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Why The U.S. Is Building A High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab In Kazakhstan
– Why The U.S. Is Building A High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab In Kazakhstan:
When Kazakhstan’s Central Reference Laboratory opens in September 2015, the $102-million project laboratory will serve as a Central Asian way station for a global war on dangerous disease.
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Here’s Who NATO Will Probably Be Fighting If There’s a World War III – #WW3
– Here’s Who NATO Will Probably Be Fighting If There’s a World War III:
Russia recently said it would support Iran’s bid to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, an emerging economic and political alliance led by China. This Shanghai Bloc was originally formed in 1996 before it was rebranded in 2001. Its membership includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Last year, India and Pakistan also signed the memorandum of obligations and are expected to become full members sometime this year. The bloc has expanded into a military organization over the last few years and has run joint military exercises in the past.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Iran now fully fits the criteria for membership and that discussions on its bid to join will take place this summer.
“Next in line [for membership]…is Iran, which has resolved issues related to sanctions from the U.N. Security Council,” Lavrov told Russian state news agency Itar-Tass, as reported by Newsweek.
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Snow in Yemen and Across Middle East – Central Asia | Mini Ice Age 2015-2035 (Video)
17.11.2016
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Snows across the middle east from Algeria, to Yemen, Iran and Azerbaijan and central Asia. Not only are these snow areas rare but it only the 2nd week of November 2016. COP22 is being held at the same time, and its about time we start discussing Global Cooling on the agenda as it seems the grand solar minimum is intensifying.
Early deep freeze in Siberia closes schools https://www.sott.net/article/334034-E…
Sun Halo Russia extreme cold https://www.sott.net/article/333911-S…
https://www.rt.com/viral/366859-halo-…
Siberia’s early deep freeze closes schools http://tass.com/society/912107
Kazakhstan – Main roads closed due to heavy snow and blizzards https://iceagenow.info/kazachstan-mai…
http://www.inform.kz/kz/shko-da-kalyn…
http://www.inform.kz/fotoarticles/201…Read moreSnow in Yemen and Across Middle East – Central Asia | Mini Ice Age 2015-2035 (Video)
Polar Vortex Centers over Asia with La Nina | Mini Ice Age 2015-2035 (Video)
Nov 9, 2016
With the polar vortex centered directly over Asia 2016-2017 winter, snow and cold records are already being set. Snowbrains calling for record snow in Japan due to La Nina and record cold across central Asia and China. I myself am calling snow in downtown Taipei 2017 winter.
Japan Record Snow November http://mainichi.jp/articles/20161107/…
https://iceagenow.info/record-early-s…
China snowstorms https://iceagenow.info/china-snowstor…
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TV: “Mysterious and terrifying epidemic” spreads near radioactive site — “People suffer from hallucinations… They cry, howl, even tear their hair out” — Residents in “coma-like state” with swollen brains — Radiation levels almost 20 times normal
United Nations General Assembly – Human Rights Council, Sep 2015 (emphasis added): The case of Kalachi, known as a “sleeping village”, was brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur. For the past three years, many residents of Kalachi have been experiencing health problems, suffering memory loss and hallucinations and sleeping for days, unable to wake up without medical intervention. According to available statistics, one in four villagers have suffered from this mysterious sickness… Kalachi was a site for uranium mining… According to local residents, the shaft was reopened three years ago and some work was undertaken. The villagers associate the illness with the uranium mining…
Kazakhstan – Nearly 300 people rescued from snow
– Kazakhstan – Nearly 300 people rescued from snow:
Snow is chest-deep in some areas
25 Dec 2015: Nearly 300 people rescued from snow captivity. (with pictures and video).
A strong snowstorm paralyzed traffic on “Ust-Kamenogorsk – Almaty” and 6 passengers buses needed the help of rescuers.
Forget Potassium: Kazakhstan Is Now America’s Top Supplier Of Uranium
– Forget Potassium: Kazakhstan Is Now America’s Top Supplier Of Uranium:
There’s one thing resource downturns are good for: seeing which projects and regions are the strongest in industry. And we got another big indication this week that there’s one global leader when it comes to uranium mining…
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Currency Wars Continue As Kazakh Currency Crashes 25% After Peg Abandoned
Physical gold and silver protect nicely against a crashing currency.
And the people in Kazakhstan, who think they are protected by having their money in dollar accounts, will one day be wiped out.
– Currency Wars Continue As Kazakh Currency Crashes 25% After Peg Abandoned (ZeroHedge, Aug 20, 2015):
On Tuesday we remarked on the increasingly perilous plight of yet another country whose economy has come under increased pressure from plunging oil prices and China’s move to devalue the yuan: Kazakhstan.
Just one day after allowing the tenge to fall sharply in the interbank market and no longer able to take the pain from falling crude prices, the country moved to a free float for the tenge overnight, causing the currency to plunge by a quarter.
The move is clearly a desperate attempt to preserve export competitiveness in the face of a falling rouble and a devalued yuan. This is the third time the country’s central bank has devalued the currency since 1999 – the last time was in February of 2014.
Read moreCurrency Wars Continue As Kazakh Currency Crashes 25% After Peg Abandoned
The End Game Continues: Austria Repatriates Gold
– The End Game Continues: Austria Repatriates Gold (ZeroHedge, May 27, 2015):
After Germany and the Netherlands decided to repatriate a substantial amount of gold from vaults abroad to the vaults in respectively Amsterdam and Frankfurt, now Austria is joining the ‘bring our gold home’ movement.
After increasing pressure from the Austrian people on the government and the central bank to increase the ratio of the gold effectively held in the Austrian Central Bank in Vienna, the central bank has finally made the decision to effectively do so. Less than 20% of Austria’s (relatively) sizeable gold reserves were held in its own vaults with the remainder being stored in Switzerland and London. Austria will now remove 63% of the gold from London and transport it to both Switzerland and Austria. This will be an interesting test case to see how long it will take the Bank of England to ship the 140 tonnes of gold (4.5 million ounces) to Vienna, and we dare to bet this will either take much longer than anticipated, or we’ll suddenly see another gold withdrawal from the Federal Reserve which will very likely be the magical 125-150 tonnes number.
Vladimir Putin Proposes “Eurasian” Currency Union
– Vladimir Putin Proposes “Eurasian” Currency Union (ZeroHedge, March 20, 2015):
While the distraction that is the stock market continues to enthrall most Americans, the big shots in the global monetary which for now are taking place behind the scenes, are getting ever louder. Several recent cases in point:
- US Attacks “Closest Ally” UK For “Constant Accommodation” With China
- De-Dollarization Accelerates As More Of Washington’s “Allies” Defect To China-Led Bank
- US “Isolated” As Key Ally Japan Considers Joining China-Led Bank
- US Upset At West’s Lack Of War Preparedness
- Treasury Secretary Lew Admits US “International Credibility & Influence Is Being Threatened”
One person who is paying attention to the failure of the US to grasp that the unipolar world of the 1980s is long gone, is Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who earlier today proposed creating a “Eurasian” currency union which would have Belarus and Kazakhstan as its first members, which already are Russia’s partners in a political and economic union made up of former Soviet republics.
Sinister Sites – Astana, Khazakhstan
– Sinister Sites – Astana, Khazakhstan (Vigilant Citizen, March 7, 2009):
Astana is the first capital being built in the 21st century and it perfectly represents where the world is headed. It is truly one man’s vision: Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan (yes Borat’s country, I know). Backed by billions of petrodollars, the city is being built from scratch in a remote and deserted area of the Asian steppes. The result is astonishing: a futuristic occult capital, embracing the New World Order while celebrating the most ancient religion known to man: Sun Worship. The city is still a huge construction site, but the buildings that are already completed already sum up Nazarbayev’s occult vision.
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Who’s Isolated Now? Kazakhstan Authorities Announce Plans To De-Dollarize Economy
– Who’s Isolated Now? Kazakhstan Authorities Announce Plans To De-Dollarize Economy (ZeroHedge, March 5, 2015):
Following the approval of the government, Kazakhstan’s Central Bank has announced it plans to de-dollarize its economy by the end of 2016. The goal is to avoid the macroeconomic instability that the USD creates and to give priority to Tenge in trade agreements (banning price designations in foreign exchange). Coming just 2 weeks after the ratification of the $100 billion BRICS bank, and Russia’s creation of a SWIFT-alternative, one wonders – as one by one foreign nations agree non-dollar trade and swap agreements – who is becoming ‘isolated’ now?
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China Proposing To Establish Free Trade Zone With Eurasian Economic Union
– China Proposing to Establish Free Trade Zone With Eurasian Economic Union (Sputnik, Feb 9, 2015):
China proposed to the Eurasian Economic Union to think about creation of a free trade zone in the future, according to Russian Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov.
“Chinese partners were very careful in regard to this integration in the beginning. They simply needed to make sure that it works. Now they show interest in increasing cooperation not only with the separate countries – Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan in the future, but with the union as such. And as far as I know they even proposed to us, the members of the union, to think about creation of a free trade zone in the future,” Denisov said.Read moreChina Proposing To Establish Free Trade Zone With Eurasian Economic Union
Kazakhstan Prepares For $40 Oil, Gary Schilling Says “Oil Going To $20”
– Kazakhstan Prepares For $40 Oil, Gary Schilling Says “Oil Going To $20” (ZeroHedge, Dec 22, 2014):
“People should not be worried,” explained Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev in a TV address over the weekend, “we have a plan in place if oil prices are $40 per barrel.” Kazakhstan, the second largest ex-Soviet oil producer after Russia, explains “there are reserves which could support people, preventing living conditions from worsening.” However, if A. Gary Schilling’s reality check of $20 oil being possible comes to fruition, as he explains, what matters are marginal costs – the expense of retrieving oil once the holes have been drilled and pipelines laid. That number is more like $10 to $20 a barrel in the Persian Gulf… We wonder who has a plan for that?
The Kazakh President says “don’t worry”, as Reuters reports…
Read moreKazakhstan Prepares For $40 Oil, Gary Schilling Says “Oil Going To $20”
Sleepy Hollow in Kazakhstan: Villagers suffer from unknown brain-affecting disease
– Sleepy Hollow in Kazakhstan: Villagers suffer from unknown brain-affecting disease (RT, Dec 14, 2014):
Every tenth villager of Kazakhstan’s Kalachi has unexpectedly fallen asleep in broad daylight – some unable to wake up for several days. Despite numerous attempts to find the cause of the inexplicable disorder, the Sleepy Hollow riddle remains unsolved.
Over 600 residents of Kalachi village in Kazakhstan’s north may have never read Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow, or watched the popular American TV series or film – but they do refer to their homeland as “Sleepy Hollow,” as everyone here is scared of an indiscriminate illness that has no cure.
People in Kalachi have been suffering from the “sleep epidemic” – as they call it – for the past couple of years. Everyone in the village has a family member or a friend who’s fallen asleep for no apparent reason, with over 100 people having experienced it by now – some more than once – according to locals.
Read moreSleepy Hollow in Kazakhstan: Villagers suffer from unknown brain-affecting disease
Putin Signs Secret Pact To Crush NATO
– Putin Signs Secret Pact To Crush NATO (Casey Research, Nov 6, 2014):
Back on September 11 and 12, there was a summit meeting in a city that involved an organization that most Americans have never heard of. Mainstream media coverage was all but nonexistent.
The place was Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, a country few Westerners could correctly place on a map.
But you can bet your last ruble that Vladimir Putin knows exactly where Tajikistan is. Because the group that met there is the Russian president’s baby. It’s the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), consisting of six member states: Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
Stinking rich: Kazakhstan to offer tourists luxury caviar baths
– Stinking rich: Kazakhstan to offer tourists luxury caviar baths (RT, Oct 23, 2014):
The plan is to make Kenderli the “best” resort on the Caspian and “a perfect destination for domestic and international tourists, generating wealth for the region and wellbeing for our people.”
Former Soviet states, particularly Russia, as well as Turkey and the Middle East, are all viewed as potential sources of big tourist bucks.
Read moreStinking rich: Kazakhstan to offer tourists luxury caviar baths
Russia Completes Ratification Of Eurasian Economic Union, As Putin Signs Law
– Russia completes ratification of Eurasian Economic Union, as Putin signs law (RT, Oct 3, 2014):
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying a historic treaty, committing Russia to an economic union with Belarus and Kazakhstan. The Eurasian Economic Union will come into effect in January 2015.
Putin’s signature in the document puts the final dot in Russia’s ratification of the union which will be in place on January 1, 2015, as the other union states are expected to complete ratification in the next few days.
The economic union is the next step of integration within the Customs Union between the three countries. The agreement had previously been ratified by the Russian State Duma and the Federal Council of Russia.
Read moreRussia Completes Ratification Of Eurasian Economic Union, As Putin Signs Law
Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Sign ‘Epoch’ Eurasian Economic Union
– Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan sign ‘epoch’ Eurasian Economic Union (RT, May 29, 2014):
Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan signed the historic Eurasian Economic Union which will come into effect in January 2015. Cutting down trade barriers and comprising over 170 million people it will be the largest common market in the ex-Soviet sphere.
“The just-signed treaty is of epoch-making, historic importance,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
The troika of countries will cooperate in energy, industry, agriculture, and transport.
“In fact, we are shaping the largest common market in the CIS, with huge production, scientific and technological potential and enormous natural resources,” the President added.
Read moreRussia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Sign ‘Epoch’ Eurasian Economic Union