cup Security Edition

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– Spot The Difference: Brazil’s World Cup Security Edition (ZeroHedge, may 17, 2014):

There are a few images that scream to mind when one thinks about Brazil – dazzling soccer footskills, illustrious dancing, and of course dark-skinned, scantily-clad females… but as The World Cup draws near for the soccer-savvy nation, there will be another image that will likely dominate the headlines…

Left: Gratuitous “Brazil” soccer-playing bikini-wearing woman

Middle: World Cup secuirty “Protective Equipment” that will be worn by Brazil’s Major Events Police Battalion

Right: Robocop

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As The National Interest reports,

Members of a special unit set up for the tournament and the 2016 Olympics in Rio have been given 200 sets of the 22lb “RoboCop” protective equipment, which is flame resistant to up to 427C.

It includes a helmet and vest that protects the back, chest and shoulders, plastic shin pads, a pepper spray mask and a belt for a.40 calibre pistol, stun gun, handcuffs and baton.

Read moreSpot The Difference: Brazil’s World Cup Security Edition

Vladimir Putin Tells Crimea’s Tatars Their Future Lies With Russia

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– Vladimir Putin tells Crimea’s Tatars their future lies with Russia (Guardian, May 17, 2014):

UN warns Muslim minority has suffered harassment and persecution since peninsula was annexed from Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has told Crimea’s Tatars that they must accept that their future lies with Russia, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of their mass deportation from their ancestral homeland.

Putin’s comments came as the UN warned that the Tatars have been the subject of harassment and persecution since the Black Sea peninsula was annexed from Ukraine in March.

Speaking after meeting Tatar representatives, Putin said: “Today we must all realise that the interests of the Crimean Tatars today are tied to Russia.”

He said: “We are ready to work with all people” but added: “None of us can allow the Crimean Tatar people to become a bargaining chip in disputes … especially in disputes between Russia and Ukraine.”

Read moreVladimir Putin Tells Crimea’s Tatars Their Future Lies With Russia

650 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed, Wounded In Course Of Special Operation – Slavyansk ‘People’s Mayor’

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– 650 Ukrainian soldiers killed, wounded in course of special operation – Slavyansk ‘people’s mayor’ (Voice of Russia, May 17, 2014):

“People’s mayor” of Slavyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, has said that law enforcement forces controlled by Kiev suffered severe losses during special operations in the South-East of Ukraine: according to his data, in just ten days, 650 people were killed or wounded, as stated in a message to RIA Novosti.

“The total losses of the punitive fascist Kiev junta during May 2 -12, 2014, amount to 650 killed and wounded, among whom are 285 Right Sector extremists, who joined the National Guard, 120 Ukrainian mercenaries <…>, 90 employees of the Security Service of Ukraine <…>, 70 foreign mercenaries,” said Ponomarev, whose speech was posted on the Internet by the press service of the DPR.

Read more650 Ukrainian Soldiers Killed, Wounded In Course Of Special Operation – Slavyansk ‘People’s Mayor’

Residents Shocked By National Guard Militants’ Rampage In Lugansk Region

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– Residents shocked by National Guard militants’ rampage in Lugansk region (Voice of Russia, May 16, 2014):

Militants of Ukraine’s National Guard have arrested federalization activists in the towns of Starobelsk and Markovka in the eastern Lugansk region. Eye-witnesses say the militants rob civilians and maltreat elderly people.

“In Starobelsk, National Guard militants behave in Makhno style, bursting into homes, seizing money and cars and doing nasty things to veterans of the Great Patriotic War, while keeping them at gunpoint,” an Interfax correspondent reports, quoting Alexei Pronichev, a resident of Starobelsk.

Read moreResidents Shocked By National Guard Militants’ Rampage In Lugansk Region

Donetsk Volunteer Guards Take Control Of Regional Headquarters Of National Guards

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– Donetsk volunteer guards take control of regional headquarters of National Guards (ITAR-TASS, May 17, 2014):

DONETSK, May 16 /ITAR-TASS/. Voluntary guards of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has taken control of the headquarters of the Eastern unit of Ukraine’s National Guards, a spokesman for the Donetsk People’s Republic told Itar-Tass over the phone late on Friday.

“They took the building of army unit 3037 in Donetsk,” the spokesman said.

Read moreDonetsk Volunteer Guards Take Control Of Regional Headquarters Of National Guards

Russian Anti-GMO Activists Raise Funds For ‘FIRST-EVER’ Independent International Research

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– Russian anti-GMO activists raise funds for ‘first-ever’ independent intl research (RT, May 17, 2014):

As Russian MPs ponder over a draft bill that could see GMOs outlawed, the country’s chief genetic safety activist tells RT she is skeptical about the legislative initiative and urges ‘long-overdue’ independent international research.

GMO production and distribution is likened to terrorism by the authors of a draft bill submitted to the Russian parliament earlier this week. It’s not the first comparison of the kind, according to Elena Sharoykina, director of the Genetic Safety Public Association (GSPA), a 10-year-old NGO in Moscow, Russia’s major campaigner for GM-free food and agriculture.

In an interview to RT, Sharoykina recalled a statement made by the NATO Committee on the Challenges to Modern Society in the Belgian city of Liege in 2004, in which it warned that GMOs may be used as a genetic weapon.

“If serious international experts on security who have close ties with the scientific community say this is possible then there’s no smoke without fire,” Sharoykina said.

Read moreRussian Anti-GMO Activists Raise Funds For ‘FIRST-EVER’ Independent International Research

The FCC Issues Its Proposal On Net Neutrality As Protesters Are Tossed From Hearing

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– The FCC Issues its Proposal on Net Neutrality as Protesters Are Tossed from Hearing (Liberty Blitzkrieg, May 16, 2014):

As spring unfolds here in the Northern Hemisphere, the future of the free and open Internet hangs in the balance. As such, I strongly believe everyone should have at least some understanding of what is at stake. When most people hear or read the words “net neutrality” their eyes glaze over with a feeling of confusion and despair: “I can’t remember, am I supposed to be for or against this?” This is exactly how the lawyers and lobbyists in D.C. want it, but unless the citizenry is informed we could lose the most important weapon of free speech in the history of mankind.

Recognizing the convoluted nature of the subject, I did my best to lay out what “net neutrality” is and what is at stake with the current FCC rule-making process in my recent post: Say Goodbye to “Net Neutrality” – New FCC Proposal Will Permit Discrimination of Web Content.

Read moreThe FCC Issues Its Proposal On Net Neutrality As Protesters Are Tossed From Hearing

‘Mystery disease’ on Pacific coast of Alaska – Livers ‘crumble’… Hearts enlarged, pale… Yellow lymph nodes… Blood-filled lungs (PHOTOS) – Testing carcasses for Fukushima radioactivity

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– ‘Mystery disease’ on Pacific coast of Alaska — Livers ‘crumble’… Hearts enlarged, pale… Yellow lymph nodes… Blood-filled lungs (PHOTOS) — Professor: Worrying there’s no answers, big public health concern — Testing carcasses for Fukushima radioactivity (AUDIO)

KNOM, May 14, 2014: Mysterious illness that’s been plaguing seals [first hit] the Bering Strait and the North Slope starting in the summer of 2011. Up to 300 seals were found suffering from hair loss, skin sores, and unusually lethargic behavior. Dozens of walruses were also found with similar sores [causing] marine mammal regulators to declare an Unusual Mortality Event […] walrus have been taken off the UME […] Seals [are still] displaying hair loss […] University of Alaska Fairbanks have begun testing infected seal carcasses for [Fukushima] radiation […] Results should be released in July.

Gay Sheffield, University of Alaska Fairbanks: The lack of answers is worrying. “This has been a big food security, public health concern.”

NOAA (pdf), May 12, 2014: UME will remain open for ice seals (ringed seals, ribbon seals, bearded seals, spotted seals) — based on continued reports of […] disease symptoms

Read more‘Mystery disease’ on Pacific coast of Alaska – Livers ‘crumble’… Hearts enlarged, pale… Yellow lymph nodes… Blood-filled lungs (PHOTOS) – Testing carcasses for Fukushima radioactivity

Must-See Photos: Where The World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die

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– Where the World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die (ZeroHedge, May 16, 2014):

In the past several years, one of the topics covered in detail on these pages has been the surge in such gimmicks designed to disguise lack of demand and end customer sales, used extensively by US automotive manufacturers, better known as “channel stuffing”, of which General Motors is particularly guilty and whose inventory at dealer lots just hit a new record high. But did you know that when it comes to flat or declining sales and stagnant end demand, channel stuffing is merely the beginning?

Presenting…

Where the World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die (courtesy of Vincent Lewis’ Unsold Cars)

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Above is just a few of the thousands upon thousands of unsold cars at Sheerness, United Kingdom.  Please do see this on Google Maps….type in Sheerness, United Kingdom.  Look to the west coast, below River Thames next to River Medway. Left of A249, Brielle Way.

Timestamp: Friday, May 16th, 2014.

There are hundreds of places like this in the world today and they keep on piling up…

THE WORLDS UNSOLD CAR STOCKPILE

Houston…We have a problem!…Nobody is buying brand new cars anymore!  Well they are, but not on the scale they once were.  Millions of brand new unsold cars are just sitting redundant on runways and car parks around the world.  There, they stay, slowly deteriorating without being maintained.

Below is an image of a massive car park at Swindon, United Kingdom, with thousands upon thousands of unsold cars just sitting there with not a buyer in sight. The car manufacturers have to buy more and more land just to park their cars as they perpetually roll off the production line.

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There is proof that the worlds recession is still biting and wont let go.  All around the world there are huge stockpiles of unsold cars and they are being added to every day.  They have run out of space to park all of these brand new unsold cars and are having to buy acres and acres of land to store them.

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The images on this webpage showing all of these unsold cars are just a very small portion of those around the world.  There are literally thousands of these “car parks” rammed full of unsold cars in practically every country on the planet.  Just in case you were wondering, these images have not been Photoshopped, they are the real deal!

Its hard to believe that there are so many unsold cars in the world but its true.  The worse part is that the amount of unsold cars keeps on getting bigger every day.

Read moreMust-See Photos: Where The World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die

New study reveals deaths and mutations ”increased sharply’ from exposure to Fukushima contamination, “especially at low doses” — ‘Small’ levels of cesium may be ‘significantly toxic’ — Smithsonian: “In other words, things don’t look good for the animals living around Fukushima”

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– New study reveals deaths and mutations ”increased sharply’ from exposure to Fukushima contamination, “especially at low doses” — ‘Small’ levels of cesium may be ‘significantly toxic’ — Smithsonian: “In other words, things don’t look good for the animals living around Fukushima” (ENENews, May 15, 2014):

Smithsonian Magazine, May 14, 2014: Even Tiny Amounts of Radioactive Food Made Caterpillars Become Abnormal Butterflies […] Researchers in Japan […] discovered, even a small amount of radiation is too much. […] The scientists collected plant material from around Fukushima and fed it to pale grass blue butterfly caterpillars. When the caterpillars turned into butterflies, they suffered from mutations and were more likely to die early [… even if they] had only eaten a small amount of artificial caesium […] In other words, things don’t look good for the animals living around Fukushima.

Nature — Scientific Reports (pdf), Published May 15, 2014: [We] examined possible relationships between the dose of ingested cesium per larva and the mortality and abnormality rates. Both the mortality and abnormality rates increased sharply, especially at low doses […] the mortality and abnormality rates increased sharply, especially at low doses. Additionally, there seemed to be no threshold level below which no biological response could be detected. […] the dose-response data suggests that the relatively small level of artificial cesium from the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP may be significantly toxic to some individuals in butterfly populations […] the half lethal [i.e. LD50, amount that will kill 50% of a test subjects] dose [is 1.9 Bq per larva] and the half abnormal dose [is 0.76 Bq per larva] […] relatively small [levels] of artificial cesium from the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP may be significantly toxic to some individuals in butterfly populations […] we assert that the half lethal and abnormal doses we obtained were quite high. […] it should be noted that we sampled contaminated leaves from Fukushima City, which many people inhabit as though nothing had happened […] Implications of the half lethal and abnormal doses we obtained in the present study will impact future discussions on the effects of radioactive exposure on other organisms, including humans. […] In conclusion, it is important to recognize the risk of internal radiation exposure due to ingested radioactive cesium, at least for the pale grass blue butterfly, and likely for certain other organisms living in the polluted area, possibly including humans. […]

View the study published by Nature here (pdf)

Related info:

– Radiation and Health Specialist: Children With Over 11 Bq/Kg Of Cesium Having Heart Problems – Study

– Prof. Yury Bandazhevsky: Over 50 Bq/Kg In Humans Leads To Irreversible Lesions In Vital Organs – CRIMINAL WHO And IAEA EXPOSED (Video)

This Is What Happens When You Leave A Tank Parked On A City Street In Ukraine

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– This Is What Happens When You Leave A Tank Parked On A City Street In Ukraine

As Jalopnik reports, a BMP light tank was reportedly left stalled on a city street near Mariupol… A gassed-up, fully-loaded tank. Ready to roll. Ready to obliterate some separatists. This is what happened next…
Forward to around 46 seconds for when he finds the big red “Fire” button…

Bernanke Shocker: ‘No Rate Normalization During My Lifetime’

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– Bernanke Shocker: “No Rate Normalization During My Lifetime” (ZeroHedege, May 16, 2014):

Forget all talk about “dots“, “6 months”, or any other prognostication from the Fed’s new leadership about what will happen in the near and not so near future. For the real answer prepare to shelve out the usual fee of $250,000 for an hour with the Chairsatan, or read Reuters’ account of what others who have done so, have learned. The answer is a stunner.

“At least one guest left a New York restaurant with the impression Bernanke, 60, does not expect the federal funds rate, the Fed’s main benchmark interest rate, to rise back to its long-term average of around 4 percent in Bernanke’s lifetime. “Shocking when he said this,” the guest scribbled in his notes. “Is that really true?” he scribbled at another point, according to the notes reviewed by Reuters.”
To think one could have read Zero Hedge for free for the past 5 years and gotten the same answer (time for a pop quiz: pumping liquidity into a closed system in perpetuity is i) inflationary or ii) deflationary?). But no, one would rather pay Bernanke’s former annual salary in less than an hour to get the answer from the same person who infamously stated that “subprime was contained”, that “there is no housing bubble”, and that he doesn’t buy the premise of house price declines as there has never been a “decline of house prices on a nationwide basis.“

Still, one can’t blame Bernanke for providing a service that the market (one market the former chairman didn’t manage to break with his central planning spree, unlike all other markets) demands. Alan Greenspan waited only a week after his departure before addressing a private dinner hosted by Lehman Brothers, the investment bank whose collapse in 2008 sent the financial crisis into high gear.

Bernanke’s private dinners, all of which cost around $250,000 began near the end of March, roughly two months after his retirement.

Read moreBernanke Shocker: ‘No Rate Normalization During My Lifetime’

Anti-Nuke Former Japan PM Hosokawa Hospitalized – Dizziness of Unknown Cause

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– Anti nuclear former JP PM Hosokawa hospitalized and in recuperation / Suffering from “dizziness for unknown reason (Fukushima Diary, May 15, 2014):

A former Japanese Prime Minister, the new anti-nuclear activist, Hosokawa fell in sick and hospitalized.

He became a candidate for Tokyo gubernatorial election.

In mid April, he suddenly fell in sick, fell down forward at Shinagawa station. He had 4 teeth broken and put 6 stitches on the lips and carried to the stationmaster’s office without consciousness.

Read moreAnti-Nuke Former Japan PM Hosokawa Hospitalized – Dizziness of Unknown Cause

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts And Dave Kranzler: The Fed Is The Great Deceiver

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Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan’s first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

– The Fed Is The Great Deceiver — Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler (Paul Craig Roberts, May 12, 2014):

Is the Fed “tapering”? Did the Fed really cut its bond purchases during the three month period November 2013 through January 2014? Apparently not if foreign holders of Treasuries are unloading them.From November 2013 through January 2014 Belgium with a GDP of $480 billion purchased $141.2 billion of US Treasury bonds. Somehow Belgium came up with enough money to allocate during a 3-month period 29 percent of its annual GDP to the purchase of US Treasury bonds.

Certainly Belgium did not have a budget surplus of $141.2 billion. Was Belgium running a trade surplus during a 3-month period equal to 29 percent of Belgium GDP?

No, Belgium’s trade and current accounts are in deficit.

Did Belgium’s central bank print $141.2 billion worth of euros in order to make the purchase?

No, Belgium is a member of the euro system, and its central bank cannot increase the money supply.

So where did the $141.2 billion come from?

Read moreDr. Paul Craig Roberts And Dave Kranzler: The Fed Is The Great Deceiver

The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Military

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– The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Military (The Daily Sheeple, May 15, 2014):

By the end of this decade, the U.S. Army will be the smallest that it has been since World War II, the U.S. Navy will be the smallest that it has been since World War I, and the U.S. Air Force will have gotten nearly 500 planes smaller.  Without a doubt, the U.S. military has not been used wisely in recent years, but the world is not becoming a more stable place.  The threat of war appears to be greater than it has been in a very long time, and yet the Obama administration seems obsessed with gutting our national defenses.  So exactly what is Obama’s agenda anyway?  In a world that is getting crazier with each passing day, why would he want to steadily shrink the size of the U.S. military?

Read moreThe Incredible Shrinking U.S. Military